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Great Britain: New Departures, 1959. First edition. Paperback. Tall trade paperbound format. 98 pp. First issue of this important British poetry journal. Edited by Michael Horowitz. A very good copy in bound wrappers. More
Great Britain: New Departures, 1959. First edition. Paperback. Tall trade paperbound format. 98 pp. First issue of this important British poetry journal. Edited by Michael Horowitz. A very good copy in bound wrappers. More
New York: New Directions, 1962. Second edition. Cloth. Clothbound octavo in dustwrapper. 194 pp. Stated second edition of this collection of essays by Beckett, Williams and others regarding Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A new edition with introduction by Sylvia Beach. Also this is the first clothbound edition of this title. Faint..... More
Bisbee: Bisbee Poetry Festival, 1981. First edition. Paperback. Scarce 12 pp program guide for the 3rd annual Bisbee Poetry Festival. Cover art by Gil Lutz. Booklet contains info about the festival as well as poems by the performers. In very good condition in stapled wrappers. More
New York: William Drenttel, 1994. First edition. Cloth. Cloth 8vo with paper spine label. Issued without dustwrapper. 93 pp. A fine copy. One of only 100 hand-numbered copies SIGNED BY AUSTER. Introduction by Robert Hughes and with a tipped on portrait photograph by Victor Schrager. An excellent reference work on..... More
London: Trianon Press, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. 22" tall by 16" wide. Containing nine color plates, including a lithographed frontispiece. Tissue guards present. Publisher's 1/4 morocco over decorated boards. Tips lightly rubbed else an exceptionally sharp copy. One of 506 hand-numbered copies. Very large and heavy tome... More
Boulder: Attaboy, 1976. First edition. Paperback. Tall trade paperbound book. Scarce first issue of this poetry journal edited by Bohe and MacAdams. Featuring work by Carol Berge, Michael Brownstein, Anne Waldman and several other New York School culprits. A fine example in bound illustrated wrappers. More
Boston: Press Wafer, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound format. 147 pp. An arts and poetry annual published by William Corbett and others. This first issue with contributions by Michael Palmer, Ann Kim, Paul Metcalf, Ed Barrett and others. More
Roslyn Harbor, NY: The Stone House Press, 1983. First edition. Loose Sheets. Elephant folio. Introduction by Gerard Previn Meyer. A suite of ten loose poetry broadsides in a hardbound folded portfolio and contained in a matching hardbound slipcase with printed label at spine. All elements in fine condition. Produced in..... More
Waldron Island: Brooding Heron Press, 1988. First edition. Loose Sheets. Portfolio of fourteen loose poetry broadsides plus an introductory sheet laid into a handsome cloth-covered clamshell box with Japanese style ties. One of only 55 sets printed. Introduction by Sam and Sally Green who have both signed their names at..... More
New York: James L. Weil, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Oblong sewn wrappers. One of only fifty copies of this poettry keppsake published by James L. Weil. Fine condition printed on delicate rag paper. This copy has been both SIGNED and briefly INSCRIBED by Bronk to a fellow poet. Uncommon title..... More
New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1998. First edition. Paperback. Oblong sewn wrappers. A very good copy of this poetry keepsake printed on delicate rag paper in a slender edition of only fifty copies. This copy both SIGNEED and briefly INSCRIBED by Bronk to a fellow poet. Some sunning and light..... More
New York: James L. Weil, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Small 8vo. Keepsake published in a slender edition of only 50 copies. Fine condition in sewn wrappers. This copy has been both SIGNED and briefly INSCRIBED by Bronk to a fellow poet. More
New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1995. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. A fine copy of this delicate poettry keepsake in sewn wrappers. One of only fifty copies. This copy has been both SIGNED and briefly INSCRIBED by Bronk to a fellow poet. Scarce title. More
Northamptonshire: The Sceptre Press, 1973. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. Slender chapbook. Number 60 of 150 hand-numbered copies. Fine condition in stiff printed stapled wraps. This copy both SIGNED and briefly INSCRIBED by Bronk to a fellow poet. Uncommon title. More
Ashland, MA: Skycraft Publishing, 1993. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. True first edition of this collection of poems. Published one year before the Talisman House edition. A fine copy in plain unprinted navy wrappers with plastic comb binding. One of only twenty copies printed. This copy warmly INSCRIBED by Bronk to..... More
Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, No Date. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. A fine copy in sewn printed wrappers. This is one of the limited signed copies printed on Rives Light Weight & Fabriano Ingres Text papers. This copy labeled "Hors Commerce". In addition, Bronk has both SIGNED and INSCRIBED this copy to..... More
Mount Kisko: Asphodel Press, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound volume of poems by Bronk in printed dustwrapper. 66 pp. Stated first edition. A fine copy in fine dustwrapper. More
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1975. First edition. Paperback. Tall octavo. A fine copy of this poetry chapbook published in an edition of 225 copies of which 60 were to be signed. This copy is not numbered, but has been both SIGNED and briefly INSCRIBED by Bronk to a fellow poet..... More
Providence: Burning Deck, 1978. First edition. Paperback. Oblong octavo. Beautifully designed poetry chapbook by Bronk. Published in an edition of five hundred copies. Original silk screen cover by Linda Lutes. A fine example. This copy has been SIGNED as well as INSCRIBED by Bronk to a fellow poet... More
No Place: Grosseteste, 1976. First edition. Paperback. Small oblong wrappers. A slender poetry chapbook published in an edition of 300 copies. This is number 60. Very good condition. Designed and set by John and Carol Riley and printed by Tony Ward at the Arvon Foundation. This was poet Charles Simic's..... More
Berkeley: Oyez, 1968. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 173 numbered pp plus index. First edition of this critical study of Jeffers by a fellow California poet. This book represents Everson's first prose book. A fine copy in fine price-intact dustwrapper. More
San Francisco: Coyote Books, 1966. First edition. Paperback. Thick paperbound 8vo. 219 pp. A volume of experimental prose. Paper a bit toned and spotted at edges. A very good copy in bound photo-illustrated wrappers. This copy has been nicely INSCRIBED by the author and dated 11/12/72 in Bolinas, CA... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1954. First edition. Cloth. Tall 8vo. 413 pp. An early (1954) conservative take on Senator Joe McCarthy and his efforts to expose "security" issues in American government. A very good clothbound book in about very good dustwrapper. Wrapper has some noticable rubbing and wear, especially to..... More
Eugene: University of Oregon, 1962. First edition. Paperback. Three issues of this literary magazine edited by Edward van Aelstyn. The common denominator of these three issues is that they all contain contributions by Charles Bukowski. All three in very good condition. Published in 1962, 1963 and 1978, respectively... More