TAYLOR, James (editor); Robert Creeley, Nathaniel Tarn, Michael Basinski, James Tate (et al) (contributors)

Boxkite: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics; nos. 1, 2, 2, 3/4 [Four Issues]

Australia: The Poetics Foundation Inc., [1997, 1998, 2004]. First Edition. Cloth issue of no. 1, softcover issue of no. 2, cloth issue of no. 2, and cloth issue of no. 3/4, with signed illustration by Pierre Jorris (23 of 26) and publisher's pictorial subscription form laid in no. 1. Four Octavos (25.5cm); no. 1 has blue cloth-covered boards with paper title label on front cover; no. 2 has white paper wrappers; no. 2 and no. 3/4 have red cloth-covered boards; dustjackets; 311pp; 345pp; 345pp; 415pp; colorful and black-and-white illustrations. Cloth-issue of no. 2 has pictorial bookplate of contributor and noted anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) to front pastedown. While other issues not explicitly marked as such, these are all from the library of Tarn, with his pencilled marking to table of contents in no. 1. All four issues have light shelf-wear and -soil, with trace foxing to edges of textblock of no. 1, and light scratches to final page of softcover no. 2; overall Very Good. Dustwrappers of no. 1 and softcover no. 2, both unclipped, with trivial surface wear; overall Very Good+. Dustwrapper of no. 3/4 has light wear to spine ends; Very Good. Contributions by Michael Palmer, Charles Olson, Pierre Joris, Anne Waldman, Rainer Maria Rilke, and many more. [89263].

Price: $250.00

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