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Title: Poems in Folio [Volume 1, Nos. 1-11] Author: Rich, Adrienne, Howard Nemerov, William Carlos Williams et al. Place: San Francisco Publisher: Poems in Folio Date: 1957 Description: Tan and blue decorative cloth portfolio. (Folio) 48x33 cm (19x13"), with 11 loose broadsides, each with accompanying note sheet. These pieces were printed at various West Coast and European private presses in editions of 1000-1150 for Poems in Folio. Each included broadside is one of 150 signed copies. First Edition. All broadsides are signed by the author, each being No. 77 of 150 signed copies, with the exception of the​ Roethke poem, which is signed but not numbered. Included is an additional copy each of the Cunningham and Thomlinson pieces, both numbered and signed. Extremely rare complete set of the signed broadsides. No previous auction records could be located. The 11 poems include: "Small Moment" by Howard Nemerov; "The Exorcism" by Theodore Roethke; a translation of Sappho by WC Williams; "July Dawn" by Louise Bogan; "The Knight" by Adrienne Rich; "The Partridge Tree" by Katherine Hoskins"; "The Child and the Seashell" by Elizabeth Jennings; "The Stolen Heart" by F.T. Prince; "Trivial, Vulgar & Exalted: Epigrams" by J.V. Cunningham; "Solo for Glass Harmonica" by Charles Tomlinson; "The House" by Karl Shapiro. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear and soiling to outer portfolio with bumps to bottom corners, wear and creasing to inner folding flaps; some broadsides and sheets with edgewear and occasional mild creasing or faint spotting; overall very good. Item number: 288847