limited edition and fine press
MERCURY, A Short Story
West Branch, IA: The Toothpaste Press, 1981. First Edition. Wraps. Oblong 12mo. Stringbound printed lime-green wraps, with French flaps. Near fine. Trivial dots of soil to front cover. Overall, crisp, clean, and sharp. [20] pp. Printed in Weiss linotype on Frankfurt White paper. From an edition of 900 copies. A....
SINKING BEAR
Portland, Ore. & NY: Division Leap & Boo-Hooray, 2013. First edition thus. Wraps. Folio, 162 pp., printed entirely by risograph on various colors of paper stock by Keegan Cooke at the Circadian Press and bound in silkscreened wraps. One of a limited edition of 300 copies. With essays by Adam...
THE CROOKED LINES OF GOD: Poems 1949-1954
Detroit: University of Detroit Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Quarter black imitation cloth over gray boards. In photographic dust jacket. Very good plus in very good DJ. SIGNED by Antoninus at FFEP. Mild toning and touches of soil to jacket; light edgewear. Hints of soil to boards, bookstore...
NOT SO MUCH LOVE OF FLOWERS: Poems 1969-1972
West Branch, IA: The Toothpaste Press, 1975. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound wraps. About fine. Wraps bright and crisp. Pages clean, unmarked throughout. Good and sound. [36] pp. Printed from Plantin and Goudy Hand Tooled types on Masa paper, in an edition of 501 copies. A handsome volume of poetry...
PERSUASION
Westport, CT: Limited EditionsClub, 1977. First Edition. 4to. Publisher's rust-colored cloth in glassine and original slipcase. Newsletter laid in. Mild chipping and toning to glassine. Slipcase moderately rubbed. Interior bright and clean. Near fine. 241pp. 565 of 1600, signed by illustrator Tony Buonpastore. A handsome, fresh copy.
PLUIE DOUCE
[Marseille]: Andre Dimanche Editeur, (1985). First Edition. 4 loose 4-leaf, 8-page folio signatures in titled french-flap folder wrappers with original glassine jacket, all laid into blue cloth clamshell and all as issued. Very fine. One of 150 numbered copies, this #25, signed by both author and artist. Bailly's prose poem...
WILL BARNET: 27 Master Prints
New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. Large folio. Original green full linen in original rice-paper covered slipcase, with gilt titles to both. Minor wear and bumping to case. Book fine. Near fine overall. SIGNED in pencil by Barnet to title page. The uncommon deluxe edition of this...
THE BUSSES
Berkeley: Tuumba Press, 1981. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Very good with light wear at edges and some light touches of soil to wraps. Else bright and sharp overall. Limited to an edition of 450, this number 393. Tuumba 32, from the landmark series of chapbooks devoted (primarily)...
STATE LOUNGE
Berkeley: Tuumba Press, 1981. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Very good with light wear at edges and small dampstain at front wrap. Else bright and sharp overall. Limited to an edition of 450, this number 232. Tuumba 33, from the landmark series of chapbooks devoted (primarily) to the...
DISFRUTES
np: (Peter Ganick), 1979. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo. Stapled printed self-wraps. Pho- to-offset printed. Near fine. Minor edge- wear. Faint toning. Else clean and sound. Limited edition, one of 100 unnumbered copies. First edition of this uncommon early collection from the noted Language poet. His fourth book, it was republished...
SENSES OF RESPONSIBILITY
Berkeley: Tuumba Press, 1979. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Near fine with some wear to edges. Else bright and sharp overall. Limited to an edition of 450, this number 72. Tuumba 20, from the landmark series of chapbooks devoted (primarily) to the Language Poets, all letter-pressed and edited by Lyn Hejinian. Unpaginated.
THE MONK AND THE HANGMAN'S DAUGHTER
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Limited ed. 4to. Publisher's cloth in glassine with chemise and slipcase. Fine with minor shelfwear to slipcase. 80 pp. Limited to 1500 copies. Illustrations by Michel Ciry with an introduction by Maurice Valency.
FLUX & REFLUX: Journies in a Magical Fluid
Berkeley: Oyez, 1970. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound printed wraps. Very good plus. Review copy with slip laid in. Light soiling to covers. Interior bright, clean throughout. Good and sound. 57pp. Collection of verse by Blazek. With handsome cover art designed by Michael Myers of the Zephyrus Image press.
