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$45.00NY: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E/Seque (1980). First edition. 4to. 243 pp. Very good plus fine in illustrated wrappers that are lightly toned. A collection of works largely done in pairs or trios by Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma, Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman.$40.00London: Mansell Information/Publishing Limited 1973. First edition. [12 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers an integral printed dust jacket. Presents Larkin’s poem, “Continuing to Live.” Also work by W.H. Auden, Edward Brathwaite, Thomas Blackburn, Omar S. Pound, and Nathaniel Tarn. Bloomfield B14.$25.00London: Putnam (1960). First edition. 148 pp. Toning along top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a short tear and wrinkles to crown. Presents Larkin’s “The Whitsun Weddings.” Work also by Auden, Lowell, George Mackay Brown, Gunn, Hughes, Merwin, Plath, and many others. Bloomfield L17.$25.00London: Putnam (1962). First edition. 120 pp. Toning along top edge, else near fine in fine dust jacket. Larkin’s “Ambulances” appears. Also work by Graves, Walcott, Auden, Beckett, Gunn, Hughes, Logue, and many others. Bloomfield L24.$25.00Toronto: Nighwood Editions (1985). First edition. 4to. 123 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers that are slightly curled. Prints levy’s “Visualized Prayer to the American God #1, 2, and 3 and “Bourgeoisie Chant.” Contributions also by Atwood, Bissett, Broundy, Cobbing, Copithorne, Di Prima, Kearns, and many others.$25.00NY: New Directions (1968). First US trade paperback printing. 124 pp w/bibliographical notes. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with some rubbing. Excellent anthology of concrete poetry. Prints levy's poem, “Again.” Work also by Saroyan, Higgins, Finlay, Ulrichs, Garnier, Valoch, Solt, and may others.$25.00San Francisco: Goliards Press, 1969. First edition. 4to. 131 pp. Covers lightly rubbed, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Reproduces a collage work by levy, “The Burning of San Francisco - Summer 1968.”$25.00Seattle: Consumption Magazine (1970). Vol. 3, Nos. 1&2. 124 pp. Light uneven sunning, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Collects levy’s “Bourgeoisie Chant” as well as work by Blazek, Di Prima, Giovanni, Head, Krech, Randall, Simic, Sorcic, Wagner, and many others.$45.00Ellensburg: Vagabond (1979). Second edition. 65 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Poems by John Thomas, Ann Menebroker, Ronald Koertge, Lyn Lifshin, Al Masarik, and Gerda Penfold. Illustrations throughout by Charles Bukowski. INSCRIBED by Lifshin, “for Doug - with the warmest / wishes-- / Lyn Lifshin / March 19, 1990.”$100.00Toronto: Contact Press (1966). First edition. 167 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers with light tanning to page edges and one short closed tear to base of rear panel. Prints fourteen early Ondaatje poems, as well as work by Coleman, McFadden, Wah, Nichol, and many others.$12.50London: Poetry Book Society (1973). First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems by Causley, Crossley-Holland, Enright, Howell, Macbeth, Raworth, Ross, Scannell, White, Jay, and Spender.$20.00[La Palma]: Medina Press, 1989. First edition. 97 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Collects work by Donna Hilbert, Lizbeth Parker, and Jill Young. A brief als from Hilbert presenting this copy for review laid-in.$20.00Portland: Wine Press (1968). First edition. [28 pp]. Light sunning along spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by Richard Morris, Kenneth Brewer, Ronald Anthony Punnet, Halvard Johnson, Peter Wild, and David Tammer.$25.00NY: Heny Harrison (1939). First edition. Unpaginated. Endpapers discolored, else near fine in full green decorated cloth. Dated (Sept, 1929) and INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper by Macleod. Charming gift presentation in a child’s hand below that, “Dear Miss Philllips. This book will remind you of me, and my knowledge of percentage will always remind me of you. Bob Mills Aug. 14, 1931.”$30.00Ashland: Ashland Poetry Press (1969). First edition. 32 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers with light tanning to unprinted back cover. 14 member poets of the Ohio Poets’ Association. Grace Butcher contributes.$45.00Leeds: The Art & Design Press, 1970. First edition. 40 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Cover drawings by Stass Paraskos. Marvin Bell and Jeff Nuttall contribute, together with others.$200.00Northridge: Lord John Press, 1981. First edition, deluxe limited & signed issue. 55 pp. Spine lightly sunned, else very near fine in full black cloth and fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by all contributors: John Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, W.S. Merwin, L.M. Rosenberg, and Dave Smith.$40.00Gillingham: Arc (1970). First edition. [16 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 225 (of 250) copies. Poems by Charles Verey, Thomas A. Clarke, and John S. Sharkey.$65.00Rodez: Entretiens (1975). First edition. 288 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Includes a section of poems in English and facing French translation by Corso, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, McClure, Snyder, and others.$45.00Santa Fe: American Poet Press (nd). First edition. Horizontal 8vo. [44 pp]. Fine in string-bound wrappers. Poems by David Barnett, Barbara Levin, Jean Rosenbaum, Veryl Rosenbaum, and Leonard Soforo. Slip from the publisher laid in, concluding, “If you don’t like this book please give it to an enemy.”
$750.00Portland: 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, “Paitings and Sculptures of the Pacific Northwest.” For the collection:$25.00El Paso: Vergin Press (1986). First edition. 67 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems by Lyn Lifshin, S. Ramnath, Belinda Subraman, and Robert Burlingame. Review slip laid in. Issued as Gypsy #5.$75.00Cummington: Playhouse-in-the-Hills (1939). First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Samuel French Morse, William Bronk Jr (2 poems), Harry Duncan, and Jane Ward. One of 300 copies printed for the Association of Friends of the Cummington School by the Kraushar Press.$35.00Hobart: Fullers Bookshop (nd). First edition. 51 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Leslie Greener. “No. 387” inked to title page. Poems by Don Hutton, Karen Pridmore, John Heathcote, Tony Ryan, and Rolf Shankley.$75.00London: Wallrich Books, 1970. First edition, first issue (no printed label on spine) 111 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers; a trade paperback original. Poem print insert by Asa Benveniste and Paul Vaughan present. 500 copies printed. Other contributors include Elaine Feinstein, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Muriel Rukeyser and many others. Issued to raise legal defense funds for Bill Butler, a UK publisher and bookseller arrested on obscenity charges.$20.00Berkeley: Kelsey St. Press (1976). First edition. 48 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Work by twenty-five female poets including Judy Grahan, Frances Mayes, and Alicia Ostriker.$35.00London: Keepsake Press, 1965. First edition. 23 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Barker, Betjeman, Conquest, Gunn, Hughes, Redgrove, and others contribute. Edition limited to 12 copies for each of the nineteen contributing poets, and 100 more for public sale.$15.00Cleveland: Chester H. Jones Foundation, 1982. First edition. 28 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. First prize awarded to S. Ben-Tov. The contest was judged by Robert Creeley, Diane Wakoski, and Charles Wright. Promtional flyer laid-in.$45.00London: Regency Press (nd). First edition. 307 pp. Near fine in glossy printed boards; no dust jacket, as issued. Many poems by many poets.$20.00Fallon: Duck Down, 1981. First edition. 136 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Work by Barker, Beck, Etter, Lesser, Locklin, Mailman, Masarik, Moore, Reese, Robertson.
$150.00Louisville: 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.$20.00London: John Lehman, 1946. First edition. 189 pp. Very good plus in full cloth. No dust jacket. Foreword by John Lehmann. Poems by Aragon, Auden, Barker, Elytis, Gascoyne, Plomer, Spender, and many others.