Apr 26, 2018 - Sale 2475

Sale 2475 - Lot 163

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(KENMORE PRESS.) Collins, Billy. Pokerface. Oblong 8vo, Japanese style stabbed and sewn binding by Steven and Meryl Chayt with silk screened cover from a photograph by Judy Lane. Designed and Printed by Steven Chayt. Fine condition. (Los Angeles, 1977)

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number 332 of 400 copies of collins's first book, inscribed and signed to poet miller williams on the title-page. Collins was the United States Poet Laureate from 2001-2003. The Kenmore Press was run by the Chayts, a husband and wife team who operated out of their Los Angeles home.