The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. Grifalconi, Ann. 1st Printing. Large Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #2326657
First printing. Jacket edges rubbed with tear along base, jacket price-clipped. Front free endpaper missing, some pages foxed.
Unpaginated. The ballad/poem story of a young man in Rio de Janeiro who decides to become a gangster, like those in the movies, and who would rather "settle for ninety hours" hunted by the police than the "ninety years they gave me." A dark tale with beautiful, unsettling illustrations. Poem by Elizabeth Bishop; woodcuts by Ann Grifalconi.
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