[POETRY] Wilson Robert (ed) The Phoenix Bookshop Oblong Octa

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[POETRY.] Wilson, Robert (ed.). The Phoenix Bookshop Oblong Octavo Series. Together, 20 volumes; nos. 1-20. Oblong 8vo, original printed wrappers, sewn; housed in cloth drop-back case. A fine group. New York: The Phoenix Bookshop, 1967-1979

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flawless run of limited edition issues, all signed, by some of the most important post-war american poets. Selected and published by Robert Wilson, proprietor of New York City's Phoenix Bookshop and Gertrude Stein's bibliographer. Each title was issued in a limited format; 100 signed copies as well as a deluxe issue of 26 signed and lettered copies.

Comprising: Marianne Moore. Tipoo's Tiger. With 1-line manuscript correction in the author's hand. 1/100 W.H. Auden. Two Songs. 1/100 Howard Nemerov. The Painter Dreaming in the Scholar's House. 1/100 W.S. Merwin. Three Poems. 1/100 John Ashbery. Sunrise in Suburbia. 1/100 Richard Wilbur. Complaint. 1/100 Robert Duncan. Achilles' Song. Lettered P and with short presentation inscription Gary Snyder. The Blue Sky. 1/100 Michael McClure. Plane Pomes. 1/100 John Wieners. Youth. 1/100 Tim Reynolds. Tlatelolco: A Sequence From QUE. 1/100 Louis Zukofsky. Initial. 1/100 Gregory Corso. [Ankh symbol]. 1/100 Allen Ginsberg. New Year Blues. Lettered Z and with presentation inscription and musical notation doodles Peter Orlovsky. Lepers Cry. 1/100 Elizabeth Bishop. Poem. 1/100 James Merrill. Yannina. 1/100 Diane DiPrima. Loba As Eve. 1/100 Galway Kinnell. Three Poems. 1/100 Amiri Baraka. AM/TRAK. 1/100.