Ekstasis by Lamantia, Philip - 1959

San Francisco: The Auerhahn Press, 1959. soft cover with dust jacket which is attached to spine, as issued., covers are dust-discolored in places. front flap is detaching along fold, though not yet. interior is doing well. a very small pencil name to verso of a front endpaper.not mildewed or musty, but shows trace of old damp-line to rear cover upper margin. unpaginated. contains poems. 950 unnumbered copies printed. book design by robert la vigne.. First Edition /First Printing. Soft Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

The Auerhahn Press 1959. FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, cream light card covers with french flaps, red lettering to spine & front cover, unpaginated, VG- (sturdy tape repair/reinforcement to spine- rear cover completely detached but present/reapired, moderate chafing & soiling/foxing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

San Francisco: The Auerhahn Press, 1959. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. [45]pp. White wrappers printed in orange with cover design by Robert LaVigne. Wrappers a bit soiled and toned, very good or better. Limited to 950 copies.

SAN FRANCISCO: AUERHAHN PRESS.. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First edition. INSCRIBED by Philip Lamantia on front end-paper. Close to fine in creme-colored printed wrappers with orange titles and french flaps. (Couple virtually indiscernable spots of shelf soiling on front cover. ) One of 950 copies printed. Poet's SECOND regularly published book. (B) .

San Francisco: The Auerhahn Press, 1959. First Edition. An extraordinary copy of the Italian-American poet's second collection of verse. "For California's poetry community of the 1950s and 1960s - and for Wallace Berman, in particular - Philip Lamantia served as a direct link to European Surrealism. More than any poet of his generation, Lamantia shared the Surrealists' enchantment with the irrational and he hungered for ecstatic experience. Lamantia was willing to pay the full price of admission for experiences demanding a conscious disordering of the senses, too, and his life was marked by drug addiction and the periodic bouts of depression that invariably afflict those who fly too close to the sun" (Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle, p.206). His connection to Berman was a significant one: Berman would include Lamantia's work in Semina 4, his photos of Lamantia shooting heroin would end up on the cover of Lamantia's first book, Narcotica. The inscription here by Berman to his… Read More