A QUESTION MAY BE THE ANSWER TO ANOTHER, ASKED, PERHAPS LONG AGO, BY SOMEONE ELSE. / I AIN'T BEEN NOWHERE, I AIN'T BEEN LOST. I BEEN HERE ALL ALONG.

"Eric's Pastiches" (Ben Sackheim)

A QUESTION MAY BE THE ANSWER TO ANOTHER, ASKED, PERHAPS LONG AGO, BY SOMEONE ELSE. / I AIN'T BEEN NOWHERE, I AIN'T BEEN LOST. I BEEN HERE ALL ALONG.

Compiled by Eric Sackheim, illustrated by Ben Shahn and Jonathan Shahn

(1982)

Signed limited first edition of these three performance pieces, illustrated by Ben and Jonathan Shahn, with a note from Sackheim's father, advertising executive and bookseller Ben Sackheim, to fellow bookseller and publisher George Bixby.

Near fine.

Price: $200.00

A QUESTION MAY BE THE ANSWER TO ANOTHER, ASKED, PERHAPS LONG AGO, BY SOMEONE ELSE. / I AIN'T BEEN NOWHERE, I AIN'T BEEN LOST. I BEEN HERE ALL ALONG.

"You see, there's lots of people who don't really understand bees. But they sure are having a rough time now."

The two dramatic sequences in A QUESTION ("Unworthy to Pray, Unworthy to Weep—I Shall Whistle" and "And Then There Were No Bees Left in Volhynia") are assembled from texts by or "based on stories by" Sholom Aleichem, Isaac Babel, Martin Buber, and several others, while the spoken parts of I AIN'T BEEN NOWHERE are "adapted" and "appropriated" from real interviews with Son House, Lightning Hopkins, Willie McTell, and others.

The Object

First printing. (Tokyo): Mushinsha, (1982). 10'' x 7''. Original grey-blue wrappers. Grey-blue and brown endpapers. In original beige pictorial dust jacket with small sticker price ($10). Edition of 600 paperback copies, numbered 201 to 800; this copy no. 231. Illustrations by Ben and Jonathan Shahn. 89, [1] and 92, [2] pages. Signed by Sackheim on half-title page. Note on printed stationery of Ben Sackheim laid in: "To George [Bixby] – Eric's pastiches (bound ass-to-ass) – with our best wishes that the new year brings you a double measure of prosperity & pleasure." Minor shelfwear.

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