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Angel Exhaust 7. Eds. Adrian Clarke & Steven
Pereira. Southend-on-Sea, Summer 1987. 4to.
Stab-stapled & bound into wraps. 52pp. Printed & bound by Writers Forum. Contributions
by Robert Sheppard (2 texts, an interview, &
an essay on his recent work by Clarke), Peter
Sinclare, Virginia Firnberg, & Allen Fisher (2
poems, an interview, & a note on him). Angel
Exhaust began as a mag of the Islington Poetry
Workshop before expanding. This was the final issue in this format. Fragile wraps nicked
at the spine, w/ ends chipped. Old crease to
contents p. Overall about VG.
£14
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Art and Literature 1: An international Review. Ed.
John Ashbery. Lausanne: S.E.L.A., March 1964.
8vo. French wraps w/ glassine dust jacket.
244pp. Contributors inc. David Jones, Carlo
Emilio Gadda, Kenward Elmslie, Gaston Bachelard, Jean Genet, Marcelin Pleynet, Cyril
Connolly, Tony Towle, Michel Leiris, Kenneth
Koch, Jean Hélion, Jean Rhys, Jane Freilicher &
Alex Katz, Georges Limbour, & Adrian Stokes.
European high style, edited from Paris & following on from Locus Solus. VG w/ spine ends
slightly chipped, in worn dj w/ loss.
£15
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BLAKESTON, Oswell. How to Make Your Own
Confetti. London: Trigram Press, 1965. 1st.
1/600 numbered copies (of 750). 12mo. Wraps
w/ dj attached at spine. 48pp. Ill. Max Chapman. Pseudonymous homosexual poems. Nr
fine in abt nr fine dj, w/ a couple of sm. splashes
& nicks.
£10
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BUCK, Paul. Not Fit for the Queen. Amsterdam:
Sup-Pressed Limitations, 1972. 1st. 1/25 copies numbered & signed by the author. Sm.
4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (80pp.). 1p. w/
deliberate drinks ring, front cover w/ deliberate watermarks. Staples sl. rusty & only just
through, but uncommonly secure. Nr fine.
The publication details & Amsterdam address
were in fact a spoof; Buck published the book
himself.
£80
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BUCK, Paul. re/qui/re(qui)re. Hebden Bridge:
Pressed Curtains, 1975. 1st, regular issue. 4to.
Stab-stapled & bound into wraps, the upper
wrap w/ outwardly-folded flap & deliberately
torn white sticker, as issued. Unpaginated
(64pp.). Wraps v. sl. toned o/w fine. Many copies must have had the flap accidentally torn
open, as was the intention.
£12
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BUCK, Paul. Rites But For Affection. London:
Micro Brigade, 1987. 1st. 8vo. Stapled wraps.
Unpaginated (16pp.). Cover by Ulli Freer. Originally written for Touch magazine in extract
form, for an issue devoted to ritual. The author
explains his intention ‘to employ the structure
of the Mass… and converge on the belief in “the
Word” as “the Truth”’. Fine.
£18
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Paul. Turkish Delight. Maidstone:
BUCK,
Pressed Curtains, 1982. 1st. 1/15 signed &
numbered copies. (Although 25 are called for,
there were only 15.) 8vo. Stapled wraps. Unpaginated (32pp.). Days of dialogue, ‘To excite
a writing that is spoken’. Also identified as
inscript 1, a series that was going to evolve. Nr
fine, w/ head edge thinly spotted.
£50
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Alembic 5. Ed. Ken Edwards. London, Autumn
1976. 4to. Stab-stapled wraps. 52pp. Cover by
Robert Snell. Contributors include Opal L. Nations, Jeff Nuttall, Ulli McCarthy, Paul Buck,
Robert Hampson, Ian Robinson, & Maxim
Jakubowski. ‘Prose? Experimental? prose? Experimental? prose? fiction?’ Originally a mag
in a bag, by this issue Alembic was litho printed; this issue is devoted to new prose. Loosely
inserted folded flyer for the issue, & ‘flyer’
headed ‘12 POETS ARRESTED’, advertising
Mugshots. Spine a little chipped & nicked, otherwise very good.
£12
And 5. Eds. John Rowan & Bob Cobbing. Np
[London]: Writers Forum, September 1969.
Small 4to. 65 sheets, mostly printed on 1 side,
in transparent plastic bag. The 50th publication of Writers Forum, issued at the time of the
37th exhibition of Group H. Contributors were
asked, where possible, to provide 500 copies of
any piece of work they wished to have included,
resulting in a great variety of concrete & visual
work, found texts & images. Contributors inc.
Cobbing, Rowan, Jennifer Cobbing (inc. the
cover), Henri Chopin, Thomas A. Clark, Jeff
Cloves, Dom Silvester Houédard, d.a.levy, Ulli
McCarthy, Peter Mayer, Jeff Nuttall, Stefan
Themerson, Franciszka Themerson, Criton Toˇ Valoch, & Charles Verey. Amongst
mazos, Jirí
the items, Cloves’s page has holograph text by
him & his signature, Alan Davis’ ‘Landscape’
has a sm. square of Ordnance Survey map in a
plastic wallet affixed to a sheet, & the reverse
sides of Neil Mills’ 2 contributions have his
name in holograph. Contents very near fine
in VG fragile bag with original tape remains at
head edge, 1 pock, & the usual shelfwear.
£200
10 BUCK, Paul. Violations. Paris: Pressed Curtains,
1979. 1st. 1/25 copies numbered & signed by
Buck on a torn sheet, as issued. 4to. Stab-stapled & bound into wraps. Issued w/ 2 stickers
around the fore edge, w/ ‘f’ written on one & ‘m’
on the other. Unopened. The signed sheet is accessible from the head or tail edge. Sl. spotted
head edge o/w fine.
£60
11 BUCK, Paul. Violations. Regular issue. Also unopened. VG w/ wraps a little spotted & toned, &
w/ a few sm. nicks nr tape.
£30
12 BUCK, Paul. within the process of change. Newcastle upon Tyne: Pig Press – Hasty Editions, 1976.
1st. 1 of approx. 50 copies produced to coincide
w/ a reading by Allen Fisher & Paul Buck at the
Colpitts Hotel, Durham, Nov. 19th 1976. 8vo.
Stapled wraps. Unpaginated (8pp.). Nr fine.
£20
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BUCK, Paul. xxxx 5 (an extract of xxxx 1– 9). Maidstone: Zunne Heft, 1980. 4to. Stab-stapled
wraps. Unpaginated (32pp. printed rectos
only). Cover entitled ‘2 million volt sparks’. Nr
fine, w/ sm. nick to fore edge, & 1 staple has
needed 2 attempts. Published by Ulli Freer.
£30
14 BUCK, Paul & BARTON, David. Spoil. London:
David Barton, 1995. 1st. 8vo. Stapled wraps.
Unpaginated (24pp.). 5pp. of text, surrounded
by line drawings. ‘Divulging, sometimes.’ Fine.
£10
15 BUCK, Paul & BARTON, David. Where We
Touch: The Touch of No Return. London: np [David
Barton], 1985. 1st. 8vo. Wraps. Unpaginated
(72pp.). Produced at the New River Project.
Text & image. Nr fine.
£11
(BUCK, Paul.) Loot 2:2. Published as a supplement to Spectacular Diseases, ed. Paul Green.
Peterborough, March 1981. 4to. Stab-stapled.
Unpaginated (22pp.). Errata slip present. Each
issue of Loot was devoted to the work of one
author; this issue contains ‘Ulli’s Room’ by
Paul Buck. The cover is by Ulli Freer. The piece
was written for radio &, although production
is described as ‘unlikely’, a stage version was
performed in 1980. Nr fine, w/ staples protruding a little.
£18
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BUCK, Paul (ed.). Curtains 1–21 (all published).
Maidstone (issues 1–3) then Hebden Bridge (4–
21): [Pressed Curtains], 1971–1978. Consisting
of: (1) Curtains. 1971. Oblong 8vo. Stab-stapled
wraps. 64pp. 1/400 numbered copies. W/ holograph additions & ‘bullet holes’ on the back
cover, as issued; (2) Safety Curtain. 1972. Oblong 8vo. Stab-stapled. 64pp.; (3) Curtain-Raiser.
1972. 4to. Stab-stapled. 40pp.; (3.5) Curtains
in the Meantime. 1972. 4to. Stapled once at top
corner. Unpaginated (4pp.); (4) Curtains 4. 1972.
Foolscap. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (32pp.);
(5) French Curtains. 1973. Sm. 4to. Stab-stapled.
Unpaginated (60pp.). Loose note (Peter Riley
on translating Claude Royet-Journoud) present; (6/7) A Range of Curtains. 1973. 18 sm. 4to
parts, stapled once at top corners except for
3 loose sheets, in envelope, as issued. 180pp.
(mostly unpaginated); (8) Upside Down Curtains
& Appendages. 1974. Sm. 4to. Stapled once at top
corner. Unpaginated (34pp.); (9) Drawn Cur-
tains. 1974. Sm. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated
(62pp.); (10) Velvet Curtains. 1974. Sm. 4to. Stabstapled. Unpaginated (76pp.); (11/12/13) Split
Curtains. 1975. 4to. Stab-stapled & bound into
wraps w/ mounted cover image. 132pp. + 6pp.
printed rectos only (w/ 3 images); A Supplement
to Split Curtains. Nd [1975]. Sm. 4to. Stab-stapled. 16pp.; (14/15/16/17) Curtains, le prochain
step. 1976. 4to. Stab-stapled & bound into
wraps. 210pp.; (18/19/20/21) bal:le:d curtains.
1978. 4to. Stab-stapled wraps. 174pp. + 4pp.
+ ‘a second editorial’ mounted to inside front
cover. Also included is a Pressed Curtains catalogue from September 1976, detailing issues
of Curtains & other publications by Buck. Oblong 8vo. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (10pp.).
Amongst the many contributors were: Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida,
Jean-Pierre Faye, Bernard Noël, Laure, Edmond Jabès, Paul Auster, Lydia Davis, Robert
Kelly, Larry Eigner, Clayton Eshleman, Allen
Fisher, Eric Mottram, Ulli McCarthy, Jeff Nuttall, Barry MacSweeney, John Hall, Douglas Oliver, Iain Sinclair, John James, Bill Griffiths, Peter Riley, Pierre Joris, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie
Waldrop, Cid Corman, Claude Royet-Journoud,
Roger Giroux, Alain Veinstein, Roger Laporte,
Danielle Collobert, Mitsou Ronat, Jacques
Roubaud, Marcelin Pleynet, Agnès Rouzier,
Joë Bousquet, Jean Daive, Jean Frémon, Susan
Hiller, COUM, Gina Pane, Vladimir Velickovic, Henri Maccheroni, Jean-Luc Parant, Paul
Neagu, Philip Corner, Ulrike Meinhof, Opal L.
Nations, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Anthony
Barnett, Michael Haslam, Glenda George, Geraldine Monk, Kris Hemensley, Brian Catling, &
Paul Buck. Curtains is distinguished by many
of its aspects: its rigorous & coherent editing;
its formal inventiveness; the idiosyncracy of its
contributor lists; the introduction into English of numerous significant French writers;
its use of the mimeograph, changing to litho
printing for the later issues; & its sheer volume.
A superb achievement, it could comfortably
be said to be the foremost example of prose &
poetry magazine publishing in the UK in the
1970s, & yet its reach extends beyond that geography & that timeframe. As Robert Kelly observed in relation to Curtains, ‘even though the
word magazine implies by its delusory & venetian history no more than a store-room of instances, it is a blessing on the commonwealth
when someone takes the chance of making an
issue an organism, or at least a garden’. Due to
its complicated numbering, its supplement,
its Meantime half issue produced while Buck
moved house, & the fragility of some issues,
complete sets of Curtains are rare. Exceptionally crisp & bright w/ some mild staple indentations & only occasional staple rusting, for
example to issue 6/7 as usual. The title page
& envelope of 6/7 are not addressed. A fine set.
£750
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BUCK, Paul (ed.). Twisted Wrist 1–10 (all published). Hebden Bridge (issues 1–3) then Paris
(4-10): [Pressed Curtains], 1977-[1983?]. Consisting of: (1) Allen Fisher, ‘doing (against
aesthetics as such’. 1977. Oblong 4to. 1 sheet
printed on both sides; (2) Colin Simms, ‘Midwinter Housewife’. 1978. 4to. Stab-stapled at
top edge. Unpaginated (6pp.); (3) Jean Paris,
‘Planctus’. 1978. Oblong 8vo. Stab-stapled.
12pp.; (4) John Wilkinson, ‘three selections
from “Prior to Passage”’, Rod Mengham,
‘Glossy Matter’, & David Trotter, ‘Voices-Off’.
1979. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (12pp.);
(5) Eric Mottram, ‘From Shadow Borders’.
1979. Oblong 8vo. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated
(8pp.); (6) Pierre Joris, ‘body count’. Nd. 8vo. 1
sheet folded into 4pp. (unpaginated); (7) Paul
Green, ‘from: “The Fetishes”’. Nd. Foolscap.
1 sheet printed on both sides; (8) Cristopher
Cheek, ‘performed in private’. Nd. 4to. Stapled
once at top corner. Unpaginated (12pp.). (9)
Roger Munier, ‘Inversely’. Trans. Lee Fahnestock. Nd. Sm. 4to. 3 loose sheets folded into
12pp. (unpaginated); (10) Gad Hollander, ‘x
stet (The Hypothesis)’. Nd. Oblong 4to. 1 sheet
printed on both sides. Beginning a year before
Buck’s Curtains magazine ended, Twisted Wrist
was established to publish work which did not
fit into the flow of the larger magazine, but
was worthy of publication. It was to be sent out
w/ issues of Curtains or in general correspondence. Due to the means of distribution & due
to the variable, often fragile format, issues of
Twisted Wrist are uncommon, & complete sets
are rare. Fine.
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BUCK, Paul (‘guest ed.’). Shoestring. Maidstone:
np, 1983. 8vo. Stab-stapled wraps. Unpaginated (28pp. printed rectos only). Contributions
by Ulrich Flamme, Glenda George, Geraldine
Monk, Buck, Jeremy Reed, Cris Cheek, & Martin McGeown. Also identified as inscript 2. Not
in David Miller & Richard Price, British Poetry
Magazines 1914–2000. Nr fine, w/ wraps sl. spotted. Buck had been asked in 1979 to guest-edit
a little mag, but when he submitted it the editor/publisher said the poems were not short
enough. In 1983, therefore, he published it as
a standalone mag.
£32
20 snow. No editor given [Paul Buck]. London: X
press, 1968. Sm. 4to. Stapled wraps. Unpaginated (32pp.). Contributions by Andrew Crozier, David Coxhead, Brian Patten, Jeff Nuttall,
Rick Sanders, Bob Cobbing, Stephen Vincent,
John Brown, Harold Norse, Christine Bowler,
Pete Brown, & Richard Sylvester. VG w/ upper
wrap sl. rubbed/darkened superficially, o/w nr
fine. Uncommon one-shot, pre-Curtains.
£30
Bunker 1. Ed. José Galdo. Paris, May 1978. 4to.
Stiff loose sheets folded into wraps. Unpaginated (24pp.). ‘Sous le signe du Refus… Poésie
comme avant tout’. Text in French. Contributions by François Aubral, Michel Bulteau,
Gilbert Chaudanne, Pierre Dhainaut, Claude
Dupitier, Galdo, Daniel Giraud, Jimmy Gladiator, Lucien Huno Bader, Théo Lesoualc’h, JeanLuc Parant, Robert Piccamiglio, Marc Questin,
Jean-Yves Reuzeau, & Marc Villard. The inside
front cover draws attention to the case of Abdellatif Laabi, an imprisoned poet. Loosely inserted flyer for Galdo’s Lutte Vulva also present.
VG.
£15
BUNTING, Basil. Loquitur. London: Fulcrum
Press, 1965. 1st. 1/774 copies (of 1000). 4to.
Card wraps w/ glassine dj. 80pp. Designed by
Richard Hamilton. A revision of the poems
published by Dallam Flynn in 1950, when
Bunting was in Teheran & his publisher was in
Texas. VG, w/ sm. stain to fore edge & sl. toning
to eps, in wraps w/ sl. lower corner creasing &
mild edge toning. Dj is VG w/ a few sm. chips &
mild crinkling & shelfwear.
£30
(BUNTING, Basil.) King Ida’s Watch Chain 1. [Ed.
£50
21 Tom Pickard]. Newcastle upon Tyne, nd [1965].
Also titled KIWC 1, & apparently the only ‘issue’
published. 14 items in 4to envelope, of which
11 are individual sheets, 2 consist of 2 sheets
stapled once at the top corner, & 1 consists of
3 sheets stapled once at the top corner. Unpaginated (36pp.). The envelope has a mounted
label, printed & stamped. Contents printed
on stock of different colours & sizes, w/ some
sheets folded to fit the envelope, as issued. A
collection of texts & images by & about Bunting. Contributions by Bunting, Hugh Kenner,
Gael Turnbull, & Louis Zukofsky. A complex
publication as far as bibliography goes, not
least because this copy lacks a sheet listing the
contents (as well as projected other publications). Institutional & other catalogues differ
wildly concerning what should be present, but
on balance this copy seems to be otherwise
complete, in that it seems to contain what was
intended except for the contents sheet. In any
case, it was given to the original recipient by
Pickard. (The poem by Pickard, listed on the
contents page, is known not to have appeared.
Also, this copy has an extra copy of 1 item, not
included in the details above.) Roger Guedalla, in Basil Bunting: A Bibliography of Works and
Criticism, notes the importance of Pickard to
Bunting. In the same year as KIWC, Jonathan
Williams told Pickard to visit Bunting; out of
this came the former’s first book, the latter’s
republication, & the writing of Briggflatts. ‘The
poem was written, so Bunting has wryly suggested, to show Tom Pickard how to write a
long poem.’ (Guedalla also states that there
was a special edition of KIWC, consisting of 6
copies.) VG+ contents in somewhat edgeworn
envelope, w/ metallic closing mechanism attached but precarious.
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Catalogue of Little Press Books in Print. London:
Association of Little Presses, 1985. The 8th
catalogue. 4to. Stab-stapled & bound into
wraps. Unpaginated (96pp. mostly printed rectos only). Most pp. are advertisements for little
presses & are designed by each, for example
Albion Village Press, Aloes Books, Galloping
Dog Press, Reality Studios, Spanner, Spectacular Diseases, & Writers Forum. Also lists bookshops, dealers & distributors, & includes ‘Writing and Commodities’ by Ken Edwards. Nr fine
w/ mild edgewear.
£10
25 CHALONER, David. Year of Meteors. Gillingham: ARC, 1972. ARC 14. 1st. 1/235 copies (of
250). 8vo. Stapled French wraps. Unpaginated
(16pp.). Cover by Chaloner, who edited One. VG.
£16
26 CHAMBERLAIN, Michael. Promenades. Staffordshire: Grosseteste, 1976. 1st. 1/270 numbered copies (of 300). 8vo. Stitched wraps in dj.
44pp. Also issued as a part of Grosseteste Review,
vol. 9. Short prose pieces. VG in dj.
£9
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Cinemantics 1. Ed. John Mathews, w/ assistance
from Arne Bors, Chris Maudson, & Stewart
Green. London, January 1 1970. Artwork by
Martin Sharp & David Kemp. Foolscap. Stapled
wraps. 26pp. Contents inc. Malcolm Le Grice
on a theory for the development of television,
Umberto Eco’s ‘Articulations of Cinematic
Code’, Simon Hartog on Bicycle Thieves, interview w/ John Llewellan, Peter Gidal’s ‘Film as
materialist consumer product’, an interview
£150
£300
22 23 w/ Jean-Marie Straub by Andi Engel, reviews
of Midnight Cowboy & David Larcher’s Mare’s
Tail by Mike Dunford, of Conrad Rooks’ Chappaqua by Scotty, & of Arts Lab Cinema by Fred
Drummond. The first of 3 issues, it would
seem; OCLC locates 2 copies of this issue in
institutions worldwide. A rigorous, attractive
publication, w/ distinctive covers by Sharp.
The masthead states: ‘The layout reflects in
practice our theoretical approach to film’.
