Duncan Robert Jess Collins (31 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 84pp, printed wrappers. First issue of this scholarly literary journal devoted to Charles Olson and his work. Includes Robert Duncan (Bertholf C241). Unmarked copy, light outer wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 12mo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Classic early issue of this late sixties/early seventies cultural magazine, includes work by Rene Daumal, Jess Collins, Charles Olson, Gerrit Lansing, Robert Duncan (Bertholf C209), et al. Nice copy, light outer wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 12mo, 256pp, printed wrappers. Another excellent book-length issue of this sixties/seventies cultural magazine, featuring a cover by and of Carolee Schneeman and contributions by some of the finest writers and artists of the period, including Robert Duncan (Bertholf C212ĞC213). A little rubbing to covers (as usual with this issue), contents clean and unmarked, subscription envelope laid in. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 200pp, printed wrappers. An important book-length issue devoted to Jack Spicer. Includes Robert Duncan (Bertholf C249ĞC250). No markings, surface wear to covers, light sunning to spine. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. Wide 8vo, 128pp, stapled wrappers. Third issue of this significant journal of experimental writing, includes a collage cover by Jess and work by Robert Duncan (Bertholf C257), Bronk, many others. Unmarked copy, original price label to inside front cover, light spotting to first page. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 200pp (plus foldouts), printed wrappers. Solid copy of this special Robert Duncan issue, with poetry and prose by Duncan (including letters to Jack Spicer and Robin Blaser), plus writing on Duncan by a range of contributors. (Bertholf C293-C294; J195-J205; K134.) Unmarked copy, minor wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 12mo, 256pp (plus color plates), printed wrappers. Thick book-length double issue of this late sixties/early seventies cultural review, featuring collage covers by Jess Collins and contributions by Charles Bukowski, Carolee Schneeman, Paul Celan, Charles Stein, Robert Duncan (Bertholf C220), et al. Subscription envelope laid in. Unmarked copy, light outer soil and wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. Wide 8vo, 176pp, stapled wrappers. Thick double issue of this significant journal of experimental writing, includes a Jess cover; sections devoted to Robert Duncan (Bertholf J179-J182) and Paul Metcalf; and writing by Charles Bernstein and many others. Nice unmarked copy from Duncan's collection; light wear and small nick to back cover, which also has a patch of light toning. Not Signed.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Jess Collins (illustrator). First Edition. An Evergreen Original. From the library, albeit unmarked, of Columbia College author/scholar and Story Workshop creator John Schultz and his wife, the author/professor Betty Shiflett. A clean, unmarked and bright copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 84pp, stapled wrappers. This early issue includes significant work by a number of prominent contributors, including Robert Duncan (Bertholf C126). A cover credit to Philip Whalen has been effaced on the contents page (presumably as issued), light wear overall. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 64pp (plus 8 pages of plates), stapled wrappers. Includes early Edward Dorn (Streeter C18ĞC19). This copy is from the library of Robert Duncan and Jess, both of whom contribute work (Bertholf C100). A note at the top of Contents page in DuncanÕs hand draws attention to Jess's work. Otherwise unmarked, a nice copy with a little light cover toning and wear. Not Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Second edition. Pictorial wrappers. Paste-ups by Jess. Near fine with spine head slightly bumped, light toning and rubbing. One of 2600 paperback copies.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Collins, Jess (illustrator). [68pp]. White card wraps in jacket with edges folded over wraps. Jacket features a B&W Jess collage; red titles along spine. Moderate rubbing where folded flaps create slight ridges under jacket, and light wear along top edge. Internally crisp and clean. Sixteen collages facing text, some in Duncan's holograph. First edition, one of 200 regular, unlettered, copies.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. Good+. 4to, 32pp (mimeographed), stapled front wrapper (lacks rear wrapper). Rare second (and final) issue of this important early San Francisco mimeo revolution title edited by Richard Duerden. Includes writing by Robert Duncan (Bertholf C150), Jess Collins, Gerard Malanga, et al. Unmarked copy with sunning and wear to covers (a reinforcement staple has been added), plus some general reading wear. Not Signed.

Ephemera. First Edition. Printed folder with four sheets, printed rectos (front side) only. 8-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. The exhibit catalog for a show of Jess's collage works. Duncan contributes Structure of Rime XXVII, here published for the first time. The other sheets (all text) are a list of works in the exhibition, a bio of the artist, and a checklist of publications. First edition (first printing). A near fine, complete copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (16pp.). Collages and poems, 'a book that oughtn't have been done to Art, a serious alteration in the possibilities'. Slightly rubbed for example to the spine fold, which is also thinly toned, the staples rusty internally, the head edge spotted, but generally crisp.

1/4 leather. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; Limited edtion. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 37 pages; [SIGNED] 1968 Black Sparrow Press. Oversize HC tightly bound in quarter leather backed spine and paper covered boards. Limited edition of 250 numbered and 26 lettered copies printed in Santa Barbara by Noel Young and signed by both poet and artist on the limitation leaf. This copy is number 29 of the 250 numbered copies. Bright, tight and fresh in original acetate dust jacket. About Fine . Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. ; Signed by Author & Illustrator.

