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.
Monterey: Peters Gate Press, 1973. Limited edition. Sewn in Wraps. 8vo, 35 pp. Edition of 250 copies. Wrappers unevenly faded with a couple of small faint stains, wrapper corners bumped, page edges a bit sunned.
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.
New York & Bolinas, CA: Adventures in Poetry / Big Sky, 1975. First printing. 71 pp., 8 x 10 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. First printing. The author’s fourth book, one of several highly influential experiments in new and hybrid genres of writing with roots in rigorous and intensive.....
Portland, OR: Banqueted Editions, 2015. First printing. (88) pp., small 8vo. Cover art by Bill Domonkos. Edition of 150 copies, laser-printed and saddle-stapled into stiff wrappers. New. The first issue of this Portland-based magazine features work by Anselm Berrigan, Sam Lohmann, Kyle Schlesinger, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Zack Haber, Sue Tompkins, Stacey.....
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.....
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.
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.....
Coyote's Journal, 1966. First printing. Wraps. Wide 12mo, 26 pp. Very light edgewear to wrappers, page edges a bit sunned.
First Edition. Sewn wrappers in dustjacket. San Francisco: Greenlight, n.d. [ca. 1980]. 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.
