Empress of the Death House (1978 Lotus Press First Edition) (Q8366)
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1978 edition, Lotus Press first edition, first printing
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Empress of the Death House (1978 Lotus Press First Edition) |
1978 edition, Lotus Press first edition, first printing |
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"THE | EMPRESS OF THE | DEATH HOUSE | by TOI DERICOTTE | cover design.... | JEANNE E. DERRICOTTE | calligraphy... | BARBARA VAN DYKE WOOD | [ornament] | LOTUS PRESS | Detroit | [decorative border]"
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"First Edition | First Printing | LOTUS PRESS | Post Office Box 601 | College Park Station | Detroit, Michigan 48221"
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"For my grandmother, | Marie Violet Webster, | as she lives in me."
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"Acknowledgements | I wish to thank the editors of the following magazines and | anthologies in which certain poems in this volume have |previously appeared: | New Poets: Women: 'the doll poem' and 'the face/ as it must | be/ of love"
continued: "| Journal of New Jersey Poets: 'sleeping with mr. death' and | 'the story of a very broken lady' | Gravida: 'last will of one who lived alone' and 'the naming' | Advance Token to Boardwalk: 'the mirror poems' | New York Quarterly: 'trees' | Pearl: 'poem no. 1'"
continued: "| Buffalo Gnats: The Grandmother Poems' | 'unburying the bird' was awarded first prize in the Academy | of American Poets competition at New York University. | T.D."
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1-51, [3] pages, [1] leaf
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rear cover of first edition
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2.50 https://blackbibliog.rutgers.edu/entity/Q257
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Copyright © 1978 by Toi Derricotte | All rights reserved | Library of Congress catalogue card number: 77-91700"
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