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$850.00Lansen-Vercors: Locus Solus (1961-1962). Five issues in four volumes (III-IV is a double), all very near fine in printed wrappers. Issue #1 is in the first state, untrimmed. In addition to Ashbery, Kenenth Koch, Harry Matthews, and James Schuyler, who together edited this stellar mag, contributors include Guest, O’Hara, Blaser, Berkson, Burroughs, Corso, Eluard, Kraus, Peret, Di Prima, Lax, Ceravolo, Malanga, Denby, Kallman, Wieners, and many others. For the run: -
$100.00Vancouver: The Pacific Nation (1967 & 1969). 114 + 106 pp. Two issues, both very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Work by Blaser, Herndon, Spicer, Brautigan, Olson, Dull, Artaud, McClure, and that’s just the first issue. For the pair: -
$300.00Berkeley: Hollow Orange, 1966-1970. Six volumes, all fine in sewn wrappers. Attractive 16mo hand-bound little magazine. Peter Wild, Keith Abbott, Pamela Millward, Ronald Silliman, Bill Bathurst, Pete Winslow, Doug Blazek, and many others. Issue #4 features four poems by Richard Brautigan. For the run: -
$15.00Berkeley: Turtle Island Foundation, 1979. Volume 1, Number 1. 16 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Features an interview with Robert Duncan by Callahan on Jaime de Angulo. The only issue published. Two press promotional items laid in. -
$35.00San Francisco: Ishmael [c 1960]. 87 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Richard Garcia, André Breton (3 poems), Jerome Rothenberg, Luis Cernuda, and Herman Hesse (8 poems) appear. First and only issue. -
$200.00La Jolla: Laurence McGilvery, 1973. First edition. 4to + xviii + 578 pp w/index. Fine in full dark cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Introduction and notes adapted from interview with Di Prima recorded in July and August 1970. A facsimile of the complete run of this most ephemeral little mag. -
$200.00Madison: Sixties Press, 1960-1968. Seven volumes, all very near fine to fine in printed wrappers. The earliest issues of this magazine were titled “The Fifties” and numbered 1-3. The Sixties began in 1960 with 4, and ended with 10 in 1968. Poetry in translation emphasized. Work by Levertov, Cortazar, Char, Haines, Neruda, Snyder, Edson, Celan, James Wright, and may others. For the run: -
$450.00NY & Stockbridge: Garlic Press/Oblek Editions (1987-1993). Twelve issues in thirteen volumes, #12 being issued in two parts. All near fine or better in wrappers with most being fine. Cover art by Norman Bluhm, Trevor Winkfield, Brian Schorn, Win Knowlton, and Jess among others. A high production value journal of contemporary letters presenting work by Coolidge, Jabes, Michael Palmer, Charles Bernstein, Charles Simic, Creeley, Mac Low, Hejinian, Berrigan, Ashbery, Spicer, Duncan and many others. #9 is a Burning Deck 30th anniversary tribute issue. For the run: -
$200.00NY: Mulch, 1971-1976. Nine numbers in eight issues. Price sticker to first leaf of the first issue, else all near fine or better in illustrated wrappers. Contributions from Basil King (who was also an editor), Enslin, Blackburn, Russell Banks, Ginsberg, Wieners, Di Prima, Fielding Dawson, Ray Johnson, Coolidge, and many others. For the run: -
$1,250.00Eureka: E.V. Griffith/Hearse Press [1957] - (1972). Seventeen issues, all very good plus or better in printed wrappers, with seven having rusty staples. The unaccountably rare #4 is Larry Eigner’s copy, a bit rumpled as usual, with his pencil notes on the rear cover. #6 and #8 have foxing to covers, but the latter is SIGNED by Bukowski at his contribution. The first issue presents work by Joel Oppenheimer, Louis Dudek, Raymond Souster, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (artwork), James Boyar May, Jonathan Williams, Larry Eigner, Langston Hughes, and many others. Hearse would become a major vehicle for Charles Bukowski and other stalwarts of the mimeo scene. For the run: -
$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: -
$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: -
$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. -
$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: -
$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: -
$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: -
$40.00Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (1983). First edition. 187 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with one short tear to the top edge. Work by Jorge Mautner, Ferreira Gullar, Haroldo De Campos, Mário Faustino, Augusto De Campos, Décio Pigntari, and Lindolf Bell, largely concrete in form. -
$125.00Amsterdam: Bert Bakker (1976). First edition. 132 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. A terrific collection of Dutch concrete and visual poetry by Hans Clavin, Herman Damen, Robert Joseph, and G.J. de Rock. -
$150.00Stanford: Stanford University Press (1949). First edition. x + 165 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly toned. Preface by Stegner. Lead story, “I’ll Take You to Tennessee” by Connell, his first appearance in a book. SIGNED by Connell on the front free endpaper. -
$125.00Various (1990-2001). Six exhibition announcements, the largest being 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 inches, for exhibitions at Michael Kohn, Curt Marcus, Susan Inglett, and Smith Anderson. Two have been through the mail, else all are near fine or better. For the group: -
$850.00San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1965. First edition. Horizontal 48mo. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Poem by Hoyem, pasted-on cover image, a “hallucinogram” by Bruce Conner. One of 100 copies printed letterpress. Haselwood 2. -
$750.00San Francisco: Arion Press, 2002. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 51 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth with printed spine label. Fine publisher’s slipcase. Text by Todd with illustrations by Conner. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Todd and Conner. Original prospectus booklet and invitation to the publication party accompany. -
$150.00[NY]: Adventures in Poetry (1973). First edition. 4to. [32 pp]. Very fine in side-stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Coolidge on the title page. From the text, at random: Red Soapy, Peg Sluice, Miles Clout, Appian Snort, Lucky Lock, Buck Loop, Silas Moon, Pinball Foggy... -
$200.00NY: Castelli Feigen Cocoran (1983). First edition. Oblong 8vo. viii + 87 pp w/notes. Near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly toned at the extrems. Uncommon in hardcover. Exhibition catalogue documenting Cornell’s long fascination with dance. -
$200.00San Francisco: [privately printed] 1973. First edition. xv + 125 pp w/addenda. Fine in full brick red cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. One of 100 copies on hand made Tovil paper printed by Clifford Burke. Eight tipped-in photographs. -
$50.00[Sacramento: Open Skull, 1970]. First edition. 11 x 17 1/2 inch sheet. Fine. Unused cover for Blazek’s collection of poems featuring artwork by Robert Crumb. -
$35.00Berkeley: University Art Museum (1989). First edition. 4to. 89 pp w/checklist & bibliography. Near fine in printed wrappers. Illustrated. -
$45.00Cherokee: Black Bird Press (2005). First edition. 112 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Dated (3-4-05) and INSCRIBED by Marvin X, “For Diane / With Love.” -
$3,500.00San Francisco: Arion Press 1990. First edition, lettered & signed issue. xxv + 171 pp. Fine in cloth-covered boards with leather spine. Fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems selected by Helen Vendler, with her introduction. Illustrated with six etchings by Richard Diebenkorn. One of 26 lettered copies for use of the participants in the publication SIGNED by Diebenkorn.