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Author: Duncan, Robert
Title: Four works by Robert Duncan
Place Published: Various places
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Date Published: Various dates
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4 octavo volumes. First Editions. Includes:

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  The Sweetness and Greatness of Dante's Divine Comedy. Illustrated wrappers. Toning and spotting to wrappers at spine. ; San Francisco: Open Space, 1965.


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  The First Decade. Selected Poems: 1940-1950. Cloth, dust jacket. Front flap of jacket clipped. Signed by Duncan at the limitation. No. 33 of 150 copies. London: Fulcrum Press, 1968.


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  Derivations: Selected Poems 1950-1956. ; ;Cloth, dust jacket. Signed by Duncan at the limitation. Dampstaining to jacket No. 26 of 150 copies. London: Fulcrum Press, 1968.


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  Caesar's Gate. Poems 1949-50. Illustrated with paste-ups by Jess. Pictorial wrappers. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. ; [San Francisco]: Sand Dollar, 1972. ;

Four works by the influential poet, including two signed volumes and a review copy of Caeser's Gate.

Described by Kenneth Rexroth as "one of the most accomplished, one of the most influential" of the postwar American poets, Robert Duncan was an important part of both the Black Mountain school of poetry, led by Charles Olson, and the San Francisco Renaissance, whose other members included poets Jack Spicer and Robin Blaser.

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Varying degrees of general wear; all volumes very good.