Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Edition. Handsome edition of McClure's play, which opened on the second night of the Siege of Berkeley, May 16, 1969. The volume includes the poem "To James B. Rector," to whom the play was dedicated. Rector was killed in Berkeley on "Bloody Thursday"..... More
New York: S.i., [1976]. First Edition. Stage play by one of the principal figures of the Beat Generation, a parody of comic book superheroes. Centered around General Gorgeous, "a purple-costumed, 29-year-old superhero, eager to fight evil," the Blue Mutant, "a supervillain with electric blue hair," and his sexy henchwomen, the..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Limited Issue, consisting of one copy specially bound and designated as the "Binder's Copy," signed by the author on the colophon. Octavo (27cm); printed paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip; [vi],11,[7]pp. Light wear to extremities, hint of sunning to board edges, with..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies specially bound signed by the author, this being copy no.23. Octavo (23cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and white cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; [12],13-122,[4]pp. Scattered foxing to text edges and exterior, though contents..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of three copies specially bound and designated for the printer, binder, and publisher's files, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by author on colophon. Octavo (22.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and white cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to..... More
[Berkeley, CA]: Tangram, 1993. First Edition. Warm association copy, inscribed to McClure's long-time friend and Oyez Press publisher Robert Hawley, who designed the chapbook for McClure's long poetic manifesto Poisoned Wheat (1965). They distributed the chapbook directly to readers whom they felt might have some influence on U.S. policy in..... More
New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1963. First Edition. "Edited and published in New Orleans by Jon Edgar and Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb, The Outsider was lavishly (one imagines even maniacally) produced by letterpress with a wide range of interesting and unusual materials. Yet in spite of its formal sophistication, it still..... More