Offered for Sale !!!
First Edition, Perfect-bound trade paperback, 40pp. / ISBN 0-940381-08-7, ©1984 |
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...the flyleaf,
the real drop of blood. The Name is Dillinger by Todd Moore Dillinger, Volume I. Title page graphic. |
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DILLINGER: Volumes 1, 2, and 3, by Todd Moore
"The greatest poet of the American Plains since Sandburg"—Kenneth Funsten, LA Times
"Impressively done, down to the blood spot on the first inside page"
—Robert Peters, Gargoyle (the blood was real)
"Todd Moore runs with Language and makes every word count"
—Elmore Leonard
"The scope of this project, and its contribution to American Literature, is perhaps unprecedented in the long history of small press publishing"
—Michael Coffey, Small Press Magazine
"A genuine modern primitive, in the best sense of the term"
—Paul Metcalf, Sulfur
"DILLINGER is sure to be a hit... As much a bestseller as could be expected in the poetry game..."
—Joe Napora, Small Press News
...and others: "pulls you into a frenzied mind" "a joy to read" "An American sleaze Oedipus Rex" "DILLINGER is chant, litany, rite" "a masterpiece"...
Damn, I forget what I've been doing all these years! I published these back in the mid-to-late '80s. A planned 21-volume set, the project's success and immensity crushed me a short time after volume 3 came out. I ended up in hospital. Funny. ANYWAY, I still have copies left. I still think they're beautiful, and so did everyone else. Maybe you will too.
Volume 1: The Name is DILLINGER / Volume 2: DILLINGER's Faces / Volume 3: Billie F
PLEASE NOTE ::: I am currently selling two different versions of this set: The First Edition includes a VERY RARE Kangaroo Court Publishing 1st Edition of Volume 1: The Name is DILLINGER (previously issued as a very ;limited small-press stapled chapbook by Midwestern Writers' Publishing House in 1980), a 1st Edition Volume 2: DILLINGER's Faces, and a 1st Edition Volume 3: Billie F.
These are $12.99 for the set, plus $3.50 for media mail and mailer if you're not local. As the quantity on-hand decreases, the price will rise.
I also have lower-priced Alternate sets that include a REVIEW COPY of Volume 1, which is "perfect-bound," in its way; these copies were actually side-stapled and then sorta-kinda perfect-bound in the same cover as the actual item. The aesthetic difference being that the front and back have a slightly rumpled look along 1/4 inch of the spine side, and the impressions of the staples can be very faintly seen. These are $8.99 for the set, plus $3.50 for media mail and mailer if you're far away...
Copies of these books can be found listed at Amazon.com at much higher prices:
Vol.3 is available used in "good" condition for $39; Vol.2 is there used in "acceptable" for $10 and "VG" for $24; Vol.1 there for $57 in "good" condition (!!!), and on half.com for $144, and at antiquarian booksellers for anywhere from 35 American dollars to 64 Euros in Germany...] They're RARE. They're collector's items!
Progressively darkening red covers, perfect-bound, pages consecutively numbered, Volume 3 ends on page 75, so about 25 pages of epic-poetic text per book, I'll sell all copies with the blood spot first, and I'll try to make sure anyone ordering the First Edition gets at least one volume appropriately stained. Please inquire for purchase of any single volume.
I'll send half the profit after shipping to author Todd Moore.
All copies are NEW, but some have slight scuffing from following me around for twenty years.
Postage & Handling in USA = $3.50 Media Mail; Options, ask.
Please contact me for international rates or alternate payment procedures.
Rick Lopez / ricklopez@bb10k.com
1987.08.22 • Dillinger's Faces, by Todd Moore [Small Press Publication]
First Edition, Perfect-bound trade paperback, 40pp. / ISBN 0-940381-09-5, ©1987August 22, 1987 / Kangaroo Court Publishing, Erie, PA
- The Dillinger Series, Volume 2 (of 13)
- 1,163 copies, 50 Signed & Numbered by author; 13 "Out of Series"
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- Publishers & Editors Rick Lopez and Lonnie Sherman
"Made possible in part by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts."
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...the flyleaf,
the real drop of blood. Dillinger's Faces by Todd Moore Dillinger, Volume 2. Title page graphic. |
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1988.03.01 • Billie F, by Todd Moore [Small Press Publication]
First Edition, Perfect-bound trade paperback, 44pp. / ISBN 0-940381-10-9, ©1987March 1, 1988 / Kangaroo Court Publishing, Erie, PA
- The Dillinger Series, Volume 3 (of 13)
- 1,163 copies, 50 Signed & Numbered by author; 13 "Out of Series"
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- Publishers & Editors Rick Lopez and Lonnie Sherman
"Made possible in part by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts."
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...the flyleaf,
the real drop of blood. Billie F by Todd Moore Dillinger, Volume 3. Title page graphic. |
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The back cover, the accumulating reviews... |
1986.12.11 - Dillinger Cover story, the Erie Times-News Showcase, December 11, 1986.
"Erie's Kangaroo Court small press brings Dillinger to life...," by Don McQuaid, p.11.
"Kangaroo Court making a Big Splash in the Small-Press World," by Lori Morgan, pp.11, 14.
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Dillinger, by Todd Moore Showcase Cover image by Gary Hardman |
1988.06.18-19—Dillinger author Todd Moore and Publisher Rick Lopez at the Printer's Row Book Fair in Chicago.
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The profoundly stylish booth that I built and designed for Printer's Row. |
Todd Moore leans into subject John Dillinger |
Author and Publisher take a break from the mayhem. |
1988.06.24—The Dillinger project makes the front page of the Chicago Reader: |
"Poetry of Blood and Guts," by Bill Helmer Chicago Reader cover story. June 24, 1988—Vol.17 no.39 |
Rick Lopez / ricklopez@bb10k.com