The Nootka Rose
Portland, OR: Breitenbush Books, 1987. First Edition. Cloth. 84 pp. A pristine copy in like jacket, inscribed by the author in the year of publication to a close friend and colleague. 8vo.
Signed & Inscribed Books
Resort and Other Poems
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. First Edition. Wrappers. Author's second book of poems. Inscribed in the year of publication to a close friend; a neighbor at the "beloved resort" that is the subject of the long poem that gives the book its title, and who was "the first person to read.....
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
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.....
Chartings
Tucson, AZ: Chax Press, 2000. First printing. (30) pp., 11.25 x 13.5 inches. Poems printed letterpress on handmade mulberry paper, torn and adhered to Tiara paper printed with wood type letters and numbers in dispersed patterns, with additional hand markings on the pages. Handbound in Moriki papers over boards in.....
William Blake
Topanga, CA: LOVE Press, 1967. First Edition. Folded sheets in wrapper. [12] pp. Cover by George Herms (important California assemblage artist, and publisher of LOVE Press). Birthday edition of 300 copies. This copy unsewn, the folded signature of text laid in to the wrapper, and inscribed by the author. Fading.....
Femina Deserta: a poem
London: Softly Loudly Books, 1971. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 14 pp. Softly Loudly No. 2, with artwork by Andrew Eden. 1/300 copies; this copy inscribed by the author, and with two holograph corrections in his hand in the first two lines of the poem. Very small piece missing from top.....
Homing Signals
Ithaca, NY: Stone-Marrow Press, 1974. Wrappers. First Edition (of 500 copies). 55 pp. Inscribed and signed to Michael Cuddihy, publisher of the author's first book. Wrappers a bit rubbed and edgeworn. 8vo.
Eight Poems
Santa Fe, NM: Giligia Press, 1968. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [12] pp. With portraits of the authors by Sid Hausman. 1/1000 copies "published on the occasion of a first reading by the poets at St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico." This copy signed by both authors. Light soiling to.....
Inside the Endless House — Art, People and Architecture: A Journal
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966. First printing. 576 pp., square 8vo. Cover portrait by Duane Michals. Light tanning and soiling to edges, and one area of fading to cloth, otherwise about very good, in a dust-jacket lacking a four-inch-wide by two-inch-deep piece at the crown of the spine (the.....
Black Light: A Novel (signed)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. First printing. Cloth. 8vo. Signed by the author. Jacket has one small closed tear at rear.
Adirondacks
Ann Arbor, MI: Bear Claw Press, 1978. First Edition. Wrappers. Illustrated by Tom Pohrt. Warmly inscribed to poet and publisher Bill Fox, thanking him for "early encouragement and patience." (Some of the poems in this volume originally appeared in Kuzma's A Problem of High Water, published by Fox's West Coast.....
glee: song
Chicago: ad hoc press, 1977. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 1/200 copies; poems. Warmly inscribed by the author to poet Ted Berrigan, "whose book this partly is." Edges of wrappers sunned, and some small spots on front cover, otherwise very good. 12mo.
Rites of Ancient Ripening
Minneapolis, MN: Meridel Le Sueur & David Tilsen, 1975. Fourth printing. Wrappers. 57 pp., square 8vo. Illustrated by Deborah LeSueur. The original edition, published by Vanilla Press, went through three printings; the author was assisted in publishing this reissue by Midwest Villages & Voices. Includes an updated bibliography and new.....
Pittsburgh Memoranda
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.
The Daily Round
New York: Sun, 1976. First Edition. Cloth. The uncommon hardcover issue, signed by the author. As new, in a near fine dustjacket with one short closed tear. 8vo.
Fontana's Mirror (inscribed)
New York: Boss Books, 1982. Stapled wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies (no. 169). Unpaginated. Inscribed by the author to Alice (Notley), Anselm and Edmund (Berrigan). Wrappers edgeworn, otherwise fine. 8vo.
Hail Thee Who Play
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. 11 pp. Morrow and Cooney 38. 1/233 numbered and signed copies in wrappers, from a total edition of 313, designed and printed by Saul and Lilian Marks at the Plantin Press. Wrappers soiled along edges and with a couple.....
The Gates of Ivory, The Gates of Horn
Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1987. Second Edition. Wrappers. New edition of this novel of the McCarthy era, first published in 1957, with a new introduction by Frederick C. Stern. This edition issued in wrappers only; a fine copy, signed by the author. Small 8vo.
Things Are Queer
Köln, Germany: Fotogalerie Wilde, 1972. First printing. 8.5 x 8.5 inches, unpaginated. Stapled into printed card covers. One of one hundred numbered and signed copies. Light toning and handling to white wrappers, otherwise about fine. A photo-sequence of ten images that move through as many layers of reality, in an.....
Joey
Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1979. First Edition. 1/4 leather, boards. Volume III, Book of Friends. 1/250 specially bound copies, numbered and signed by the author. Jacket price-clipped, otherwise as new. 8vo.
Songs of the Sierras
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First U.S. edition. 5 x 7 inches, 299 pp. Printed cloth over boards. Hinges cracked, cloth mottled, wear and small losses to crown and foot of spine; a good copy only. With folded check laid in (see comments following). The check laid into this copy of.....
Bronze Age: Poems
Emory, VA: Iron Mountain Press, 1981. First Edition. Wrappers in dustjacket. One of 350 numbered copies (no. 184). Signed by the author on title page, and nicely inscribed by him on halftitle in the year after publication. Front of wrapper lightly bumped at heel of fore-edge, otherwise fine, in lightly.....
Negus: Collected Poems
St. Croix: 1981. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated. Signed by the author on both front and rear covers, and additionally inscribed and signed by him on dedication page. Wrappers lightly scuffed and soiled; vertical crease and small stain to rear wrapper. Uncommon work by this Afro-Caribbean writer. 8vo.
Elimination Dance
London, Ontario: Brick Books, 1991. First printing thus. 52 pp., 5.5 x 5.5 inches. Sewn signatures glued into printed card covers. Scattered foxing to edges, and tiny nick to corner of front cover, otherwise very good. First printing of this bilingual ”traveller’s” edition, with French translation by Lola Lemire Tostevin.....
Knee Deep in the Atlantic
Markasan, WI: Pentagram Press, 1981. First Edition. Marbled paper wrappers. One of 164 copies, signed by each author/artist at their contribution. [9] pp., one color illustration. Printed letterpress from handset type, on mould made Nideggen paper. Wrappers marbled by Robie Liscomb and printer/publisher Michael Tarachow, using Irish Moss (Carrageen) gathered.....