Lamantia, Philip

The Blood of the Air [one of fifty signed copies in boards]

San Francisco: The Four Seasons Foundation, 1970. First edition. [12], 45, [6], pp. Gray paste-paper boards over green cloth backstrip, lettered and ruled in gilt. Slightest rubbing to corners, else fine.

One of fifty numbered copies in boards, signed by the author. The uncommon limited edition of this collection. As a teenager Lamantia corresponded with Breton and published some of his first poems in Charles Henri Ford’s View. Later associated with the Beats (he was on the bill at the famous 1955 Six Gallery reading which included Ginsberg’s Howl), his was an idiosyncratic voice, a direct connection between the European surrealists and the later American movements. Ferlinghetti said of him, “Philip was a visionary like Blake, and he really saw the whole world in a grain of sand.”. Item #2283

Price: $750.00