Resultados da Pesquisa: the crossing review copy

San Francisco: Isthmus, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall trade paperbound format. The first issue of this small press journal of poetry and comment. 103 pp. Review copy with publisher review letter folded and laid in to this copy. William Talcott (one of the contributors to this issue) handwrites a letter on the verso of the publisher statement. Magazine perhaps most notable for the inclusion of a small suite of drawings by Bruce Conner. Small chips and wear at top of spine area. A very good copy.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. First American Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's publicity sheet laid in. Octavo (23.5cm); mustard yellow paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xviii,303,[1]pp; illus. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, with some trivial wear to extremities. "...an ambitious study of the views of sickness and death among Ashkenazki Jews from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. This is one of the first works to apply the methods of the history of mentalities to a topic in Jewish cultural studies" (from front flap).