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
np: nd. 4to, [28] pp, xeroxed in b/w, stab-stapled and tape bound at spine. With the rubberstamp of the San Francisco Poetry Center to covers and first page. A collection of poems by the anarchist, poet and member of Provo - some of them from work connected with the One... More about Lang Leve de Staat van Verrukking. Gedichten voor de Gelegenheid
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1980. First edition. 8vo, illustrated wraps. Signed by the poet at the title page. Near fine. More about Alter Sublime
New York: Floating Bear, 1969. First edition. Paperback. 4to, [22] pp., mimeographed; stab-stapled into a cover illustrated by Ray Johnson. One of the most beautiful issues of the Bear, with Ray Johnson's "Untitled Lithograph by Ray Johnson" as cover. Staples rusted, some light foxing and spotting. Very good. More about Floating Bear 36
New York: Floating Bear, 1961. 4to, six leaves mimeographed from typescript and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. An unusual issue of the Bear, featuring Hubert Selby, Jr.'s "A Floating Bear Special", and work by Joel Oppenheimer, Charles Olson, Paul Metcalf, Max Finstein, Jerry Benjamin, and last but... More about The Floating Bear # 17
Santa Barbara: Am Here Books, 1988. First edition. 4to, 25 pp, printed on rectos only, and cimb-bound into printed covers. The scarce first edition of this superb work on H. D., first presented as a lecture at the Poetics Program of the New College of California in the Spring of... More about The Mysteries of Vision: Some Notes on H. D
[New York]: [c. 1962]. 4to, [8] pp, four sheets mimeographed from typescript on both recto and verso, and stapled once in the upper left corner. A very early DiPrima publication, likely produced for a production of the Poets' Theater. The play is very much in the gossipy vain of the... More about Poet's Vaudeville
New York: Floating Bear, 1965. 4to, a mixture of mimeograph and offset printing, side-stapled. Front cover by Jess [Collins]. One of the most unusual and beautiful issues of the Bear, featuring a striking cover by Jess Collins. This issue is notable for the inclusion of three different dueling versions of... More about Floating Bear #31. Barely Afloat
New York: Floating Bear, 1961. 4to, six leaves mimeographed from typescript and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. This issue of the Bear features work by George Stanley, David Ossman, Martin Green, Charles Olson, Ron Loewinsohn, Marian Zazeela, Alan Marlowe, and Gilbert Sorrentino. Some faint traces of soiling... More about The Floating Bear #16
New York: Floating Bear, 1961. First edition. 4to, six leaves mimeographed from typescript, and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. Early and scarce issue of the Bear, which includes work by A.B. Spellman, Joel Oppenheimer, and Ed Dorn's fantastic essay New York, New York. Paper rather toned, with... More about Floating Bear #8
Poughkeepsie & Silverton: Division Leap / Fast Books, 2018. First edition. Dodd, John P. My Funny Valentine. Poughkeepsie & Silverton: Division Leap / Fast Books, 2018. First edition. Small 4to, 120 pages, offset printed in color, with one folding plate tipped-in by hand. One of a limited edition of 250... More about My Funny Valentine
Toronto: Shuffaloff / Eternal Network Joint, 2014. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. One of a limited edition of 99 copies. Superb, posthumously published chapbook by one of the best postwar poets. Fine. More about The Day & Night Book
![From Gloucester Out [with] Typescript. Edward Dorn](/pictures/thumb/27973.jpg?v=1565647778)
London: The Matrix Press, 1964. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated with a frontispiece printed in gold and black by Barry Hall. One of a limited edition of 350 copies. Association copy, inscribed by Dorn to Stan and Jane Brakhage at the title page in the year following publication; "For... More about From Gloucester Out [with] Typescript
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies for presentation, specially bound in full chapskin, with illustrated title label pasted down onto the front board, and signed by Dorn on the colophon. This is copy A, this is the first gunman...a glorious copy. Fine, in... More about Gunslinger Book I
London: Fulcrum, 1967. First edition. One of a limited edition of 100 copies specially bound and signed and numbered by Dorn. Illustrated with a frontispiece by R. B. Kitaj. Very good, with a touch of toning to the page edges and a slight warp to the boards, in a very... More about The North Atlantic Turbine
Berkeley: Wingbow Press, 1975. First edition. One of a limited edition of 50 signed and specially bound copies. 8vo, bound in blind-stamped brown boards backed in linen. Unprinted handmade paper jacket. Fine in a jacket that is lightly toned at spine (corresponding to the linen backing) else fine. More about Slinger
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1980. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Ed Dorn at the title page to Leroi Jones [Amiri Baraka] in the year of publication. "to Roi, who has seen everything up to, and perhaps even including, Wyoming. As ever, Ed / Dorn Boulder 25 Mar 1980."... More about Views
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First edition. Lettered issue, one of 26 copies signed by Dorn, and specially handbound in Buckskin with printed title label to front panel. Laid into this copy is a sheet titled by hand in red ink "Proof Sample of 12 pt. Caslon for "Gunslinger"... More about GUNSLINGER Book II
Austin: Skanky Possum Press, 2001. First edition. 8vo, 16 pp, saddle-stapled in card wraps. One of 100 copies. Association copy, inscribed by Dale Smith to fellow poet Gerrit Lansing. Fine. More about Edward Dorn Out: Forms of Dispossession
New York: Granary Books, 2016. First edition. 8vo, oblong wraps. Illustrated with color plates by Downes. One of a limited edition of 150 copies, now fugitive. Fine. More about I Rode with the Cossacks
Kerhonkson, NY: Poets Press, 1966. First edition. Paperback. 8vo, Saddle stitched illustrated wraps. With bifolium errata laid in, and scarce thus. His first book, and an early publication from Dian Di Prima's Poets Press. Very good with some minor grubbiness to wraps and some darkening at the spine. More about Sapphobones
Uppingham: Goldmark, 1995. First edition. 4to, 130 pp, bound in gilt-stamped blue cloth. Printed dust jacket. With two cd's housed into sleeves tipped in at rep. One of a limited edition of 1000 numbered and signed copies. Prints Dun's epic psychogeographical poem about Kings Cross, in Terza Rima. Fine. More about Vale Royal
Kent, OH: [Zephyrus Image], [1974]. First edition. 7 x 11 3/4" broadside, letterpress printed on Curtis Gallo Utopian laid paper. Decorative linocut borders in green by Michael Myers. A broadside issued by the Zephyrus Image for the Kent State Arts Festival. Also issued as part of a portfolio, but some... More about I Dreamt My Childhood in Kent
New York: New Directions, 1984. First edition. One of a limited edition of 150 numbered and signed copies, bound in full salmon cloth titled in gilt at the spine, and housed in a brown cloth slipcase. With publisher's press release laid in. Fine / fine. More about Ground Work. Before the War
Kent: Kent State University Libraries, 1978. 8vo, saddle-stapled in card wraps. With errata slip laid in. One of 100 numbered and signed copies (of a total edition of 624). The second edition, following the first edition of 1950 - this edition adds an afterword by Robert Bertholf. Touch of crimping... More about Medieval Scenes 1950 and 1959