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Duncan, Robert. Achilles' Song. Phoenix Bookshop, 1969.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine/wraps #22 of 100 copies signed by the author on the colophon. Poetry
Seller: Book 'Em, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Duncan (Robert). Achilles' Song.. NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. First edition., 1969.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: Oblong pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. This is copy 23 of 100 numbered copies, signed by Duncan.
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
Duncan (Robert). Achilles' Song.. NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. First edition., 1969.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: Oblong pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. There were 100 numbered copies, signed by Duncan, as well as 26 lettered copies. This copy is out-of-series, not numbered, but it is signed on the colophon leaf by Duncan.
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
DUNCAN, Robert.. Achilles' Song.. The Phoenix Book Shop, New York., 1969.
Price: US$97.02 + shipping
Description: First edition. Oblong octavo. [16 pages]. Sewn wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
DUNCAN, Robert.. Achilles' Song.. NY: Phoenix Book Shop,, 1969.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: [16 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Cover drawing by Duncan. One of 100 (of 126) numbered copies SIGNED by Duncan. Number 7 in the Oblong Octavo Series. Bertholf A32a.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Duncan, Robert.. ACHILLES' SONG.. Phoenix Book Shop: NY, 1969.
Price: US$109.25 + shipping
Description: Oblong, 5.5 x 7.5, wraps, unpaged. FIRST ED, ONE OF 100 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY DUNCAN (total edition of 126).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
DUNCAN, Robert.. Achilles' Song.. NY: Phoenix Book Shop,, 1969.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: [16 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Cover illustration by Duncan. According to Bertholf, one of "at least four" copies designated "hors commerce" and SIGNED by Duncan. There are three small inverted exclamation points inked beneath the hc statement in the same hand. Number 7 in the Oblong Octavo Series. Bertholf A32b.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
DUNCAN, Robert. Achilles' Song. The Phoenix Book Shop, New York, 1969.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Oblong 8vo, original sewn illustrated wrappers. A very fine copy preserved in a cloth slipcase. A very fine copy preserved in a cloth slipcase First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Duncan (out of a total edition of 126). Bertholf A32a.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
DUNCAN, Robert.. Achilles' Song.. NY: Phoenix Book Shop,, 1969.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: [16 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Cover drawing by Duncan. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Duncan, though does not have a color drawing by Duncan. Number 7 in the Oblong Octavo Series. Bertholf A32b.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Duncan, Robert. Achilles' Song. The Phoenix Book Shop, New York, 1969.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of San Francisco poet Robert Duncan's Achilles' Song, in which the Greek hero imagines his mother, the sea nymph Thetis, calling him away from Troy: "Thetis, then, / my mother, has promised me / the mirage of a boat, a vehicle / of water within the water, / and my soul would return from / the trials of its human state, / from the long siege." This is one of 26 copies lettered A to Z, each with an original illustration by the author, out of a total of 126 signed copies. Achilles' Song was issued as Number 7 in the Phoenix Bookshop Oblong Octavo Series, a twenty-volume series that included poems by Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Gregory Corso, and Louis Zukofsky. A fine copy, with an original drawing by Robert Duncan. Oblong volume, measuring 5 x 7 inches: [16]. Side-stitched olive green wrappers in integral pictorial dust jacket printed in green and black. Original color frontispiece drawing by Duncan executed in pen and crayon. Hand-lettered "B" and signed by Duncan at colophon.
Seller: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.