The Salad
Berkeley: North Point Press, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. [5] pp. A poem, after Pierre de Ronsard's Le Salade. Faint touch of fading to edges, otherwise fine in stapled wrappers. 12mo.
Poetry
Random Possession
New York: I. Reed Books, 1979. First printing. 53 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. An early title. This copy warmly inscribed by the author, shortly after publication, to a fellow poet. Mild bump to crown of spine, otherwise very good.
Flights of the Harvest-Mare
Boise, ID: Ahsahta Press, 1985. First printing. 56 pp., 6 x 8.75 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. This copy signed by the author. Very slight wear to corners of cover, otherwise essentially as new. Author's first book.
Heart and Perimeter
New York: Henry Holt, 1991. First printing. 65 pp., 5.5 x 8.25 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. This copy signed by the author. A fine copy, nearly as new.
Ice Cod Bell or Stone
N.p. (Canada): McClelland and Stewart, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to, 62 pp. With handwritten "Compliments of the author" card laid in. Binding a little loose between signatures at center, and light bumps to corner and crown of spine, otherwise very good in printed cloth over boards, in a slightly.....
Rag & Bone Shop
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. (62) pp., Small 8vo. Signed by the author. Spine slightly slanted in the binding process; despite that a virtually fine, unread copy.
Three Dreams and an Old Poem
Buffalo, NY: University Press at Buffalo, 1970. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 1/1000 copies. Beau Fleuve Series Number One (edited by Allen DeLoach). Slight rust to staples, not affecting pages, otherwise about fine. Small 8vo.
Wild Orchids
Buffalo, NY: Wild Orchids, 2011. First printing. 77 pp., 5.5 x 9 inches. Perfect bound in stiff card. Issue 3 of Wild Orchids, inspired by and commenting on William Blake, with contributions by David Brazil, Douglas Manson, Dorothea Lasky, Jesse Glass, Patrick James Dunagan, Peter O'Leary, and Lee Ann Brown.....
"The Things I Say Are True" in Eat It Alive, Volume 3, Issue 4
Boulder, CO: University of Colorado, 1981. First Edition. Folded broadside. A single 8 1/2 by 22 inch sheet folded to make 8 pages. Contributors include Blanca Varela (translated by Pat Carrothers), John Wolff, Kurt Brown, Greg Kahn, Edmund Cardoni, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, and David Michael Hays. Fine and uncommon. Small 8vo.....
Baptismal Corruption in the Sunflower Patch
Sacramento, CA: Runcible Spoon, 1969. First printing. Pamphlet. (32) pp. 8vo, one signature stapled in wrappers. Wrappers darkened at extremities; internally fine.
He Said/She Said
New York: Hardware Poets Press, 1977. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 23 pp. Poems in the form of brief, ironic dialogues. A mimeo production from one of the significant little presses of the "East Village Scene." Very good in lightly soiled wrappers. 8vo.
Mirabai Versions
New York: Red Ozier Press, 1980. First Thus. Paperback. (12) pp., narrow 8vo. One of 2000 copies of this "first facsimile edition," printed from proofs of the limited edition. This copy inscribed by the author to Alan Brilliant and Teo Savory, publishers of Unicorn Press, "as a New Years present.....
The Sixties, no. 8: Twenty-Six German Poems
Madison, MN: The Sixties/Hobart and William Smith, 1966. Reprint. Paperback. 102 pp. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. "Reprint by Hobart and William Smith College Press in Association with the Seneca Review" (no date). Covers very slightly scuffed and creased; internally fine. Features a selection from fourteen.....
An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-1987
New York: Norton, 1996. First printing. 6.5 x 9.5 inches, 205 pp. Very slight edgewear to jacket, otherwise essentially as new.
The Sailor Does Not See the North
London: Sub-Voicive. First Edition. Paperback. (27) pp., small 4to. Cover design by Allen Fisher. Uncommon early title in English by this award-winning Swedish poet and translator. Fine.
Poems from the Green Parade: Haiku from a journey to Nepal & Thailand
Corrales, NM: Tooth of Time, 1990. Stapled wrappers. One of 222 copies numbered and signed by the author (no. 177). Unpaginated. Fine. 8vo.
Blowing Mouth / The Jazz Poems, 1958-1970
Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1978. First printing. 79 pp., 5.25 x 8.5 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Light soiling to edge of back cover, and faint vertical scratch to front cover, otherwise a fine, bright, and tight unread copy, virtually as new and uncommon in such nice.....
Agony Dance: death of the (Dancing Dolls
Portland, OR: Prensa de Lagar, 1969. First printing. (25) pp., 8vo. Saddle-stapled into printed wrappers. Designed and published by Carlos Reyes in an edition of 450 copies, of which the first 25 were numbered and signed by the author on the title page; this is number 3 from the signed.....
As in T As in Tether
Tucson, AZ: Chax Press, 2002. First printing. 74 pp., tall narrow 8vo. Light edgewear and a slight bit of curl to the corners, but still a bright, very good copy. New West Classics volume 2, and a Small Press Traffic Best Book of the Year for 2003. Warmly inscribed by.....
The Harbormaster of Hong Kong
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1993. First printing. Paperback. 84 pp. 12mo. Sun & Moon Classics 32. Slight curling to covers, otherwise as new.
Please, Like Me
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Paperback. 15 pp., 4to. Illustrations by Sherril Jaffe. According to Morrow and Cooney's bibliography of the press, 56 copies of the printed sheets of this edition, intended for the hardbound issue, were rendered unusable when the top edges of the double-folded sheets.....
Lovhers
Montreal: Guernica Editions, 1986. First Edition in English. Paperback. 109 pp., 8vo. Volume 27 in the Essential Poets series. Translated by Barbara Godard. This copy warmly inscribed by the author (in French). Light shelfwear, otherwise very good.
Prise
Bordeaux, France: Format Américain, 2000. First printing. (13) pp., square 12mo. Brown's 1993 book Crush (later included in Polyverse), translated "from the American" by Holly Dye and Éric Giraud. Very mild wear/bumps to corners, otherwise fine in saddle-stapled wrappers.
The Bicycle Trip & Poems
New York: Telephone Books, 1974. Side-stapled in card covers. First Edition (of 300 copies). 24 pp. Light edgewear to covers, corners lightly bumped, still a bright and internally fine copy, essentially as new. 4to.
Hue and Cry
Muscatine, IA: Prairie Press, 1941. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. 1/250 copies.Cheever 40. Gratefully inscribed by the author to the printer/publisher, Carroll Coleman; about the nicest association possible for this title. Light creasing and sunning to oversized wrappers, otherwise very good. 8vo.