Inscribed first printing of this early Dorn title with a close and important association, inscribed by Dorn to Ted Wilentz.
Very good +.
Price: $250.00
Wilentz was the owner of the 8th Street Bookshop and founded Corinth Books, which in association with Leroi Jones' Totem Press (the publisher of this present volume) published Dorn's 1969 collection HANDS UP! Corinth and Totem's association was long and fruitful, publishing "many of the era's defining poetry collections" (Diggory 148), such as Ginsberg's EMPTY MIRROR and Kerouac's THE SCRIPTURE OF THE GOLDEN ENTERNITY. Wilentz would later title a biogrphical essay "In My Youth I Was a Tireless Reader" after Dorn's poem "In My Youth I Was a Tireless Dancer." [Streeter A3].
First Edition. New York: Totem Press, (1961). Wraps. 8vo. Very good or better overall in stapled pictorial wraps designed by Fielding Dawson. Touches of sunning to edges. Faint rubbing here and there. Else clean and sound. INSCRIBED by Dorn to Ted Wilentz
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