New York: Letter Edged in Black, 1968. 7" vinyl flexidisc object, single sheet folded once, with grooves for play layed over a photographic illustration of the poet pointing a gun at the viewer, with the barrel becoming the center spindle hole. The inside of the booklet prints the text of... 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 York: Lorenz Gude, 1963. First edition. New York: Lorenz Gude, 1963. Folio, mimeographed and stapled into wraps silkscreened from a polaroid by Andy Warhol. With a written out a corrected line to Denby's poem The Silence at Night in Ted Berrigan's distinctive hand, as usual. The fourth issue of... More
[San Francisco]: [Cranium Press], nd. First edition. 3 7/8 x 6", letterpress postcard. Later reprinted by Pentagram Press in a different format, this is the first edition. Some copies have a "place stamp here" text in red; this copy is the variant with a blank postal box. Fine. More
np: Unicorn Bookshop, 1967. First edition. Letterpress printed on yellow paper by Nicholas Muska, and folded once. One of 450 copies issued on the occasion of a reading by Lew at the Unicorn Bookshop, and printing his excellent, timeless poem "The Basic Con". A fair only example, with some strong... 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
Somerville, MA: Press of the Black Flag Raised, 1969. 4to, 18 loose leaves of card stock housed in an envelope with title sticker. An unusual "Pirate" edition of the book, printed as a series of individual broadsides housed in an envelope with title labels. slight paperclip ghost to first leaf... More
Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1987. First edition. Paperback. 32mo, maroon card wraps titled in gilt, gilt-stamped photographically illustrated dust jacket. The 13th book in the Hanuman Books series, collecting two prose pieces - parts of which originally appeared in Fag Rag. The dust jacket is illustrated with 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
Roswell & Denver: DBA & JCA Editions, 1983. First edition. 4to, clip bound in printed covers and glassine. Copy no. 62, of course, inscribed and initialled for Dick Higgins. A great assocation. Near fine with some wear to the glassine and a touch of fading to cover. More
Black Mountain: Jargon, 1970. First edition. 8vo, wraps; plain glassine wrapper. One of 700 copies. Some faint foxing to wraps and edge of text block, else fine. More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969. First edition. Tall 8vo, bound in full green cloth. Illustrated dust jacket. Assocation copy, with a fantastic inscription to R. B. Kitaj: "For R. Boudreau Kitaj, from [here is tipped in a small stamp illustrated with a photograph of J.W.], who is... More
np: Jargon Society, 1979. Second edition. 4to, 220 pp, bound in blue card wraps and photographically illustrated dust jacket. One of 850 copies. This copy signed by Jonathan Williams at the first blank. Very good with some minor toning to pages and dust jacket. More
Highlands, NC: Press of Otis the Lamed-Vovnik, 1994. First edition. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated card dust jacket. One of a limited edition of 250 copies. Association copy, inscribed by Williams at the colophon to old friend and collaborator R. B. Kitaj in the year of publication. A stellar association. Fine. More
Highlands: The Nantahala Foundation, 1. First edition. Paperback. [2] pp. Saddle-stapled oblong wraps [illustrated by R. B. Kitaj]. Published as Jargon 61. Near fine with minor toning. More
Highlands, NC: Jargon, 1959. First edition. 4to, wraps. Signed by Jonathan Williams at the title page. Published as Jargon 30. 5" mostly closed tear to front panel, with a small chip to head of back panel and some light wear to extremities of outer dust wrapper, else very good. More
Highlands, NC: Jargon, 1959. First edition. 4to, wraps. Association copy, inscribed by Williams to his friend and collaborator R. B. Kitaj: "For R. B. K. (the Last Copy in the British Empire) from J. W. London June 1963" Published as Jargon 30. A fantastic inscription. Very good, with some offsetting... More
Dublin: Mole Press, 1975. First edition. Oblong saddle-stapled wraps, [36] pp, illustrated card dust jacket. One of only 50 copies numbered and signed by Williams and Dawson, but not Bongé, most mysterious of the Lyles. There were also 450 unsigned trade copies. A collaborative artists' book. Fine in a fine jacket. More
Roswell, New Mexico: DBA Editions, 1981. First edition. 4to, clip bound in printed wraps and glassine covers. One of 120 copies, the entire edition, most of which were reserved for subscribers, a list of whom are printed at rear. This copy is inscribed by Williams to R. B. Kitaj, one... More
London: Turret Books, 1967. First edition. 4to, unpaginated, bound in white boards decoratively blindstamped at the front panel, and titled in gilt at the spine. Printed dust jacket. Illustrated with plates of metallic foil reproducing drawings by John Furnival, which are tipped in. The endpapers are of gold metallic foil... More
Highlands, NC: Jargon, 1958. First edition. 8vo, 14 unbound leaves, printed on rectos only in two colors, each reproduced from holograph, with drawings in sepia by Fielding Dawson. Poems by Paul Blackburn, Bob Brown, Edward Dahlberg, Max Finstein, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Goodman, Denise Levertov, Walter Lowenfels, Edward Marshall, EA Navaretta... More
New York: The Living Theatre, 1959. 8vo, [16] pp, saddle-stapled in colored wraps. The program for this early show at the Living Theatre. Includes a short text by Alan Hovhaness, along with great period ads, most for local restaurants, but one for Jargon Books! Fine. More
[Healdsburg, CA]: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2", black text overlayed onto a zinc print photographic image of the Pope & Co on brown card stock. Insignia print at verso reads "Christus Regnet." According to Johnston, Teter's only explanation for the piece was "Christ Reigns", probably a play... More
San Francisco: Zephyrus Image, nd. First edition. 9 1/4 x 14" broadside, linocut no newsprint. An early broadside from the press, dating from the Collins Street days, and with the newsprint paper utilized, and early spelling of the press name as "Zephyrous", similar in feel to the companion pieces Help... More
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