Polaroid
New York and Bolinas: Adventures in Poetry / Big Sky, 1975. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, 99 pp. Wrappers very lightly rubbed and edgeworn, and a touch of fading to spine lettering (as usual), otherwise a tight, unread copy.
Poetry
In Vermont Green &
Fire Exit. Folded broadside. Single large sheet folded three times. A collection of poems constituting the July (1975) issue of Corbett's magazine Fire Exit. Lightly dustsoiled, otherwise very good. 8vo.
BENZINH (Gasoline)
Athens: Eleftheros Typos, 1989. First printing. 48 pp., 5.5 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Light rubbing to covers and age-toning to page edges, otherwise very good. Corso’s early collection, translated into Greek by Giorgos Mplanas. Scarce; no copies noted in WorldCat.
14 Triads
London: Gogmagog Private Press, 1967. First printing. (24) pp., 4 x 7.75 inches. Patterned paper over boards, with printed spine label, issued without dust-jacket. With three two-color intaglio prints. Designed, illustrated, printed, and bound by the author in an edition of one hundred numbered and signed copies; this is one.....
Dutch Boy, or Reflections in Age
Albuquerque, NM: Living Batch Bookstore, 1993. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [4] pp. Privately printed on the occasion of the poet's receipt of an honorary doctorate from the University of New Mexico. Oblong 16mo.
Hello
Christchurch, New Zealand: Hawk Press, 1976. First printing. Paperback. Small 8vo. 1/750 copies, handset and printed, sewn into wrappers with printed dustjacket. Light rubbing to jacket and faint trace of sticker removal to back cover, otherwise near fine.
The Island
New York: Scribner's, 1963. First Edition, First Issue. Wrappers. First issue, with transposed lines on p. 145. Light edgewear to wrappers, spine lightly creased. A contemporary newspaper clipping about an award given to Creeley is laid in, and has offset to pages. Still a tight, basically unread copy. 8vo.
The Island
New York: Scribner's, 1963. Second printing. 190 pp., 5.5 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Light edge-wear and age-toning, otherwise very good. Warmly inscribed by the author to a friend and fellow poet.
Later
New York: New Directions, 1979. First Edition. 121 pp., 5.25 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. A minuscule bit of curling to the covers, otherwise about fine. Inscribed warmly by the author to a friend and fellow poet.
Listen
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. (48) pp., small square 8vo. 1/1500 copies in wrappers (out of a total edition of 1800). A play for voices, with monoprints by Bobbie Creeley (Bobbie Louise Hawkins). Previous owner's signature and light shelfwear, otherwise very good.
Thirty Things
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Paperback. 71 pp., 16mo. Monoprints by Bobbie Creeley (Bobbie Louise Hawkins). The trade issue in wrappers. A bit of sunning to wrappers around the spine, otherwise essentially as new.
Was That A Real Poem Or Did You Just Make It Up Yourself
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First printing. 13 pp. Sparrow 40. Saddle-stapled into printed wrappers. Tiny spot to edge of front cover, otherwise fine.
Xmas
Buffalo, NY: University Libraries, SUNY, 1987. First Edition. Folded broadside. Single folded sheet. 8vo. Color plate. (Christmas Broadside, Second Series, Number Nine). Lightly handled and worn at edges with small nick at heel.
from A Reading
Tucson, AZ: Chax Press, 1988. First printing. 11.25 x 16 inches, letterpress broadside, signed by the author. As new. An excerpt (beginning "now there can be nothing left but adjectives") from the author's ongoing serial work. Beautifully printed by Charles Alexander on Zerkall paper in three colors (plus blind-printed title.....
from A Reading: " . . . the Beautiful"
n.p. n.p., n.d. First printing. 2.5 x 5 inches, cardstock luggage tag with cord, rubberstamped with two images (a bird and a snail) and a brief excerpt from the author's ongoing long poem A Reading. One of several luggage tag poems published in the late 2000s by Elizabeth Robinson in.....
Get an Agent / Tatoo (Broadside)
New York: La Locanda di Giotto, 1985. First Edition (of 126 copies). Single sheet folded twice. A poem by each author, with a collage by Dawson. Light edgewear.
In livrea di transizione (inscribed)
Venice: Supernova, 1990. First printing. Paperback. (85) pp. 16mo, sewn in wrappers. In Italian. Collages by Vangelis Sacandaris; drawings by George Schneeman; preface by Mara Cini. Inscribed by the author: "To Hanuman son of the wind / Rita Degli Esposti / Maggio 1991 / Venezia." Covers slightly scuffed, with a......
Elegy: For Walt Whitman
New York: Anonym Press, 1968. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [10] pp. A bright, essentially fine copy with the faintest of bumps to corners. 8vo.
The Scorpion
Berkeley: The D Press, 1975. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. 1/300 copies designed and printed by Wesley Tanner. Faint bump, otherwise fine. 8vo.
From the Flow
Durham, England: Taxvs, 1983. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 29 pp. Cover illustration by Alan Halsey. Two small scuffs to wrapper, otherwise Fine. 8vo.
Proxima Centauri
London: Agenda Editions, 1972. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [20] pp. Agenda Editions 4. 1/500 copies of the author's first book. Fine. Narrow 8vo.
Last Year, This Year, Now
London: Turret Books, 1972. Sewn wrappers in dustjacket. One of 100 copies numbered and signed by the author (no. 83). 11 pp. Corners of wrappers lightly bumped, and a faint hint of sunning to spine, otherwise Fine. 8vo.
Clovin's Head
Los Angeles: Red Hill Press, 1976. First printing. Wrappers. 40 pp., small square 16mo. Red Hill 32. Very faint, tiny stains to cover, otherwise as new.
Recollections of Gran Apacheria
San Francisco: Turtle Island Foundation, 1974. First Edition. Paperback. (44) pp., narrow 4to. Printed on newsprint, with comic-book style cover by Michael Myers. Save for the usual slight tanning to page edges, fine copy with only the lightest of wear to the fragile covers.
Some Business Recently Transacted in the White World
West Newbury, MA: Frontier Press, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. 83 pp., 16mo. Published in wrappers only. Short prose, a few pieces collected from periodicals and anthologies, but most previously (and latterly) unpublished. Very good in lightly scuffed wrappers.