Big Thank You
Espanola, NM: Tres Chicas, 2006. First printing. Paperback. 87 pp., 8vo. Signed by the author.
Poetry
This Time
Albuquerque, NM: La Alameda Press, n.d. First printing. 4.25 x 9 inches, laser-printed on decorated paper (with foil and fiber inclusions). A broadside poem. As new.
Collected Poems
Edinburgh: Morning Star Publications, 2000. First printing. (28) pp. 4 x 6.75 inches, saddle-stapled into printed wrappers. Copublished by the Centre for Artists Books, Visual Research Centre, University of Dundee. As new. Twenty-seven brief and witty found poems, with sources noted at the foot of each page; the first is.....
Anthology of L.A. Poets
Los Angeles: Laugh Literary / Red Hill Press, 1972. Paperback. (63) pp., 8vo. Foreword by Bukowski, and work by Bukowski, Cherry, Vangelisti, Jack Hirschman, Gerald Locklin, Ronald Koertge, Stuart Z. Perkoff, and others. Head of spine lightly bumped, price marked out at rear, otherwise a tight, virtually unread copy.
Byrne's Atlas
London: Wallrich Books, 19651970. First printing. 51 pp., tall 8vo. Typography and design by Asa Benveniste; one 900 copies in wrappers (of 1000 total). Light foxing to foredge and very slight sunning to edges of covers and spine, but still a clean, tight, and seemingly unopened copy.
Rune Power
Yonkers, NY: Tin Man, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. 57 pp., 8vo. Very good in lightly worn and soiled wrappers.
Roots
New York: Random House, 1929. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. [4] pp. 1/475 copies, published in the Poetry Quartos series. A touch of darkening just at the edges of the pages, and wrappers very lightly rumpled and soiled, but a very good, attractive copy. Narrow 4to.
Burnt Aces and the Shangri-Las
Tyne and Wear, England: Ceolfrith Press, 1978. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [18] pp. Ceolfrith 49, in the Poet and Artist series. Illustrations from drawings by Edmund Tillotson. 1/100 copies numbered and signed by the author, from a total edition of 750. Trace of sticker removal, and sunned strip along spine.....
The Mountain Climbers
Torrance, CA: Hors Commerce Press, 1965. Stapled wrappers. Edition limited to 200 copies. Designed by David Stanislaus. [11] pp. Wrappers lightly dustsoiled and bumped; internally fine. Narrow 4to.
From Orphic Songs
Oberlin, OH: Pocket Pal Press, 1977. First printing. (20) pp., 7 x 8.5 inches. Stapled into printed card covers. Jean Duval Chapbook Series no. 2. Book design & layout by Jean Kondo Weigl; cover by Judy Garlan. Slight fading and faint spotting to edges of wrappers, and one mild corner.....
From Varese
Albuquerque, NM: Desert Review Press. First Edition. Folded broadside. A single 6.5 x 20 inch sheet, folded twice vertically, printing the poem "From Varese & 'river up 28 feet'." Pinholes in creased corners, and soiling to "cover," otherwise very good. Square 12mo.
Somebody Like You
London: Andre Deutsch, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 48 pp., 8vo. The second book of poems by this leading Israeli poet to appear in English, and an early volume of translations by Stephen Mitchell. A fine copy in lovely, bright dustjacket with just a touch of wear to extremities.
Paul Carroll Interviewed by John Logan
Tucson: Interview Press, n.d. [ca. 1965]. First printing. Stapled Wraps. 12mo, 20 2p. Wrappers lightly handled.
Contra Mortem (signed)
Johnson, VT: Crow's Mark, 1967. Limited edition. Sewn in Wraps. 12mo, 33 pp. Edition of 250 copies. This copy numbered (142) and signed by the author. With errata slip. Some edgewear and sunning to wrappers.
Dark World
Santa Cruz, CA: Kayak, 1974. First printing. Paperback. 40 pp., small square 8vo. One of 1250 copies. Some darkening to edges and spine of wrappers, otherwise very good.
As I Stand at this Window
Berkeley: Oyez, 1970. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [8] pp. 1/250 copies designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh for friends of the poet and press. This copy inscribed by the author. Faint offsetting to front endsheet, and rumpling of foredge of oversized wrappers, otherwise very good. Small square 8vo.
How Smoothly the Gulls Turn
N.p. (Berkeley): Oyez, 1977. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. [6] pp. 1/250 copies designed and printed by Don Gray for friends of the author and the press. Signed by publisher Bob Hawley and his wife Dorothy. Faintest traces of soiling to wrapper, otherwise fine. Small 8vo.
Fred: A Narrative in Short Lines
Lincoln, NE: Privately printed, 1976. Wrappers. 60 pp. Inscribed by author, "with thanks for a lot of very friendly interest in another portraitist," and signed "Audrey." Very uncommon; no copies found in OCLC. Wrappers sunned, edgeworn, with a couple of small, faint stains, chips at spine; internally very good. Square.....
Amy Clampitt
New York: Dia Art Foundation, 1988. Paperback. 31 pp., 12mo. Readings in Contemporary Poetry Number 7. A volume in the Reed Foundation Poetry Chapbook Series, published on the occasion of a reading by the poet.
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Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1976. First printing. (47) pp. Poltroon Modern Poets Volume Two. Cover painting by the author. Light foxing to covers, otherwise very good in stapled wrappers.
The Emperor of the Animals
London: Goliard Press, 1967. First Edition. Stapled wrappers in dustjacket. [16] pp. 1/300 copies of this early Clark publication. A play; in the first private performance, directed by the author in London, the cast included Charles Olson, Edward Dorn, and Robert Creeley, with sets by Barry and Jackie Hall and.....
The Rubber-Stamp Man (A-Poem-A-Week, Number 6 of the Series)
Brooklyn, NY: Red Balloon, 1979. Wrappers. Single sheet folded once. Lightly handled, small faint stain, ink note on front. 8vo.
Is It?
n.p. Author, 2006. First printing. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. Letterpress broadside, printed on cover stock in an unstated but small edition. A poem that works simultaneously on visual and semantic levels, with attention-grabbing typography (using ornamental and outline fonts) that enacts the text. Very faint edge creasing, otherwise fine.
The Fox
New York: United Artists, 1981. Paperback. 84 pp., tall 8vo. First Edition (of 750 copies). Very light handling and edgewear to wrappers, otherwise fine.
18 Poems & (Soma)tic Rituals
Portland, OR: Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Press, 2019. First printing. (32) pp., 5.5 x 8.25 inches. Stapled into printed card covers. Design by Aeron Bergman. Eco-Speculative Pamphlet Series #1, published by the low-residency MFA writing program at the Pacific NW College of Art, and edited by Jay Ponteri.....