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  • Homage to Frank O’Hara.
    [O’HARA, Frank]. Berkson, Bill and Joe LeSueur. eds.
    $25.00
    Bolinas: Big Sky, 1988. Third edition, revised and corrected. Small 4to. 223 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Black & white photographs and reproductions throughout. Originally issued as Big Sky 11/12. Contributions by Berrigan, Feldman, Ashbery, Rorem, Wieners, Brainard, Southern, Ginsberg, Olson, Malanga, Cage, Baraka, and many others.
  • Companion to Biotherm (For Bill Berkson): The last long poem of the late Frank O’Hara (1926-1966).
    [O’HARA, Frank]. Berkson, Bill.
    $45.00
    San Francisco: Arion Press, 1990. First edition. 24 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. An essay entitled “Air and Such,” with a Glossary of Notes on Incidental References, Quotations, and Allusions in Order of Appearance in the Poem. Publisher’s note by Andrew Hoyem.
  • This Rimy River: Vaughan Oliver and V23.
    [OLIVER, Vaughan and V23].
    $150.00
    Corte Madera: Gingko Press (1994). First US edition. Folio. [42 pp w/bibliography]. Near fine in wrappers. A profusely color illustrated exhibition catalogue. The go-to designer, particularly for indie LPs, in late 80s - early 90s. Pixies, Unrest, Breeders, Lush, all your favorites.
  • Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan’s Lectures on Charles Olson.
    [OLSON, Charles]. Duncan, Robert.
    $75.00
    Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (2017). First edition. xi + 252 pp w/notes, glossary, bibliography, & index. Fine in decorated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Robert J. Bertholf and Dale M. Smith. Briefly INSCRIBED by Smith on the title page.
  • The Capilano Review Number 16/17.
    [ONDAATJE, Michae and Daphne Marlattl]. Thesen, Sharon. ed.
    $150.00
    North Vancouver: Capilano Review, 1979. First edition, numbered & signed issue 100 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket that is sunned along the spine and extrems. One of 100 numbered copies on Mojave Matte paper SIGNED by Marlatt and Ondaatje. Prints a generous selection from Ondaatje’s “Running in the Family,” (which differs greatly from the eventually published text), together with Daphne Marlatt’s “In the Month of Hungry Ghosts.”
  • Poppy Politics: Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United State Senate. Cultivation, Use, Abuse and Control of Opium.
    [OPIUM].
    $75.00
    Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1975. First edition. 789 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Inked ownership signature of Wormwood Review editor Marvin Malone on the front cover. The first volume of this epic presentation. Illustrated.
  • Oyez: The Authorized Checklist.
    [OYEZ PRESS]. Bohn, Dave.
    $25.00
    Berkeley: (np) 1997. First trade edition. 31 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 450 (of 500) copies. Designed by Graham Mackintosh and Dave Bohn. A useful reference, especially for print runs.
  • Nam June Paik September 11 - October 24.
    [PAIK, Nam June and Charlotte Moorman].
    $25.00
    Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1982. First edition. 9 x 4 inch printed card. Fine. Illustrated with Peter Moore’s photograph of V-yramid and Tom Haar’s photograph of Moorman playing Paik’s TV Cello while wearing TV Glasses.
  • Video Performance.
    [PAIK, Nam June and Charlotte Moorman].
    $50.00
    Lake Placid: Center for Music, Drama and Art [1976]. First edition. 20 x 12 1/2 inch poster, folded twice for mailing with a Nonprofit Org. postage stamp on the verso. Fine. Paik appeared on 3 August showing videotapes, and then on 7 August in performance with Moorman.
  • Fish Flies On the Sky.
    [PAIK, Nam June].
    $20.00
    NY: Bonino in Soho, 1976. First edition. 4 3/16 x 5 7/8 inch printed card. Fine.
  • Nam June Paik: The Grand Dada of Video.
    [PAIK, Nam June].
    $35.00
    NY: Electronic Arts Intermix (1982). First edition. Single large sheet folded twice (11 1/8 x 8 5/8 inches, closed). Fine. Front panel image, “Electronic Zen with Tri-Color Moon,” 1967, photograph by Bernard Gotfryd. Celebrating Paik’s association with the Howard Wise Gallery and Electronic Arts, announcing his one-man show at the Whitney (April 30-June 27), and the retrospective presented by WNET/CH 13, “On the Air,” featuring performances by Ginsberg, Kaprow, Cunningham, and Charlotte Moorman. Paik and Moorman both pictured.
