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The Bicycle Rider. New York: Red Ozier Press, 1985. 28 leaves, unpaginated.
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The Bicycle Rider
The Bicycle Rider. New York: Red Ozier Press, 1985. 28 leaves, unpaginated.
"Spectrum and Futura types were printed, in sixty-five press runs, on Nideggen mouldmade paper and wrapped in Dieu Donné handmade, except copies one through thirty, which were bound in paper and cloth over boards. Copyright 1985 by Guy Davenport. Produced by Ken Botnick and Steve Miller in time for a new moon Columbus Day. Of 150 copies this is number 128." (colophon)
Signed: Guy Davenport / 11.IX.1985 (second to last leaf)
Story has 100 sections, each section preceded by a red block number, e.g.:
10 GLASS jar of acorns. A nautilus shell. Shale slab with a fossil ginko leaf. A Greek coin from Metaponton in Sicily. A snail shell.
Greek text of Marcus, dictionary, coffee cup, running shorts
drying on a hangar hooked to the skylight latch. Boy Scout
Handbook, with markers. Mariana, said Franklin, says she likes
this place better than any she's ever been in, and I do too. Sure
glad we met you on the beach."* * *
"IN our time Apollo is sound asleep. 69
"The Bicycle Rider was republished in a version different from this one
in The Jules Verne Steam Balloon (1987)."
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