Bed of Sphinxes title from cover: New & Selected Poems 1943-1993

by Philip Lamantia

$50 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997. First Edition. First Printing, softcover. Octavo (21.5cm); glossy pictorial paper wrappers; [x],141,[9]pp. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his inked ownership and date to acknowledgments page. A Fine copy. Collection of verse includes "Hermetic..... More

• Printing: first
• Binding: Softcover

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