Lays and Legends
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. First edition. 197 pp., 5 x 7 inches. Decorated cloth over boards. Moderate wear to edges and corners, but with cover gilt stamping still bright; spine lettering slightly dulled, with one small darkened spot low on the spine; a few tiny spots of puckering.....
The Eater of Darkness (1st edition, 1926) with The Eater of Darkness (1st U.S. edition, 1929)
Coates, Robert M.
Paris; New York: Contact Editions; The Macaulay Company, 1926; 1929. First printings. 179 pp., 5.75 x 7.75 inches; 238 pp., 5.5 x 7.75 inches. Two volumes, housed in a custom-made two compartment box. The first edition is in the original binding of sewn signatures glued into plain wrappers, with a......
Dully, Poppy (John Steinbeck)
Portland, OR: Artist, 2021. First edition thus. (28) pp., 5.25 x 7.75 inches (closed). Altered book, with images printed over text pages, in an accordion binding attached at one end to the original cloth covers, in the original dust-jacket. Signed and numbered by the artist, in an edition of four.....
A Blessing Outside Us
Morley, Hilda
n.p. Pourboire Press, 1979. First trade edition. 85 pp., 5.5 x 8.25 inches. Sewn signatures glued into printed card covers. With a prefatory note by Robert Creeley, and back-cover photo of the author by Gerard Malanga. Warmly inscribed by the author to fellow poet Jane Glazer, and with Glazer's heavily.....
LONG HAIR magazine, Volume 1 Number 1
Ginsberg, Allen, Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Lee Harwood, Gerard Malanga, Brian Patten, Tuli Kupferberg, Jeff Nuttall, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Tom Pickard, Allen de Loach, Charles Plymell, Jack Micheline, et al.
London: Lovebooks Ltd., 1965. First printing. 80 pp., 6.5 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Edited by Barry Miles, with Ted Berrigan as New York editor. Minor toning and creasing to covers; title written neatly on unprinted spine, otherwise a very good, sound copy. An incredible transatlantic assemblage.....
Singular Pleasures
Mathews, Harry
Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1993. First trade edition. (141) pp., 5.75 x 8.75 inches. Cloth over boards in printed dust-jacket. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of watercolor paintings by Francesco Clemente. First published in 1988 by Grenfell Press as a limited fine-press edition. As new. A book about masturbation: sixty-one short.....
Eleven Engravings
Edward Calvert
Cambridge, UK: Golden Head Press, 1966. First printing. (6) + 11 pp., 8.75 x 11.25 inches. With a prefatory note by Raymond Lister. One of 225 copies, with plates printed in collotype; bound in quarter-cloth and paper over boards, with printed cover label. Mild bumps to corners and light soiling.....
A Nest of Ninnies
Ashbery, John and James Schuyler
New York: Dutton, 1969. First edition. 146 pp., 5.75 x 11 inches. Uncorrected proof, in plastic comb binding and printed card covers. Slight sunning to covers and mild rumpling to edges, otherwise very good and internally fine. A very uncommon state of this collaborative novel, reprinted several times since the.....
Arcs and Lines (All combinations of arcs from four corners, arcs from four sides, straight lines, not-straight lines, and broken lines
Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions des Massons, 1974. First printing. (55) pp., 8 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Published in collaboration with Yvon Lambert, and distributed in the USA by Artists' Books Distribution Company, New York. Toning and very light edgewear to covers, otherwise essentially as new. Drawings, paired.....
n.p. n.p., 1975. First printing. (10) pp., 8.5 x 11 inches. Printed offset on stiff card, saddle-stapled into printed self-wrappers. Photos by Bee Ottinger. An Activity score in three parts, each part further divided into three sections comprising text and illustrative photographs. "WARM-UPS was carried out by a small group.....
Color Grids: All Vertical and Horizontal Combinations of Black, Yellow, Red and Blue Straight, Not-Straight and Broken Lines
New York, NY and Colombes, France: Multiples, Inc. and Générations, 1977. First printing. (78) pp., 8 x 8 inches. Sewn signatures glued into printed card covers. Light soiling and age-toning to edges of covers, and previous owner's discreet name and date on half-title page, otherwise very fine and essentially as.....
