Lunch: A Narrative
n.p. Privately Printed, 1983. First printing. Paperback. Folded letterpress broadside, printed on both sides. Edition of 100.
n.p. Privately Printed, 1983. First printing. Paperback. Folded letterpress broadside, printed on both sides. Edition of 100.
Paris; New York: Contact Editions; The Macaulay Company, 1926; 1929. First printings. 179 pp., 5.75 x 7.75 inches; 238 pp., 5.5 x 7.75 inches. Two volumes, housed in a custom-made two compartment box. The first edition is in the original binding of sewn signatures glued into plain wrappers, with a......
Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1983. First Edition. Cloth. True first edition of Coetzee's first Booker Prize winning novel. Previous owner's name, and a very slight bit of cock to spine, but still a very good copy in a very good jacket with light edgewear. 8vo.
New York: Hammer Galleries, 1962. First printing. 64, 64, (110) pp., 4.5 x 6.75 inches. Three volumes — one in printed cloth over boards, the other two sewn signatures glued into card covers, in printed dust-jackets — housed in slipcase of printed paper over boards. Printed in Paris by Imprimerie.....
Brooklyn, NY: Red Balloon, 1979. Wrappers. Single sheet folded once. Lightly handled, small faint stain, ink note on front. 8vo.
n.p. Author, 2006. First printing. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. Letterpress broadside, printed on cover stock in an unstated but small edition. A poem that works simultaneously on visual and semantic levels, with attention-grabbing typography (using ornamental and outline fonts) that enacts the text. Very faint edge creasing, otherwise fine.
New York: United Artists, 1981. Paperback. 84 pp., tall 8vo. First Edition (of 750 copies). Very light handling and edgewear to wrappers, otherwise fine.
Interim Books, 1963. First printing. Paperback. (19) pp., square 64mo. Edition of 300 numbered copies. This copy number "00" and stamped "Complimentary Copy," with number 52 on facing page; i.e. number 352. Printed by Martin Levitt; distributed by Interim Books. A poem in 11 parts, followed by a line illustration.....
Portland, OR: Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Press, 2019. First printing. (32) pp., 5.5 x 8.25 inches. Stapled into printed card covers. Design by Aeron Bergman. Eco-Speculative Pamphlet Series #1, published by the low-residency MFA writing program at the Pacific NW College of Art, and edited by Jay Ponteri.....
Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1987. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [12] pp. An article, reprinted from the October 1986 issue of the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (Vol. 96, part 2), and published by the Society. Printed at the Meriden-Stinehour Press. Precedes author's celebrated first book,The Road from Coorain.....
Great Barrington, MA: Figures, 1987. First printing. Paperback. (20) pp, small square 8vo. Stapled into printed wrappers. Two tiny pinpoint spots to bottom of front cover, not affecting image, and faint soiling to back cover; otherwise a fine and unread copy.
New York and Bolinas: Adventures in Poetry / Big Sky, 1975. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, 99 pp. Wrappers very lightly rubbed and edgeworn, and a touch of fading to spine lettering (as usual), otherwise a tight, unread copy.
Fire Exit. Folded broadside. Single large sheet folded three times. A collection of poems constituting the July (1975) issue of Corbett's magazine Fire Exit. Lightly dustsoiled, otherwise very good. 8vo.
London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1981. First printing. 64 pp., small oblong 8vo. Sewn signatures bound into illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Regina Cornwell; notes on the artists and filmographies by Cornwell, Simon Field, A.L. Rees, and David Curtis. Exhibition organized by David Curtis; catalogue designed by Andrew Barron. Photographs.....
New York: The New Press, 1994. First printing. lxii + 87 pp., 9.25 x 12.25 inches. Cloth and printed paper over boards. Twenty-five color and sixty-two black-&-white illustrations, including numerous die-cut pages, followed by essays, an interview with the artist, excerpts from interviews with museum docents, audience responses, checklist of.....
Fort Lauderdale: Roman Books, 1964. First printing. Paperback. 86 pp. 8vo, perfect-bound in printed wrappers. Printed by Auerhahn press in an edition of 1050. Mimeographed CV of the author, circa 1966, laid in; possibly a presentation copy? Very slightly bumped in lower forecorner; some yellowing to edges of text. Covers.....
Athens: Eleftheros Typos, 1989. First printing. 48 pp., 5.5 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Light rubbing to covers and age-toning to page edges, otherwise very good. Corso’s early collection, translated into Greek by Giorgos Mplanas. Scarce; no copies noted in WorldCat.
Boston: Shambhala, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. 198 pp., small 8vo. A historically informed mystery revolving around the life of the twelfth-century Provencal troubador Marcebru. Light shelfwear, otherwise as new.
London: Gogmagog Private Press, 1967. First printing. (24) pp., 4 x 7.75 inches. Patterned paper over boards, with printed spine label, issued without dust-jacket. With three two-color intaglio prints. Designed, illustrated, printed, and bound by the author in an edition of one hundred numbered and signed copies; this is one.....
Albuquerque, NM: Living Batch Bookstore, 1993. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [4] pp. Privately printed on the occasion of the poet's receipt of an honorary doctorate from the University of New Mexico. Oblong 16mo.
Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Divers Press, 1954. First Edition. Paperback. 141 pp., square 16mo. Cover by Rene Laubies. Light edgewear and mild soiling; a very nice copy. Creeley's fourth book, and first collection of stories.
Christchurch, New Zealand: Hawk Press, 1976. First printing. Paperback. Small 8vo. 1/750 copies, handset and printed, sewn into wrappers with printed dustjacket. Light rubbing to jacket and faint trace of sticker removal to back cover, otherwise near fine.
New York: New Directions, 1979. First Edition. 121 pp., 5.25 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. A minuscule bit of curling to the covers, otherwise about fine. Inscribed warmly by the author to a friend and fellow poet.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. (48) pp., small square 8vo. 1/1500 copies in wrappers (out of a total edition of 1800). A play for voices, with monoprints by Bobbie Creeley (Bobbie Louise Hawkins). Previous owner's signature and light shelfwear, otherwise very good.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Paperback. 71 pp., 16mo. Monoprints by Bobbie Creeley (Bobbie Louise Hawkins). The trade issue in wrappers. A bit of sunning to wrappers around the spine, otherwise essentially as new.