The Harbormaster of Hong Kong
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1993. First printing. Paperback. 84 pp. 12mo. Sun & Moon Classics 32. Slight curling to covers, otherwise as new.
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1993. First printing. Paperback. 84 pp. 12mo. Sun & Moon Classics 32. Slight curling to covers, otherwise as new.
Berkeley: The Figures, 1980. First printing. Paperback. 98 pp., 6 x 9 inches. 1/650 copies. Light wear to corners and faint scuffing to wrappers, otherwise very good.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Paperback. 15 pp., 4to. Illustrations by Sherril Jaffe. According to Morrow and Cooney's bibliography of the press, 56 copies of the printed sheets of this edition, intended for the hardbound issue, were rendered unusable when the top edges of the double-folded sheets.....
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First printing. Pamphlet. 10 pp. Small 16mo, one signature sewn in stiff printed wrappers. "A Christmas Greeting from the Black Sparrow Press," with poems by Bromige, Kelly and Wakoski. Cover slightly creased at corners; otherwise fine.
Toronto: The Women's Press, 1988. First English language edition. Paperback. 163 pp., 8vo. Author's first book of essays, published as La Letter aerienne in 1985; here translated into English by Marlene Wildeman. Inscribed in French by the author. Light shelfwear and slight darkening to wrappers.
Montreal: Guernica Editions, 1986. First Edition in English. Paperback. 109 pp., 8vo. Volume 27 in the Essential Poets series. Translated by Barbara Godard. This copy warmly inscribed by the author (in French). Light shelfwear, otherwise very good.
Montreal: Guernica, 1986. First edition thus. Paperback. 93 pp. 16mo, perfect-bound in wrappers. Inscribed in French by the author. Covers slightly scuffed at head and heel of spine. Some yellowing to pages; otherwise internally fine.
San Francisco: Pterodactyl Press, 1965. First printing. Pamphlet. 8 pp. 8vo, single signature stapled in wrappers. Text printed letterpress in red and black. Covers darkened along spine and with a few small stains; internally fine.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. First printing. Paperback. 31 pp., 4to. Published for the Walker Art Center by MIT Press. Very slight bumping to corners and soiling to cover, otherwise about fine in stapled wrappers.
Bordeaux, France: Format Américain, 2000. First printing. (13) pp., square 12mo. Brown's 1993 book Crush (later included in Polyverse), translated "from the American" by Holly Dye and Éric Giraud. Very mild wear/bumps to corners, otherwise fine in saddle-stapled wrappers.
New York: Telephone Books, 1974. Side-stapled in card covers. First Edition (of 300 copies). 24 pp. Light edgewear to covers, corners lightly bumped, still a bright and internally fine copy, essentially as new. 4to.
New Haven, CT: Phylum, 2004. First printing. Pamphlet. (16) pp. 8vo, one signature handsewn in wrappers. Signed by the author. "Out of series" copy from an edition of 100. As new.
Muscatine, IA: Prairie Press, 1941. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. 1/250 copies.Cheever 40. Gratefully inscribed by the author to the printer/publisher, Carroll Coleman; about the nicest association possible for this title. Light creasing and sunning to oversized wrappers, otherwise very good. 8vo.
Espanola, NM: Tres Chicas, 2006. First printing. Paperback. 87 pp., 8vo. Signed by the author.
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.
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.....
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1999. First printing. Paperback. (16) pp., 8vo. Stapled into printed wrappers. Six poems, published as a New Year's greeting for friends of the press. Fine.
Los Angeles: Astro Artz, 1980. First printing. Paperback. 99 pp., oblong 4to. With an introduction by Llyn Foulkes. Extensively illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white. Very good in edgeworn and scuffed wrappers, with a small and unobtrusive repair to the top of the spine.
Walla Walla, WA: Artist, 1995. First printing. (12) pp., 6.75 x 10.75 inches. Printed by hand from foundry type, original linoleum engravings, and plant materials at the Whitman College Book Arts Lab, in an edition of twenty-five signed and numbered copies. Unbound sheets in stiff card folder with printed cover.....
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.
Canton, NY: Institute for Further Studies, 1973. First edition. Pamphlet. 41 pp. 8vo, single signature stapled in wrappers. Number 12 in the "Curriculum of the Soul" series of pamphlets. Illustrations by Colette Butterick. Covers sunned along spine and slightly creased in lower forecorner; internally fine.
Yonkers, NY: Tin Man, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. 57 pp., 8vo. Very good in lightly worn and soiled wrappers.
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.
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.....
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.