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Carrboro, NC: Truck Press, 1976. First Edition. Wrappers. The author's first book, issued in wrappers only. A fine copy, signed. 8vo.
Carrboro, NC: Truck Press, 1976. First Edition. Wrappers. The author's first book, issued in wrappers only. A fine copy, signed. 8vo.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974. First Edition. Paperback. 84 pp., small 8vo. Author's first trade book, the simultaneous issue in wrappers. Winner of the Lamont Poetry Award for 1974. Poems of the Vietnam War and after, including translations of Vietnamese folk lyrics. (Balaban went on to publish further.....
Bois le Roi, France: Editeurs Evidant, 1990. First printing. Paperback. (250) pp., square 8vo. The original edition of this collection of more than two hundred concrete/conceptual poems (which was reprinted in 2011) by the founder and longtime editor of the very important international journal Doc(k)s. Each poem (and page) consists.....
Chicago: 3 Book Publishing, 2006. First printing. 269 pp., large square folio. One of two hundred numbered copies in the deluxe edition, in full leather blind-stamped binding and cloth-covered clamshell case. Save for microscopic spots of wear at the corners, the book is in very fine condition, with printed mylar.....
Tucson: Interview Press, n.d. [ca. 1965]. First printing. Stapled Wraps. 12mo, 20 2p. Wrappers lightly handled.
Portland, OR: Anna Daedalus, 2018. First printing. (8) pp., 5 x 7.5 inches. Archival pigment prints from digital photographs. A single-sheet six-panel accordion, attached to front and rear boards covered in printed paper, for eight images total. Published in an edition of five signed and dated copies. Artist Anna Daedalus.....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. First printing. (192) pp., 5.25 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Designed and photographed by Marshall Henrichs. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Toning to edges and slight waviness to pages; light wear to edges of covers and a couple of small closed tears to.....
London: Rapp & Carroll, 1967. First Edition. Boards. Warmly inscribed in May of 1968 (in two colors) on the front endsheet by cotranslator Bly, who also contributes an introduction. Foxing to page edges, otherwise very good in a rubbed and creased dustjacket with closed tears and a small piece missing.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. First printing. Cloth. 8vo, 837 pp. Inscribed by Ginsberg, "May 17, 1985 / AH / Mac Millan Theater". Bottom corner of front board very lightly bumped, hint of dustsoiling to page edges, otherwise Fine. Light edgewear to jacket including a couple of tiny nicks.....
London: Lovebooks Ltd., 1965. First printing. 80 pp., 6.5 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Edited by Barry Miles, with Ted Berrigan as New York editor. Minor toning and creasing to covers; title written neatly on unprinted spine, otherwise a very good, sound copy. An incredible transatlantic assemblage.....
Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Mediodia, 1969. First Thus. Wrappers. 109 pp., Spanish text. Poems from Empty Mirrors (sic), Howl, Kaddish, Reality Sandwiches, and Planet News, selected, translated, and prefaced by Covian. Edgewear, small bookseller's label inside front cover, and slight offsetting to back cover, otherwise a very good, unread copy.....
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970. First printing. 88 pp., 5.75 x 8.25 inches. Cloth in printed dust-jacket. The first book by this celebrated African-American poet. Signed on the half-title page, “A Love Supreme / Michael S. Harper.” A fine copy, in a near fine jacket with some light rubbing.....
Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1984. First printing. Wraps. 8vo, 124 pp. Signed by the poet. Wrappers lightly handled, top of fore-edge and top edges of a few pages lightly bumped.
New York: Viking Press, 1965. First printing. 78 pp., 9.25 x 7.75 inches. Cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. A very fine copy, a trifle dusty on the top edge, with the very slight toning of pages present in virtually all copies, in a sparkling, near fine jacket that has trivial touches.....
Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions des Massons, 1974. First printing. (55) pp., 8 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Published in collaboration with Yvon Lambert, and distributed in the USA by Artists’ Books Distribution Company, New York. Toning and very light edgewear to covers, otherwise essentially as new. Drawings, paired.....
Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2010. First printing. (80) pp., 10.5 x 16.5 inches. Limited first printing of 2,000 copies. Printed paper over boards, without dust-jacket, as issued. Two photographic series, with an essay by David Ulin, and a conversation between Michael Light and Lawrence Weschler. New. The second volume.....
Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2019. First printing. (148) pp., 10.5 x 16.5 inches. Printed paper over boards, without dust-jacket, as issued. Essays by William Fox, Charles Hood, and Leah Ollman. New. The fourth volume in aerial photographer Light's ambitious series of books with Radius, documenting the contemporary West. Shot.....
Portland, OR: Author, 2012. Original work. 4 x 5.25 inches. Unique artist's book, titled, signed, and dated on the spine. Fine condition. Artist Gabriel Liston, whose paintings typically depict an unsentimental view of the world of children's experience, creates these one-of-a-kind "book tiles" by sewing shut copies of cheaply made.....
Portland, OR: Author, 2012. Original work. 4 x 5.25 inches. Unique artist's book, titled, signed, and dated on the spine. Fine condition. Artist Gabriel Liston, whose paintings typically depict an unsentimental view of the world of children's experience, creates these one-of-a-kind "book tiles" by sewing shut copies of cheaply made.....
Portland, OR: Author, 2012. Original work. 4 x 5.25 inches. Unique artist's book, titled, signed, and dated on the spine. Fine condition. Artist Gabriel Liston, whose paintings typically depict an unsentimental view of the world of children's experience, creates these one-of-a-kind "book tiles" by sewing shut copies of cheaply made.....
Portland, OR: Author, 2012. Original work. 4 x 5.25 inches. Unique artist's book, titled, signed, and dated on the spine. Fine condition. Artist Gabriel Liston, whose paintings typically depict an unsentimental view of the world of children's experience, creates these one-of-a-kind "book tiles" by sewing shut copies of cheaply made.....
Santa Fe, NM: Writer's Editions, 1935. First Edition. Cloth. Author's first book. 1/1000 press-numbered copies printed at the Rydal Press and signed by the author. Faint foxing to endsheets and tanning to page edges, light wear to extremities, gift inscription, otherwise very good, lacking the dustjacket. 8vo.
Portland, OR: Fredrik Averin, 2014. First printing. Square broadside, 20 x 20 inches, printed silkscreen in two colors on Mohawk Via 80 lb. cover stock, in an edition of forty-two copies. Bilingual English/Swedish text; typography and translation by the publisher. New. A poem interpreted through the interplay of language, space.....
New York: SZ/Press, 1984. First printing. 50 pp., 6 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed wrappers. Introduction by Ira Cohen. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout. A lovely copy, essentially as new, inscribed. A posthumously published collection of prose poems and calligraphy by the legendary musician, writer, visual artist, and publisher MacLise.....
Livorno, Italy: Origini Edizioni, 2022. First printing. (105) pp., 7 x 10 inches. Two pamphlets and one accordion-fold risograph booklet, all bound together by hand with exposed sewing, featuring 37 color and 36 black-and-white photographs. Published in an edition of 250 numbered copies, titled, dated, and signed in pencil on.....