Austin: Cuneiform Press, 2014. First edition. 12mo, 187 pp, French fold wraps; text typeset and designed in Trump Medieval and printed in two colors by Kyle Schlesinger. "In SLOW POETRY IN AMERICA, Dale Smith pursues an attitude and a world-view in which the self is experienced as a series of..... More
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1970. First edition. 8vo, letterpress printed and perfect bound in wraps. First edition, one of 1500 copies. A collection of poems submitted to magazines, here organized according to which magazine rejected them. The most brilliant aspect of the book design is that each of these..... More
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1969. First edition. 8vo, [20] pp, saddle-stapled wraps printed with a two color linocut by Graham Mackintosh. Title page printed in red and silver, with author's name blind-embossed in 24 pt. Bulmer. First edition, first issue, one of 1800 copies printed. A posthumous collection, printed..... More
Los Angeles: Students of Fairfax High School, 1941. First edition. 8vo, 125 pp, printed wraps. The literary magazine of Fairfax High School, notable this year for containing four poems by a young Jack Spicer - barring other juvenilia, certainly some of his earliest work in print. Even this early, his..... More
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1965. First edition. 8vo, wraps. Superbly designed with the title printed from holograph in red over a copy of the issue of Language in which Spicer's Correlation Methods first appeared. One of the best books published in the 1960's. Very good with light soiling to..... More
San Francisco: Arif Press, 1971. First edition. Square 12mo, letterpress printed and saddle-stitched in wraps. First edition, trade issue, one of 500 copies (there were also 25 hand-colored copies). An early, and beautiful book from Wesley Tanner's Arif Press. Near fine with some minor toning to wraps. More
Gran Canaria: Zasterle Press, 1994. First edition. 12mo, 62 pp, wraps. One of 300 numbered copies. The third chapter of Spicer's eccentric and beautiful detective story set on the aftermath of the Berkeley Renaissance, and the first portion of the story to appear in book form, the first two chapters..... More
New York: Granary Books, 1999. One of a limited edition of 150 copies, of which 100 were offered for sale. 8vo, 20 pp, bound in blind-stamped boards. No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated with 7 color reproductions of Fran Herndon's superb and overlooked sports collages. Designed and printed letterpress by..... More
Fayetteville, AS: Lost Roads Press, 1979. 8vo, 59 pp, bound in lavender wraps silkscreened in silver ink. A second, limited edition of Stanford's first published book, originally published by Mill Mountain Press in 1971. .There are two different versions of this posthumuous edition of the book - this is the..... More
Np: Zephyrus Image, 1978. First edition. 7 x 11", four unbound leaves. Linotype in black on cream card stock. This copy missing the clear laminated plastic sleeve, as usual. Fine. This last book from the press is a spoof on fine printing. The title refers to the first English language..... More
[New York]: The Fugs, [c. 1965]. 4to, two 8 1/2 x 11" sheets stapled once at the upper left hand corner. The first sheet is offset printed, and illustrated with a photomontage attributed to "Charro Pozo," the second sheet is mimeographed from typescript. An early promotional leaflet issued by the..... More
[New York]: The Fugs, [c. 1965]. 4to, two 8 1/2 x 11" sheets stapled once at the upper left hand corner. The first sheet is offset printed, and illustrated with a photomontage attributed to "Charro Pozo," the second sheet is mimeographed from typescript. An early promotional leaflet issued by the..... More
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1964. First edition. 8vo, unpaginated, saddle-stapled wraps. A collection of poems based on the major arcana, each of which is printed over a yellow drawing of the card in question. The book was issued as a supplement to the fifth issue of Open Space... More
St. Ives, Cornwall, UK: The Latin Press, The Private Press of Guido Morris, 1952. First edition. 8vo, 16 pp, saddle-stitched in pale blue wraps. The 8th number in the Crescendo Poetry series, the poems here beautifully and ably translated into English by the great Michael Hamburger. A touch of toning..... More
San Francisco: Vesuvio Cafe, [1964]. 4 5/8 x 5 3/4" photographic print in black and white. One of a series of holiday cards which Vesuvio issued in the 1950's and 1960's. The card is illustrated with a photograph of a man at a bar alongside a row of mannequins, and..... More
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[New York]: c. 1962. 4to, twenty leaves clipbound into a green card folder, typewritten on rectos only, with holograph corrections and additions in pencil, as well as brief holograph passages to the verso of several leaves. Cover, and verso of final leaf illustrated with drawings in ink, graphite, and colored..... More
Sacramento: Runcible Spoon, nd. 4to. Mimeographed and stab-stapled into printed covers. All issues published. The second issue features a small book by Jim Stewart entitled “Need a Dozen Tow Boys?” housed in a brown paper bag with a corned beef sticker. Scarce complete and with the bag still attached. With..... More
Niagara Falls: press:today, 1966. 4to, 11 sheets mimeographed from typescript on rectos of various colors of paper, with a plastic bag stapled inside rear cover containing the crumbs of a crumbled cracker. Second installment of one of the moreinteresting and over the top little mags of the Mimeograph Revolution, which..... More
New York: Boke Press, 1968. First edition. 4to, Side-stapled in card wraps illustrated by Joe Brainard. One of a limited edition of 500 copies. Two works bound dos-a-dos, each with a separate silhouette cover by Brainard. A beautiful production from Brainard's Boke press. Clay & Phillips, p. 266. Covers lightly..... More
Los Angeles: Sooya Mahru Press, nd [c. 1960]. 8vo, single sheet folded once. Lithograph and letterpress printed in two colors. Illustrated with a photograph of Beverly Walsh by Charles Brittin. A collaborative project between Zack Walsh and Charles Brittin, both of whom were friends and collaborators with Wallace Berman, and..... More
New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1962. First edition. 8vo, 112 pp, letterpress printed on a wide variety of paper stocks, and bound in photographically illustrated wraps. The second issue of the little magazine, this issue including early work by Charles Bukowski, as well as William S. Burroughs, Jean Genet, Jack Kerouac, Anselm..... More
Victoria, Australia: Post Neo Publications, 1985. First edition. One of a limited edition of 350 copies. 4to, [25] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A superb work, one of the scarcer publications by Hannah on these shores. Fine. More
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. One of 500 copies. Printed from the author's calligraphic holograph, and dedicated to the legendary calligrapher and teacher at Reed College, Lloyd Reynolds. Near fine with a touch of curling and a bare hint of fading along spine. More
[San Francisco]: [Cranium Press], [1971]. First edition. 5 1/8 x 4" postcard, letterpress on recto only; lower edge deckled. Probably printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. Fine. More
[Berkeley]: [1970]. The beautifully designed and illustrated poster for this 1970 reading at the Le Conte School Auditorium in 1970, probably as a benefit for Jack Shoemaker's Maya Press. The poster is illustrated in a psychedelic fashion with two two moths, though the work is unattributed. This was likely one..... More