Berkeley: Wingbow Press, 1975. First edition. One of a limited edition of 50 signed and specially bound copies. 8vo, bound in blind-stamped brown boards backed in linen. Unprinted handmade paper jacket. Fine in a jacket that is lightly toned at spine (corresponding to the linen backing) else fine. More
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1980. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Ed Dorn at the title page to Leroi Jones [Amiri Baraka] in the year of publication. "to Roi, who has seen everything up to, and perhaps even including, Wyoming. As ever, Ed / Dorn Boulder 25 Mar 1980."..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First edition. Lettered issue, one of 26 copies signed by Dorn, and specially handbound in Buckskin with printed title label to front panel. Laid into this copy is a sheet titled by hand in red ink "Proof Sample of 12 pt. Caslon for "Gunslinger"..... More
Austin: Skanky Possum Press, 2001. First edition. 8vo, 16 pp, saddle-stapled in card wraps. One of 100 copies. Association copy, inscribed by Dale Smith to fellow poet Gerrit Lansing. Fine. More
Kerhonkson, NY: Poets Press, 1966. First edition. Paperback. 8vo, Saddle stitched illustrated wraps. With bifolium errata laid in, and scarce thus. His first book, and an early publication from Dian Di Prima's Poets Press. Very good with some minor grubbiness to wraps and some darkening at the spine. More
Uppingham: Goldmark, 1995. First edition. 4to, 130 pp, bound in gilt-stamped blue cloth. Printed dust jacket. With two cd's housed into sleeves tipped in at rep. One of a limited edition of 1000 numbered and signed copies. Prints Dun's epic psychogeographical poem about Kings Cross, in Terza Rima. Fine. More
Kent, OH: [Zephyrus Image], [1974]. First edition. 7 x 11 3/4" broadside, letterpress printed on Curtis Gallo Utopian laid paper. Decorative linocut borders in green by Michael Myers. A broadside issued by the Zephyrus Image for the Kent State Arts Festival. Also issued as part of a portfolio, but some..... More
Roma: Edizioni Empiria, 2998. First edition thus. 8vo, 189 pp, wraps. With a foreward by Annalisa Goldoni. The first Italian edition, with the poems printed in English with facing Italian translation. The foreward is in Italian. Very good with some fading to the yellow wraps at spine, and some light..... More
Paris: Fourbis, 1993. First edition thus. 8vo, french fold wraps with pastedown title label. The first French edition of the book first published as The Delirium of Meaning, here translated int French by François Figlarz and Joseph Guglielmi. Near fine with a stray in mark to back panel. More
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. Very good with some fanding to wraps at extremties, and..... 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
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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
New Haven: Henry Wenning, 1966. First edition. 4to, 91 pp, bound in black cloth with gilt decoration to front panel. Lacking the unprinted tissue dust jacket. One of a limited edition of 200 numbered copies signed by both Duncan and Jess. A gorgeous work, the text reproduced entirely from Duncan's..... More
New York: New Directions, 1944. First edition. 8vo, 30 pp, bound in green paper-covered boards. Printed dust jacket. The scarcer hardcover issue, issued in the publisher's Poets of the Year series. Endpapers lightly toned, else fine in a dust jacket that has a short closed nick to head of front..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1951. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Prints two Tom takedowns, subtitled ""A study of the literary leader of intellectual, political, religious and philosophical reaction, with impish glances at his earlier Voltairean skepticism and freethought." Nevertheless, Mordell concludes that Tom "gave us a few good poems like "Dry Salvages.'" Fine. More
San Francisco: M, [1962]. First edition. 4to, mimeographed from typescript and stab-stapled. First issue of the little magazine published from Gino & Carlo's Bar, where, submissions could be dropped off. Only two were published. The magazine bears some similarities with Open Space and J, and share many of the same..... More
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Paris: Le Comité National des Ecrivains, 1952. Bifolium, 10 5/8 x 16 6/16", printed on rectos only with a black funeral border, and folded once (inner panels blank). Folded once, as mailed, and housed in the original mailing envelope, bordered in black, and addressed to Lucien Scheler, with stamp and..... More
Tokyo: Privately Published, 1962. First edition. 8vo, [54] pp, strinbound in printed wraps. Illustrated with a frontispiece by William Paden. Association copy, inscribed by Eshleman to Don Allen - a fantastic association copy of the new poetics, andEshleman's first book. Faint touch of rubbing to wraps, else fine. More
Tokyo: Privately Published, 1962. First edition. 8vo, [54] pp, strinbound in printed wraps. Illustrated with a frontispiece by William Paden. Eshleman's excellent first book. Near fine with a touch of fading at spine and some minor rubbing. More
Ypsilanti: Published by the author, 1990. First edition. 4to, comb-bound in red covers. Inscribed and signed by the author at the title page. A privately circulated edition of this work, issued four years later by Black Sparrow Press. Very good. More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First edition. 8vo, bound in decorated boards backed in decorated cloth. Unprinted glassine jacket. One of 26 lettered copies handbound by Earle Gray, and containing a holograph poem on a sheet tipped in following the title page, in this case also including a full..... 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