Abt VG. The head edge is somewhat knocked,
there is light toning to the wraps, the spine is
sl. nicked, & the lower of 3 staples is missing
(without impact).
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30 Cinemantics 3. July 1970. 4 folio sheets printed
on both sides & folded twice. Artwork by Dave
Kemp. Photography by Mike Padden. Contains
a discussion on the film industry & European
New Cinema between Simon Hartog, JeanMarie Straub, Glauber Rocha, Miklos Jansco, &
Pierre Clementi, Dziga Vertov’s ‘WE’ manifesto, The Medvedkine Group on militant cinema,
Peter Gidal on film as materialist consumer
product, Albie Thoms on the Australian underground, a script by Graeme Farnell & Stuart Monro, a script by Mike Dunford, & letters
by Jean-Jacques Lebel & Lindsay Anderson. A
couple of tiny nicks & mild edgewear to outer
sheet, o/w nr fine.
£100
Cinim 1. Ed. Philip Crick. London: London
Film-makers Co-operative, nd [1967?]. 4to.
Tape bound. 20pp. Uncommon first issue, of 3,
from the LFMC, which formed on 13th October 1966 & was initially centred around Better
Books. Inspired by Jonas Mekas’ cooperative
in New York, it provided exhibition facilities
& assisted w/ production & distribution of
new, often experimental work. Contributions
by Simon Hartog, Mekas, Bob Cobbing (who
produced the magazine), George Andrews, &
S. R. Sheridan, Raymond Durgnat, & Crick on
Godard. Inevitably the tape binding is fragile,
& the first sheet is loose, although the tape is
secure. (Another copy consulted has more than
1 sheet loose.) O/w VG.
£70
Cinim 2. Nd [1968?]. 4to. Stapled wraps. 16pp.
Contributions by Simon Hartog, Philip Crick,
Raymond Durgnat, Stephen Dwoskin (who
handled art/production for this issue), Jonas
Mekas, Bob Cobbing, Ron Geesin, Jeffrey Shaw,
Tjebbe van Tyen, & Willian Breuker. A VG, attractive issue.
£65
CLARK, Thomas A., MACSWEENEY, Barry,
& TORRANCE, Chris. The Tempers of Hazard.
London: Paladin, 1993. 1st. Paladin Re/Active Anthology No. 3. Series ed. Iain Sinclair.
8vo. Wraps. 416pp. ‘Bravely and precariously
independent, they each possess the authentic
exilic perspective of hired guns in a range war.’
Sinclair writes in Lights Out for the Territory that
the book ‘was launched with a reading at Compendium. And then rapidly pulped. Rupert
Murdoch’s accountants saw no reason to tolerate low-turnover cultural loss leaders’. He also
describes it as ‘An instant rarity. A book that began life as a remainder and was now less than a
rumour.’ Fair only in worn wraps.
£22
1968. 4to. Stab-stapled. 56pp. Covers show
Stockhausen’s Studie II. Contributors inc. John
Temple, David Chaloner, Pete Bland, Barry
MacSweeney, Victor Coleman, John Newlove,
Stephen Rodefer, Charles Olson, Paul Metcalf,
& Fred Buck. Also a section w/ Ray Crump, J.
H. Prynne, Tim Longville, Geoffrey Hazard,
& John James, from an aborted magazine
called Little Wren. Some soiling/spotting, &
rust marks from staples. Mild creasing & staple indentations. Internally clean. (1 sheet is
included twice, not reflected in pagination
above.) Loosely inserted is a double-sided ACS
(‘Peter’) from the editor to ‘Lee [Harwood] &
Amanda’, mentioning Jack Spicer & Francis
Ponge, & w/ a riff on Harwood’s name. An excellent association, as Harwood’s Tzarad magazine was co-published w/ Collection for a couple
of issues. Also loosely inserted is a sheet printing on 1 side a Maximus text by Olson (rather
worn & spotted at edges). On the reverse Riley
has written: ‘This sheet not used for Collection
Two because the poem had appeared in [some?]
American University mag.’ The sheet is not
present in other copies consulted. A supplement to this issue was printed in an edition of
5 copies, presenting an off-print of Olson’s contribution, but this sheet offers different text.
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32 Collection 2. Ed. Peter Riley. Hove, August
35 £40
Kavanagh, Roy Clarek, & Harwood. A ‘special
seaside bucket-and-spade issue’. G w/ staples
rusty, the top one coming away, but secure.
£30
Collection 7 Supplement. No publication details, but thought to have been issued separately from the item above. 4to. Stab-stapled
in blue plastic folder. Unpaginated (62pp.
printed rectos only). Miller & Price state: ‘Five
supplements to Collection 7 were issued in a
limited edition of perhaps forty copies, including work by Mark Hyatt, Fred Buck, Michael
Haslam, and Donald Haworth. Haworth’s Ambivalent Propaganda (1971)… was a further, unnumbered, supplement to the magazine…. Peter Riley also posted out works not necessarily
connected to Collection, such as Fred Buck’s The
Hair on the Face of the Dog Moon issued at about
the same time as Collection 7.’ Whilst these
descriptions seem to be referring to supplementary publications by individual authors,
similar to the Charles Olson supplement to
Collection 2 described above, the supplement
here is very much like another magazine issue,
even an extension to Collection 7, w/ contributions by David Ball, Douglas Oliver, Michael
Brownstein, J. H. Prynne, Barry MacSweeney,
George Tysh, Gill Vickers, David Rosenberg,
Fred Buck, Riley, Lewis Warsh, Dick Gallup,
Mark Hyatt, Nicolas Born, Pete Bland, Anne
Waldman, & John Wieners. Another copy seen
is in effect similar, but has some points of variation still. VG, & rare.
£40
38 Contraflow 5. Eds. Steve Davies & Richard Tabor. Somerset: Lobby Press, Summer 1989. 8vo.
Stab-stapled & bound into wraps. 100pp. Contributors inc. Paul Buck, Clive Fencott, Ulli
Freer, & Tabor. Final issue. Some spots. Binding partly coming away around the staples, but
secure.
£7
39 CUNLIFFE, Dave. The Exploding Anarchist, The
Doing of Visions, Up Against the Global Wall: an
informative confession. Blackburn: BB Bks, nd
[1969]. 1st. Oblong 8vo. Stab-stapled. 36pp.
Anarchist poetry by the editor of Poetmeat. ‘We
are the future and can’t be stopped.’ VG.
£12
40 Derisoire 1. Ed. Ajax. Paris: [Bondage?], nd.
4to. Stab-stapled. 26pp. Text in French. ‘DERISOIRE PARCE QUE NOUS LE SOMMES.
PARCE QUE VOUS L’ETES, PARCE QUE
TOUT SE TROUVE L’ETRE.’ Contributions
by Philippe Pissier, Thierry Tillier, José Galdo,
Ulrike Meinhof, Franck Kervizic, F. J. Ossang,
£15
37 Collection 3. January 1969. 1/300 copies. 4to.
Stab-stapled. 54pp. Cover by Adrienne Riley.
Contributors inc. John James, Andrew Crozier,
Pete Bland, Douglas Oliver, John Hall, Fred
Buck, & Peter Riley. Also includes Ebbe Borregaard’s 14pp. ‘Childhood of Dwarf Christ I /
Dvergmol’, which has its own ill.’d title page.
This is followed by an appendix (separated
by a pink sheet) w/ responses to Riley’s letter
requesting ‘something which you consider to
be indicative, or symptomatic, of WHERE, exactly WE (you), being “English” HAVE NOW
GOT TO’. Responses are from Riley, Bland,
John Riley, David Chaloner, Chris Torrance, J.
H. Prynne, & Wendy Mulford. Some spots &
rust marks, & w/ bump/nick to 1 edge of front
cover. Internally clean. An extra first sheet (not
included in pagination above) prints over both
sides 2pp. of found texts w/ images concerning a busdriver, the Grand National, & April in
Britain. Typed or printed in red on the found
p. ‘Meet a Busdriver’ is the text: ‘COLLECTION
THREE / presentation copy, for / Lee Harwood’.
Other copies consulted do not have this sheet;
as it presumably refers to Harwood’s work as a
bus conductor, even before the inscription it is
quite possibly unique.
£35
Collection 5. July 1969. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (30pp.). Cover by Adrienne Riley.
Contributions by Peter Riley, Wendy Mulford,
Lewis Warsh, Pete Bland, John James, Thomas
A. Clark, Douglas Oliver, Paul Green, Lee Harwood, Nick Totton, Ray Crump, Gerard Malanga, Max Jacob, & Ian Patterson. Amongst
other titles offered are The Last-Minute Choice, or
Further Exfoliations, or An Amount of Duplicating
Paper, Ink and Elbow-grease Quickly Disposed of, or
Brer Rabbit Lives. Abt VG in wraps which are sl.
edgeworn as oversized.
£30
The August August: being Collection 6 and Tzarad 4.
Eds. Lee Harwood & Peter Riley. Brighton: Lee
Harwood, November 1969. 4to. Stab-stapled.
40pp. Contributions by Paul Selby, Chris Torrance, Paul Evans, Peter Ruppell, Riley, Ted
Collection 7. Ed. Peter Riley, this issue w/ John
James. Odense, Autumn 1970. 8vo. Wraps.
128pp. The final issue. Contributors inc. John
Wieners, George Tysh, Michael Brownstein,
Barbara Guest, Dick Gallup, Keith Abbott,
Lewis Warsh, Fred Buck, Ian Patterson, Frank
O’Hara & Bill Berkson, Jack Spicer, Anne Waldman, Peter Schjeldahl, Claude Royet-Journoud,
Pete Bland, Neil Mills & Thomas A. Clark, Wendy Mulford, Riley, Mark Hyatt, Gill Vickers, Andrew Crozier, John Temple, Rolf Eckart John, J.
H. Prynne, John James, Barry MacSweeney, &
Douglas Oliver. Art by Tom Phillips, Richard
Long, & Bruce McLean. Spine rather bumped
but secure. Bump/chip to head edge, not affecting text. Some spots & mild wear.
36 £17
Ajax, & ‘marker’ according to the front cover
but not identified, perhaps among the images.
Loosely inserted are 2 sheets, partly in English,
advertising the associated ‘Les amis du défunt’,
or ‘The Friends of the Deceased’ in New York
under Charles Wolfe. Intriguing lo-fi production. VG.
41
Derisoire 2. Nd. 4to. Wraps. Loose sheets folded
into 22pp. Text in French. W/ further loose
sheets, some cut and some stapled, providing
English translation to certain parts of the text.
Contributions by Bogdan Borkowski, Olivier,
Charles W., Ajax, Yves Théien, Antonin Artaud,
JDM, Noel Gaudin, Philippe Pissier, Nathalie
Gauthard, & Thierry Tillier. ‘According to the
logic of things, after no.1 comes no.2, it’s now
done! There is also the project of doing an English version of DERISOIRE no.2 (it remains to
be seen if time will be with this project)’. An
unusual format, tied to the magazine’s collage
elements; the magazine works within both
fanzine & little mag traditions.
£15
42 ECKART JOHN, Rolf (ed.). Mondstrip: Neue englische Prosa. Frankfurt: MÄRZ, 1971. 1st. 8vo.
Wraps w/ dj affixed at the spine. 244pp. Text
in German. Cover reproduces the models from
‘Moonstrips – General Dynamic F.U.N.’ by Eduardo Paolozzi, J. G. Ballard & Martin Bax, subsequently recycled by Ballard in his ‘Court Circular’. Contributions by Ann Quin, Jeff Nuttall,
Paul Buck, Alexander Trocchi (‘Projekt Sigma’
& ‘Das Lange Buch’), Ballard (‘Nervensystem
Intervall’, ‘Impakt Zone’, & an interview), David Coxhead, Bax, Paolozzi, Jim Burns, George
MacBeth, Arthur C. Clarke, Edmund Crackenedge, Peter Riley, & John James & Andrew
Crozier. Crackenedge, meanwhile, is a mystery,
contributing ‘Modd’; the name ‘ist das Pseudonym eines bekannten englischen Autors’, & the
thumbnail photo of him looks v. much as if it
could be Ballard. Crackenedge does not seem
to have published widely. VG.
£12
43 Ecuatorial 1–3 (all published). Eds. William
Rowe, Jason Wilson, (& from issue 2) Juan A.
Masoliver, & Anthony Edkins. London, 1978–
1980. Issue 1: 4to. Stab-stapled & tape bound.
62pp. Issues 2 & 3: Sm. 4to. Stapled wraps.
76pp. & 68pp. Subtitled ‘Translation journal of
contemporary work in Spanish/English/Portuguese’ & based in the Department of Spanish,
King’s College. Parallel text, inc. work by John
Ashbery, César Vallejo (trans. Clayton Eshleman & José Rubia Barcia), Robert Creeley, Jack
Spicer, Mario Satz, Antonio Machado (trans.
Ken Edwards), Federico García Lorca (trans.
Eric Mottram & Rowe), & Frank O’Hara. Also
‘Blackburn’s Lorca’ by Pierre Joris. Issue 1 has
loosely inserted (edgeworn) sheet advertising
issue 2 & w/ errata; issue 2 has a flyer advertising subscriptions; issue 3 has an ALS (‘William’) from Rowe dated 1981, saying, ‘I believe
I forgot to let you have these when they came
out’. The recipient is hard to make out, but
is possibly ‘Barto’, perhaps Bartolomeu dos
Santos who provided prints for the final issue.
Wraps somewhat worn & soiled, 1 staple hasn’t
penetrated fully, but VG overall.
£20
44 EDWARDS, Ken. Bruised Rationals. Sutton:
RWC (Read Write Create), 1996. Published
as RWC 34. Series ed. Lawrence Upton. 1st.
£12
Cover by Upton, after Bob Cobbing. 4to. Stabstapled. Unpaginated (18pp. printed rectos
only). Loosely inserted somewhat creased flyer
advertising a performance by Edwards of the
text. He has signed this (‘Ken’), & written ‘Lee
[Harwood] – you may be interested in this!’ VG
w/ faint vertical crease.
Tyne: Pig Press – Hasty Editions, 1976. 1st. 1
of approx. 75 copies produced to coincide w/
a reading by Fisher at the Colpitts Hotel, Durham on Nov. 5th 1976. 8vo. Stapled wraps. Unpaginated (8pp.). VG+.
45
FEINSTEIN, Elaine. In a Green Eye. London: Goliard Press, 1966. 1st. 1/500 copies (of 530). Sm.
4to. Wraps. Unpaginated (36pp.). Cover photos
by Al Vandenberg. Poet’s first collection. VG in
spotted wraps.
£20
46 Fiction 223. Ed. Alain Dorémieux. Paris, July
1972. French edition of The Magazine of Fantasy
and Science Fiction. 12mo. Wraps. 160pp. Cover
by Lacroix. Contributions by Serge A. Bertrand,
Fritz Leiber, J. G. Ballard (‘Bande son’), James
Tiptree Jr., Gordon Eklund, & Barry N. Malzberg. VG, w/ penned price to upper wrap.
£6
47 48 49 50 51 Figs 1–4. Ed. Tony Baker. Durham, nd [1980?–
1981?]. Issue 1: 4to. Stab-stapled, w/ rubber
tape binding. Unpaginated (50pp. printed
rectos only). Issues 2 & 3: 4to. Glue bound. Unpaginated (34pp. & 40pp.). Issue 4: 8vo. Stapled
wraps. Unpaginated (32pp.). Contributions by
Michael Haslam, Ralph Hawkins, Colin Simms,
Alan Halsey, Tony Jackson, Peter Riley, William
Pryor, Ric Caddel, Chris Torrance, Thomas A.
Clark, Paul Green, Ken Edwards, Allen Fisher,
Mark Hyatt, Asa Benveniste, Paul Smith, Bill
Griffiths, Elaine Randell, John Hall, John Seed,
Tom Lowenstein, Aidan Semmens, Thomas
Meyer, & Kelvin Corcoran. The first 4 figments
of this ‘hardly perennial’, concerned primarily w/ work in progress. Figs ran for 14 issues,
ending in 1988. The tape of issue 1 has curled
away from the back cover as usual, but is still
attached. Issue 2 bumped at top corner, causing split to glue binding down half the spine,
but again secure. Early issues are quite uncommon, perhaps due to these common problems.
VG else.
£28
FISHER, Allen. Convergences, in place, of the play.
Volume eight. June 8 1973. Np: Spanner, 1976. 1st.
Folio. Newspaper format. 24pp. Place 40, from
Fisher’s substantial work of the 1970s. VG+, w/
horizontal fold, sl. wear at spine, & 1 sm. marginal chip to fore edge.
£18
FISHER, Allen. HOOKS: place 32 taken out of place.
Baltimore: pod books, 1980. 1st. 1/475 copies
(of 500). Sm. 4to. Wraps. Unpaginated (36pp.).
Parts of place 32 ‘taken out of place’ to act as an
opening into Convergences, in place, of the play. G
in soiled wraps. Some spots internally but generally clean.
£18
FISHER, Allen. STANE. drafted 31.12.75. comprising most of place Book III, place forty-five to eightyone. Second Movement. London: Aloes Books,
1977. 1st. 1/490 copies (of 500). Oblong 4to.
Stitched wraps. 64pp. A ‘preview’ of Book III of
place, full publication of which was ‘not expected before 1980 / that is after its abandonment’.
A foxed copy, w/ wraps somewhat soiled.
FISHER, Roy. Four Poems. Newcastle upon
52 FISHER, Roy. Matrix. London: Fulcrum Press,
1971. 8vo. 64pp. Unbound sheets from the
1st edition, in 4 signatures, akin to a proof or
preview copy. The title page by Tom Phillips is
present, but the covers are not. Appropriately,
the collection ends w/ the poem ‘The Making
of the Book’. VG.
£12
53 FISHER, Roy. The Memorial Fountain. Newcastle
upon Tyne: Northern House, 1966. 1st. 8vo.
Stitched wraps. 16pp. From the series ‘Northern House Pamphlet Poets’. Abt VG.
£5
54 Folded sheets: of what new poetry is posted here 1–8
(all published). Ed. Michael Haslam, the last 2
issues w/ Martin Thom. Hebden Bridge: Open
Township, 1986–1990. Variant title foldan
sceatas. Issues 1 & 2 1/100 copies; other edition
numbers not specified. 8vo. Stapled wraps, issues 6–8 w/ djs affixed at the spines. All 36pp.
Contributors across the run inc. Neil Oram,
Chris Torrance, Joseph Guglielmi, Rod Mengham, Haslam, Peter Riley, Ken Edwards, John
Welch, Peter Finch, Kelvin Corcoran, Michael
Ayres, Ralph Hawkins, David Chaloner, Paul A.
Green, John Wilkinson, Tom Phillips, & Yann
Lovelock. Editor’s loose note in issue 1 present. VG+, w/ superficial rubbing/darkening to
some wraps in storage.
£60
55 56 57 ‡
£14
58 £12
graph by Michael Leggett. ‘Unword’ was presented at Compendium on 20th June 1969, as
a preparatory trial for the large-scale ‘Unword
2’ at the ICA on 17th October 1969. VG+ w/ 1
mild corner bump.
GARDNER, Donald. For the Flames: Poems 1968–
70. London: Fulcrum Press, 1973. 1st, regular
issue. 8vo. Wraps. 64pp. Cover photo by Alan
Porter. Loosely inserted slip w/ brief publication details. Born in London, Gardner lived
in Rome, New York, & Taos before staying w/
Ernesto Cardenal in the Lake of Nicaragua. He
returned to England to start ‘Guerrilla Poets’,
who had a workshop at the anti-university &
took poetry out into the streets. After being arrested, Gardner worked w/ the Living Theatre.
Abt VG in sl. shelfworn wraps.
£30
Gare du Nord vol. 2 no. 1. Eds. Douglas Oliver
& Alice Notley. Paris, 1998. 4to. Stab-stapled.
42pp. Contributors inc. Iain Sinclair, Anne
Waldman, John Hall, Tom Clark, Oliver, Notley,
David Ball, Aram Saroyan, Michael Moorcock,
& Ted Berrigan. VG.
£10
George: Son of “My Own Mag” 5. No editor given
[Jeff Nuttall]. Np [London], Easter 1970. Foolscap. 1 sheet printed on both sides. Prints a long
poem or sequence by Nuttall (uncredited), illustrated by him in his characteristic mimeo
style. George ran for 7 issues from 1969–1970.
