Maya Quartos 1970 [Complete Set] [Limited Editions] [Signed by Hirschman and Corman]

San Francisco, CA: Maya Quarto / Cranium Press, 1969. Very Good. [San Francisco, CA]: Maya Quarto / Cranium Press, 1969-1970. First Editions, all limited to 300 copies. Large, slim octavos (25.5cm); publisher's variously colored stitched card wrappers, printed paper paste-ons to upper covers; illus. Light wear to wrapper margins, a few spine edges sunned, the upper wrapper of David Meltzer's "From Eden Book" has four-inch slice along spine edge (probably from a box cutter) as well as small white paint splatter, else a Very Good, bright and sound collection accompanied by the distributor Serendipity Books's prospectus. Jack Hirschman's "Shekinah" inscribed and signed by the author on p. [2]; Cid Corman's "Of the Breath of" is one of fifty copies signed on colophon in rear.

Complete run of the twelve poetry chapbooks of the Maya Quarto 1970 series, published by Clifford Burke at his Cranium Press. Contents include:

1. "Shekina" by Jack Hirschman
2. "Count Three" by Asa Benveniste
3. "A Pitchblende" by Clayton Eshleman
4. "From Eden Book," by David Meltzer
5. "The Song Mt. Tamalpais Sings" by Lew Welch
6. "Poem Afternoon in a Square of Guadalajara," by John Brandi
7. "Susanna Martin," Harvey Bialy
8. "Poetic Disturbances," by Robert Duncan
9. "Views 1-7," Theodore Enslin
10. "Scenes of Life at the Capital," by Philip Whalen
11. "Greystone Poems," by Bill Bathurst
12. "Of the Breath of," by Cid Corman.