Oakland, California: 1911. Thanksgiving November Thirtieth Nineteen Hundred Eleven--Cover Title: Olden Time Call for Thanksgiving, no publisher noted, printed by Oakland Enquirer Pub. Co., 1911. 7 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches, 32pp. Blue string-tied and staple bound printed wrappers. Edges of wrappers yap style and lightly bumped. Wrappers protected.....
Small Archive of Original Poetry, Correspondence and One Unrecorded Printed Booklet by James Barton Adams Manuscript collection of signed original material. Includes two typed poems signed, four autographed poems signed (one is original duplicate), one typed letter signed, one linen postcard and one printed string-tied booklet with prose by.....
London: Peter Russell, 1952. Archive of Poet John Penrose Angold with "Collected Poems" Published in 1952, Peter Russell, London, England. 8.5 x 5.75 inches, 54pp. Book in good condition with light soiling and bumping to edges. Limitation of 350 copies; this copy marked "PRESS COPY" on colophon. Archival.....
1945-1947. Ayres, Watson Woodrow Collection of Poetry Manuscripts by a Prominent California Farmer, 1945-1947 About four inches of manuscript material, all about very good with some light edge wear and dust-soiling, proofs with some offsetting and once-adhered note now detached but present, and envelopes a bit worn. Watson Ayres.....
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1895. Sonnets of Michael Angelo, trans. for the first time in English by John Addington Symonds, Michael Angelo Buonarroti, Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine, 1895. 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches, XCV. Printed wrappers with yap edges. Toning to spine. Light chipping to edges.....
San Francisco, Caifornia: William Doxey, 1895. Gelett Burgess, The Purple Cow!, William Doxey, San Francisco, California. 1895. 16pp. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. Stapled, printed and illustrated on both sides of rough bamboo paper. Housed in a custom made red morocco slipcase and chemise. Second leaf has small hole.....
[Unrecorded Captain Jack Crawford] Amazing Archive of John Wallace “Captain Jack” Crawford Including 23 Mostly Manuscript Items Including a Number of Unpublished and Unrecorded Short Stories, Poems and Plays. Items generally in very good condition. Minor chipping to some pages with no loss of content. Toning to most.....
Small Literary Archive for Big Sur, California Writer Jack Curtis--Includes the Unpublished Novels "Daily the Heavenly Battle" and "Passing Peach Tree Station". Jack Curtis (1922-2002) was the author of at least 11 novels, 6 collections of poetry plus many short stories and essays. His work appeared in Sports Illustrated.....
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1940-1952. [Women] [Poetry] Archive of Handwritten and Typescript Poems by Agnes Louise Dean, 1940-1952 Two poems handwritten in pencil, each on a single sheet measuring 8 ½” x 5 ½”; brad-bound narrative poem on thin yellow copy paper, 44 pp.; 115 poems typed rectos only on 165 pp. ranging from.....
1998. Dixon, Ezra, The Hidden Festival: Poems [N.P.]: [Self-published], 1998 7 ⅝” x 5 ⅜”, Stapled thin card wrappers 41 pp., 18 poems + photographic author frontis Just a touch of creasing and a few faint scuffs to wrappers, very good plus. A rare and impressive book of.....
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1970. Forrest, Bernard. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of five copies specially designated for the author, publisher, binder, printer, and publisher's files, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon. Quarto (27.75cm); vertically-ribbed yellow cloth.....
New York: Red Ozier Press, [1980]. Janet Morgan. Ancient Song, Mark Glass, Red Ozier Press, New York, Illustrated by Janet Morgan. 8 x 12 inches. A single sheet letterpress printed on Nideggen paper and folded into a triptych. Bound in handsewn sage green wrapper with blue and black.....
Duel of the Stags, A Poem with An Epistle to the Author by Mr. John Dryden, H. Hills, Blackfryars, 1709. 16pp. 4 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches. String-bound pamphlet without wrappers. Moderate foxing. Good Condition. Clipped signature includes manuscript text on both sides and measures 2 x 6.....