VG w/ 3 faint historical folds (2 are v. faint),
mild corner creasing & peripheral wear. An attractive survivor.
£75
GREEN ISLAND: An occasional magazine. Ed.
David Kilburn. London: David Kilburn, nd
[1969?]. 8vo. 1 sheet folded twice to make 6pp.
This edition concerns Ian Breakwell’s event
‘Unword’, w/ a text &, on the reverse, a photo-
£30
50pp. Some poems reproduced in facsimile
holograph. Published by Gael Turnbull’s press.
Light sunning around the spine o/w VG.
59 GREEN ISLAND: an occasional magazine. Nd
[1976?]. 4to. 1 sheet of card folded once to
make 4pp. This edition presents the poem
‘Rosebud’ by Robert Lax alongside a photograph of Julia Blankie in The Parade’s gone by by
Alan Cunliffe. Fine.
£22
60 GREEN ISLAND an occasional magazine. 1984. Sm. square 4to. 1 sheet of card folded once to make
4pp. This edition presents Robert Lax’s poem
‘the port was longing’ alongside a photograph
by David Kilburn, ‘entering Port Jebel Ali,
Dubai’. Nr fine w/ faint scratching to front cover. This publication identifies 1984 as the ‘20th
year of sporadic publication’ for GREEN ISLAND, a ‘magazine’ about which there is little
information, & issues of which are uncommon.
£22
61 (GREEN ISLAND.) A GREEN ISLAND visiting card.
Nd. Linguistic scheme by Gian Roberto Comini
w/ structural interventions by Germana Arcelli.
Square 8vo. Card w/ design printed in green &
publication details on reverse. VG+.
£8
62 GRIllE 2. Ed. Simon Smith. London, Spring
1993. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (40pp.).
Contributors inc. Andrew Duncan, Alan Halsey (inc. images & cover), Lee Harwood, Denise
Riley, & Maurice Scully. ‘Augenrund zwischen
den Stäben’. The magazine’s title was taken
from Speech-Grille, the translated title of a Paul
Celan collection. Sm. rust marks around staples, which are protruding, o/w abt nr fine.
£10
HAAVIKKO, Paavo. Selected Poems. Ed. & trans.
Anselm Hollo. London: Cape Goliard, 1968.
1st. 1/900 hardback copies (of which 100 were
signed & numbered, from a total of 2900 copies). 8vo. Blue cloth w/ silver titling to spine, in
printed acetate dj. Unpaginated (72pp.). First
UK collection by Finnish poet. Sl. soiled VG in
dj, a little chipped at corners.
£16
64 HALL, John. Between the Cities. Lincoln: Grosseteste Press, 1968. 1st. 1/425 numbered copies
(this copy unnumbered). Sm. 4to. Wraps. 52pp.
Dedicated to Jeremy Prynne. VG in wraps w/ sl.
peripheral fading, not affecting text.
£12
65 HARWOOD, Lee. Landscapes. London: Fulcrum
Press, 1969. 1st, regular issue. 8vo. Grey boards
w/ gilt titling to spine. 48pp. Cover photograph
taken in the New Zealand outback by Herbert
Lee, courtesy of Harwood’s grandmother. Dj
w/ John Ashbery quotation: ‘Lee Harwood’s
poetry lies open to the reader, like a meadow. It
moves slowly toward an unknown goal, like a
river. It is carelessly wise, that is, wise without
knowing or caring what wisdom is.’ This copy
has been signed by the author. VG in dj.
£10
HOLLO, Anselm. & it is a song. Birmingham:
Migrant Press, 1965. 1st, regular issue. Cover
& 3 section plates by John Furnival. 8vo. Wraps.
£8
63 66 67 HOLLO, Anselm. Isadora and other poems. London: Writers Forum, 1967. 1st. 16mo. Stabstapled wraps. Unpaginated (28pp. printed
rectos only). Minibook Two. Printed by Ted
Kavanagh at the Wooden Shoe. Facsimile holograph. The title poem comprises lines written
after seeing Ken Russell’s film of the same
name. VG w/ bands of toning to lower wrap.
£14
68 if 11. Marseille, 1997. Ed. Jean-Jacques Viton.
8vo. Wraps. 80pp. Text in French. Contributors
inc. Ric Caddel, Jean-Francois Bory, Emmanuel
Hocquard, Rod Mengham, Douglas Oliver,
Maggie O’Sullivan, Edoardo Sanguineti, Denise Riley, & Iain Sinclair. VG+.
£10
69 intimacy 2. Ed. Adam Mckeown. Maidstone,
June 1993. 4to. 32pp. stab-stapled into wraps.
Contributors inc. David Barton, Paul Buck,
Georges Bataille, Andrea & Robert Moorhead,
Jacques Derrida, Kellie Cloud, André du Bouchet, Dennis Nilsen, Peter deRous, Geraldine
Monk, David Chaloner, Stephen Barber, Alicia Borinsky, & Paul Green. Dedicated to Paul
Buck’s Curtains, the magazine gathered together differing responses to a common theme, in
this case ‘(dis)embodied image/imagining’. VG
quite fragile production in sl. rubbed wraps,
w/ sm. ineffective split to fold.
£22
70 intimacy 3. April 1994. 4to. Stab-stapled. 76pp.
This issue’s theme ‘Pathologos Sexualis: Readings between the corpora’. Contributors inc.
Antonin Artaud, Anthony Barnett, David Barton, Betsy Adams, Stephen Barber, Paul Buck,
Richard Tabor, André du Bouchet, Tristan
Tzara, Roger Giroux, Aaron Williamson, &
Richard von Krafft-Ebing. An impressive production. VG w/ light staining to covers & mild
crease to front.
£25
71 JAMES, John. Letters from Sarah. Cambridge:
Street Editions, 1973. 1st. 1/274 copies (of 300).
Sm. 4to. Stapled wraps. Unpaginated (32pp.).
Drawings by Philip Crozier. VG w/ toning to
lower wrap & a few trivial spots. James has
inscribed this copy ‘Lee Harwood./ Hommage
de l’auteur.’ (unsigned). Loosely inserted is an
ALS (‘John’) to ‘Captain’ (Harwood) from 1974,
thanking him for ‘the copy of your log’ (Captain Harwood’s Log of Stern Statements and Stout
Sayings) which has alleviated some bleakness.
He also wonders about a summer meeting, for
example over bar billiards.
£35
72 ‡
(JAMES, John.) Der Fröhliche Tarzan 2. Ed. Rolf
Eckart John. Cologne, January 1971. 4to. Stabstapled. Unpaginated (44pp. printed rectos
only). ‘Eine neue Zeitschrift für Dichtung aus
Köln’. This issue is devoted to one work, Briefe
von Sarah by John James, i.e. Letters from Sarah
in German, w/ ills. by Thomas Hornemann.
James’s acknowledgements in the item above
(which was published 2 years later) clarify that
the version here is whole. This publication also
prints the text (in German) of a letter from
James to the editor. 1/400 copies, although it
is suggested that only 230 copies were made.
£100
Usual toning to stock. Card covers a little worn.
Part of design from another magazine faintly
offset onto blank back cover, & v. slightly to the
front. This copy has been signed (‘Rolf’) by the
editor: ‘I’ll write soon’.
73 74 75 76 77 Tuli Kupferberg, Tina Morris, Mark Mothersbaugh, Charles Plymell, & Kevin Ring (on Jack
Kerouac’s Lowell). Also pieces on M. John Harrison. Visually impressive scene mag, between
Huddersfield & the Beats. Abt VG, w/ staples
rusty & covers sl. soiled.
JAMES, John. mmm… ah yes. London: Ferry Press,
1967. 1st. 1/500 copies. Sm. oblong 4to. Stapled
wraps. 32pp. Cover by Paul Wallace. Author’s
first book. Spotting to wraps. This copy has
been signed (‘John James’) in 1969 & inscribed
to Lee Harwood ‘with massive affection’.
£22
JAMES, John. The Small Henderson Room. London: Ferry Press, 1969. 1st. 1/474 copies (of
500). Sm. 4to. Stapled wraps. 40pp. Cover by
Peter Cartwright. Wraps lightly toned in bands,
sl. rubbed & spotted. Clean internally. This
copy has been inscribed to Lee (Harwood) in
the year of publication, & signed (‘John’).
£25
Kroklok 1. Ed. Dom Silvester Houédard. London: Writers Forum, 1971. 4to. Stapled wraps.
32pp. First issue, of 4, anthologising sound poetry. Contributions by Christian Morgenstern,
Raoul Hausmann, Lewis Carroll, Ernst Jandl,
Paul Scheerbart, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti,
Bob Cobbing, dsh, Paul de Vree, Paula Claire,
Jack Kerouac, François Dufrêne, & Michel Seuphor. VG, w/ sl. soiling to wraps & mild wear.
£60
80 81 79 £8
Margin 2. Spring 1987. Sm. 4to. Wraps. 118pp.
Covers by Michel Devrient. Contributors
inc. David Burnett, Robert Peters, Ignacio
Schwartz, Nicolette Devas, John Tagliabue, &
Allen Ginsberg. VG.
£8
87 88 The Literary Supplement 1. Ed. Anthony Barnett.
London: Nothing Doing (Formally in London),
September 8 1972. 4to. 2 sheets stapled at top
corner. 4pp. Edited & printed in Norway. Distributed w/ the assistance of Peter Riley at
Odense University. Contributions by Nick Totton, J. H. Prynne, Barnett, Jakob Paulsen (trans.
Barnett), & Helmut Heissenbüttel (trans. Rosmarie Waldrop). Ad. on back cover takes off the
TLS header. ‘Gratis to persons, by request’. A VG,
well-preserved copy, w/ old horizontal fold.
£30
LOGUE, Christopher. Memoranda for Marchers. Np: np, nd [1959]. 1st. Foolscap broadside
mimeographed black on light blue stock.
George Ramsden, in Christopher Logue: A Bibliography 1952–97, writes that the poem was written for the British Peace Committee’s ‘March
for Life’, London, 28 June 1959, & it was read by
Logue at the Trafalgar Square rally. The publication was produced in an unknown quantity
& distributed gratis. VG+ unfolded copy, w/ sl.
marginal creasing.
£75
82 Margin 6. Eds. Robin Magowan & Walter Perrie.
Summer 1988. Sm. 4to. Wraps. 96pp. Covers
by Patrick Hayman. Contributors inc. Ken Edwards & Tom Lowenstein. VG.
£7
83 MATTHIAS, John (ed.). 23 Modern British Poets. Intro. by Peter Jay. Chicago: The Swallow Press,
1971. 1st, wraps issue. 8vo. xxiv, 340pp. Anthology ‘arranged to give the best and most
varied view of contemporary British modernism’ to an American readership. Contributors
inc. David Jones, Basil Bunting, Gael Turnbull,
Roy Fisher, Christopher Logue, Anselm Hollo,
Lee Harwood, Nathaniel Tarn, & Tom Raworth.
Ian Hamilton Finlay’s section w/ images, some
in colour. Abt VG in rubbed wraps, w/ some
creasing inc. to some Hamilton Finlay plates.
£6
84 ‡
85 78 Margin: a quarterly magazine of literature, arts and
ideas 1. Eds. Walter Perrie, Robin Magowan &
Richard Burns. London: Common Margins,
Winter 1986. Sm. 4to. Wraps. 100pp. Covers
by Renos Loizou. Contributors inc. Robert Vas
Dias, James Merrill, Tom Pickard, John HeathStubbs, George Amabile, Paul Claudel, & Rikki
Ducornet. Also prints ‘The Platonic Blow’, attributed to W. H. Auden, making use of Ed
Sanders’ edition. VG.
printed rectos only). Drawings by Julia Ball.
This copy includes the author’s facsimile note
twice, on one occasion instead of an image p.
by Ball. No text is lost. Mulford notes (using a
female gender symbol where square brackets
appear here) ‘that these poems implicate some
of the problems facing a [female] poet today, &
that they include some of the strategies I’ve
used to confront those problems, & to attempt
to “reclaim the language”, for myself, as a [female]’. Gathers poems written between 1968
and 1976 to this end. Except for the missing p.,
VG in sl. corner-creased covers.
Ludd’s Mill 15. Ed. Andrew Darlington. Ossett:
Eight Miles High Publications, nd [late 1970s?].
4to. Stab-stapled. 36pp. Cover by Genesis POrridge. The ‘Dance-able Solution to Teenage Revolution – A product of YOUR society’.
Contributors inc. Jeff Nuttall, Mike Horovitz,
Barry Edgar Pilcher, Peter Finch, & Steve Sneyd.
Also pieces on William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith & Tom Verlaine, & Jim Morrison. VG.
£12
Ludd’s Mill 16/17. Eight Miles High Products,
nd [early 1980s?]. 4to. Stab-stapled. 44pp.
Cover by Harry Turner. Contributors inc. Jim
Burns, Michael Butterworth, John Cooper
Clarke, Dave Cunliffe, Arthur Winfield Knight,
£14
86 89 MCCARTHY, Ulli. Backlog Barks. London: Atman, 1979. 1st. 4to. Stab-stapled & bound
into wraps. Unpaginated (60pp.). Cover photographs by Roger Tebbutt, printed by Erik
Vonna-Michell. Made up of the sequences
‘Stretchbook’ & ‘Holzschnitte’, hinged to the
work Triptych. Written between 1972 & 1974 in
North Wales. ‘sounding bites demise of threshold’. VG in fragile wraps, sl. rubbed & spotted
at edges.
£35
Montagna Rossa: notizie da questo altro mondo, un
inventario in 9 lingue / news from this other world, an
inventory in 9 languages. Eds. Franco Beltrametti
& Judith Danciger. Torino: Edizioni Geiger,
1971. 8vo. Stapled wraps. 60pp. Contributors
inc. Adriano Spatola, James Koller, Lew Welch,
Hitomaro & Cid Corman, Han Shan & Gary
Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Harry Hoogstraten,
Philip Whalen, & Liliane Lijn. Texts in a variety
of languages, for the most part the language
of the writer (which is the case for the Anglophone poets). The publication has the look of
a mag, but is apparently an anthology. Nr fine.
£14
MULFORD, Wendy. Bravo to Girls & Heroes. Cambridge: Street Editions, 1977. 1st. 1/240 copies
(of 250). 4to. Stab-stapled, w/ printed label
mounted to front cover. Unpaginated (80pp.
£35
90 91 location of the Department of Literature, University of Essex, where the review began in
1965. Abt VG in spotted wraps.
New Measure 6: A Magazine of Poetry. Guest eds.
Stuart & Deirdre Montgomery. Oxford, Summer 1967. 8vo. Stapled wraps. 56pp. Errata
slip mounted. Contributions by Ed Dorn, Gary
Snyder, Jerome Rothenberg, Joel Oppenheimer, Larry Eigner, Clayton Eshleman, Gael
Turnbull, & Robert L. Peters. American issue,
collected via Fulcrum Press. VG+.
£10
OLIVER, Douglas. Oppo Hectic. Np: Ferry Press,
1969. 1st. 1/374 copies (of 400). Cover by Barry
Flanagan. Sm. 4to. Stapled wraps w/ dj. 44pp.
Poet’s first book. VG w/ a couple of spots, in
edge-toned dj sl. rubbed w/ sm. split at spine
head. This copy has been signed (‘Doug Oliver’) & inscribed in 1971 to Lee (Harwood).
Oliver writes: ‘I’m glad I sent you this because
your response to it has meant so much to me’.
£30
OLIVER, Douglas. The Three Lilies. Published
as LAMB: Standing for Letters, Art, Music & Baa 3.
London: The Literary Supplement, Nothing
Doing (Formally in London), January 1982. Ed.
Anthony Barnett. 1 of about 200 copies. 16mo.
Loose sheets folded into 8pp. ‘Transcribed
and edited with alterations and additions by
the Author from a tape of remarks before his
reading of poetry at Scarthin Books, Cromford,
Derbyshire, 24 April, 1981.’ This copy has been
inscribed to ‘Lee [Harwood] + Jud’ for Christmas 1981 & signed by the author (‘Doug’), who
has added a lamb-related line. LAMB apparently produced 4 other such publications, by
Ralph Hawkins, Václav Pinkava, Barnett, &
Joseph Simas.
£18
(OLIVER, Douglas.) MULFORD, Wendy &
RILEY, Peter (eds.). A Meeting for Douglas Oliver. Cambridge & Benhall: infernal methods,
Street Editions, & Poetical Histories, 2002. 1st.
1/300 copies. 8vo. Brown cloth w/ black titling
to spine. 98pp. Cover by Julia Ball. Mounted
image of Oliver opposite title page. Erratum
slip present. Printed representation of 22 October 2000, an evening at Swedenborg Hall to
remember Oliver, who had died in April. Contributors inc. John James, Allen Fisher, David
Chaloner, Denise Riley, & John Hall. 27 uncollected poems by Oliver are also included. 1
bump o/w nr fine in VG+ dj.
£12
The Park 1. Ed. Andrew Crozier. London: Ferry
Press, August 1968. Also titled The Wivenhoe
Park Review 3. Sm. 4to. Stapled wraps. 84pp.
Cover shows a sculpture by Gilbert Ward.
Contributors inc. John Temple, Joe Ceravolo,
John James, Ron Loewinsohn, Jim Burns, Lee
Harwood, John Wieners, Peter Riley, & Gilbert
Sorrentino. Wivenhoe Park was the Colchester
£15
92 Perfect Bound [2]. Issue number not given. Eds.
Bill Bennett & Peter Robinson. Cambridge:
Cambridge Poetry Society, Winter 1976-77.
8vo. Wraps. 88pp. Contributors inc. Tom Raworth (plus a bibliography & Geoffrey Ward on
Raworth), Michael Haslam, John Wilkinson,
Allen Fisher, Denise Levertov, Rod Mengham,
& Andrew Crozier. Wraps sl. soiled & darkened
but abt VG.
£30
93 Perfect Bound 4. Eds. Peter Robinson & Aidan
Semmens. Autumn 1977. 8vo. Wraps. 88pp.
Contributors inc. Douglas Oliver, Tom Raworth, Allen Fisher, Gael Turnbull, Matthew
Mead, Peter Riley, & Nick Totton. A few spots
o/w VG.
£30
94 (PETIT, Chris.) Film Without Film: Chris Petit in
conversation with Neil Jackson. Np [Newcastle
upon Tyne]: Post-Nearly Press, 2015. 1st. 4to.
Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (54pp.). Cover by
Craig Turnbull. ‘the museum is OPEN’. This
copy has been signed by both Petit & Jackson.
Nr fine, 1 corner sl. bumped.
£8
95 Plastasine Fantazine. Ed. David Burrows. Birmingham: Article Press, 2008. 1st. 4to. Stapled
wraps. Unpaginated (76pp.). Produced on the
occasion of ‘Art Writing Beyond Criticism’, a
one-day event at the ICA, London, 17 May
2008. Contributors inc. Paul Buck, Maria Fusco,
& Andrew Hunt & Dan Mitchell (‘Zodiac 3000’,
concerning J. G. Ballard and reproducing a
card by him (over 2 postcards)). ‘this practice, it
has no place… it only seeks to escape’. Nr fine.
£15
96 Platform 6. Eds. Andrew & Jim Cozens, Cynthia Corres, & Paul Robinson. Stockbridge, nd
[1974?]. 8vo. Stapled wraps. 44pp. Cover by Robin Crozier. Contributors inc. Glen Baxter, Jim
Burns, David Chaloner, David Cunliffe, Felipe
Ehrenberg, Jeremy Hilton, Holub (identified by
mounted erratum slip as Henri Chopin), Pierre
Joris, Ulli McCarthy, Elaine Randell, Paul Selby,
& John Welch. Platform was connected to Green
Horse Publications, which published Larry
Eigner amongst others. VG, w/ scuff to lower
part of upper wrap, probably in production.
£8
97 Platform 7. Eds. Andrew & Jim Cozens. Cambridge & Stockbridge, 1974. 8vo. Stapled wraps.
44pp. Cover by Ian Robinson. Contributors inc.
Elaine Randell, Michael Horovitz, Yann Lovelock (on Bhai Vir Singh), Larry Eigner, & Paul
Smith (on Tom Raworth). Also pieces on little
magazines & British publishers of experimental poetry. Final issue.
