New York: Fairybooks, 1982. Hardcover. The 1982 1st edition. #93 OF ONLY 100 COPIES ISSUED, EACH SIGNED BY THE POET CARL MORSE at the limitation. Clean and Near Fine in its stiff, pictorial cardboard, with just a touch of wear along the spine. Issued out of New York's historic London... More about The Curse of the Future Fairy
Cleveland: The World Publishing Co., 1946. Cloth. A handsome copy of the 1946 1st thus, limited to 950 numbered copies. Clean and Near Fine, with bright gilt-design to the panels and bright gilt-lettering along the spine. Octavo, 267 pgs. Including photographs by Edward Steichen, Dorothea Lange, Berenice Abbott, Lewis Hine... More about Poems of the Midwest
Leeds, UK: Location Press, 1966-1967. Original wraps. 3 issues (#9, #11 and #15) of this impressive poetry journal issued out of Leeds in the mid to late 60s. All 3 issues clean and crisp and VG to VG+ in their stapled wrappers, with just a touch of light rubbing or... More about TLALOC (3 Issues --#9, #11 and #15
Paris: Editions Textes Pretextes, 1946. Louise Hervieu. Original wraps. A crisp, very well-preserved copy of this elegant 1946 edition of the Poems of Charles Baudelaire. Wonderfully illustrated thruout by Louise Hervieu, whose drawings nicely complement the text. Bright and Near Fine in its loose signatures (as issued). #305 of 330... More about Poemes de Baudelaire
New Orleans: Loujon Press (Lyle Stuart, Inc.), 1965. Noel Rockmore. Original wraps. One of the scarcest of all Charles Bukowski limitations, #7 OF THE FIRST 10 ORIGINAL COPIES ISSUED BY LOUJON PRESS -- ALL 10 WITH A LETTER BY BUKOWSKI PASTED-IN BETWEEN THE SIGNATURE LEAF AND THE LIMITATION LEAF. AT... More about Crucifix in a Deathhand (One of the Original 10 Copies with Pasted-In Letter
Cleveland: Ghost Press, 1967. T.L. Kryss. Original wraps. A solid copy of the June 1967 1st edition, limited to 500 copies. Very impressive collection of tributes to Jim Lowell, the renowned Cleveland bookseller whose Asphodel Bookshop was an early champion, often at considerable legal peril, of the underground poetry and... More about A Tribute to Jim Lowell
New York: Clement Keefe, 1916. 1st. Original Wraps. The 1916 1st edition of this charming collection of patriotic World War I poems. Solid and VG in its pictorial wrappers, with light staining to the panels and light tearing at the spine ends. 16mo, 46 pgs. More about Ballads of the Maywe and Other War Poems
Seattle: 1967-68. Original wraps. An impressive 1967-68 run of 8 of the first 9 issues of Litmus, the experimental poetry magazine edited by Charles Potts and printed by Ben Hiatt in Seattle. Each of these 8 issues (#5-6 is a double-issue) is clean and VG or better in its pictorial... More about Litmus: Issues #1, #2, #3, #4, #5-6 (Double Issue), #7, #9
New York: New Directions, 1995. 1/4 Vellum. A sharp copy of this lavish 1995 New Directions signed/limited. ONE OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY CHARLES SIMIC at the limitation. Furthermore, THIS COPY IS ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED at the front free endpaper BY CHARLES SIMIC TO AUTHOR JEAN STEIN ("Edie {Sedgwick}: An American... More about Displaced Person
East Hampton, NY: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2000. 1st. Original Wraps. A pristine copy of this 2000 catalogue, issued to coincide with the exhibition "Donald Baechler: New Paintings" June-July in East Hampton at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller. Fine in its light-green stapled wrappers. 12mo, 500 copies issued. More about That Same Damn Flower
West Lafayette, Indiana: Charles Tidler, 1968. Original wraps. A clean, well-preserved copy of the May 1968 issue #3 of Wordjock, produced out of West Lafayette, Indiana by editor/publisher Charles Tidler. #291 of 410 copies done. Solid and Near Fine in its stapled, pictorial (collaged) wrappers. Thin quarto, contributors include d.a.... More about Wordjock #3
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou, 1981. Original wraps. SIGNED BY CLARK COOLIDGE on the title page. A solid copy to boot of the 1981 1st edition. Tight and VG in its printed orange wrappers, with minor rubbing --and one slight abrasion-- along the rear panel. 16mo, printed by Tombouctou Books out of Bolinas, CA. More about American Ones (Noise & Presentiments
Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1987. Original wraps. A nice Association copy: INSCRIBED BY CLARK COOLIDGE TO ALICE NOTLEY on the front free endpaper. Underneath Coolidge's signature he wrote "20#87", possibly denoting a limitation? A clean, Near Fine copy to boot in its stapled, pictorial wrappers. 12mo, cover and frontispiece... More about Melencolia
