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Unfair arguments with existence : seven plays for a new theatre

Title: Unfair arguments with existence : seven plays for a new theatre / Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Author: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.
Publication: New York : New Directions Books, ©1963.

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	no. 1-7	Text	Use in library	D-14 9576 no. 1-7	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.		Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll Ferlinghetti U54 1963	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Not available - Please for assistance.		Text	Restricted use	Berg Coll 22-846	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description

ix, 118 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

A 1963 collection of seven short plays by author and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Themes include love, war, peace, communication, misfortune, justice, and aging.

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; 143
NDP143

Subject

American drama

Genre/Form

Wrappers (Binding)
Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
Embossed stamps (Provenance)

Note

Title page drawing by Ferlinghetti. Cf. Kherdian.
"New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin" -- title page verso.

Indexed In (note)

Kherdian, D. Six poets of the San Francisco Renaissance
Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Provenance (note)

Berg Coll. copy inscribed: "For Ruth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti" with self-portrait [?] ink sketch--half-title.

Binding (note)

bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by David Ford; photograph by Edgar Millhauser.

Contents

The soldiers of no country -- Three thousand red ants -- The alligation -- The victims of amnesia -- Motherlode -- The customs collector in baggy pants -- The nose of Sisyphus.

Call Number

D-14 9576

ISBN

0811200485
9780811200486

LCCN

63021384

OCLC

268910

Author

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.

Title

Unfair arguments with existence : seven plays for a new theatre / Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Imprint

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Physical Medium

8vo. rdabf

Series

New Directions paperbook ; 143

NDP143

Indexed In:

Kherdian, D. Six poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, 12, p. 11.

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 56

Provenance

Berg Coll. copy inscribed: "For Ruth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti" with self-portrait [?] ink sketch--half-title.

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-846 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by David Ford; photograph by Edgar Millhauser. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-846 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Berg Coll. copy contains "ADC" embossed stamp on t.p.

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Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Ford, David, 1934- cover designer, cov.

Millhauser, Edgar, photographer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Inscriber

Charters, Ann. Former owner

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Other Form:

Online version: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Unfair arguments with existence. [New York, New Directions Books, 1963] (OCoLC)609499058

Research Call Number

D-14 9576

Berg Coll Ferlinghetti U54 1963

Berg Coll 22-846

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