Cleveland: d.a. levy, 1967. Tabloid format, single sheet of newsprint folded once to make a four pager. The very scarce first issue of levy's glorious tabloid zine. This issue is an interesting snapshot into the financial difficulties of artistic life in Cleveland, including a list of coffeeshops in the city..... More
New York: The Living Theatre, 1962. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, printed in black on yellow paper stock. The flyer for this important early 1962 reading at the Living Theatre - including early appearances by Ruth Krauss, Frank Lima, Joseph Ceravolo, Gerard Malanga et al., moderated by Willard Maas. The..... More
New York: Floating Bear, 1962. First edition. Paperback. 4to., [10] pp., mimeographed and stapled once at upper left hand corner. With return address rubberstamped in black. Association copy, addressed and mailed to the fellow little mag Wild Dog, in Pocatello, Idaho. A special issue of the Bear, guest edited by..... More
[London]: [Christopher Logue], nd. 4to, single folded sheet, offset printed. Artists' book by Logue, consisting of an detourneed magazine excerpt from Intellectual Life. Minor creasing else fine. More
Northwood, Middlesex, UK: Scorpion Press, 1958. First edition. 12mo, 36 pp, bound in black card wraps printed in white. One of a limited edition of 500 numbered copies. A collection of poems based on Pablo Neruda's Los Cantos d'amores, and an early work by Logue. A couple faint creases to..... More
[Healdsburg]: [Zephyrus Image], c. 1977. 7 1/2 x 12" broadside, letterpress, with zinc print of a serial image of an eclipse down the left side. See Johnston p. 212. Fine. More
Brooklyn: Out & Out Books, 1980. First edition thus. 8vo, [8] pp, saddle-stapled in orange card wraps. First public edition, following the privately distributed 1978 edition of the text made on the occasion of the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography conference in San Francisco. The paper had previously been delivered in..... More
Np`: 1963. 4to, mimeographed from typescript and side-stapled. A cycle of poems for Pete Seeger, incorporating two songs adapted from the work of Guillevic, and also a statement about Medgar Evers by Aaron Henry which appeared in The Peacemaker. Near fine with some faint toning and minor indenting. More
Paris: Le Soleil Noir, 1977. First edition. 12mo, wraps. One of a limited edition of 1500 numbered copies. Illustrated by Jorge Camacho. Near fine with some minor traces of soiling to wraps. More
Bruxelles: Les Levres Nues, 1968. First edition. 4to. Single sheet folded twice to make 8 pp., including covers. The eighth installment in the artist's Le Fait Accompli series, one of 45 numbered copies "sur verge" out of a total edition of 70. "Noir" is crossed out on the cover in..... More
New York: Carp & Whitefish, 1967. First edition. 3 1/2 x 6 5/16" card, offset lithograph, reproducing a work by William Heine at recto, and publication information at verso. The announcement for the first book published under the C & W imprint, which was created by Irving Rosenthal in his..... More
New York: Totem Press, 1959. First edition. 8vo, 8 pp, unbound, folded sheets laid into illustrated card covers. Published as Blue Plate #2. Signed by McClure at the title page. Pages and wraps toned at extremites. Near fine. More
San Francisco: Distributed by City Lights, 1964. First edition. One of a limited edition of only 20 numbered copies issued in cloth and signed by McClure, and housed in a dust jacket illustrated by Wallace Berman. This is copy no. 11, and is still housed in the original shipping envelope..... More
[Buffalo]: [Gallery Upstairs Press], [1968]. First edition. 21 1/4 x 28 1/2", offset lithograph on thick cardboard stock. With rubberstamped facsimile of McClure's signature. Visual reproduced from McClure's distinctive holograph in red, overlayed onto a found image of two lions roaring at the sea - a legend readng "Security and..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963. First edition. Inscribed by McClure to his fellow poet, artist, and musican Dan Lauffer. Wraps a bit creased, with some foxing and toning to the edges of the text block, but very good or better. More
New York: Grove Press, 1961. First edition. 8vo, illustrated wraps. Signed by McClure beneath the first poem in San Francisco, and dated 1963. Scarce with an early signature. Fine. More
San Francisco: Cranium Press, [1975]. Single leaf folded once to make four pages; letterpress printed on newsprint. OCLC locates three holdings. Fine. More
Minneapolis and Tucson: Granary Books and Chax Press, 1987. First edition. Narrow 4to, wraps, unprinted dust jacket of handmade paper by Mary Beaton. One of 236 numbered copies in wraps, out of a total edition of edition of 272. Illustrated by Cynthia Miller. Signed by Metcalf at the title page..... More
London: Nhane Publishers, 1975. First edition. Narrow 8vo, 52 pp, photographically illustrated wraps. With an introduction by Kathleen Julien. Foreward in Italian with English translation. Superb artists' book of visual poems, in which the title phrase is integrated into photographs, drawings, and photomontages. The prolific Miccini was a member of..... More
New York: Sam Hooker Press, 1965. First edition. 8vo, printed wraps. Inscribed to Dan [Lauffer] and signed by Micheline in the year of publication. An early collection of short fiction by the "outlaw" poet, painter, and important early member of the beat generation. Wraps lightly toned, else fine. More
np: Hydrangea Press, 2000. 4to, side-stapled into yellow card covers. Scarce chapbook, including tributes to Joe Brainard and Bernadette Mayer. Very good with some wear to covers, including some light foxing and staining. More
Los Angeles: Illuminati Press, 1984. First edition. Narrow 8vo, bound in card wraps with printed dust jacket. One of a limited edition of 225 copies. Near fine with a bump and small resulting tear to the head of spine. More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1994. First edition. 8vo, wraps (there were also 226 copies in boards). Inscribed by Eileen Myles at the title page: "For Maggie, Best (& Thanks) EM." Near fine with a light bump to the head of spine. More
Barnet, UK: My Own Mag, 1965. First edition. foolscap format, side-stapled wraps. With additional pink book entitled "Pluto is Coming" affixed to cover, as issued. This issue prints material on the Sigma project, a great, short text on urban planning by Mike Kustow, A Carl Weissner piece with quotes by..... More
