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
Kent: Zephyrus Image, 1974. First edition. 8 1/2 x 11" broadside, letterpress text in a variety of fonts with a small arrow linocut by Myers; press device in two colors printed at verso. One of the series of broadsides issued by Zephyrus Image as part of the Kent State Art... More about Mesozoic Landscape
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
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
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
San Francisco: Gnomon Press and Island Press, 1966. First edition thus, second issue, with the Duncan cover (replacing the original which RD took umbrage to). The original was first published in 1952 and circulated in a small handful of copies. Fine. More about Fragments of a Disordered Devotion
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
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New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1964. First edition. 8vo, wraps. 176 pp. Title page inscribed "Robert Duncan/ at Lawrence/ May 1965" with full-page drawing by the poet. Some light creasing to front wrap and at spine. Minor tidemarking to back cover. Faint droplet stain ghosts to foreedge. Crease to last... More about Roots and Branches [Inscribed with Drawing
San Francisco: Open Space, 1965. First edition. 8vo, saddle stapled wraps illustrated by the poet. A lecture given by Duncan to commemorate 700 year anniversay of Dante. Near fine with toning to wrap margins. More about The Sweetness and Greatness of Dante's Divine Comedy
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First edition. 4to, 24 pp, bound in cloth-backed illustrated boards, with a facsimile notebook housed in an envelope at rear. This copy is denoted as a presentation copy in holograph at the colophon, and is signed by Duncan. [Bertholf A37c; Morrow & Cooney 95c]... More about Tribunals: Passages 31-35
New York: New Directions, 1944. First edition. 8vo, 30 pp, bound in green paper-covered boards. Printed dust jacket. The scarcer hardcover issue, issued in the publisher's Poets of the Year series. Endpapers lightly toned, else fine in a dust jacket that has a short closed nick to head of front... More about Poems New and Selected
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1951. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Prints two Tom takedowns, subtitled ""A study of the literary leader of intellectual, political, religious and philosophical reaction, with impish glances at his earlier Voltairean skepticism and freethought." Nevertheless, Mordell concludes that Tom "gave us a few good poems like "Dry Salvages.'" Fine. More about T. S. Eliot's Deficiencies As A Social Critic. T.S. Eliot - Special Pleader As Book Reviewer And...
San Francisco: M, [1962]. First edition. 4to, mimeographed from typescript and stab-stapled. First issue of the little magazine published from Gino & Carlo's Bar, where, submissions could be dropped off. Only two were published. The magazine bears some similarities with Open Space and J, and share many of the same... More about M #1
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Paris: Le Comité National des Ecrivains, 1952. Bifolium, 10 5/8 x 16 6/16", printed on rectos only with a black funeral border, and folded once (inner panels blank). Folded once, as mailed, and housed in the original mailing envelope, bordered in black, and addressed to Lucien Scheler, with stamp and... More about Funeral announcement for Paul Eluard, addressed and mailed to Lucien Scheler
Tokyo: Privately Published, 1962. First edition. 8vo, [54] pp, strinbound in printed wraps. Illustrated with a frontispiece by William Paden. Association copy, inscribed by Eshleman to Don Allen - a fantastic association copy of the new poetics, andEshleman's first book. Faint touch of rubbing to wraps, else fine. More about Mexico & North
Tokyo: Privately Published, 1962. First edition. 8vo, [54] pp, strinbound in printed wraps. Illustrated with a frontispiece by William Paden. Eshleman's excellent first book. Near fine with a touch of fading at spine and some minor rubbing. More about Mexico & North
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First edition. 8vo, bound in decorated boards backed in decorated cloth. Unprinted glassine jacket. One of 26 lettered copies handbound by Earle Gray, and containing a holograph poem on a sheet tipped in following the title page, in this case also including a full... More about What She Means
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First edition. One of 125 numbered copies specially handbound in boards and signed by Roberts Creeley, Duncan, and Bly, Allen Ginsberg, and Gary Snyder. It helped considerably in the New American Poetics to be a man, with bonus points of your name was Robert... More about Towards a New American Poetics: Essays & Interviews
New York: "Viking Press" nd. Paperback. 4to., mimeographed sheets stab-stapled covers. This copy of the work from the Leon collective is signed by Larry Fagin at the title page, and scarce thus. Includes a poem written for Leon Crabtree. Near fine with some very faint indenting around staples. More about The Portable Leon
San Francisco: City Lights, 1963. 8vo, photographically illustrated wraps. The debut issue, with contributions from Allen Ginsberg, Richard Brautigan, ed Sanders, Jack Kerouac, Bruce Conner et al. Wraps and edges of text block heavily toned, else a sturdy very good example. More about City Lights Journal Number One
San Francisco: The FITS Collective, 1971. First edition. 4to. Offset printed on newsprint and saddle-stapled in color illustrated wraps. The second and final issue of this little magazine co-edited by Hilton Obenzinger, of Siamese Banana Press fame. The magazine brought together poetry, art and underground comix. With contributions by Joe... More about If the Shoe Fits No. 2