Paste Ups Jess (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd.edition; 1st. hardcover printing. Second edition. First hardcover printing. One of 600 copies bound in cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 73 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. First edition thus. Square octavo, 73pp., illustrated. A near fine copy in the publisher's printed wraps, with mild toning to extremities. A superior association copy, SIGNED with a full-page inscription by Robert Duncan to Jonathan Williams (publisher of Jargon Press) on the first leaf: "A Preface Preface for J. W.: Digging for the foundations to be laid, the workers came upon Roman and even Greek arty facts [sic] that betrayed an old affair du coeur preserved by lava flows and impacted ashes. It was a tongue touching an old truth to test the ache of it now turnd to a roseate nostalgia. The initials entwined with hair and vines (fruits and roses superimposed) were only partially decipherable and in linear Greek Z, a code as yet unbroken. Poets have however a Field Day over such remnants. Carbon tests revealed it was years ago in any event. R.D." Duncan wrote the Preface to Williams's "Elegies and Celebrations," and Williams published Duncan's "Letters: Poems MCMLIII-MCMLVI" in 1958 as Jargon 14. A meaningful copy.