[14 items] Early limited edition books by Robert Bly and some ephemera, including: IT #9, January 1967, a single sheet literary mazagine published by JD Whitney in Platteville, Wisconsin as a double-sized mimeograph. This issue is devoted to the work of Robert Bly, this copy signed by the poet (creased vertically and horizontally, staple holes along left edge). The balance of the lot is: Chrysanthemums, Ox Head Press, 1967 (321/350); Ducks, Ox Head, 1968 (2 copies, 2nd ed and 4th ed, both signed); The Morning Glory, Kayak Press, 1969 (ed 800, this one signed); Outhouse Poem, Unicorn Press, Santa Barbara, [1970] (poetry postcard, signed); Christmas Eve Service at Midnight at St Michael's, Sceptre Press, Rushden, 1972 (53/100, this copy signed, probably at a later date); A Cricket in the Wainscoting, Alternative Press, Detroit, 1972 (broadside, unsigned); Water Under the Earth, Sceptre Press, 1972 (105/150, unsigned); The Dead Seal near McClure's Beach, Sceptre, 1973 (97/150 signed, but not in series); Point Reyes Poems, Mudra, Half Moon Bay, 1974 (ed 300, signed, not in series); The Hockey Poem, Knife River Press, 1974 (#33/50 signed); Broadsides Series III, Slow Loris Press, Buffalo, 1973 (folio of broadsides, ed 200, the portrait of Robert Bly and Pablo Neruda's "The Dictators" signed by Bly); The Loon, Ox Head Press, 1977 (signed); Visiting Emily Dickinson's Grave & Other Poems, Red Ozier Press, 1979 (179/200 signed).

Generally fine, some minor wear or toning to wraps.