£7
98 ‡
Poetry and Little Press Information / PALPI 1, 2, 4,
6–10, 12–22, 22.5, 24–33. Eds. Peter Hodgkiss
& Bob Cobbing (issues 1–21 except issue 12
eds. Gilbert Adair & Cobbing), Bill Griffiths &
Cobbing (issues 22–30 except issue 26 ed. Cobbing), & Ian Robinson (issues 31–33). London:
The Association of Little Presses, May 1980-October 1994. Issues 1–12: 4to. Stab-stapled.
22pp.–32pp. Issues 13–21: 8vo. Stapled wraps.
£250
20pp.–36pp. Issues 22–30: Sm. 4to. Stapled
wraps. 24pp–40pp. Issues 31–33: 8vo. Stapled
wraps. 28pp.–40pp. Contributors inc. the editors, Jeff Nuttall, Eric Mottram, Pierre Joris,
Paul A. Green, Michael Horovitz, Clive Fencott, Geraldine Monk, Kris Hemensley, Keith
Musgrove, Ken Edwards, Stefan Themerson,
George Dowden, & John Welch. Important
to any deep study of the small press scene for
these years, PALPI was a dedicated magazine
taking up from Hodgkiss’ earlier Poetry Information, gathering listings of books, magazines & shops/dealers alongside articles about
presses, library collections, the state of the arts,
matters of production, business, & funding.
Furthermore, the development of its own aesthetic reflects the time covered by the magazine, until it ended w/ issue 37 in 1997. Issue
22.5 is in fact a PALPI supplement entitled ALP
the first 22.5 years, compiled by Cobbing & Griffiths, giving a 40pp. history of the Association
of Little Presses. Overall nr fine. The issues in
stapled wraps are often fine. The earlier stabstapled issues have some mild wear to card
covers, w/ staples of issue 2 not penetrating
fully but secure, & issue 1 sl. rubbed & creased.
Quantities of PALPI are quite uncommon in
commerce, perhaps as it might have seemed
disposable at the time. Although not a complete set, these 30 items represent a large proportion of the magazine’s span.
99 100 ‡
101 British Poetry Revival, as well as a range of
American poets. Pressure from the conservative backers led to his departure. VG.
Poetry Review vol. 63 no. 3. Autumn 1972. 8vo.
Wraps. 96pp. Cover by Jeremy Adler. Contributions by Robert Duncan, Paul Gogarty, David
Henderson, Thomas A. Clark, Tom Pickard,
Bill Griffiths, Pierre Joris, Nathaniel Tarn,
Michael Horovitz, Jack Hirschman, James
Berry, Aram Saroyan, David Antin, & Sharon
H. Nelson. Also a poetry information section,
inc. short listing of concrete & sound poetry.
Loosely inserted foldout newsletter of the Poetry Society. VG.
£15
Poetry Review vol. 66 nos. 3/4. Ed. Eric Mottram.
1976/1977. 4to. Wraps. 86pp. Contributors inc.
Tom Pickard, John Welch, Bob Cobbing, Paul
Evans, Allen de Loach, Thomas A. Clark, Nathaniel Tarn, Jack Micheline, Carl Rakosi, Jeremy
Adler, & Ralph Hawkins. An uncommon issue
of the review in its larger format. VG+.
£15
104 Poetspeak. University of Surrey, 1966. Poems for
the Festival of the Arts ’66, but no other info
given. Sm. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated
(32pp. printed rectos only). Not in Miller &
Price. Contributions by Tim Ross, Margaret
Edwards, Rick Welton, & Bill Hatch. Ross’s
poem ‘For Lee’ is apparently about Lee Harwood. Mimeographed (sometimes faintly).
Staples rusty, o/w VG. OCLC locates 1 copy.
£20
105 Prospice 1. Eds. J. C. R. Green, Michael Edwards,
& Martin Booth. Solihull: Aquila, 1973. 8vo.
Wraps issue. 80pp. Contributors inc. Cid Corman, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, Robert
Bly, Adrian Henri, George MacBeth, Federico
García Lorca, Gabriel Josipovici, Yves Bonnefoy,
Peter Redgrove, & Penelope Shuttle. The 1st of
25 issues, running until 1988. VG.
£12
Prospice 5. Eds. J. C. R. Green & Michael Edwards. Isle of Skye: Aquila, 1976. 8vo. Wraps issue. 96pp. In 2 sections: ‘Low Countries Poetry’
inc. Theo Hermans, Lucebert, Gerrit Kouwenaar, Hugo Claus, & H. C. ten Berge; & ‘I Have
Seen Eden’ inc. Seamus Heaney & Carl Rakosi.
VG in sl. soiled wraps.
£10
PRYNNE, J. H. Down where changed. London:
Ferry Press, 1979. 1st. 12mo. Wraps. 48pp.
Loosely inserted printed slip from the ‘CABINET OFFICE Central Statistical Office’, ‘With
the compliments of The Quotient’, and the
motto ‘EVERYTHING YOU HEAR IS TRUE’.
VG+ in sl. marked wraps, w/ tail edge a little
bumped.
£100
PRYNNE, J. H. High Pink on Chrome. Cambridge:
np, 1975. 1st. 1/500 copies. 8vo. Stapled metallic pink French wraps. 28pp. Loosely inserted
card printed w/ ‘HOMMAGE DE L’AUTEUR’.
Spine sl. discoloured, possibly just from being
folded. VG+, w/ a few light scratches & rubs to
wraps.
£115
PRYNNE, J. H. Into the Day. Cambridge: np,
1972. 1st. 1/500 copies. 8vo. Wraps w/ dj affixed
at the spine. Unpaginated (40pp.). Sm. spot to
£50
102 103 Poetry Information 18. Ed. Peter Hodgkiss. London: Peter Hodgkiss, Winter/Spring 1977–78.
4to. Stapled wraps. 96pp. Interviews w/ Chris
Torrance, Thomas A. Clark, & (by Eric Mottram) Barry MacSweeney, Tom Pickard, & Ken
Smith. Also Mottram on Pickard, Bill Griffiths
on P.C. Fencott, a round-up of visual/sound
texts received, & ‘Poetics of the Alphabet’ by
Peter Mayer. Nr fine.
£14
Poetry Presented by Transgravity 4. No editor given, but presumably Paul Brown. London, ‘OCT
17’. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (12pp.).
Miller & Price describe the magazine as being
‘given out at Transgravity readings, and which
comprised the text of poetry by the featured
speakers’. They suggest that issue 4 (w/ reference to a copy in the British Library) is from
1967. (OCLC does not locate any copies, but
there is one at the British Library, although it
does not give any clues as to the date.) This issue contains Eric Mottram’s 7pp. poem ‘What
Is To Be Done’, dedicated to Lee Harwood, and
Pierre Joris’s 3pp. ‘From “Antlers”’. Mottram
has signed this copy (‘Eric Mottram’), in ‘London 1974’, & inscribed it ‘For Lee [Harwood]
– a small homage to the better poet’. An exceptional association, to an extent the dedication
copy. VG due to faint bands of fading to the
card covers, but a v. crisp copy.
£35
Poetry Review vol. 62 no. 3. Ed. Eric Mottram.
London: Poetry Society, Autumn 1971. 8vo.
Wraps. 96pp. Cover by Dom Silvester Houédard. Contributions by Lee Harwood, Stuart
Montgomery, Robert Duncan, Michael McClure, Muriel Rukeyser, Jeff Nuttall, Gilbert
Sorrentino, Paul Evans, Val Warner, Roy Fisher,
Bill Butler, Gael Turnbull, Richard Miller, Allen Fisher, & Dom Silvester Houédard. Also a
poetry information section. While he was its
editor in the 1970s, Mottram introduced to
the review (founded 1912) key poets from the
£20
half title & front flap, else nr fine in v. faintly
marked dj.
106 107
108 109
110 PRYNNE, J. H. News of Warring Clans. London:
Trigram Press, 1977. 1st. 1/574 copies (of 600).
Sm. 4to. Wraps w/ dj affixed at the spine. Unpaginated (32pp.). VG in dj w/ mild edgewear.
Light sunning to spine & head edge.
£60
111
PRYNNE, J. H. The White Stones. Lincoln: Grosseteste Press, 1969. 1st. 1/477 numbered copies (this copy unnumbered). Sm. 4to. Wraps.
98pp. VG. Spotted edges, a few spots else. Mild
edgewear & bumps, inc. to spine, which is
nicked at head.
£175
112 PRYNNE, J. H. Wound Response. Cambridge:
Street Editions, 1974. 1st. 1/374 copies (of 400).
8vo. Stapled wraps. 36pp. Spotting in bands to
wraps o/w VG.
£50
113
P.S.: Poetry Student 1 (all published). Eds. Paul
Merchant, Godfrey Rust, & Toby Sachs. Leamington Spa, February 1975. 4to. Stapled wraps.
36pp. Contributors inc. Lawrence Upton (on
McGonagall), Eric Mottram (‘Beware of Imitations: Writers Forum Poets and British Poetry in the ’60s’), Bob Cobbing (who edits an
8pp. centrepiece of sound & visual texts), John
Heath-Stubbs, & Alan Hollinghurst (3 poems,
an early appearance). The magazine existed,
for 1 issue, ‘to publish the best of poetry written in universities, colleges and schools in
Great Britain’. Abt VG.
£20
114
Resuscitator 6. Eds. John James & Nick Wayte.
Bristol, February 1966. Also titled R6. 8vo. Stapled wraps. 32pp. Errata slip tipped in. Cover
by Oliver Wood. Contributions by Gill Vickers
(the first publication of her poems), Charles
Tomlinson, Roy Fisher, Jim Burns, Ian Vine,
Paul Evans, & Lionel Kearns. VG.
£10
115 Resuscitator 7. December 1966. Also titled R7.
8vo. Stapled wraps. 32pp. Cover by Andrew
Weston-Webb. Contributors inc. Larry Eigner,
Gill Vickers, Tom Pickard, Barry MacSweeney,
Gary Snyder, Gael Turnbull, Lionel Kearns, &
James. The final issue in the first series (of 2).
Loosely inserted flyer advertising Island, Move,
View Publications, Migrant Press, Ferry Press,
& Fulcrum Press. VG.
£12
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RILEY, Denise. Marxism for Infants. Cambridge:
Street Editions, 1977. 1st. 1/300 copies. Cover
by Julia Ball. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated
(46pp. printed rectos only). Poet’s rare first
book. VG, w/ sl. spotting to card covers, the
back cover w/ v. faint toning, & mild edgewear.
£80
117 RILEY, John & LONGVILLE, Tim. Versions of
Hölderlin: 1: In the Arms of the Gods. Lincoln: Grosseteste Press, 1967. 1st. 1/250 numbered copies. Oblong 8vo. Stapled wraps. Unpaginated
(36pp.). Translations, which were collected in
1998 alongside versions of Osip Mandelstam.
Abt VG w/ sl. foxing & wear, & faint toning.
£12
Rock Drill 1. Eds. Penelope Bailey & Robert G.
£12
118 Sheppard. Norwich, 1980. 4to. Stab-stapled.
28pp. Contributions by Alan Halsey, Roger
Howard, Peter Robinson, Harry Guest, Yann
Lovelock, Peter F. Stacey, & Ric Caddel. Follows
on from 1983, tapes released by the editors’ Supranormal w/ the likes of Lee Harwood, Henri
Chopin, & Bill Griffiths reading. VG w/ mild
corner creasing & sl. spotting to front cover.
119 Rock Drill 5. Southsea, nd [1985]. 4to. Stab-stapled. 38pp. Cover by Maggie O’Sullivan. Contributions by John Welch, O’Sullivan, George
Evans, Tony Baker, Wendy Mulford, Ian Robinson, David Miller, John Freeman, & Lee Harwood. The final issue. VG.
£12
120 Satis 1–5 (all published). Ed. Matthew Mead.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Malcolm Rutherford,
1960–1962. 8vo. Stapled wraps. 24pp.–28pp.
Named after a description alongside an inscribed Roman brick in the Silchester collection, Reading Museum: ‘Satis. Enough. This
remark written with the finger on the surface of an
unbaked brick may mean either that the brick was
the last of any particular batch; or it may be an idle
remark made by the workman’. Contributors inc.
Anselm Hollo, Gael Turnbull, Michael Shayer,
Anne Cluysenaar, John Heath-Stubbs, Bernice
Ames, Barriss Mills, Larry Eigner, Frederick
Eckman, Richard Weber, Donald Carroll, J.
H. Prynne (‘Early Yesterday Morning’ & ‘In
Praise’), & Charles Bukowski (‘A 350 dollar
Horse and a hundred dollar Whore’ & ‘What
seems to be the trouble, Gentlemen?’). Also an
essay on Bukowski by R. R. Cuscaden, ‘Charles
Bukowski: Poet in a ruined landscape’. Little
was known about Bukowski in this country in
1962; his poems here were the first to appear
in a British publication. Overall VG w/ mild
bumping & soiling, & sl. rubbing to wraps. The
front cover of issue 3 (‘Poems from America’)
is sunned in bands. Issues 2 & 4 have v. faint
sunning around the spines. The title of Anthony Smythe’s contribution, ‘Poem’, has been
crossed out, quite possibly by the poet, editor
or publisher, as if the piece was meant to be untitled rather than called simply ‘Poem’.
£125
121 Second Aeon 14. Ed. Peter Finch. Cardiff, nd
[1972]. 8vo. Wraps. 132pp. Contributors
inc. Tom Phillips, Opal L. Nations, Iain Sinclair (‘Chalk Orchid’ & an interview w/ Allen
Ginsberg), Jirí
ˇ Valoch, Nick Zurbrugg, Edwin Morgan, Chris Torrance, Bill Wyatt, William Wantling, Asa Benveniste, Bill Butler, &
Charles Bukowski. VG+.
£16
122 Second Aeon 15. Nd [1973]. 8vo. Wraps. 156pp.
Contributors inc. Nick Zurbrugg, dsh, Bob
Cobbing, Asa Benveniste, Ian Breakwell, David
Chaloner, Clayton Eshleman, Dick Higgins,
John James, Barry MacSweeney, Jeff Nuttall,
Gael Turnbull, & Eric Mottram. Abt VG w/
creased spine.
£14
123
Second Aeon 16/17. Nd [1973]. 8vo. Wraps. 248pp.
Contributors inc. William Burroughs, Charles
Bukowski, dsh, Felipe Ehrenberg, Ernst Jandl,
Thomas A. Clark, Bill Griffiths, Theodore Enslin, Pierre Joris, & Ulli McCarthy. Also Eric
Mottram on Bob Cobbing, w/ photographs &
reproductions of texts. Wraps sl. rubbed, spine
creased, o/w VG.
£15
124 125 126
127 128
129
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SHAYER, Michael. Poems from an island. London: Fulcrum Press, 1970. 1st thus, regular
issue. 8vo. Blue boards w/ gilt titling to spine.
Unpaginated (48pp.). Originally 30 Xeroxed
copies of the manuscript in an earlier version of this poem were privately circulated to
the poet’s friends. Charles Olson’s response is
printed on the front flap. Shayer was one of the
principal editors of Migrant Press, run by Gael
Turnbull from 1957-1966. VG in dj, w/ soiled
head edge.
£10
SINCLAIR, Iain. Lud Heat: a book of the dead hamlets. May 1974 to April 1975. Uppingham: Goldmark, 1987. 1/225 copies (of 250). 8vo. Black
cloth w/ gilt titling to spine. 112pp. Quotation
by Chris Torrance on the back cover: ‘The book
burns me at a touch. It is an essay, it is a poem,
it is madness, it claims the razor’s edge’. The
third edition of Lud Heat, & the first trade edition in hardback; the design is faithful to the
original, w/ the format adjusted. Casebound
copies from 1975 are possibly unobtainable, &
yet this edition is itself curiously uncommon.
This copy has been signed by Sinclair. VG in dj
w/ v. sl. sunning & a few sm. marks.
£75
SINCLAIR, Iain (ed.). Conductors of Chaos. London & Basingstoke: Picador, 1996. 1st. 8vo.
Wraps. xx, 492pp. Contributors inc. Allen
Fisher, Bill Griffiths, Lee Harwood, John James,
Grace Lake, Barry MacSweeney, Douglas Oliver,
J. H. Prynne, Denise Riley, Peter Riley, & Chris
Torrance. Important collection, giving public
airing to elective outsiders. G in somewhat
rubbed/creased wraps.
£16
Starscrewer 9/10. Ed. Lucien Suel. Isbergues,
1978. 4to. Stab-stapled. 42pp. ‘Franco-faune’
issue (text in French). Contributions by Josée
Yvon, Alin Anseeuw, Henry Le-Welche, Jacques
Donguy, Marc Villard, Jean-Pierre Verheggen,
Jean-Jacques Boutet, Paul Chamberland, Daniel Fano, Guy Benoît, Denis Vanier, Claude P.
Washburn, Alain Jegou, Paul Quéré, & Lucien
Francoeur. Created in 1972 by B. Froidefond,
this lively mag suggests it could be called ‘le
Fouteur d’Etoiles’. This issue presents ‘les
meilleurs écrivains des ethnies francophones’
from France, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, &
the USA. G w/ vertical crease & sl. toned & worn
covers.
£30
Strange Faeces 10 Part A. Subtitled ‘a quick J EDGAR’. Eds. Allen Fisher & Dick Miller. London:
np, September 1972. 4to. Red plastic binding.
Unpaginated (114pp. mostly printed rectos
only). Offset printing by Beau Geste Press, the
rest using heat stencils by Fisher & Opal L. Nations. Contributions by Wolf Vostell, Felipe
Ehrenberg, Dieter Rot, Fisher, Hansjürgen
Bulkowski, Thomas A. Clark, Chuck Santon,
Glen Baxter, Miller, Thomas Net, Stuart Horn,
& Nations. Interleaved w/ images of Hoover
‘courtesy greek street dustbins’. Sticker on
front cover, as issued, adjusting the editorial
address. VG w/ fore edge of covers rubbed, as
oversized.
£32
Strange Faeces 10 Part B. Np: np, 1973/4. 4to.
Glue bound. Idiosyncratically paginated
(148pp. often printed rectos only.) ‘This is not
the last issue of Strange Faeces – that was long
£40
ago.’ Contributions by Jane Suren (cover), Stefan Themerson, Eric Mottram, Allen Fisher,
Bill Butler, Dick Miller, Bill Griffiths, John
Sladek, Paul Brown, Pierre Joris, Opal L. Nations, Thomas A. Clark, Lee Harwood, David
Mayor, Mary Beach, Tom Disch, Jürgen Ploog,
David Hart, Claude Pélieu, Pearl White, & Bob
Cobbing. The contents page, which is the back
cover & which has ads. for Spanner & Expanded
Media Editions, is loose but present. Due to
the glue binding, this issue is fragile, which
is probably one reason why it is uncommon.
Other copies consulted have been rebound w/
tape, so, despite the loose p., this copy is somewhat well preserved. VG w/ mild edgewear, a
few tiny nicks, & faint corner crease.
by Johnson.) Centred around the Carshalton
mob, these publications are rare glimpses
into that energetic mid-1960s poetry/jazz
scene, anarchist in spirit. OCLC locates 1 copy.
City of Tears was duplicated by Denis Torrance,
Chris’s brother. Jenny & Lee Harwood helped
reproduce the cover, & indeed City of Tears is
not unlike Harwood’s one-shots from the time.
The contributor ‘Eli’ is described as ‘a young
female mystic, now working in a mental hospital. Little else known.’ VG, w/ some spots
& mild toning to the blank back cover, some
light wear to the front, & tiny nicks to a couple
of sl. oversized pp.
TORRANCE, Chris (ed.). Diary of an Assassin &
other documents. Carshalton: Chris Torrance,
in conjunction w/ Origins Diversions, Summer
1966. Sm. 4to. Stab-stapled wraps. 46pp. + original art insert by Richard Downing (signed).
Cover by Denis Torrance. Contributions by
Tina Morris (editorial & postscript), Downing, Bill Wyatt, Dave James, Torrance (the title
piece & ‘Ten imaginings’), Frederick Kempster
(‘Memoirs of an Assassin’), d.a.levy, Jim Semark
& Hal McKinney, Jeff Morsman, Lee Harwood,
& Roger Yates. A striking anthology, w/ Torrance’s title piece as the focus moving through
the 1960s via ‘Scenarios from old dreams’,
‘d.a.l. the Cleveland agent’, & Hassan-i Sabbah
(leader of the Assassins, whose name is said
to derive from ‘Hashishin’ or ‘users of hashish’). Poetry through jazz & into psychedelia.
