Aflame and Afun of Walking Faces: Fables & Drawings by Kenneth Patchen [FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK] 1970 • New Directions

Aflame and Afun of Walking Faces: Fables & Drawings by Kenneth Patchen

FIRST EDITION TRADE PAPERBACK [1970] NEW DIRECTIONS

Illustrated paperback 1st.

Beautiful near mint trade paperback with a hint of tanning / shelf wear to wraps.  Reads like new.

Ten years ago it was a rare experience to come upon a book that featured drawings-except those intended for the juvenile market. Today it is the thing-an accepted fact of publishing. Get with the graphic. We know it must be coincidence, but just ten years ago we published Kenneth Patchen's first collection of poems and drawings, Because It Is now in its seventh printing.

Aflame and Afun of Walking Faces comprises a full offering of Patchen drawings, second to the first in time alone—both bear his inimitable stamp. To give some notion of the fables, imagine Mark Twain and Leopardi collaborating on a script for the Marx Brothers to act out at the birth of a world-by no means necessarily this one! Also included is "How Fables Tapped Along the Sunken Corridors" by Jonathan Williams, publisher of the first edition in 1953-it offers the amazing account of how, when and under what circumstances this book came into existence.