New York Nowhere: Meditations and Celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital

Geoffrey Dutton, John Olsen

Melbourne

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The Lytlewode Press

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1998

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First Edition.

40cm x 30cm. Black cloth, gilt lettering, gilt portrait to upper panel, plain black cloth slipcase.

One of 30 deluxe copies from the total edition of 175 numbered copies signed by John Olsen and Robert Littlewood containing ten original signed etchings by John Olsen. The deluxe issue bound in brown kangaroo leather by Friedhelm Pohlmann also contains a tipped in sheet of original manuscript by the poet, ten original photographs of the artist and the poet signed by the publisher, five pieces of typescript correspondence hand signed by the publisher, 2 additional unsigned Olsen etchings, and an envelope containing a CD of Dutton reciting his poem. The recording of the CD made only weeks before Dutton’s death. New York Nowhere was Dutton’s last literary work, reflecting on the poet’s stroke and recovery in a New York hospital. Also included is the original prospectus and The Australian Magazine Dec 12-13, 1998 with the cover story on this work.

The book is in Fine Condition. A couple of rubs to one edge of the marbled paper on one panel of the slipcase. Near Fine Condition.