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. 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
Providence: Burning Deck, 1980. Limited ed. 8vo; stapled cream wrappers, lettepressed, unpaginated, dust jacket. Limited to 500 copies on Warren Olde Style. "Twenty prose poems (fables? visionary tales? Surealist commentaries on the human condition?) by one of the American pioneers in this form. Like his earlier collections, this is a.... 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. First edition. 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
![Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note.... [SIGNED]. Le Roi JONES.](/pictures/thumb/05499.jpg?v=1534722862)
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
![‘76 Sexuality (The Ditto Rations Chapbook Series - 3) [INSCRIBED]. Rose LESNIAK.](/pictures/thumb/05718.jpg?v=1535913218)
[Chicago]: Ommation Press, ©1975. First edition. 4to; wrappers with cover illustration by Pam Kohnke, linen tape spine as issued, 26 ditto printed leaves on rectos only. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page to poet Jack [Collom] (verified by our correspondence with Lesniak). An early poetry collection by New... 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
![Taylor Mead on Amphetamine and in Europe: Excerpts from the Anonymous Diary of a New York Youth, Volume 3 [INSCRIBED]. Taylor MEAD.](/pictures/thumb/03082.jpg?v=1509131656)
New York: Boss Books, 1968. First edition. Octavo. Perfect-bound paperback with photo-illustrated wrappers; 251 pp. Mead has INSCRIBED the front endpaper to G--- and W--- with the valediction, "Help!" The third book of poems and one-liners which Mead began publishing in 1961 as "The Anonymous Diary of a New York... 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
Washington, D.C. Three Hands, 1951. First edition. Octavo (20.5 cm). Saddle-stapled, printed wrappers; unpaginated [36] pp. The scarce inaugural issue of this little poetry magazine, which committed itself to publishing only three poets per issue, 10-15 pages per poet. It was established by Eustace Mullins & Michael Reck who met... More
New York: Donald Phelps, [1976]. First edition. Square stapled wrappers printed in black, 100 pp. A single issue of this small literary journal edited and published by the noted, yet criminally underrated, critic, Donald Phelps. With original contributions from Roma Greth, Peggy Garrison, Shirley R. Powell, Harry Smith, Marty Skoble... More
![Spun Sequence [INSCRIBED TO BENJAMIN APPEL]. John VARNEY.](/pictures/thumb/03483.jpg?v=1509131688)
[London]: Villiers Publications Ltd, 1960. First edition. Octavo. Blue cloth with gilt spine; 188 pp.; dust jacket. INSCRIBED on the half-title from Varney to proletarian novelist, Benjamin Appel. Varney was a pro-Communist poet and professor at NYU. Although mostly forgotten today, he published numerous volumes of proletarian verse and was... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, patterned paper boards; 160 pp.; dust jacket. A Fine copy in a Near Fine, unclipped, dust jacket. More
![MX1: Looking for Beethoven in Las Vegas [SIGNED]. Diane WAKOSKI.](/pictures/thumb/04025.jpg?v=1514950290)
New York: Red Ozier Press, 1981. Limited ed. Grey letterpressed envelope housing two folded, letterpressed sheets. Limited to 200 copies made by hand in New York City. Includes a single Wakoski poem, “Looking for Beethoven in Las Vegas.” SIGNED by her. The slightest crease to bottom, but Fine. More
![Saturn's Rings [SIGNED]. Diane WAKOSKI.](/pictures/thumb/05191.jpg?v=1520648765)
[New York]: Targ Editions, 1982. Limited ed. Square 12mo.; photographic paper over burgundy cloth boards with silver-stamped spine, unpaginated; glassine dust jacket. One of 250 copies SIGNED by the author to the colophon. An exceptionally Fine copy complete with the scarce glassine jacket, which is slightly chipped to spine ends... More
![The Ice Queen [SIGNED]. Diane WAKOSKI, Margaret PRENTICE, illustrations.](/pictures/thumb/04088.jpg?v=1515128818)
Parallel Editions, 1994. Limited ed. Hardcover. Folio (34 x 22 cm); green cloth with illustrated paper label to front board; unpaginated; illustrations. Limited to 70 hand numbered copies, of which this is #58. SIGNED by Wakoski to the colophon. Designed and produced by students in the MFA in the Book... More
New York: New Christian Books. 8vo., perfectbound, illustrated wrappers, 80 pp., illustrations by Ida Scheib. A selection of poems in three parts from the social activist Christian who co-founded the Highlander Folk School. Some light rubbing and wear to wrappers, cheap paper browned. More
