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  • Eastward Ha!
    PERELMAN, S.J.
    $250.00
    NY: Simon & Schuster (1977). First edition. 126 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Perelman’s travel tales, illustrated by Al Hirschfeld. SIGNED by Perelman on the front free endpaper.
  • Four Years after the Dog and other poems.
    PERET, Benjamin.
    $35.00
    Gillingham: Arc Publications, 1974. First edition. 51 pp w/translator’s notes & bibliography. Bump to one lower corner, else near fine in illustrated cardstock covers. Original French poems with facing English translations by Peter Nijmeijer and Paul Brown. Press address change card laid in.
  • The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature.
    PERKINS, Michael.
    $25.00
    NY: Morrow (1976). First edition. 227 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. A comprehensive treatment.
  • Camouflage.
    PERREAULT, John.
    $100.00
    NY: Lines, 1966. First edition. 4to. [54 pp]. Uneven toning to rear cover and extrems, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by John Perreault. Poems introduced by John Ashbery. Dated (July 79) and briefly INSCRIBED by Perreault.
  • Memoirs of a Parasite.
    PERRET, Christopher.
    $125.00
    Torrance: Hors Commerce Press (1965). First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 200 copies. Preface by Alan Sillitoe. Poems with Perret’s own illustrations. Affixed to the front free endpaper is Perret’s clipped full signature. One of two poetry collections published during his short life (1930-1965).
  • The Little Square Review Number 2: Fourteen Poems by Robert L. Peters.
    PETERS, Robert L.
    $40.00
    Santa Barbara: Little Square Review, 1967. Spring. 31 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Peters, John Ridland (editor), Kate Barnard (contributing artist), Bill Horton (printer), and S. Friedrich (typographer).
  • Ami’s Story.
    PETERSEN, Will.
    $125.00
    Chicago: Will Petersen 1975. First edition. 4to. [8 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 50 numbered copies. INSCRIBED by Peterson (but not signed).
  • Party of One: New, Found and Selected Poems.
    PETERSON, Robert.
    $45.00
    (np): (np) (2002). First edition. 101 pp. Fine in full cloth and very near fine printed dust jacket. One of 100 copies on Mohawk Superfine paper, printed by Patrick Reagh. Peterson’s last manuscript, with instruction to be printed “on good paper, as a gift to friends.”
  • Fantasies.
    PHILEBUS pseudonym for John Leslie Barford.
    $150.00
    London: Privately Printed, 1923. First edition. 73 pp. Bmp and light toning to spine, else near fine in paper-covered boards with printed cover and spine labels. One of 250 (of 280) copies. Poems by the author of LADSLOVE LYRICS and YOUNG THINGS. Young 3041*.
  • Your TV Will Tell You Too: Poems.
    PHILLIPS, Ben.
    $25.00
    Toronto: The Folks Upstairs Press (1982). First edition. 16mo. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Six poems. Laid into this copy is a promotional letter from the poet, presenting this copy. OCLC locates one copy (Toronto Public Library).
  • Sand.
    PHILLIPS, Dennis.
    $25.00
    Copenhagen & Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2002. First edition. 16mo. 178 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Dated (10-10-02) and INSCRIBED by Phillips to Leslie [Scalapino], “For Leslie / with the greatest / of admiration / & appreciation. / Dennis.”
  • Hunk of Skin.
    PICASSO, Pablo.
    $75.00
    San Francisco: City Lights Books (1968). First US edition. 39 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Translated from the original Spanish by Paul Blackburn. Introduction by Camilo José Cela. Pocket Poets #25. Cook 71.
  • Anchor Dragging.
    PICCIONE, Anthony.
    $75.00
    Brockport: BOA Editions, 1977. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 76 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Foreword by Archibald MacLeish. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Piccione and MacLeish. New Poets of America Series Vol. 4.
  • in search of ingenuousness.
    PICKARD, Tom.
    $45.00
    Vancouver: Slug Press, 1981. First edition. 11 x 4 1/2 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Pickard.
  • the skull masks [first line].
    PICKARD, Tom.
    $35.00
    [San Francisco]: Cranium Press, 1971. First edition. 12 x 5 inch broadside. Fine. A single nineteen line poem.
  • Fingers of Wind.
    PILCHER, Barry Edgar.
    $35.00
    Cardiff: Second Aeon [c 1975]. First edition. Tall 4to. 5 pp. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. A single long poem.
  • Passage After Midnight.
    PILLIN, William.
    $35.00
    San Francisco: Inferno Press Editions, 1958. First edition. 34 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Eighteen poems. Pillin’s fourth book. Accompanied by a two color promotional postcard.
