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$75.00NY: Schocken (1982). First US edition. xi + 130 pp w/notes, chronology, & index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to base and crown of spine. Translated from the original German by Richard and Clara Winston. Edited by N.N. Glatzer. Letters from 1909 to 1924, illustrated. From the library of David Meltzer, with his annotation to the first leaf. -
$250.00[San Francisco: Stolen Paper Editions, 1966]. First edition. [10 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Conforms to all the true first edition points but a variant issue with the cover printed in brown ink on white stock. The subject of one of the many major American censorship trials of its day. -
$25.00Beacon: Untitled, 2007. First edition. 110 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards and fine printed dust jacket. Kaplan’s first full-length collection of poems since 1971. Beautifully printed in Naples, Italy. -
$45.00NY: Nadada Editions, 1972. First edition. Square 48mo. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Five photographs by Kaplan with text by Gardien Angelico. One of 550 (of 600 copies). A possible Ruscha homage/parody candidate. OCLC locates 3 copies. -
$15.00Barton: Something Else Press, 1973. First trade paperback printing. 186 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Work based on Gertrude Stein's novel THE MAKING OF AMERICANS. -
$40.00NY: Sign of the Gun (1966). First edition. 28 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Ten page preface by Leon Cyans. Early collection of poems by one of the co-founders of the East Village Other. -
$40.00NY: Columbia Review (1964). First edition. 4to. 49 pp. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Poems and prose with illustrations by Marilyn Rivchin. One of 300 numbered copies. -
$45.00London: Turret Books (1991). First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in wrappers and very near fine dust jacket. Frontispiece illustration by Paul Emsley. One of 400 (of 500) copies. Her first book, published the same year as THE ADOPTION PAPERS. Turret Booklet New Series No. 7. -
$100.00Bolinas: Smithereens Press (1986). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. [38 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Terry Bell. One of ten copies SIGNED by Kearney and Bell. -
$200.00San Francisco: Florence R. Keene, 1927-1930. The first twelve issues of this poetry magazine. The first two issues are near fine in sewn wrappers with a bit of edgewear, the rest fine in stapled wrappers. Contributors include Lawrence Hart, Ina Coolbrith, Arthur Price, Gelett Burgess, Don Blanding, Yone Noguchi, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joaquin Miller, Rosalie Moore, and many others. For the first volume: -
$125.00Lisbon: Penumbra Press (1976). First edition. 28 pp. Fine in cloth-covered boards with printed spine label. One of 100 numbered copies on Hosho SIGNED by Keens. -
$45.00Aralia Press, 1999. First edition. [8 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 150 copies on Zerkall paper. A formerly unpublished poem by Kees, with an introduction by Dana Gioia. -
$50.00Brownsville: Story Line Press (1990). First edition, limited issue. 246 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine in publisher’s slipcase. Edited and with an introduction by James Reidel. According to the publisher, this issue was limited to 100 copies. -
$35.00[West Chester]: Aralia Press, 1984. First edition. [26 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 240 (of 280) numbered copies on Mohawk Letterpress Text paper. Introduction by Dana Gioia. Portrait engraving of Kees by Michael McCurdy. Collects “Public Library” and “Midwestern University: Evening.” -
$40.00(np): Prison Clothes Press, 1974. First edition. 4to. [14 pp]. Very good plus in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Ulli McCarthy. “Poems for Nava.” PrisOn ClotheEs PrEss nUmBer fiVe. -
$50.00Cambridge: Pym-Randall Press (1967). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 (of 126) numbered copies SIGNED by Kelly. -
$25.00Annandale-On-Hudson: Matter, 1967. First edition. 4to. 85 pp. Staples a bit rusty, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Longer poems, most of which were published in little mags from 1961-1965, with seven making their first appearance here. -
$125.00San Francisco: Friends of Photography (1988). First edition. 59 pp. Bump to lower outside corner, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Jerome Tarshis. Illustrated with forty b&w plates. SIGNED by Kenna on the title page. -
$250.00Cleveland: Bits Press (1984). First edition, numbered & signed issue [24 pp]. Fine in patterned paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. One of 33 numbered copies SIGNED by Kennedy. A collection of fourteen poems. -
$300.00NY: Ivan Obolensky (1962). First edition, limited issue. 302 pp. Fine in full cloth with lightly sunned spine. Near fine publisher’s slipcase with some smudging to side panels. One of 1000 numbered copies accompanied by six 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 lithographs, one of which is SIGNED by Kent. -
$150.00Saint Paul: Graywolf Press (1986). First edition. 85 pp. Small bump and wear along fore-edge, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Kenyon on the title page, and additionally dated (November 22, 1986) and INSCRIBED on the half-title page. -
$3,500.00NY: New Directions (1959). First edition. 128 pp. Very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Very near fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. One of 750 numbered copies SIGNED by Kerouac. Original prospectus laid in. Charters A9. -
$125.00Portland: Yes! Press, 1971. First printing of this third edition. 11 1/2 x 9 inch broadside, printed in black ink on brown paper. Fine. A single poem by Kerouac composed in 1959. Issued free by Yes! Press, No. 13 in a series. Charters A10 (note). -
$150.00NY: Grove Press (1959). First trade paperback printing. 244 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Spring 1959 Evergreen Books catalogue laid in. Charters A8b. -
$25.00California: the unspeakable visions of the individual (1978). First edition. 5 x 7 inch illustrated card. Fine. Three short poems by Kerouac printed atop a photographic background. -
$45.00London: Quercus (2010). First edition. 468 pp. Very slight lean to spine, else fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Kerr on the title page. “A Bernie Gunther Thriller.” -
$125.00Cleveland: Renegade Press (1964). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 100 copies. A collection of nine poems, printed letterpress by d.a. levy. Taylor & Horvath P-26. -
$150.00Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press, 1987. First edition. 452 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Russian by Paul Schmidt. Edited by Charlotte Douglas. One hundred and seventeen letters by the Russian Futurist appear here in English translation for the first time. Illustrated. -
$75.00London: John Murray (1956). First edition. 215 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Cover by Osbert Lancaster. A novel of expats in Greece, “born out of the sense of liberation that came to me on first setting foot in Athens.” - King. Young 621*. -
$250.00London: Longmans, Green and Co. (1952). First edition. 43 pp. Some foxing to endpapers, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to crown of spine and top edge. Bookplate of poet Leonard Clark inside front board. Review slip laid in. Novelist King’s first published work was a collection of poems written when he was sixteen; this is his second book of verse. -
$25.00San Francisco: North Point, 1980. First printing, second trade paperback edition. 116 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Originally published in 1966, Kinnell made extensive revisions for this edition. Dated (March 7, 1981) and SIGNED by Kinnell on the title page. The poet’s only novel. -
$200.00Dublin: Dolmen Press (1967). First edition. 18 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Near fine unprinted tissue dust jacket with light wear along top edge. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Kinsella. The New Dolmen Chapbooks 2.