Larkspur, CA: Wallace Berman, 1960. First Edition. Complete copy of the sixth issue of Berman's iconic assemblage zine, dedicated entirely to David Meltzer's 13-part poem "The Clown." Berman illustrated the title leaf and designed the photographic collage on the cover of the portfolio, featuring four images of his Larkspur landlady..... More
New York: Hargail Music Press, 1947. First Edition. One of 1,000 copies. Bifolium (31cm); printed wrappers; [4]pp. Some light wear, creasing, and toning to extremities, with a small, faint stain to lower edge of front wrapper; Very Good+. A collaborative work between Bowles and Williams, first performed at Town Hall..... More
Chicago: The Ravine Press / No Mountains Poetry Project, 1975. First Edition. One of 199 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.131. Original silkscreened broadside, printed in colors on stiff Rives paper, measuring 13" x 20.5". A Fine copy, housed in a custom marbled paper and navy..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First Edition. First Impression, with "Baker" instead of "Butcher" on p.83, line 6. Octavo (18.75cm); publisher's original buff cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and covers; all edges gilt; [ix],x-xiv,83,[84-85]pp + 1p.ad; illus. Hint of sunning to spine, some trivial wear..... More
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. First Edition. One of 25 Review Copies marked "Hors Commerce" in pencil on the colophon, with the publisher's compliments slip laid in. Quarto (27cm); original white card wrappers, with titles printed in black and red on spine and front cover; publisher's original glassine overlay;..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2017. Limited Edition. One of 300 copies. Original two-part blue-grey cloth box, housing a 13.5" x 50-foot scroll wound on aluminum spool with bookcloth wrapper (nestled in grey foam lining), together with the cloth-bound 20pp booklet containing Langdon Hammer's Introduction to The Bridge, with two..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Attractive collaborative work by these two prominent New York School figures, pairing Elmslie's poem with black & white illustrations by Brainard. Uncommon in the deluxe issue. Morrow & Cooney 31c. Deluxe Issue, an out-of-series overrun from the bindery, bound without the signed..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author and illustrator, this being copy no.79. Octavo (27.25cm); full striped cloth, with title label mounted to front cover; [8],9-66,[6]pp; illus. A Fine copy in lightly rubbed, Near Fine..... More
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (26cm); goldenrod stapled wrappers, with titles printed in black and an illustration by Big Sur painter Emil White tipped onto front wrapper; [24]pp; illus. Though not called for, this copy is signed by Ginsberg on the title page. A...... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1983. Limited Edition. A masterful production by The Limited Editions Club of Hersey's 1946 book, chronicling the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Hersey's work comprised the entirety of the August 31, 1946 issue of The New Yorker, and..... More
[Cambridge, MA]: The Lowell House Printers, 1966. First Edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.4. Broadside, with text and two-color block print hand-press printed in black, green, and blue on heavy cream stock, measuring 15.25cm x 48.25cm (6" x 19"). Some trivial surface..... More
N.p. Fridolf Johnson, 1948. A unique manuscript of Mary Lamb's romantic poem "Salome," composed around 1808-09, and first published in her husband Charles Lamb's Works [1818]; while the poem was originally published in her husband's works, and while his name is credited on the title page of this volume, the..... More
New York: Young Scott Books, 1968. First Edition. Oblong octavo (16cm); illustrated boards; dustjacket; [48]pp; illus. Faint, scattered foxing to board edges, else Near Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dustjacket, with a touch of dustiness and a single short tear. Gorey's illustrated version of the first poem in Lear's..... More
London & New York: Ernest Nister / E.P. Dutton & Co., [1906]. Illustrated Edition. A sumptuously-produced illustrated edition of Longfellow's 1858 narrative poem, set in the year 1621 during the early days of the Plymouth Colony, and centered around a love triangle between three Mayflower passengers. Octavo (19.25cm); light grey..... More
N.p. The Jargon Society, 1971. First Edition. Wrappered Issue. Square quarto (22.75cm); original unprinted manila card wrappers; publisher's pictorial dustjacket and printed acetate overlay; [48]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, with some subtle toning at crown. Acetate overlay has a few shallow chips and small tears, and some..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1990. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 150 numbered copies signed by the artist, this being copy no.127. Folio (57.75cm); loose lithographed sheets (ca.15" x 22"), housed in a red cloth clamshell case, with title printed in black on front cover, and the Companion To Biotherm..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1990. Limited Edition. Fine press edition of this poem from Whitman's 1856 collection, Leaves of Grass, brought to life by American photographer Aaron Siskind (1903-1991). "The illustrations for Song of the Open Road transform Whitman's symbolic journeyings into the language of modern urbanism...The photographer's..... More