The Sonnets [Inscribed to Joe LeSueur]
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- SIGNED
- New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1967
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1967. Near Fine. New York: Grove Press Inc., 1964. Stated First Printing of first trade edition. Slim octavo (20cm); 72pp. Stiff staple-bound printed wraps retaining $1.50 price. Wraps lightly bumped and scuffed; verso toned at edges. Binding sound. Textblock and endsheets show some foxing and toning; interior pages remain clean. Former owner and inscription dedicatee’s personal ex-libris stamp at full title page. Very Good or better. Signed and inscribed by the author on full title page: “for Joe / with love / + admiration / Ted Berrigan.”
Joe LeSueur, to whom this copy belonged and was inscribed, was a poet, editor, and screenwriter closely associated with the New York School of the 60s. A close friend and longtime roommate of Frank O’Hara, LeSueur circulated through the city’s artistic and literary social scene. His immediate circle is depicted in Wynn Chamberlain’s 1964 portrait Poets Dressed and Undressed, in which LeSueur and O’Hara appear alongside Joe Brainard, to whom The Sonnets is dedicated.
Joe LeSueur, to whom this copy belonged and was inscribed, was a poet, editor, and screenwriter closely associated with the New York School of the 60s. A close friend and longtime roommate of Frank O’Hara, LeSueur circulated through the city’s artistic and literary social scene. His immediate circle is depicted in Wynn Chamberlain’s 1964 portrait Poets Dressed and Undressed, in which LeSueur and O’Hara appear alongside Joe Brainard, to whom The Sonnets is dedicated.