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[TURKEY PRESS]. AMAT, Carlos Oquendo de (1905?1936). Five M...
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[TURKEY PRESS]. AMAT, Carlos Oquendo de (1905?1936). Five Meters of Poems. Translated by David M. Guss. Isla Vista: Turkey Press, 1986. Small 4to. Printed in red and black, woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Stitched accordion?style format; original folding cloth?backed chemise over pictorial boards; original folding cloth?backed box. Publisher?s prospectus laid in. LIMITED EDITION, number 10 of 40 copies printed on Barcham Green?s handmade India Office paper and SIGNED BY THE TRANSLATOR AND ARTIST. This is the first English language edition consisting of eighteen ?typographically playful poems? that follows the format of the original that was first published in Lima in 1927.
