Showing 1697–1728 of 1983 results
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$125.00Los Angeles: Timothea Stewart Gallery. 1977. First edition. Single large sheet folded once (16 x 11 inches, closed). Fine. Long statement by George Herms, paired with a descriptive list of the 73 items in this exhibition, essentially a memorial for Berman, who died the previous year.
$20.00Sherman Oaks: Clayton Eshleman (1971). January. 160 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Wallace Berman. Contributions by Hirschman, Bromige, Brakhage, Ginsberg, Creeley, and reproductions of four Berman artworks.
$20.00NY: Granary Books, 1998. First edition. 67 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Lewis Warsh. Features collaborative works by Berrigan and George Schneeman interspersed throughout the text.
$50.00Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1991. First edition. Small 4to. x + 253 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. An excellent homage with fifty-six illustrations. Edited by Waldman, with her introduction.
$200.00NY: Angel Hair, 1969. First edition. 4to. [10 pp]. Toning to extrems, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by George Schneeman. In addition to offering Angel Hair books for sale, prints a poem by Tom Clark “The Top of the World” and Ted Berrigan, “Things to do in New York (city).” SIGNED by Berrigan in green ink, with his addition in blue ink, “my first good / ‘open field’ / poem.”
$350.00Lexington: King Library Press (1972). First edition. 26 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with printed spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 100 numbered copies. Frontis a map by Joseph Bernard Hoeing, printed in two colors. Allen’s text, followed by Berry’s.
$125.00Cambridge & London: MIT Press (1987). First trade paperback printing. 4to. 315 pp w/index. Fine in wrappers and very near fine illustrated dust jacket. A well-illustrated survey of the College, with an interesting and useful faculty and student roster. SIGNED by Harris on the first leaf. Accompanying this copy is both a checklist of the exhibition, and illustrated exhibition booklet.
$45.00London & NY: Routledge (1996). First edition. xiii + 234 pp w/index. Tiny bump on spine, else fine in decorated boards. A collection of twelve essays, plus a previously-unpublished letter by Blanchot addressing his political sympathies in the 1930s.
$30.00NY: Oxford University Press (2000). First US edition. xviii + 430 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with b&w images, and a central section of color reproductions.
$30.00Menlo Park: Occasional Works, 2004. First edition. 28 pp. Fine in wrappers with printed cover label. Printed letterpress from polymer plates by Eric Holub, hand-bound at the Foolscap Press. One of 100 copies. An essay on Leonard Woolf, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Ceylon, instigated by Stansky’s own travel. ‘Of Interest’ Chapbook IV. At publication price:
$150.00NY: Knopf, 1926. First printing of this edition. xxiii + 264 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a small mark on the front cover. Translated from the original Latin by Moncrieff. Introductory letter by George Moore, to whom this complete translation, the first into English from the original Latin, is dedicated.
$450.00San Francisco: [Ebbe Borregaard] 1960. First edition. [120 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 125 copies. Entire text reproduced from holograph. Illustrated with full page drawings by J. Alexander. Prose by the “San Francisco Renaissance” poet. Uncommon.
$200.00Bristol: Sceptre Press Limited, 1985. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 61 pp. Fine in full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Fifteen full page b&w illustrations by Bratby. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Lowbury and Bratby.
$950.00[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press 1983. First edition. Fifteen 14 x 9 inch broadsides, each printed in two colors on Rives paper and SIGNED by the poet: Howard Nemerov, W.S. Merwin, Howard Moss, James Merrill, Anthony Hecht, Donald Davie, John Ciardi, Philip Booth, Louis Simpson, Karl Shapiro, W.D. Snodgrass, Radcliffe Squires, William Stafford, Mark Strand, and John Updike. Fine publisher’s portfolio, with a colophon sheet designating this as one of 75 sets, of which 55 were for public sale.
$750.00[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press, 1980. First edition. Tall 4to. Ten broadsides printed in two colors, housed in a fine publisher’s chemise with printed cover label. Very near fine slipcase. One illustration, a woodcut of Warren by Ann Carter Pollard, numbered and signed by the artist, accompanies the poems. One of 75 numbered sets produced, 55 of which were for public sale. Each set is numbered and signed on the colophon sheet by the publisher, Stuart Wright. Each broadside is numbered and SIGNED by the respective poets: James Dickey, Reynolds Price, Richard Eberhart, Richard Wilbur, A.R. Ammons, Fred Chappell, William Meredith, John Hollander, George Garrett, and Rosanna Warren.
