The Singing Knives

Stanford, Frank

Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1971.

First printing. 56 pp., 6 x 9 inches. Side-stapled and glued into printed card covers. Uncredited frontispiece portrait of the author, and two-color title page illustration, repeated in part on the front cover. The usual sunning to the spine, and three very small discolorations to back cover that suggest strongly that the binding of this issue is actually stapled and then glued into the wrappers (a detail I've not seen previously noted), otherwise very close to fine and uncommon thus. Item #4696

The author's scarce first book, inscribed to publisher E. V. Griffith:

For E.V. Griffith, This is about the last book from the original edition; another will be out soon. Frank Stanford

Additionally, Stanford has added "Partisan R." to the list of previous publications on the copyright page, in the same ink as the inscription, and someone — almost certainly the author — has in a different color of ink crossed out the last sentence of the short biography on the last page, which states that Stanford, "lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and attends the University of Arkansas, occasionally."

Price: $4,000.00