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Jonathan Lasker, John Ashbery, and others

Not a First

1986

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Not a First

1986

Physical Qualities Bound volume with letterpress text and three graphite drawings, Book: 299 x 441 x 7 mm. (11 3/4 x 17 3/8 x 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Ryda Hecht Levi Collection of Illustrated Books, Gift under the Will of Ryda H. Levi
Object Number 2009.237
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2009; Ryda H. Levi, Baltimore; Brenda Edelson, Baltimore, 1989

Inscribed: on colophon, across bottom in graphite: "John Ashberry Jonathan L. Lasker"

Artist

Jonathan Lasker

1947–2000

American, born 1948
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Author

John Ashbery

1926–2016

American, 1927-2017
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Publisher

Kaldewey Press

2000–2000

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