According to a note in Torrance & Downing’s
Broadsheet (issue 3 consulted), Diary of an Assassin continued on from Origins Diversions when
it became defunct, whereas City of Tears was ‘a
separate collection’. Both can be considered to
be one-shots or anthologies in equal measure.
A note in the Diary hopes that any profits ‘will
be devoted to the production of a series of “Assassinators” broadsheets’. Abt VG. The top staple (of 3) has not penetrated fully but is quite
secure. Rubbing to the wraps, w/ some spots
to the back cover. Faint historic corner crease
to the front cover, which is only particularly
perceptible on the blank inside. Some foxing
primarily to prelims & some margins.
£85
(TORRANCE, Chris.) wonderful remark: A Celebration of Chris Torrance. Np: WYSIWYG chapbooks, 2000. 1st. 1/50 copies (of which 26 were
lettered & offered to the contributors). 4to.
84pp. printed rectos only. 1p. out of order but
present. Contributors inc. Bill Wyatt, Peter
Finch, Basil Griffiths, Iain Sinclair, Phil Morsman, Richard Downing, Val Maillard, Phil
Maillard, Chris Vine, & Jeremy Hilton. Texts
& images. Originally bound w/ fragile plastic
strips, this copy has since been stitched instead.
O/w VG+.
£15
137 VALOCH, Jirí.
ˇ Uncorrect poem for Henri Chopin :
1969. Woodchester: Openings Press, February
1969. Card Series 4. 12mo. Card, printed on
both sides. Prints the line ‘poésie est finie’ in
black, w/ a red correction added to make, ‘poésie est fonie’. The press was founded by John
Furnival & Dom Sylvester Houédard. Somewhat marked/soiled but generally crisp.
£20
138 VEREY, Charles. Loom Song no. 3. Np: South
Street, nd [1968?]. 16mo. Card, printed on both
sides. An uncommon South Street postcard-
£20
135 ‡
TAK TAK TAK [1]. Issue number & editor not
given. Nottingham, Summer 1987. 8vo. Wraps.
60pp. Contributors inc. Tim Brown, ‘The Poet
Milton’ (presumably Ted Milton), Andrew Clay,
Tom Hopkins, & Wayne Summers. Lively lo-fi
mag. TAK TAK TAK also published Jeff Nuttall’s biography of Lol Coxhill, & a couple of
issues came w/ cassettes. Loosely inserted subscription form/facsimile Christmas message to
Margaret from Margaret, as issued. VG+.
£11
Talus 1. Ed. Hanne Bramness & Shamoon Zamir.
London, Spring 1987. 8vo. Wraps. 112pp. From
the Department of English at King’s College.
Contributions by Eric Mottram, Gyula Kodolanyi, Amiri Baraka, Iain Sinclair, Clark Coolidge,
Jeff Nuttall, Anselm Hollo, Anne Waldman,
Bill Griffiths, Pierre Joris, Johanna Drucker, &
Douglas Oliver. Addendum slip mounted. VG.
£12
132 Text 2. Ed. Tony Trehy. Bury: Bury Metropolitan Borough Council, 2009. 8vo. Pictorial cloth.
64pp. Contributors inc. Alan Halsey, Allen
Fisher, Tony Lopez, P.Inman, Scott Thurston,
& Caroline Bergvall. VG+.
£10
133 TORRANCE, Chris. The Magic Door: a cycle. Book
One. London: Albion Village Press, 1975. 1st.
1/10 casebound copies w/ additional holograph material (from a total edition of 300).
8vo. Brown cloth. Unpaginated (48pp.). Ills.
by Val Torrance. The author has written a 12line poem ‘from Book II / MAEN MADOC’ on
the front pastedown, signed, numbered, &
dated. Torrance’s second book to be published
by Iain Sinclair’s press, & the first in his major
sequence. Hardback copies of Albion Village
Press books (except the less limited Elephant
Book) are rare, and it is unclear how many of
each exist outside of institutions. Nr fine.
£150
TORRANCE, Chris (ed.). City of Tears. Carshalton: Chris Torrance, under the sponsorship of
Origins Diversions, nd [1964]. Sm. 4to. Stab-stapled wraps. 18pp. Contributions by Torrance
(‘Ten Poems for Jenny’), Sally Truman-Cox
(‘City of Tears’ & the cover), Jean McIntosh,
Michael J. Dyke, & ‘Eli’. ‘Writing poetry is like
burning oneself onto the paper at the time.’
According to a note in Ian Johnson’s mag Maya
(issue 2 consulted), this anthology was the second ‘of a number of tenuously linked and variously edited publications’ that commenced
w/ Origins Diversions (1963–1966), which was
edited by Torrance and Dyke (then aged 23
& 21 respectively). (The date of 1964 is given
£70
130
131 134 ‡
format publication (unused), w/ a visual text
by Verey, & from his own press. VG+ w/ minor
marks.
136 139 Vertical Images 9. Ed. David Aldridge. London,
1994. 8vo. Wraps. 68pp. The 9th anthology of
a group who met for critical workshops & open
readings in Camden. This was the first issue to
include work by guests. Contributors inc. Johan de Wit, David Crystal, Robert Sheppard, &
Bob Cobbing. VG+.
£12
140
WARD, Geoffrey. Double Exposure. London: infernal methods, 1978. 1st. 8vo. Stapled wraps
in dj. Unpaginated (28pp.). Erratum slip present. VG+ in nr fine dj. Published by David
Trotter at UCL.
£5
141 words worth 1:2. Eds. Peter J. King & Alaric
Sumner. This issue guest ed. Paul Buck. London: Zimmer Zimmer Press, nd [1978]. Sm.
4to. Wraps. 102pp. Contributions by Glenda
George, Cris Cheek, Ulli McCarthy, Carlyle
Reedy, Lawrence Upton, Michael Gibbs, P.C.
Fencott, Bill Griffiths, John Sharkey, Allen
Fisher, Jackson Mac Low, Paul Green, Christian
Tarting, & the eds. Also Education Section by
Rosemary Sumner. Abt nr fine w/ sl. rubbing &
lean to wraps.
£15
142 words worth 1:3. Ed. Alaric Sumner. Nd [1978?].
Sm. 4to. Wraps. 112pp. Contributions by Peter Philpott, Ken Edwards, Robert G. Sheppard, Michael Carlson, R. G. Hampson, R. E.
Tristram, Peter Finch, Opal L. Nations (& the
cover), Erik Vonna-Michell, Glenda George,
Carlyle Reedy, Cory Harding, John Wilkinson,
& Peter Redgrove. Also Education Section by
Rosemary Sumner. Upper corner v. sl. knocked,
spine head bumped, o/w nr fine in sl. rubbed
wraps.
£14
143 Writers Forum & New River Project catalogue.
London, nd [1994?]. Sm. 4to. Stapled wraps.
Unpaginated (12pp.). Advertises productions
from the presses, often w/ black & white images. Also contains a checklist of Writers Forum
publications from nos. 496 to 541. Nr fine.
£10
USA, CANADA, & BEYOND
144 Adventures in Poetry 8. Ed. Larry Fagin. NY, Summer 1971. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated
(118pp. printed rectos only). Published at The
Poetry Project. Cover by Rudy Burckhardt.
Contributions by Dick Gallup, Lewis Warsh,
Ron Padgett & Joe Brainard, Steve Malmude,
Andrei Codrescu, Richard Kolmar, Glen Baxter,
& Philip Whalen. Important second-generation New York School mag. Gallup’s singlepoem contribution is mentioned by Fagin in
Steven Clay & Rodney Phillips, A Secret Location
on the Lower East Side: ‘I couldn’t pay the authors
or cover artists, though once I commissioned
Dick Gallup, who was in a slump, at $5 per
poem, and he came up with his wonderful
“Charged Particles” and several other beauties.’ Padgett & Brainard contribute ‘Cherry’, a
comic strip. G only, w/ top staple (of 3) missing;
secure, however. Cover creased & somewhat
rubbed.
£10
145
146 147 148
149
150 151
152
153 ANDERSON, David. The Spade in the Sensorium.
Bolinas: Big Sky, 1974. 1st. 1/600 copies. 4to.
Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (40pp.). Cover by
Philip Guston. Published by Bill Berkson’s
press, the name of which was suggested by
Tom Veitch after the Kinks line: ‘Big Sky looks
down on all the people’. G somewhat worn
copy, w/ the artwork still attractive.
£15
ANDREWS, Bruce. Only. Peterborough: Spectacular Diseases, 1998. 1st. 1/500 copies (415 of
which were available for trade purchase). 8vo.
Stitched wraps. 22pp. Cover by Allen Fisher &
Ulli Freer. Fine.
£12
AVEC 2. Eds. Cydney Chadwick, David Bromige, & Jim McCrary. Penngrove, CA, 1989. 4to.
Wraps. 122pp. ‘The “X” Issue’. Contributors
inc. Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Norman Conquest, Michael Davidson, Lydia Davis,
Rae Armantrout, Ray DiPalma, Allen Fisher,
Jackson Mac Low, Tristan Tzara, Steve McCaffery, David Melnick, Alice Notley, Charles
Olson, Nick Piombino, & Maggie O’Sullivan.
VG+.
£8
BALL, David. The Garbage Poems: from the new
zone. Providence: Burning Deck, 1976. 1st.
1/350 numbered copies. 8vo. Stapled wraps in
dj. Unpaginated (32pp.). Published by Keith
& Rosmarie Waldrop’s press. Nr fine in abt nr
fine sl. scuffed dj.
£10
BALL, David. New Topoi. NY: The Buffalo Press,
1972. 1st. 1/300 copies. Sm. 8vo. Stitched wraps.
Unpaginated (24pp.). Designed by Joan Simon,
printed w/ David Sykes & Ted Greenwald at the
Centaur Press. Nr fine.
£15
BALL, David. Praise of Crazy. Providence: published as Diana’s Bimonthly vol. 3 no. 3, Deduction of the Innocents Pamphlets, 1975. 1st.
1/200 numbered copies. 8vo. Stapled wraps.
Unpaginated (16pp.). Nr fine in v. sl. toned
wraps.
£30
BERNSTEIN, Charles. The Absent Father in
Dumbo. La Laguna (Islas Canarias): Zasterle
Press, 1990. 1st. 1/300 numbered copies. Narrow 8vo. French wraps. 40pp. Erratum slip
present. VG+.
£25
Bezoar vol. 3 no. 4. Gloucester, Mass., September 1976. 4to. Newsletter format, w/ sheets stapled once at top corner. Unpaginated (18pp.).
This issue solely ‘from NOTES OF A POST
OFFICE CLERK’ by Lee Harwood, w/ ills. Nr
fine, not folded or addressed for mailing (as
sent in bulk to Harwood). A lively mag which
started the previous year, Bezoar was edited by
Fred Buck, Thorpe Feidt, Paul Kahn, & others.
Buck was Ed Dorn’s stepson. Like Harwood he
worked for the Post Office; the two would exchange union news. This issue was apparently
‘financed by CONEDISON & GULF OIL’.
£12
Bezoar vol. 4 no. 1. October 1976. 4to. Newsletter format, w/ sheets stapled once at top corner.
Unpaginated (14pp.). This issue given over to
poems & other workings from A Big Jewish Book
£11
by Jerome Rothenberg, w/ Harris Lenowitz.
Folded for mailing & stamped, w/ address of
George Bowering & ‘Printed Paper Rate’ in
scribbled holograph. VG w/ some light wear.
154 Bezoar vol. 4 no. 4. 1977. 4to. Newsletter format, w/ sheets stapled once at top corner. Unpaginated (14pp.). This issue devoted to Robert
Gibbons. ‘no use for Proust’. Folded for mailing & stamped, w/ address of George Bowering. VG.
£10
155 Bezoar vol. 5 no. 2. February 1977. 4to. Newsletter format, w/ sheets stapled once at top corner.
Unpaginated (10pp.). Contributions by Richard Nelson Peszka, Peter Riley, & Linda Parker.
‘APOCALOOSA BEZOAR’. Folded for mailing &
stamped, w/ address of ‘NMFG’. Abt VG w/ sm.
marginal stains & 2 staple ghosts.
£10
156
Bezoar vol. 5 no. 3. February 1977. 4to. Newsletter format, w/ sheets stapled once at top corner.
Unpaginated (8pp.). The first part (of 4) of a
serialisation of Jonathan Bayliss’ novel Prologos.
Folded for mailing & stamped, w/ address of
‘NMFG’. G w/ first page loose & some edgewear.
£8
Bezoar vol. 6 no. 2. ‘Mach’ 25 1977. 4to. Newsletter format, w/ sheets stapled once at top corner.
Unpaginated (12pp.). Contributions by Larry
Eigner & Lee Harwood. Nr fine, not folded or
addressed for mailing (as sent in bulk to Harwood). Also titled ‘Fremitus Bezoar’: ‘Fremitus
was so particular.’
£12
Bezoar vol. 14 no. 2. December 1978. 4to. Newsletter format, w/ sheets stapled once at top
corner. Unpaginated (10pp.). Contributions by
Lee Harwood & Ken Irby. Nr fine, not folded or
addressed for mailing (as sent in bulk to Harwood). ‘the game has gone South .. hibernation
imminent .. send berries …’
£12
Bezoar vol. 17 no. 4. ‘Falling’, 1979. 4to. Newsletter format, w/ sheets stapled once at top
corner. Unpaginated (16pp.). Contributions by Lee Harwood & Joanne Kyger. VG, folded
twice for mailing but not addressed (as sent
in bulk to Harwood). A pencilled note by
Harwood gives the date as ‘October 1979’. Sl.
staple rust. Alternate titles given are ‘NO PRIVATE INCOME BEZOAR’, ‘BEZOAR SOON
NO MORE’, & ‘SUSTAIN YOUR BEZOAR’. ‘If
you want to ride it / got to ride it like you find
it / get your ticket at the station / Rock Island
Bezoar’.
£12
Bezoar vol. 19 no. 4. Mid July 1980. 4to. Newsletter format, w/ sheets stapled once at top
corner. Unpaginated (10pp.). Contributions
(in English) from ‘Japan, Checkoslovakia, Itally,
Ingland’: Shinjo Okubo, Sasajo Shigeru, Kano
Rojiro, Yonezawa Kitchidan, Tanaka Hakuya,
Tsujii Nobu, Tozawa Shibo, Tobuho Reiko (in
parallel texts, trans. Michael W. Corr), Miroslav
Klivar, Carlo Marcello Conti, & Lee Harwood.
Nr fine, not folded or addressed for mailing (as
sent in bulk to Harwood). ‘HOMELESS DOGS
BEZOAR’ from the year before it ceased. ‘This
publication will probably not endorse Ronald
Reagan’.
£11
157 158 159 160 161 BLACKBURN, Paul. In. On. Or About the Premises.
London: Cape Goliard Press, 1968. 1st, wraps
issue. 1/3500 copies (of 4900). 8vo. Unpaginated (64pp.). Ills. by Michelle Stuart. Loosely
inserted leaflet (w/ old vertical fold) for Against
the Silences, published posthumously. Robert
Creeley: ‘He was the first poet of my generation and commitment I was to know, and we
talked non-stop, literally, for two and a half
days.’ VG+ in v. sl. nicked acetate dj, w/ blocked
design sl. offset.
£10
162 Blue Pig 14. No editor given. Northampton,
MA: Sand Project Press, nd [1970 or 1971].
Also titled where things are. 4to. Stab-stapled.
Unpaginated (22pp. printed rectos only). Ills.
by Ed Hill. Contributions by Clark Coolidge,
David Ball, George Tysh, Ray DiPalma, John
Giorno, Anselm Hollo, & Ted Greenwald. Covers illustrate where certain things are, whether
on meat, land, or the body. Toning to covers
o/w VG.
£12
163
Blue Pig 18. No editor given. Paris & Northampton, MA: Sand Project Press, nd [1972 or 1973].
4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (24pp. printed
rectos only). Cover by David Batchelder. Contributions by José-Luis Luna, Rebecca Brown,
Merrill Gilfillan, & Tom Raworth. A ‘representation of the verb’s creator machine’. VG.
£10
164 The Boston Eagle 1. Eds. William Corbett, Lee
Harwood, & Lewis Warsh. Boston, April 1973.
Also titled The Boston Eagle (at home). 4to. Stabstapled. Unpaginated (102pp. printed rectos
only). Cover by Judith Walker. Contributions
by Harwood, Corbett, John Wieners, & Warsh.
The first of 3 issues. This copy has been signed
by Harwood. Back cover missing, o/w VG, w/
front cover sl. foxed at edges. Staples not all
penetrating fully but secure.
£10
165 BRODEY, Jim. Blues of the Egyptian Kings (1962–
1975). Bolinas: Big Sky, 1975. 1st. 1/974 copies
(of 1000). 8vo. Wraps. 136pp. Cover by Greg
Irons. ‘When will the wisdom & the weirdness change partners & join in the big advance
brain dance?’ VG in rubbed, sl. soiled wraps.
£14
166 (BURROUGHS, William S.) PENNINGTON,
Jim. 4 items concerning Burroughs in the UK
in 1960, w/ a focus on Melville Hardiment.
(1) The Lost Interview: Interzone Extra. Np [London]: aloes books, November 2014. 1st. 1/50
copies, although this copy is numbered 52.
12mo. Stapled wraps. 28pp. Produced for the
European Beat Studies Network conference
in Tangier, 2014. Consists of an interview w/
Burroughs by Clancy Sigal & Patrick Bowles,
Bayswater, November 1960, & a transcript of
a Burroughs tape played immediately prior
to the interview. (2) Melville Hardiment, William Seward Burroughs. Np [London]: aloes
books, November 2014. 1st. Number 52 of
an unspecified number of copies. A bulletin
from the EBSN in Tangier. Foolscap. Stabstapled at top edge. 12pp. + sm. one-sided
prefatory sheet & 3 image strips stapled in.
(3) Catalogue for ‘A Man Called Burroughs:
Photographs by Harriet Crowder’, an exhibition at The Function Room, London, 5–20
February 2015. Ed. Anthony Auerbach. Exhibition arranged by Pennington & Auerbach.
£18
Np: Aloes Books, 2015. 1st. 4to. Stapled wraps.
20pp. Texts by Oliver Harris & Pennington,
who has signed this copy. (4) ››››››››november
1960, london w2, ››››››nova express work-in-progress routines››››››››››››››. London: Aloes Books,
2015. 1st. Sm. narrow folio. Stab-stapled at
top edge. Unpaginated (6pp.). From The Lost
Interview, & printed as an extract for Louise
Ashcroft’s Burrow performance in The Function Room. Hardiment was enlisted to make
a radio programme about drug addiction in
England & another programme about expatriate writers in Paris. Through this work
he became a friend of Burroughs for a year or
so. He arranged the interview w/ Bowles, editor of the Paris Review, & Sigal, a Pulitzer Prize
winner; wrote an essay about Burroughs & the
Paris scene; & when the 2 men were on a trip
w/ Harriet Crowder, she took a photograph
of Burroughs which would resurface on the
cover of the LP Call Me Burroughs. These items,
formed & published by Pennington, constitute the story. Fine.
167 The Café Review vol. 4. Eds. Steve Luttrell &
Wayne Atherton. Portland, Summer 1993. 8vo.
Wraps. 60pp. Contributors inc. William Bronk,
Michael Brownstein, Charles Bukowski, Judson Crews, Larry Eigner, & Ron Padgett. VG+.
£8
168 Candy 1–2. Ed. J. Friedrich. Chicago, nd [1993].
4to. Issue 1 w/ plastic comb binding. Title apparently painted onto card cover using stencils.
Issue 2 stapled wraps. 46pp. & 40pp. Lively
mag of found, purloined, & collaged images &
texts w/ Xerox feel, relating primarily to sexual themes. Contributors inc. Georges Bataille,
Hans Bellmer, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Joseph Beuys, J. G.
