Annandale-On-Hudson: Matter, 1968. First edition. Oblong 8vo, wraps. Mimeographed from typescript on yellow paper. Very good with some moderate creasing and a couple short nicks to wrappers. More about Flower of Having Passed Through Paradise In a Dream: Poems, 1967
Cambridge, NY: White Creek Press, 1976. First edition. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. One of a limited edition of 300 copies. Association copy, inscribed by the editor to Irby's longtime friend and poet Gerrit Lansing. A superb 5 pp. poem by Irby, and a beautifully designed chapbook. Fine. More about In Excelsis Borealis
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Sacramento: Arcturus Editions, 1999. First edition. Oblong 12mo, saddle-stapled wraps. One of a limited edition of 182 copies, of which this is copy no. 3. Association copy, inscribed to fellow poet Kenneth Irby in the year of publication. Near fine with a light crease to front wrap and a touch of foxing within. More about syzygos
[San Francisco]: Hermes Free Press, 1972. First edition. 8 x 11" broadside on newsprint. Broadside reprinting an article from the Manchester Guardian concerning war crimes by the American military in Vietnam. The title to the broadside is printed in two colors, with the two words intersecting (sharing the "R"). One... More about War Crimes
New York: Harper & Row, 1973. First edition. Limited edition, the "numbered series", numbered and signed by the author at the ffep, with an authorial correction to the copyright page as issued. Very good, with some moderate foxing and discoloration to boards, in a very good jacket lightly toned, with... More about The Telling
London: James Press, 1931. First edition. 8vo, viii, 139 pp, bound in red boards backed in vellum, with title stamped in gilt at spine. T.e.g., deckled fore edge. Inscribed by James at the first blank in the year of publication; "To dearest Zosia from Edward October 1931." A substantial collection of... More about Juventutis Annorum
Oakland: Mills College Tape Music Center, 1969. First edition. 15 x 18" wax paper bag with illustrated paste-down to front panel, containing nine broadsides and a metal badge. A great assemblage produced by the San Francisco Tape Center in 1969. The contents are Roger Pritchard, "Death Piece # 98.6," Anthony Gnazzo... More about Free
np: nd. 8vo, [8] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated in b/w. Signed by Jess inside front cover. The first separate edition of this series of collages which was originally printed in a 1963 issue of the Northwest Review. Some faint handling creases, else fine. More about The Dios Kuroi
New York: nd. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, offset lithograph. The wonderful flyer for this reading, designed and illustrated by Joe Brainard, featuring one of his Sluggo works, with the details of the reading incorporated into the speech bubble. Faintest of toning to lower margin, some fant handling creases, else... More about Flyer for a Reading at the New York Studio School
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 2003. First edition. 8vo, 243 pp, bound in black buckram with silver titles and a photographically illustrated dust jacket (reproducing a photograph by Robert Rusk of the legendary "Help Your Local Junkie Kick" broadside in situ.) The definitive bibliography of the greatest small press in America during... More about Zephyrus Image: A Bibliography
New York: Shivastan Publishing, 2006. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. One of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies, printed on handmade Nepalese paper. Fine. More about Sainte-Terre or the White Stone
Mexico: El Corno Emplumado, 1966. First edition. 8vo, wraps. The usual paper toning a, and some minor creasing and scuffing to wraps, but a sturdy very good example, much better than usually found, More about Weeks
New York: Grove Press, 1969. First edition. Top edge a bit dusty and foxed, else near fine, in a near fine dust jacket noticeably foxed at verso, but which presents well, with the yellow pigment not yet fled. More about The Pleasures of Peace
Cambridge, MA: Fulcrum Editions, 2003. First edition. 16mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Association copy, inscribed to the poet Gerrit Lansing, with a small drawing. fine. More about Stanzas to the Stairwell
Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1978. First edition. Ten letterpress postcards, letterpress printed on various colors of paper stock, housed in the original mailing envelope. One of a limited edition of 150 copies. Poets include William Bronk, Denice Joan Deitch, Ruth Krauss, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Larry Eigner, Tom Ahern, Gordon... More about Burning Deck Postcards: The 4th Ten
[San Francisco]: [Cranium Press], [1979]. 10 1/2 x 8" broadside, letterpress printed in blue on wheat paper. Kyger's name is given as the sixth line of the poem. Though there is no imprint information, this was printed at Cranium Press by Wesley Tanner. A beautiful broadside. Fine. More about The Hindrance of Lustful Desire
np: Kavyayantra Press / Alternative Press, nd. 4 x 6 1/2" postcard, letterpress printed in two colors on pink card stock. Nicely printed postcard of this great poem. Fine. More about Night Palace
Boulder: Rodent Press / Erudite Fangs, 1996. First edition. 8vo, 22 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. One of 250 copies. Association copy, inscribed to fellow poet Gerrit Lansing, beginning underneath the end of the title; "with fnest wishes to Gerrit. Madam Joanne March 3, 1999 together at St. Marks. " A great association between two poets so recently absent. More about Some Sketches from the Life of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Lawrence, KS: Terrence Williams, 1965. First edition. Oblong saddle-stapled wraps. Inscribed by the poet - "Compliments - To Ferlinghetti from La Follette." A scarce chapbook from the Lawrence, Kansas scene. La Follette, who also wrote The Clever Body, taught at one point at Oregon State University, and at the time... More about Pentagonal
San Francisco: Oyez, 1966. First edition. 8 x 11", offset printed on card stock. Photographically illustrated with a portrait of the young Lamantia. An unused proof copy of the cover for the first edition. It differs from the final version in a very important respect, being that Philip's name is... More about Proof Cover for Touch of the Marvelous with Philip's Name Misspelled
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1986. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. One of 500 copies. A collection of poems dedicated to Ted Berrigan. Fine. More about Needles at Midnight
Buffalo, NY: The Institute of Further Studies / Glover Publishing, 1983. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled in wraps illustrated by Guy Berard. Lansing's superb poetic essay on psychology, an essential work issued as the 23rd installment in the series, and dedicated to Harvey Brown. Very good with some fading to extremities... More about Analytic Psychology. A Curriculum of the Soul 23
New York: Bonacio &Saul With Grove Press, 1955. First edition. 8vo, 72 pp, bound in green cloth titled in gilt. Printed dust jacket. Translated & with an introduction by William J. Smith. Fine in a very good jacket darked at spine, with some marginal closed tears, creasing and nicks. More about Poems of a Multi-Millionaire
London: Faber & Faber, 1974. First edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Very good with some foxing to top edge and endpapers, and first and last leaf, in an unclipped dust jacket which is near fine with some faint creasing near spine and minor foxing. More about High Windows
np: 1961. 18 3/4 x 13 1/2", ink and wash on both sides of a sheet of sketch paper. Unsigned and undated. Provenance: acquired by Peter Howard of Serendipity Books from Bobbie Louise Hawkins, former wife of Robert Creeley. The immensely talented Laubies was a visual artist associated at different... More about Abstract Untitled Ink Drawing from the Collection of Bobbie Louise Hawkins and Robert Creeley