Cracks of Grace
Milwaukee: Woodland Pattern Book Center and Light and Dust Books, 1994. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Near fine with a faint price sticker ghost and a touch of fading along spine. More
Poetry
Bacchae Sonnets
Omaha: The Cummington Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Bound in full cloth with decorated pastedown to front cover. One of a limited edition of 430 copies. Illustrated with engravings by James W. Mall. Association copy, inscribed by Scherner to his fellow poet Jackson Mac Low in the year of... More
(If Personal)
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First edition. 8vo, [16] pp, string-bound in die-cut wraps. With 5 yellow paper inserts laid in, one of which is printed, as issued. Association copy, inscribed by Schwerner to fellow poet of chance and experimentation Jackson Mac Low: "For Jackson and Iris Love @"... More
The Illiterati Number 4
Waldport, Oregon: The Illiterati, 1945. First edition. Small 4to. Offset printed in several colors and saddle-stapled wraps. The fourth installment of The Illiterati, one of the greatest little magazines of the twentieth century, published from the conscientous objector's camp at Waldport, Oregon. The magazine would have an incalculable and still... More
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Pages [Run of 16 Issues]
Sussex, UK: Pages, 1987-. 8vo, each issue 8 pp, printed by xerox from typescript and holograph. Unbound, folded sheets. Illustrated with the occasional drawing or collage. A substantial run of this innovative little magazine, which, instead of assigning a single number to each issue, instead tracked the progress of the periodical... More
Bedroom Wall
New Brunswick: Iniquity Press / Vendetta Books, 1992. First edition. 8vo, 34 pp, saddle-stapled wraps illustrated by Ken Ecker. Inscribed by Sirowitz to a fellow poet on the title page. An early book by the former poet laureate of Queens, who was associated with the Nuyorican Poetry Cafe. Near fine... More
Big Fish: Hal Sirowitz Issue
New York: The Unbearables, [1992]. 4to, side-stapled along upper margin. A special issue of the periodical issued by the Unbearables, this issue entirely devoted to Hal Sirowitz, with contributions by Sirowitz as well as Yuko Otomo, Bart Plantenga, Jose Padua, Lorrain Schein, Sparrow, Steve Dalachinsky, Marcia Lipson, Mike Golden, Denise... More
Hymn
New York: Radio Ethiopia Field Marshall, [1979]. 8 1/2 x 11" fler, printed on recto only. Broadside featurings the lyrics to the song "Hymn", which also serves to advertise the Patti Smith Group's 1979 shows at the Palladium, and which is illustrated with a picture of Jesus. The lower margin, reproduced... More
Translations from the New Yorker
New York: Big Fish, 1993. First edition. 4to, [60] pp, side-stapled covers. With the "Day of Infamy" one sheet by the Unbearables insert laid in. A collection of poems by various hands based on poems in the New Yorker, attempting to answer, as the editor puts it in the foreward... More
A Book of Music
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
Collected Poems 1945-1946
np: Oyez : White Rabbit, 1981. 8vo, [32] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. The facsimile edition, and first trade edition, the original having being published as a single copy given to Spicer's close friend Josephine Miles in 1946. Near fine. More
The Red Wheelbarrow
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
Sleepwalking. Sleepwalkers, Wear Pajamas! Sleepwalk.
San Francisco: 1968. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, printed on magenta paper. Flyer for a 1968 happening at the Straight Theater, featuring "poets' theatre" by Michael Hannon, David Gitin, and James D. Wilson, Music by Gary Lapow and Steven Schuster, and Muisk (described as "Turko-American Rock". Also, a light show... More
The Immeasureable Equation
Philadelphia: El Saturn Records, 1985. 8vo, [28] pp, mimeographed on various colors of paper stock. Saddle-stapled illustrated wraps. The self-published 1985 edition of the work, which first appeared in 1972 and was published in several different editions, with substantial differences in the text and in which poems were included. This... More
Impeach Nixon
[San Francisco]: Hermes Free Press, [c. 1972]. First edition. 5 3/4 x 15" poster, linocut print on white uncoated paper. A rebus calling for the impeachment of Richard Nixon, which was also produced as a bumper sticker. One of the most striking examples of several items the press produced during... More
Holiday Card from Vesuvio
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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Selected Verses (And Art) of Victor Vincente of America [with ephemera]
Van Nuys, CA: Victor Vincente of America, 1991. First edition. 8vo, bound in full brick red cloth with gilt titles. Photographically illustrated dust jacket. One of 1000 numbered and signed copies. In addition, this copy is inscribed to a fellow artist. Laid in are 4 postcards by VVA, 7 postal... More
Dire No. 15. Veloma Malagasy.
Yutz, France: Dire, 1971. 4to, printed folder housing 27 folded broadsides. A special issue of the innovative poetry periodical, focusing upon the modern poetry of Madagascar, with innovative typography bordering on the concrete. With contributions from Jacques Rabearivelo, Maguy Vautier, Andrien Ramboa, Ny Havozo, Flavien Ranaivo, Jean Verdi, Richard Raherivelo... More
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The City of the Midnight Sun... [Manuscript]
[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
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My Landlord Must be Really Upset Nos. 1- 2 [All Published]
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
Wild Dog #18
San Francisco: Wild Dog, 1965. First edition. 4to, mimeographed and stab-stapled into illustrated covers. A great issue of this longrunning little magazine, this issue notable for the inclusion of a review and two poems by Richard Brautigan, as well as work by Ed Dorn, Lewis Warsh, George Stanley, Kenneth Irby... More
Wild Dog #17
San Francisco: Wild Dog, 1965. First edition. 4to, mimeographed and stab-stapled into card covers, the front cover yapped, and illustrated, the back cover an offset printed poster for the Berkeley Poetry Conference. A great issue of this longrunning little magazine, with contributions from Gary Snyder, Gerard Malanga, Miguel Grinberg, Charles... More
Wild Dog #21
San Francisco: Wild Dog, 1966. First edition. 4to, mimeographed and stab-stapled into illustrated covers, the front by Robert Branaman, and the back by Kunte Stiles. Contributors within include Gary Snyder, Fielding Dawson, Jonathan Greene, Theodore Enslin, Bill Hutton, Victor Contoski, Robert Howell, Bruce Maddox, Larry Eigner et al. Very good... More