Small card for Robert Duncan poetry reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
London: David Stott, 1892. Limited to 100 copies. A little known book of poetry from the man whose name is one of those most closely associated with the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Marsden spent most of his life as a newspaper correspondent in Russia where he was..... 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: Smoke, 1937. First edition. Quarto. Saddle-stitched, grey wrappers printed in black; unpaginated [28] pp. Scarce terminal issue of Smoke, one of a number of academic "little magazines" that emerged in the 1930s. It was published quarterly with six volumes published between 1931 and 1937. For most of its..... 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
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