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."
Paris: Mercure de France, 1939. First edition. 214 pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine a little creased, corners slightly bumped. Mostly unopened. One of 20 numbered copies on Arches, with a different cover design than the regular edition, and printed on variously sized sheets, with full margins. The epigraph, “ÉCRIRE AVEC.....
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: 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.
[Paris]: [Maurice Sachs and Jacques Bonjean], 1928. First edition. [6], 7-80, [6] pp. Quarto. Folded wrappers, title and monogram printed on front cover. Printed on Montval laid paper, handmade by Gaspard Maillol, by Ducros et Colas, printers, Paris. Slightest occasional spotting to leaves, still a fine copy, housed in a......
Portland: Out of the Ashes Press/The Mississippi Mud Magazine, 1977. First edition. 50, [2] pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Some staining and grubbiness to covers, interior clean. The rare chapbook by Portland's unofficial "street poet," basis for Gus Van Sant's first film. Katherine Dunn, another patron saint of Portland letters, wrote.....
San Francisco: San Francisco State University/The Press in Tuscany Alley, 1991. First edition. [28] pp. Sewn wrappers laid into heavy paper wrappers, printed label on front cover and spine. Minor edgewear, else fine. One of ninety numbered copies, signed by Jess, of a total edition of one hundred copies. Designed.....
New York: Catchwords Press, 1986. First edition. Original wrappers. 28 pp. Stapled wrappers. One of 250 copies in wrappers, this copy unnumbered. An uncommon title. Fine copy.
New York: Catchwords Press, 1986. First edition, one of 26 copies in boards, signed by the author and lettered N (250 copies in wrappers were also published). Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Fine copy. An uncommon title, the edition in boards is rare. Late.....
Majorca: Caravel Press, 1936. First edition. [26] pp. Stapled wrappers mounted in black paper cover, printed label on the front cover. Leaves foxed, front cover with two old ring stains. Frontispiece by Pavel Tchelitchew. Inscribed by Ford on the first leaf, “To Madame Fellowes / with the homage.....
Columbus, MS: 1929. First edition. 28 pp. Stapled wrappers. Light wear to the spine and extremities, near fine. Partially unopened. The first issue of Ford’s legendary little magazine, published while Ford was working in the café at the Gilmer Hotel in Columbus, Mississippi, which his father was managing. Charles.....
[New York?]: Poet's Press, n.d. c. 1965. "Pirated Edition." [24] pp. Sewn wrappers mounted in thin red buckram boards, front cover lettered in gilt. Boards slightly splayed, else fine. English translation with original French text en face. Two illustrations by Jean Cocteau. This is noted in holograph as number.....
San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1968. First edition. Four printed leaves laid in to a folder with rear flap serving as title-page, covers illustrated by Jess. Contains Duncan's "Structure of Rime XXVII," its first appearance. Published to coincide with a show at the San Francisco Museum of Art.....
Paris: Printed for Contact Editions at the Three Mountains Press, 1925. First edition. 158 pp. Publisher’s dark green morocco backstrip over marbled paper boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, blue silk ribbon marker bound in, errata slip bound in at the half-title. Some rubbing to the edges, corners, and.....
Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 2000. First edition. Original wrappers. 62 pp. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. Slight shelfwear, near fine or better. The second collection by the well-regarded poet.
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1896. First edition. x, 273 pp. Contemporary half morocco over marbled paper boards, spine with four raised bands, gilt compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Original wrappers bound in, original spine wrapper bound in at rear. Exterior hinges and edges rubbed. Interior clean. Drawings by Madeleine Lemaire.....
New York: Grove Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 84 pp. Paper-covered boards, spine lettered in black, with the dust jacket. Extremely slight wear to the head of the spine and top front corner, else a fine copy. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. The uncommon hardcover issue.....
New York: Grove Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. 64 pp. Yellow paper boards over blue cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Head and tail of spine a bit bumped, slight edgewear to jacket. Kay Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010, won the Pulitzer.....
Providence: Copper Beech Press, 1994. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of Ryan's third book. 64 pp. Glossy printed wraps, a paperback original. Some evidence of pencil erasures throughout, slight smudge over price on rear cover, else a fine copy. Kay Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010.....
Providence: Copper Beech Press, 1994. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of Ryan's third book. 64 pp. Glossy printed wraps, a paperback original. Slight surface wear to covers, else a fine copy. Kay Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her.....
Tujunga, CA: Peter Holland, Christopher, Louise and Robert Haas, 1947. First edition. Single sheet, folded twice to form [4] pages, printed in black and red. Slight handling wear, slightly musty, near fine. One of about 100 copies distributed to friends by Robert and Louise Haas. A previously unpublished extract from.....