First Edition, 1967. Limited to 500 copies. A Fine copy in ring-bound boards. Narrative in the juvenile manner, profusely illustrated with drawings by Jess. 48pp. A folly.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. SIGNED limited edition. Copy 244 of 250 SIGNED by Robert Duncan and Jess. Fine in yellow cloth with pictorial label on front cover title label on spine. In the publisher's original un-printed acetate wrapper. (31pp. ) (8" X 10 3/4") Published in conjunction with an exhibition. ; 8 " X 10 3/4"; 31 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. One of the most important postwar American underground literary magazines. This issue, co-edited with Michael McClure, contains early appearances by major Beat writers, as well as a range of exceptional contemporary writers. (The Ed Dorn contributions are Streeter C5ĞC8; Robert Duncan is Bertholf C72.) Unmarked copy from the library of Philip Lamantia; light sunning to wrappers and a little overall wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of 200 copies (of 213). 8vo. Wrappers. Unpaginated (68pp.). Pronounced spotting/toning to the plain white wrappers, the head edge and endpapers more lightly affected, but all things considered Very Good in about like jacket, rubbed and marked superficially, showing impressions from the flaps beneath, the blank lower panel with a 0.5" split at the spine fold, otherwise moderately edgeworn. This copy has the ownership inscription of Andrew Crozier.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Four printed leaves laid in to a folder with rear flap serving as title-page, covers illustrated by Jess. Contains Duncan's "Structure of Rime XXVII," its first appearance. Published to coincide with a show at the San Francisco Museum of Art held May 31 to June 30, 1968. Minor wear to spine, else a fine copy. Bertholf B23. Quite scarce.

First Edition. One of 500 copies. Quarto; illustrated card stock, spiral bound. The book plate, which is in all copies, and serves as a colophon of sorts, is inscribed "Allan Covici from Uncle Robert". Bookplate has become detached and is now laid in. Ink from Duncan's signature has transferred lightly to the half-title, one comb has broken from the binding, a light paperclip mark on the front cover, else about Fine. A lovely copy of this children's book of sorts profusely illustrated by Jess. A scarce book signed, and this to Covici who was a Berkeley librarian, noted collector and active particpant in the San Francisco gay culture of the 60's. ANACAPA A40.

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Exhibition catalog. Prints the first appearance of "Structure of Rime XXVII" by Robert Duncan. Square small quarto. Pictorial wrappers with four sheets laid in, printed rectos only. Light wear, about fine. Also prints a checklist of works, a chronology, and a checklist of publications.

Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. New Haven: Henry Wenning, 1966. First Edition, Limited Issue of 200 copies signed by Duncan and Jess at rear, this being #120. Quarto; 91pp. Illustrations in black and red throughout. Original glassine wrapper; black cloth boards stamped in gilt; illustrated endpapers. Prospectus laid in. Chipping and several tears along edges of fragile glassine wrapper. Boards show light shelfwear; binding sound; pages unmarked; overall a Very Good copy; scarce in retail.

First Edition. 8vo, unpag.; stiff wrappers with delicate printed paper cover. One of 200 copies in the regular issue. An uncommon Divers Press book owing to its extreme fragility. Paper cover chipped, spine perished (some pieces preserved); some spotting and toning to front.

First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of four copies specially bound and designated for the author, artist, publisher, and binder, this one marked "Publisher's Copy" and signed by Duncan and Jess on the colophon. Quarto (28.75cm); full natural beige calf, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [4],5-37,[7]pp; illus. A full-page inscription to John and Barbara Martin more of an original poem, really appears on the verso of the colophon: "Wednesday / October 16 / For Barbara and John / Our do and derive pleasures / Once more / Blue makes los angeles brighter in blue / with room for a bay we return to her too / Barbara and John Martin are a new installation / In our remembrances / Two / We salute him among los Juans del pueblo / We salute Barbara with harmonica and banjo / We serenade a serene air and add an aid for memory / Spanish lessons from / We do not know Spanish / Later another Stein song sung in Spanish / Barbara and Juan Martin in disguise / Add to our names of people / This is a Martin disguised as a swallow / Black as a sparrow / Which sparrow / In leather / For size / A large and de luxe Sparrow / RD." On the opposing page is a full-page original composition by Jess Collins, involving ink illustrations of musicians playing the banjo and harmonica, and a woman on a balcony being serenaded by a large black sparrow, standing atop a pile of books; five sections of cut-and-pasted text have been incorporated into the artwork, which compliments Duncan's poem beautifully and harmoniously. Gentle sunning to spine, upper and lower board edges, with some mild rubbing to spine ends and lower corners; contents fresh; Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket. The first collaborative work by Duncan and Jess to be produced by the press (and the third of ten volumes by Duncan published by John and Barbara Martin). Bertholf A27.c; Morrow & Cooney 45.

San Francisco Museum of Art, 1968. First edition. Four printed leaves laid into an illustrated folder, the folder art by JESS. One leaf is by Robert Duncan: Structure Of Rime XXVII. The other three leaves list works by JESS, as well as a checklist and biographical timeline. Faint edge wear, but a fine copy. This copy not signed by either contributor, although there was a limited signed issue. Bertholf B23. The work by Duncan makes its first appearance here.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Measuring 3.25" x 4.75". Handmade Christmas card for 1964. Chinese-theme illustration pasted onto a folded card with a handwritten note: "to cast a Chinese lite on Christmas towards. Robert and Jess 1964 our love and constant wish for your Happy New Year 1965.".