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Large octavo. 217 pp. Original cream cloth lettered in red and black to the spine, in the publisher's pictorial dust jacket — Barbara Martin's cream design with mauve topographic lines and red, gray, and blue accent squares — in the publisher's clear acetate sleeve. Signed in black ink \"Robert Kelly\" at the colophon. 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Printed July 1969 in Santa Barbara by Noel Young for Black Sparrow Press; design by Barbara Martin. 176 pp. Original brown cloth with a cream paper spine label printed in black, in the publisher's pictorial dust jacket in cream and copper-orange. Signed in black ink \"Robert Kelly\" at the colophon. Very good in a very good dust jacket; the brown cloth clean and bright, the spine label crisp and unfaded, the binding tight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe opening movement of one of Robert Kelly's most ambitious projects — an open-ended serial poem, \"a long poem about America in time,\" as the subtitle has it, that sets the nation's mythological ground on the literal coastline, with \"shore\" as both edge and meeting place. Drawing on the deep-image and mythological methods Kelly had been developing through the 1960s, the five books move between American history, classical myth, and elemental imagery — earth, fire, and the matter of ocean — to take the measure of a country in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePer the colophon, the book was issued in three states: 1,000 copies in paper wrappers; 250 numbered hardcover copies signed by the poet, of which this is one; and 26 lettered copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, signed and each containing an original illustrated poem in the poet's hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-004\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelly, Robert","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459950694561,"sku":"TO-2026-004","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-004_01.jpg?v=1785777399"},{"product_id":"to-2026-005","title":"The Leaves (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLOEWINSOHN, Ron.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Leaves.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIGNED LIMITED ISSUE — ONE OF 200 NUMBERED HARDCOVER COPIES, THIS NO. 97.\u003c\/strong\u003e Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, signed limited issue: one of 200 numbered hardcover copies signed by the poet, this copy number 97 (the limitation number in red). Printed February 1973 in Santa Barbara by Noel Young for Black Sparrow Press; design by Barbara Martin. Large octavo. 27 pp. Original olive-green textured cloth boards, in the publisher's pictorial dust jacket in cream and buff with a delicate leaf-vine border framing the title, in the publisher's clear acetate sleeve. Signed in black ink \"Ron Loewinsohn\" at the colophon. ISBN 0-87685-147-2. Very good in a very good dust jacket; the olive cloth bright and clean with no shelf wear, the binding tight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA short collection of twenty-seven pages, dedicated \"this one is for the lady in the tree.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Leaves\u003c\/em\u003e finds Loewinsohn working in the spare, perception-centered manner he had refined since his Beat and San Francisco Renaissance beginnings — short-lined poems attentive to the natural world and to the act of seeing it, the leaf and the tree of the title serving as figures for noticing, change, and the passage of time. Barbara Martin's design frames the title page with a slender leaf-vine border in keeping with the book's name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePer the colophon, the book was issued in three states: 1,000 copies in paper wrappers; 200 numbered copies signed by the poet, of which this is one; and 26 copies hand-bound in boards by Earle Gray, lettered and signed — the standard three-state Black Sparrow production of the period, of which the signed hardcover is the usual collector's target.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-005\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Loewinsohn, Ron","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459950727329,"sku":"TO-2026-005","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-005_01.jpg?v=1784613271"},{"product_id":"to-2026-061","title":"Charles Bukowski 5 Postcards","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBUKOWSKI, Charles. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFive Postcards.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSanta Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, circa late 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSealed in the original printed-label glassine envelope, unopened and as issued; the label bears the Black Sparrow sparrow device, the press's Santa Rosa address, and the printed price of $5.95. Fine condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA complete set of five postcards (4\" x 6\") issued by Black Sparrow Press, Bukowski's longtime publisher — four black-and-white photographic portraits of Charles Bukowski and one reproducing a cartoon drawn by Bukowski himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBukowski's cartoons are a less-collected corner of his work, surfacing mostly in small-press magazines, making the cartoon card here among the more accessible examples in the trade. 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The book itself clean and sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Bowen's celebrated fifth novel — first published in London by Gollancz in 1935 — unfolds across a single February day, as two children wait out the hours in a Paris house while a long central section reaches back to recover the passionate, ruinous history of the boy's parents. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-064\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bowen, Elizabeth","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459952595105,"sku":"TO-2026-064","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-064_01.jpg?v=1784602855"},{"product_id":"to-2026-071","title":"Swords of the Grass (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHAGEMEYER, Dora. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSwords of the Grass.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e, signed by the author. 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Her hand-lettered calligraphy throughout, and her elaborate pictorial dust jacket with its striking sea-monster design, make this a distinctive piece of Carmel small-press bookmaking. A first-copy-off-the-press presentation from author to collaborator — about as close to the making of the book as a copy can stand.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-073\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Francis, Dennis; Lagorio, Irene","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459952890017,"sku":"TO-2026-073","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-073_01.jpg?v=1784611697"},{"product_id":"to-2026-078","title":"New Book \/ A Book of Torture (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMcCLURE, Michael. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe New Book \/ A Book of Torture.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST PRINTING\u003c\/strong\u003e, signed by McClure on the title page. 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Schulz. Here Linus and the gang turn the same gentle, aphoristic humor on the idea of \"security\" — security as a thumb and a blanket, as having someone to lean on, as knowing the answers, as a few of the things small children hold onto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-132\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schulz, Charles M.","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459955478689,"sku":"TO-2026-132","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-132_01_fed0e22b-ed03-4611-a3b8-661c5720e186.jpg?v=1785775044"}],"url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/collections\/50-100.oembed","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}