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
New York: Un Poco Loco, 1979. First edition. 4to, five leaves mimeographed from typescript and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. Association copy, addressed and mailed to Jackson Mac Low. This issue of UPL devoted to the work of the great Bernadette Mayer, a fantastic issue including the... More about Un Poco Loco May 1979
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
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. First American edition. 8vo, 168 pp, bound in magenta cloth. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Max Nettleton. With a foreward by Graham Hough. The first American edition, published in the same year as the UK edition from Manchester University Press, and three years after... More about Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry
Lawrence, KS: Grist, 1966. First edition. 4to, 40 pp., saddle-stapled in photographically illustrated wraps. Ninth issue of one of the greatest little magazines to come out of the midwest in the 1960's,, this issue notable for the inclusion of work by Steven C. Wilson, later known as S. Clay Wilson... More about Grist 9
New York: Archangel Press, 1948. First edition. 7 leaves, offset printed on thick card stock and housed in a printed envelope. Cards very good with overall toning and some creasing to extremities; Envelope toned and beat to hell, perished and in pieces. To the best of our knowledge the first... More about The Shaper
New York: [1973]. 8 1/2 x 11", offset printed in blue on white paper stock. Illustrated with a drawing by Mike Andre. Original poster for this performance by Ginsberg along with the all female proto-punk band Flaming Youth at the Barnard Gym. Deborah Frost of the group lived with Ginsberg... More about Poster for a Performance at the Barnard Gym
[Berkeley]: Oyez, 1965. 15 x 20 1/4" broadside, letterpress printed on thick paper. Illustrated with two nude silhouettes by Robert LaVigne. Near fine with some light creasing to extremities. More about Kral Majales
Italy: Biblioteca Civica Gambalunga in collaborazione col Centro Programmazione Spetacoli dell'ARCI, 1979. 25 x 37" poster, offset lithograph in two colors. Original, rare poster for this 1979 poetry conference in Italy, which included Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Julian Beck, Judith Malina, and Fabrizio Rinaldi. The event was organized... More about Poster for 'Incontro di Poesia'
New York: Giorno Poetry Systems, 1984. 5 x 7" postcard, photographically illustrated on both recto and verso. An invitation to the release party for the legendary LP, which featured contributions by William S. Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Richard Hell, Psychic TV et al. Both recto and verso are illustrated with photographs... More about Invitation Postcard to the Release Party for Better An Old Demon Than a New God
np: Glover Publishing for the Institute of Further Studies, 2010. 4to, xxvii, 852 pp, hand-bound by Sarah Creighton in reflective cloth and housed in a brick red cloth slipcase. One of a limited edition of 50 hand-numbered copies. Design and typography by Michael Russem, and printed by the Levellers Press... More about A Curriculum of the Soul
New York: 1995. 4to, single folded sheet. Debut issue of this great zine out of NYC, largely devoted to Sparrow and James Graham's candidacy for mayor, running on a platform that included, among other things, more crime. Rather creased, but very good. More about El Machete de Nuestro Tiempo Newsletter. No. 1
Annandale-On-Hudson: Matter Books / Joan Kelly, 1966. First edition. 8vo, mimeographed and stab-stapled into card covers. One of 200 copies, this copy unnumbered. His first book, with a foreward by Robert Kelly. Very good with some minor toning to margins. More about The Reckoning