Research Catalog

Title

Caesar's gate : poems, 1949-1950 / Robert Duncan ; with collages by Jess Collins.

Author

Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.

Publication

[Palma de Mallorca] : Divers Press, 1955.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jess, 1923-2004.
• Alcover, Mossén.
• Divers Press. pbl

Description

[64] p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Genre/Form

• Limitation statements (Publishing).
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Mercedes.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Futura.
• Wrappers (Binding).
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance).

Note

• "Limited to thirteen copies, marked A to C and 1 to 10, each with an original collage and poem, signed by the artists; and two hundred copies for regular distribution"--Colophon.
• Hand-set in Mercedes and Futura types and printed by Mossén Alcover in Palma de Mallorca, September 1955.
• Bound in printed paper wrappers.
• In a letter to the bookseller Henry Wenning, dated November 7, 1962, Duncan stated: “The limited edition was pre-subscribed and distributed as follows: three copies hors de com-merce 'A' 'B' 'C' to myself, Jess Collins (illustrator) and Robert Creeley (publisher). 10 copies to subscribers. . . . Jess made thirteen collages (colored) in a series and I composed thirteen poems likewise in series as illustrations to the collages (where the collages printed in the book were illustrations of the poems) . . . . neither the collages nor the poems exist in any copies out-side of the originals tipped into the limited edition. The twin-series were conceived as being sparks 'lost' in the world.'"

Indexed In (note)

• Bertholf A8 (i.e., Robert J. Bertholf. Robert Duncan: A Descriptive Bibliography. Santa Rosa, Cal.: Black Sparrow Press. 1986. 491 p.)

Call Number

Berg Coll Duncan C34 1955

LCCN

82226057

OCLC

12285443

Author

Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.

Title

Caesar's gate : poems, 1949-1950 / Robert Duncan ; with collages by Jess Collins.

Imprint

[Palma de Mallorca] : Divers Press, 1955.

Indexed In:

Bertholf A8 (i.e., Robert J. Bertholf. Robert Duncan: A Descriptive Bibliography. Santa Rosa, Cal.: Black Sparrow Press. 1986. 491 p.)

Local Note

Berg Collection copy is one of 200 for regular distribution, but with drawing of two female faces kissing and signed inscription ("for Robert Wilson / Butterfly crown of the serious Worm") in blue pen on second flyleaf, recto, by Robert Duncan for Robert Wilson.

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Added Author

Jess, 1923-2004.

Alcover, Mossén. Printer

Divers Press. Publisher

Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988. Inscriber. Artist

Wilson, Robert A. (Robert Alfred), 1922-2016. Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Duncan C34 1955