e-catalog #127
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1.
BARAKA, Imamu Amiri.
Afrikan Revolution: A Poem.
New Ark: Jihad Publishing (1973).
First edition. 16mo. 6 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers.
$40
2.
BARAKA, Amiri.
Reggae or Not! Poems.
NY: Contact II Publications (1981).
First edition. 22 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover drawing by Teresa Berasi. Published as a supplement to Contact II. Three poems.
$40
3.
BERSSENBRUGGE, Mei-Mei.
Pack Rat Sieve.
Bowling Green: Contact II (1983).
First edition. Oblong 16mo. 17 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. A single long poem. Early work.
$125
4.
bissett, bill.
th high green hill
Vancouver: blewointment press (1972).
First edition. 4to. [166 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 400 copies with an original multi-colored notebook drawing housed in a clear sleeve bound-in after the first leaf. Originally issued as a component of ICE, though copies were offered separately.
$75
5.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip.
(np): Thomas Groff (1983).
First separate edition. Single large sheet folded once (15 x 10 ½ inches, closed). Fine. A short story that appeared originally in Story Magazine in 1944. One of 150 numbered copies printed at the Grenfell Press and SIGNED by Bukowski (with the addition a small drawings).
$350
6.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Hot Water Music.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1983.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 221 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. One of 400 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski, with a small drawing of a dog and a man with a jug. Promotional poster for this title laid in. Krumhansl 80d.
$850
7.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
What They Want.
Santa Barbara: Maurice F. Neville, 1977.
First edition, signed issue. Single stiff sheet, folded once (8 x 5 ½ inches, closed). Fine. Printed letterpress in three colors. Published to celebrate the opening of Maurice F. Neville Rare Books. One of 75 copies SIGNED by Bukowski. Krumhansl 59.
$150
8.
CARSON, Anne.
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse.
NY: Knopf, 1998.
First edition. 149 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Carson’s life of Geryon, the winged red monster of myth. Her breakthrough book.
$150
9.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Thorpe, John. ed.
Convivio: A Journal of Poetics Number One and Two (all published).
Bolinas: Tombouctou (1983) & 1987.
145 + 240 pp. Two issues, both fine in illustrated wrappers. From the New College of California, the first issue is a general number featuring Robert Duncan, David Meltzer, Robert Grenier, Joanne Kyger, and several others. The second issue is devoted to a series of lectures by John Clarke titled “From Feathers to Iron.” For the pair:
$100
10.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Neish, Alex. ed.
Sidewalk 1 & 2 (all published).
Edinburgh: Sidewalk [1960].
Two 8vo issues. Staples pulling a bit in in the first issue, else both are near fine in illustrated wrappers. “Scotland’s Quarterly Review” which, despite the high production values and plenty of advertising, only lasted the two issues. Stellar contributors include Marguerite Duras, Michael McClure, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Allen Geinsberg, Charles Olson, Edwin Morgan, Robert Creeley, Gary Snyder, and William S. Burroughs. For the pair:
$200
11.
[CONCRETE POETRY]. Bornstein, Stephen A. ed.
Catalyst.
NY: Affiliate Artists, 1975.
Fall. 4to. 23 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. This issue features a four page essay by Kathleen Agena, “Poems that look like pictures... and act like theater.” Includes work by Creeley, WC Williams, Jerome Rothenberg, Brian Gysin, Jackson, MacLow, John Giorno, and others.
$35
12.
[CONCRETE POETRY]. Trawick, Leonard M. ed.
The Gamut. Number 9.
Cleveland: Cleveland State University, 1983.
Spring/Summer. 96 pp. Bump to base of spine, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Brief inscription to “Lyn” by Trawick. Twenty-nine pages devoted to winners of the Gamut concrete poetry contest. Includes work by Helmes, Kempton, Melnicove, and a handful of others.
$35
13.
COOLIDGE, Clark.
Odes of Roba.
Great Barrington: The Figures, 1991.
First trade edition. 158 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Lizabeth Marano. Poems written in Rome, October 1984 – February 1985.
$40
14.
[COOLIDGE, Clark and Neeli Cherkovski]. Harvey, Kyle. ed.
Coolidge & Cherkovski in Conversation.
Frutia: Lithic Press (2020).
First edition. 143 pp w/index, bibliographies, & biographies. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Patrick James Dunagan. Transcription of their conversation, together with Coolidge’s “Arrangement” (a Naropa lecture) and “Random Poetics” by Cherkovski.
$35
15.
DAHLEN, Beverly.
A Reading 1–7, 8–18, 11–17, 18–20, and A-reading Spicer & Eighteen Sonnets.
Varioius place: various presses (1985–2004)
First editions. Five volumes in Dahlen’s ongoing series. All are near fine or better in wrappers, the first in a dust jacket. The first volume has a small spot on the first leaf, but is also dated (11/20/85) and INSCRIBED by Dahlen. The second, third, and fourth volumes are all signed by Nathaniel Tarn (his copies). For the collection:
$250
16.
DI PRIMA, Diane.
Freddie Poems.
Point Reyes: Eidolon Editions, 1974.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [72 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with some light soiling to the unprinted rear cover. One of 500 (of 1000) numbered copies INSCRIBED by Di Prima to the McClures, “for Michael + Joanne / w/my love / Diane.”
$200
17.
[DIEBENKORN, Richard]. Bancroft, Sarah C. ed.
The Ocean Park Series.
Newport Beach & NY: Orange County Museum of Art/DelMonico Books — Prestel (2011).
First edition. 4to. 255 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth with inset cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. Essays by Bancroft, Susan Landauer, and Peter Levitt. One hundred and forty-three color plates, in addition to b&w reproductions and photographs.
$250
18.
DISCH, Thomas M.
Orders of the Retina: Poems.
West Branch: Toothpaste Press, 1982.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 45 pp. Faint sunning to spine, else fine in printed paper-covered front board with cloth spine and rear panel. Printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 100 numbered copies on Curtis Tweedweave text paper SIGNED by Disch.
$45
19.
DUNCAN, Robert and Jess.
Caesar’s Gate: Poems 1949–50.
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1972.
Second edition, first hardcover printing. 73 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art and internal illustrations throughout by Jess. One of 600 copies. Sand Dollar/8. Bertholf A8d. Young 1099*.
$75
20.
EIGNER, Larry.
earth birds: forty six poems written between May 1964 and June 1972.
[Guildford]: Circle Press [1981].
First edition, deluxe issue. 4to. [42 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Near fine publisher’s cardstock slipcase with printed spine. Illustrated with six plates designed by Ronald King printed blind-intaglio. Designated “This copy is No. 1 / Poet’s Proof” on the colophon page.
$200