Lyrics in Brief 1300-1938: Complete Lyrics from Longer Poems - Some from Manuscript, Edited with a Brief Forward and Introductory Verses By Tom Boggs
New York: The Powgen Press, 1938. First Edition. Wraps. Tall octavo in printed yellow wraps. Edgewear, bump to one corner, soiling and rubbing. Binding creased but strong. Internally bright and clean. Number 263 of an unstated limitation, this one further designated Presentation Copy. Designed by Ted F. Gensamer with frontispiece...
PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS INNA NEO-CON ROOTS-DUB STYLEY
Washington DC: The Interrupting Cow, 2004. Limited ed. Wraps. 8vo. Stamped thick file-envelope wraps, stringbound at spine. Near fine, with touches of yellowing to wraps. Internally fine: bright, crisp, sharp. 29pp. From an edition of 100 copies. Chapbook illustrated throughout with the author's collages of Reagan and other right-wing figures...
GHOSTING ALONG
Greenville, NC: Cordial Quartos, Ltd., 1981. First Edition. Wraps. Oblong 8vo. Grey stapled wraps. Minor edgewear. Edition of 20; two signed leaves bound in (an apparent printer's error); both SIGNED and numbered 13 and 14 respectively (sorry copy 14). Very good plus. Handmade photocopied photobook of black and white images...
P-E-A-C-E
Berkeley: Tuumba Press, 1981. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Very good with light wear at edges and a few very small spots of foxing at rear wrap. Else bright and sharp overall. Limited to an edition of 450, this number 446. Tuumba 34, from the landmark series of...
IT CATCHES MY HEART IN ITS HANDS: Gypsy Lou Series No. 1
(New Orleans): Loujon Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Multi-colored letterpressed sheets in cork-covered card wraps, with titles and skeleton decoration stamped to front cover, with wrap-around pictorial jacket (exhibtiing photo of the poet) - all as issued. An ornate production. SIGNED by Bukowski at first page in silver...
THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII
Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1956. Limited ed. Hardcover. 4to. Publisher's patterned cloth in printed dust jacket. In original gray slipcase. Near fine in a very good plus DJ & slipcase. Jacket shows light sunning and tiny nicks at spine. Slipcase lightly soiled here and there, with one mild surface scratch...
BUNYAN'S ALLEGORICAL WORKS: Or The Pilgrim's Progress and the Holy War, Together with His Grace Abounding, Divine Emblems, and Other Poems, Edited with Notes, Original and Selected, and a Life of Bunyan by the Rev. Charles H. H. Wright, M.A.
London: James Hagger, nd [ca. 1870]. Hardcover. 4to. Full tooled leather over boards. Five raised bands. AEG. Marbled endpapers. Leather well-rubbed at edges and joints. Some scuffing. Mild toning to pages. Else sound and clean throughout. Very good. With illustrations by H. Castelli & G. Bartsch, including 30 full-color lithograph...
THE THRESHOLD OF HEAVEN
Ann Arbor: Crowfoot Press, (1978). Limited ed. Wraps. 4to. Rope-bound, brown printed wraps. Very good plus. ASSOCIATION: INSCRIBED by Carrigan to Ken and Ann Mikolowski of Ann Arbor's Alternative Press, to first page. Wraps show a bit of shelfwear. Thin line of ink-soil to rear cover. Internally bright and clean...
YOU POEMS: The Crowfoot Poetry Series Volume 2
Ann Arbor: Crowfoot Press, (1979). Limited ed. Wraps. Small 4to. Plain white card wraps with printed paper dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. ASSOCIATION: INSCRIBED by Carrigan in the year of publication to Ken and Ann Mikolowski of Ann Arbor's Alternative Press, at title page. Light handling wear to...
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
New York: Literary Guild / Random House, 1932. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter parchment over blue clothVery good in a good plus jacket. Jacket has large chip at corner of front panel. Mild toning, edgewear. Book has mild shelfwear to extremities. Else clean and sound. First US edition of...
SUN ON 6
Calais, VT: Z Press, 2000. First Edition. Wraps. Small 4to. Sewn grey wraps. With inscribed postcard laid in ("For Ken - The newest / Love, Kenward); consequent faint transfer of ink from postcard to ffep. Interior otherwise bright and clean. Edition of 200 copies. Designed by C.W. Swets, set in...
GREEN
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pictorial boards over linen quarter spine. Fine in original acetate jacket. Limited edition, one of 200 numbered copies, this #13, SIGNED by Clark to colophon. [Morrow and Cooney 102].