San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1964. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. With errata slip tipped in at rear. From the library of Gerrit Lansing, with his signature to cover, and a small Grolier bookshop ticket to first blank from where he likely purchased it. A suberb association. Wraps creased, toned..... More
Toronto: Shuffaloff / Eternal Network Joint, 2014. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. One of a limited edition of only 99 copies. Incredibly posthumously published chapbook by one of the best. some minor rubbing to wraps else fine. 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
Pretoria: Ophir, 1972. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. The first edition of this chapbook collecting and translating poems from Xhosa. Includes St. J. Page Yako's superb poem The Contraction & Enclosure of the Land, and other work by Sob. W. Nkuhlu, J.J.R. Jolobe, M.E. Nyoka, S.E.K. Mqhayi, Alfred Z. Ngani..... More
np: nd. 8vo, 9 pp, saddle-stitched wraps. Chapbook prefaced with a quote from Fred Moten. Very good with creasing to one page. More
[Kent, Ohio]: Harpsichord Productions, 1984. 8vo, three unbound, folded leaves xeroxed from typescript and cut and paste collage, titled in holograph. Single issue of the mysterious and elusive no frills Kent zine, either issue 5 or 6, according to the text.Really a great and verbose (I had to look up..... More
Glasgow: Caledonian Press, [1952]. 21mo, saddle-stapled wraps. An uncut copy. The first separate appearance of the text which first appeared in the National Weekly. Very good with minor toning. More
New Haven: Phylum Press, 2007. First edition. 12mo, saddle-stapled wraps. One of a limited edition of 200 numbered copies signed by both poets. Association copy, housed in an envelope addressed (and postmarked) to Gerrit Lansing. Fine in a very good envelope that has some creasing and tears. More
Venice, CA: The Poet, 1965. Second printing, limited to 1000 copies. 8vo, saddle-stapled in silk-screened wraps. Illustrated with drawings and cartoons. Horner was an early beat poet and self-publisher in the Venice, California Bohemian scene, Very good in wraps with an old price neatly crossed out in red ink on..... More
New Haven: Phylum Press, 2001. First edition. One of a limited edition of 52 numbered copies signed by both poets. Bound in oblong hand-stitched and hand-painted wraps. Fine. More
Baltimore: Pod Books, 1977. First edition. 12mo, unpaginated, saddle-stitched in illustrated oblong wraps illustrated by a drawing by Nancy Ackerman. One of 500 copies. Fugitive chapbook published by Kirby and Rosemary Malone under the Pod Books imprint, scarcer than the limitation would suggest. Not to be confused with the Abbatoir..... More
London: Kropotkin's Lighthouse, 1973. 4to, dittoed in various colors entirely from holograph. Side-stapled in wras along top edge, backed with wrapping tape. Second, enlarged edition. One of 200 numbered copies. A collection of poetry, many of them on anarchist themes, published by Kropotkin's Lighthouse, care of Housmans' book shop. A...... More
Oakland: O Books, c. 1990. 4to, loose leaves housed in a printed clamshell box. Association copy, with a 2pp. holograph letter from Grenier to Gerrit Lansing, along with a color xerox print of a scrawl piece. A great letter, sent from Bolinas April 17, 1994, which was sent with the..... More
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 often. One of the most..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1961. First edition. Limited edition, one of 200 copies signed by the author. 8vo, 174 pp, bound in white boards titled in gilt at the spine. One of the more mysterious books published by the press. Héafod was a pseudonym for Osias Bain, a mysterious figure who..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1955. First edition. 8vo, [40] pp, bound in cream cloth titled in blue at the spine. Illustrated dust jacket. First and only edition of this beautiful artists' book, and the only book published by the artist. It is illustrated with color reproductions of prints featuring images of..... More
London: Editions Poetry London Limited, 1950. First edition. 12mo, 12 pp, bound in illustrated boards. A remarkable children's story about Peddy Bottom, who "knew that he was Peddy Bottom, but men all thought that there was something doggy about him, while dogs all thought that there was something human about..... More
Zurich: Jean-Christophe Verlag, 1937. First edition. 8vo, 223 pp, bound in dove grey cloth printed in blue; illustrated dust jacket. The first German translation of a work which had originally appeared in Dutch two years prior. The poet and socialist Roland-Holst was a close friend of Luxemburg. Following the ascent..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1965. First edition. 8vo, 149 pp, bound in beige cloth decorated and titled in gilt at the spine. Printed dust jacket, typographically designed in red and black. The second installment of Buchanan's autobiography, describing his work for a Belfast newspaper during the troubles and reminiscences of Fleet..... More
Havana, Cuba: Banco De Ideas Z, 1995. Five small pamphlets, each printed on thick brown recycled paper, housed within a printed brown paper envelope with a printed card table of contents. Addressed by hand to zine editor Jim Clinefelter at his Cleveland address. Banco de Ideas Z was a Cuban..... More
[Merida, Badajoz, Spain]: Antonio Gomez, c. 1990's. One of a limited edition of 20 numbered copies. 8vo, hand-painted folder containing 16 works. Beautiful issue of the longrunning Spanish assemblage magazine, featuring 16 collages, pageworks, and paintings by artists from 8 countries: Germany (Jörg Seifert), Spain (Francisco Aliseda, Lidia Benavides, La..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1949. First edition. Small 8vo, 112 pp, bound in grey cloth with rounded corners. No dust jacket, perhaps as issued. First and only edition of Anna Kavan's rarest book, written with her psychiatrist and close friend K.T. Bluth, printed in Lübeck in a fugitive edition shortly after..... More
Kent: Kent State University Libraries, 1978. 8vo, saddle-stitched in blue string in card wraps. With errata slip laid in. This copy with a handwritten colophon by Robert Duncan, denoting this as copy no. 3 of only 4 issued "Hors de Commerce for Gerrit Lansing, 'the hosts of the glittering day..... More
Akron, Ohio: Clone Records, 1978. Catalog No. CL 008. 7" vinyl single in printed sleeve. This the version on red vinyl, in the red printed picture sleeve, which is scarcer than the more commonly found black vinyl version in black printed sleeve. Superb, only single of this great Ohio punk..... More
