Dispatches from the War Against the World

Description

Weir, Anthony. Dispatches from the War Against the World. Downpatrick, Co. Down: Dissident Editions, 1994. First Edition. Card Wrappers. Very Good. (viii), 70pp. 500 copies. The book in printed grey card covers is loosely laid into an earlier (?) version; blue printed covers using different font for some of the text. Weir’s signature is on the title page. Pasted onto a blank recto is an original colour photograph of Albanian mountain scenery. A number of enclosures are laid in: his hand-assembled photocopied The Albanian Series (bilingual) 12pp. as well as Perfect Portable Pamphlet 4pp., a short piece on Weir from the Albanian paper Java and a 24 line t.l.s. from Weir addressed to Czech poet & multilingual translator Ewald Osers whose translation of Mateja Matevski prompted a Weir poem which is also also laid in.