[Rarebooks] FS: American Poetry Portfolio: 8 Signed Broadsides by Ginsberg, Updike, Stafford, etc.

[Charles Agvent]

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GINSBERG,   Allen;  UPDIKE,   John;  STAFFORD,  William;
        PASTAN,  Linda  McHUGH,  Heather;   NEMEROV,  Howard;  HEYEN,
        William;   DAVISON,  Scott.   [BROADSIDES]  AMERICAN   POETRY
        PORTFOLIO.   Dallas:  Northouse  &   Northouse  1981.   First
        Edition.  A  collection of eight folio broadsides  and  title
        page ranging  in size from 13" x 17" to 13" x 19" and printed
        on heavy  paper  of  various colors with all but two  of  the
        broadsides  illustrated  and each individually SIGNED by  the
        author.  This  is Copy "F" of 26 lettered copies of  a  total
        editon  of 126. Contributors are John Updike ("Two Sonnets"),
        Allen Ginsberg  ("Capitol  Air" -- Ginsberg has  also  made a
        single  word holograph correction to the text), Linda  Pastan
        ("Mother    Eve"),    Howard     Nemerov   ("Landscape   with
        Self-Portrait"),   Heather  McHugh   ("From  20,000   Feet"),
        William    Stafford  ("Geography   Lesson"),  William   Heyen
        ("Mother  and  Son"), and Scott Davison  ("Soft  Salvation").
        The five  printers are The Red Ozier Press, The Meadow Press,
        The Press  of  A. Colish, The Press of W. Thomas Taylor,  and
        the Wind  River Press. Housed in a plexiglass box  especially
        made for  this  publication and allowing the portfolio to  be
        hung on  a wall with one of the broadsides displayed. Fine in
        case as issued.                                      $1500.00

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