Robert Duncan. Heavenly City Earthly City. Bern Porter, Berkeley, 1947.
Price: US$75.81 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 33pp. Pictorial white paper-covered bards are heavily toned with a few spots of soiling. Paper is split along spine and worn at edges. Head of spine chipped with a ~1 cm loss. Lacking dust-jacket. Internally good; previous owner's name on endpaper but otherwise unmarked. Cover illustration, frontis portrait and end device by Mary Fabilli. Duncan's first book; one of 350 copies.
Seller: The Paper Hound Bookshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$100.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Printing, First Issue. A Very Good copy in white paper covered boards, lacking the dustwrapper. 33pp. Slight wear to spine-ends, slight toning to top of front board. Clean and unmarked. Duncan's first book. Q19656
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Duncan, Robert. Heavenly City, Earthly City. Bern Porter, 1947.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Berkeley: Bern Porter, 1947. Octavo. Hardcover without a dust jacket. First edition. Signed and dated by Duncan on the first free end paper. Discoloration to the boards and rubbing to the crown of the spine. Book is in very good condition.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Duncan, Robert.. Heavenly City, Earthly City.. Bern Porter, Berkeley, 1947.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited Edition. One of 350 copies bound in white paper covered boards, the regular issue. This lacks the green dustwrapper. A Good only copy with pattern toning, wear to lower points. Though uncalled for, this copy INSCRIBED on the free front endpaper "For the _______, Robert Duncan 1947" and a three line annotation has been inked out. 33pp. Printed on laid paper, fore-edge untrimmed. Q14251
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardbound octavo. 33 pp. First edition of Duncan's first published book. Cover and interior illustrations by Mary Fabilli. Light wear to edge of spine else a sound very good or better copy. Fragments of the original dustwrapper are present as well, but this should be considered a copy of the book only.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 33pp; pictorial boards. Poet's first book, nicely printed on laid paper. Edges and spine toned, a touch of wear to spine ends; without dust jacket
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Duncan, Robert. HEAVENLY CITY EARTHLY CITY. Bern Porter, Berkeley, CA, 1947.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Tall octavo. 33pp. Designed by Ben Kennedy and printed at The Gillick Press. With Drawings by Mary Fabilli. Author's first book. Fellow poet, Victor Di Suvero's copy with his signature of ffep. Di Suvero was once the editior of UC Berkeley's literary magazine, The Occident. Pictorial paper cover over boards is darkened at edges and spine. Rubbing to spine top and corners. In pictorial blue paper dust jacket that has several tears to top edge and corners; minor fading to spine and edges. Lovely production, clean interior.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
DUNCAN, Robert.. Heavenly City Earthly City.. Berkeley: Bern Porter,, 1947.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 33 pp. Near fine in printed paper-covered boards with a small stain and light tanning to spine. Lacks the fragile dust jacket. Poems with drawings by Mary Fabilli.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$358.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. [6], 33, [1] pp., frontis, illus. First edition. In publisher pictorial board with dust jacket. Light toning to the extremities; contents clean; jacket has tape reinforcement to verso at the head and tail of the spine--this tape has faintly toned the binding; spine of the jacket is bit toned and rubbed, particularly at the tail of the spine. First book by this important American poet and significant figure in the San Francisco poetry scene. Scarce, particularly in this condition and with the dust jacket.
Seller: Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA, Conshohocken, PA, U.S.A.
Duncan, Robert. HEAVENLY CITY EARTHLY CITY. Bern Porter, [Berkeley], 1947.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: First issue; one of 250 (of 350 total) in white boards (this regular issue also in blue boards which are regarded as second issue) with blue-green dust jacket. Poet's first book. Inscribed in full to Berkeley librarian and book dealer Al[l]an Covici on title page. Worn at head and crown and bottom tips, else fine and bright in a dust jacket with moderate chipping on lower border, beginning to separate at spine folds, with several tape repairs on verso. Overall about very good, interior fine. Bertholf A1a.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Duncan, Robert. Heavenly City Earthly City. Bern Porter, Berkeley, 1947.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by poet in year of publication on front free endpaper. 33 pp. Printed white boards. Former owner's name on paste down. Very Good with some toning to boards, wear and exposure at tips. Lacking dust jacket. The San Francisco Renaissance poet's first book.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
DUNCAN, Robert. Heavenly City, Earthly City. Bern Porter), (Berkeley, 1947.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Attractive, stamped name on the front pastedown and a touch of wear to the fragile papercovered boards else near fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with a couple of small chips on the thin spine. The uncommon first book by one of the most important poets of his era. Of a total edition of 350 copies this is one of 250 copies in white boards (the additional 100 were in green boards and were signed).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Large 8vo, portrait, original illustrated paper over boards, dust jacket. Spine portion lightly tanned, faint offset along endpaper gutters, otherwise an unusually fine copy, with a short closed tear in the spine fold of the front panel of the dust jacket. Spine portion lightly tanned, faint offset along endpaper gutters, otherwise an unusually fine copy, with a short closed tear in the spine fold of the front panel of the dust jacket First edition of Duncan's first book. One of 250 copies (out of a total edition of 350). Bertholf A1a.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Duncan, Robert. Heavenly City Earthly City. Bern Porter, 1947.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Berkeley: Bern Porter, 1947. Sm 4to. 33 pp. Author's first book. Signed by Duncan along with the year (1947, the year of publication) on the front free endpaper. A little toning to the very edges of the boards; bump to the head of the spine with two tiny splits in the boards. archival paper repairs to the edges of the verso of the jacket. Near fine.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Duncan, Robert.. Heavenly City, Earthly City.. Bern Porter, Berkeley, 1947.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, hardcover issue in dull grey-green cloth stamped in gilt at spine, without jacket as issued. Fore- And bottom edges untrimmed. Though nominally one of a hundred numbered signed copies, this is neither numbered nor signed, and lacks the limitation colophon. Endpapers, frontis drawing of Duncan, and another in text, by Mary Fabilli. A Fine, clean copy, the gilt just a bit rubbed. Duncan's First Book, which was limited to 350 copies, the whole edition. Q04243
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
DUNCAN, Robert. Heavenly City, Earthly City. Bern Porter), (Berkeley, 1947.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Drawings by Mary Fabilli. Fine in fine dustwrapper with two tiny tears. A beautiful, fresh copy of this uncommon first book by one of the most important poets of his era. This copy Signed by the publisher Bern Porter. Of a total edition of 350 copies this is one of 250 copies in white boards (the additional 100 were in green boards and were signed by Duncan).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Duncan, Robert. Heavenly City Earthly City. Bern Porter, Berkeley, CA, 1947.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 33 pages. First edition, first printing in the white boards. His first book, one of only 250 copies. Signed by Duncan on the title pages. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with just a touch of wear to the top of the spine. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Duncan, Robert.. Heavenly City Earthly City.. Bern Porter, Berkeley, 1947.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing, the trade issue. A Fine copy in white paper covered boards, in dark green printed dustwrapper. Though not called for, SIGNED by Duncan on the title page. 33pp. Duncan's first book. Q17722
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.