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: Auerhahn Press, 1959. First edition. Signed by Michael McClure at the half-title page. 4to,. 54 pp, silk-screened wraps. One of 950 copies. One of McClure's most powerful books, and a gorgeous publication from the Auerhahn Press. At the time this was the largest book that they had attempted..... 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
London: Novello, 1964. First edition. 4to, 36 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Signed by Robert Duncan at the title page. The opening phrase of the prologue to the piece is based upon Robert Duncan's line "Often I am permitted to return to a meadow," taken from The Opening of the Field. A...... 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
New York: Mother, 1965. First edition. `8vo, 80 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Lacking the Veitch insert as often. Fifth issue of the little mag, and a gorgeous one, featuring a remarkable cover design by Joe Brainard, who also contributes three internal illustrations which were done as proposed covers specifically for this..... More
![Words, Out of the Mouths of Poets [Flyer]. Jameel Moondoc](/pictures/thumb/29541.jpg?v=1625171222)
New York: Neither/Nor, nd [c. 1980's]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, photomechanically reproduced on white paper stock. The reading featured performances by Jemeel Moondoc and The Divine Monochord; poets included Qunicy Trope, Tato Laviera, Bina Sharif, DAniele Watson, Zoe Angelesey, Michael Carter, Nanvy Ancrom, Jill Burton and John Farris. Folded..... 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
San Francisco: Zephyrus Image, 1970. First edition. 4 x 22" broadside on newsprint. "Quotes from the Parrot's Beak." A poem collaged from the words of President Nixon. This is one of the newsprint proofs of the broadside, without the Empty House Press imprint which the ZI used to publish the..... More
Barnet: My Own Mag, 1965. First edition. 8 1/2 x 14", eight leaves, mimeographed on both recto and verso [with the exception of the narrow cover sheet, which is mimeographed on recto only, and of the appropriated leaf]. With cut out panels and folded to several pages, as issued. One..... More
![My Own Mag: All British Number [no. 10]. Jeff Nuttall, ed](/pictures/thumb/29659.jpg?v=1637016122)
My Own Mag, [1964]. Paperback. foolscap format, five leaves of various colors of paper stock mimeographed from drawing and typescript. Side-stapled. Unnumbered, but the tenth issue of the little magazine. With contributions from Dave Cunliffe, Joanna, Bob Knapp, Bill Butler, and Tom McGrath. A very good example with three old..... More
New York: Tibor de Nagy, 1965. First edition. Square 8vo, bound in decorated wraps designed by Fred R. Siegel. The first edition, regular issue, one of a limited edition of 500 copies. The first edition of the poet's last book to be published in his lifetime, a collection of love..... More
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1965. First edition. 4to, 160 pp, bound in boards woodblock by Robert Lavigne printed in color, and back in vellum with titled stamped in gilt. Illustrated with a frontipiece portrait of Olson by Kenneth Irby. Lacking the unprinted paper jacket, as often. One of the most..... More
New York: Jargon / Corinth, 1960. 8vo, 160 pp, bound in full cloth with illustrated pastedowns to panels and spine. Limited edition, one of 75 numbered hardcover copies - there were also 26 lettered and signed copies. The first complete edition of Olson's work. Glover A15. Offsetting to endpapers, as often..... More
New York: Totem Press, 1959. First edition. 8vo, 14 pp, saddle-stapled in wraps illustrated by Matsumi Kanemitsu. With errata slip laid in. The first edition of one of the most enduring and influential poetic manifestos of the last century, published by Leroi Jones at the Totem Press. Toned at margins..... More
![Four Poems]. Joel Oppenheimer](/pictures/thumb/20847.jpg?v=1600901587)
Kent, OH: Zephyrus Image, 1974. First edition. 7 x 11 7/8" broadside, letterpress in three colors on Warren's Old Style paper, with text in 14 pt. Kabel light, with linocut motif and border in blue by Michael Myers. Produced by the ZI for the 1974 Kent State Creative Arts Festival..... More
[London]: Privately Printed, [1959]. Foolscap format, 20 leaves, mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, side-stapled, and backed in black cloth tape. A remarkable two part essay, followed by a selection of poems, by this key figure in British Bohemia, in which she calls for poetry performance to be remade with..... More
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1961. First edition. Paperback. Single 7 1/2 x 13 3/8" sheet folded once. One of 350 copies printed. A scarce, and ephemera early publication from the Auerhahn Press. Fine. More
New Orleans: Glade Gallery, 1965. 18 x 25" poster, offset lithograph in three colors. The striking large scale poster for the 1965 exhibition of paintings at Glade Gallery. The poster is illustrated with one of Patchen's bird man drawings, and was designed by Patchen himself. The exhibition was organized by..... More
Buffalo, NY: Editions Hérission, 1994. First edition. One of 125 copies. 8vo, unpaginated, saddle-stapled wraps. Faint smudge to cover else fine. More
Vancouver, BC: Bed, nd [1975]. 4to, mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, and stapled at upper left hand corner into illustrated card covers. Debut issue of this scarce 1970's little magazine out of Vancouver, B.C., that was edited by poets close to Jack Spicer, and which is very much in..... More