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Boulder, Colorado: Self-published, n.d. [ca. 1974]. Scarce publication in Jack Collom's "the" series of poetry journals. From 1966 to 1977, the Boulder poet and teacher published 14 "the" issues, this one being number 12. Many well-known poets would often contribute works. This issue is divided into two sections. The first section contains poems by Carmen Vigil, Denise Levertov, David Meltzer,… Read more about this item

Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. First Nebraska Paperback Printing. Collection of poems about the Great Plains Blizzard of January 12, 1888. This is a University of Nebraska reprint of the 1986 edition from Bieler Press. Octavo, unpaginated. Some curling to corners but internally clean and unmarked. Near Fine.

Georgetown, Kentucky: Finishing Line Press, 2019. First Edition, First Printing. Slender poetry chapbook by Winifred Hughes, who lives in Princeton. Her poems are mostly about the natural world. No 147 in the New Women's Voices Series. Octavo, 27, [5] pages, in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). Slight creasing to corners, a bit of rubbing and soiling to wrappers. Internally, clean… Read more about this item

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. A scarce and attractive first printing of Gregory Corso's "Gasoline," his second collection of poetry. Priced at 95 cents on the back cover, this collection was Number Eight in City Lights' Pocket Poet Series. According to the standard bibliography on City Lights, 1,500 copies were printed (Ralph… Read more about this item

New York: Vanity Press, 1981. Satirical poetry chapbook from Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010), poet, activist, and co-founder of the Fugs. It features politically charged poetry, collages, and photos. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo, 30 pages, in stapled newsprint (soft cover). CONDITION: Moderate edge wear, heavily toned but clean and unmarked. About Very Good.

San Francisco: Stolen Paper Review Editions, 1966. Later printing. Collection of four psychedelic erotic poems by Leonore Kandel (1932-2009) that led to an obscenity trial. This is a later printing of the First Edition, with a blue overprinting to the figures on the front cover. In May 1967, a jury in San Francisco found the book obscene… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Beat Poetry and Arts/BEST of San Francisco, 1994. SIGNED by Jack Hirschman (1933-2021) on the contents page. An anthology featuring numerous San Francisco poets. Hirschman, a former poet laureate of San Francisco and radical activist, has contributed a piece, "A Village Poem." Besides Hirschman, the anthology includes Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bob Kaufman, Paul Landry (photo on… Read more about this item

Temple, Maine: Juniper Books, 1968. Second Printing. A slim collection of poems by John Judson (d. 2019) issued by Juniper Books, his own imprint. Striking cover by Anne Swan. Octavo, 17, [1] pages, in sewn, illustrated wrappers (soft cover). Sunning to extremities, slight curling to wrapper corners. Very Good.

Paris: Moving Letters Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Poetry by Craig Watson, Tom Beckett, and Claude Royet-Journoud in Moving Letters 8. Illustrations by Tim Trompeter. From 1984 to 1990, Joseph Simas published 13 magazines and 5 chapbooks at his Moving Letters Press in Paris. Text in English. SCARCE. Octavo, [24] pages, in stapled, illustrated wrappers (soft cover).… Read more about this item

Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Eric Leigh on the title page and dated March 2010 in the year of publication. A collection of poems by the San Francisco-based writer. This stunning debut collection deals with heartbreak and loss, featuring such diverse settings as drag bars, country roads, beer halls, and… Read more about this item

Georgetown, Kentucky: Finishing Line Press, 2007. First Edition. SIGNED by Lesley Wheeler on the title page, where she has drawn a line through her printed name and signed in ink above it. Wheeler's first poetry collection; all of the poems relate to World War II-era Liverpool. "A version of my mother, Patricia (Cain) Wheeler, is a protagonist here," she… Read more about this item

Easton, Pennsylvania: Anderie Poetry Press, 1995. Collection of poems by a psychologist; illustrations by Alex Shapiro. Octavo, 56 pages, in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). Some soiling to the white wrappers. Near Fine. Scarce in commerce.

Farnham, Surrey: The Sceptre Press, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Slender volume of poems by the Scottish poet George MacBeth (1932-1992), number 63 of 74 numbered copies from a total edition of 100 copies. There are three poems here: The Wolves, The Pain, and The Hector Syndrome. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Octavo, 16 pages, in stapled white wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Some light dusting to… Read more about this item

n.p. [Santa Barbara]: Work in Progress, 1967. A long poem by Peter Whigham (1925-1987), an English-born poet and translator who taught poetry at Berkeley. One of 500 copies (originally 300; print run hand-corrected on the colophon). First in a series of Work in Progress pamphlets. Attractive prospectus for the series laid in. PHYSICAL DETAILS: 16mo (6 3/4 x 4 3/8 inches;… Read more about this item

Ipswich, England: Golgonooza Press, 1979. First Edition. Series of short poems by English author and translator Philip Sherrard (1922-1995). Scarce in commerce. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 x 5 7/8 inches; 202 x 150 mm), pp. [6], 22, in printed wrappers over string-bound card binding (soft cover). CONDITION: Slight edge wear, ghost of small price label to inside flap of jacket,… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED and dated 13 May '67 on the half title by Thom Gunn. Verses by Thom Gunn and black-and-white photos by his brother, Ander Gunn. Scarce signed. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Quarto (9 3/4 x 7 inches; 246 x 178 mm), 78, [2] pages, in red cloth, titles in gilt to spine,… Read more about this item

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: The Perishable Press Limited, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Three slightly different versions of the same poem by John Wieners (1934-2002), showing how he revised the poem and settled on the final wording. One of 250 copies from Walter Hamady's Perishable Press, hand-set in Palatino and printed on variegated Shadwell handmade paper. A beautiful production from Perishable… Read more about this item

London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1931. First Edition, First Printing. A series of poems by C. Day Lewis (1904-1972) on the birth of his first son. This is No. 22 in Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth's Living Poets series. One of 400 copies published in September 1931. WOOLMER 251 (J. Howard Woolmer, A Checklist of the… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Uncorrected proof of this collection of poems by Eric Pankey (b. 1959). PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 7/8 inches; 212 x 150 mm), xii, 85, [5] pages in gray perfect-bound wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Some stains to wrappers and to fore edge but internally clean and unmarked. Very Good or better.

Sacramento: Sacramento Poetry Exchange, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED on the title page to San Francisco poet Kirby Doyle (1932-2003). A chapbook containing 9 poems from 1977-79. This is the author's first book, one of 450 copies. He is a poet, songwriter and visual artist and has performed poetry and music with Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders, Robert Creeley, Anne… Read more about this item