David Meltzer BEAT POET Signed In BESPOKE LEATHER SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE BOOK BOX

David Meltzer TENS Selected Poems, 1961-1971 (Publisher’s advance uncorrected page proof)

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by DAVID MELTZER to his friend and publisher Robert Hawley: “27 May 73 / For the Hawleys / For the Beginnings / For Everything / Since then / Love from / The Meltzers”

Housed in a custom blue Morocco book form slipcase made especially for this work by notable London bookbinders Sangorski & Sutcliffe and sold through the J. W. Robinson Company, a southern California department store company which maintained a bespoke book department.

Published by Herder and Herder, New York. Uncorrected page proof, stamp from "Crane Duplicating Service, Inc." on inside of back cover, 151 pages.

CONDITION 
The custom leather box is in good condition. Book clean throughout. A rather unique signed presentation copy.

David Meltzer (1937-2016) was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti described him as "one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians". Meltzer came to prominence with inclusion of his work in the anthology The New American Poetry 1945–1960. 

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