  • Cantrills Filmnotes No. 20.
    [PAIK, Nam June]. Cantrill, Arthur and Corrine. eds.
    $20.00
    Melbourne: Cantrills Filmnotes, 1974. December. Oblong 8vo. 39 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Issue features an interview with Nam June Paik on his TV Opera, with stills from “Global Groove” on the front and back covers, and five internal pages.
  • The New Figurative Art of David Park.
    [PARK, David]. Mills, Paul.
    $35.00
    Santa Barbara: Capra Press (1988). First edition. 128 pp. Very near fine in glossy wrappers. Illustrated with color and b&w reproductions.
  • San Francisco Tribute to Kenneth Patchen.
    [PATCHEN, Kenneth].
    $85.00
    San Francisco: Auerhahn Press 1961. First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. In addition to a poem picture by Patchen, the full schedule is detailed. Kenneth Rexroth, Mike McClure, James Broughton, Jonathan Williams, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and many others participated.
  • Outsider 4 & 5.
    [PATCHEN, Kenneth]. Webb, Gypsy Lou & Jon. eds.
    $200.00
    Tucson: Outsider Press (1969). First edition, hardcover issue. 191 pp. Very near fine in illustrated paper-covered boards. Near fine delicate printed paper dust jacket with some wear to base of spine and tips of lower flap folds. One of 500 hardcover copies with a pressed flora picked “inside a mile of Geronimo’s grave.” Special 46 page section devoted to Patchen, with tributes by Antoninus, Ginsberg, Norse, Rexroth, Bern Porter, Ferlinghetti, and many others. Work also by Kaprow, Edson, Bukowski, Levertov, levy, Merton, Kryss, Mac Low, Kay Johnson, Ray Johnson, and many more.
  • A Utopia.
    [PENUMBRA PRESS]. Carlile, Phoebe with Lee Schwartzman.
    $35.00
    [Lisbon]: Penumbra Press (1983). First edition. [6 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 175 numbered copies on Frankfurt White paper. Carlile’s prose vision with two drawings by Schwartzman. A new year’s greeting from the Press.
  • Benefits for People’s Park.
    [PEOPLE’S PARK].
    $150.00
    Berkeley & San Francisco: People’s Park People [c 1969]. First edition. 11 x 8 1/2 inch flyer. Fine. Three events, featuring Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Country Joe and the Fish, and many others. Uncommon, as are many of these more humble announcements, less often kept than the psychedelic posters.
  • Spiyt th’words: Rereading Pettibon’s Twitter.
    [PETTIBON, Raymond]. Durbin, Andrew.
    $40.00
    NY: David Zwirner Books (2018). First edition. 102 pp w/list of works. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A number of color reproductions precede Durbin’s dissection of Pettibon’s prolific Twitter activity.
  • Charlie Hotel.
    [PETTIBON, Raymond]. The Solvents.
    $25.00
    Bradenton:Refuge Records (1995). First pressing. Fine 7” single in a very good folded sleeve that is lightly toned and has some wear along the top edge. Pettibon’s work first appeared on a 7” single in 1979 (Black Flag’s Nervous Breakdown).
  • Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians.
    [PEYOTE]. Myerhoff, Barbara G.
    $150.00
    Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press (1974). First edition. 285 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. From the collection of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate and light pencil marginalia. Illustrated.
  • Order of Appearance.
    [PHOTOGRAPHY]. Jacoy, Jim.
    $60.00
    [Oakland]: TDW Books (2017). First edition. 4to. [84 pp]. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Color photographs, 1977-1980 in San Francisco, most of folks in and around the Mabuhay Gardens punk scene. Though not called for in this issue, SIGNED by Jacoy. New, at publication price:
  • Picabia.
    [PICABIA]. Borràs, Maria Lluïsa.
    $250.00
    London: Thames & Hudson (1985). First UK edition. 4to. 549 pp w/bibliography. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Illustrated with 1153 images, 226 of which are in color.
  • Conversations with Picasso.
    [PICASSO, Pablo]. Brassaï.
