I Went To See My True Love
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.
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.....
Minneapolis, MN: Meridel Le Sueur & David Tilsen, 1975. Fourth printing. Wrappers. 57 pp., square 8vo. Illustrated by Deborah LeSueur. The original edition, published by Vanilla Press, went through three printings; the author was assisted in publishing this reissue by Midwest Villages & Voices. Includes an updated bibliography and new.....
Santa Fe, NM: Writer's Editions, 1935. First Edition. Cloth. Author's first book. 1/1000 press-numbered copies printed at the Rydal Press and signed by the author. Faint foxing to endsheets and tanning to page edges, light wear to extremities, gift inscription, otherwise very good, lacking the dustjacket. 8vo.
New York: Sun, 1976. First Edition. Cloth. The uncommon hardcover issue, signed by the author. As new, in a near fine dustjacket with one short closed tear. 8vo.
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1951. First printing. 55 pp., 5.5 x 8 inches. Cloth over boards in printed dust-jacket. Faint touch of wear to extremities, otherwise about fine in a very good, lightly soiled jacket with a few small scrapes and tiny edge chips. Lowell's second trade book, the follow-up.....
Bangkok: Yen Agat Books, 2004. First printing. (18) pp., small square 8vo. Saddle-stapled into printed wrappers, with a cover illustration by the author, who has also enigmatically inscribed the book to an unstated recipient in the year after publication. Faint vertical crease, otherwise very good. An uncommon early book of.....
Portland, OR: Fredrik Averin, 2014. First printing. Square broadside, 20 x 20 inches, printed silkscreen in two colors on Mohawk Via 80 lb. cover stock, in an edition of forty-two copies. Bilingual English/Swedish text; typography and translation by the publisher. New. A poem interpreted through the interplay of language, space.....
Victoria, TX: Chax Press, 2015. First printing. 335 pp., large square 8vo. Perfect-bound in illustrated wrappers. Edited by Anne Tardos and Michael O'Driscoll, with preface, introduction, and notes. New. The long-awaited collection of all sixty of the poet's "Light Poems," a form that he devised in the early 1960s and.....
University of Massachusetts Press, 1971. First U.S. edition. Cloth. Small square 4to. Edited by John C. Weston. Gift inscription and ink stamp on front free endpaper; jacket edgeworn, with one small closed tear at front, tiny chips at extremities, and a couple of small scrapes.
London: Oxford University Press, 1963. First printing. Cloth. 8vo, 45 pp. Top edge dusty, pages tanned. Jacket sunned, lightly soiled and edgeworn.
New York: SZ/Press, 1984. First printing. 50 pp., 6 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed wrappers. Introduction by Ira Cohen. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout. A lovely copy, essentially as new, inscribed. A posthumously published collection of prose poems and calligraphy by the legendary musician, writer, visual artist, and publisher MacLise.....
London: New Authors Ltd./Hutchinson, 1968. First Edition. Boards. The author's first trade book (after a limited edition of the title sequence, published the previous year), much less common in the original than in the first U.S. edition. Sunning to edges of boards, and faint offsetting to front endsheet, otherwise a......
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. A few pages roughly opened on bottom edge, and a few uncut, otherwise a very good copy of an early title, lacking the jacket. Small square 8vo.
Tucson, AZ: Ironwood Press, 1981. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [14] pp. As new; uncommon. 8vo.
New York: Pequod Press, 1979. First printing. 15) pp., 5.75 x 8.5 inches. Stapled into printed card covers. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg, and illustration by James Kearns. “Handset in Lydian Medium 10 point by R’lene Howell Dahlberg at the Pequod Press, November 1979.” Covers toned at the edges from age.....
Port Charlotte, FL: Runaway Spoon, 1989. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated. Visual/Concrete. Introduction by Lloyd Dunn. Very good in lightly sunned and edgeworn wrappers. 32mo.
New York: Boss Books, 1982. Stapled wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies (no. 169). Unpaginated. Inscribed by the author to Alice (Notley), Anselm and Edmund (Berrigan). Wrappers edgeworn, otherwise fine. 8vo.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. 11 pp. Morrow and Cooney 38. 1/233 numbered and signed copies in wrappers, from a total edition of 313, designed and printed by Saul and Lilian Marks at the Plantin Press. Wrappers soiled along edges and with a couple.....
Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2004. First printing. Paperback. 16mo, 83 pp. Winner of the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award for 2004. As new.