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$450.00Hessle: Listen/Marvell Press (1954-1962). Twelve issues, all very near fine or fine in stapled wrappers, with the exception of a small snag to the cover and firs three leaves of 2:2. A major vehicle for Philip Larkin (appears in all but two issues). Work also by Pound, Skelton, Amis, Davie, MacBeth, Merwin, Gunn, Rich, Stevie Smith, Henry Moore, and others. Laid into the last volume is a flyer for “Listen Records,” announcing releases by Thom Gunn and Kingsley Amis. For the run: -
$450.00Berkeley & Oakland: Poetics Journal (1982-1998). Ten issues, growing larger from an initial 80 pp to a concluding 294 pp with the last volume including a series index. All issues near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers but for the top edge of #1 being foxed. A L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E vehicle, with each issue structured around broad topics: knowledge, the person, elsewhere, postmodern?, no/narrative, etc. For the run: -
$2,500.00San Francisco & Santa Cruz: Kayak (1964-1984). 64 issues, all fine in stapled wrappers. One of the best, and longest-lasting, little mags known for its surrealism-inspired clippings of nineteenth-century engravings, fondness for the “found poem,” and no fear of translation. Bly, Antin, Atwood, Levine, Ammons, Merwin, Simic, Knott, Tate, Roditi, Berry, Pillin, Blazek, Carver, Valaoritis, Beiles, Sexton, Snyder, and many many others. For the run: -
$650.00Burlingame: Chrysalis West Foundation (1962-1964). Eight issues (1-7 + supplement), all fine in illustrated wrappers with the supplement volume fine in stapled wrappers. The first issue alone has work by Jack Gilbert, Paul Bowles, Denise Levertov, Grace Paley, La Monte Young, and many others.Middle issues include Enslin, Levertov, Wakoski, Wild, Edson, Stafford, Corso, Mac Low, Kesey, Barthelme, Whalen, and others. The supplement is made up of poems accepted or publication by editor Barney Childs, who was informed that Genesis West would no longer publish poems, hence this collection. Complete sets of this periodical in fine condition are uncommon. For the run: -
$350.00San Francisco: San Francisco Review (1958-1962). Thirteen issues, all near fine or better in wrappers. Together with the San Francisco Review Annual (New Directions/SF Review, 1963), also near fine in wrappers, which is essentially the 14th issue. Contributors include cummings, Bukowski, W.C. Williams, Snyder, Brautigan, Welch, Lorca, Stafford, Oppen, Trakl, Zukofsky, Reznikoff, Levertov, Hawkes, Bowering, and many others.
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$500.00San Francisco: Hoddypoll Press, 1970-1972. Three issues, all 4to, all fine in either side-stapled or sewn wrappers. Bruce Boone, Bob Rivera, Ginsberg, Giorno, Gunn, Schjeldahl, Robert Glück, and many others along with erotic artworks. For the run: -
$40.00South Bend: Poetry Dial (1960-1961). 56 + 48 pp. Two issues, both near fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributions by Ciardi, Eshlemen, Louis Ginsberg, Kreymborg, William Carlos Williams, Judson Crews, Samuel Hazo, and many others. For the pair: -
$35.00NY: Bright Lights Studio, 1969. First edition. 4to. [74 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Vincente Huidobro translated by Laszlo Frey, Tom Veitch, Iris Rifkin, and Carter Ratcliff. A one-shot. -
$75.00Santa Barbara: Little Square Review, 1966-1972. Ten numbers in eight issues. Hint of foxing to the top edges of some, else all fine in wrappers. Letterpress-printed. The first four issues feature the work of a single poet: Walter Clark, Robert Peters, Edwin Russell, and Barry Spacks. The double 4/5th issue, a highlight, focuses on work by and about Native American. Seven features “Three Poets of the Inland West,” and the last two issues are general poetry numbers. For the run:
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$85.00(np): WhIsPeRShIt PREss (nd). First edition. 4to. 4 pp. One tiny edgetear to front cover, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. A work on “little” magazines. The first in a proposed series of “Littles” issued by the publishers of Entrails. Briefly INSCRIBED by Rufus.
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$400.00London & Tunbridge Wells: Peter Russell, 1949-1956. Eleven issues, all near fine or better in printed wrappers with most being fine. Pound, Eliot, Gascoyne, Santayana, Cummings, Bunting, Graves, Borges, Eluard, and many others contribute. A number of inserts included, among them an announcement that the Russell’s house (and Nine office) burnt down, causing a delay in issuing #7. Issues 2 and 4 of the Nine Bookmart, as well as “New and Recent Books we Recommend” all priced for sale, also. For the run: -
$20,000.00NY: Ed Sanders (1962-1965). Twelve issues (1-4, 5:1-5-9), all in 11 x 8 1/2 inch side stapled wrappers. All issues are very near fine or better with the following exceptions: #2. Foxing to page edges, small pale stain to lower right corner of front panel. #5:1. Light stain to front cover, diminishing through seven leaves, mostly affecting the right margin. #5:3. Small corner crease to lower right corner. #5:8. The fragile Warhol thermofax cover is present but detached, with a bit of loss around the staples. All up, a handsome set of this mimeographed legend “from a secret location on the lower east side.”
