The Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen (Pocket Poets Series Number Thirteen) by Kenneth Patchen - 1960

City Lights, 1966. 6th Printing. paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Very good stiff matte paper wraps; light rubbing along edges. Binding tight; contents clean and unmarked. 48pp. Browning on spine. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1955. Paperback. Very Good. Fifth printing. Wraps, clean unmarked text, very good copy, some soiling and edgewear to the covers.

Pocket Poets. First Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good/None. Covers show light wear. First edition (no other printing information on copyright page). ; 8.43 X 5.85 X 0.73 inches

City Lights Pocket Poets Series Number Thirteen, 1966. Near fine wraps with trifle toning to cover. $1 original price to back cover. No one wrote them like Kenneth Patchen. A lovely collection

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. There are some areas of toning, light rubbing, and light edge-wear to the wraps. 'The words on the cover were the most important words in the book,' said Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who founded City Lights' Pocket Poet Series and designed most of its early covers while working out of his painting studio in San Francisco's Hunter's Point shipyard. Patchen had been a huge influence on Ferlinghetti, and this collection of poems celebrating the author's longtime muse, Miriam, is the second of his books the publisher chose to include in Pocket Poets (the first was Poems of Humor & Protest). The inspiration for the iconic series-wide design, which employs the oddly monumental typeface, Albertus, also came from Patchen, via his 1945 book, An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air. Designed by modernist architect Kemper Nomland, Jr., An Astonished Eye was first published by Untide Press, which was operated by William Everson (Brother Antoninus) out of Civilian Public… Read More

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963. Softcover. Fine. Later printing. 16mo. Printed wrappers. Slight foxing on topedge, else fine. Issued as "The Pocker Poets Series Number 13.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1966. Paperback Duodecimo. Paperback. Good. wraps, 48 pp, seventh printing, spine sunned, slightly soiled Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1966. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. small quarto. card covers 48pp., Pocket Poets No. 13. (Cover price $1.00)

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. Green and white wraps, clean unmarked text, very good copy, some soiling and edgewear to the covers, including a small tear at the spine-head.

City Lights Books, 1981-06-01. Fifteenth Printing. paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0.