There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems, 1963-1978 [Inscribed and Signed]
Toronto, Canada: McClelland and Stewart, 1979. Very Good. Item #47873
ISBN: 0771068824
[Toronto, Canada]: McClelland and Stewart, [1979]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers; xi,[1],107pp. Wrappers a bit rubbed, textblock slightly starting to pull from binding, spine lightly sunned; Near Very Good overall.
Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "For Tom / more personal attacks on the vegetation / with best / Mike." According to the previous bookseller's note, the inscribee is the late Canadian poet Tom Marshall (1938-1993), whose posthumous "The Essential Tom Marshall" was co-edited by Ondaatje and David Helwig.
Price: $250.00
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