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
Berkeley: Oyez, 1965. First regularly published edition, preceded by a privately distributed mimeographed edition. Inscribed by the author at the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Ariel Parkinson, printed in sepia on glassine sheets. A gorgeously designed book from Oyez, and a superb collection of poems. fine. More about THANATOS: Earth Poems
New Orleans: Glade Gallery, 1965. 18 x 25" poster, offset lithograph in three colors. The striking large scale poster for the 1965 exhibition of paintings at Glade Gallery. The poster is illustrated with one of Patchen's bird man drawings, and was designed by Patchen himself. The exhibition was organized by... More about Lithographed Poster for the 1965 Patchen Paintings Exhibition at Glade Gallery
London: Anvil Press, 1981. First edition. 8vo, wraps. Text in Spanish with facing English translation. A series of collaborative sonnets. Near fine with some minor toning to wraps. More about Airborn/Hijos Del Aire
Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1954. 8vo, bound in black leatherette with gilt titles. No dust jacket as issued. A facsimile edition of the 1593 edition, with an introduction by William G. Crane. Very good. More about The Garden of Eloquence
San Francisco: City Lights Books / Fuck You Press, 1964. First edition. 4to, side stapled into printed covers. Translated into American by Mary Beach. The title page (designed by Ed Sanders) states that this book was published by the Fuck You Press - Fug Press "in close and evil association, collusion... More about Automatic Pilot
Berkeley: The Figures, 1978. First edition. 8vo, illustrated wraps. One of 600. Association copy, inscribed to fellow poet Gerrit Lansing at the title page. Touch of foxing to top edge, else fine. More about 7 Works
San Francisco: Cranium Press. Broadside, 6 1/4 x 8 3/4", letterpress. A variant issue or proof, printed once right side up with the same text then inverted and nestled against it at right margin, so it can be read from both directions. All other copies of this broadside we've examined... More about Song for Max Finstein
Approximately 9 1/2 x 15", ink and watercolor on paper. Inscribed "to A + D" at lower left hand corner in pencil, and signed "Christopher" in the lower right and corner. A striking and mysterious drawing by Christopher Perret, who was at one time associated with Leni Sinclair, and whose... More about Untitled Drawing
Vancouver, BC: Bed, nd [1975]. 4to, mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, and stapled at upper left hand corner into illustrated card covers. Debut issue of this scarce 1970's little magazine out of Vancouver, B.C., that was edited by poets close to Jack Spicer, and which is very much in... More about Bed No. 1
London: Microbrigade, 1991. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Very scarce chapbook. Fine. More about 21 Love
Paris: Le Melog, 1974. First edition. 4to, mimeographed leaves and pamphlets housed in an envelope illustrated with a woodblock print by Lôdie Serrano.One of a limited edition of 150 copies. The debut issue of this Surrealist artists' periodical, affiliated with Incendie de Fôret. With contributions by Patrice Uhl, Jimmy Gladiator..... More about Le Melog No. 1
New York & London: Garland, 1991. 8vo, 675 pp, bound in red cloth. No dust jacket. Published in the publisher's Renaissance Imagination Series, edited by Stephen Orgel. An important reprint of Pordage's epic poem, heavily influenced by Jacob Boehme, and far less known today than it should be. This text... More about Pordage's Mundorum Explicatio
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. First edition. 8vo, 465 pp, bound in red cloth. No dust jacket as issued. The first edition, and scarce in the first printing. Fine. More about "Ezra Pound Speaking." Radio Speeches of World War II
London: Fulcrum Press, 1970. First edition. 8vo, 80 pp, bound in brick red cloth titled in gilt. No dust jacket. Foreward by Basil Bunting. Includes two essays by the author on Arabic and Persian poetry. Fine. More about Arabic & Persian Poems
Orono: The National Poetry Foundation and Three Continents Press, 1986. 8vo, wraps. Inscribed by the author at Princeton in the year of publication to "Walt", with a page number reference in the contents. Near fine with some minor wear to extremities. More about Arabic and Persian Poems in English
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
Portland, Ore. Charles Seluzicki, 2004. 14 1/2 x 13" broadside, letterpress printed from hand-set type and photopolymer plates on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper. One of 75 copies. This broadside was designed and printed by the great Inge Bruggeman. Fine. More about Write-Out
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
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1965. First edition. 8vo, 70 pp, bound in purple cloth. Printed dust jacket. Inscribed by Raine at the title page. Fine in a very good jacket price clipped at lower tip of front flap, with some minor foxing and discoloration. More about The Hollow Hill
Mexico: El Corno Emplumado, 1965. First edition. 8vo, wraps. One of 1000 copies printed. Association copy, inscribed by Margaret Randall to David Dobkin in the year of publication- "For David - with love, Meg, 1.66." A pencilled note in Peter Howard's hand indicates that the David was Dobkin. Very good... More about October
np: The Double Pelican, 1982. First edition. 8vo, 181 pp, perfect bound in wraps. With contributions this issue from Robert Duncan, Charles Bernstein, Bob Callahan, Edward Dorn, Clayton Eshleman, Kenneth Irby, Steve McCaffery, Duncan McNaughton, Paul Metcalf, Bob Perelman, George Quasha, Charles Stein, Rosmarie Waldrop, Barrett Watten et al. A.... More about WCH WAY No. 4
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
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
Great Barrington: The Figures, 1991. First edition. 12mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Association copy, inscribed by Tom Raworth to Jerome and Diane Rothenberg in the year of publication. Cover drawing by Guy Williams. Near fine with some light foxing to wraps along spine. More about The Vein