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Duncan, Robert. The Years as Catches : First Poems [1939-1946] [SIGNED COPY]. Oyez, Berkeley, 1966.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed by Robert Duncan [Robert Duncan at Reed College, March 1967] on the title page. 93 pages, bibliography of Duncan's works. Illustrated wraps, octavo. Near fine copy.
Seller: Studio Books, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
DUNCAN, Robert.. Of the War: Passages 22-27.. [Berkeley]: Oyez (1966)., 1966.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: Folio. [16 pp]. Unbound leaves laid into an unprinted red folder which is then encased in the publisher's portfolio with a printed cover label. All elements near fine or better. One of [80] copies SIGNED by Duncan. Duncan revised five lines of text, and added an additional six lines to one poem for this edition. Bertholf A19.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED hardcover first edition - First printing. Includes all of the poems in three of the earliest works of Everson: These Are the Ravens (1935), San Joaquin (1939); and The Masculine Dead (1942). Introduction by Robert Duncan. One of only 1000 copies in an edition designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh. Second state with the spelling of "language" corrected on p ix. SIGNED by Everson on the title page. xii, 105 pp plus colophon. Fine in near fine dust jacket (a bit of wear to the ends of the spine dj, and the side of the spine, very short closed tear to upper edge)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SINGLE SOURCE : The EARLY POEMS (1934-1940), by WILLIAM EVERSON (aka Brother Antoninus). Introduction by Robert Duncan. Published by Oyez, Berkeley, 1966. First Edition, FIRST STATE, with the typo "langauge" instead of "language" on page ix. Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, cloth covered spine and paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, 6" x 9.5", 105 pages plus Colophon page (the last page). Limited edition, one of only 1,000 copies. From the Colophon page: "SINGLE SOURCE has been designed & printed by Graham Mackintosh in an edition of 1000 copies." Though not called for, this copy is SIGNED and INSCRIBED by BROTHER ANTONINUS to DENNIS TURNER (a San Francisco Doctor who was a Friend of Many Poets and Artists, and who was also a Fine Printer in his early days at Harvard, he died in 2013): "for Dennis / with the best wishes of / Brother Antoninus / Good Friday 1968 / Cambridge, Mass." Laid-in is the single-fold, four-panel prospectus for this book. Condition: The book has a circular blindstamp of Dennis Turner (to whom Brother Antoninus inscribed this book) on the title page, and a bookseller's label at the bottom of the front pastedown (Grolier Book Shop / Cambridge); otherwise a NEAR FINE book, tight, bright, sharp cornered, and clean; in a GOOD MINUS dustjacket with scrapes, edge wear, a pea-size hole, a couple 1" closed tears, and some rubbing and soiling. SCARCE INSCRIBED COPY with FIRST STATE POINT.
Seller: Blank Verso Books, Napa, CA, U.S.A.
Duncan, Robert. PASSAGES 22-27 OF THE WAR. [Berkeley]: Oyez, (1966). (1966)., 1966.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: [Berkeley]: Oyez, (1966). (1966). Fine. - Folio, 14 inches high by 9-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, consisting of 8 pages printed in red & black on fine paper with the signatures laid loose in a red paper chemise within a gray paper portfolio. A title label printed in red on fine white stock is mounted on the front panel of the portfolio. There are but minor creases to the corners of the portfolio. Near fine. Limited edition of 100 numbered copies signed by Robert Duncan.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
DUNCAN, Robert.. Of the War. Passages 22 - 27.. Oyez, [Berkeley], 1966.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 16 pp. Folio, in sheets as issued laid within red paper chemise and gray wrapper with printed paper label. One of 100 copies signed by the author. A fine copy in paper portfolio with some light signs of use and unobtrusive sunning at the top edge.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
DUNCAN, Robert. The Years As Catches. Oyez, Berkeley, 1966.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Publisher's prospectus laid in. One of 170 copies of the hardcover issue. Signed by Duncan on the title page, and dated in 1967.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
DUNCAN, Robert. The Years As Catches. First Poems (1939-1946). Oyez, Berkeley, 1966.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, original pictorial boards, dust jacket. Fine copy. First edition, hardbound issue. One of 200 copies bound thus (1800 copies were issued in wrappers). Bertholf A20b. Presentation copy, inscribed by Duncan on the title-page: "inscribed for Gerard Malanga / Robert Duncan / at home, San Francisco / 1972". Duncan has also credited his title-page portrait photograph: "photo by Gogo Givens c. 1944 Provincetown".
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
DUNCAN, Robert. The Years As Catches. Oyez, Berkeley, 1966.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 30 numbered and Signed *hors de commerce* copies of the hardcover issue with the endpapers of the book extensively hand-illustrated by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.