Algeria
London: Aloes Books, 1984. First edition. [2], 1-29, [1] pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Very slight rub to corners, very slight browning to endpapers, near fine. Initially written as a short story, "Girl Gangs Take Over the World."
London: Aloes Books, 1984. First edition. [2], 1-29, [1] pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Very slight rub to corners, very slight browning to endpapers, near fine. Initially written as a short story, "Girl Gangs Take Over the World."
Berkeley: Oannes, 1963. First edition. First edition, one of 500 numbered copies printed. Stiff wrappers with attached printed dust jacket. Printed on textured brown paper. 110 pp. A two-act ballad opera set in San Francisco in 1906. Slightest rubbing to head of spine, still a fine copy.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2018. First edition. xvi, 309, [3] pp. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. An excellent memoir by Wallace Berman's son, signed by him on the title-page. Fine copy.
Larkspur: [Wallace Berman], 1961. [18] unbound sheets, laid into a printed manila pocket mounted in a folded cardstock cover with photo mounted on front panel. Slight rubbing to the spine, else fine, complete, and very rare thus. One of 200 copies printed. This is the sole issue of Semina.....
[Houseboat, Boardwalk #2], Larkspur, CA: Wallace Berman, 1960. First edition. [14] unbound sheets, laid into a printed manila pocket mounted in a folded printed cover. Some foxing and soiling to covers, minor creasing to lower corners; still much better than usually seen. One of 335 copies printed. This sixth.....
New York: Grove Press, 1964 [i.e. 1967]. First edition thus. 72 pp. Stapled wrappers. Top corner slightly bumped, minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and slight scuff to front cover near top edge, else fine. Review copy, with slip laid in. Rear cover blurb by Joe Brainard.
[New York]: [Adventures in Poetry], [1974]. First edition. [28] pp. Side-stapled mimeograph sheets, printed on rectos only. Staples a little rusty, else fine. Berrigan's homage to Rimbaud, drawn by Brainard, one of their most successful marriages of text and poetry. Fischer, p. 46.
New York: Lorenz Gude/Ted Berrigan, 1966. First edition. 31 pp. Side-stapled tall (legal-sized) mimeographed wrappers. Slight toning to extremities, last leaf detached from two of three staples. Much better than usually seen. One of the most important mimeo magazines of the 1960s, and a crucial link between the.....
New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1972. First edition. [28] pp., text on rectos only. Side-stapled wrappers. Minor staple rust marks, last leaf and rear cover never stapled to lower staple. Cover image by Brainard.
Toronto: Proper Tales Press, 1991. First edition. [16] pp. Stapled wrappers. Slight edgewear, else fine. A "resurrection" of the original 1972 publication, one of 200 copies of this edition. Cover image by Brainard.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1973. First edition. [24] pp. Unprinted stapled red wrappers with dust jacket. Jacket a little toned with a short closed tear and a bit of rubbing at the head of the spine. The uncommon fourth volume of Brainard's series of remembrances.
New York: Angel Hair Books, 1972. First edition. [44] pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Cover photo by Bill Katz. One of 800 copies, of a total edition of 826. The second volume of the initial publication of Brainard's masterpiece. Influenced by Gertrude Stein and Andy Warhol in its repetition and yet.....
New York: Angel Hair Books, 1973. First edition. [32] pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Cover photo by Bill Katz. One of 700 copies, of a total edition of 726. The third volume of the initial publication of Brainard's masterpiece. Influenced by Gertrude Stein and Andy Warhol in its repetition and yet.....
New York: The Poetry Project, 1997. First edition. 19 loose sheets in printed envelope. Foreword by Bill Berkson. One of 250 numbered sets, reproducing fifteen flyers. Minor wear to envelope, contents fine.
n.p. [New York]: n.d. [1967]. First edition. [24] pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Corners slightly rubbed, else about fine. An early Brainard/Elmslie collaboration.
n.p. [New York]: n.d. [1967]. First edition. [24] pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Slight toning to extremities, else fine. An early Brainard/Elmslie collaboration. Signed by Elmslie on the front verso.
[New York]: [Boke Press], 1965. First edition. Side-stapled wrappers with black cloth tape spine. Some toning to extremities, a couple of small rust stains, near fine. Of a total of 500 copies, this is one of 450 unnumbered copies. Signed by Elmslie on the first leaf.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First edition. 307, [5] pp. Unprinted cream wrappers, printed label mounted to front cover. Stamped "advance review copy" on first leaf. Some handling wear and toning to wrappers, top corner slightly bumped. Uncommon advance format of one of Bukowski's more iconic collections.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. First edition. [16] pp. Printed boards over black cloth backstrip. One of 226 numbered copies signed by Bukowski, issued as a New Year's Greeting by the Press. Krumhansl 102b. Fine copy.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963. First edition. 68 pp. Original printed wrappers. Slight rubbing to rear cover fore-edge, and head and tail of spine, near fine. Maynard & Miles A8. Morgan B22. Cook 45.
Bolinas: Tombouctou, 1978. First edition. 150 pp. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. A bit of wear to edges and spine, better than usually seen. Signed by Carroll on the title-page. Introduction by Tom Clark. In 1973 Carroll had moved from his native New York to the isolation of Bolinas, CA.....
n.p. [New York]: n.d. [1967]. First edition. [20] pp. Staple bound wrappers. Some tanning to wrappers, else near fine. Carroll’s first book, published when he was sixteen. Apparently about 500 copies were printed, many of which were lost by the printer. OCLC locates less than ten copies...
[Mt. Horeb]: The Perishable Press, 1966. Broadside. 8 1/4 x 11 inches. Slight softening to upper left corner, else fine. One of eighty-five copies, printed on variegated papers handmade from rags by Walter Hamady for Joel and Helen Oppenheimer on the occasion of their marriage, 6 June 1966.....
Columbus: Golden Goose Press, 1952. First edition. Stiff printed stapled wrappers. Slight browning to covers, else a fine copy, lacking the fragile opalescent tissue jacket. Creeley’s first book, printed by Richard Wirtz Emerson and published in an edition of approximately 500 copies. Novik A1.
New York: Bouwerie Editions, 1973. First edition. [16] pp. Glossy stapled wrappers. Text by Creeley, illustrated by Brainard. Fine copy in original numbered envelope, envelope a little toned. Of a total edition of 350 copies, this is one of 150 copies reserved for the poet and the artist, which.....