New York: Totem Press, 1959. First edition. 8vo, 14 pp, saddle-stapled in wraps illustrated by Matsumi Kanemitsu. With errata slip laid in. The first edition of one of the most enduring and influential poetic manifestos of the last century, published by Leroi Jones at the Totem Press. Wraps heavily and... More about Projective Verse
Buffalo, NY: Frontier Press, 1965. First edition. Oblong 8vo, wraps. The final issue of three of this periodical assocated with the Black Mountain College poets, this issue with contributions from Olson, Edward Dorn, John Wieners, John Temple, Ray Bremser, Diane di Prima, George F. Butterick, Albert Glover, and two late... More about Niagara Frontier Review Winter 1965 (No. 3
np: Maps, 1971. Squarish 8vo, 96 pp, wraps (illustrated after a photograph by Ann Charters). Illustrated with photographs. The fourth issue of John Taggart's superb little magazine, this issue completely devoted to Charles Olson, and guest-edited by George Butterick. Wraps a little toned and smudged, but a very good or better copy. More about Maps No. 4. Charles Olson
Tucson, AZ: Ironwood Press, 1975. First edition. 8vo, 88 pp, printed wraps. Special issue of the little magazine devoted to work by and about George Oppen, including a generous selection of new work by Oppen and contributions from Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, Diane Wakoski, Bruce Andrews, Mary Oppen, Theodore Enslin... More about Ironwood 5: George Oppen
![Four Poems]. Joel Oppenheimer](/pictures/thumb/20847.jpg?v=1553200738)
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 about Four Poems
New York: The Poetry Project, 1967. First edition. 8vo, photographically illustrated wraps. Excellent issue, with contributions from Robert Creeley, Joel Sloman, Fred Dorn, Robert Kelly, Dan Clark, Scott Cohen, Anne Waldman, Clayton Eshleman, Jim Brodey, Ted Berrigan, Jack Marshall,Jerrold Greenberg, Ray Bremser, Sam Abrams, Robert David Cohen, Murray Mednick, Charles... More about The Genre of Silence: A One-Shot Review
np: Pacificmoonplanet Ecological Theatre, nd. 8 1/2 x 11", mimeographed from typescript on yellow paper. A poetry broadside. We can find no reference to the group, though we've seen other broadsides signed by the project, all with a similar poetic voice with heavy use of portmanteau word constructions. Very good with moderate creasing. More about Jailbirth
New York: Poetry Project at St. Mark's, nd. 8 1/2 x 11", printed on recto only. Illustrated with an uncredited drawing of a pop bottle bearing a Portable Leon label. Lightly creased, with a short 1/4" nick at top margin; very good. More about Poster for a Portable Leon Reading at St. Mark's
Tulsa: White Dove Review, 1960. First edition. 8vo, 24 pp, offset printed and saddle-stapled in pictorial wraps illustrated by Joe Brainard. The final issue of the little magazine published by the Tulsa wing of the second generation of the New York School , published while they were teens Tulsa. t.... More about White Dove Review Volume 2, Number 5
New York: Lorenz Gude, 1964. First edition. 4to, 21 leaves [including blank leaf preceding colophon],mimeographed on rectos only and side-stapled into illustrated card covers, and illustrated with four internal mimeograph prints by Joe Brainard. One of an edition of 200 copies numbered and signed by Padgett at the colophon. Padgett's... More about In Advance of the Broken Arm
Berkeley: Oyez, 1965. First regularly published edition, preceded by a privately distributed mimeographed edition. Inscribed by the author at the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Ariel Parkinson, printed in sepia on glassine sheets. A gorgeously designed book from Oyez, and a superb collection of poems. fine. More about THANATOS: Earth Poems
San Francisco: City Lights Books / Fuck You Press, 1964. First edition. 4to, side stapled into printed covers. Translated into American by Mary Beach. The title page (designed by Ed Sanders) states that this book was published by the Fuck You Press - Fug Press "in close and evil association, collusion... More about Automatic Pilot
![Opal U. S. A. [Collaged Association Copy]. Claude Pelieu](/pictures/thumb/27054.jpg?v=1547222502)
Np: Beach Books, Texts and Documents, 1968. First edition. Paperback. 4to, 22 pp., saddle-stapled wraps. Association copy, inscribed in the year foloowing publication to Charles and Pam Plymell: "To Chas & Pam / these flying hearts / San Fran / March 69. Claude." In addition, Pelieu has extensively collaged the... More about Opal U. S. A. [Collaged Association Copy
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 about Song for Max Finstein
Approximately 9 1/2 x 15", ink and watercolor on paper. Inscribed "to A + D" at lower left hand corner in pencil, and signed "Christopher" in the lower right and corner. A striking and mysterious drawing by Christopher Perret, who was at one time associated with Leni Sinclair, and whose... More about Untitled Drawing
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 about Bed No. 1
Paris: Le Melog, 1974. First edition. 4to, mimeographed leaves and pamphlets housed in an envelope illustrated with a woodblock print by Lôdie Serrano.One of a limited edition of 150 copies. The debut issue of this Surrealist artists' periodical, affiliated with Incendie de Fôret. With contributions by Patrice Uhl, Jimmy Gladiator..... More about Le Melog No. 1
Richmond, CA: Synapse & Broderbund, 1983. First edition. 8vo, 93 [1] pp, bound in red boards titled in gilt at spine. Illustrated dust jacket. With an IBM floppy disk and separate brochure still intact and housed in a folder pasted down onto rep. Inscribed by Pinsky at the first blank;... More about Mindwheel
[San Francisco]: Charles Plymell, [c. 1967]. 11 x 15 1/4" color print, offset printed on a multi-lith. This appears to be a test or experimental print from the printing sessions for Plymell's periodical The Last Times. It is based upon the cover image of the second issue, but is overprinted... More about Untitled Print
New York & London: Garland, 1991. 8vo, 675 pp, bound in red cloth. No dust jacket. Published in the publisher's Renaissance Imagination Series, edited by Stephen Orgel. An important reprint of Pordage's epic poem, heavily influenced by Jacob Boehme, and far less known today than it should be. This text... More about Pordage's Mundorum Explicatio
Orono: The National Poetry Foundation and Three Continents Press, 1986. 8vo, wraps. Inscribed by the author at Princeton in the year of publication to "Walt", with a page number reference in the contents. Near fine with some minor wear to extremities. More about Arabic and Persian Poems in English
Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1987. Second printing, one of 200 copies, published in the month following the first printing of only 100 copies. 8vo, 21 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Near fine with some minor toning to the wraps. More about Bands Around The Throat
London: Ferry Press, 1971. First edition. 4to, French fold wraps of heavyweight red paper, printed in gilt. One of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies. A key and early Prynne book, now fugitive in the trade. Some droplet staining to top edge, shallowly affecting the fep, bit of dulling... More about Brass
![The Poems of David Raikes [with an ALS from the poet's mother]. David Raikes](/pictures/thumb/27456.jpg?v=1556219897)
Oxford: The Fantasy Press, 1954. First edition. 8vo, 122 pp, bound in gilt-stamped wine-dark cloth, in dust jacket. Illustrated with a tipped-in frontispiece photographic portrait. Introduction by Charles Wrinch. With an ALS from the mother of David Raikes laid in concerning the book. First edition of this posthumous collection of... More about The Poems of David Raikes [with an ALS from the poet's mother
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1965. First edition. 8vo, 70 pp, bound in purple cloth. Printed dust jacket. Inscribed by Raine at the title page. Fine in a very good jacket price clipped at lower tip of front flap, with some minor foxing and discoloration. More about The Hollow Hill