Every Building on the Sunset Strip
Los Angeles: n.p., 1966 (1971). Second printing. (53) pp.; 5.5 x 7 inches (closed), 25 feet x 7 inches (open). Offset accordion-folded sheets, tipped together and glued into wraparound printed card covers, in reflective mylar over card slipcase. The second printing of 5000 copies, from 1971, without the additional flap.....
Hollywood, CA: Heavy Industry Publications, 1971. First printing. (63) pp., 5.5 x 7 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Photos by Jerry McMillan. Signed by the artist. A nearly immaculate copy; the slightest hint of sunning to spine and lower edge, but tight and bright and essentially as new. Photographs.....
Some Los Angeles Apartments
Los Angeles: 1970. Second edition. (44) pp., 5.5 x 7 inches. Sewn signatures glued into printed card covers, in glassine dust-jacket. Second edition of 3000 copies (printed by Anderson, Ritchie and Simon), after the first edition of 700 copies published in 1965. Signed by the artist. A very fine copy.....
Arts and Crafts of Hawaii
Buck, Peter H. (Te Rangi Hiroa)
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1957. First printing. 606 pp., 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Cloth over boards in pictorial printed dust-jacket. With 350 illustrations in black and white. Scattered foxing to edges and first and last pages, and light wear to extremities of cloth, otherwise very good in a very good.....
The Night Traveler
Oliver, Mary
Cleveland, OH: Bits Press, 1978. First printing. (32) pp., 5.75 x 8.75 inches. A Bits Chapbook. Printed letterpress and stapled into printed card covers. Cover illustration from a photoengraving ("zincograph") reproducing a woodcut by William Blake ("for Thornton's 1821 edition of Virgil"). Light rumpling to edges of oversized covers, and.....
Space Design No. 172
Shinohara, Kazuo
Tokyo: Kajima Institute Publishing, 1979. First printing. 228 + 25 pp., 8.75 x 11.5 inches. Perfect-bound in printed wrappers. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Scattered light foxing to edges and cover, and mild wear to corners, otherwise very good; an internally fine, tightly bound copy, with no.....
The Birdwatcher
Bozeman, MT: Doring Press, 2019. First printing. (63) pp., 20.5 x 30.5 inches (box, closed), 39 x 29.5 inches (book, open). Layout, design, and printing in archival inks on Asuka paper by the artist, in an edition of eight numbered and signed copies. Landscape photographs and annotations by Ian van.....
An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-1987
Boland, Eavan
New York: Norton, 1996. First printing. 6.5 x 9.5 inches, 205 pp. Very slight edgewear to jacket, otherwise essentially as new.
Graphics, Paintings, Drawings
Divnogorc'eva-Grigolia, Inna
Tbilisi: Xelovneba, 1972. First printing. (104) pp., 9 x 11.75 inches. Gilt-stamped cloth over boards in printed dust-jacket. With 121 illustrations in color and black-and-white. Introduction by Andrei Konstantinovich Lebedev. Text in Georgian and Russian. Inscribed by the artist. Small tear near gutter of title-page spread, and slight age-toning of.....
The Little Red Hen
The Little Red Hen (Larry Fagin & Anne Waldman)
(New York): The Little Red Hen Press, 1970. First printing. (6) pp., 8.5 x 11 inches. Side-stapled into printed wrappers. Printed by mimeograph. One of ten signed and numbered copies, out of a total edition of fifty. Mild darkening and foxing to edges of cover, and with a small stain.....
1/1 (unique visual book)
Ross, Noah
Berkeley, CA: Noah Ross, 2020. Original work. (8) pp., 3 x 4.75 inches. Typewriter and thread on single sheet folded to make eight pages, sewn into typewritten card cover. As new. Noah Ross uses modest means and humble materials — typed letters and symbols, colored thread, office papers — to.....
Lo Specchio della Memoria [The Mirror of Memory]
Tarkovskij (Tarkovsky), Andrej & Arsenij (text); Lev Gornung & Vladimir Murasko (photographs)
Firenze: Edizioni della Meridiana, 2007. First printing. 71 pp., 9 x 9 inches. Sewn signatures glued into printed card covers. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout. Text in Italian. As new. An exploration of childhood, and the transformation of memory into art. Thirty-eight photographs from filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's childhood, focusing on.....