Poetry from Passages Bookshop

Point Reyes, CA & Kathmandu, India: Eidolon Editions, 1976. First printing. (33) pp., 7.5 x 10.5 inches. Saddle-stapled pamphlet glued into printed paper covered boards. Drawings by Josie Grant. The colophon states that "LOBA Part II was printed for Eidolon Editions by Dreamweapon in the Kingdom of Nepal, being the 24th printing of the Independent Presses of Kathmandu,… Read more about this item

New York: Scarlet Editions, 1992. First printing. 442 pp., 7 x 10 inches. Perfect-bound into printed card covers. An omnibus volume that collects seven books by the authors (three of which had appeared in previous incarnations): Penniless Politics, Sophia Scarlett, and Nava Sutra by Oliver; The Descent of Alette, Beginning with a Stain, Twelve Poems without Mask, and… Read more about this item

New York: Grossman, 1973. First Edition. 53 pp., 4.5 x 7.25 inches. Paper over boards in printed dust-jacket. A fine copy in very good jacket save for a very faint sticker ghost on front panel.

San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1969. First Edition. [45] pp., 4.75 x 8.75 inches. Saddle-stapled into printed card covers. Light wear to covers, otherwise very good. Number 4 in the Nova Broadcast pamphlet series, featuring concrete and found poems and graphics.

Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 1984. First Edition. (11) pp., 4 x 6.75 inches. Illustrated. Saddle-stapled into printed card covers. Light wear and very mild crease to corner, otherwise very good in bright, clean wrappers. Four poems chronicling the apex of the seasons, the points midway between equinoxes and solstices, "celebrated by the earliest people" — Lammas, Hallowe'en, Candlemas,… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1969. First Edition. [21] pp., 4.75 x 8.75 inches. Saddle-stapled into printed card covers. Number 6 in the Nova Broadcast pamphlet series, featuring concrete and found poems and graphics, including a "shockumentary" in the form of a comic strip. Light weart to covers, otherwise very good.

New York: Grove Press, 1960. First printing. 454 pp., 5.5 x 8.25 inches. Cloth over boards, in printed dust-jacket. A tight, clean copy, with just a touch of sunning at the top and bottom edges of the cloth, and a couple of minuscule spots on the front edge of the text block. In a bright, unclipped jacket with some… Read more about this item

Berkeley: Turtle Island Foundation, 1976. First printing. 178 pp., 5.75 x 8.75 inches. Printed papers over boards in printed dust-jacket. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press, from Linotype setting by Holbrook Teter. Very mild bumps at foot and crown of spine, otherwise a fine copy in a very good jacket with tiny edge chips and closed… Read more about this item

Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1971. First printing. 56 pp., 6 x 9 inches. Side-stapled and glued into printed card covers. Uncredited frontispiece portrait of the author, and two-color title page illustration, repeated in part on the front cover. The usual sunning to the spine, and three very small discolorations to back cover that suggest strongly that the binding of… Read more about this item

Milwaukee, WI: Partly Press, 2022. First printing. 84 pp., 10.5 x 7.5 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Designed by the author at Oxeye Press. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout. New. Jordan Dunn lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he edits and publishes Oxeye Press. From the publisher: "Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action explores the… Read more about this item

n.p.: Ironwood Press, 1978. First printing. 55 pp., 6 x 9 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. The first of the posthumous books to be published after the author's suicide on June 3, 1978. Very light touch of wear to extremities, otherwise fine.

Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1986. First printing. (12) pp., 11 x 14 inches. 12 unbound leaves of Arches heavyweight paper, printed letterpress in Monotype Janson by Patrick Reagh, and five gelatin silver photographic prints mounted on archival rag boards, all housed in a buckram-covered folding box with printed cover and spine labels, in a clear acrylic slipcase. The… Read more about this item

Portland, OR: Author, 2019. First printing. (15) pp., 7.5 x 6 inches. Printed letterpress and side-stapled into stiff card covers, with cloth tape spine and letterpress obi (wraparound band), in an edition of 72 numbered copies. Linotype composition and printing by Brian Scott Bagdonas. New. The first gathering of the author’s instructional scores, consisting of a dozen pieces that… Read more about this item

Berkeley: Moe’s Books, 2003. First printing. 8.5 x 11 inches. Broadside printed on the occasion of the author’s reading at Moe’s on December 15, 2003. As new. Uncommon; WorldCat finds only one copy, at UC Davis.

Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University, 2007. First printing. 349 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Issued as the Winter 2007 issue of To Topos: Poetry International, published by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at OSU. As new. An extraordinary multilingual anthology, with seventy-six contributors, bringing together a vast range of "hemispheric and oceanic… Read more about this item

(San Francisco): Sore Dove Press, 2016. First printing. 11 x 17 inches. Offset lithographic broadside on grey-green cardstock. One of thirty-four numbered and signed copies. A tiny strip of sunning to top edge, and minuscule bump to one corner, otherwise fine. Published in December 2016 “in memory of Leonard Cohen who left us on November 7, 2016.” Not… Read more about this item

(San Francisco): Sore Dove Press, 2010. First printing. 17 x 11 inches. Offset broadside with color reproduction of painting by Soheyl Dahi. One of 26 numbered copies signed by both poet and artist/publisher (the entire edition). Tiny bumps to corners, otherwise fine. Not found in OCLC.

Athens: Eleftheros Typos, 1989. First printing. 48 pp., 5.5 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Light rubbing to covers and age-toning to page edges, otherwise very good. Corso’s early collection, translated into Greek by Giorgos Mplanas. Scarce; no copies noted in WorldCat.

(Dover, Delaware): (Bottle of Smoke Press), (2006). First printing. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Small broadside, printed letterpress on textured cover stock. A fine copy, inscribed by the author. Included in Bottle 4, the fourth collection of broadsides issued by Bottle of Smoke, this is likely from overrun copies provided to the author, and is inscribed to Soheyl Dahi of… Read more about this item

London: Gogmagog Private Press, 1967. First printing. (24) pp., 4 x 7.75 inches. Patterned paper over boards, with printed spine label, issued without dust-jacket. With three two-color intaglio prints. Designed, illustrated, printed, and bound by the author in an edition of one hundred numbered and signed copies; this is one of sixty which were for sale. Light wear to… Read more about this item