BLEI, NORBERT — Door Steps: The Days, the Seasons
Peoria, IL: The Ellis Press, 1983. 0933180446. Stated First Edition. First Printing. B&W Drawings. ISBN: 0933180446. Illustrated by Charles Peterson. First, Limited edition (this is No. 61 of only 150 copies containing an original work of art excuted in black ink and signed by the author on the half-title). A total of 1,000 copies were numbered and signed, but only the first 150, of which this is one, contained the original work of art. Signed a total of three times by the author: first under the original piece of art on the half-title entitled "Fisherman", next on the same page in a gift inscription to his friends Jerome and Marilyn, and lastly on the limitation page which is on the reverse of the half-title. Publisher's full black cloth, light blue lettering and decoration on spine and cover, illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with drawings by Charles Peterson. NB: Norbert George Blei (1935 – 2013) was an American writer of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. Blei was a Chicago teacher and author who relocated to Ellison Bay, Door County. Wisconsin after a career in Chicago, becoming a social commentator and patron of the arts in addition to teaching and writing. In 1994, he established Cross+Roads Press, dedicated to the publication of first chapbooks by poets, short story writers, novelists and artists.. Both the volume and the unclipped ($29.95) dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW/AS NEW.. B&W drawings. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (vi), 230 pages. As New in As New dust jacket .
