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.....
Houston, TX: Quixote Press, 1980. First printing. (75) pp., 8.5 x 10.75 inches. Perfect-bound in plain card covers. Edited and assembled by Melissa Bondy and Morris Edelson, and with an introduction by Edelson. Forty-five pages of text and thirty-two pages of illustrations; twenty-two color reproductions of full-page collages, and twenty-four.....
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.
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.
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1951. First printing. 55 pp., 5.5 x 8 inches. Cloth over boards in printed dust-jacket. Faint touch of wear to extremities, otherwise about fine in a very good, lightly soiled jacket with a few small scrapes and tiny edge chips. Lowell's second trade book, the follow-up.....
Bangkok: Yen Agat Books, 2004. First printing. (18) pp., small square 8vo. Saddle-stapled into printed wrappers, with a cover illustration by the author, who has also enigmatically inscribed the book to an unstated recipient in the year after publication. Faint vertical crease, otherwise very good. An uncommon early book of.....
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.....
Victoria, TX: Chax Press, 2015. First printing. 335 pp., large square 8vo. Perfect-bound in illustrated wrappers. Edited by Anne Tardos and Michael O'Driscoll, with preface, introduction, and notes. New. The long-awaited collection of all sixty of the poet's "Light Poems," a form that he devised in the early 1960s and.....
University of Massachusetts Press, 1971. First U.S. edition. Cloth. Small square 4to. Edited by John C. Weston. Gift inscription and ink stamp on front free endpaper; jacket edgeworn, with one small closed tear at front, tiny chips at extremities, and a couple of small scrapes.
London: Oxford University Press, 1963. First printing. Cloth. 8vo, 45 pp. Top edge dusty, pages tanned. Jacket sunned, lightly soiled and edgeworn.
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.....
London: New Authors Ltd./Hutchinson, 1968. First Edition. Boards. The author's first trade book (after a limited edition of the title sequence, published the previous year), much less common in the original than in the first U.S. edition. Sunning to edges of boards, and faint offsetting to front endsheet, otherwise a......
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.
Tucson, AZ: Ironwood Press, 1981. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [14] pp. As new; uncommon. 8vo.
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.
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.....
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.
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.
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.....
Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2004. First printing. Paperback. 16mo, 83 pp. Winner of the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award for 2004. As new.
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.....
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......
Northwood Narrow, NH: 1973. Wrappers. 89 pp., illus. Includes two poems by Metcalf, an interview, and a Bibliography. Wrappers lightly edgeworn and dustsoiled. 8vo.
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.....
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.
