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
[New York]: 1968. Small commercial "Compositions" notebook, 52 pp, almost every page of which bears holograph text in both ballpoint ink and pencil. Illustrated with several small drawings in ink, and one full page portrait in ballpoint ink and pencil of June Vegas. An unusual manuscript emanating from the Lower East... More about Manuscript Notebook
Lawrence, KS: Abington Bookshop, 1966. 4to, 35 pp, offset printed and saddle-stapled into wraps illustrated with a great photograph of Ken Kesey's bus by Michael Culbertson. Important issue of the longrunning and seminal little magazine, one of the most important - if not the most important to be issued from... More about Grist #10
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: Ninety Eight Greene Street Loft, 1973. First edition. 8.5x11" poster, offset printed on on cardstock. Original poster promoting a loft performance of The Bingo, by Dick Gallup, starring an impress cast of downtown and New York School poets and artists - Michael Brownstein, Rudi Burkhardt, Joan Fagin, Phil... More about Promotional poster for a Performance of The Bingo at Holly Solomon's 98 Greene Street Loft
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
Wiesbaden: Limes, 1962. First German language edition. 8vo, 142 pp, bound in card wraps with intergral printed dust jacket by Klaus-Peter and Rolf-Gunter Dienst. Printed in English, with facing German translation by Anselm Hollo. The beautifully designed first German-language edition of Kaddish, published in the year following the publication of... More about Kaddisch
Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1992. Paperback. Second printing. 32mo, wraps, gilt-stamped photographically illustrated dust jacket. Very good, with a small ink stain at spine, in a very good jacket with a corresponding but slightly larger ink stainin at spine, and some rubbing. More about Your Reason & Blake's System
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
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'
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
Cambridge, MA: Katalanché Press, 2005. First edition. 12mo, saddle-stapled wraps. One of 200 copies. A superb selection of poems by the Jewish working class poet who died, in 1917 of tuberculosis, at the age of 23. Near fine with a faint bit of fading to wraps along spine and a.... More about Self Charm
Germany: Concept Data, 1973. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Text mostly in German. Illustrated with drawings, comics and collages. Single unnumbered issue of the periodical, perhaps all that was issued - this is the only issue we've seen. Includes comics by the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, an R. Crumb centerfold, both translated... More about Die Reise ins Innere. Eins Psychedelisches Magazin
Buenos Aires: Walter, 1986. First edition. 8vo, 30 unbound sheets housed in a printed card folder illustrated with an original photogreaph tipped inside front cover and visible at cover through a die-cut hole. One of a limited edition of 325 numbered copies. Text in Spanish. A collaborative artist book featuring... More about Luna en la Vereda
Np: Momo's Press, nd. First edition. 5 1/4 x 11 1/4" broadside, letterpress on brown card stock. A broadside issued by Momo's Press, and printed by Zephyrus Image. [Johnston p. 236]. Fine. More about Soul/sacrifice
San Francisco: Hermes Free Press, nd. 5 3/4 x 11 1/2 broadside, letterpress printed in Linotype Aldus with ornamental rule on recycled paper. A powerful poem by the African American poet. This is the variant on gray paper. Fine. [Johnston p. 182]. More about Homage to the New World
London: Oasis Books, 1977. First edition. 4to, illustrated wraps. Association copy, inscribed by Harwood to Ron Loewinsohn: "For Ron and Kitty with much affection and respect. *And remembering our walk on the dams to Rotterdam!" A superb collection, illustrated with photographs by Judith Walker, including the cover illustration which had previously... More about Boston - Brighton
New York: Angel Hair, 1966. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps (cover illustrated by Joe Brainard). A superb collection of poems by Harwood, and one of Brainard's simplets, yet most beguiling book covers. Very good with some toning and fading to wraps, with several short tears to margin, and one at... More about The Man With Blue Eyes
London: Fulcrum Press, 1976. First edition. 8vo, bound in full brown cloth titled in gilt at spine. Strikingly illustrated with a photograph printed on a tipped in glassine sheet before the title page. One of a limited edition of 100 copies numbered and signed by Harwood. Very slight outward splay... More about The Sinking Colony
Grenada, Mississippi: Salt Works Press, 1984. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. One of a limited edition of 400 copies. Very good with some light smudging to wraps. More about Redo
Bolinas: Smithereens Press, 1987. First edition. 4to, stab-stapled in illustrated card covers. One of 250 copies. Association copy, inscribed to the late fellow poet Stephen Rodefer at the title page and dated in the year following publication: "To Steve Rodefer, blowing in Boulder, in old friendship. Anselm." A great association... More about Outlying Districts
London: Migrant Press, 1960. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. With Michael Shayers' note on the text, printed on two mimeographed sheets of foolscap lain in, as issued. Scarce early and important work by Hollo. Wraps rather dusty else very good. More about St Texts & Finnpoems
Pocatello, Idaho: Wild Dog, 1963. First edition. 4to, mimeographed and stab-stapled into green covers. Early issue of the longrunning and important little mag from the west, this the issue that marked a final departure from Idaho State College, which is disavowed on the title page. A superb issue with contributions... More about Wild Dog #3
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New York: Gallery East, 1954. 4 1/2 x 5 5/8" postcard, printed on blue card stock on recto only. The invitation to a sieres of "Lecture-Readings" by William Hull at the Gallery East, which was one the incredibly early and important artist-run co-op galleries on the Lower East Side, which... More about William Blake As Prophet [Invitation