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$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.
$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.
$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.
$125.00Storrs: Wormwood Review Press, 1962. Vol. 2, No. 3. 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.
$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.”
$35.00Orono: National Poetry Foundation [1980]. First edition. 427 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some light foxing to rear flap fold. Contributions by Kenner, Enslin, Mottram, Davie, Corman, and many others. Useful also for the concluding bibliography of works both by and about Bunting.
$25.00Highlands: Jargon Society (1977). First edition. [124 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with some rubbing to front cover. One of 1250 copies for private distribution. Bob Cobbing, Robert Creeley, Simon Cutts, Guy Davenport, Allen Ginsberg, dom sylvester houédard, Ronald Johnson, Tom Phillips, and many more contribute. Jargon 66.
$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.
$450.00Chicago: Big Table (1959-1960). Five issues, all near fine in illustrated wrappers (light toning to spine of #1). Created from the furor over suppression of portions of William S. Burroughs’ NAKED LUNCH, Big Table went on be a major forum for “Beat” writers including Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Corso, and Bowles, but would embrace the Black Mountain and NY schools quickly and thoroughly. Bookplate of Joanne [Kyger] and Jack Boyce inside the front covers of 2-5. A sharp set: