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Roots and Branches
by Duncan, Robert; Diane Di Prima (signed)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/Very good
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: Scribner's, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. An association copy: Diane Di Prima's copy with her ownership signature at the top of the front free endpaper. Di Prima and Duncan were friends and both significant poets in the San Francisco Renaissance and Beat poet scene. Di Prima wrote of her friendship with Duncan: "Robert used to come and hang for days, he'd move into my house in Marshall in the '70s, and bring his French mysteries that he was teaching himself idiomatic French from, and his notebook, and he'd stay for days. And he always came to Christmases with the kids, because Jess doesn't like holidays, and so I'd have to say mid-'70s, through '75 on, he was there many weekends, many mornings . . . . Eating fried herring from the bay for breakfast." A near fine copy with a little rubbing to lower board edges; in a very good jacket with some creasing to rear panel and wear to corners and spine ends.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1210
- Title
- Roots and Branches
- Author
- Duncan, Robert; Diane Di Prima (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Scribner's
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1964
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rural Hours
Biblio member since 2023
La Grande, Oregon
About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Fine
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