HUMAN UNIVERSE AND OTHER ESSAYS by Olson, Charles - 1967

Good condition and tightly bound. Edges show significant shelf wear and back cover has several creases. Some soil marks on the cover and outer edges of pages. Text has occasional underlining, notes on end pages.

Grove Press, Inc., 1967. Paperback. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Grove Press, 1967. Hardcover, blue cloth with stamped gilt lettering to spine, 160 pp. Very Good, toning to edges of boards, light shelf and edge wear./Very Good jacket, complete but somewhat soiled and toned, blue pen repricing over original price by a former used dealer.. Design: Kuhlman Associates.

NY: Grove Press, (1967).. First trade edition.. 160 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a small ink price over the original price on the front flap. Published first in 1965 in a letterpress edition by Auerhahn.

San Francisco: The Auerhahn Society, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Edited by Donald Allen. Quarto. 160pp. Vellum backed decorative boards with woodcut by Robert LaVigne. Faint crease at the top corner of pages, modest rubbing along the bottom edge, near fine in a very good unprinted dust jacket with a couple short tears near the foot of the spine, and tiny nicks and tears at the edges. One of 250 copies. Publisher's prospectus for the book laid in. Olson was a postmodernist poet, a term he coined in a letter to his friend and fellow poet, Robert Creeley in 1951.

Auerhahn Society, 1965. hardcover. very good/no jacket. Near fine.

San Francisco: Auerhahn Society, 1965. First edition. Vellum-Backed Decorated Boards. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing limited to 250 copies. Cover by Robert LaVigne, Photo of Olson by Kenneth Irby. 160 pp. Slight bow to boards, corners of boards bumped. In plain jacket.

San Francisco: The Auerhahn Society, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/none. 4to. Quarter vellum spine over decorated boards with artwork by beat painter Robert La Vigne. 160 pp. First edition. First binding with vellum spine. One of only 250 copies printed during the summer of 1965. Photograph of the author taken by Kenneth Irby. Very light soiling to vellum else a near fine example. Included in this volume is Olson's essay on Projective Verse. A lovely copy. Lacking the plain paper wrapper.

San Francisco: The Auerhahn Society, 1965. Vellum. Near Fine. 11" by 7.5". None. A beautiful limited edition collection of essays by Charles Olson. One of 250 limited edition copies printed for the Aeurhahn society in 1965. Charles Olson was a second generation American poet, sometimes considered a primary postmodern poet. He was also famous for his letters and essays and for his encouragement and influence of many young writers. In a quarter vellum binding with pictorial boards. Externally, in excellent condition with just some light shelfwear and slight bumping. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Neat ink inscription to front blank. Near Fine