Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is copy 72 of 'Letters' by Robert Duncan, with five drawings by the author of the ideal reader; set & printed by Claude Fredericks in Pawletl (Vermont); published by Jonathan Williams in Highlands (N.C.) as Jargon fourteen; copyright by the author mcmlviii. 

One of 450 numbered copies printed on Arches by Claude Fredericks, from a total edition of 510, this being number 72. [54]pp., with white wrappers and orange marbled paper dust wrapper; Illustrated with five drawings by the author of the ideal reader. A nice copy, covers are clean with no tears or chipping; interior is bright and clean. Overall a Near Fine copy. 

Duncan was published alongside Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti and influenced by Pound and Lawrence, among others.

“Robert Duncan had the finest ear this side of Dante,” wrote Lawrence Ferlinghetti after Duncan’s death in 1988