Colloquy [limited edition signed by the poet & printer]

Anderson, C. V. J. [aka Chester Anderson] Wilder Bentley, printer, frontis by Sheri Martinelli

San Francisco: Self-published by the poet, hand-set & printed at The Bread & Wine Press by Harvey Wilder Bentley, 1960. Pamphlet. 14p., 6.5x9.75 inches, frontispiece, dedication, biographical note, 15 poems, colophon hand-numbered 44/300 copies and signed by the poet with block-print vignette signed by Wilder Bentley, very good chapbook in sewn lavender wraps with yoni decoration on cover in green.

The poet's first book of poetry, dedicated to a friend back home in Florida. Only 10 copies found in OCLC as of 10/2021.

Anderson was born and raised in Florida and became one of the Beat poets in Greenwich Village and later San Francisco's North Beach. There he edited "Beatitude" and founded the Communication Company with Claude Hayward which printed most of the handbills, posters and pamphlets of the Diggers and the SF Mime Troupe. Bentley was an important Bay Area printer, calligrapher, poet and fine press publisher exhibited at the De Young. Martinelli was Ezra Pound's helpmate at St. Elizabeth's.

Cat.No: 273539

Price: $175.00