Robert Duncan Pref (2 results)

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. First Edition, Limited to 176 special copies handbound by Earle Gray of which this is no. 77. Quarto (27cm); publisher's maroon cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards, printed spine label, slightly opaque acetate dust jacket; 491pp.; halftone illus. Slight bubbling of acetate jacket along upper spine edge, corners nudged, else Very Good to Near Fine. Signed by Duncan, Bertholf, and Creeley on leaf bound in after the title page. Together with two-paged typed letter (approx. 250 words) signed by Black Sparrow Press founder and editor John Martin on BSP letterhead addressed to rare booksellers Henry and Adele Wenning, dated December 24, 1986. "You are both cited so liberally in this text (see the index) that I want to send you a copy.This book has been a most difficult project, about two years in the making, with over a year's worth of copy editing on the MS and revisions to the proof, that I look at it as a parent might look at a most difficult child, with a mixture of pride and regret." [It is worth noting that only Henry, not Adele, gets mentioned in the index despite what Martin says.] Martin goes on to touch upon Duncan's declining health (kidney failure) and credits one of Henry Wenning's bookseller catalogs for introducing him to Duncan's work in the first place. An excellent letter. Mail folds, else in Fine condition.

Condition: Very Good. New York: Acadia Press, 1964. Limited Author's Edition of 50 copies, this being number 27. Side-stapled chapbook (20cm); illustrated card wraps; [52]pp; illus throughout. Covers lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends. Toning from glueline of tipped-in colophon affecting final few pages, else interior unmarked. Binding sound. Signed by Adam and Jess on tipped-in limitation note at back. Mid-career book by the Glaswegian San Francisco Renaissance poet and collagist.