BENNETT, John M.

Columbus: Luna Bisonte Prods, 1990. No. 5 of 15 copies numbered and initialed to contents sheet and front of box. Collated and complete; overview of contents below. All items fine, save the hat and the box, both of which show toning. A limited edition box set gathering a substantial number of chapbooks, broadsides, and art objects by American poet and book artist John M. Bennett (b. 1942), notable also for his career as a special collections librarian and curator of the Avant Writing Collection at Ohio State University. The contents, whose publication dates span 1975-1990, include 31 poetry chapbooks, text-based artist's books, and folded broadsides, mostly self-published, a number in collaboration with other artists and writers (including Bruce Andrews and David McLimans); 26 broadsides; 12 postcards; two cassette tapes; a reproduced photograph of Bennett; and two items unique to this box set: a packet of stickers ("Throne Fog label pak") and a paper chef's hat with holograph text an