San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, nd. Paperback. 5 x 8" sheet of blue paper, folded once, with bird device to front panel. Some faint handling creases else fine. An advertising leaflet offering the services of the press, suggesting that they can produce a wide variety of material, from stationary to reproduction... More
New York: Fuck You Press, 1964. First edition. 4to, 20 leaves mimeographed from typescript and drawing on rectos only. Side-stapled. The first edition of the author's first book, a report on the legendary 1963 conference at the University of British Columbia, made in order to "respond to the intense interest... More
New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude, 1966. First edition. Foolscap format, 31 pp., mimeographed, stab-stapled covers. The 13th and final regular issue of the seminal little mag of the second generation of the New York School. This issue includes work by Joe Brainard, Ted Berrigan, William Saroyan, Dick Gallup, Pierre... More
New York: Lorenz Gude, 1963. First edition. Foolscap, mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, and stab-stapled into an offset printed cover by Joe Brainard. Collated and complete against Birmingham. With some minor ink corrections to the Harry Fainlight contributions, likely in the editor's hand. Conributors include John Ashbery, Ron Padgett... More
New York: Lorenz Gude, 1963. First edition. Foolscap format, mimeographed on rectos only; stab-stapled. With single word holograph addition"and" in pencil to Ted Berrigan's poem "Sonnet XXXVI". Early number of the little magazine, which was of of primary importance to the formation of the second New York School. Early issues... More
![C: A Journal of Poetry Vol. 1, No. 2 [with an Unpublished Holograph Poem by Berrigan]. Ted Berrigan, ed.](/pictures/thumb/20315.jpg?v=1515623718)
New York: Lorenz Gude, 1963. First edition. Foolscap format, mimeographed on rectos only; stab-stapled. Early number of the little magazine, which was of of primary importance to the formation of the second New York School. Early issues are increasingly uncommon. This issue includes contributions from Berrigan and Sandy Alper, J.... More
New York: C Press, 1965. First edition. Foolscap, mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, stab-stapled into an offset printed cover sheet by Joe Brainard. Collated and complete against Birmingham. Contributors include Aram Saroyan, Edwin Denby, Kenneth Koch, Barbara Guest, Kenward Elmslie, others. Some toning and light soiling to cover and... More
Np: nd. A collection of 37 sheets made to print two very early books by Joe Brainard, the Baby Book - published by his own Boke Press - and Power Plant Poems, a collaboration between Elmslie and Brainard which was published by C Press. Both of these books were printed... More
New York: Lorenz Gude, 1964. First edition. Foolscap, mechanically duplicated on rectos only; stab-stapled. First, and much scarcer issue of the two issues of Brainard's artist periodical devoted to storyless or abstract comics. Illustrated throughout by Brainard with texts by many important poets of the New York School, including Bill... More
New York: Fuck You Press, 1964. First edition. 24mo, [12] pp, mimeographed from typescript and drawing. Covers illustrated with impeccable provocation and grace by Allen Ginsberg. The first separate edition of this section of the Yage Letters, which the "paranoid printers" of the City Lights edition in England refused to... More
San Francisco: M, [1962]. First edition. 4to, mimeographed from typescript and stab-stapled. First issue of the little magazine published from Gino & Carlo's Bar, where, submissions could be dropped off. Only two were published. The magazine bears some similarities with Open Space and J, and share many of the same... More
New York: "Viking Press" nd. Paperback. 4to., mimeographed sheets stab-stapled covers. This copy of the work from the Leon collective is signed by Larry Fagin at the title page, and scarce thus. Includes a poem written for Leon Crabtree. Near fine with some very faint indenting around staples. More
Amsterdam: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1980. First edition. 4to, 9 pp, xeroxed from typescript on rectos only; stab-stapled into a cover sheet illustrated with a drawing of an angel. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at the colophon. One of only 25 copies, the entire edition. Described as a "xerox manuscript copy", printed in... More
Lawrence, KS: Grist, 1966. First edition. 4to, 40 pp., saddle-stapled in photographically illustrated wraps. Ninth issue of one of the greatest little magazines to come out of the midwest in the 1960's,, this issue notable for the inclusion of work by Steven C. Wilson, later known as S. Clay Wilson... More
![Like the Stars. . . [Napkin Ring]. J. W. van Goethe, Zephyrus Image.](/pictures/thumb/20897.jpg?v=1490301519)
San Francisco: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 1 7/8 x 9 3/8" die cut broadside as napkin ring, letterpress printed in Oldstyle italic, with a sharp point at left margin, designed to be folded into a circle with the point inserted into a die-cut hole at right margin which is set within... More
San Francisco: Hermes Free Press, nd. 5 3/4 x 11 1/2 broadside, letterpress printed in Linotype Aldus with ornamental rule on recycled paper. A powerful poem by the African American poet. This is the variant on gray paper. Fine. [Johnston p. 182]. More
![The First Battle of the Marne [with] the dead language presents William Burroughs. Piero Heliczer.](/pictures/thumb/26646.jpg?v=1537316143)
New York: The Dead Language Press, 1962. First edition. Paperback. Square 12mo.[28] pp. Letterpress printed on brown paper, and saddle-stapled in silkscreened card wraps (the scarcer variant in orange wraps). Signed by Heliczer to verso of first blank, with the phrase "rose over the cities 1962 new york". Laid into... More
New York: 1964. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, mimeographed from holograph and drawings on salmon colored paper. Though unattributed, the flyer obviously designed by Ed Sanders and printed at his Fuck You Press. The African-American poet scholar Hernton was best known for his massively influential book Sex and Racism in... More
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965. First edition. 4 1/4 x 5 1/2", [8] pp, saddle-stapled oblong wraps. Letterpress printed in two colors. Edition unstated, but one of only approximately 100 copies produced. Lowell B3, T&H P-48. An early, minimal, experimental poem by levy, his eighth standalone book issued only two years... More
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966. First edition. 4to, mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, and side-stapled, with an original painting print by Mara to cover, and a mimeograph stencil print by levy bound in inside front cover. One of a limited edition of 110 copies. The first and only edition of... More
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964. First edition. 12mo, letterpress printed in two colors and stapled into brown Kraft paper wraps printed by letterpress, with a woodblock print inside rear cover by Pat Crayton. Illustrated with woodblock prints by levy and Celeste Simon. With holograph corrections to first poem, perhaps as issued... More
Niagara: press : today, 1966. First edition. Folio, mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, and side-stapled in unprinted white covers, as usually found. One of 100 copies, out of a total edition of 126. With a foreward by Doug Blazek. One of levy's major long poetical works, published two years... More
![ukanhavyrfuckincitibak [wrapper title] D. A. LEVY: A TRIBUTE TO THE MAN AN ANTHOLOGY OF HIS POETRY. d. a. levy.](/pictures/thumb/25779.jpg?v=1507058763)
Cleveland: Ghost Press, 1968. First edition. Thick 4to., stab-stapled and tape bound into wraps (cover illustrated with a photograph of levy by rjs, back cover illustrated after a drawing by Wally Depew). Mimeographed, with six silkscreens by rjs tipped on. One of 1000 copies. With a postcard ALS concerning levy's... More
Niagara Falls: Press Today, 1966. First edition. 32mo, [12] pp, mimeographed and stab-stapled in unprinted brown wraps purposefully trimmed smaller than the text block. One of 150 copies published by D. R. Wagner. Light offsetting from the wraps to verso of final leaf, else fine. More
np: nd. 4.25x5.5", artists' postcard, offset printed on recto on blue cardstock; verso ruled in marker. Fine. More