Item 1079A Man Holding an Acoustic Panel
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1971. Cover painting by William David Ridenhour. First edition. Hardcover, dark gray cloth; blue and white spine titles in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 64 pp.
New Arrivals
Item 1078Moving Right Along
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1980. Cover by Joe Brainard. One of 250 unsigned hardcover copies (though called for, this copy unnumbered). Hardcover, blue cloth; yellow title-label mounted to spine in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 122 pp.
Item 1077Miss Julie
New York: Boosey and Hawkes, 1968. Signature-bound in blue wraps, 4to., 224 pp. Vocal score for the opera by Rorem, for which Elmslie wrote the libretto. Based on the play by August Strindberg.
Item 1076Miss Julie
New York: Boosey and Hawkes, 1968. Signature-bound in blue wraps, 4to., 224 pp. Vocal score for the opera by Rorem, for which Elmslie wrote the libretto. Based on the play by August Strindberg.
Item 1075The Tale of The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1932. Designed by Wener Helmer. First edition. Hardcover with black and gray cloth; gilt spine titles; dark red topstain; dust jacket, 38pp. 8vo. Translated by M.D. Herter Norton. Inscribed on the front endpaper from John Latouche to Kenward Elmslie: “J to K Noel –.....
Item 1074Three Sisters
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1986. Cover drawings by Jennifer Bartlett from In the Garden. First edition, one of 1,250 copies. Perfect-bound in French wraps, 8vo, 72 pp. Elmslie’s libretto for an opera based on Anton Chekhov’s play of the same name, as set to music by Thomas Pasatieri. An uncommon.....
Item 1073Blast from the Past
Austin: Skanky Possum Press, 2000. Front and back cover portraits by Ken Tisa. Perfect-bound in glossy pictorial wraps, 8vo, 87 pp. Kenward's reading copy with annotations in Elmslie’s hand and tipped-in slips sequencing a reading order. We suspect this copy was used in preparation for a reading with Bill Berkson.....
Item 1072Twenties
New York: Roof Books, 1991. Cover art: Anne Tardos. Perfect-bound in glossy pictorial wraps, 8vo, [112]pp.
Item 1070And For Example
New York: Penguin, 1994. Cover art: sculpture from Pergamon Altar, Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz. First edition. Hardcover with speckled gray boards backed with gray cloth in pictorial dust jacket, xvi, 101pp. 8vo. According to a remembrance published in the Poetry Project Newsletter, Issue #269, Elmslie and Lauterbach became friends while she.....
Item 1068Agnes Lee
New York/Providence: Tender Buttons, 1992. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps, 9-1/4 x 6-1/8 in. [74]pp. From an edition of 350. Inscribed on the dedication page by publisher Lee Ann Brown: '"Eat any meal at the Chateau Frontenac." from "Things I'd Like To Do Again" To Kenward Elmslie, Love Lee Ann 1-28-93'.....
Item 1060The Balustrade
Buffalo, NY: Leave Books, 1991. Saddle-stitched with white thread in tall oblong wraps, 11 x 4-1/8 in. 21pp.
Item 1054Periplum
Pengrove, CA: Avec Books, 1992. Cover and three interior drawings by Trevor Winkfield. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps, 8-1/2 x 5 in. 61pp. Inscribed by Gizzi on the title page: 'For Kenward [Elmslie]– "We're dressing for the movies" With love + postcards xxxx Peter Gizzi 9/7/92". Gizzi's first book.
Item 1053Haunt: (No-Boundary Proposals)
Saratoga, CA: Instance Press, 2000. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 8 x 6 in. 99pp. Signed (a scribble) and inscribed by Waldrop on the half-title: "For Kenward [Elmslie]"
Item 1051The Sweet Bye and Bye
New York: Boosey and Hawkes, Inc, 1966. Cover by Joe Brainard. Saddle-stapled in orange printed wraps. 85 pp. Elmslie's libretto for the opera composed by Jack Beeson.
Item 1050High West Rendesvous
Buckfastleigh, England: Etruscan Books, 1997. Second edition, from an edition of 500. Perfect-bound in glossy printed wraps, 9-3/4 x 6-7/8 in. 60pp. This copy inscribed by Dorn on the half-title: "For Kenward [Elmslie] — some recent work, obscurely published abroad Edward Dorn Los Angeles 24 March 1998"
Item 1049A Key Into the Language of America
New York: New Directions, 1994. Perfect-bound in glossy printed wraps, 8 x 5-1/8 in. 66pp. Signed and inscribed by Waldrop on the half-title: "For Kenward Elmslie Rosemarie Waldrop 19/94"
Item 1048Topiary Trek
Bradford, UK / New York: Topia Press, 1977. No. 30 of 200 copies. Perfect-bound in brown matte wraps, 8-1/4 x 11-3/8 in. [40] pp. Poems by Elmslie with illustrations of gardens by English painter Karl Torok (1950-2015) reproduced in color.
Item 1047How To Be Modern Art
West Branch, IA: Morning Coffee Chapbook Seven, 1984. No. 352 of an edition of 575 copies signed by Padgett and Winkfield on limitation page at rear. Saddle-sewn in yapped red wraps with title card mounted on front cover, 6 x 9 in. [20]pp. This copy additionally inscribed by Padgett on.....
Item 1046Licorice Chronicles
New York: The Kulchur Foundation, 1979. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 9-7/8 x 7-5/8 in. 148pp.
Item 1044The Countess from Minneapolis
Providence: Burning Deck, 1976. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps, 9 x 6 in. 42pp. Inscribed by Guest on the half-title: "Admiring glances from the countess as ever, Barbara." Kenward Elmslie's copy, presumably inscribed to him.
Item 1036Memoirs of a Beatnik
New York: Olympia Press/The Traveller's Companion Series, 1969. First Edition. Perfect-bound in green printed wraps, 6-7/8 x 4-1/4 in. 174pp. Di Prima's erotic memoir about coming of age as a woman in the Beat years.
Item 1034Little Caesar 10
Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press, 1980. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 in. 130pp. Inscribed at his p. 13 contribution (a single poem) by Donald Britton: "Love to Kenward [Elmslie], Donald 3/31/80". Donald Britton was a New York and later Los Angeles-based poet who died of AIDS complications in.....
Item 1024The Road is Everywhere or Stop this Body
Columbia, MO: Open Places, 1978. From an edition of 1,000. Perfect-bound in photo-pictorial wraps, 8-3/8 x 5-1/2 in. 80pp. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "For Kenward Elmslie – Rosemarie Waldrop". Poems by Waldrop, with several reproduced photos by Amy Stromsten. Open Places Poets Series #5.
Item 1021The Not Forever
Richmond, CA: Omnidawn, 2013. Cover art by Keith Waldrop. First Edition. 8vo, perfectbound in printed wraps, 107 pp. Signed (a scribble) and inscribed by Waldrop on the title page: "For Kenward [Elmslie]". $30.
Item 1017Story
New York: 0 to 9 Books, 1968. 4to. Side-stapled in red wraps stamped in red on front cover. [38] pp. Mayer's first book, published by the 0 to 9 imprint she ran with her brother-in-law, artist Vito Acconci.