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Bergé, Carol (1928-2006) Lot of Correspondence and Publications, Some Signed, 1962-1991. Including approximately twenty-seven signed letters and other papers, most signed, some entirely handwritten, all addressed to literary editor and friend Kirby Congdon; together with six postcards to Congdon; [and] fourteen books and pamphlets, many signed: Four Young Lady Poets, New York: Totem/Corinth,1962, signed by Bergé, Rochelle Owens, & Diane Wakoski; Seventh Street Poems from les Deux Magots, New York, fall & Winter, 1962, signed by Allen Katzman, Don Katzman, Carol Bergé, Ree Dragonette, Piero Heliczer, and David Henderson; The Vulnerable Island, Cleveland, OH: Renegade Press, 1964, first printing, one of 105 copies; Lumina, Cleveland, OH: 7 Flowers Press, first printing, one of 178 copies; Poems Made of Skin, Toronto: Weed/Flower Press, 1969, second edition, signed presentation copy with extensive handwritten notes to Kirby regarding the text taking up most of the blank space on the title page, verso of title, following leaf, and recto of last leaf; with an extra sheet inserted and scattered notes in the author's hand on poems in the text; An American Romance, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969, two copies, one signed and inscribed, the other an advance review copy; The Chambers, Capel-y-ffin, Abergavenny: Brocard Sewel, 1969 [Daedalus Press, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk], inscribed presentation copy; Circles, as in the Eye, Santa Fe: Desert Review Press, 1969, signed presentation copy with author's handwritten notes in the text; Rituals & Gargoyles, Bowling Green, OH: Newedi Press, 1976, published by the poetry magazine Black Book, two copies, one with author's signed presentation; Fierce Metronome, New York: Window Editions, 1981; Secrets, Gossip & Slander New York: I. Reed Books, 1984, stated first edition, paperback, signed and inscribed on ffep; [and] Zebras, Bowling Green, OH & Santa Fe, NM: Tribal/Center Press,1991, first edition, one of 850 copies printed, paperback.
