Tom Clark Charles Olson (11 results)

Hardcover. xi, 403p., 6.5x9.5 inches, very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped, lightly yellowed dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st printing; dj w/lite wear only, unclipped price, in mylar; 403 clean, unmarked pages/index.

Condition: FINE. First printing. The first biography of this important American poet, called by Timothy Leary "the father of modern poetry" who grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts and spent his summers in the fishing city of Gloucester, and where he retreated to in 1957 to concentrate on his poetry. Robert Hass commented that "Tom Clark's 'Charles Olson' is brilliant story-telling. The poet who cuts such a large figure in the American avant garde in the fifties and sixties is unexpectedly and fully alive in Clark's prose with his huge ambitions and fears and sexual confusion." Notes, index. xi, 403 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (1991). First edition, first printing. "First edition" statement and first printing number code sequence 1 through 0 to the copyright page. Clark, a highly acclaimed poet in his own right, draws on extensive private journals, letters, and revealing testimony from family and friends to paint this definitive portrait of Olson's life, political career, poetry writing career, leading the 1960s poetic counterculture, etc. Thin black remainder mark to the lower page edges, else very nearly fine, firm and square, in black half-linen over gray-cream marble boards with gilt embossed titles and decorations to the spine; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with a hint of age-toning; original $27.95 printed price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 403 pages; notes; index.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. by Tom Clark. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (1991). First edition, first printing. "First edition" statement and first printing number code sequence 1 through 0 to the copyright page. Clark, a highly acclaimed poet in his own right, draws on extensive private journals, letters, and revealing testimony from family and friends to paint this definitive portrait of Olson's life, political career, poetry writing career, leader of the 1960s poetic counterculture, etc. Fine, firm and square, in black half-linen over gray-cream marble boards with gilt embossed titles and decorations to the spine; in a fine dust jacket; original $27.95 printed price still intact to the front inner flap. NO remainder mark. Octavo; 403 pages; notes; index.…

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 48pp. Although without indication this copy belonged to Peter Armstrong who contributes the opening 11 poems (constituting his work's first appearance in print). In a Bristol/Black Mountain face-off the front cover gives him star billing above Creeley & Olson. Rear cover a little splashed & marked. Christina Vickers (cover) (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. GOOD. 4 volume set includes Sparrow 17 "Suite" by Tom Clark, Sparrow 40 "Was That A Poem Or Did You Just Make That It Up Yourself" by Robert Creeley, Sparrow 43 "The Horses Of The Sea" by Charles Olson & Sparrow 60 "From "Towards A New American Poetics" by Ekhart Faas. All have discoloration (browning) to edges, light rub wear to some areas, few very light brown and grey smudges to covers. bagged for protection with a stiff backing board. Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS. …

Original Wraps. Condition: About Fine. First Edition. About fine -- illus. wraps (21.5 x 35 cm, 3 side staples) in protective mylar envelope. Very attractive copy.

Condition: Sehr gut. 17 cm x 24 cm. XI, 403 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket design Jay J. Smith. Cover photography of Charles Olson Goliard Press. Leading edge deckled. Very good, actually in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. A biography of 20th Century American poet Charles Olson by fellow poet Tom Clark.…

Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. 6 volumes. Octavo hardcovers in their original cloth, each volume with different color, pastedowns to the boards the publisher-issued clear acetate jackets. Limited to one of 50 copies of each autograph edition, complete run. Originally published as staplebound pamplets and bound here by the publisher in multi-colored cloth with each author (still living at the time of publication) signing the cover of their respective pamphlet. Publisher's compliments card laid in. Sparrow 61-72 with previous owner's embossed stamp on front free endpaper. Some tears to the acetate jackets but books themselves are near fine. Signed by Author(s).…

disque. Etats-Unis, 1974, Giorno Poetry System GPS003, 2 disques 33trs, 30cm, sous pochette ouvrante, conception et photographies de Les Levine.Cet album est un "do-it-yourself dial-a-poem kit".Avec Charles Amirkhanian, John Ashberry, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Bill Berkson, Joe Brainard, Michael Brownstein, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Jim Carroll, Tom Clark, Clark Coolidge, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Ed Dorn, Larry Fagin, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Frank Lima, Michael McClure, Gerard Malanga, Bernadette Mayer, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Peter Orlovsky, Maureen Owen, Ron Padgett, John Perreault, Charles Plymell, Ed Sanders, Jack Spicer, Lorenzo Thomas, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Diane Wakoski, Anne Waldmann, Philip Whalen, John Wieners. (103163).…