DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University, 1980. Limited ed. Designed and printed by Allan Kornblum at The Toothpaste Press. Limited to 2,500 copies. Orange wrappers printed in black and red. Near fine. More
n.p., [1944]. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (4 ¾” x 6 ½”), [2], 10 pp. Wear, horizontal crease from folding; tissue repair along the bottom edge with tape repair reinforcing staple, a Good copy of a fragile and scarce item. Five copies in WorldCat (Princeton, Yale, Univ. of Michigan, Michigan State, and... More
[Virginia: United Klans of America?], [197-?]. An 8 ½” x 11” mimeographed sheet featuring a poem that begins: “When a white girl marries a Negro, her sun of life goes down, / And glaring spots of sin appear on her white wedding gown.” “We know a carnivorous bug has crept..... 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
New York: George Braziller, 1963. Limited ed. Oblong (9 ½” x 7 ¼”) cloth boards, unpaginated, printed on Italian handmade Fabriano paper. In slipcase with paper title label. SIGNED Ben Shahn and Wendell Berry at rear. Includes Wendell Berry’s poem on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which originally appeared..... 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
Philadelphia: Burk & McFetridge Co., Publishers, 1895. First edition. Square twelvemo. (18 x 15 cm); 95 pp.; port. frontis. Gilt-stamped cloth; top edge gilt; deckle fore and bottom edge. Some very light foxing to the prelims, else fine throughout. Poetry from the theologian and author of The Modern Devil. Uncommon. More
New York: John B. Alden, Publisher, 1888. First American edition. Two 8vo volumes; blue, gilt-stamped cloth, top edges gilt, others deckle, xlix, 744 pp. The first English language translation of the “The Kalevala,” the beautiful epic poem of Finland. Like the “Poetic Edda,” “The Kalevala” (Land of Heroes) provides a...... More
London: Villiers Publications Ltd, 1962. 8vo; stapled wrappers stamped in orange, 36 pp. A Near Fine copy with previous owner's stamp to bottom edge and title page. This issue features, among others, the first appearance of Helga Sandburg's - daughter of Carl - "The Visitors." Issues of August Derleth's (1909-1971)... More
London: Villiers Publications Ltd., 1963. 8vo; stapled wrappers stamped in blue; 36 pp. A Near Fine copy with previous owner's stamp to bottom edge and title page; very slight rubbing to wrappers. Featuring poems by John Wheatcroft, Norma Farber, Jesse Stuart (Poet Laureate of Kentucky), etc. Issues of August Derleth's... More
New York: The Floating Bear, 1969. First edition. Side-stapled yellow wrappers; unpaginated. A later issue of Diane Di Prima's mimeographed Beat newsletter, which ran from 1961-71 and was distributed by mailing list only. Contributors to this issue include Leon Crabtree, Larry Fagin, Bill Berkson, Ron Padgett, Max Ernst, Michael Brownstein... More
Madison: Quixote. 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 Randy Berler... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. First edition. Octavo. Printed green paper over stiff wrappers; xiv, [5], 3-59, [1] pp. The Southern Imagist poet's first book, which was one of the first titles Amy Lowell - the book's dedicatee - published as part of her New Poetry Series... More
Montclair, New Jersey: The Kumquat Press, 1968. Limited ed. Square 18mo (6.5" x 6.5"); stapled, letterpressed wrappers, unpaginated. Hand-numbered 509/1,000 copies. A scarce chapbook of 11 poems by the reclusive, indigent, outsider poet, Alfred Starr Hamilton (1914-2005), published by Geof Hewitt’s small Kumquat Press in Hamilton’s home of Montclair, NJ. Although... 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
Philadelphia: John C. Winston & Co., 1893. First edition. Octavo (20.5 cm); gilt-stamped cloth with gilt spine, 269, [1] pp.; frontis + over 40 illus. Caleb Cresson Wistar's copy with his signature to top of title page and some penciled marginalia throughout. Wistar was a member of the prominent Philadelphia... More
Totem Press / Corinth Books, 1978. Seventh printing. 12mo; stapled wrappers, 47 pp. SIGNED 'Amiri Baraka' on the title page. Cover illustration by Basil King. Loose association copy. Amiri Baraka’s first volume of poetry published by Totem Press, the imprint he co-founded with his first wife, Hettie Cohen, in the... 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
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
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose, 1973. First edition. Thirty-six loose sheets making 72 pp. housed in the original printed envelope. With contributions from Jane Augustine, Sy Baldwin, Carol Baum, Becky Birtha, Naomi Bushman, David Eberly, John Eskow, Mike Finley, James Gustafson, Emmett Jarrett, R. A. Johnson, Samuel Kashner, Jacqueline Lapidus, Karen Lindsey... More
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose, 1975. First edition. Thirty-six loose sheets making 72 pp. housed in the original printed envelope. With contributions from Millen Brand, Donna Brook, Rosamond Dauer, Elaine Edelman, Harley Elliott, Jim Everhard, Daniel Mark Fogel, Sue Goldwitz, James Gustafson, Samuel Kashner, James Krusoe, Myra Klahr, Lyn Lifshin, Margo Lockwood... More
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose, 1972. First edition. Thirty-six loose sheets making 72 pp. housed in the original printed envelope. With an introductory note by Denise Levertov on her experience meeting the poet, Viktor Ourin, in his native Russia. With contributing poems by Viktor Ourin, Madeline Bass, Earle Birney, Harly Elliott, Elizabeth... More
Surfside, CA: Egg, 1973. First edition. Stapled, illustrated wrappers; 48 pp. An early issue of this small press poetry zine, which later became Surfside Poetry Review. Contributions from Judson Crews, Hugh Fox, Gerald Locklin, Albert Drake, Fran Lipsker, Jack Shadoian, Theodora Jankowski, Alexandre Amprimoz, Archibald Henderson, Ruth Moon Kempher, Richard... More
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