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Author: Joans, Ted
Title: Lot of 6 titles
Place: Various places
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Date: [1961-2001]
Item # : 182381
Sale Number   364
Lot Number   335
Sale Name    
Fine Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the David Oakey Collection of Gary Snyder
Sale Date   09/27/2007
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 700
High Estimate   $ 1,000
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Description:
Comprises: All of Ted Joans and No More. Wrappers. 2nd printing. Sept. 1961. * The Hipsters. Wrappers. [Corinth / Citadel, 1961]. * Afrodisia. Cloth, dj. Hill & Wang, [1970]. * Black Pow-Wow Jazz Poems. Boards, dj price clipped. 1st U.K. Ed. Calder & Boyars, [1973]. * “The Truth.” Small broadside on cardstock, his famous 12-line poem. Printed at the Center for Book Arts, New York, by Dikko Faust, [1978]. * Lost & Found: “In Thursday Sane.” Wrappers. 1 of 500 copies printed (of which only 100 survived). Swan Scythe Press, [2001]. Together, 6 volumes. First printings.
Each signed by Ted Joans, the great African-American Jazz poet, who passed away in 2003. Rarely this many signed titles found in this quantity. He was a contemporary and friend of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg and his painting, Bird Lives, hangs in the De Young Museum in San Francisco.
Condition:
Earlier titles with light wear, else near fine to fine.
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