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.....
Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1976. Photo by Rudy Burckhardt and jacket design by George Mattingly. Perfect-bound, [octavo] in glossy pictorial wraps, 63 pp. Alice Notley's 6th collection of poetry.
New York: Dot Books, 1972. Signature-bound in glossy pictorial wraps, 35 pp. The only printing of Andrew Wylie's poetry collection issued on Richard Hell's newly-formed Dot Books following a co-editing stint on six issues of the art and poetry journal Genesis Grasp, 1968-1971. Wylie left his erotic writing in the.....
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.....
Chicago: Big Table Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition, Stated. Oblong 12mo. Black cloth boards with blue lettering to spine. Unpaginated. First Edition, Stated. Experimental minimalist erotic poetry, dedicated to Chuck Berry.
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.
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.
New York: United Artists, 1983. Cover by Yvonne Jacquette. 4to, side-stapled glossy paper wraps, yellow glassine front end paper, unpaginated paper leaves. Penultimate issue of the journal published by Mayer and Warsh's United Artists press. Featuring Joe Brainard (Self-Portrait 1982), Kathy Acker (from "My Death, My Life" by Pier Paolo.....
Philadelphia, PA: The Print Center, 2014. Hardcover. Book is very good, sharp corners, tight square binding, light bump to crown of spine, clean and unmarked within. Jacket is very good, slight bump to crown of jacket spine, light soiling to flap edge of rear panel, some shelving wear, bright. Overall.....
San Francisco: Black Star Series, 1981. Cover and illustrations by Tom Thompson. Signature-bound in illustrated stiff wrappers. 71 pp. Scarce book of La Fontaine translations / interpretations by two pillars of the New Narrative movement.
New York, NY: Participant Press, 2014. Soft cover. Both books are in very good condition, sharp corners, square tight bindings, some shelving and handling wear, clean and unmarked within. Slipcase is in very good condition, slight separation at top glued down panel, but does not affect integrity of slipcase, otherwise.....
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1967. First Edition, first printing (stated). Softcover octavo, illustrated card wrappers, 127 pp. First printing of this landmark anthology from Dudley Randall's Broadside Press, which gathered poems from all over the literary spectrum to collectively mourn the fallen Black revolutionary leader. A copy of this edition was.....
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969. Second edition, third printing. 8vo, 127 pp. Illustrated wrappers.
San Francisco, CA: Coyote, 1966. Photographs by Jim Hatch. Second printing. Softcover quarto, staple-bound in B & W glossy pictorial wrappers, 59 pp. Transcription of Charles Olson reading at the Berkeley Poetry Conference on the night of July 23, 1965 in Wheeler Hall at the University of California. He read.....
New York: Grove Press, 1967. Design: Kuhlman Associates. Hardcover, blue cloth with stamped gilt lettering to spine, 160 pp.
California: Coyote Press, 1966. Saddle-stapled [quarto] in pictorial wrappers, 59 pp with bound-in errata slip.
New York: Ecco Press, 1976. Jacket design by Abner Graboff. First Edition. Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering stamped to spine, 247 pp. Important anthology of international poetry edited by Charles Simic and Mark Strand, both of whom have flat-signed the half-title page in black ink. Poets include Julio Cortazar.....
London, England: Paul Breman Ltd., 1968. First edition. Softcover octavo chapbook saddle-stapled in pictorial card stock paper wrappers, 24 pp. Volume five in the Heritage series published by Paul Breman, this collection contains 21 poems and was Conrad Kent Rivers third collection of poems and published the year of his.....
Buffalo: Presence Press, 1967. Staplebound illustrated card wraps [octavo] , unpaginated [56 pp]. Scarce journal out of Buffalo helmed by then-student Dan Connell, who would go on to be a widely-published and publicized American figure in the effort for Eritrean independence and two-time MacArthur grant recipient. Contributors include (among others).....
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 York City, NY: War Resisters League, 1967. Cover by Mark Morris; book design and production Igal Roodenko. Softcover octavo, spiral-bound with illustrated wrappers, unpaginated [128]. Calendar for the year 1968 issued by The War Resisters League with poetry selected by Denise Levertov interspersed through the months.
Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press, 1980. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 in. 130pp. This issue includes Brainard interviewed by Dlugos; Dennis Cooper, Peter Schjeldahl, a section of unpublished works by Stephen Jonas, with tributes to him from David Rattray, Gerrit Lansing, and others. Re-published interviews with Syd Barrett.....
Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press, [1981]. Perfect-bound in illustrated wraps, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 234 pp. Cooper's eleventh issue of Little Caesar featuring the 1980s avant garde. There are sixteen photographs and two monologues from David Wojnarowicz’s “Rimbaud in New York" photo series in which he posed in a......
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.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987. Uncorrected Proof. 8vo, yellow wraps, 117 pp. Advance Uncorrected Proof, with corrections made within text, so likely a working copy for the publisher and/or poet.