Rune Power
Yonkers, NY: Tin Man, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. 57 pp., 8vo. Very good in lightly worn and soiled wrappers.
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Roots
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.
Burnt Aces and the Shangri-Las
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.....
The Mountain Climbers
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.
The Watcher and Other Stories
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. First printing. 181 pp., 8vo. Translated by William Weaver & Archibald Colquhoun. Cloth over boards in printed dust-jacket. Book fine; jacket slightly rubbed, with some mild creasing and one small closed tear, but still very good.
Paint: A Psychedelic Primer
Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006. First printing. 71 pp., 7.75 x 10.5 inches. Sewn signatures glued into printed card covers. Exhibition catalogue, illustrated with thirty-one black-and-white figures and sixteen full-color plates. Two tiny abrasions to front cover, otherwise as new. Uncommon catalogue devoted to British Columbian painters since the 1960s.....
From Varese
Albuquerque, NM: Desert Review Press. First Edition. Folded broadside. A single 6.5 x 20 inch sheet, folded twice vertically, printing the poem "From Varese & 'river up 28 feet'." Pinholes in creased corners, and soiling to "cover," otherwise very good. Square 12mo.
Gilgamesh/Marouf the Cobbler/Faust, Part One (The Collected Works of Caravan of Dreams Theater, Vol. I)
London: Synergetic Press, 1983. First Edition. Wrappers. 217 pp. Light handling and edgewear to wrappers, corners lightly bumped, otherwise a bright, fresh copy. 8vo.
Somebody Like You
London: Andre Deutsch, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 48 pp., 8vo. The second book of poems by this leading Israeli poet to appear in English, and an early volume of translations by Stephen Mitchell. A fine copy in lovely, bright dustjacket with just a touch of wear to extremities.
Paul Carroll Interviewed by John Logan
Tucson: Interview Press, n.d. [ca. 1965]. First printing. Stapled Wraps. 12mo, 20 2p. Wrappers lightly handled.
Contra Mortem (signed)
Johnson, VT: Crow's Mark, 1967. Limited edition. Sewn in Wraps. 12mo, 33 pp. Edition of 250 copies. This copy numbered (142) and signed by the author. With errata slip. Some edgewear and sunning to wrappers.
Dark World
Santa Cruz, CA: Kayak, 1974. First printing. Paperback. 40 pp., small square 8vo. One of 1250 copies. Some darkening to edges and spine of wrappers, otherwise very good.
First Language
Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1994. First American edition. Paperback. 77 pp. 8vo, sewn in wrappers. Review copy with a letter from the publisher laid in, addressed to Mitchell Levitas at the New York Times Book Review. Winner of the T. S. Eliot prize.
A Fixed, Formal Arrangement
Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, 2008. First printing. 105 pp., tall narrow 8vo. Book 2 of 5 in the TrenchArt Tracer Series. Back-cover image by Ken Ehrlich and Susan Simpson. With an introduction by Danielle Dutton. As new, perfect-bound in wrappers.
A Pamphlet of Essays occasioned by an Exhibition of Paintings at the Guggenheim Museum, Fall 1966, New York
New York: F. Castle, 1966. First printing. Paperback. 32 pp., 8vo. Five essays prompted by the group exhibition "Systemic Painting" curated by Lawrence Alloway; Lee, Gourfain, and Brunelle were among the artists in the exhibition. Contents: "A Systematic Revery from Abstraction to Now" by Lee; "Remarks to a Friend" by.....
Picabia
Paris: Éditions du Félin, 1995. 256 pp., 5.25 X 8.25 inches. Perfect-bound in printed wrappers. A biography of the artist Francis Picabia, in French, with eight pages of reproductions in color and black-and-white. Small stain to fore-edge, previous owner's ink name and date to half-title, otherwise very good.
Record As Artwork
London: Royal College of Art, 1973. First printing. (28) pp., 7 x 7 inches. Stapled into printed card covers. Translated from the Italian by The Linguists’ Club. Book designed by Laurence Bradbury. With black-&-white illustrations throughout. Light edge-wear and very mild creases to covers; gift inscription on inside front cover;.....
The Laurels of Lake Constance
New York: Viking, 1977. First Edition. Boards. A Richard Seaver Book. Signed by author and translator (who were married at about the time that this book appeared in English). Very fine in like jacket. 8vo.
John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture, 1954-1985
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1986. First printing. 239 pp., large 4to. Cloth in photo-illustrated dust-jacket. With an essay by Klaus Kertess, an edited transcript of interviews with the artist, notes, appendix ("Couches"), chronology, exhibition history, bibliography, and index, and featuring 313 color plates plus 371 black-and-white illustrations. Mild bump.....
Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin
New York: The Leonard Press, 1922. First printing. Hardcover. 48 pp., small 8vo. With an introduction by Scott Nearing. Poems of the well-known Wobbly (the first poem, "Mourn Not the Dead," was set to music and recorded in the 1990s by Steven Taylor, poet and member of the revived Fugs).....
Lascaux
n.p. Delos Press, 1998. First printing. Paperback. (8) pp., oblong 16mo. Edition of 150 numbered copies, printed letterpress at The Redlake Press in Shropshire, England, and sewn into printed wrappers. A poem in four parts, translated by Mark Hutchinson. Scarce; OCLC finds no copies. As new.
The Presence of Rene Char
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 336 pp. 8vo, cloth. Fine, seemingly unread copy in a very lightly worn jacket.
As I Stand at this Window
Berkeley: Oyez, 1970. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [8] pp. 1/250 copies designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh for friends of the poet and press. This copy inscribed by the author. Faint offsetting to front endsheet, and rumpling of foredge of oversized wrappers, otherwise very good. Small square 8vo.
How Smoothly the Gulls Turn
N.p. (Berkeley): Oyez, 1977. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. [6] pp. 1/250 copies designed and printed by Don Gray for friends of the author and the press. Signed by publisher Bob Hawley and his wife Dorothy. Faintest traces of soiling to wrapper, otherwise fine. Small 8vo.
Divertissement De Coin De Rue
Kent, OH: Kent State University Libraries, 1990. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [24] pp. "A One Act Play in French for the American Stage," thought lost, which turned up among the papers that playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie (to whom it is dedicated) donated to Kent State. With an extensive introduction by.....