Bears Head (30 results)

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. M…

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 North…

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…

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 t…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. 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…

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 e…

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 acknowledgmen…

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…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo, 1st Edition, Very Good in Very Good D.J, bit waterstruck on top edge, red bleeding color stain down foredge, it adds character.INSCRIBED to yr fav. poet/bookseller."For Harry with best wishes, Philip Whalen, NYC 19 IV 83".(VV4/1). Inscribed by A…

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipp…

Original copper engraving (60 x 44 cm, overall sheet 69 x 55 cm). Tissue guard to verso. Light foxing to outer margins, not affecting plate. From "A Collection of Prints. Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare." published by Boydell, London, 1803. In 1789, the publisher John Boydell opened the Shakespeare Gallery, an exh…