Berkeley, CA: Cody's Books, 1976. Poster. Announcing "The Sand Dollar Reading," by poets Berkson, Davidson, Duncan, Johnson, Jones, McClure, Palmer, and Scalapino. Reading held at Cody's Books in Berkeley at 8 pm on November 24, 1976. Printed by fine printer Wesley Tanner. Slight bending at lower corners; upper left corner..... More
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Poetry Encounters: Robert Duncan Reading From His Work & Chas. Olson, a Video Interview, Filmed In Gloucester, 12 March 1966. 12 March 1978.
San Francisco: Blue Dolphin, 1978. 4to. Two Color Poster, Very Good with staining, creasing, some edge wear. Illustrated. More
Occident, Volume II, New Series, Spring/Summer 1969.
Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1969. Perfectbound in blue wraps. 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. 144 pp. Symposium with Robert Bly, Frederick Crews, Robert Duncan, Richard Eberhart, Arthur Miller, Howard Nemerov, Henry Roth, and Louis Untermeyer. Poems by David Bromige, Ron Koertge, Denise Levertov, Czeslaw Milocz, Ron Silliman, James Tate..... More
Quand le grand foyer descend dans les eaux.
[San Francisco]: Intersection, 1981. Broadside poem and art work printed by George Lithograph. 26 x 20 inches. Printed on Twinrocker paper by Wesley Tanner of Berkeley. This is one of the uncolored examples outside the edition which was to be handcolored. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley. More
Robert Duncan reading from his own Poetry. Berkeley.
Berkeley: March 10 [1950s]. Poster announcement printed in black on yellow paper. reading under the auspices of the Department of English at UC Berkeley. Remnants of tape verso. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley. More
Appraisal of the notebooks, manuscripts and drafts of the poet Robert Duncan for SUNY Buffalo.
Berkeley:1987. Original signed appraisal with 177 pages of itemized and hand annotated works. More
Just Buffalo Readings. March '79: Poets, Drums, etc.
Allentown, N.Y.: Just Buffalo Readings, 1979. Poster advertising readings at the Allentown Community Center. Poets listed include: Sonia Sanchez, Emile Latimer, Duffy Seleska, John Daley, Robert Duncan, George Quasha, Charles Stein, Ron Padget and Dick Gallup, with "sounds and echoes" of Yementa. 11 x 17 inches. Very good, folded across..... More
Poems & Pictures. Number Two. Limited Edition on rag paper.
San Francisco, Calif.: Porpoise Bookshop; London: Kenneth Lindsay, 1954. 4to. Sheets loose as issued on rag paper, watermarked J. Whatman, 1949. One of 50 copies. There was also a small format version, which is the one generally being sold. 16 leaves unbound in a folded printed cover, with six black..... More
March '79 poets, drums, etc.
Buffalo, NY: Just Buffalo Readings, 1979. Poster. Poetry readings and performances at the Allentown Community Center. Robert Duncan, Dick Gallup, Ron Padgett, George Quasha. Sonia Sanchez, Charles Stein, and others. Reproduced calligraphy with ink drawing by Judy Dreamer. 11 x 17 inches. Fine. More
Adam's Way: A Chamber Play with Variations upon Anthropological Themes.
San Francisco Museum of Art, 1976. Announcement for play given June 17, 1976. Folded card measuring 4 x 5 inches. [2] pp. Cast includes: Lewis Brown, Caroline Stone, Claude Duvall, Joel Clark, Sam Matthews, Deneed Peckinpah, Denise Kessler, Peter Bailey, Ray Rice and Robert Duncan (narration). Very good... More
Albatross Bookstore Presents The White Rabbit Press Exhibits & Talks.
San Francisco: The Albatross Bookstore, 1986. Poster announcing a series of exhibits and talks about the important poetry publisher White Rabbit Press. Blue and black type on gray posterboard, illustrated with a large reproduction of the White Rabbit pressmark drawn by Robert Duncan. 11 x 17 inches. Verso has return..... More
My Mother Would Be A Falconress.
[Berkeley]: Oyez, 1968. Broadside poem printed by Graham Mackintosh on wove rag paper with the Oyez blindstamp. 28 x 20 inches. This is one of the unsigned examples outside the edition. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley. More
[Poster]: The Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters, Department of english, SUNY at Buffalo, announces the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures given by Robert Duncan.
Buffalo, NY: SUNY, 1979. Poster announcing four lectures by poet Robert Duncan: "The Power of Imaginary Persons: The Poem as an Interior Play"; "The Fatefulness of On-going Identifications: The Poem as the Recall and Advenure of Self in Projection"; "'Forth on the godly sea': The Daemonic in the Realm of..... More
Reading Their Poetry at the Guggenheim Museum. Robert Duncan.
New York: The Guggenheim Museum, 1967. Poster. Announcing a reading by poet Robert Duncan at the museum. Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. 10-3/8 x 17 inches. Small stains at top and upper left, a two-inch tear at bottom, tape shadow on verso, some handling wear at edges. Overall..... More
UP RISING.
Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1965. Broadside. Single sheet, black ink on white paper. 11 x 17 inches. Anti-war poem protesting US involvement in Vietnam, by noted poet Robert Duncan. "Drawing from the underbelly of the nation / Such blood and dreams as swell the idiot psyche." Faint creases on fore edge..... More
Keeping The Rhyme.
Berkeley, CA: Wesley Tanner, 1986. Broadside, 18 x 22 cm., Letterpress On Laid Paper, Near Fine. Colored title. A Moe's Books Free Poem. More
A Map of California. Showing Its Delineation at Various Periods. With an Explanation Compiled from Various Sources.
[Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Press], 1966. Folio, [4 pp.] String-Bound Wraps. Very Good, slight crease. Folded Maps. "Printed in an edition of 125 copies for Michael Harrison, Lester Lloyd, David Magee, and Duncan H. Olmsted to present to their friends in the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles and the Roxburghe Club..... More
Paste Ups By Jess, 1968
San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1968. Exhibition catalogue. Soft Covers. Unbound. Pictorial wrappers with four sheets laid in. Very Good. Black and white plates. Catalogue accompanies an exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Art May 31 to June 30, 1968. Prints the first appearance of "Structure of..... More
December Estate Sale, lot #s 1-930
San Francisco, CA: Auctions by the Bay, 2004. 4to. Soft Covers. Very Good. 72 pp. Contains loose letter to winning bidder and telephone registration form. Black and White plates. * There might be an additional charge due to the large size of the book. More
Jess: Paste - Ups, 1972
Chicago, IL: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1972. Exhibition catalogue. Soft Covers. Unbound. Pictorial wrappers with six sheets laid in, plus a two page brochure-style print. Very Good. Black and white plates. Catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art December 16, 1972 to January 28, 1973. Prints the..... More
Cover Artwork for The Tenth Muse. Poetry, Spring: April 1972. No. 38.
San Francisco: Tenth Muse, 1972. 4to. Illustrated Card. This card was drawn especially for this issue of Tenth Muse by Mr. Robert Duncan. More
Writing, Writing by Robert Duncan; The Gathering by David Bromige, a First Book of Poems by a Young Writer Now Living in San Francisco.
Buffalo, NY: Sumbooks, 1965. PROSPECTUS. 8vo. Folded Page, Good with losses, tears, staining throughout, creasing, shelf wear. Illustrated. Prospectus says "only 70 copies left" of Duncan's work, while Bromige's is "an edition of 300." More