Nonsequences: Selfpoems
New York: W. W. Norton, 1965. First edition. Signed by Middleton at the first blank, in Austin, Texas, and dated in 1987. Very good in a very good dustjacket. More about Nonsequences: Selfpoems
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Act
London: Trigram Press, 1973. First edition. 8vo, 89pp, printed card wraps. Illustrated from etchings by Barry Flanagan. Text printed in tow colors. A superb work, beautifully designed at Trigram. Fine. More about Act
From the Grande Chartreuse
Berkeley: Oyez, 1981. First edition. 8vo, [8] pp, saddle-stitched wraps. One of a limited edition of 250 copies designed and printed by Robert E. Blesse at the Santa Lucia Press, and published as a new year greeting for friends of Oyez. Some faint foxing to wraps else fine. More about From the Grande Chartreuse
Logbook
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1976. First edition. 4to, unpaginated, bound in silkscreened wraps. With rubberstamped dedication, as issued. Signed by Tom Raworth in his distinctive hand in NYC and dated in 2012. Beneath his signature Tom has added the phrase "certified genuine." Fine. More about Logbook
The Auerhahn Press: Catalog 1962
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962. 16mo, letterpress rinted in two colors, addle-stapled in card wraps. The beautifully produced catalog listing works currently available from the press, with text on each publication - a valuable reference for one of the best presses of the period. [Auerhahn 17] Near fine with a touch... More about The Auerhahn Press: Catalog 1962
Book of Magazine Verse
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1970. First edition. 8vo, letterpress printed and perfect bound in wraps. First edition, one of 1500 copies. A collection of poems submitted to magazines, here organized according to which magazine rejected them. The most brilliant aspect of the book design is that each of these... More about Book of Magazine Verse
Eight Days in Eire: Or, Nothing So Urgent as Manana
North Carolina: Wesleyan College Press, 1990. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled in wraps with pictorial foil embossing. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Jonathan Williams at the colophon. Fine. More about Eight Days in Eire: Or, Nothing So Urgent as Manana
Defending Ancient Spring
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. First edition. 8vo, 198 pp, bound in navy cloth with gilt-stamped label at spine. Illustrated dust jacket. First edition of this superb collection of essays on poets and metaphysical systems, including work on Perse, Blake, Shelley, Yeats, Muir, Watkins, Gascoyne et al. Fine in a.... More about Defending Ancient Spring
Descant on Rawthey's Madrigal. Conversations with Basil Bunting by Jonathan Williams
np: Gnomon Press, 1968. First edition. 8vo, unpaginated. Bound in card wraps with integral printed dust jacket. One of a limited edition of 475 copies. Illustrated witha tipped-in photographic portrait of Bunting by Williams. 1" crease to upper tip of front panel, else fine. More about Descant on Rawthey's Madrigal. Conversations with Basil Bunting by Jonathan Williams
Red D Gypsum
Cambridge: Barque, 1998. First edition. 8vo, 19 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A now fugitive chapbook published by Keston Sutherland and Andrea Brady under the Barque Press imprint. Fine. More about Red D Gypsum
In England's Green & (A Garland and a Clyster)
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962. First edition. 8vo. String-bound in wraps. First edition, one of 750 copies. With a "compliments of the author" card laid in, as well as a printed letter on Auerhahn Press stationary from Dave Haselwood, soliciting funds to be sent directly to Mr. Williams as a.... More about In England's Green & (A Garland and a Clyster
Jonathan Williams, Poet
Cleveland: Asphodel, 1969. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps and photographically illustrated card dust jacket (by Ralph Eugene Meatyard). Very good with some light toning and smudging to the wrapper. More about Jonathan Williams, Poet
Visible Shivers
Oakland: O Books / Trike, 1987. First edition. 8vo, perfect bound in illustrated wraps. Very good. More about Visible Shivers
