Bears Head, First Edition (14 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Stated First Edition. Clean pages except for some dust staining at top and bottom edges; no owners' marks; soft cover shows noticeable scuffing front and back, fading at the upper half of the spine, small creases across corners, and short wrinkles at spine ends, otherwise sound. x, 406pp.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, General shelfwear to the cover/ pages.

8vo Hardcover. Condition: Aceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 406p. A clean ex-library copy with the typical stamps and markings present. White pages are unmarked otherwise. Tightly bound with secure hinges. Red and purple cloth boards are pointed with gilt lettering on spine and duct tape marks on edges. Matching jacket is unclipped with a sunned spine and minot shelf wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Rubbing on covers. Very slight moisture curl on first several pages. Last page has creases. Previous owner's name on half-title page. Signed and dated on FFEP. Otherwisr,a clean unmarked copy in good condition. 406 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good -. First Edition First Printing. Harcourt Brace / Coyote Books.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Faintest touch of wear and tiny bump at base of spine, thus near fine -- illus. wraps. First trade paperback. 'First Edition' stated on copyright page.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition in original dust jacket. Jacket rubbed all over with some minor chipping along top edge; not price clipped. Clean and crisp inside.

1 vols. 8vo. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Apart from two small smudges to upper cover, an near fine copy in dust jacket with minor rubbing.

Soft Cover. Condition: near Very Good binding. Octavo. x, [10], 406 pp., illus. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Whalen on the half title. Trade paperback. Covers rubbed; spine sunned; foxing to the textblock edges; contents are clean. A fairly nice copy of this mid-career collection by Whalen, a significant figure of the Beat Generation and the San Francisco poetry scene. This copy is inscribed to poet, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, and was acquired from Moore's estate.

First Edition, 1969. Near Fine copy in red and purple wrappers, the paperback issue (A Harvest Book). Trace of spotting to edges of textblock, else a bright and clean copy. INSCRIBED by Whalen on the first blank leaf before the half title, and da ted 1971. 406pp. Effectively a collected earlier poems, though Whalen objected to that designation. Includes Like I Say, Memoirs of an Interglacial Age, Every Day, Monday in the Evening, and sections of work not previously collected.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by author on a cut handwritten signature name and address card attached to front end page "Philip Whalen, 1509 Sachez St, San Francisco, CA 94131". DJ has light scuffing and sunning to spine. $17.50 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. Volume of collected poems from Whalen, Also includes laid-in a photocopy of a 1988 handwritten signed thank you letter from author which mentions 'Bear's Head'. Relatively scarce harcover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. AUTHOR SIGNATURE.

First edition, first printing A great book from a counterculture time with one of the very rare combination of publishers Ñ both mainsteam and very counterculture Ñ Harcourt and Coyote. A rare union here for a dynamic book collecting Whalen's work from his earliest books to late 1960s spanning the Beats into the counterculture era. Attractive violet and red boards with gilt and silver titles in very good dust jacket with light fade to spine and over all a gentle use, nothing at all offensive and still quite attractive with light toning to fore edge, with the book's lovely top edge rose color. Every serious poet's library should own this book.

First edition, first printing In 1984 Philip Whalen came to Woodstock New York and Janine Pommy Vega, the poet, met him with this copy, her own personal copy, fully signed by Philip Whalen in Woodstock on March 17, 1984. A wonderful association copy between two poets. Along with the fabulous poems there are further acknowledgments written by Philip Whalen from Bolinas in 1967. This book essentially collects the first half dozen books by Whalen. One of the greatest modern poetry book titles. Janine loved to carry this book around and use it in her travels to prisons and schools. Very good wraps with strong spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine crisp copy in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 406pp. with an "Author's Note" dated 1967. An improbable selected early poems by this important underground "Beat"/San Francisco Renaissance/Zen poet, a joint venture by Harcourt and Coyote. A volume which hardly ever turns up like this. Scarce condition copy. Q21792.