Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Jacket design by Bob Cato. First edition, first printing. 4o, tan cloth with decorative blind stamping to front boards and green foil lettering to spine, 409 pp. The collected poetic works of the great poet of Martinique, erstwhile collaborator with Picasso, and co-founder of.....
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.....
Boise, ID: Ahsahta Press, 2015. Softcover, illustrated wraps, 86 pp. Signed. Signed by Boyer to title page in black ink.
Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs Merrill, 1971. First Edition. 8vo, red cloth boards with black lettering on spine in pictorial jacket, 387 pp. Scarce and comprehensive anthology of some of the most important American poets of the second half of the 20th century.
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.....
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.
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. 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.
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.
New York City, NY: Something Else Press, Inc., 1966. Softcover octavo pamphlet saddle-stapled in illustrated yellow paper wrappers with black lettering and decoration, 31 pp. A Great Bear Pamphlet of Manifestos by Ay-O, Philip Corner, W.E.B. DuBois Clubs, Oyvind Fahlström, Robert Filliou, John Giorno, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow.....
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1968. Second Printing (February 1969). Staplebound 8vo, cardstock wrappers, 16 pp. Stapled poetry chapbook from the founder of Detroit's fabled publisher Broadside Press. Randall was a champion of Black literature, stating in a 1970 article, "We (Africans in the United States) are a nation of twenty-two million.....
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'.....