Ballard, Media Whore, PantherSahib, Subma,
David Breed, & Slashtopher J. The Ballard ‘contribution’ consists of photocopied pages from
Crash; although these are said to continue in
Candy 3, it is unclear whether or not that issue materialised. OCLC locates 1 copy of issue
1 (which apparently was accompanied by a
lollipop, not present here), & no copies of issue 2. Issue 1 w/ a sm. cut in the lower corner,
probably in production, o/w nr fine. Issue 2 sl.
sunned at spine & head edge, sl. soiled, o/w nr
fine.
£75
169 Caterpillar 8/9. Ed. Clayton Eshleman. NY,
1969. 12mo. Wraps. 256pp. Covers by Jess.
Contributors inc. Paul Celan, Gerrit Lansing,
David Meltzer, Carolee Schneeman, Charles
Bukowski, Joanne Kyger, Richard Grossinger,
Frank Samperi, Rochelle Owens, Diane Wakoski, Nancy Spero, Cid Corman, Kenneth Irby,
Robert Kelly, Jerome Rothenberg, Larry Eigner,
Ron Silliman, Janine Pommy-Vega, Michael
McClure, Jack Hirschman, & Robert Duncan.
‘A Gathering of the Tribes’. Eshleman has said:
‘I saw a poetry magazine as a granary of sorts,
where writing could be stored until it was to be
consumed or consummated in a book, a midpoint between its inception and its ultimate
form.’ The mag’s title comes from William
Blake: ‘The Caterpillar on the Leaf / Repeats to
thee thy Mother’s grief.’ A G sl. rolled copy in
spotted wraps.
£9
170
Caterpillar 10. Ed. Clayton Eshleman. NY, 1969.
12mo. Wraps. 256pp. Covers by Robert LaVi-
£8
gne. Contributors inc. Ed Dorn, Robert Kelly,
Ted Enslin, Jack Hirschman, Denise Levertov,
Kenneth Irby, Joseph Kurhajec, Diane Wakoski,
Gerrit Lansing, Paul Blackburn, Cid Corman,
George Economou, David Antin, Gary Snyder,
& Richard Grossinger. Also Kelly on Olson. G in
worn wraps, w/ chip to spine head.
171
172 173 The Coldspring Journal 6. Eds. Charles Plymell,
Pamela Beach Plymell, & Joshua Norton. NY:
Cherry Valley Editions, March–April 1975.
4to. Stapled wraps. Unpaginated (96pp.).
Cover photo of Neal Cassady. Contributors
inc. Claude Pélieu, Bockris-Wylie (interview
w/ Pélieu & Mary Beach), Barry Miles, Carl
Weissner, James Grauerholz, John Giorno, Jack
Hirschman, Charles Plymell, & Aram Saroyan.
Prints Walt Whitman, ‘Poets To Come’, on the
lower wrap. VG.
£12
CORBETT, Bill. Spoken in Sleep. New Hampshire: United Artists, 1980. 1st. 1/400 copies.
4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (40pp.). Cover
by Trevor Winkfield. Dedicated to Kenward
Elmslie. VG w/ v. faint vertical creasing &
mild spotting & toning. This copy has been
inscribed to ‘Lee [Harwood] + Jud’ & signed
(‘Bill’) w/ a short note. Corbett & Harwood
were co-editors on The Boston Eagle.
£30
CORBETT, William. November. Surrey: Tony
Baker/FIGlet, 1982. 1st. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (16pp. printed rectos only). The fifth
FIGlet of 1982; these took the place of Baker’s
Figs magazine at the time. Abt VG w/ some
crumpling/creasing.
£12
179 Diana’s Bimonthly présente Le Chapeau Mécanique
carte du jour. ‘Hadited’ by Tom Ahern. ‘Prévoyance’, 1974. Cover by ‘ChrisIrion’. Oblong 4to.
Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (32pp. printed rectos only). Contributors inc. William Bronk, Lyn
Lifshin, & Opal L. Nations. Reproduces text &
images in facsimile holograph. It is unclear
whether this is an issue of the magazine or a
separate publication. VG in sl. toned covers.
£13
180 DiPalma, Ray. All Bowed Down. Providence:
Burning Deck, 1972. 1st. 1/250 numbered
copies. 8vo. Stapled wraps in dj. Unpaginated
(24pp.). Printed rectos only. Time, the city, the
farm. Fine in VG+ dj w/ back cover sl. faded.
£15
181 DiPalma, Raymond, Borgia Circles. Northampton, MA: Sand Project Press, 1972. 1st. 4to.
Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (24pp. printed rectos only). Cover by George Schneeman. Toning
to covers & back cover sl. chipped.
£14
182 DiPalma, Ray. Max: A Sequel. Providence: Burning Deck, 1974. 1/300 numbered copies. 8vo.
Stapled wraps in dj. Unpaginated (28pp.). ‘All
of what goes unsaid’. Nr fine in VG+ dj w/ sl.
fading.
£15
183 DiPalma, Ray. Metropolitan Corridor (40 Poems).
La Laguna: Zasterle Press, 1992. 1st. 1/300
numbered copies. 8vo. French wraps. 48pp. Nr
fine.
£10
DISCH, Thomas M. ‘Camp Concentration’. In
New Worlds vol. 51 nos. 173–176. Ed. Michael
Moorcock. London, July–October 1967. 4to.
Stapled wraps. All 64pp. Other contributors
inc. J. G. Ballard (‘The Death Module’ & ‘HOMAGE TO CLAIRE CHURCHILL’), John T. Sladek,
Dr. Christopher Evans, P. A. Zoline (her first
story, ‘The Heat Death of the Universe’), Roger
Zelazny, the first stories of James Sallis & Gene
Wolfe, Brian W. Aldiss, Christopher Finch,
Eduardo Paolozzi, Charles Platt, & Langdon
Jones. Writing about New Worlds in retrospect,
Moorcock explained that issue 173 was the
first of the large-format issues (& ‘the first
English-language magazine to publish the
graphic work of M.C. Escher). Yet by issue 177
‘it seemed yet again that New Worlds was to fold’,
until Stonehart Publications began to publish
the magazine. A subsequent argument between Stonehart & the distributor, apparently
around the time of issue 185, caused the latter
to pulp the back numbers. Then in 1979 Platt
removed most of the remaining stock of back
issues to his flat, which subsequently burnt
down. For these reasons, the large-format issues of New Worlds are relatively uncommon.
Moorcock reflected on the period: ‘One of the
few things which consoles me is that Tom
Disch, after delivering the last episode of Camp
Concentration said, “I wouldn’t have made it as
good if I hadn’t known it was going to appear
in New Worlds.”’ Its serialisation here preceded
the UK book publication by 1 year, & the US
book publication by 2 years. VG in sl. rubbed
& creased wraps, w/ issue 176 a little faded towards the spine.
£100
DORN, Edward & BROTHERSTON, Gordon. Our Word: Guerrilla poems from Latin
£14
184 ‡
174 175 176 177 178
CREELEY, Robert. Readings. May 1982. Durham: Pig Press, 1982. 1st. 4to. Single sheet,
folded once to make 4pp., the inside 2 w/ 3
poems. Cover portrait of Creeley by R. B. Kitaj.
Produced on the occasion of a Colpitts Poetry
Tour around England. Folded horizontally,
o/w VG.
£10
Diana’s Bimonthly vol. 1 no. 2. Ed. Tom Ahern.
Providence: Burning Deck Press, April 1972.
8vo. Stapled wraps. 52pp. ‘Providence Go with
God’. Contributors inc. Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Lee Dejasu, & Edwin Honig.
VG+.
£15
Diana’s Bimonthly vol. 2 no. 3. 1973. 8vo. Stapled
wraps. Unpaginated (28pp.). Dürer’s rhinoceros as cover. Contributors inc. Bruce Andrews
& George Mattingly. VG+.
£12
Diana’s Bimonthly vol. 2 no. 5. Nd. 8vo. Stapled
wraps. Unpaginated (48pp.). Cover text by
Chris Irion (‘it should be clear: nothing’) &
mounted image by Walt Odets. Contributors
inc. Rochelle Owens, George Tysh, Christopher
Middleton, Lynne Savitt, & Alan P. Davies. VG+.
£12
Diana’s Bimonthly vol. 2 no. 6. Guest eds. Keith
& Rosmarie Waldrop. Nd. 8vo. Stapled wraps.
46pp. This copy numbered 87 (of unspecified
total). Cover asks ‘Whatever happened to Milton Cohen?’ Contributors inc. Robert Ashley,
Once Group, Joe Wehrer, Anne Wehrer, Gordon Mumma, & George Manupelli. VG.
£12
185
America / Palabra de guerrillero: Poesia guerrillera
de Latinoamerica. London: Cape Goliard, 1968.
1st, wraps issue. Sm. 4to. Unpaginated (64pp.).
Also included is a prospectus for Cape Goliard
Press advertising this title &, amongst others,
books by Charles Olson & Michael McClure.
It calls Our Word: ‘The first published collection in English translation of poetry written
by the men and women of Latin America who
have committed their bodies and spirits to the
liberation of their countries by revolutionary means.’ Inc. ‘Che’ Guevara as well as lesser
known, even anonymous figures. G to VG.
186 EHRENBERG, Felipe. Pussywillow: A journal of
conditions. Devon: Beau Geste Press, 1973. 1st.
8vo. Wraps. Unpaginated (64pp.). ‘This being a
spur of the moment greatly lengthened and an
attempted retrospection in the form of a diary’,
by Mexican artist who, w/ David Mayor, Chris
Welch, & Martha Hellion founded Beau Geste
Press (England, 1971–1974) to print work
closely tied to the Fluxus movement. This title
claims to have been printed on waste wrapping paper, bound in used corrugated cardboard, & printed by Ehrenberg on an offset
machine called Ophelia. Text & images, many
found & manipulated, often sexual. 1 p. w/
torn image tipped in, w/ heart stamp. Abt VG,
w/ some spots & wear to wraps, & a couple of
sm. splashes.
£35
187
EIGNER, Larry. another time in fragments. London: Fulcrum Press, 1967. 1st, regular issue.
8vo. Black boards w/ gilt titling to spine. Unpaginated (128pp.). Cover by Patrick Caulfield.
Robert Duncan writes: ‘Eigner, “against the
abyss” which he knows as a spastic, has over
the last fifteen years raised the very body of a
world whose reality we sought in poetry’. VG
in somewhat worn dj.
£18
188
EIGNER, Larry. Valleys branches. London: Big Venus, 1969. 1st. 8vo. Stapled wraps, w/ mounted
label. 26pp. Published by Nick Kimberley, who
worked in Compendium; the book was distributed in the US by Asphodel Bookshop in Cleveland. Score to front cover, faint soiling to title
page, o/w VG. Label a little loose but secure.
£10
ELMSLIE, Kenward. Communications Equipment.
Providence: Burning Deck, 1979. 1st. 1/500
copies (of 526). 8vo. Stapled wraps in dj. Unpaginated (20pp.). Loosely inserted flyer for
the book. A six-poem nocturne of ‘changes
rung by dreams recalled, travel input (a winter
trip to the Mother Lode in The Sierras), and
various media onslaughts on the poet’s sensibilities, rooted in the wilds of Vermont’. Fine
in wraps, in VG sl. toned dj.
£12
ESHLEMAN, Clayton. On Mules Sent From
Chavin: A Journal and Poems (1965–66). Swansea:
Galloping Dog Press, 1977. 1st. 1/700 copies
(of 726). 8vo. Wraps. 72pp. Cover by Caryl Eshleman. VG.
£10
189 190
191
‡
Evergreen Review 1–31. Eds. Barney Rosset
& Donald Allen (1–8), then just Rosset. NY:
Grove Press (1–13) then Evergreen Review,
1957–1963. 8vo. Wraps. 128pp.–256pp. A run
of all the issues in this format; w/ issue 32 Ev-
£300
ergreen Review became a 4to publication before
changing its format twice more in its 97-issue life. Backed by Grove Press, the magazine
was in a position to bring the counterculture
to a large readership. Particularly in its early
issues, it engaged w/ European philosophy
& politics, Anglophone experimentalism, &
issues of censorship, which it steadfastly
challenged. Perhaps most famous is the ‘San
Francisco Scene’ second issue, which foregrounded the SF Beat writers to a wide audience. Amongst the many significant contributors across the run are Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri
Michaux, Samuel Beckett, Henry Miller, Kenneth Rexroth, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac,
Robert Duncan, Michael McClure, Jack Spicer,
Philip Whalen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Carlos Williams, Gregory Corso, Albert
Camus, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Gary Snyder,
Eugène Ionesco, Frank O’Hara, Charles Olson, Alexander Trocchi, Robin Blaser, Paul
Blackburn, Robert Creeley, Antonin Artaud,
Kenneth Koch, Ed Dorn, Denise Levertov,
Roland Barthes, D. T. Suzuki, Franz Kline,
Federico García Lorca, Douglas Woolf, James
Schuyler, Octavio Paz, Maurice Blanchot, Edwin Denby, Terry Southern, John Wieners,
William S. Burroughs, Edward Albee, Bertolt
Brecht, LeRoi Jones, Alfred Jarry, Raymond
Queneau, Boris Vian, René Clair, Jean Dubuffet, Michel Leiris, Marcel Schwob, Jonathan
Williams, Lew Welch, Michael Rumaker,
Brendan Behan, Marcel Proust, Léon-Paul
Fargue, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Anselm Hollo,
Harold Norse, Norman Mailer, Pierre Klossowski, Judson Crews, Joel Oppenheimer, Andrei Voznesensky, Jorge Luis Borges, Shelagh
Delaney, Pauline Réage, & Richard Brautigan.
Also included is a small foldout booklet of
Evergreen Books’ ‘Catalog for Spring 1959:
Books in Print’. Overall VG, w/ wraps of some
issues sl. worn. Sm. transparent tape repair
to spine head of issue 1, issue 12 w/ marginal
vertical sticker ghost to upper wrap. A couple
of spines faded (if not already light-coloured),
& 1 splashed.
192
Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Books & Ideas 40. Ed.
Andrei Codrescu. Illinois: Illinois State University Publications Unit, 1993. Narrow folio.
Stapled wraps. 40pp. Contributors inc. Ed
Sanders, Tom Clark, James Laughlin, & Sinclair Beiles. A striking mag, named after the
surrealist technique for assembling words or
images. ‘I am dying to get the CORPSE’, reads
the subs form. Folded for posting (though not
addressed) & somewhat creased & rubbed as a
result, but VG overall.
£10
193 Gallimaufry 2. Ed. Mary MacArthur. SF, Winter
1973–1974. 4to. Stapled wraps. 48pp. Cover by
Faith Echtermeyer. Contributors inc. Walter
Lowenfels, Lyn Lifshin, Opal L. Nations, & Tom
Ahern. Traditional, experimental, & infundibular work. Many contributors are in print here
for the first time. Abt VG in sl. toned & rubbed
newsprint stock.
£8
194 Giants Play Well in the Drizzle… 16–30. Ed. Martha King. Brooklyn, October 1987–July 1992.
4to. Newsletter format, w/ sheets stapled once
at top left, folded, & sent w/ address label affixed. 6pp.–10pp. Contributors across the run
inc. Paul Green, Bill Berkson, Basil King, John
Tranter, August Kleinzahler, George F. But-
£85
terick, Basil King, Lee Harwood, Al Ackerman,
Paul Metcalf, Robert Creeley, Anselm Hollo,
Bill Corbett, Tony Baker, Gael Turnbull, Theodore Enslin, David Meltzer, Clayton Eshleman,
Judson Crews, Rochelle Owens, Tom Clark,
Fielding Dawson, Michael H. Brownstein, Ian
Robinson, Al Aronowitz, & Carl Rakosi. The 15
issues are addressed to Lee Harwood except for
2 issues, 18 & 29; as his work appears in these
2 issues, they would have been sent to him in
bulk. Furthermore 8 of the issues have handwritten notes to Harwood from the editor. VG,
considering the postage stamps, stickers &
folding. If, as it would seem, GPWITD stopped
at issue 30, this represents half the run.
GROSSINGER, Richard. Book of the Earth &
Sky: Book I. LA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. 1st.
1/1500 copies (of 1726). 8vo. Wraps. 158pp.
Prefatory text by Robert Kelly. Prose, mainly,
of Ptolemaic & Terrestrial astronomies, Holocene man, & Scorpio. VG in sl. soiled wraps w/
1 crease/split.
£10
196 GROSSINGER, Richard. Book of the Earth &
Sky Book II. LA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. 1st.
1/1500 copies (of 1726). 8vo. Wraps. 150pp.
Icarus, crystals, Magi, science fiction. Abt VG in
sl. toned wraps, w/ mild wear & 1 crease/split.
£10
197
GROSSINGER, Richard. Mars: A Science Fiction
Vision. Cape Elizabeth: Io Books, 1971. Io Books
9. 1st. 8vo. Wraps. 224pp. Cover by Bill Bemis.
Psychospiritual exploration. Grossinger edited Io magazine w/ Lindy Hough. VG w/ sl.
scuffed spine.
£10
195 GROSSINGER, Richard. Sections from Book of the
Cranberry Islands. Np [London]: Big Venus, nd
[1971]. 1st. 8vo. Stapled wraps. 52pp. VG.
£12
199 A Hundred Posters 16. Ed. Alan Davies. Boulder:
Other Publications, April 1977. 4to. Newsletter format, w/ sheets stapled once at top left.
Unpaginated (14pp.). Contributions by Paul
Auster, Tim Reynolds, Janine Pommy Vega,
Ray DiPalma, & Arthur Winfield Knight. The
mag ran for 38 issues from 1976 to 1979. VG,
faintly folded twice for mailing. No recipient
address.
£10
201 A Hundred Posters 24. December 1977. 4to.
Newsletter format, w/ sheets stapled once at
top left. Unpaginated (12pp.). Contributions
by Bob Perelman & Mary Lane. VG, faintly
folded twice for mailing. No recipient address.
£8
203 A Hundred Posters 26. February 1978. 4to. Newsletter format, w/ sheets stapled once at top left.
Unpaginated (12pp.). Prints 1 work, ‘Three or
Four Things I Know About Him’ by Charles
Bernstein. Abt VG, faintly folded twice for
mailing. No recipient address.
£9
204 A Hundred Posters 27. March 1978. 4to. Newsletter format, w/ sheets stapled once at top left.
Unpaginated (12pp.). Prints 1 work, ‘This Great
and Wide Sea’ by Lewis Warsh. Abt VG, faintly
folded twice for mailing. No recipient address.
£9
205
Invisible City 15. Eds. John McBride & Paul Vangelisti. Fairfax, CA: The Red Hill Press, February 1975. Folio. Newspaper format. 24pp.
Covers by Lewis W. Hine group & Robert
Gumpert. Contributors inc. Franco Fortini,
Jack Hirschman, Mohammed Dib, Walter Benjamin, Pablo Neruda, Pier Paolo Pasolini, William Mohr, Rainer Maria Rilke, & Fred Tarr.
‘An Issue-and-a-Half’. Collects poetry, translations, reviews & statements. Folded horizontally & toned at front cover fold, o/w VG.
£13
Invisible City 16/17. June 1975. Folio. Newspaper format. 40pp. Covers by Giuliano Della
Casa & Robert Gumpert. Contributors inc.
Rocco Scotellaro, Leslie Scalapino, Federico
García Lorca, Alain Bosquet, Harold Norse,
Louis Aragon, & Pablo Neruda. ‘A More Than
Double Issue Featuring Several Long Poems’.
W/ the loosely inserted foldout supplement,
‘ONES: A Sample / The Red Hill Press’. Folded
horizontally, w/ toning & wear at front cover
fold. Back cover sl. foxed & creased. O/w VG.
£15
206 198 200 202 £8
A Hundred Posters 23. Boston: Other Publications, November 1977. 4to. Newsletter format,
w/ sheets stapled once at top left. Unpaginated
(14pp.). Contributions by Allen Ginsberg, Bill
Corbett, Arthur Winfield Knight, Paul Green,
Stuart Mills, Rebecca Wright, & Michael Andre.
A note from Davies states that the mag started
w/ 100 readers but by this issue had over 300.
VG, faintly folded twice for mailing. No recipient address.
