Black Mountain, NC: Black Mountain College, 1954. First edition. 8vo, 64 pp, illustrated wraps. The third number of the little magazine, which would run for 7 numbers and become one of the most influential and important periodicals of the postwar period. With contributions from the editors and Robert Duncan, Bertram... More about The Black Mountain Review Vol. 1, No. 3
Cleveland: The Asphodel Bookshop, nd. 16mo, offset printed on decked paper died blue at the margins, and housed in a printed envelope with the fore edge of the rear flap stained blue, as issued. Catalog No. 13 from one of the most important poetry bookshops in the US, and one... More about Asphodel Bookshop Catalog No. 13
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1965. First edition. 4to, 160 pp, bound in boards woodblock by Robert Lavigne printed in color, and back in vellum with titled stamped in gilt. Illustrated with a frontipiece portrait of Olson by Kenneth Irby. Lacking the unprinted paper jacket, as usual. One of the most... More about Human Universe and Other Essays
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San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1965. First edition. 4to, 160 pp, bound in boards woodblock by Robert Lavigne printed in color, and back in vellum with titled stamped in gilt. Illustrated with a frontipiece portrait of Olson by Kenneth Irby. Letterpress prospectus for the title laid in. In the original unprinted... More about Human Universe and Other Essays [with Prospectus, in the Original Dust Jacket
Mallorca: Divers Press / Origin, 1953. First edition. 8vo, unpaginated, side-stapled in illustrated covers. Hand-set in Futura and Mercedes, and printed by Mossén Alcover in Mallorca. issued as Origin No. 8. From the library of Charles Olson's friend and fellow poet, Gerrit Lansing. An unusual copy of this early and... More about In Cold Hell In Thicket
London & New York: Cape Goliard and Grossman, 1969. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Charles Olson on his deathbed in a shaky hand to Albert Glover, the editor of the book; "The Red Yellow Shiny Dog Special. CO / Al Glo (w) Jan 1970." Olson passed on January 10... More about Letters for Origin
New York: Jargon / Corinth, 1960. 8vo, 160 pp, bound in full cloth with illustrated pastedowns to panels and spine. Limited edition, one of 75 numbered hardcover copies - there were also 26 lettered and signed copies. The first complete edition of Olson's work. Glover A15. Offsetting to endpapers, as often... More about The Maximus Poems
New York: Jargon / Corinth, 1960. 8vo, 160 pp, bound in full cloth with illustrated pastedowns to panels and spine. Limited edition, one of 26 lettered copies signed by Olson in blue ink, this being copy "X". In addition, Olson has added the note "Footprints" in blue ink to the... More about The Maximus Poems
New York: Totem Press, 1959. First edition. 8vo, 14 pp, saddle-stapled in wraps illustrated by Matsumi Kanemitsu. With errata slip laid in. The first edition of one of the most enduring and influential poetic manifestos of the last century, published by Leroi Jones at the Totem Press. Wraps heavily and... More about Projective Verse
Thiviers: Imp. Virmouneix, [1984]. First edition thus. 4to, single sheet folded once, letterpress printed on Arches paper, laid into a printed folder. Association copy, inscribed to Gerrit Lansing by Jean-Paul Auxeméry, the translator, just underneath the printed phrase "Ce poème, extrait de Maximus III, a été traduit par Auxeméry." On..... More about Au travers de l'espace et du temps
Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1996. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled in card wraps. Edited by Richard Blevins. fine. More about Charles Olson and the Development of a New American Poetics " from a Previously Unpublished...
[Brooklyn]: Dog City Publications, nd. 16mo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Association copy, inscribed by the author to the poet (and friend of Olson) Gerrit Lansing. Fine. More about A Skeleton Key to Maximus
London: Goliard Press, 1967. First edition. "Unsolicited manuscripts will be burned without ceremony" 4to, [12] pp. [incl. covers]. saddle-stapled. Lithographed in brown ink, printed on white card stock in various colors. Handset in Cochin and Westminster. The only issue of one more beautiful and unusual poetry magazines of the late 60's... More about Before Your Very Eyes