Heavenly City, Earthly City

(Berkeley: Bern Porter), 1947.

Price: $500.00

Hardcover. First edition. Attractive, stamped name on the front pastedown and a touch of wear to the fragile papercovered boards else near fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with a couple of small chips on the thin spine. The uncommon first book by one of the most important poets of his era. Of a total edition of 350 copies this is one of 250 copies in white boards (the additional 100 were in green boards and were signed).

Item #1194

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Item #1194 Heavenly City, Earthly City. Robert DUNCAN.
Heavenly City, Earthly City
Heavenly City, Earthly City
Heavenly City, Earthly City
Heavenly City, Earthly City
Heavenly City, Earthly City
Heavenly City, Earthly City

Robert Duncan
birth name: Edward Howard Duncan
born: 1/7/1919
died: 2/3/1988
nationality: USA

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Biography

American poet, a leader of the Black Mountain group of poets in the 1950s. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

Not to be confused with the mystery author Robert L. Duncan.more

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