Item #20156 PUZZLE CANON; Loot 5:3. Gavin Selerie.

PUZZLE CANON; Loot 5:3

Peterborough: Loot, 1986. First edition. Staplebound wraps. 4to. Wrappers. 14pp. Published as 'Loot' 5:3, a supplement to Paul Green's 'Spectacular Diseases', and typed by Paul Buck. Titled after John Dowland on Andreas Ornithoparcus: 'A Canon therefore is an imaginarie rule, drawing that part of the Song which is not set downe out of that part, which is set down. Or it is a Rule, which doth wittily discover the secrets of a Song.' INSCRIBED by Selerie to Jerome Rothenberg. Complete with the card insert printing Selerie's poem 'Kirlian', and reproducing on the other side a rock engraving at Bessov-Noss (The Nose of The Demons), Lake Onega, Russia. Very Good. Originally sealed with four pieces of tape, which are present but opened. Some minor soiling at top of front cover. Very Good / No dust jacket. Item #20156

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