Silence Motif
San Francisco: Cranium Press, [1975]. Single leaf folded once to make four pages; letterpress printed on newsprint. OCLC locates three holdings. Fine. More
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Firebird
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
In the Bronx and Other Stories
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
Our Flowers & Nice Bones
London: Fulcrum Press, 1969. First edition. Limited edition, one of one hundred signed and numbered copies. 8vo, 109 pp, bound in grey linen titled in gilt at spine. Unprinted glassine jacket. One of Middleton's strongest collections. Cloth faded at extremities and spine, but near fine. The unprinted glassine jacket is..... More
The Children's Museum
np: Prefontainte Press, 2007. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled in letterpress printed french fold wraps. One of a limited edition of 162 copies. Fine. More
Secret Non-Chapbook
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
Assassin Poems
Detroit: Black Graphics International, [1970]. 8vo, 22 pp. Saddle-stapled wraps. Title on back cover, with pagination beginning in last page and running to front, as issued. Illustrated througout by Ibn Pori Pitts and Rocque Jackson. Cover illustrated by the author. A beautifully designed and illustrated book of poetry issued under..... More
Spreading the Cards
Sheffield, UK: Siren Press, 1980. First edition. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Very good with some creasing and a couple small stains to wraps. More
Tansy 4
Lawrence, KS: Tansy, 1971. First edition. 4to, 76 pp, illustrated wraps. Fourth issue of this superb little magazine out of the Kansas scene, one of the best little mags of the decade. The magazine was notable for being one of the first little mags to publish the young Frank Stanford..... More
Afghanistan
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
My Own Mag No. 11
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 Issue 13: Dutch Schultz Special
Barnet, UK: My Own Mag, 1965. First edition. 4to, stab-stapled wraps. One of 500 numbered copies [numbered with a sticker affixed to cover]. This issue reproduces the manuscript of Burroughs' Dead Star, an important issue. [Maynard & Miles C122] Some minor creasing to extremities and a single short closed tear to..... More
Love Poems (Tentative Title)
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
Love Poems (Tentative Title)
New York: Tibor de Nagy, 1965. First edition. Square 8vo, bound in decorated wraps designed by Fred R. Siegel. One of only 20 signed and numbered copies of the special edition, this copy also housed in an unprinted glassine wrapper, which we've not previously encountered. The first edition of the..... More
Causal Mythology
San Francisco: The Four Seasons Foundation, 1969. First edition. Wraps creased and lightly toned, with a couple narrow faint stains to page margins within, the traces of being read. Very good. Association copy, inscribed by Olson to Lansing; ”For Gerrit who needs no cause / cause / which for me makes the..... More
The Distances
New York & London: Grove Press & Evergreen Books, 1960. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Olson to his fellow poet, friend, and resident of Gloucester, Gerrit Lansing; "For Gerrit Lansing / With my Love & Admiration." In addition, Lansing has made a number of annotations in pencil to the..... More
Human Universe and Other Essays
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 usual. One of the most..... More
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Human Universe and Other Essays [with Prospectus, in the Original Dust Jacket]
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. Letterpress prospectus for the title laid in. In the original unprinted..... More
Letters for Origin
London & New York: Cape Goliard and Grossman, 1969. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Charles Olson on his deathbed in a shaky hand to Albert Glover, the editor of the book; "The Red Yellow Shiny Dog Special. CO / Al Glo (w) Jan 1970." Olson passed on January 10..... More
The Maximus Poems
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
The Maximus Poems
New York: Jargon / Corinth, 1960. 8vo, 160 pp, bound in full cloth with illustrated pastedowns to panels and spine. Limited edition, one of 26 lettered copies signed by Olson in blue ink, this being copy "X". In addition, Olson has added the note "Footprints" in blue ink to the..... More
Projective Verse
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. Wraps heavily and..... More
Charles Olson and the Development of a New American Poetics " from a Previously Unpublished Essay by George F. Butterick
Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1996. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled in card wraps. Edited by Richard Blevins. fine. More
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[Four Poems]
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