Jack Hirschman, The Ulitsea Arcane, Nicola Viviani 2012, NF SIGNED, org box #15/45
Jack Hirschman, The Ulitsea Arcane, Nicola Viviani 2012, NF SIGNED, org box #15/45
Jack Hirschman, The Ulitsea Arcane, Nicola Viviani 2012, NF SIGNED, org box #15/45
Jack Hirschman, The Ulitsea Arcane, Nicola Viviani 2012, NF SIGNED, org box #15/45
Jack Hirschman, The Ulitsea Arcane, Nicola Viviani 2012, NF SIGNED, org box #15/45
Jack Hirschman, The Ulitsea Arcane, Nicola Viviani 2012, NF SIGNED, org box #15/45
Jack Hirschman, The Ulitsea Arcane, Nicola Viviani 2012, NF SIGNED, org box #15/45
Jack Hirschman, The Ulitsea Arcane, Nicola Viviani 2012, NF SIGNED, org box #15/45
Jack Hirschman, The Ulitsea Arcane, Nicola Viviani 2012, NF SIGNED, org box #15/45
Jack Hirschman, The Ulitsea Arcane, Nicola Viviani 2012, NF SIGNED, org box #15/45
Jack Hirschman, The Ulitsea Arcane, Nicola Viviani 2012, NF SIGNED, org box #15/45
Jack Hirschman, The Ulitsea Arcane, Nicola Viviani 2012, NF SIGNED, org box #15/45
Jack Hirschman, The Ulitsea Arcane, Nicola Viviani 2012, NF SIGNED, org box #15/45

Jack Hirschman, The Ulitsea Arcane, Nicola Viviani 2012, NF SIGNED, org box #15/45

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Hirschman, Jack, The Ulitsea Arcane, Italy: Nicola Viviani Edizioni 2012, English, thirty six loose pages in Near Fine custom clamshell 4to box, 10” x 12”, signed & numbered limited edition.

Near Fine book-shaped clamshell box in red cloth w/ gilt stamped title to front panel, in full color pictorial dust jacket featuring portrait painting of Hirschman with Golden Gate Bridge in background. Very minor smudging, creases, and wear. A poem on the theme of the Odyssey, taking inspiration from Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, reproduced across thirty six loose silkscreened pages on thick cream stock. Reproduction of handgun in black metal inserted into shaped recess of box, w/ bound-in ribbon for removal. Numbered #15/45 from a total edition of 60. Signed in pencil on limitation page with additional signed personal dedication in ink to inside front pastedown. This copy in original labeled white cardboard outer box w/ minor staining & wear.

Jack Hirschman (1933-2021) was a prolific radical poet, translator, and anti-war activist based in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. Associated with the beat movement of the early 60s, Hirshman translated the works of contemporary and ancient poets in a multitude of languages. A handsome and scarce volume by a force in the Bay Area art scene.