Bears Head, Signed (6 results)

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).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First paperback edition. SIGNED and warmly inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf. 406pp. Octavo [20cm]; perfect-bound in printed wraps. Significant sunning to the spine and surrounding areas. Light shelfwear. Otherwise, a square and unmarked copy. Warmly inscribed (to a noted Pacific Northwest poet and collector) by Philip Whalen on the front flyleaf: "for ______ (with | apologies for the | mistaken identity) | & with all best wishes | Philip Whalen | Ft Worden | 22 VII 77." This volume is a lengthy collection of Whalen's poems. Cover design by Cynthia Krupat. Lengthy collection of Whalen's poems.

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 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.