Item 2944The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog
Menlo Park: Whole Earth Catalog, 1971. Saddle-stapled quarto (7 x 10-1/4 inches) in pictorial wraps, 128 pp.
Poetry
Item 3825Whirlwind Vol. 1, No. 1
Chicago: Whirlwind c/o Baer, August 1973. Saddle-stapled quarto (8-1/2 x 11 inches) in illustrated wraps, 20 pp. First issue of Chicago-based journal for and by anarchist women with contributions from Mimi Rivereria, Leslie Fish, Jeany Rogalska, Bernadette, Kathy Salmon, Miriam Frohman, Michelle Feuer, Kathleen Taylor, Patricia Dahl, Penny Pixler. With.....
Item 3826Whirlwind Vol. 1, No. 2
Chicago: Whirlwind c/o Baer, May 1975. Saddle-stapled quarto (8-1/2 x 11 inches) in illustrated wraps, 20 pp. Second issue of Chicago-based journal for and by anarchist women with contributions from Penny Pixler on a 1973 trip to China; poems from Cathy Shipley, prose & poetry from Collette Chenoa Franchot; poetry.....
Item 3754Kaie No. 9 : Looking at Poetry
[Georgetown]: National History and Arts Council of Guyana (NHAC), August 1973. Saddle-stapled octavo (5-5/8 x 8-7/8 inches) in lithographic wraps, 46 pp. The literary and arts journal from the official organ of NHAC documenting a series of broadcasts to schools for the period of January to March, 1972 by Seymour.....
Item 3886Non-vicious Circle : Twenty Poems of Aimé Cesairé
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984. Hardcover octavo (6-3/8 x 8-3/4 inches) gray cloth boards with gilt spine titles in pictorial dust jacket, black endpapers, [vi], ix, [i], xi, [i], [2], 152, [4] pp. Bilingual---French and English---edition, translated, with an introduction and commentary, by Gregson Davis.
Item 2735Yardbird Reader Volume 2
Berkeley, CA: Yardbird Publishing, 1973. Art Direction by Doyle Foreman. First Edition. Perfect-bound [octavo] in stiff pictorial wraps, xiv, 224 pp. Second reader from Al Young and Ishmael Reed's journal Yardbird, one of the better elevated platforms for (primarily) black thought and writing of the time. This volume includes work.....
Item 1662Allen Verbatim
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, stamped gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 269 pp. Title page inscription to poet and literary critic Aldon Nielsen from Allen Ginsberg and Gordon Ball. Jacket photos Bruce England and Douglas Moore.
Item 3781Ballads for Jamaicans
[Kingston]: [Alma Norman], 195. Saddle-stapled octavo (6-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches) in printed teal wraps, 18 pp. Signed by Norman to lower corner of title page.
![Item #2971 Obsidian : Black Literature in Review [6 issues]. Ed Alvin Aubert](https://betterreadthandeadbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2971.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729288183)
Item 2971Obsidian : Black Literature in Review [6 issues]
Detroit: Alvin Aubert, 1975-78, 1982. Perfect-bound octavos (5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches) in illustrated wrappers, 98 pp. (Volume 1, Number 2); 90 pp. (Volume 2, Number 2); 125 pp. (Volume 2, Number 3); 105 pp. (Volume 3, Number 3); 122 pp. (Volume 4, Number 1); 198 pp. (Volume 8, Numbers 2.....
Item 2813Mysterium
New York: Edgewise Press, 2011. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Signature-bound 4-1/4" x 7-1/4" in illustrated wraps, 59 [5 : edgewise back catalog] pp. McCarron's collection of poems published as Edgewise Press #23. Inscribed by author on full title page, 3 July 2011.
Item 2467Yellow Flowers
New York: Dot Books, 1972. Signature-bound in glossy pictorial wraps. 35pp. The only printing of Andrew Wylie's poetry collection issued on Richard Hell's Dot Books following a co-editing stint on six issues of the art and poetry journal Genesis Grasp, 1968-1971. Hell befriended Wylie at cinemabilia in the early 1970s.....
Item 3018Heavy Jars
West Branch: Toothpaste Press, 1977. From an edition of 1400, limited to 1300 softcover copies. Smyth sewn, signature-bound octavo (6-1/4 x 7-3/4 inches) in pictorial cloth wraps, [40] pages.
