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$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.
$100.00Tokyo: Taro Kaneda (1991). First edition. 4to. [128 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with light edgewear. Catalogue for an exhibition that showed in Tokyo & Los Angeles. Introductory text, “Eternal Farewells!” by William S. Burroughs.
$150.00London: Wallrich Books, 1970. First edition. 111 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Poem print insert by Asa Benveniste and Paul Vaughan present. One of 500 copies. 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. INSCRIBED by Butler to Carolyn [Kizer], “for Carolyn / for some shit / ripped hers off. / Bill Butler / 7 VI 71 / Brighton.”
$100.00NY: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery (2007). First edition. Small 4to. [48 pp]. Fine in wrappers and near fine illustrated dust jacket. Forty color reproductions, plus photographs. Best known for her association with Wallace Berman, her photograph appeared on the cover of Semina 1, and a reproduction of one of her drawings sparked the closure of a show at the Ferus Gallery by police.
$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.
$20.00Santa Barbara: Am Here Books/Immediate Editions (1982). First edition. Oblong 8vo. [58 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover illustration by Tom Clark. Dead cattle, UFOs. Yes, this is still a thing.
$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.
$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.
$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.
$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:
$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:
$450.00Berkeley & Oakland: Poetics Journal (1982-1998). Ten issues, growing larger from an initial 80 pp to a concluding 294 pp with the last volume including a series index. All issues fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E vehicle, with each issue structured around broad topics: knowledge, the person, elsewhere, postmodern?, no/narrative, etc. 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:
$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:
$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.
$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.
$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.