San Francisco: Deserted Publication, [1971?]. An unnumbered issue of David Moe’s countercultural poetry & art newspaper, which was arguably purchased for the nudity and neon printing rather than the poetry and collages. This issue features contributions by Clay S. Wilson, Bernie Uronovitz, David Moe, George Tsongas, Kaye McDonough, Hobo Adam..... More
n.p. n.p., [1972?]. In August 1963, Thomas Trantino and Frank Falco ambushed and killed two police officers in Lodi, NJ. Falco was later killed in a shoot-out with police and Trantino was sentenced to death. His death sentence was later commuted when the death penalty was abolished and Trantino ended..... More
n.p., 1970. A 4” x 2 ¼” green card for a poetry reading given by Robert Duncan at Le Conte School Auditorium on Friday, March 6, 1970. $1 admission. More
[London]: John Lehmann, 1947. First British edition. Twelvemo. Light green cloth with gilt and black-stamped spine; vii, 46, [1] pp.; dust jacket. An about Near Fine copy with some slight toning to board edges; thin boards a trifle bowed; some offsetting from newspaper obituary to front endpaper. In a Very..... More
[Virginia]: [United Klans of America?], [197-?]. A United Klans of America variant of the Oliver Allstorm (b. Oliver Allstrom) anti-miscegenation poem, “The Saddest Story Ever Told,” about the marriage of a white woman and a black man and the birth of their mixed-race child. The poem begins, “When a white girl..... More
High Tide Press, 1981. First edition. 8vo; stapled, printed wrappers, 46 pp. With contributions from the reclusive outsider poet, Alfred Starr Hamilton, the gay activist, Louie Crew, Lyn Lifshin, Sheila Murphy, Susan Wood, and many others. Some toning to pgs 14-15. NF. More
Madison: Quixote, [ca. 1974]. First edition. Side-stapled green wrappers; unpaginated; illus. A single issue of Morris Edelson's literary magazine replete with confounding bibliographic sequencing. This issue with a letter from Ed Ochester, poetry by Andrei Codrescu, Jack Hirschman, Felix Pollak, Jeanine Crockett, Susan Cohn, Robert Taylor, Leonard Opalov, prose by..... More
New York: R. H. Russell, 1901. Limited ed. 12mo. (18.75 cm); brown paper over vellum with gilt spine; pages printed in green and black; 57 pp.; illustrated frontis by John La Farge. A poem by the American poet, writer, racehorse owner/breeder, socialite and philanthropist, Helen Julia Jay Whitney. Paper chipping..... More
New York: Brentano's, 1906. First printing. Sixteenmo. Bound in gilt-stamped vellum with silk marker; decorative endpapers designed by Dudley Heath; printed in red and black at the Cedar Press on Van Gelder paper; 33, [2] pp. The third of four books in this series, all printed and bound uniformly, and..... More
New Delhi: Heritage Publishers, 1984. First edition. Octavo; brown boards printed in gold to spine; x, 198 pp.; dust jacket. Scarce critical biography of the Indian writer, Bhai Vir Singh, who was a mystical poet, novelist, playwright and biographer. Includes a chronology and bibliography. Some bubbling to cheap binding material..... More
Chicago: Poetry Chicago, 1958. A one-off poetry publication edited by the future leader of the American Nazi Party, Matt Koehl. The journal was funded by Koehl’s mentor, probable lover, and conspiracy theorist, Eustace Mullins, who contributes one poem (“The Outer Isles”). Most of the contributions come from Koehl (12 poems)..... More
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose, 1972. First edition. Thirty-six loose sheets making 72 pp. housed in the original printed envelope. Timothy Aurthur contributes a poem "To Bayard Rustin; other contributions from Gordon Bishop, Harley Elliott, John Eskow, Claudia Lee Gary, John Gill, Ben Goldberg, Jim Hawks, Halvard Johnson, Susan Cartoun Juhasz, Jim..... More
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose, 1973. First edition. Thirty-six loose sheets making 72 pp. housed in the original printed envelope. With contributions from Katy Akin, Donna Brook, Jan Clausen, Bette Disttler, Hash Flash & G. P. Skratz, Daniela Gioseffi, Maria Gitlin, Robert Hershon, Faye Kicknosway, Michael Lally, Stephen Leggett, Margo Lockwood, Michael..... More
![Item #02394 Four Trains [4 Trains] ...4-5 December 1964. Jackson MAC LOW](/pictures/thumb/02394.jpg?v=1543181205)