Ode to Negativity
Detroit: An Alternative Press Postcard, 1970. First edition. 4 x 6" postcard, printed in black on green paper. The first appearance of this collaborative poem, published in the Alternative Press Postcard Series. Fine. More about Ode to Negativity
Asphodel Bookshop Catalog No. 13
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
Elegies and Celebrations
Highlands: Jargon, 1962. First edition. Paperback. 8vo, photo-illustrated french card wraps, with original integral acetate jacket. One of 750 copies. Preface by Robert Duncan. Illustrated with two photographs, one by Aaron Siskind and the other by the author. One of the most beautiful titles published by the Jargon Press. Glassine... More about Elegies and Celebrations
Lazy Left Hand. Notes 1970-1975
np: Actual Size, 1986. First edition. 8vo, wraps (designed by Lloyd Raworth). A superb collection of poems, but aren't they all? Very good with some light creasing to wraps and a light bump to lower tip. More about Lazy Left Hand. Notes 1970-1975
At All (Tom Raworth and His Collages)
Oakland: Hooke Press, 2006. Third Edition. 12mo. 34 pp. Saddle-stapled wraps. Third edition, limited to 50 copies. "A poetic consideration of Raworth's collages, as well as a meditation on thought and play in visual art, by one of the great poets & translators of recent decades." - from the publisher... More about At All (Tom Raworth and His Collages
The Train of Thought
Gran Canaria: Zasterle Press, 1994. First edition. 12mo, 62 pp, wraps. One of 300 numbered copies. The third chapter of Spicer's eccentric and beautiful detective story set on the aftermath of the Berkeley Renaissance, and the first portion of the story to appear in book form, the first two chapters... More about The Train of Thought
Fractions for Another Telemachus
Knotting, Bedfordshire: The Sceptre Press, 1974. First edition. 8vo, saddle stapled wraps with integral card dust jacket. One of a limited edition of 150 numbered copies. Association copy, beautifully inscribed to his collaborator, the artist R. B. Kitaj; "For you, R. B. Kitaj / love from your old pal /... More about Fractions for Another Telemachus
Collection of Ephemera Related to The Electric Element
np: [1973]. A cache of 10 items produced in conjunction with the Electric Element, a multi-media performance which was performed at the Theatre Royal Stratford in 1973 by the avant-garde theatrical performance troupe, which included the legendary musican and cybernetic artist Bruce Lacey, who appeared in Jasia Reichardt's Cybernetic Serendipity... More about Collection of Ephemera Related to The Electric Element
Suikergoed & Marsepein
Amsterdam: Barbara Huges, 1968. Second edition. 4to, 34 pp., mimeographed from typescript on rectos only and bound with cloth tape into textured card covers printed in color. Second expanded edition. A self-published treatise on trepanation by a member of Provo who had experienced the act firsthand. On January 6, 1965... More about Suikergoed & Marsepein
A Peeping Tom's Archive. A Book of Photo Riddles. With a French - English Peeping-Tom Dictionary
np: United Pirates, 2005. First edition. Square 12mo, 48 pp, bound in photographically illustrated flexibile boards. A clandestine publication issued under the "United Pirates" imprint. This small and intriguing photobook collections snapshots by an unnamed French doctor of beachgoers in Cannes during the mid 1950's - some of them perhaps... More about A Peeping Tom's Archive. A Book of Photo Riddles. With a French - English Peeping-Tom Dictionary
Poster for A Grand Feed
New York: 1966. 14 x 21 15/16", offset litho in two colors with collage element (price card pasted down). The poster for this happening at the Mass Art Store on December 29, 1966, celebrating "The Release of a Record and the Sale of Max-Feeds." Participants included Philip Corner, Al Hansen... More about Poster for A Grand Feed
Il Tatuaggio Nelle Prostitute
Gonova: Commercio-Gazzetta Di Genova, 1888. 8vo, 99 pp, rebound in red linen with the cover of the photographically illustrated original wrapper preserved. Illustrated with drawings in the text. Text in Italian. First and only edition of one of the rarest of all tattoo books. Orazio based his study on a.... More about Il Tatuaggio Nelle Prostitute