GUEST, Barbara. .
Poems: The Location of Things, Archaics, The Open Skies. .
Garden City, NY:
Doubleday
1962.
First edition of Guest's first regularly published book. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet to Ted Berrigan: "For Ted and Sandra - in honor of C - Barbara", with Berrigan's ownership signature in pencil on the front free endpaper.
"C" Magazine was the legal-sized mimeographed magazine that Berrigan edited after he arrived in New York City in the early sixties. David Shapiro points out that "it is easy to overlook the fact that Berrigan, with almost no resources except generosity and devotion, undertook to print what he considered to be the best poets of his time in a magazine named comically after the comedian as letter C, and that these poets may have seemed once a sort of squad, coterie, of friendly soldiers, but have become, after all, history.
8vo, boards, dust jacket.
Fine copy in slightly dust-soiled jacket.
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