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
Poetry
The Kid
[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
Requiem for Bluesville
Worcester, Massachusetts: Printed by Shield Press, ©1970. First edition. A collection of poems by the Worcester poet and playwright, Corrine Bostic (1927-1981), who, in the collection’s first poem, “My Vanity Is the Lord’s,” states her obligation as a Black poet to “pour out / The lamentations of my people.” In..... More
Cat's Eye, No. 3, Summer 1981
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
At the Beautiful Gate
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
Hawk & Whippoorwill, Vol. 3, No. 2, Autumn, 1962
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
Hawk & Whippoorwill, Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter, 1963
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
Quixote, Vol. 8, No. 7
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
The Vampyre: An Iconoclastic Journal of Criticism and Culture, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-6, June-November, 1901
Denver: The Vampyre Publishing Co., 1901. First edition. A bound run of the first six issues of this obscure “little magazine” edited and published by Frank C. Evans in Denver, CO, from 1901-02. In the inaugural issue, the editors (the first two issues were co-edited by Evans and J. Forrest..... More
Irradiations: Sand and Spray (The New Poetry Series)
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
The Rose of Dawn: A Tale of the South Sea
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
A Garden of Spiritual Flowers from the Devotional Books of the Reign of Elizabeth (The Aldwych Series III)
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
Quaker Poems: A Collection of Verse Relating to the Society of Friends
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
Bhai Vir Singh: An Analytical Study
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
Poetry Chicago, Spring 1958
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
Hanging Loose, No. 18, Fall 1972
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
Hanging Loose, No. 19, Winter 1972-1973
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
Medwin's Conversations of Lord Byron
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1966. First edition. Tall octavo (25 cm); xx, [1], 287 pp. Brown cloth over buckram with black & gilt title label printed on spine. Fine. Dust jacket is rubbed with a 1" closed tear at spine fold; sunned spine. Still Very Good. Revised with..... More
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Four Trains [4 Trains] ...4-5 December 1964
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
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To Dead Fighters for Freedom (Funeral Chant) [broadside]
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
Songs of an Exile
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
Survivor's Manual, No. 5
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
Taylor Mead on Amphetamine and in Europe: Excerpts from the Anonymous Diary of a New York Youth, Volume 3 [INSCRIBED]
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
Smoke, Vol. V, No. 4, Winter, 1937
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
Nix
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