first edition
1994 · Pittsburgh
by MEEK, Jay
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1994. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Slim octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's grey pictorial card wrappers; [4],63pp. Old price sticker to rear cover, else Near Fine. Lengthy author inscription on half title page: "To Elmer Sunderman, This happy throng on a Paris street, under a solar eclipse, just as we differently gazed up tonight at a passing comet, before the reading-- Jay Meek." Prose poems by the North Dakota author, the "throng" to which he refers in his inscription is depicted on the upper cover. (Inventory #: 41014)