Item 1813Speak Easy Speak Free
New York: International Publishers, 1977. Drawings and painting by Tyrone Geter; photograph by Yusef Wade. First paperback edition. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 136 pp. Title page inscription from Antar S.K. Mberi to literary critic and translator Roberto Marquez, 'May you find here reflections of the strength, dignity and courage of.....
Item 2557Walt Whitman's Blue Book Volume II : Textual Analysis
New York: New York Public Library, 1968. Hardcover octavo in blue cloth boards, gilt spine titles, no dust jacket, light blue endpapers, [i-xii] xiii-lxi [lxii] lxiii-lxv [1-410 (1-456)] 411-428. The 1860-61 Leaves of Grass containing his manuscript additions and revisions. Volume 1 of Walt Whitman's Blue Books contained the facsimile.....
Item 1037Who Knows What Constitutes a Life
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1999. Saddle-sewn in light green yapped French wraps with title card mounted on front cover, 9-3/4 x 6-3/4 in. [12]pp. Copy "Z" of 26 lettered copies signed at rear by Ashbery, with an original five-color print by Murray bound in and signed by her in pencil.....
Item 3929Between Our Selves
Point Reyes, CA: Eidolon Editions, 1976. First Edition. Perfect-bound in illustrated self-wraps on brown textured cardstock. 6 x 11 inches. 21pp, illustrations. Finely printed poetry chapbook from Audre Lorde on Eidolon Editions, one of the many publishing hats of Lorde's high school classmate, friend, and peer Diane di Prima.
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 3225Outside of This, That is
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1999. Illustration by Trevor Winkfield. Printed in an edition of 226 copies, of which 26 are lettered and signed (this being one of the 200 unsigned). Saddle-sewn (6-3/4 x 9-3/4 inches) in red french-flapped wraps bearing a title plate pasted to front. Black card end papers.....
Item 1055Decay
San Francisco: THIS, 1977. Saddle-stapled in printed wraps, 7 x 5 in. [32]pp. From an edition of 350 copies.
Item 2250Plasma Paralleles "X"
Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 1979. Hand-numbered no. 49 of 450 copies. Saddle-stapled octavo in cardstock wraps. 32pp. Published on Lyn Hejinian's Tuumba Press as Tuumba 21.
Item 3918Red Book in Three Parts
Brooklyn: United Artists Books, 2002. Cover photo by Ed Bowes. Edition of 226 copies, with 200 unsigned (of which this is one) and 26 lettered and signed. Saddle stapled (6 x 8 inches) in pictorial wraps. Red endpapers. [24]pp. Scarce collection from the conceptual poet Bernadette Mayer (1945-2022), who was.....
Item 1035Blue is the Hero (Poems 1960-1975)
Kensington, CA: L Publications, 1976. One of 1,800 softcover copies (also 200 hardcover). Signature-bound in printed brown wraps, 10 x 7 in. 124pp. Inscribed by Berkson on the half-title: "For Kenward [Elmslie] 'fizz ahh!' (p.68) love, Bill"
Item 3245Red Devil
Bolinas, CA: Smithereens Press, 1982. Cover drawing by Lynne O'Hare. Second printing, one of 100 copies. Side-stapled (11 x 8-1/2 inches) in wraps with blue tissue endpapers. Printed to recto only. [36]pp. Inscribed by Berkson on the title page: "For Kenward [Elmslie], "I say 'Ah-hah'" Love, Bill"
Item 2401Are You Ready Mary Baker Eddy???
Berkeley, CA: Cloud Marauder Press, 1970. Limited to 700 copies. Saddle-stapled, octavo, pictorial paper wraps, orange endpapers, [40]. Cover by Reese Bullen.
Item 2402Aurealism : A Study
Syracuse, NY: Salt Mound Press, 1970. Saddle-stapled, pictorial wraps with gatefold cover, Bill Knott's exemplary poem about Vivien Leonne's conceptual model to manifest the golden age of mythology into daily life. Limited to 1000 copies. With drawings by William Schaaf. (Some 4 Ziegler, Greenberg, Zirlin).