Denver, Colorado: The Bowery Press, 1969. Five pieces comprising four broadsheets, approx. 11 X 17 in and one bifolium, approx, 11-1/2 X 17 in., in original mailing envelope. A nice group from this alternative press, mailed together in one package to supportive poet Russell Edson. Includes: Stuart Z. Perkoff, Poems..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. 8vo, 85pp; cloth-backed boards. One of 500 hardcover copies in the trade edition. More
[New York: Grossman Publishers, Inc., 1972]. First Edition. 4to, title page, introduction and 135 loose leaves housed in publisher's three-ring binder with printed label on front. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, this avant-garde anthology followed in the footsteps of Richard Kostelanetz's influential "Assembling" series, gathering contributions from a range of..... More
New York: Random House, (1952). First American edition. 8vo, 311pp; half gray-cloth with photographic label and ribbed paper-covered boards. Bowles's third book, and second novel, in its handsome E. McKnight-Kauffer dust jacket. More
(Los Angeles: circa 1949). Tempera on paper, mounted with glue onto cardboard, approx. 12 X 9 in. Figure of a masked Harlequin, standing in front of a doorway and strumming a small triangular guitar-like instrument under a full moon. On the reverse, on the back of the cardboard, Bradbury has..... More
(Los Angeles): 1949. Tempera on cardstock paper, approx. 10 X 14 in. Nighttime cityscape depicting images of Los Angeles, with the central image of a streetcar filled with passengers and all around lighted signs (Bond Pants, Follies, Tivoli Theatre, Beer, Parking, Wine, Ice) a lamppost, a telephone booth, and a...... More
Corvallis/Coos Bay, Oregon: Summer 1952. 4to, [36]pp mimeograph periodical, printed on both sides, illustrated throughout; stapled into mimeographed covers. Mimeographed fanzine, edited by Walt Lee and Bob Chambers while both were students (Lee at Oregon State and Chambers at Caltech). As announced on the cover -- with an illustration by..... More
Berlin. -. Postcard, approx. 3-1/2 X 5-1/2 in. Otto Brahm (1856-1912), influential drama critic, declines to review a book in "Die Vossische Zeitung." Ulla Wolff-Frank, also known as Frankfurter, wrote and published with the pseudonym "Ulrich Frank." More
New York: # Magazine, 1981. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, unpag.; wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed to poet Quincy Troupe. More
Np: Lee/Lucas Press, 1979. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, unpag. pamphlet; wrappers. One of 100 copies, numbered and signed by Breger, the entire edition. Part of the Little Rootie Tootie series. Cover design by Robin Tewes. More
-. One page, approx. 8-3/4 X 11-1/4 in. Lujo Brentano (1844-1931), liberal economist and social reformer, nephew of Clemens Brentano and Bettina von Arnim, and a member of Kurt Eisner's brief revolutionary government in Munich in 1919. More
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1919). First edition. 12mo, original printed brown wrappers. One of only 350 copies printed. The poet laureate's verse in honor of the Armistice. More
new York: Oxford University Press, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, white cloth. More
London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1797. Fourth Edition. Two vols., 8vos, [2], frontispiece, [iv], 360; [2], 432pp; nineteenth-century full polished calf gilt with finely marbled endpapers and edges. An attractive set of the fourth and best edition, highlighted by the frontispiece and twenty-four engraved illustrations. In this copy, the illustrations..... More
San Francisco: n.d. (1963). Broadside, printed on one side of a single leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 in. Full page letter to American union members reporting on the manipulation of AFL and other American unions supporting the general strike in British Guiana [sic]. Not well remembered today, the 80-day walkout..... More
(New Rochelle, NY): James L. Weil, (1987). First Edition. 12mo, unpag. pamphlet in wrappers, saddle-stitched. A single poem printed in an edition of fifty copies as a keepsake for Bronk's longtime publisher. The typography and printing were done by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. More
Eugene: University of Oregon/Limited Editions Club, 1939. First edition thus. 4to, linen-backed marbled boards. One of 1500 numbered copies, specially printed for the L.E.C. and signed by John Henry Nash. More
London: Printed by A. Miller, for Edw. Dod and Nath. Ekins, 1650. Second Edition. Small 4to, [i-xvi] 329 + [10]pp; modern three-quarter brown morocco and cloth. Revised and expanded from its 1646 first edition, this is Browne's exploration of a wide range of erroneous beliefs, mistaken common wisdom, and various..... More
New York: Frank O'Hara Foundation / Columbia University Press, 1969. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 73pp; purple cloth. Review copy with slip; the graphic dust jacket design is by Joe Brainard. The poet's first regularly published book, recipient of the Frank O'Hara Award. More
(Brunswick, Maine): Blackberry Press, (1978). First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 20pp; wrappers. Nice presentation cop[y with a poetic inscription signed by Bruchac to fellow poet Quincy Troupe. More
Warren, Ohio: Fantome Press, (1989). First Edition. 8vo, unpag. chapbook in printed wrappers, saddle-stitched with a red cord; housed in matching printed envelope. One of 300 numbered copies (16), the entire edition of this title poem from a forthcoming collection. Illustrated with an original woodblock print by William Mullaney, signed..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. First Edition. 8vo, 320pp; green cloth. More
Stuttgart: Verlag Müller und Schindler, (1968). First edition thus. Folio, 55pp loose in paper chemise; with twelve original signed zinc-engravings by Maranova in separate chemise; housed together in publisher's wood and cloth folding box, paper covered slipcase. One of 280 copies in the entire edition. More
London: N.p., 1710. Later edition. 12mo, 107 [1]pp; later three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Buckinghma's popular satire was originally published in 1671, taking aim at the genre of heroic tragedy exemplified by Dryden and others. More