Berkeley, CA: The Figures, 1982. Original wraps. A very nice Association copy: WARMLY INSCRIBED IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION BY CLARK COOLIDGE TO TED BERRIGAN (AND TO ALICE NOTLEY) on the front feee endpaper. A tight, solid copy to boot of the 1982 1st edition. Crisp and VG+ in its pictorial wrappers, with... More about MINE: The One That Enters the Stories
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Cloth. SIGNED BY CLARK COOLIDGE on the title page. A solid copy to boot of the 1970 stated 1st edition. Clean and VG (bumping at the the rear panel's lower-edge) in a crisp, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light chipping --and several very small closed... More about Space
Cleveland: t.l. kryss (Ghost Press), 1968. Original wraps. A clean, very sharp copy of the 1968 1st edition, limited to 1,000 copies. Tight and Near Fine in its wonderful pictorial wrappers (with a cover photo of d.a. levy standing underneath a billboard which reads : "It tales a lot of... More about D.A. Levy: A Tribute to the Man -- An Anthology of His Poetry
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966. dagmar. Original wraps. The 1966 1st printing, limited to 500 copies. "Dedicated to his majesty/of poetry in cleveland/the most honorable James Lowell -- King of Small Flowers". Clean and VG+ in its silkscreend, stapled wrappers, designed by dagmar. Very light soiling to the edges --and... More about cleveland undercovers
Cleveland: Grass Coin Publishing Company, 1967. Original wraps. 1967 1st printing, consisting of "approximately 260 copies". Clean and VG+ in its stapled, pictorial wrappers, folded into thirds and creating light, even creasing at the covers. Quarto, cover photo of "Julie" by M.J. Roach, "sold and distributed" by Jim Lowell's legendary... More about Poem for Julie
Milwaukee: Gunrunner Press, 1968. Original wraps. The elusive 1968 1st edition, limited to 300 copies and published out of Milwaukee by Gunrunner Press. A very sharp copy to boot: clean and Near Fine in its stapled, pictorial wrappers. Octavo, a scorching, fascinating levy "post-script" on the rear panel. More about Prose: on poetry in the wholesale deucation & culture system
Glendale, CA: Poetry, 1967. Original wraps. The 1967 stated 2nd printing, with the d.a. levy review laid-in. #76 of 500 copies issued. Clean and VG+ in its multi-colored wrappers, with very light wear --and just a touch of chipping-- along the fore-edge. Quarto, "a new recension of The Egyptian Book... More about 18th Dynasty Egyptian Automobile Turnon
Niagara Falls, NY: Press: Today: Niagara, 1966. Original wraps. A solid copy of the 1966 2nd issue of "Moonstones", a poetry magazine edited by D.r. Wagner and published out of Niagara Falls, NY. Crisp and VG in its stapled, pictorial wrappers, with light offsetting along the rear panel and very... More about Moonstones #2
Self-published, 1968. Original wraps. The 1968 1st edition of this self-published (and possibly pirated?) collection of activist, political poems by the Jesuit priest Daniel Berrigan. The poems are divided into 2 sections ("Crime Poems" and "Trial Poems") and consist of 3 folded, unstapled sheets, constituting 12 pages. A clean, VG+... More about Crime Poems/Trial Poems
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1963. 1st. Cloth. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. A sharp copy to boot of the 1963 1st edition. Crisp and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with light soiling to the rear panel. Octavo, 201 pgs. Signed by Author. More about The Comic Spirit of Wallace Stevens
Washington, D.C. King Publications, 1976. 1st. Original Wraps. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY DANIEL KLAUCK TO MAXWELL GEISMAR, pre-eminent literary critic and one-time editor of Ramparty Magazine. VG in itspictorial wrappers, with vety light soiling at the rear panel. Octavo, 78 pgs. #67 of "One Hundred Reserved Copies Specially Prepared" Signed by Author. More about Everything Else
New York: Daniel Stokes, 1979. Original wraps. Uncommon 1979 issue of East River Review (#10), which includes 4 separate poems by Charles Bukowski, 2 poems by Jim Brodey and a poem each by Ted Berrigan and Jack Hirschman. This copy also includes a laid-in 1980 handwritten letter from its editor/publisher... More about East River Review (East River Poetry Pamphlet #10