  • No Answer.
    PINGET, Robert.
    $75.00
    London: John Calder (1961). First UK edition. 151 pp. Offsetting to endpapers, else very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to crown. Translated from the original French by Richard N. Coe. Pinget’s fifth novel, but the first to appear in English translation.
  • Orion's Sword.
    PINNEY, Michael & John Miles.
    $100.00
    Dorset: The Bettiscombe Press [1971]. First edition. [64 pp]. Near fine in thick black card covers. A poem by Michael Pinney illustrated by tinted, scratched and/or collaged photographs by John Miles. Each page contains one to seven or so lines from Pinney's poem, “Orion's Sword,” coupled with a photograph or photo collage by Miles. A beautiful production. Uncommon.
  • Abraham and Isaac.
    PITTS, J. Martin.
    $100.00
    Llandogo: Old Stile Press (1999). First edition. Oblong 8vo. [42 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Text from the fourteenth century Chester cycle of miracle plays, illustrated with linocuts by J. Martin Pitts. One of 220 numbered copies on Hahnemühle Ingres paper SIGNED by Pitts.
  • Gymnopaediae.
    PITTS, J. Martin.
    $100.00
    LLandogo: Old Stile Press (1989). First edition. 4to. [76 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Fine publisher’s decorated slipcase. One of 220 numbered copies SIGNED by Pitts. Silhouette images of boys who danced in tribute to Apollo on a cliff above the southern Aegean.
  • My Mother’s Pearl Necklace.
    PLANTE, David.
    $75.00
    NY: Albondocani Press, 1987. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral marbled-paper dust jacket with a printed cover label. Printed at the Nadja Press. One of 150 numbered copies on Arches Text paper SIGNED by Plante. Original publication announcement laid in.
  • Stings.
    PLATH, Sylvia.
    $40.00
    Northampton: Smith College Library Rare Book Room, 1982. First edition. 4to. 29 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Essay by Susan R. Van Dyne. Plath’s multiple drafts of this poem reproduced in facsimile. Afterword by Ruth Mortimer.
  • Three Women.
    PLATH, Sylvia.
    $45.00
    [Oakland: (np) c 1975]. First US edition. Oblong 16mo. 27 pp. Fine in oblong, side-stapled wrappers. A piracy of this dramatic work for three voices.
  • Local Colour.
    PLOMER, William.
    $75.00
    [North Pomfret]: Elysium Press (1998). First edition. 12 pp. Fine in full cloth with inset cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. Foreword by Mark Mitchell. One of 75 numbered copies printed letterpress on Somerset paper. First separate appearance of this 1933 short story.
  • Journal 31. 1: 1 & 1: 2 (all published)
    PLUMB, David. ed.
    $75.00
    San Francisco: Journal 31 (1972). 55 + 46 pp. Two creases to spine of #1 (production flaw) else both issues fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Pete Winslow on Bob Kaufman, Kicknosway, Barry Gifford, Paul Vangelisti, David Gitin, Blazek, Di Palma, Mariah, and many others contribute. Brief ALS from the editor laid into the first issue. For the pair:
  • Apocalypse Rose.
    PLYMELL, Charles.
    $45.00
    San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1966. First edition. [52 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers with a touch of rust to the staples. Allen Ginsberg contributes a two page note, “Plymell's Qualities,” as an introduction. His first book. Haselwood 9.
  • ... or perhaps you know this: prose fictions.
    POLISTINA, K.
    $35.00
    London: Patroclus Press (1976). First edition. 48mo. 17 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Photos by Peter Cosgrove and Shellie Sterne. Four short works.
  • African Journals.
    POLLER, Nidra.
    $35.00
    Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions (nd). First edition. 25 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 200 copies. Two short stories.
  • Night.
    POLLINI, Francis.
    $100.00
    Paris: Olympia Press (1960). First edition. 282 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine dust jacket. Cover design by J.M. Favarger. A Korean war novel, focused on the prisoner of war experience. Traveller’s Companion Series. Kearney 5.81.
  • Stills & Movies.
    POMEROY, Ralph.
    $200.00
    San Francisco: Gesture Press, 1961. First edition. 41 pp. A touch of foxing to top edge, else very near fine in full cloth with gilt stamping to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Printed at the Auerhahn Press. SIGNED by Pomeroy on the colophon page. The bibliography describes only an issue in wrappers.
  • Imagine a Moment.
    POPE, Robert.
    $45.00
    Iowa City: Meadow Press, 1976. First edition. 27 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Handset and handprinted by Leigh McLellan in three colors. One of 200 numbered copies on Gutenberg Laid paper SIGNED by Pope.