Item #15197 PANELS FOR THE WALLS OF HEAVEN, painted edition 1/150. Kenneth Patchen.
PANELS FOR THE WALLS OF HEAVEN, painted edition 1/150
PANELS FOR THE WALLS OF HEAVEN, painted edition 1/150

PANELS FOR THE WALLS OF HEAVEN, painted edition 1/150

[Berkeley]: Bern Porter, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick raw boards, plain blue jacket; square 8vo. [2], 67 pp. No. 23 from an edition limited to 150 copies. Printed in blue with red & blue title page. Cover painted in color and signed by Kenneth Patchen with interior monochrome illustrations from paintings by the author. A scarce hand-painted issue of Kenneth Patchen's book of poetry, increasingly scarce over the years. Each copy has a unique cover—the front is an abstract version of a horse in motion, the back is the colophon, with a painted spine. Rubbing to jacket along folds and edges; rubbing to corners and edges, toning to endpapers, a few stains and tide marks; about very good. According to Patchen's bibliographer "The raw copies were Patchen's royalty; ...he sold them for $8.50"; the bibliography calls for an acetate jacket; this copy with a heavy blue paper jacket has either a variant or replacement jacket, but clearly it has protected the book for most of its life. Morgan A12b. Very good / very good. Item #15197

Price: $2,000.00

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