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
London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. Provenance: from the library of Gerrit Lansing. The presence of this book in Gerrit Lansing’s library is a testament to the prominent history of the Lansing and Roosevelt families in America in New York State and particularly Albany - and also a testament to Roosevelt’s..... More
London: Durtro, 2006. First edition. 8vo, unpaginated, bound in blue card french wraps. One of a limited edition of 200 numbered and signed copies printed letterpress printed by Alan Anderson. Photographic frontispiece. Association copy, inscribed by Tibet to Gerrit Lansing in Engish and Coptic. A collection of three poems, dedicated to..... 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
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: Hawk's Well Press, 1962. First edition. 8vo, french wraps. The author's first book, a superb debut of poems published by Jerome Rothenberg at the Hawk's Well Press. Wraps very slightly rubbed and stained, else near fine. More
New York: Riverrun Press, 1967. First edition. 4to, 56 pp, illustrated wraps. The first state, with the $1 price indicated by the smallr reproduction of a bill to the first blank. Association copy, inscribed to fellow poet Gerrit Lansing in the year of publication, with a small drawing of a...... More
New York: Totem Press in Association with Corinth Books, 1962. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Association copy, inscribed by Diane Wakoski in the year of publication to fellow poet Gerrit Lansing. Scarce with a contemporary inscription and association. Very good with some toning, fading, and foxing to the wraps. 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
Toronto: Underwhich Editions, 1987. First edition. Square 12mo, wraps. One of a limited edition of 500 copies. Small ink notation on the dedication page, some minor soiling to wraps and a droplet stain to cover (of course) leading to a slight pucker. About very good. More
Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1973. First edition. Oblong 12mo, saddle-stapled wraps. One of a limited edition of 500 copies. Association copy, inscribed by the Waldrops to Harvey Brown. Fine. 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
San Francisco: This Press, 1977. First edition. 8vo. Offset printed and perfect bound in card wraps. This issue of the important magazine of the Language Poetry movement includes work by Clark Coolidge, Peter Seaton, Robert Grenier, Alan Davies, Bernadette Mayer, Bruce Andrews, Bill Berkson et al. Near fine with some..... More
Tucson: Loujon Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, bound in photographically illustrated boards and housed in a printed rice paper dust jacket. Printed by letterpress on various colors and wieghts of paper. With a flower, now sealed in paper, which was picked "inside a mile of Geronimo's Grave" laid in..... 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
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München: Komet-Verlag, 1911-1912. 4to, 556, 224 pp, pagination continuous in both volumes, beautifully bound in thick green buckram with gilt titles and a gilt comet device to front panel, either a publisher's or custom binding, with all the original covers bound in. Profusely illustrated in both color and black and..... 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
Sonoma: Student Union, California State College Sonoma, 1977. Small folding card, folded size 4 1/2 x 6", offset lithograph on white card stock. The nicely designed announcement for this reading by Whalen at the college, illustrated witha great cover illustration attributed to Tomato Mafia. Small ink mark inside else near..... More
Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1933. First edition. One of 200 copies signed by Wheelwright and reserved for subscribers. 8vo, 87 pp, bound in scarlet cloth stamped in silver foil. The author's first commercially published book. Near fine, with some light toning and a bit of dustiness to the top edge, in..... More
Praha: Jaroslav Podrouzek, 1945. 4to, 181 pp, printed wraps. Translated into Czech by Pavel Eisner. Signed by Eisner beneath his name on the title page with a brief phrase in Czech. One signature loose and laid in (perhaps never gathered), a 1" tear to rear wrap at spine, and some..... More
New York: James A. Carr & Robert A. Wilson, 1964. First edition. 8vo, 72pp, printed on watermarked paper and bound in leatherette stamped in gilt at the spine; yellow silk bookmark sewn in. In the original unprinted glassine wrapper. One of 12 presentation copies, with a holograph poem bound in..... More
New York: James A. Carr & Robert A. Wilson, 1964. First trade edition. 8vo, 72 pp, bound in gilt-stamped blue cloth. Lacking the unprinted glassine jacket. With a wine label laid in. This copy is inscribed by Wieners to Dave Haselwood on page 23, with the printed label from a...... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. First edition. one of a limited edition of 226 copies handbound in illustrated boards, and signed by John Wieners, Robert Creeley and Raymond Foye. Some very slight rubbing to lower boards, else fine in the original unprinted glassine jacket, which is near fine with..... More