BERRIGAN, Ted. Red Wagon. Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1976. First Edition. Trade paperback. 214x141mm. 73pp. Very Good, with some mild shelf wear and a few minor stains to the front cover.

This copy has been inscribed by Berrigan on the half-title page "To Frank Prince / at / 101 St. Mark's Pl. / N.Y.C. / w/ affection / + / admiration, / Ted Berrigan." Frank Prince (F.T. Prince) was a Shakespearean scholar and poet who's work Berrigan 'dicovered' and promoted. As Ron Padgett describes in his memoir Ted: "Another undercelbrated poet Ted "discovered" was F.T. Prince. He had found a few of Prince's poems somewhere, and then gotten hold of the newly published English edition of Doors of Stone, probably at teh Gotham Bookmart. The tantalizingly few biographical details on the book's dustjacket made Prince even more mysterious. Ted and I figured out that Prince was a hoax, that someone had invented him and that his name gave a phonetic clue: F.T. Prince = footprints. Suddenly Ted had created, among five or ten of us, tremendous interest in Prince's work." (page 86). An interesting and unique association copy.