San Francisco: Deliriodendron Press, n.d. First printing. (4) pp., 8.5 x 11 inches. Single sheet folded once to make four pages. Cover collage image, presumably by the poet, based on a courtroom scene from a Tijuana bible, with heads and word balloon replaced to match the content of the poem.....
Topanga, CA: LOVE Press, 1967. First Edition. Folded sheets in wrapper. [12] pp. Cover by George Herms (important California assemblage artist, and publisher of LOVE Press). Birthday edition of 300 copies. This copy unsewn, the folded signature of text laid in to the wrapper, and inscribed by the author. Fading.....
Topanga, CA: LOVE Press, 1968. Later Printing. Sewn in wrappers. [12] pp. Cover by George Herms (important California assemblage artist, and publisher of LOVE Press). "Student" edition of 300 copies. Fading to wrappers, which have light bumps and creases, and trace of price sticker removal; internally very good. Small square.....
Toronto: Weed/flower Press, 1968. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated. Note by Edward Dorn. Minor wear to wrappers including small area of tiny pinpricks near head of spine. 8vo.
Aptos, CA: Piggy Bank Press, 1996. First edition. Pamphlet. A single folded page, printed on both sides.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978. First Edition. Wrappers. 117 pp. With a preface by the editors. Fifty-five poems by twenty-seven poets, primarily from the post-1965 generation little known in English, but including a few (now) well-known figures such as Herbert, Rozewicz, and Szymborska. The editors worked closely on.....
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Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1984. First printing. Wraps. 8vo, 124 pp. Signed by the poet. Wrappers lightly handled, top of fore-edge and top edges of a few pages lightly bumped.
New York: New Directions, 1990. Wraps. Narrow 8vo, 60 pp.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1955. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 34 pp. A volume in the monthly Bibliographical Series of Supplements to "British Book News," published for the British Council and the National Book League. An engaging study of one poet by another. With select bibliography. Small piece torn from.....
London: Softly Loudly Books, 1971. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 14 pp. Softly Loudly No. 2, with artwork by Andrew Eden. 1/300 copies; this copy inscribed by the author, and with two holograph corrections in his hand in the first two lines of the poem. Very small piece missing from top.....
Brunswick, ME: Coyote Books, 2004. First printing. (28) pp., small 8vo. Saddle-stapled into plain wrappers, in printed dust-jacket. As new. A long poem on politics, dedicated to Ed Dorn, and taking its title from a line in Piero Heliczer's poem "carillon booty." From a stash of the publisher's last copies.....
South Harpswell, ME: Blackberry, 1986. First printing. (13) pp., 8vo. Photocopy pages saddle-stapled into offset card covers. Printed from the author's handwritten text and drawings, with eleven photographs by Roland Scholz. As new. Stefan Hyner is a poet, editor, and translator who works as a cabinet maker in Rohrhof, Germany.....
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. Bump to lower corners of boards, with resultant faint crease to first few pages, otherwise a very good, bright copy in equally clean, bright jacket with small tears at corners. 8vo.
Ithaca, NY: Stone-Marrow Press, 1974. Wrappers. First Edition (of 500 copies). 55 pp. Inscribed and signed to Michael Cuddihy, publisher of the author's first book. Wrappers a bit rubbed and edgeworn. 8vo.
Portland, ME: Mosher Press, 1929. Paperback. First Edition (of 500 copies). [5] pp. Scarce pamphlet from the press; OCLC locates only one copy. Sewn in a single signature. Wrappers present but detached, and with chipped edges and two tiny stains; interior clean and unmarked. 16mo.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. [8] pp., stapled into printed wrappers. The "unpublished edition." A memoir of a particular literary milieu in late-50s New York, commisioned by John Martin as a free gift to be included with copies of books by George Economou, Jerome Rothenberg, Armand Schwerner.....
Santa Fe, NM: Giligia Press, 1968. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [12] pp. With portraits of the authors by Sid Hausman. 1/1000 copies "published on the occasion of a first reading by the poets at St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico." This copy signed by both authors. Light soiling to.....
Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1972. First Edition. Wrappers. Author's first book, the trade issue in wrappers. Capra Chapbook Series Number Four. Dampstain to one page, otherwise very good. Square 16mo.
Buffalo, NY: Audit, 1967. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. [18] pp. 1/175 copies. Early (third?) book of poems. Mild creases near spine, and very faint sunning to wrappers, otherwise very good. Narrow oblong 8vo.
Denver: Alley Press, 1975. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. Edition of 200 numbered copies. Slightest hint of handling to wrappers, otherwise a fine copy of this uncommon pamphlet. 8vo.
San Francisco: Open Skull, 1969. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated. Edition of 500 copies. Wrappers faintly sunned at spine and lightly bumped; trace of sticker removal on first page; still a very good copy. 8vo.
Ann Arbor, MI: Bear Claw Press, 1978. First Edition. Wrappers. Illustrated by Tom Pohrt. Warmly inscribed to poet and publisher Bill Fox, thanking him for "early encouragement and patience." (Some of the poems in this volume originally appeared in Kuzma's A Problem of High Water, published by Fox's West Coast.....
Best Cellar Press, 1978. Wrappers. Pebble #17. 168 pp. Light handling, edgewear and dustsoiling to wrappers. 8vo.
Chicago: ad hoc press, 1977. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 1/200 copies; poems. Warmly inscribed by the author to poet Ted Berrigan, "whose book this partly is." Edges of wrappers sunned, and some small spots on front cover, otherwise very good. 12mo.
New York: New Directions, 1953. First Edition. Boards. 408 pp. The fourteenth volume in this series of "annual exhibition galleries of new and divergent trends in contemporary letters." This volume includes an extensive anthology of prose poetry edited by Charles Henri Ford, with forty-four contributors; a short novel by Gide.....