    $75.00
    Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press (1999). First US edition. xx + 392 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Jane Marie Todd. Preface by Henry Miller (from 1966). Introduction by Pierre Daix. Illustrated with photographs.
  • Painting the Clouds. J. Martin Pitts (1939-2002): a book of his images with a transcript of his last journal.
    [PITTS, J. Martin]. McDowall, Nicholas. ed.
    $75.00
    Llandogo: Old Stile Press (2002). First edition. [84 pp]. Fine in full orange cloth with gold stamping to spine and front cover. Fine printed paper vellum dust jacket. Introduction by Chris Newett. Pitts’ linocuts, printed in several colors, paired with texts. One of 150 numbered copies on Somerset Book paper SIGNED by Newitt and McDowall.
  • Poetry from Cambridge 1958.
    [PLATH, Sylvia]. Levenson, Christopher. ed.
    $100.00
    London: Fortune Press (1958). First edition. 63 pp w/notes on contributors. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to front panel, toning to spine, and light wear along the top edge. In addition to work by David Wevill and Ted Hughes, this volume features four poems by Plath: All the Dead Dears, Black Rook in Rainy Weather, Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper, and Epitaph for Fire and Flower.
  • City Lights Pocket Poets Series 2005-2025.
    [POCKET POETS]. Heneghan, Donald.
    $10.00
    Rockford: Maze Books, 2025. First edition. 27 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Picking up where Heneghan’s earlier volume leaves off, accounting for the next twenty years of Pocket Poets, and a list of the expanded and anniversary editions. Publication postcard laid in.
  • Cold Mountain Press Poetry Post Card Series Two.
    [POEMCARDS].
    $75.00
    Austin: Cold Mountain Press (1974). First edition. Ten 5 x 6 1/2 inch poemcards, all fine, housed in a folded broadside presenting a section from THE ENDLESS SHORT STORY by Ron Sukenick. Occasional illustrations by Rochelle Holt, Gretchen Reed, and the “old fisherman.” Work by Gregory Orr, Frances Thronson, Ryan Petty, Joseph Bruchac, Kabir translated by Robert Bly, Diane Wakoski, Allen Ginsberg, Wendell Berry, Michael Delp, and Douglas Blazek.
  • Cold Mountain Press Poetry Post Cards.
    [POEMCARDS].
    $75.00
    Austin: Cold Mountain Press (1973). First edition. Ten 6 1/2 x 5 inch letterpress poemcards, all fine, housed in a folded broadside presenting Robert Bly’s translation of Neruda’s poem “Ode to Some Yellow Flowers.” Work by James Tipton, William Stafford, Peter Wild, Linda Pastan, Donald Hall, Ray Lindquist, John Haines, Thomas F. Sexton, Denise Levertov, and Terry Stokes.
  • Eight Northwest Poets.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
    $750.00
    Portland: Portland Art Museum (1959). First editions. Eight flyers, each folded three times vertically (10 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches, closed). All near fine or better with a bit of discoloration to the upper corner of the Kizer volume, and some toning to Stafford. The eight poets are John Haislip, Carol Hall, Kenneth O. Hanson, Robert Huff, Richard Hugo, Carolyn Kizer, William Stafford, and David Wagoner, each contributing a selection of poems with a cover image by a visual artist in the show, “Paintings and Sculptures of the Pacific Northwest.” For the collection:
  • End of the World Speshul: Anthology.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
    $35.00
    Vancouver: Blewointmentpress (1977). First edition. Small 4to. [122 pp]. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Contributions by Birney, Bissett, Kearns, Livesay, Marlatt, Page, Wah, and many others.
  • No Known Pattern: Twelve Poems.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
    $150.00
    Louisville: American Voice, 1989. First edition. [64 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with sewn binding. One of 50 numbered copies (the entire hardcover edition) on Iyo paper. A poem each by Peggy Steele, Denise Levertov, Sandra McPherson, Ruth Whitman, Gwen Head, Jo Carson, Jane Wilson Kaufman, Ann Kilkelly, Catherine Sutton, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and George Ella Lyon.
  • Selected Language Poems.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
    $45.00
    Chengdu: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House, 1993. First edition. 178 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Chinese translations by Ziqing Zhang and Yunte Huang, followed by English originals by Charles Bernstein, Hank Lazer, and James Sherry.