San Francisco: San Francisco Arts Festival, 1963. Eight illustrated broadsides, laid into a 14 x 21" large card folder with printed title pastedown to front panel. Each broadside limited to 300 copies. A remarkable publication of eight broadsides issued on the occasion of the San Francisco Arts Festival, and printed..... More
London: The Curiously Strong, 1971. First edition. 4to, unpaginated, mimeographed from typescript in blue ink on rectos only, and side-stapled in printed covers. According to Ahearn, one of only 200 copies issued. The very rare first book by Peter Ackroyd, published as The curiously strong, v. 4, no. 2, Oct..... More
Lausanne: Societe Anonyme d'Editions Litteraires et Artistiques, 1964. First edition. 8vo, 232 pp, printed wraps. Second issue, notable for contributions from William S. Burroughs and his "Who is the Third That Walks Besides You?" riffing on old Tom Eliot, Jane Bowles, Harry Matthews, Barbara Gyest, J. R. Ackerley et al...... More
New York: Fuck You Press, 1965. First edition thus. 8vo, unbound, folded sheets laid into printed wraps. Mimeographed from typescript. One of a limited edition of 300 copies. The first separate edition of the poem attributed to Auden, though W.H. didn't cop to authorship. The work was clandestinely circulated before..... More
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, nd. Paperback. 5 x 8" sheet of blue paper, folded once, with bird device to front panel. Some faint handling creases else fine. An advertising leaflet offering the services of the press, suggesting that they can produce a wide variety of material, from stationary to reproduction..... More
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
New York: Fuck You Press, 1964. First edition. 4to, mimeographed from typescript and drawing on rectos only. Side-stapled. The first edition of the author's first book, a report on the legendary 1963 conference at the University of British Columbia, made in order to "respond to the intense interest and questions..... More
New York: C Press, 1964. First edition. 4vo, mimeographed from typescript, stapled wraps. Cover by Joe Brainard. One of a limited edition of 300 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and out of series. The first edition of this legendary book of the second generation of the New York School, a...... More
New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude, 1966. First edition. Foolscap format, 31 pp., mimeographed from typescript and stap-stapled into an offset printed card cover illustrated by Joe Brainard. The 13th and final regular issue of the seminal little mag of the second generation of the New York School. This issue..... More
New York: C Press, 1964. First edition. 4vo, mimeographed from typescript, stapled wraps. Cover by Joe Brainard. One of a limited edition of 300 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and out of series. The first edition of this legendary book of the second generation of the New York School, a huge..... More
New York: Lorenz Gude, 1963. First edition. Foolscap, mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, and stab-stapled into an offset printed cover by Joe Brainard. Collated and complete against Birmingham. Conributors include John Ashbery, Ron Padgett, John Wieners, Lorenzo Thomas, LeRoi Jones, James Schuyler, Barbara Guest et al. A strong and..... More
New York: Alex Rosenberg Gallery, 1980. First edition. 22 x 34" sheet, offset printed on recto only, and folded into a two panel brochure. Illustrated in black and white. The beautifully designed catalog for the prescient 1980 exhibition on personal narratives by artists. With contributions from Joe Brainard, Colette, John..... More
New York: Boke Press, 1964. First edition. Foolscap, mechanically duplicated on rectos only; stab-stapled. The second and last issue of Brainard's artist periodical devoted to storyless or abstract comics. Illustrated throughout by Brainard with texts by many important poets of the New York School, including Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Edwin..... More
Suffolk: Scorpion Press, 1961. First edition. Translated by John Berger and Anna Bostock, who also provide a brief foreward. The first English language edition of these 7 poems, which were taken from Messinkauf. Superb translations... Near fine with fading to the extremities of the wraps and some faint toning within. More
Kent, OH: Zephyrus Image, 1974. First edition. 7 x 12" broadside, letterpress in two colors; poem set in 10 pt. Linotype Aldus within a red linocut border by Michael Myers. Produced as part of the Kent State portfolio, some of the broadsides were also distributed singly. Johnston p. 199. Fine..... More
Paris: Olympia Press, 1959. First edition. 12mo, printed wraps, with illustrated dust jacket. First edition, first state, with green border to title page, and price of 1500 francs to rear cove and dust jacket flap. One of 5000 copies issued. A very good or better copy, with a light reading..... More
np: Jargon Society, 1971. First edition. Narrow 4to, bound in stiff photographically illustrated French wraps after a photograph by Bert Parker. Single faint droplet stain to spine and some faint, innocuous scuffing to back panel, else fine, a gorgeous copy. More
np: An Heddoua, 1967. First edition. 4to, 87 pp, illustrated wraps (by the filmmaker Jack Smith, who also contributes a text). Debut issue of the little mag, with a superb list of contributors, including the enigmatic Edward Marshall, William S. Burroughs, Paul Bowles, Aymon de Roussy de Sales, Ray Bremser..... More
np: 1915. 8vo, single sheet folded once, lacking any imprint or attribution; the attribution to Coleridge's grandson is based on a pencilled noted on cover . With a two word holograph addition in ink to one line. Signed "E.H.C." in ink. Previously unseen by us. OCLC locates no holdings. A...... More
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Cambridge and Providence: Joglars, 1964-66. First edition. First two issues 8vo, each saddle-stapled in illustrated wraps. Final issue 4to, and side-stapled in card covers illustrated by John Furnival. All issues published of this excellent little magazine of the Mimeograph Revolution. The very scarce final number, the stopper, combined younger members of..... More
New York: Death Press, 1964. First edition. Folio, 13 sheets, each handset and letterpress printed on glassine parchment, and housed in a printed blue folder along with an additional unprinted glassine sheet. One of a limited edition of 120 copies, each signed by the author. An unusually designed book meant..... More
np: Perishable Press, 1967. First edition. 8vo, 77 pp, bound in red cloth over boards backed in aquamarine crushed morocco, with title blind-stamped to spine. One of a limited edition of 250 copies signed by Creeley. No dust jacket as issued. A fine, uncut example. More
Bolinas: 1973. 5 x 8", broadside, letterpress on cream paper. This, an undistributed copy without the wrappers which were present on distributed copies. Fine. More
Black Mountain, NC: Black Mountain College, 1956. Small thick 8vo, 223 pp, bound in wraps illustrated by Dan Rice. The sixth issue, of seven eventually published, of the central organ of Black Mountain College, widely acknowledged as being one of the most important periodicals of the postwar era. With contributions..... More
London: O.T.O., 1938. First edition. 4to, 128 pp, bound in brown cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. One of a limited edition of 500 copies. Crowley's personal anthology of his favorite poetry, and the last book to be published in his lifetime. Cloth lightly rubbed at the lower panel..... More