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Lamantia, Philip. Ekstasis. Auerhahn Press, San Francisco, 1959.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: 12mo, unpag.; printed wrappers. One of 950 copies, the entire edition of the poet's second book. The cover design is by Robert La Vigne. Edges toned; general soil; corners of a couple of pages toward the rear bent; old pencil price on front

Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

LAMANTIA, PHILIP. Ekstasis. The Auerhahn Press 1959, 1959.

Price: US$61.72 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, cream light card covers with french flaps, red lettering to spine & front cover, unpaginated, VG- (sturdy tape repair/reinforcement to spine- rear cover completely detached but present/reapired, moderate chafing & soiling/foxing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand

Philip Lamantia. Ekstasis. The Auerhahn Press, San Francisco, 1959.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: soft cover with dust jacket which is attached to spine, as issued., covers are dust-discolored in places. front flap is detaching along fold, though not yet. interior is doing well. a very small pencil name to verso of a front endpaper.not mildewed or musty, but shows trace of old damp-line to rear cover upper margin. unpaginated. contains poems. 950 unnumbered copies printed. book design by robert la vigne. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Seller: art longwood books, Gloucester, MA, U.S.A.

LAMANTIA, Philip. Ekstasis. The Auerhahn Press, San Francisco, 1959.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. 12mo. [45]pp. White wrappers printed in orange with cover design by Robert LaVigne. Wrappers a bit soiled and toned, very good or better. Limited to 950 copies.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Lamantia, Philip. Ekstasis. Auerhahn Press, San Francisco, 1959.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Jacket somewhat toned at edges; miniscule closed tear at base of spine; a near fine copy -- white wraps with white & orange French flaps designed by Robert La Vigne. One of 950 copies.

Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada

Lamantia, Philip (SIGNED). Ekstasis. Auerhahn Press, San Francisco, 1959.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: spine slightly brown

Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.

Lamantia, Philip.. EKSTASIS.. AUERHAHN PRESS., SAN FRANCISCO, 1959.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. INSCRIBED by Philip Lamantia on front end-paper. Close to fine in creme-colored printed wrappers with orange titles and french flaps. (Couple virtually indiscernable spots of shelf soiling on front cover. ) One of 950 copies printed. Poet's SECOND regularly published book. (B)

Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

Philip Lamantia. Ekstasis. Auerhahn Press, 1959.

Price: US$649.77 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Arguably the most significant work of this visionary poet (alongside his Erotic Poems), who was associated with the Beats and who read alongside Allen Ginsberg’s first declamation of Howl at San Francisco’s Six Gallery in 1955, but who remained somewhat singular and almost as interested in peyote and ancient religion as poetry. Published in San Francisco by the Auerhahn Press, 1959, this is the charming first edition, one of 950 copies, in Fine condition.

Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom

Lamantia, Philip. EKSTASIS - WALLACE BERMAN'S COPY, INSCRIBED TO HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW. The Auerhahn Press, San Francisco, 1959.

Price: US$2750.00 + shipping

Description: One of 950 copies. Octavo (17.5cm); original unprinted cream card wrappers, glued into the printed dustjacket; [48]pp. Almost certainly Wallace Berman's own copy, gifted to his brother-in-law, Donald Morand, and inscribed to him on the preliminary leaf a month following publication: "Don – Think you will like this work – you met Philip once up here – have a crazy birthday – see you later – W+S+Tosh / July-59." Offered together with the original announcement (measuring 6.75" x 3 5/8"), with the text set by David Haselwood, and photograph of Lamantia taken by Berman (with the printed credit being his pseudonym, Pantale Xantos); verso is postmarked June 17, 1959, addressed to "J. Edgar Berman" by the publisher. Wrappers and contents clean and Near Fine; outer jacket is irregularly sunned, edgeworn and lightly dust-soiled, with some biopredation to upper front wrapper, and a small nick to lower right corner of same; Very Good. Prospectus shows some light finger-soil and a few tiny ink spots, else well-preserved. Both items housed side-by-side in a custom clamshell case. An extraordinary copy of the Italian-American poet's second collection of verse. "For California's poetry community of the 1950s and 1960s – and for Wallace Berman, in particular – Philip Lamantia served as a direct link to European Surrealism. More than any poet of his generation, Lamantia shared the Surrealists' enchantment with the irrational and he hungered for ecstatic experience. Lamantia was willing to pay the full price of admission for experiences demanding a conscious disordering of the senses, too, and his life was marked by drug addiction and the periodic bouts of depression that invariably afflict those who fly too close to the sun" (Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle, p.206). His connection to Berman was a significant one: Berman would include Lamantia's work in Semina 4, his photos of Lamantia shooting heroin would end up on the cover of Lamantia's first book, Narcotica. The inscription here by Berman to his brother-in-law is among the longest of the few such things we've seen or handled. Provenance: From the estate of Donald Morand, Berman's brother-in-law. Auerhahn 3.

Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.