St. Louis, Missouri: Neurotica Publishing Company, 1948-1952. Lustig, Alvin (Cover Art). Complete run of first editions of this influential and avant-garde quarterly literary journal published by the Neurotica Publishing Company (9 volumes 1948-1952), edited by Jay Irving Landesman except volume 9 which was edited by G. [Gershon] Legman who also.....
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Earl Jay Perel Archive--Banker Box Full of Mostly Unpublished Manuscripts Overall, collection in very good condition. Likely to have been in storage subsequent to the passing of Perel. Some binding covers are detached. The pages of some of the older material is toned. Archive of the late.....
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San Francisco, CA: The Bread & Wine Press, 1960. Reed, Blake. 21 Carlisle. San Francisco, California: The Bread & Wine Press, 1960. Printed by Wilder Mayo Bentley. Book of Poems Published by Noted Printer and Artist Wilder Bentley II 8.75” x 5.5” Penciled annotation to printer’s colophon (inserting.....
San Francisco, California: Johnson News Company, 1907. April Eighteenth--Broadside Poem by Lowell Otis Reese, Johnson News Company, San Francisco, California, 1907. 12 1/8 x 10 inches. Recto only. Broadside on cream paper, printed in black with red initials; 7 cartoon illustrations printed in red. Right edge is bent top.....
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San Francisco: Printed by Wilder Bentley, 1960. Lucid Intervals, John Richardson, Printed by Wilder Bentley, San Francisco, (Copyright John Richardson), 1960. 10 x 6.5 inches. 14pp. String bound letterpress pamphlet has a slight wave and light wear along top edge. Very good condition. Printed by Wilder Bentley.....
Los Angeles: Littoral Books, 1992. Don Suggs. Desert Geometries, Martha Ronk, Littoral Books, 1992. 9 X 6 inches. no pagination. Slight corner page bend, mylar cover. Very good. Poems observing the shapes found in the desert with illustrations. Personal inscription "For Ray -Our sleepless and witty.....
New York: Henry Hold and Company, 1941. First. Hardcover. The Collected Poems of Lew Sarett, Lew Sarett, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1941, xxviii, 383 pp., 8¾ x 6⅛ inches. First edition, signed copy. Brown cloth with gilt titling to spine and cover, sunning and shelf wear to.....
Toronto: William Briggs, 1909. Ballads of a Cheechako, Robert W. Service, William Briggs, Toronto, 1909, 6 x 8.25 inches, 146 pp. Brown yapped leather wrappers; gilt stamped lettering and blind stamped maple leaf wreath to front; yapped edges moderately to heavily worn; spine moderately rubbed; gilt top edge.....
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Pym-Randall Press, 1975. Elegy in a Country Church Yard, George Starbuck, trade edition, Pym-Randall Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975. Trade edition, not signed or numbered. Includes three 22 x 7.75 inch sheets of concrete poetry entitled “Elegy in a Country Church Yard,” one 21.75 x 9.75 inch.....
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San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1915. [Double Signed] Ode on the Opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco-February-1915, George Sterling, published by A.M. Robertson, San Francisco, California, 1915. Limited to 525 copies printed by Taylor & Taylor. First edition. 9 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches. [1-6] 16pp. Original gray.....
Dale L. Walker and Alvin Fick, 1964. Wine of Wizardry and Three Other Poems, George Sterling, published by Dale L. Walker and Alvin Fick, printed on a foot-treadle Pearl press by A.S. Fisk using Wayside Roman and Bulmer type. 116 of 120 copies. 10 1/4 x 7 5/16 inches, x,12pp.....
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Tarrytown, New York: 1887-1892. [Poetry, Literary] Stephen Henry Thayer Manuscript Archive plus Ephemera, Terrytown, New York, 1887-1892. Collection of manuscripts, letters and clippings in very good condition with most in protective sleeves. Typical edge wear and toning. Very Good. Known as the banker-poet of Sleepy Hollow, Stephen Henry.....