£10
£20
Island 10. Ed. John Marshall. British Columbia, Fall 1981. 8vo. Wraps. 104pp. Cover reproduces an excerpt from Robin Blaser’s diary.
Contributors inc. Blaser, bpNichol, Barbara
Einzig, Fred Wah, Lionel Kearns, John Newlove, Anselm Hollo, Ralph Hawkins, & Glenda
George. VG in sl. rubbed wraps.
£8
The Judson Review 1. Eds. Al Carmines & Don
Katzman. NY, May 1963. 8vo. Wraps. 76pp.
Contributors inc. Anselm Hollo, Jackson Mac
Low, Denise Levertov, Diane Wakoski, Joel Oppenheimer, Howard Moody, John Keys, & Carol
Bergé. Ted Enslin & Paul Blackburn were the
mag’s poetry editors. G.
£8
(KEROUAC, Jack.) For Jack Kerouac: poems on his
death. Ed. Peter Finch. Cardiff: Second Aeon
Publications, nd [1970]. 1st. Narrow 8vo. Stapled wraps. 24pp. Contributors inc. George
Dowden, Bob Cobbing, William Wantling, Iain
Sinclair (an early appearance), Kris Hemensley,
& Jeff Cloves. Also prints work by Kerouac, who
died on October 20th, 1969. VG.
£28
214 KOLLER, James. California Poems. LA: Black
Sparrow Press, 1971. 1st. 1/800 copies (of 1026).
8vo. Wraps. 60pp. Nr fine.
£11
215 KOLLER, James. Shannon Who Was Lost Before.
Staffordshire & North Fitzroy, Victoria: published as Grosseteste Review vol. 7 no. 4 & as an
issue of The Ear In A Wheatfield, 1974. 1st. 8vo.
Wraps w/ dj. 88pp. Nr fine in dj w/ 1 pock.
£8
KUPERFBERG, Tuli. Fuck Nam: a morality play.
£40
211
208 209 Invisible City 21/22. November 1977. Folio.
Newspaper format. 40pp. Covers by Giulia
Niccolai & Paul Eluard (adapted by Alastair
Johnston). Contributors inc. Mohammed Dib,
Franco Fortini, Tristan Tzara, Catullus, Vicente Aleixandre, Adriano Spatola, Antonio
Porta, Vicente Huidobro, Kenneth Rexroth
(interview & ‘The Silver Swan’), Charles Baudelaire, & Walter Benjamin. Also a composite
piece entitled ‘MAPS: for Charles Olson et seq.’
A translation special. Folded horizontally &
toned at front cover fold, o/w VG.
£14
Invisible City 26/27. August 1980. Folio. Newspaper format. 32pp. Covers by Vangelisti & Julien
Blaine. Contributors inc. Ray DiPalma, Gilbert
Sorrentino, Tom Ahern, Charles Bernstein,
Larry Eigner, Robert Crosson, & Adriano Spatola. Also a long section on ‘oggi poesia domani’,
relating to a show near Rome which had a large
exhibit of visual works; the section includes
Henri Chopin & ‘Some leads for England’ such
as Paul Buck, Bob Cobbing, & Spanner. Folded
horizontally & toned at front cover fold, o/w VG.
£14
IS 9. Ed. Victor Coleman. Toronto: The Coach
House Press, Fall 1970. 1/300 copies. 4to. Stapled wraps. Unpaginated (48pp.). Striking for-
£12
NY: Birth Press, 1967. 1st. 4to. Stab-stapled.
36pp. Cover by Richard Pipes. Interspersed w/
reproductions of newspaper cuttings. The play
appeared in the same year in Cuddon’s Cosmopolitan Review; this edition is from Kupferberg’s
own press. VG+.
IS 12/13. Eds. Victor Coleman & George Bowering. Winter 1973. 4to. Wraps. Unpaginated
(208pp.). Cover by Slim Flowers. West Coast
double issue, w/ the 2 numbers tête-bêche.
Contributors to no. 12, West Coast Writing,
are Bowering, Judith Copithorne, David Cull,
Brian Fawcett, Carole Fisher, Dwight Gardiner, Gerry Gilbert, Phil Harmonic, Hank
Greenhow, Robert Hogg, Lionel Kearns, Susan Landell, Barry McKinnon, Norman Poole,
Fred Wah, & a collaboration between Vic D’Or,
Robert Fones, Phil Harmonic, & A. C. McWhortle. No. 13, West Coast Art, does not give a
contributor list (unless a preliminary page is
missing, although the lack of a contents list
seems in keeping w/ the art). Artists & subjects
inc. a Dead Letter Office project by Art Rat, ‘Banal Beauty’ images by Dr. Brute, The Little Hot
Stove League meetings at The New Era Social
Club, the Fanzine of the John Dowd Fanny
Club, ‘Eat a Banana’, & image bank archives
including Mr. Peanut. The unifying principle
seems to be Intermedia; there is also reference
to General Idea & FILE. VG, w/ some spotting/
toning to wraps & spine ends sl. nicked.
210
212 207 A Hundred Posters 18. June 1977. 4to. Newsletter
format, w/ sheets stapled once at top left. Unpaginated (14pp.). Contributions by Anthony
Barnett, Christopher Dewdney, Ted Greenwald,
Terence Winch, Michael Davidson, Charles
Bernstein, Dave Morice, Rae Armantrout, &
Albert Glover. Faintly folded twice for mailing.
No recipient address. Sl. soiled & rubbed last
sheet loose but present.
mat, w/ a half-size p. between each full-size p.
Cover & ills. by Michael Tims. Contributions
by David Federman, Ron Caplan, Stephen
Rodefer, J. D. Whitney, bpNichol, David Bromige, Gary Geddes, Tims, Raymond DiPalma,
Peter Huse, Gerry Gilbert, David Cull, David
Rosenberg, & Coleman. VG. Sl. toning to wraps
towards spine.
213 216 217 The Magazine of Further Studies 5. No editor given.
Np [Buffalo]: np [Institute of Further Studies],
nd [1968]. 4to. Stab-stapled corrugated wraps,
w/ mounted printed label. Unpaginated (64pp.
mostly printed rectos only). Contributions by
Robin Blaser, Ron Caplan, Fred Wah, Drummond Hadley, John Wieners, John Clarke,
George Butterick, Peter Riley, Otto Rank, Albert Glover, Ed Sanders, & Charles Olson. Begins w/ a quotation from H.D.: ‘till they drop
from the highest point of the spiral or fall from
the innermost centre of the ever-narrowing
circle’. VG. An intriguing, fragile production.
£25
218 The Magazine of Further Studies 6. No editor given.
Np [Buffalo]: np [Institute of Further Studies],
nd [1969]. 4to. Stab-stapled corrugated wraps,
w/ rope passing through the upper wrap & out
between the penultimate & final pp. Unpaginated (74pp. printed rectos only). Loosely inserted piece of envelope w/ Buffalo address of
‘I.F.S.’ (presumably the publisher). Contributors inc. Charles Olson, Mary Leary, George F.
Butterick, Fred Wah, John Clarke, John Temple, Ed Sanders, Robert Creeley, Duncan McNaughton, Albert Glover, & Robert Duncan. ‘A
fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time’
(D. H. Lawrence). VG. Title p. foxed.
£25
219 MAGINI, Roger. Between Crows and Indians.
Trans. Marc Plourde. Toronto: Coach House
Quebec Translations, 1976. 1st thus (originally
published in Quebec in 1972). 1/1000 copies.
Narrow 8vo. French wraps. 80pp. A ‘textual
embodiment of literary and political discontent in Quebec’, by author relocated from
Monaco. Sl. rubbed VG. Sticker on blank ep w/
handwritten publication details.
£10
220 ManRoot 9. Eds. Paul Mariah & Richard Tagett.
SF, Fall 1973. 1/1000 copies. 8vo. Wraps. 120pp.
Contributors inc. Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Victor Coleman, Kirby Congdon,
& Robert Duncan. Homosexual theme. Sunning to spine & lower wrap in bands, o/w VG.
£7
221 MCCAFFERY, Steve & bpNichol (eds.). Sound
Poetry: A Catalogue for the Eleventh International
Sound Poetry Festival, Toronto, Canada, October
14 to 21, 1978. Toronto: Underwhich Editions,
1978. 1/1500 copies. 8vo. Wraps. 112pp. Printed at The Coach House Press. Contains a survey
of sound poetry, a short history of the festival,
a discography, & biographies. Contributors
inc. Bob Cobbing, Jackson Mac Low, Bernard
Heidsieck, Henri Chopin, Jerome Rothenberg,
Lawrence Upton, Dick Higgins, Sean O’Huigin,
Cris Cheek, P.C. Fencott, & Bill Griffiths. VG in
sl. rubbed wraps, w/ historic corner crease to
front cover.
£14
222 METCALF, Paul. Genoa: A Telling of Wonders.
1965; this edn North Carolina: The Jargon
Society, 1973. Jargon 43. 8vo. Wraps. 190pp.
Iconography by Jonathan Williams. History
£8
& genealogy, or ‘genoalogy’. Charles Olson: ‘It’s
almost somatology, & will, literary will, doing
the work of the imagination.’ VG.
223 224 225
226 METCALF, Paul. The Middle Passage (A Triptych of
Commodities). North Carolina: The Jargon Society, 1976. Jargon 78. 1st. 8vo. Wraps w/ dj. Unpaginated (64pp.). Designed by Jonathan Williams. ‘Paul Metcalf has a metronome inside
himself, somewhere in those ever-present but
rarely approached places that enfold the guts
of The Body America.’ VG in abt VG dj w/ toned
band & spine.
£10
METCALF, Paul. Patagoni. North Carolina: The
Jargon Society, 1971. Jargon 58. 1st. Sm. 4to.
Yellow cloth w/ black corn design & red titling
to spine. 140pp. Designed by Jonathan Williams. ‘Melville’s heir in the Berkshires puts a
curious new mix in the beanpot: the Detroit of
Henry Ford; Peru, from Tihuanacu to a recent
travel journal; and the speed races at Darlington, South Carolina.’ Metcalf was Melville’s
great-grandson. VG in dj w/ rippled laminate
& sl. discolouration.
£18
Montemora 1–8 (all published). Eds. Eliot
Weinberger & (issues 1–2) Geoffrey O’Brien.
NY: The Montemora Foundation, 1975–1981.
8vo. Wraps. 128pp.–304pp. Contributors
across the run inc. Charles Reznikoff, Allen
Fisher, Cid Corman, Carl Rakosi, Mary Oppen, George Oppen, Amiri Baraka, Basil Bunting, Gael Turnbull, Clayton Eshleman, William Bronk, Roy Fisher, Iain Sinclair, Jerome
Rothenberg, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Rosmarie
Waldrop, Lee Harwood, Octavio Paz, Edmond
Jabès, Theodore Enslin, & Robert Duncan.
Loosely inserted note in issue 7 about the issue’s margins, erratum slip in issue 6, & in
issue 1 a handwritten note to Lee (Harwood),
signed ‘Roger’ (Guedalla, a contributing editor based in London) hoping that they might
publish him (which they did). Issue 5 has a
brief pencilled note by Harwood, ‘received 7
June 1979’, & issue 3 has a loose sheet w/ some
brief notes by him. A substantial series. Issue
2 begins w/ a short obituary of Reznikoff; the
final issue prints excerpts from H.D. & from
Duncan’s The H.D. Book, as well as Mina Loy,
Ezra Pound, & Louis Zukofsky. Issue 6 contains Aimé Césaire’s Notebook of a Return to the
Native Land. A VG set, w/ the occasional spot,
mild wear & a couple of sm. chips to wraps, &
possible fading to a few spines.
£100
Nadada 2. Ed. Timothy Baum. NY, October
1965. 4to. Stapled wraps. 76pp. ‘Including First
Nadada Retrospective: “Tristan Tzara, The
Dada Years”’. Cover portrait of Tzara by Stacey
Baum. Contributions by Jean (Hans) Arp, John
Perreault, Joseph Ceravolo, Ron Padgett, David
Omer Bearden, Robert Cordier, Diane di Prima,
Baum, Ray Johnson, Harold Norse, Gerard
Malanga, Daniel Cassidy, Jr., R. Hilton, Sotère
Torregian, Ted Berrigan, Kenward Elmslie,
Piero Heliczer, René Magritte, Michael Findlay, Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Henri
Ford, George Dickerson, Richard Striker, Arthur Cravan, H. Rousseau, Philippe Soupault,
Tzara, George Reavey, & Aram Saroyan. VG in
sl. rubbed wraps. The final issue, engaging the
second-generation New York School w/ transatlantic influences.
£40
227 NERUDA, Pablo. We Are Many. Trans. Alastair
Reid. London: Cape Goliard Press, 1967. 1st.
1/1400 copies (of 1500). 8vo. Die-cut wraps by
Jim Dine, w/ tissue dj. Unpaginated (32pp.).
Photographs by Hans Ehrmann. Parallel text.
VG.
£14
228
bpNichol. Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan
Dancer. 1967; 2nd edn London: Writers Forum, 1969. Writers Forum Quartos Number
Three. Sm. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated
(34pp.). Concrete poetry, subsequently issued
in Canada by Weed Flower Press (1973) & later
by Coach House Books (2004). VG.
£14
read from The Maximus Poems & The Distances,
lectured on Herman Melville, & sparked lively
debates ‘on the nature of myth, history, etymology, narrative, knowledge, and sexuality’.
Nr fine w/ a couple of dog-ears.
237 229 OLSON, Charles. Added to / making a Republic.
Np [Buffalo]: np [Institute of Further Studies],
1968. 8vo broadside. ‘Reading about my world’.
Faint historic fold, o/w VG+ w/ mild edgewear.
Originally issued in an envelope, not present.
£15
230 OLSON, Charles. Additional Prose: A Bibliography
on America, Proprioception, & Other Notes & Essays.
Ed. George F. Butterick. Bolinas: Four Seasons
Foundation, 1974. 1st, wraps issue. 8vo. 112pp.
Number 31 in the Writing Series, ed. Donald
Allen. Abt VG in rubbed wraps.
£12
231
OLSON, Charles. Archaeologist of Morning. London: Cape Goliard Press, 1970. 1st. 4to. Yellow
cloth w/ metallic blue titling to spine. Unpaginated (248pp.). Cover image of a Lingsberg
runestone. Collects for the first time all the
poems Olson authorised for publication in
his lifetime, from 1946 to January 1970, apart
from the Maximus sequence. Front ep creased
o/w nr fine in VG dj, w/ a couple of pocks &
closed splits.
£25
OLSON, Charles. A Bibliography on America for Ed
Dorn. SF: Four Seasons Foundation, 1964. 1st.
8vo. Stapled wraps. 16pp. Writing 1. Abt fine.
£16
OLSON, Charles. Call Me Ishmael. NY: Reynal &
Hitchcock, 1947. 1st. 8vo. Yellow cloth w/ black
titling to spine. 120pp. ‘Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick”, and America: Space… Myth… Shakespeare…’. ‘Charles Olson has devoted thirteen
years to the study of Melville – his is a work
of understanding and of a well-nigh religious
devotion.’ VG in dj. Although a little rubbed &
chipped, w/ mild fading to the spine, an excellent example of the extremely fragile dj.
£200
234 OLSON, Charles. Causal Mythology. SF: Four
Seasons Foundation, 1969. 1st, wraps issue.
8vo. 40pp. Writing 16. A lecture delivered to
the University of California Poetry Conference,
July 20, 1965, at Berkeley. Nr fine.
£12
235 OLSON, Charles. Causal Mythology. 1st, hb issue.
Brown cloth w/ black titling to spine. No dj, as
issued. Abt fine w/ sm. bump to lower board.
£20
236 OLSON, Charles. Charles Olson at Goddard College, April 12–14, 1962. Foreword by Basil King.
Ed. Kyle Schlesinger. Np: Cuneiform Press,
2011. 1st. Sm. 4to. Wraps. xviii, 94pp. At an
experimental college in rural Vermont, Olson
£16
232 233 OLSON, Charles. Charles Olson Reading at Berkeley. As transcribed by Zoe Brown. Np: Coyote,
1966. 1st. Sm. 4to. Stapled wraps. 60pp. Erratum slip present. Photos by Jim Hatch. From
the Berkeley Poetry Conference on July 23,
1965, in Wheeler Hall at the University of California. Readings & conversation, inc. w/ Allen
Ginsberg, Lew Welch, & Robert Duncan. VG.
£18
238 OLSON, Charles. D.H. Lawrence, & the High Temptation of the Mind. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow
Press, 1980. 1st. Of an edition of 176 numbered
copies handbound in pictorial boards, this is
copy O of 26 lettered copies. 8vo. Unpaginated
(16pp.). 5pp. essay originally printed in the
Chicago Review, published here as a New Year’s
Greeting for friends of the press. A short note
by George Butterick explains that the text, unpublished during Olson’s lifetime, survives as
a typescript dated 21–22 January 1950, ‘before
Olson had acquired, through some good luck,
a collection of Lawrence’s first editions and a
watercolor by Lawrence, of a man urinating on
daffodils, one of Olson’s prize possessions’. Sl.
rolled nr fine in unprinted dj, as issued.
£50
239 OLSON, Charles. The Horses of the Sea. Issued
as Sparrow 43. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow
Press, April 1976. 1st. 8vo. Stapled wraps. Unpaginated (16pp.). A poem found in a notepad
from March 1963, ‘the first of four such poems
of mythological or cosmological significance
in that notepad, culminating in the poem
published as “[MAXIMUS, FROM DOGTOWN
– IV]” in Maximus IV, V, VI’. Nr fine.
£13
240 OLSON, Charles. Human Universe and other essays. Ed. Donald Allen. SF: The Auerhahn Society, 1965. 1st. 1/250 copies. 4to. Pictorial papercovered boards w/ vellum spine lettered in gilt.
160pp. Cover by Robert LaVigne. Author photo
by Kenneth Irby. Collects 25 essays & pieces of
criticism, inc. ‘Human Universe’, ‘Projective
Verse’, & ‘Against Wisdom as Such’. A beautiful
production, printed by Andrew Hoyem. VG+
w/ mild wear, a few tiny holes, & usual browning to spine. Without the plain dj (which often
affects the boards).
£200
OLSON, Charles. Human Universe and other Essays. Ed. Donald Allen. NY: Grove Press, 1967.
1st thus. 8vo. Blue cloth w/ silver titling to
spine. 160pp. VG, w/ ownership stamp, in
clipped dj.
£25
242 OLSON, Charles. Maximus, from Dogtown – I.
SF: The Auerhahn Press, 1961. 1st. 1/500 copies. 4to. Stitched wraps. Unpaginated (16pp.).
Foreword by Michael McClure. Printed letterpress & handbound by Andrew Hoyem & Dave
Haselwood. ‘There must have been some fear…’.
VG in sl. bumped & marked wraps, w/ fading to
the front cover.
£50
243 OLSON, Charles. The Maximus Poems. NY: Jar-
£15
241 gon/Corinth, 1960. 8vo. Wraps. 162pp. Jargon
24. Designed & edited by Jonathan Williams.
Collects Maximus Letters 1–10 (Maximus I) &
11–22 (Maximus II) published in Stuttgart in
1953 & 1956 respectively, along w/ other Maximus Letters (from Maximus III) collected and/
or published for the first time. There is some
confusion over the printings of this publication, but this is probably the 2nd printing.
(The first printing had ‘$1.95’ below the title
on the cover.) Price worn away at upper corner.
Brief pen markings & faint stamp to ep, 2 sm.
stains to fore edge, o/w VG.
244 OLSON, Charles. The Maximus Poems. Np: Jargon/Corinth, nd. Designed & printed by Cape
Goliard Press in London, this book is often
identified as the 1st edition, but it is actually
an American issue c. 1970 of the Cape Goliard
sheets for their reissue of Maximus I, II, III (August 1970), done when Maximus IV, V, VI came
out. 4to. Yellow cloth w/ metallic blue titling to
spine. Unpaginated (168pp.). Prints in blue the
glyph (which is black in the item above) representing Olson’s ‘Figure of Outward’, ‘striding
forth from the domain of the infinitely small’,
also ‘a written character for Maximus himself
– the Man in the Word’. ‘It is (really, like they
say) the enlargement of a sliver of perforated
tin ceiling found on the floor of a bar room in a
ghost town in Arizona.’ Nr fine in dj.
