Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First edition. 8vo, bound in decorated boards backed in decorated cloth. Unprinted glassine jacket. One of 26 lettered copies handbound by Earle Gray, and containing a holograph poem on a sheet tipped in following the title page, in this case also including a full..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First edition. One of 125 numbered copies specially handbound in boards and signed by Roberts Creeley, Duncan, and Bly, Allen Ginsberg, and Gary Snyder. It helped considerably in the New American Poetics to be a man, with bonus points of your name was Robert..... More
New York: "Viking Press" nd. Paperback. 4to., mimeographed sheets stab-stapled covers. This copy of the work from the Leon collective is signed by Larry Fagin at the title page, and scarce thus. Includes a poem written for Leon Crabtree. Near fine with some very faint indenting around staples. More
Unionville, Indiana: Matchbooks, 1989. 16mo, saddle-stapled in in wraps illustrated by Thorpe Feidt. Association copy, inscribed by the author to the poet Gerrit Lansing. A beautiful chapbook on blues and jazz themes, including a poem about calling the Thelonius Monk residence. Some minor soiling to the wraps, else fine. More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1963. 8vo, photographically illustrated wraps. The debut issue, with contributions from Allen Ginsberg, Richard Brautigan, ed Sanders, Jack Kerouac, Bruce Conner et al. Wraps and edges of text block heavily toned, else a sturdy very good example. More
Liverpool & Gloucester: Heron Press, 1954. First edition. 8vo, [12] pp, saddle-stapled in brick wraps letterpress printed in silver ink. A very scarce, early chapbook by the Gloucester poet, this, a bright and fine copy - the best we've seen. More
New York: View, 1947. First edition. 4to, 50 pp, saddle-stapled wraps illustrated by Pavel Tchelitchew. Single issue of Ford's remarkable art magazine, one of the most important of the post-war era, which boasted a remarkable advisory board, including Marcel Duchamp, Edith Sitwell, Ramon Sender and Aaron Copland, among others. This..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. First American edition. 8vo, 168 pp, bound in magenta cloth. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Max Nettleton. With a foreward by Graham Hough. The first American edition, published in the same year as the UK edition from Manchester University Press, and three years after..... More
Lawrence, KS: Grist, 1966. First edition. 4to, 40 pp., saddle-stapled in photographically illustrated wraps. Ninth issue of one of the greatest little magazines to come out of the midwest in the 1960's,, this issue notable for the inclusion of work by Steven C. Wilson, later known as S. Clay Wilson..... More
Paris: Chez Giraud, 1886. First edition. 4to, 30 pp, printed wraps. Inscribed by Ghil to one Edmond Gagelle at the title page. First separate edition of this rare collection of short prose pieces by the Symbolist writer Ghil, a one-time disciple of Mallarmé, who provides the foreward and afterword. The..... More
New York: Archangel Press, 1948. First edition. 7 leaves, offset printed on thick card stock and housed in a printed envelope. Cards very good with overall toning and some creasing to extremities; Envelope toned and beat to hell, perished and in pieces. To the best of our knowledge the first..... More
New York: [1973]. 8 1/2 x 11", offset printed in blue on white paper stock. Illustrated with a drawing by Mike Andre. Original poster for this performance by Ginsberg along with the all female proto-punk band Flaming Youth at the Barnard Gym. Deborah Frost of the group lived with Ginsberg..... More
[Berkeley]: Oyez, 1965. 15 x 20 1/4" broadside, letterpress printed on thick paper. Illustrated with two nude silhouettes by Robert LaVigne. Near fine with some light creasing to extremities. More
Italy: Biblioteca Civica Gambalunga in collaborazione col Centro Programmazione Spetacoli dell'ARCI, 1979. 25 x 37" poster, offset lithograph in two colors. Original, rare poster for this 1979 poetry conference in Italy, which included Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Julian Beck, Judith Malina, and Fabrizio Rinaldi. The event was organized..... More
New York: Giorno Poetry Systems, 1972. 8 1/2 x 13" poster, offset commercial lithograph. The advertising poster, with detachable order form, for the 1972 double lp, which included works by Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Jim Carroll, Kathleen Cleaver, Clark Coolidge, Robert Creeley, Diane DiPrima, Allen..... More
New York: Visual AIDS, 1993. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, offset printed on recto only. A broadside by Giorno published by Visual Aids on the occasion of the 1993 installment of the Day Without Art. Fine. More
Paris: Éditions du Dragon / Instance, 1953. First edition. 8vo, [49] pp, rebound in beige cloth titled in orange at the spine, with the original front wrap preserved. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Wolfgang Paalen. One of a limited edition of 555 copies, this copy unnumbered and out of series..... More
np: Glover Publishing for the Institute of Further Studies, 2010. 4to, xxvii, 852 pp, hand-bound by Sarah Creighton in reflective cloth and housed in a brick red cloth slipcase. One of a limited edition of 50 hand-numbered copies. Design and typography by Michael Russem, and printed by the Levellers Press..... More
Annandale-On-Hudson: Matter Books / Joan Kelly, 1966. First edition. 8vo, mimeographed and stab-stapled into card covers. One of 200 copies, this copy unnumbered. His first book, with a foreward by Robert Kelly. Very good with some minor toning to margins. More
Lawrence, Kansas: Tansy Press, 1982. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps, illustrated with a cover design by Lee Chapman and John Moritz. Near fine with light toning to margins. More
Iowa City: This, 1971. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Debut issue of this important little magazine of experimental poetry, including contributions from the editors and Clark Coolidge, Anne Waldman, Ron Silliman, Emily Lord, Robert Creeley, Kenneth Irby, Elsa Dorfman et al. Wraps rather dusty and soiled, with a small tear where they..... More
Germany: Concept Data, 1973. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Text mostly in German. Illustrated with drawings, comics and collages. Single unnumbered issue of the periodical, perhaps all that was issued - this is the only issue we've seen. Includes comics by the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, an R. Crumb centerfold, both translated..... More
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Buenos Aires: Angel Press, 1961-1969. First edition. 12mo, printed wraps. Text in Spanish. A rare complete run of this little magazine associated with the Nueva Solidaridad school of poetry, and looselly allied with contemporary Latin American magazines El Corno Emplumado and Pájaro Cascabel. The periodical was a founding member of..... More
Natick, MA: Cordillera Press, 1980. First edition. 8vo, unpaginated, illustrated wraps. Association copy, inscribed to fellow poet Gerrit Lansing at the first blank. Very good. More