Providence: Burning Deck, [1974]. First edition. Octavo. Plain wrappers in purplish, letterpressed dust jacket; unpaginated. Limited edition of 300 copies letterpress printed and designed by Rosmarie Waldrop. This copy 1/7 review copies that were sent out. Sunning to spine, else Fine. More
![Item #07860 To Dead Fighters for Freedom (Funeral Chant) [broadside]. Herbert MAHLER](/pictures/thumb/07860.jpg?v=1596848705)
New York, 1949. A tribute “dedicated to the memory of Benjamin H. Fletcher, veteran Negro revolutionary Industrialist Unionist...and to all other valiant ones who died in the fight for Freedom.” Read by fellow Wobbly, Herbert Mahler, at Fletcher’s funeral, which was attended by 100 men and women, most of whom..... More
n.p. n.p., [ca. 1964]. Patriotic, right-wing doggerel courtesy of Alan McIntosh, the long-time editor/publisher of the Rock County Star-Herald published in Luverne, Minnesota. The poem first appeared as an editorial in 1964 and was reprinted in newspapers across the country. The edition we’re offering appears to be the only one..... More
New York and Southampton: Survivor's Manual, 1971. The penultimate issue of this literary magazine edited and published by Sandy McIntosh. Contributors for this issue include Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, James Tate, Kayak publisher George Hitchcock, David Ignatow, Michael Heller, Daniela Gioseffi, David Huddle, Armand Schwerner, Harvey Shapiro, Charles Matz, H. R...... More
New York: Boss Books, 1968. First edition. The third book of poems and one-liners which Mead began publishing in 1961 as "The Anonymous Diary of a New York Youth." Octavo. Perfect-bound paperback with photo-illustrated wrappers; 251 pp. Mead has INSCRIBED the front endpaper to G--- and W--- with the valediction..... More
New York: Eustace Mullins, 1953. One of a number of small press poetry publications issued by the anti-Semitic, Ezra Pound acolyte, Eustace Mullins. This anthology includes contributions from Mullins, Wade Donahoe, Hugo Plantagenet (pseudonym), Robert Reardon, and Israel Rabinowitz (pseudonym?). Donahoe and Plantagenet contributed poems to other Mullins anthologies, including..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First edition. Octavo. Green, black-stamped paper over white cloth; xvii, 135 pp. Some regrettable foxing to spine cloth, else about Fine; offsetting between pastedown and front endpaper. O'Neil (1896-1940) was a poet and playwright and later went to Hollywood to pen screenplays before dying..... More
London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1897. First edition. 12mo.; green decorative cloth stamped in silver & gilt, t.e.g., pp. 155, tissue-protected, photographic frontispiece of the author. A volume of verse from this Indiana-born poet who dedicates the work to her father. This appears to be the author's only..... More
![Item #06024 Lost Eden and Other Poems [INSCRIBED TO FLOYD DELL]. E. Merrill ROOT](/pictures/thumb/06024.jpg?v=1542766257)
New York: The Unicorn Press, 1927. First edition. 8vo; ¾ paper over tan buckram with paper spine label, 125 pp. The first book by poet, professor, and fervent anti-Communist, Edward Merrill Root (1895-1973) inscribed by him to the radical editor and poet, Flloyd Dell. The inscription reads, “For Flloyd Dell..... More
New York: The Dick, 1967. A one-off tabloid “created, published & edited by an anonymous spurt-phantom at a secret location in the Lower East Side.” The anonymous spurt-phantom was Ed Sanders, with contributions from Leonard Lyons and poet Michael McClure. Content includes a 13-point Statement of Purpose (all related to..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Octavo. Pastel-striped paper over blue cloth with paper spine label; 140 pp.; dust jacket. First edition, second state binding limited to 215 copies. This was the smallest print run of the 1500 first edition copies spread across three binding states. With the exceedingly scarce..... More
Elburn, Illinois: Mascouten Press, 1983. First edition reprint. The title page defines Whoreson Crawl as “a type of surreptitious movement performed on all fours by an illegitimate person, usually resulting in negligible pain.” According to the editors, this collection of poems was the result of “a single 36-hour drinking and..... More