Don Van Vliet / Beefheart - Skeleton Breath Scorpion...
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£ 40 Sold For
Jan 7, 2007 Sold Date
Dec 28, 2006 Start Date
£   35 Start price
3   Number Of Bids
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Skeleton Breath, Scorpion Blush

Very rare collection of poetry, song lyrics and painting by Don Van Vliet ( Captain Beefheart ), published by Verlag Gachnang & Springer, 1987. Book measures 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (23x16 cm.) ISBN 3-906127-15-X, 96pp.
The book contains 16 paintings and 16 poems.

Paintings:

     It's Like A White Onion-Fleshed Pumpkin, 1985
     Copper Diver, 1985
     Pig Erases Statue in Passing, 1985
     Ghost Gait, Ghost Gait, 1985
     Bromboline Frenzy, 1985
     Night Nitrate, 1985
     Red Cloud Monkey, 1985
     Rolled Roots Gnarled Like Rakers, 1985/6
     Whalebone Farmhouse, 1986
     Check Bif, 1986
     Carp Catcher, 1986
     Garden Lion, 1986
     With Twinkling Lights and Green Sashes, 1986
     Crepe and Black Lamps, 1986
     Sea Wig, 1986
     Candle Powered Rodeo Ghosts, 1986

Poems: 

     My Human Gets Me Blues
     Pachuco Cadaver
     Orange Claw Hammer
     The Dust Blows Forward 'n The Dust Blows Back
     Old Fart At Play
     Fallin' Ditch
     Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee
     Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat
     Skeleton Makes Good
     A Tin Peened Reindeer
     The Tired Plain
     Three Months In The Mirror
     Gil
     Odd Jobs
     Infra-Grams
     Seam Crooked Sam

Contains text in German and English translation by A.R. Penck.

Condition is near mint - page 15 has a very small crease on lower corner.


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