Coils Author's Presentation Copy No. 3/5 - Association Copy Signed with gift-inscription by Eshleman to Oreste Pucciani and with association material loose-inserted including hand-written letter, and pre-publication type-script of Eshleman's essay 'Adhesive Love'

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. Signed First Edition . hardbound. Very Good in Good dustwrapper/acetate dustwrapper. 8vo. No. 3 of only 5 Author's Presentation copies flat-signed by Clayton Eshleman to colophon, further signed/dated (Feb 1973) to prelims with dedication to Oreste Pucciani; Association material (loose-inserted) includes a folded greeting card, with hand-written missive from Eshleman to Pucciani describing his (and wife Caryl's) first few days in Paris, where they lived for a year and where Eshleman first encountered the Lascaux Caves which were to have a lasting influence on his writing, eventually resulting in a major work 'Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination and the Construction of the Underworld' (2003); a stapled, typed copy of Eshleman's essay 'Adhesive Love' with hand-written covering note to Pucciani dated 23 March '73 - this essay appears the next year in 'Realignment Poems and an Essay by Clayton Eshleman'; finally there is a sheaf of 5 typed poems by Rand J Paradis (for whom i can find no reference, but assume to be a student of Eshleman, who was also teaching American Poetry at the time); the poems in Coils represent the formalisation of a decade's work, being a re-edited version of the epic 350 poem sequence 'The Tsuruginomiya Regeneration', begun in 1964; Oreste Pucciani was a noted teacher at UCLA who pioneered Sartre's philosophy in the US, he was the last partner of fashion designer Rudi Hernreich; half decorative red cloth with title label to spine, papered sides with titling to front, and with original acetate dustwrapper; Very Good throughout; some stains to rear board; acetate dw rubbed.