Author: Sternbach, Mary.
Title: Countries with No Names.
Description: Red Hook, NY: Guignol Books, (1982). (1982). SIGNED BY MARY STERNBACH - Octavo, color pictorial wrappers illustrated with an image of the Virgin Mary & child on the front cover. The edges of the covers are slightly rubbed with some minor spots to the covers. [vi] & 23 pages plus the colophon, illustrated with a tipped-in color frontispiece. Near fine.

First trade edition.

Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title: "For David [..], fratello .. Mary Sternbach".

A series of metaphysical essays drawing on religion and psychedelic imagery. "..'Counting Sheep' it's called. The first sheep: a large, tattooed (blue crucifix, red rose), muscular arm, five times bigger and darker than the sheep, comes out of the air and drags one of the sheep away, it bleating and kicking... Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; ESSAYS; INSCRIBED; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNATURE; SIGNED; COUNTRIES WITH NO NAMES; MARY STERNBACH; 1ST EDITION; FIRST EDITION.

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