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$125.00Clarksville: Transient Press, 1973. First edition. Single large sheet, folded three times (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, closed). Very near fine. Appearances by Albert Drake, Felipe Ehrenberg, George Bowering, Opal L. Nations, Nicholas Zurbrugg, Ken Kwint, and others. Notable for the appearance of “Pastcord” by Genesis P-Orridge M.B. PhD, known for his groups Coum Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle.
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$25.00NY: Equal Time Press, 1972. First edition. 4to. 101 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A one-shot featuring work by Berge, Edson, Hirschman, Malanga, Perreault, Rich, Sorrentino, Torregian, Towle, Wakoski, Weiner, and others.
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$75.00London: Antioch International Writing Programs, 1979-1980. Three issues, all fine in printed wrappers but for some light discoloration to the front panel of #3. Ian Tyson served as design editor for the first issue. A wonderful international selection: Rakosi, Ondaatje, Creeley, Mac Low, Blackburn, Sorrentino, Kelly, Ackroyd, Riley, Barnett, and more. For the run:
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$75.00Sacramento: Runcible Spoon [1970]. Two issues, each 4to, each fine in side-stapled wrappers. The first issue features Blazek, Nichol, Finch, Kryss, Spicer, and others, with cover art by T.L. Kryss. Blazek, Locklin, Wagner, Arthur Knight, Swanberg, Von Tersch, Zurbrugg, Thomas A. Clark, Depew, and others appear in the second issue. Stapled to this issue, inside a printed paper bag, is the chapbook NEED A DOZEN TOW BOYS? by Jim Stewart (as issued). For the pair: -
$1,500.00New Orleans & Tucson: Loujon Press (1961- 1968/9). Four volumes. First three numbers fine in illustrated wrappers, the fourth issue fine in boards and very near fine fragile dust jacket. A terrific little mag, with contributions from all the bright lights: Bukowski, Burroughs, Lamantia, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Henry Miller, Patchen, Dick Higgins, Levertov, d.a. levy, Tom Kryss, and a many of others., Volume three features Bukowski as “The Outsider of the Year.” Volume 4 & 5 features a 46 pp “Homage to Kenneth Patchen.” Wormwood Review editor Marvin Malone’s set. Laid into #2 is a holograph note from Jon Webb on Outsider letterhead thanking Malone for “your words on Buk,” which were printed in #3, and promising to send that issue when published. Promo flyer for IT CATCHES MY HEART IN ITS HANDS laid into issue #3. Three pieces of press ephemera laid into 4/5, upon which is penned the note, “Dear Mr. Malone - Thank you for your wonderful patience & hope you drop us a line - Gypsy Lou.” For the run:
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$200.00NY: Montemora (1975-1981). Eight issues, all near fine in glossy printed wrappers but for #2 which has some light foxing to covers. High production value journal with an emphasis on Objectivist and international poets: Corman, Huidobro, Oppen, Paz, Baraka, Bunting, Niedecker, Turnbull, Montale, Lorca, Davenport, Jabès, H.D., Loy, Duncan, and many others. For the run:
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$125.00Santa Cruz: Greenhouse Review Press (1975-1979). Four issues, all near fine or better in printed wrappers. Work by Wakoski, Edson, Neruda, Soto, Charles Wright, Gary Young, and many others. For the run: -
$1,500.00Los Angeles & Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow (1972-1978). First editions. Some light foxing and toning to top edges, else all near fine or better in stapled wrappers. Kelly (5), Eshleman (3), Wakoski (5), Bromige (3), Bukowski (4), Creeley (3), Grossinger, Antin, Jaffe (2), Oates (3), Palmer, Dawson (3), Eigner, Hawkins, McClure, Clark (3), Malanga (4), Artaud (3), Rothenberg, Enslin (2), Watterlond, Tarn (2), Corman (3), Stepanchev (2), Mrabet (translated by Bowles), Loewinsohn, Olson, Sorrentino, Reznikoff, Rakosi, Goodman, Coleman, Faas, Davidson, Shelnutt, Everson, Roditi, Vallejo. For the run:
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$250.00Nijmegen: Henk van Gelre (1961-1966). Seven issues, all near fine or better in stapled wrappers, all either 22 or 26 pp. Illustrated. Contributions by Robert Fink, Joseph Delteil, Karlheinz Deschner, Georges Simenon, Daniel A de Graaf, J. Rives Childs, Antoine Denat, William White, Hilaire Hiler, Noel Young, the editor, and many works by Miller. Laid into #3 is a typed aerogramme dated 1962 letting the recipient know that issue #2 is long sold out “I’m short hundreds of copies” and making suggestions of American bookstores who may have a copy still. For the run: