San Francisco: Stephen Schwartz, 1969. First edition. 4to, saddle-stapled in card wraps illustrated by Marie Wilson. Debut issue of the American Surrealist journal, with contributions from André Breton, Benjamin Peret, Jehan Mayoux, Joyce Mansour, Nicolas Calas, nanos Valoritis, Aime Cesaire, Pedro Perez Sarduy, and Roberto Matta. As well as interior... More about Antinarcissus: Surrealist Conquest

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First edition. 8vo, [16] pp, string-bound in die-cut wraps. With 5 yellow paper inserts laid in, one of which is printed, as issued. Association copy, inscribed by Schwerner to fellow poet of chance and experimentation Jackson Mac Low: "For Jackson and Iris Love @"... More about If Personal

New York: Roof, 1982. First edition. 8vo, wraps. Near fine with a touch of fading to spine. More about The Son Master

Detroit: Artists' Workshop, 1966. Second edition. 4to, mimeographed from typescript and bound in photographically illustrated wraps. The second edition, expanded with an additional poem, and issued in a run of 500 copies upon Sinclair's release from prison. This is a battered, poor copy, the wraps detached from the text block... More about Firemusic: A Record

New York: The Unbearables, [1992]. 4to, side-stapled along upper margin. A special issue of the periodical issued by the Unbearables, this issue entirely devoted to Hal Sirowitz, with contributions by Sirowitz as well as Yuko Otomo, Bart Plantenga, Jose Padua, Lorrain Schein, Sparrow, Steve Dalachinsky, Marcia Lipson, Mike Golden, Denise... More about Big Fish: Hal Sirowitz Issue

New York: Radio Ethiopia Field Marshall, [1979]. 8 1/2 x 11" fler, printed on recto only.Broadside featurings the lyrics to the song "Hymn", which also serves to advertise the Patti Smith Group's 1979 shows at the Palladium, and which is illustrated with a picture of Jesus. The lower margin, reproduced... More about Hymn

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

San Francisco: Arif Press, 1971. First edition. Square 12mo, letterpress printed and saddle-stitched in wraps. First edition, trade issue, one of 500 copies (there were also 25 hand-colored copies). An early, and beautiful book from Wesley Tanner's Arif Press. Near fine with some minor toning to wraps. More about The Red Wheelbarrow

Fayetteville, AS: Lost Roads Press, 1979. Offset printed on white pebbled paper and perfect bound in lavender wraps printed in silver ink. The second, limited edition of Stanford's first published book, originally published by Mill Mountain Press in 1971. This edition, published shortly after Stanford's death, adds two poems which... More about The Singing Knives

[San Francisco]: Hermes Free Press, [c. 1972]. First edition. 5 3/4 x 15" poster, linocut print on white uncoated paper. A rebus calling for the impeachment of Richard Nixon, which was also produced as a bumper sticker. One of the most striking examples of several items the press produced during... More about Impeach Nixon

London: Rupert Davis, 1955. First edition. 8vo, 115 pp, bound in illustrated boards. illustrated dust jacket (designed by Judith Bledsoe). With a foreward by John Betjeman. The scarce first edition, of a book that was reprinted several times. Near fine, with some minor page toning, in a near fine jacket... More about Song at the Year's Turning

St. Ives, Cornwall, UK: The Latin Press, The Private Press of Guido Morris, 1952. First edition. 8vo, 16 pp, saddle-stitched in pale blue wraps. The 8th number in the Crescendo Poetry series, the poems here beautifully and ably translated into English by the great Michael Hamburger. A touch of toning... More about Decline: Twelve Poems by Georg Trakl, 1887-1914