$250.00Derry: Rook Press (1976). First edition. Twelve 11 x 8 1/2 inch broadsides laid into a printed paper portfolio. All items very near fine. Rook Folio Series #1. Illustrations by William Lint. Each broadside one of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the contributing poet: William Heyen, Czeslaw Milosz, Paul Zimmer, Jon Anderson, Sandra McPherson, Daniel Halpern, Gerald Costanzo, Mark Halperin, Ed Ochester, James Tate, William Stafford, and Frederick Morgan.
$75.00Cambridge: MIT Press (1987). Fall. 210 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Writings, interviews, photographs, many essays, and a useful bibliography.
$45.00NY: Putnam’s (1971). First US edition. 351 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light toning to spine. Very near fine publisher’s cardstock slipcase present. Thirty hand-tipped plates in full color, 175 monochrome illustrations.
$50.00NY: Venture Publications (1961). First edition. 111 pp. Pale droplet mark on first leaf, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers that are lightly rubbed. Prints Bukowski’s poem, “Serligev.” Also work by Alden Nowlan, William Corrington, George Jackson, and a personal memoir of Hart Crane by Peggy Baird.
$125.00Storrs: Wormwood Review Press, 1962. First trade edition. 28 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and integral illustrated dust jacket. Cover by “A. Sypher” a pseudonym used by Malone. One of 500 numbered copies. In addition to work by Judson Crews, Michael C. Ford, Carl Larsen, and Robert Sward, this issue is the first to include a poem by Bukowski, cementing a life-long relationship.
$25.00Storrs: The Wormwood Review Press, 1963. First trade edition. 36 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 numbered copies. Bukowski contributes two poems. Malone, who also did the cover art, edited this, and all subsequent issues after taking over the magazine from the founding editors.
$650.00Stockton: The Wormwood Review Press 1974. Volume 14, Number 1. 40 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 40 numbered copies SIGNED by Malone at the colophon, and SIGNED by Bukowski on the front cover with a drawing of a man on the toilet, and his caption, “Toilet paper is / nicer than / rain.”
$75.00Santa Barbara: Am Here Books (1981). First edition. 4to. 146 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. 2102 item rare books catalogue featuring post-modern poetry books, manuscripts, & letters. Several writers were called upon to comment on their contemporaries. Tom Clark, Dennis Cooper, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Amy Gerstler, Charles Plymell, and others contribute. There is also printed the text of a William S. Burroughs piece, “The Last Words of Hassan-i-Sabbah.” As if that were not enough, a 7 inch 45 rpm recording of Burroughs reading the piece accompanies in an envelope at the rear of the volume. Both the catalogue and record fine. An excellent reference and read.
$35.00Stockton: The Wormwood Review, 1969. First trade edition. 39 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 700 numbered copies. This issue features Burroughs’ “Academy 23” along with five poems by William Wantling. Prints also, at the request of Sue Finlay, her letter excoriating the Fulcrum Press and its treatment of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s work.
$35.00San Francisco: Re/search Publications 1982. Later trade edition. 96 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A wealth of images of, work by, and interviews with Burroughs,Throbbing Gristle, and Brion Gysin.
$45.00Paris: lettres modernes, 1971. Second (revised and enlarged) edition. viii + [50 pp] + [xviii]. Fine in printed wrappers. Texts in English.
$125.00Salt Lake City: Department of English/Western Humanities Review, 1963. Winter. 103 pp. Bump to crown of spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. Presents Carver’s “Pastoral, a story.” One of Carver’s first published short fictions, one of six published in 1963, and preceded by only one other earlier, in 1961.
$35.00Berkeley: Poets Commune Publications, 1970. First edition. Horizontal 16mo. [36 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems and photos documenting the folks hanging in front of Cody’s, from the Yogi Beadmaker to the Sadistic Painter. Everything is great until the cops show up in Section Five.
$50.00NY: The Akashic Record (1991). First printing of this separate edition. 7 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Translated by from the original German by George Scrivani. Meryink’s prophetic story, composed in 1903, of an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which goes on to poison all the world’s oceans. Preface and postscript by Ira Cohen. SIGNED by Cohen on the first leaf.
$25.00[New Haven]: Anti-Mass Collective (1970). First edition. 56 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. A ten point outline of methods and organization.
$650.00Lausanne: S.E.L.A. (1964-1967). Twelve issues. All very near fine or better (most are fine) in printed wrappers with original glassines on the first six numbers, as issued. Jean Rhys, Genet, David Jones, Koch, Montale, O’Hara, Rhys, Coolidge, Brainard, Gombrowicz, Holub, Kaplan, Blanchot, and many others populate this wonderfully understated journal. Secret Location 170-171. For the run:
$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: