A Skeleton Key to Maximus
[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
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Ironwood 5: George Oppen
Tucson, AZ: Ironwood Press, 1975. First edition. 8vo, 88 pp, printed wraps. Special issue of the little magazine devoted to work by and about George Oppen, including a generous selection of new work by Oppen and contributions from Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, Diane Wakoski, Bruce Andrews, Mary Oppen, Theodore Enslin..... More
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[Four Poems]
Kent, OH: Zephyrus Image, 1974. First edition. 7 x 11 7/8" broadside, letterpress in three colors on Warren's Old Style paper, with text in 14 pt. Kabel light, with linocut motif and border in blue by Michael Myers. Produced by the ZI for the 1974 Kent State Creative Arts Festival..... More
Miscellaneous Poems on Moral and Religious Subjects
New York: Printed by J. Seymour, and Sold by Griffin and Rudd, Agents for The Publisher, 1812. Second edition. 16mo, 180 pp, calf with gilt compartments to spine, and red morocco title label. Well-rubbed at extremities, with abrasions to leather and a couple small holes, pages toned with scattered foxing..... More
Jailbirth
np: Pacificmoonplanet Ecological Theatre, nd. 8 1/2 x 11", mimeographed from typescript on yellow paper. A poetry broadside. We can find no reference to the group, though we've seen other broadsides signed by the project, all with a similar poetic voice with heavy use of portmanteau word constructions. Very good..... More
Poster for a Portable Leon Reading at St. Mark's
New York: Poetry Project at St. Mark's, nd. 8 1/2 x 11", printed on recto only. Illustrated with an uncredited drawing of a pop bottle bearing a Portable Leon label. Lightly creased, with a short 1/4" nick at top margin; very good. More
In Advance of the Broken Arm
New York: Lorenz Gude, 1964. First edition. 4to, 21 leaves [including blank leaf preceding colophon],mimeographed on rectos only and side-stapled into illustrated card covers, and illustrated with four internal mimeograph prints by Joe Brainard. One of an edition of 200 copies numbered and signed by Padgett at the colophon. Padgett's..... More
Plan of the City of O
Boston: Barn Dream Press. First edition. 12mo, oblong saddle-stitched card wraps illustrated by Roger Stearns. One of 500 copies. Near fine with some minor toning along spine. More
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
THANATOS: Earth Poems
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
Lithographed Poster for the 1965 Patchen Paintings Exhibition at Glade Gallery
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
Airborn/Hijos Del Aire
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
The Garden of Eloquence
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
Automatic Pilot
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
Song for Max Finstein
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
Untitled Drawing
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
Bed No. 1
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
Le Melog No. 1
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
Pordage's Mundorum Explicatio
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
"Ezra Pound Speaking." Radio Speeches of World War II
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
Arabic & Persian Poems
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
Arabic and Persian Poems in English
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
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