The Pensive Man (The Poor & Miserable Traits of the Man)
Ashland, KY: Bullhead, 1995. First Edition. Bullhead Pamphlet Series #2. [17] pp. Poems and drawings. Fine in stapled wrappers. 32mo.
Ashland, KY: Bullhead, 1995. First Edition. Bullhead Pamphlet Series #2. [17] pp. Poems and drawings. Fine in stapled wrappers. 32mo.
Dhaka: Ananya, 1997. First printing. 96 pp., 8vo. Sewn signatures in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the Bengali by Kabir Chowdhury. Light marking to covers, and mild corner bump, otherwise very good. Inscribed to Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi. Taslima Nasreen, born in Bengladesh in 1962, is a feminist and humanist.....
New York: C Press, 1971. First printing. (27) pp., 8.5 x 11 inches. Side-stapled into printed card covers. Published in an edition of 250 copies. Mimeograph text, with offset covers drawn and printed by Philip Whalen. Some toning and spotting to edges, and with one tiny chip to edge of.....
N.p. Privately printed. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [12] pp. A series of ten poems, photocopied from the poet's holograph, most likely in a very small edition. Very good in lightly marked self-wrappers. 8vo.
St. Croix: 1981. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated. Signed by the author on both front and rear covers, and additionally inscribed and signed by him on dedication page. Wrappers lightly scuffed and soiled; vertical crease and small stain to rear wrapper. Uncommon work by this Afro-Caribbean writer. 8vo.
London: Fulcrum Press, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Errata slip tipped to copyright page. Very light shelfwear, otherwise fine in a very good, rubbed dustjacket with some creasing at corners. 8vo.
San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1969. First Edition. [45] pp., 4.75 x 8.75 inches. Saddle-stapled into printed card covers. Light wear to covers, otherwise very good. Number 4 in the Nova Broadcast pamphlet series, featuring concrete and found poems and graphics.
New York: Grove Press, 1960. First Edition. Wrappers. 224 pp., illustrated. Four plays (Try! Try! by O'Hara; The Heroes by Ashbery; The Bait by Merrill; and Absalom by Abel) with an introduction by Herbert Machiz. Mild bump to lower corner, faint red stripe across top edge, and publisher's price sticker.....
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1991. First paperback edition. 188 pp., 6 X 8.25 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Translated by Lysander Kemp and Margaret Sayers Peden; drawings by Barry Moser. Light wear and soiling to covers, otherwise about fine.
Cleveland, OH: Bits Press, 1978. First printing. (32) pp., 5.75 x 8.75 inches. A Bits Chapbook. Printed letterpress and stapled into printed card covers. Cover illustration from a photoengraving (“zincograph”) reproducing a woodcut by William Blake (“for Thornton’s 1821 edition of Virgil”). Light rumpling to edges of oversized covers, and.....
New York: Jargon/Corinth, 1960. First printing. 160 pp., 6.25 x 9.25 inches. Designed and edited by Jargon Press, and published in association with Corinth Books. One of 75 numbered copies, specially bound by hand in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels pasted down. Issued without dust-jacket. Spine label.....
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1966. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. A story, first published in the Montevallo Review. Attractively designed and printed. Light bump to corner, and very faint spotting to cover, otherwise very good. Small 8vo.
Berlin: Literarisches Colloquium, 1969. First Thus. Wrappers. Translated and annotated by Klaus Reichert, with cover photograph by Gerard Malanga. Light edgewear, otherwise very good. Square 16mo.
Bolinas, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1977. Wrappers. 125 pp. White wrappers a bit darkened. 8vo.
Midwestern Writers Publishing House, 1981. First Edition. Pamphlet Series Number Three. 8 pp. Slight age toning to wrappers; one corner very lightly bumped; otherwise very good in stapled wrappers. 32mo.
London: Permanent Press, 1978. First Edition. Wrappers. 41 pp. 1/550 copies. Cover illustration by David Chaloner. Preface by Jerome Rothenberg. A poignant sequence of poems in response to the death of a friend. Laid in is a Lionhead Publishing postcard, printed at Membrane Press, of Olson's poem "A Kind of.....
Coach House Press, 1967. Later printing. Wraps. 8vo, 77 pp. Signed by the author. Tiny nicks to head and heel of spine, top of fore-edge lightly bumped.
London, Ontario: Brick Books, 1991. First printing thus. 52 pp., 5.5 x 5.5 inches. Sewn signatures glued into printed card covers. Scattered foxing to edges, and tiny nick to corner of front cover, otherwise very good. First printing of this bilingual ”traveller’s” edition, with French translation by Lola Lemire Tostevin.....
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1979. First Edition. Wrappers. 343 pp. Landmark anthology comprising nine long poems (by Robert Kroetsch, Stuart MacKinnon, Daphne Marlatt, Don McKay, Robin Blaser, Frank Davey, George Bowering, Roy Kiyooka, bpNichol), with a statement by and bibliography of each author, and an introduction by the editor. Very.....
N.p. Jargon Society, 1956. First Edition. Wrappers in dustjacket. First edition, second binding of scarce early title, printed by the Windhover Press. 1/200 copies of the regular edition, published as Jargon Sixteen. Frontispiece by Joe Fiore. Margaret Randall's copy, with her signature. Faint dampstain to small area in upper corner.....
New York: Grove Press, 1966. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Evergreen Playscript No. 3, published in wrappers only. Vertical scrape on back cover, very faint bump to foot of spine, still about very good. 8vo.
Honolulu: Chain, 1997. First printing. 259 pp., 6 x 9 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. As new. An issue of this always adventurous journal, in this case devoted to procedure, process, and constraint. Contributors include Michael Basinski, Dodie Bellamy, Caroline Bergvall, Maria Damon, Tina Darragh, Jean Day, Joel Felix.....
New York: Trobar, 1961. First printing. Staplebound. Wide 8vo, pp. unnumbered. Author's first book. Wrappers edgeworn, page edges browned, corners bumped.
Markasan, WI: Pentagram Press, 1981. First Edition. Marbled paper wrappers. One of 164 copies, signed by each author/artist at their contribution. [9] pp., one color illustration. Printed letterpress from handset type, on mould made Nideggen paper. Wrappers marbled by Robie Liscomb and printer/publisher Michael Tarachow, using Irish Moss (Carrageen) gathered.....
Toronto: Exile Editions, 1983. First Edition. Wrappers. 60 pp. Illustrations by Mario Mascarelli. With the original Serbo-Croatian texts and English translations printed en face. "Pavlovic's poetic search for human experience in the culture of Lepenski Vir (the Whirlpool), a neolithic site discovered in the valley of the Danube..." Fine. Narrow.....