£50
245 ‡
OLSON, Charles. The Maximus Poems / 11–22.
Stuttgart: Jonathan Williams, 1956. 1st. 1/350
copies. Designed by Williams & published as
Jargon 9. 4to. Stiff wraps w/ affixed dj, as issued. 60pp. Clay & Phillips write of Williams’
Jargon Society, which commenced in 1951,
that it ‘married excellence in the art of book
making with important writing, to become
what critic Hugh Kenner aptly called “the custodian of snowflakes.”’ Sm. chips at spine ends,
& sm. loss to tail corner of lower wrap & head
edge of front flap (neither affecting design).
Flap folds rubbed. A couple of sm. marks &
bumps, some nicks & closed splits, & a crease/
score to the front cover. Still VG & handsome.
£200
246 OLSON, Charles. Maximus to Gloucester. The
Letters and Poems of Charles Olson to the Editor of
the Gloucester Daily Times, 1962–1969. Ed. Peter
Anastas. Foreword by Gerrit Lansing. Gloucester: Ten Pound Island Book Company, 1992.
1st. 8vo. Wraps. 162pp. Letters ‘prophetic of
themes that now more fully impinge upon our
conciousness’ (sic). Fine.
£26
247 OLSON, Charles. Mayan Letters. Np: Divers
Press, 1954. (The title page incorrectly says
1953.) 1st. 8vo. Wraps w/ dj. 92pp. Edited w/ a
preface & published by Robert Creeley, whose
Divers Press operated from 1953–55. Designed
and printed in Palma de Mallorca. Creeley,
who was described as ‘The Figure of Outward’
by Olson, recalled that his first wife’s modest
income kept the press going, ‘and so our choices had to be limited to writers as existentially
defined as ourselves’. This copy has the ownership signature of Ron Loewinsohn, a poet associated w/ the San Francisco Renaissance who
counted Olson amongst his influences. VG in
dj chipped at spine ends & w/ tears along spine
& flap folds, the former internally repaired. 1
rear flap missing, 1 loose. Still an attractive
£100
copy of a v. fragile book.
248 249 250 OLSON, Charles. Muthologos: Lectures and Interviews. Ed. Ralph Maud. British Columbia:
Talonbooks, 2010. Rev. 2nd edn. 8vo. Wraps.
494pp. Press release loosely inserted. ‘What is
said about what is said’. Nr fine w/ mild corner
rubs.
£22
OLSON, Charles. O’Ryan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
SF: White Rabbit Press, 1965. 1st. 1/1000 copies (of 1026). 8vo. Stapled wraps. Unpaginated
(16pp.). Cover by Jess, from the original edition
of O’Ryan 2–4–6–8–10 (1958). VG+.
£18
OLSON, Charles. O’Ryan 1–10. Np: np, nd. 4to.
Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (10pp.). Unknown
piracy, the text mimeographed, possibly dating close to Olson’s death in 1970. Described
on the front cover as ‘free (also priceless)’. Sl.
toned, fore edge a little nicked, o/w VG.
£30
OLSON, Charles. Poet to Publisher: Charles Olson’s Correspondence with Donald Allen. Ed. Ralph
Maud. British Columbia: Talonbooks, 2003.
1st. Sm. 4to. Wraps. 174pp. The shaping & defining of Allen’s significant anthology, The New
American Poetry (1960). Nr fine.
£12
252 OLSON, Charles. The Post Office: A Memoir of His
Father. Intro. by George F. Butterick. Bolinas:
Grey Fox Press, 1975. 1st. 8vo. Wraps. x, 58pp.
Cover shows the infant Olson in his father’s
mailbag. VG, w/ neat ownership stamp.
£9
253 ‡
OLSON, Charles. Projective Verse. NY: Totem
Press, 1959. 1st. 8vo. Stapled wraps. 16pp.
Cover by Matsumi Kanemitsu. The first book
publication of this influential essay, which
originally appeared in 1950. Published here
by LeRoi Jones’ press. Projective or open verse,
& composition by field. Errata slip not present,
o/w v. nr fine in just sl. darkened wraps, as usual. An attractive copy.
£150
OLSON, Charles. The Rose of the World. Np: The
Ferry Press, 1971. 1st. 1/100 numbered copies. Folio broadside, printed in blue on yellow
stock, reproducing Olson’s spiralling manuscript. There was also a postcard in 1980 using the same image. Edgeworn w/ a few short
closed tears & faint corner creases, not affecting design.
£30
OLSON, Charles. ‘West’. London: The Goliard
Press, 1966. 1st. 1/500 copies (of 525). Sm. 4to.
Wraps w/ dj affixed at the spine. Unpaginated (18pp.). Frontis portrait of ‘RED CLOUD
(1822–1909)’ w/ coloured tissue paper backing. ‘I am now convinced there are indeed only
“three” American stories…. I have here a much
larger story than would appear.’ Nr fine.
£30
OLSON, Charles. ‘West’. Poet & critic Donald
Davie’s copy, w/ his ownership signature. VG.
£40
255 256 OLSON, Charles & CAGLI, Corrado. Y & X. Np
[Washington, D.C.?]: Black Sun Press, 1948. 1st.
This copy, numbered 2 but w/ no other limitation details, is 1/100 copies printed on grey
paper & contained in a slipcase, from a total of
500 copies. (The other 400 copies were printed
on white paper & contained in an envelope.)
4to. 2 affixed sheets folded into 12pp., in unprinted slipcase w/ metallic opening. Published by Caresse Crosby. A handsome printing
of poems by Olson interspersed w/ drawings
by Cagli. Abt VG w/ splits to 1 (secure) fold & a
few sm. stains not affecting the text or images.
Sunning & some spots to the fragile slipcase,
which is somewhat edgeworn but secure. The
name ‘CAGLI’ has been written in red on the
spine.
£250
259 OLSON, Charles & DEN BOER, James. Olson/
Den Boer: A Letter. Santa Barbara: Christopher’s
Books, 1979. In association w/ Raccoon Press.
1st. 1/500 copies. 8vo. Stapled wraps. Unpaginated (16pp.). Olson’s response, in 1959, to a
letter from a sophomore in a small Midwestern college. ‘And the writing is speaking; this
letter is talk’. Nr fine, w/ sl. bumped corner.
£12
260 (OLSON, Charles.) Broadside advert for Maximus Poems IV, V, VI by Charles Olson. London:
Cape Goliard Press, 1968. Folio. White stock.
Reproduces in orange the map (Oceanus,
Gondwanaland, Tethys Sea) from the book’s
front cover, & in black text by Olson & a short
text about the publication. ‘I was born December 27th, in the shadow of the death of the sun.’
VG sl. creased & handled copy, w/ a couple of
tiny nicks.
£22
(OLSON, Charles.) BYRD, Don. Charles Olson’s
‘Maximus’. Urbana, Chicago, & London: University of Illinois Press, 1980. 1st. 8vo. Green cloth
w/ black titling to spine. xiv, 204pp. Analysing
the epic & its influences. G, w/ a few pen ticks
& ineffective split to lower joint, in chipped dj
sunned at spine.
£27
258 251 254 261 OLSON, Charles. Wholly absorbed. Np [Buffalo]:
np [Institute of Further Studies], 1968. 8vo
266 267 262 263 £12
(OLSON, Charles.) CHRISTENSEN, Paul.
Charles Olson: Call Him Ishmael. Foreword by
George F. Butterick. Austin & London: University of Texas Press, 1979. 1st. 8vo. Orange/
brown cloth w/ black titling to spine. xvi,
246pp. Comprehensive overview. VG in sl.
rubbed dj, w/ spine sunned.
£16
268
264 257 265 broadside. Originally issued in envelope, not
present. Faint historic fold & 1 sm. stain not affecting text, o/w VG+.
(OLSON, Charles.) FINCH, John, SNOW,
Wilbert, ROSENTHAL, M. L., & AIKEN, William. A Gathering for Charles Olson. Np: Massachusetts Review, Winter 1971. 8vo. Stapled
wraps. 36pp. Essays from a Memorial Program
for Charles Olson at Wesleyan University on
November 18, 1970, & a preface. Robert Duncan quotation on lower wrap. VG.
£20
(OLSON, Charles.) MAUD, Ralph. Charles Olson
at the Harbor. British Columbia: Talonbooks,
2008. 2nd printing. 8vo. Wraps. 224pp. Biography by friend & correspondent. Fine.
£12
(OLSON, Charles.) SWIGART, Lynn. Olson’s
Gloucester. Interview w/ Swigart by Sherman
Paul. Foreword by George Butterick. Baton
Rouge & London: Louisiana State University
Press, 1980. 1st. Sm. oblong 4to. Green cloth
w/ silver titling to spine. xvi, 72pp. B&w photobook. G in dj, w/ closed tear at fold.
£12
Oyez 1–10: Poems in Broadside (all published). Np
[Berkeley]: Oyez, 1964–5. Ten broadside poems, respectively: Michael McClure, ‘Two for
Bruce Conner’; Brother Antoninus, ‘The Rose
of Solitude’; Josephine Miles, ‘In Identity’;
Robert Duncan, ‘Wine’; Robert Creeley, ‘Two
Poems’; David Meltzer, ‘The Blackest Rose’;
Denise Levertov, ‘City Psalm’; Charles Olson,
‘Signature to Petition’; Gary Snyder, ‘Hop, Skip,
and Jump’; & William Bronk, ‘The Cipher’. All
1964 except for ‘The Cipher’ (1965). Folio. Designed & letterpress printed by The Auerhahn
Press. ‘Two for Bruce Conner’ 1/500 copies, the
rest 1/350 copies. (27 copies of each broadside
were signed by their respective authors & enclosed in a portfolio.) These were the first Oyez
publications to be sold. Oyez Press was founded by Robert Hawley, who in the last days of
Black Mountain College studied under Robert
Duncan & Charles Olson. Hawley writes in
oyez: The Authorised Checklist (1997) (which gives
the series title ‘Poems in Broadside’): ‘In 1956
Charles Olson suggested to me that I had some
knowledge of and regard for poetry, and that
I should consider publishing rather than writing it. And then in the early 1960s a bookseller,
Bill Farrell, and a friend, Stevens van Strum,
also encouraged me to publish. Stevens and I
were influenced and captivated by the poets of
the 1940s and 1950s in the Bay Area: Everson,
Duncan, Fabilli, McClure, Meltzer, and others. So we selected ten poets and asked them to
submit poems they wished to see in broadside
form. Only Everson and Olson seemed to understand what that meant. But we published
the ten and slowly developed a mailing list of
individual and institutional customers.’ Some
mild creasing, quite possibly endemic to some
of the stock. Nick to one edge, though many
edges are rough-cut, as issued. Head & tail edges sl. curling. ‘In Identity’ has bands of toning,
not affecting text. Overall VG to nr fine.
£300
Pennsylvania Review 1. Ed. Victor Bockris et al.
Pennsylvania, 1970. 8vo. Wraps. 58pp. Contributors inc. Lee Harwood (7 translations of
Tristan Tzara), Bockris (extracts from a conversation w/ Harwood), & Andrew Wylie (4 translations of Giuseppe Ungaretti). University
review. A couple of light pencil lines, o/w VG+.
£10
POUND, Ezra. The Child’s Guide to Knowledge.
Canton, NY: The Institute of Further Studies,
nd [1970]. 1st. Two 4to cream sheets printed
one-sided in maroon & black, folded twice &
contained in a cream envelope printed w/ just
the publisher’s name & address. Prints Pound’s
poem ‘Religio, or The Child’s Guide to Knowledge’, which was originally published in the
New Freewoman for 15 Oct. 1913 and in Pavannes
and Divisions (1918). Here it is prefaced by a passage from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. OCLC locates 2 copies, 1 of these
possibly without its envelope. Donald Gallup
writes in Ezra Pound: A Bibliography, ‘Details of
publication not known’, so he presumably did
not see the envelope. A rare, curious produc-
£100
tion; for context, one might look perhaps to
connections between Pound & Charles Olson,
or Pound & Ed Sanders. Nr fine.
269 ROTHENBERG, Jerome. Between: poems 1960/63.
London: Fulcrum Press, 1967. 1st, regular issue. 8vo. Blue cloth w/ bronze titling to spine.
64pp. A ‘growing sense of powers, new and
old, of word and song and image still here as
keys for any man’. Head edge spotted o/w VG
in rubbed dj.
£10
270 ROTHENBERG, Jerome (ed.). Technicians of the
Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia
& Oceania. 1968; this edn NY: Anchor, 1969. 8vo.
Wraps. xxx, 522pp. ‘Primitive means complex’.
An extraordinary collection, ‘turquoise and
scarlet and cedar and satin’ (Michael McClure),
w/ commentaries bringing in analogous contemporary responses. Abt VG.
£10
271 Salt Lick 9/10. Ed. James Haining. Baltimore:
Salt Lick Press, 1971. 4to. Stapled wraps. 60pp.
Contributors inc. Lyn Lifshin, Michael Lally,
& Ray DiPalma. Also an insert, still bound-in,
comprising the first collection of Robert Trammell’s work, Famous Men. Apparently some
copies were housed in an envelope along w/
other items such as photographs by Richard
Olderman, not present here, but this copy has
3 stickers on the lower wrap: a leaf, cherries,
& a pig. Loosely inserted are a folded page reproducing a piece on the issue in Rolling Stone
& noting a new address, & a subscription form.
VG, w/ mild wear around 1 staple.
£8
272 Salt Lick vol. III nos. 1/2. Illinois, 1980. 4to. Stapled wraps. 50pp. Covers by Daniel Castelaz.
Contributors inc. Al Ackerman, Sheila Murphy,
& Rolf Staeck (concerning mail art). Also includes an airmail sticker & an affixed Chinese
paper cutting. Staples rusty o/w VG.
£7
273 Salt Lick vol. III nos. 3/4. 1982. 4to. Stapled
wraps. 46pp. Covers by Daniel Castelaz. Contributors inc. Michael Lally & Robert Trammell. Also a sm. centrefold insert entitled
‘American Indian Symbols’, itself w/ a sm.
bagged insert, & ‘News Of The World’ image
tipped in. ‘Painted Puzzle’ portfolio not present. Staples rusty o/w VG.
£7
274 SANDERS, Ed. Peace Eye. Buffalo: Frontier Press,
1965. 1st. 4to. Wraps. Unpaginated (58pp.). Introductory poem by Charles Olson, concluding, ‘it takes the earth / to make a feather fall’.
Contains Sanders’ ‘SOFT MAN poems’, ‘The
GOBBLE GANG poems’, & ‘CEMETERY HILL’,
w/ his characteristic glyphs. Wraps soiled but
clean internally.
£16
275 SET 2. Ed. Gerrit Lansing. Gloucester, Winter
1963–64. 4to. Stapled wraps. 32pp. Cover by
Harry Martin. Contributions by LeRoi Jones,
Diane Wakoski, Lansing, Robert Kelly, Kenward Elmslie, John Wieners, & Stephen Jonas.
Final issue. Lansing describes in Clay & Phillips how in 1959, when he decided to produce a
little mag, he sent out a note: ‘SET will be about
the poetic exploration of the swarming possibilities occult and/or unused in American life,
£80
urban and local, here & especially now, at this
moment of the Aeon, i.e. the Vulgar Advent.’
This copy has been signed & inscribed by Lansing in Gloucester, 2014. VG in sl. soiled wraps.
Stereo Headphones 8/9/10. Ed. Nicholas Zurbrugg. Brisbane, 1982. 1/1000 copies. Regular
issue. Sm. 4to. Wraps. 80pp. Contributors inc.
Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs, Henri
Chopin, Thomas A. Clark, Bernard Heidsieck,
Ernst Jandl, Robert Lax, & Tom Phillips. Also
correspondence concerning the state of the
contemporary avant-garde from Bob Cobbing, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Brion Gysin, Dick
Higgins, Jirí
ˇ Valoch, & more. This copy has
been inscribed by Zurbrugg (unsigned) to Lee
(Harwood) on the front cover: ‘This is what I
was doing 16 years ago’. ‘Stereo Headphones
Record Number One’ (Chopin & Heidsieck) is
not present – fewer copies of the record were
produced than of the magazine. VG+.
£60
Telephone 6. Ed. Maureen Owen. NY: The Magic
Mushroom Press, Spring 1972. Folio. Stabstapled. Unpaginated (104pp. printos rectos
only). Covers by Donna Dennis & Paula North.
Contributors inc. Frank O’Hara (1957 letter, from the Giorno Poetry Systems archives),
Kenward Elmslie, Joe Brainard, Paul Gogarty,
Sandy Berrigan, Bruce Andrews, Keith Abbott,
& Allan Kornblum. Second-generation New
York School mimeo mag (1969–1983), printed
at The Poetry Project. G somewhat worn copy.
Staples are secure, though 2 (of 3) haven’t fully
penetrated.
£12
278 WAKOSKI, Diane. Greed parts 5–7. LA: Black
Sparrow Press, 1971. 4th printing. 8vo. Wraps.
48pp. Respectively ‘The Shark – Parents &
Children’, ‘Jealousy – A Confessional’, & ‘SelfRighteousness’. VG+.
£5
279 WAKOSKI,
Diane. Greed parts 8, 9, 11. LA: Black
Sparrow Press, 1974. 2nd printing. 8vo. Wraps.
56pp. Loosely inserted folded Black Sparrow
Press broadside/flyer no. 6, advertising the
book w/ a poem. Spine sunned o/w VG+.
£6
280 WALDROP, Keith. Analogies of Escape. Providence: Burning Deck, 1997. 1st. 1/950 copies
(of 1000). 8vo. Wraps. 80pp. Cover by the author. Epigraph from Claude Royet-Journoud:
‘Will we escape analogy?’ This copy has been
inscribed by Waldrop (either unsigned or w/
v. quick signature). Lower corner bumped o/w
nr fine.
£7
281 WANTLING, William. The Source. El Cerrito:
dustbooks, 1966. 1st. 8vo. Stapled wraps. 40pp.
Foreword by Len Fulton. ‘Bill Wantling is the
first to admit that finally and practically a man
blows his own chances.’ Heroin & wartime Korea. Areas of spotting & soiling to wraps, o/w
VG. Distributor’s stamp (Location Press, Blackburn) inside front cover.
£13
282 WARSH, Lewis. Avenue of Escape. NY: Long News
Books, 1995. 1st. 8vo. Wraps. 96pp. Described
by Robin Blaser as ‘a book of curious solitude
– perhaps solitudes – the very territory where
writing takes place’. Nr fine.
£12
276 277
283 WIENERS, John. Asylum Poems (For My Father).
Np [Massachusetts]: Press of the Black Flag
Raised, 1969. A pirate edition, issued as Press
of the Black Flag Raised #1, of the book published in the same year by Angel Hair. The
press was run by Robert Rose & Billy Little.
4to. 18 sheets in different colours printed onesided, 2 of them folded, as issued, in envelope
w/ printed label, posted from Boston. Written
when Wieners was institutionalised in Spring
1969. A quotation on the title page reads: ‘The
avoidance of evils or ills as one gets older is the
main occupation of middle life’. Contents VG,
title p. sl. soiled, in v. worn envelope. The name
of the original addressee has been defaced, but
he or she lived in Gloucester, MA.
£50
284 WIENERS, John. Nerves. London: Cape Goliard
Press, 1970. 1st, regular issue. Sm. 4to. Brown
cloth w/ silver titling to spine. Unpaginated
(80pp.). Photos by Gerard Malanga. Wieners’
1st English publication. Includes ‘The Asylum
Poems’. Ep clipped o/w VG in dj w/ sl. toning.
£18
285 (ZUKOFSKY, Louis.) Poetry vol. 110 no. 5, vol.
111 no. 2, & vol. 112 no. 5. Ed. Henry Rago. Chicago, August 1967, November 1967, August
1968. 8vo. Wraps. 78pp., 76pp., 80pp. Respectively, these 3 issues contain Zukofsky’s “A”–18,
“A”–19 & Hugh Kenner on “A” 1–12, & “A”–21:
Rudens. Other contributors inc. Stuart Montgomery, Guy Davenport, Clayton Eshleman, &
Robert Creeley. VG+.
£14
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