Rotations: From the Eric Chavez Sonnets
Portland, Ore: C_L Press, 2011. First edition. Paperback. 8vo., wraps. One of 100 (of 126) copies. Near fine. More
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Chelsea Girls
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
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
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
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
Maps
[Gambier, Ohio]: [J. Fisher], 1968. First edition. Square 8vo, [27] pp, letterpress printed in silver and black. Bound in side-stapled chipboard covers, with printed title label affixed. One of 150 copies of the trade issue. The true first edition of this remarkable and beautiful work, preceding by one year the Perishable..... 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
With Music in Mind. Motive and Method. An Essay in Two Parts with a Supplement of Fourteen Poems
[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
The Complete Failure of Everything
Baltimore: Apathy Press Poets, 1991. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps illustrated by Michael Randall. Scarce early chapbook by downtown poet associated with the Nuyorican scene. Padua just won the Miller Williams prize. Very good with some light fading and rubbing to the wraps. More
Babywhipland
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
Plan of the City of O
Boston: Barn Dream Press. First edition. 12mo, oblong saddle-stitched card wraps illustrated by Roger Stearns. One of 500 copies. Near fine with some minor toning along spine. More
Chaim Soutine
Buffalo, NY: Editions Hérission, 1994. First edition. One of 125 copies. 8vo, unpaginated, saddle-stapled wraps. Faint smudge to cover else fine. More
Song for Max Finstein
San Francisco: Cranium Press. Broadside, 6 1/4 x 8 3/4", letterpress. A variant issue or proof, printed once right side up with the same text then inverted and nestled against it at right margin, so it can be read from both directions. All other copies of this broadside we've examined..... More
Bed No. 1
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
The Pound Newsletter, nos. 1, 2, 3, & 6
Berkeley: English Department, University of California, Berkeley, 1954-1955. First edition. Four issues, each 4to, mimeographed on rectos only and stapled in upper left corner. An important newsletter for Pound scholars and enthusiasts in the mid-1950s, during the period when Pound was imprisoned at St. Elizabeths. The newsletter helped catalyze a...... More
The Oval Window
Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1983. First edition. 8vo, 34 pp, bound in photographically illustrated wraps. One of a limited edition of 600 copies printed at the Saffron Press, and distributed by DS (The Bookshop). A landmark work by Prynne, a gorgeous work incorporating some computer programming language. Later re-issued in an..... More
Black Poetry. A Supplement to Anthologies Which Exclude Black Poets
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969. First edition. 8vo, 48 pp, saddle-stapled card wraps. The first edition of this remarkable anthology, radical in both the scope and quality of the work included, but also by the design - a slender volume designed to act as a supplement to other published anthologies which..... More