The book of Monk
By: by Amiri Baraka
Series: Razor series -- no. 2; Razor series -- no. 2.
Publisher: John LeBow
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Candia, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: Jazz musicians; Bop (Music)
Notes: "This edition of ... was designed by Amiri Baraka and John LeBow. The illustrations were created by Amiri Baraka. This book was printed in a special edition of two hundred copies with one hundred and seventy-six copies for public sale.  Each copy has been signed by the author. The entire edition has been hand sewn by Mark Olson, with twenty-six copies specially sewn into Rives covers. This book is the second in the "Razor Series" of original jazz essays by Amiri Baraka to be published.  Cover, title page and colophon were printed letterpress by Mark Olson at Innerer Klang Press."--Colophon.

Preliminaries and colophon are indeed crisply printed. Text has the appearance of being reproduced from typescript from an extremely dirty typewriter.

Rare Book copy 1: Letter B of 26 copies specially sewn into Rives covers; manuscript drawing of head in colophon.

Rare Book copy 2: No. 188 of 176 copies for public sale.
Table of contents: title: The high priest of bebop; title: A Monk story; title: Poems.