San Francisco: Gnomon Press and Island Press, 1966. First edition thus, second issue, with the Duncan cover (replacing the original which RD took umbrage to). The original was first published in 1952 and circulated in a small handful of copies. Fine. More
New York: New Directions, 1984. First edition. One of a limited edition of 150 numbered and signed copies, bound in full salmon cloth titled in gilt at the spine, and housed in a brown cloth slipcase. With publisher's press release laid in. Fine / fine. More
Kent: Kent State University Libraries, 1978. 8vo, saddle-stapled in card wraps. With errata slip laid in. One of 100 numbered and signed copies (of a total edition of 624). The second edition, following the first edition of 1950 - this edition adds an afterword by Robert Bertholf. Touch of crimping... More
![Roots and Branches [Inscribed with Drawing]. Robert Duncan.](/pictures/thumb/20429.jpg?v=1544578653)
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1964. First edition. 8vo, wraps. 176 pp. Title page inscribed "Robert Duncan/ at Lawrence/ May 1965" with full-page drawing by the poet. Some light creasing to front wrap and at spine. Minor tidemarking to back cover. Faint droplet stain ghosts to foreedge. Crease to last... More
San Francisco: Open Space, 1965. First edition. 8vo, saddle stapled wraps illustrated by the poet. A lecture given by Duncan to commemorate 700 year anniversay of Dante. Near fine with toning to wrap margins. More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First edition. 4to, 24 pp, bound in cloth-backed illustrated boards, with a facsimile notebook housed in an envelope at rear. This copy is denoted as a presentation copy in holograph at the colophon, and is signed by Duncan. [Bertholf A37c; Morrow & Cooney 95c]... More
![Untitled Drawing [Gestalt]. Robert Duncan.](/pictures/thumb/21735.jpg?v=1544578662)
np: nd. 8 1/2 x 8”, ink on paper. Undated. Signed by Duncan within the image. Provenance: from the collection of the artist Ernesto Edwards, a longtime friend of Jess and Robert Duncan, who has a section devoted to his work in An Opening of the Field (pp. 188-193). A.... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First edition. One of 125 numbered copies specially handbound in boards and signed by Roberts Creeley, Duncan, and Bly, Allen Ginsberg, and Gary Snyder. It helped considerably in the New American Poetics to be a man, with bonus points of your name was Robert... More
![Oyez 1-10 [Complete]. Michael McClure, Josephine Miles Brother Antoninus, Gary Snyder, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, Dvid Meltzer, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, William Bronk.](/pictures/thumb/27050.jpg?v=1547156368)
San Francisco: Oyez, 1964. Set of ten broadsides, each approximately 11 1/2 x 17", each printed letterpress by the Auerhahn Press on heavyweight paper with deckled edges. Includes broadsides by Michael McClure (Two for Bruce Conner), Brother Antoninus (The Rose of Solitude), Josephine Miles (In Identity), Robert Duncan (Wine), Robert... More
London: Novello, 1964. First edition. 4to, 36 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Signed by Robert Duncan at the title page. The opening phrase of the prologue to the piece is based upon Robert Duncan's line "Often I am permitted to return to a meadow," taken from The Opening of the Field. A.... More