Swallow the Lake
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. A few pages roughly opened on bottom edge, and a few uncut, otherwise a very good copy of an early title, lacking the jacket. Small square 8vo.
Poetry
L'Apres-midi d'un faune
Tucson, AZ: Ironwood Press, 1981. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [14] pp. As new; uncommon. 8vo.
Mallarme as Hamlet: A Study of Igitur
Yonkers, NY: Alicat Bookshop Press, 1949. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 1/1000 copies published as Outcast Chapbook No. XVI. Slight tanning to endsheets, otherwise a near fine copy. 8vo.
Leave the Word Alone
New York: Pequod Press, 1979. First printing. 15) pp., 5.75 x 8.5 inches. Stapled into printed card covers. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg, and illustration by James Kearns. “Handset in Lydian Medium 10 point by R’lene Howell Dahlberg at the Pequod Press, November 1979.” Covers toned at the edges from age.....
ADVANCINGreceding
Port Charlotte, FL: Runaway Spoon, 1989. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated. Visual/Concrete. Introduction by Lloyd Dunn. Very good in lightly sunned and edgeworn wrappers. 32mo.
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.....
Representing Absence
Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2004. First printing. Paperback. 16mo, 83 pp. Winner of the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award for 2004. As new.
PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century, Volume 2
Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2001. First printing. Wraps. 8vo, 193 pp. Selections from the work of Anna Akhmatovva, Oswald de Andrade, Ece Ayhan, Gottfriied Benn, Lucian Blaga, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Blaise Cendrars, Forugh Farrokhazad, Pedro Garcia Cabrera, Barbara Guest, Nikolai Gumilev, Peter Huchel, Vicente Huidobro, Maruyama Kaoru, Pablo Neruda, Cees.....
Apalache
Berkeley: Turtle Island Foundation, 1976. First printing. 178 pp., 5.75 x 8.75 inches. Printed papers over boards in printed dust-jacket. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press, from Linotype setting by Holbrook Teter. Very mild bumps at foot and crown of spine, otherwise a fine copy in a......
Lillabulero Number 12 (Winter 1973): A Special Issue for Paul Metcalf.
Northwood Narrow, NH: 1973. Wrappers. 89 pp., illus. Includes two poems by Metcalf, an interview, and a Bibliography. Wrappers lightly edgeworn and dustsoiled. 8vo.
Everywhere I Go
n.p. n.p., n.d. First edition thus. 7.75 x 10.75 inches. Small broadside, printed on cardstock, featuring a poem and a digitally manipulated image combining a photograph of the author and, presumably, one of his paintings. As new. Though undated, this broadside clearly has a memorial/posthumous feel; Micheline died in 1998.....
T.S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, 1888-1922
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. First printing. 468 pp., 8vo. With a preface, note on sources, introduction, references, and index. Quarter-cloth and paper over boards in photo-illustrated dust-jacket. As new.
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.....
The Route of the Phoebe Snow
Coyote's Journal, 1966. First printing. Wraps. Wide 12mo, 26 pp. Very light edgewear to wrappers, page edges a bit sunned.
Ishtar Robinhood Fuck Spelling
First Edition. San Francisco: Greenlight, n.d. [ca. 1980]. Sewn wrappers in dustjacket. One of 300 offset copies (of an edition of 400 total). Interesting format, with text printed on large foldout sheet. Wrappers lightly dustsoiled and edgeworn; internally fine. Square 8vo.
The Butterfly of Dinard.
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. 186 pp. Prose poems translated by G. Singh. Mild bump to one corner, otherwise a fine copy in a good plus, price-clipped and faded dustjacket. Small square 8vo.
Like a Bulwark
New York: Viking, 1956. First Edition. Boards. Light shelfwear, otherwise a very nice copy in an evenly darkened jacket with a few small chips and closed tears. 8vo.
Nevertheless
New York: Macmillan, 1944. First printing. Cloth. 16mo. First printing, second state, with errata slip. Gift inscription and previous owner's name, in chipped jacket with triangular piece missing from top of back panel.
Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics
New York: Viking, 1966. First Edition. Boards. Faint corner bumps and light edgewear, otherwise very good in a good plus, price-clipped dustjacket with small closed tears and creases at edges and a very small loss at top of spine fold. 8vo.
William Kienbusch
New York: Kraushaar Galleries. First Edition. Folded card. N.d. (1963). Single sheet folded to make four pages; an exhibition announcement, with one black-and-white reproduction, a list of works, and a one-page text by Miss Moore. Paper slightly tanned at edges, and very lightly scuffed, otherwise very good, and quite uncommon.....
Marianne Moore Newsletter. Volume I Number 2
Philadelphia, PA: Rosenbach Foundation, 1977. Stapled Wrappers. 24 pp. Reproductions of items from the poet's archives (a drawing, a letter, photographs), notes on bibliography, on the sources of a poem, queries, responses, a checklist, announcements. Fine. Small square 8vo.
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.....
The A. B. C. of Writing and Other Poems
Southampton, England: Torque Press, 1984. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated. Wrappers sunned at spine, otherwise fine. Uncommon. 8vo.
TwinPak.
San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1969. First Edition. [21] pp., 4.75 x 8.75 inches. Saddle-stapled into printed card covers. Number 6 in the Nova Broadcast pamphlet series, featuring concrete and found poems and graphics, including a "shockumentary" in the form of a comic strip. Light weart to covers, otherwise very.....