Call Steps. Plains, Camps, Stations, Consistories
Barrytown: Station Hill and Tansy, 1992. First edition. 4to, wraps. Beautifully inscribed "To Ron" by the late poet at the title page, with an intricate drawing in pencil. Near fine. More
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Call Steps. Plains, Camps, Stations, Consistories
Barrytown: Station Hill and Tansy, 1992. First edition. 4to, wraps. Association copy, beautifully inscribed to Irby's close friend and fellow poet at the title page in the year of publication, with an intricate drawing in pencil. Near fine with some faint foxing to first blank. More
Flower of Having Passed Through Paradise In a Dream: Poems, 1967
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
In Excelsis Borealis
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
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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..... More
War Crimes
[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
The Telling
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
Juventutis Annorum
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
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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
The Dios Kuroi
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
Flyer for a Reading at the New York Studio School
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
Zephyrus Image: A Bibliography
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
Sainte-Terre or the White Stone
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
The Pleasures of Peace
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
Hinauf und Hinunter. Ein Tiefengedicht
Hannover: Edition H, 1969. First edition. Artists' book. 4to, unpaginated, die-cut sheets saddle-stapled in printed wraps. One of 300 copies of the trade edition. There was also an edition of 100 deluxe copies. A superb work of concrete poetry, each page being die-cut differently so that as the pages turn..... More
hinauf und hinunter. tiefengedicht
Uelzen: Bong & Co, 1969. First edition. Artists' book. 4to, die-cut loose leaves housed in a cloth portfolio.. One of an edition of 200 copies numbered and signed by the artist. A work of concrete poetry, each unpaginated sheet page being die-cut differently, allowing the reader to compose a potentially..... More
Stanzas to the Stairwell
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
Burning Deck Postcards: The 4th Ten
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
Piumo 2 [Opium 2]
Baires, Argentina: Opium, 1964. Oblong 8vo, 64 pp, bound in photographically illustrated wraps. The rare second issue of the main periodical of the Opium Group, the Latin-American counterpart to the Beat Generation. With contributions from Aristarco, Juan Jacobo Bajarlía, Mariano Betelú, Miguel Brascó, Alberto Cousté, Miguel Grinberg, Reynaldo Mariani, Quino..... More
The Hindrance of Lustful Desire
[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
Night Palace
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
Some Sketches from the Life of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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..... More
Pentagonal
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
Proof Cover for Touch of the Marvelous with Philip's Name Misspelled
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