[Rarebooks] FS: AMERICAN POETRY PORTFOLIO, 1/26 copies with broadsides SIGNED by Ginsberg, Updike, Stafford, and 5 others

[Charles Agvent]

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 8 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. (#012585) $1,500.00

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