Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence [Complete 10-Volume Set, All Signed]
by OLSON, Charles and Robert Creeley (letters); BUTTERICK, George F. and Richard Blevins (editors)
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- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Santa Barbara & Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1980-1996. First Editions. Limited Issue. Vols.1-7 each being one of 250 numbered copies signed by Creeley on a tipped-in preliminary leaf, Vol.8 being one of 200 copies (also signed), Vol.9 being one of 150 copies (also signed), and Vol.10 being the deluxe issue, one of 26 lettered copies (this being copy 'O') signed by Creeley and editor Richard Blevins. Ten octavo volumes (23.5cm); photo-illustrated paper-covered boards and variously-colored cloth backstrips, with title labels mounted to spines; publisher's original acetate dustjackets. Vols.1-2 have some scattered foxing to upper text edges, a few other volumes with light dust-soil to upper text edges, with a few tiny indentations to lower board edges; Near Fine in VG+ to Near Fine dustjackets, some with mild to moderate rubbing and cloudiness to jackets. A substantial collection of correpondence between these two Black Mountain poets, written between 1950-52.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81123
- Title
- Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence [Complete 10-Volume Set, All Signed]
- Author
- OLSON, Charles and Robert Creeley (letters); BUTTERICK, George F. and Richard Blevins (editors)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Editions
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press
- Place of Publication
- Santa Barbara & Santa Rosa
- Date Published
- 1980-1996
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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