CLAYTON ESHLEMAN

NOVICES

Edition: First edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Mercer & Aitchison, Los Angeles Date published: 1989

Description: Fine. Signed by author. A like new, unread copy. 79 pg. Grey boards with title embossed on front and spine. Special Limited Edition. One of 50 copies with a three color Venus image, a handwritten poem and signature dated Sept. 1989  by Clayton Eshleman.  An extremely scarce, collectible book in excellent condition.

$250.00

EKBERT FASS, ED.

TOWARDS A NEW AMERICAN POETICS

Edition: First edition  Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA Date published: 1978

Description: Very good in very good dust jacket.  #27 of 125 copies hardbound in boards, signed by authors of essays and interviews. Shelf wear to boards top and bottom edges. Acetate cover shows wear but is strong.   Book is signed by Robert Bly,  Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley. A truly great collectible book.

$600.00

CLAYTON ESHLEMAN

MISTRESS SPIRIT

Edition: First edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Arundel Press, Los Angeles Date published: 1989

Description: Fine. Signed by author. This book is a like-new, unread copy. Grey linen over board with panels on front and spine with title and author name.  Printed on letterpress in Goudy type with Carolus display. 100 hardcover copies printed on Mohawk paper. This is one of 100 Deluxe Edition copies signed by Clayton Eshleman. A grouping of 29 poems that belong to The Name Encanyoned River sequence. An extremely hard to find book, especially in such fine condition. A real Eshleman collectible.

$175.00

ROBERT KELLY

THE LOOM

Edition: First edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles Date published: 1975

Description: Signed by author. Book is a near fine, clean and straight copy. Acetate cover is missing a two inch piece at top of spine with one inch long tear at top outside corner. Minor chipping at corner edges. 415 p. This is #205 of 250 numbered and signed hardcover copies. Also the book is signed by the poet Edward Dorn on inside flyleaf (signed Edward Dorn, San Francisco). An excellent, one-of-a-kind book from the private library of a major poet by a major poet. Two poet signatures in one book.

$350.00

CHARLES OLSON

THE COLLECTED POEMS

Edition: First edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA  Date published: 1987

Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Light scuff on bottom page edge. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 675 p.  This is all the poetry Olson published excluding The Maximus Poems. An impressive body of work in an equally impressive large format publication. A fine collectible Olson.

$175.00

MICHAEL PALMER

THE CIRCULAR GATES

Edition: First edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles Date published: 1974

Description:  Signed by author. A near fine copy with very good acetate cover. Acetate cover has two very small tears at head of spine. 134 p.   #165 of 175 hardcover copies. Signed by Palmer. Early poems that will please the uninitiated. Nice and rare collectible book.

$150.00

DIANE WAKOWSKI

CAP OF DARKNESS

Edition: First edition   Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA  Date published: 1980

Description: Signed by author.  A strong, near fine copy. 117 p.  This is #14 of 50 numbered and signed copies handbound in boards with an original holograph poem by Diane Wakoski.  A truly scarce, collectible book.

$250.00

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CHARLES BUKOWSKI

LIVING ON LUCK

Edition: First edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, CA Date published: 1995

Description: Book and acetate cover in near fine condition. Sewn binding.  Cloth over boards. Illustrations by Charles Bukowski.  Signed by author. Small stain and scuff to bottom page edge. Living on Luck Vol. 2.   #61 of 200 copies hardbound in boards by Earle Gray and signed by Charles Bukowski.  A great collectible Bukowski book.

$500.00

ROBERT CREELEY

THE CHARM

Edition: First British edition. Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Calder and Boyars, London  Date published: 1971

Description: Price clipped. A near fine condition book with great early Creeley poems. Very light soiling to dust jacket. Very slight sun-fade to spine. Straight and clean book. 97 pg. Creeley was the unspoken master that many came to study. A major voice in the 20th and early 21st century.

$75.00

MICHAEL MCCLURE

STAR

Edition: First edition. First Printing. Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Grove Press Date published: 1970

Description: Near Fine. 124 p. Clothbound in boards. McClure states that "This book is a blast of my poor brain splattered over Hell and Earth and Heaven." His Mad Sonnets will convulse the ground around you. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Very light wear and soiling.

$50.00

JOEL OPPENHEIMER

IN TIME: POEMS 1962-1968

Edition: First edition. First Printing Binding: Hardcover Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis/New York  Date published: 1969

Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Straight and solid. A very good condition book. 224 pg. p. Sewn Binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. Poems from the 60's by Black Mountain poet, Joel Oppenheimer.

$50.00

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ROBERT KELLY

Red Actions:  Selected Poems, 1960-1993

Edition: First edition.  First Printing.   Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, CA    Date published: 1995

Description: Fine condition in a fine acetate dust jacket.  Sewn binding. Quarter cloth over boards.  328 pg. This is #68 of 100 numbered and signed hardcover copies signed by Kelly. A good overview of the work of one of our major poets over a period of 33 years.

$150.00