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KSRB / RBMS (Rare Books and Manuscripts Section) 2026

KSRB / RBMS (Rare Books and Manuscripts Section) 2026

A varied selection of books and ephemera to be showcased at the 2026 Rare Books and Manuscripts Section conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Featured items include:
 
- A Near Fine first edition copy of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, inscribed by the author to Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter.
- A 6 item archive of correspondence from Stephen King to Utah high school art teacher Patrick Eddington ("Pat the Cat").
- An enormous collection documenting live music, festivals, and performance in the Salt Lake area through the 1990s in the clubs and small venues of the valley.
- Two World Middleweight Boxing Championship Ticket Stubs Featuring Utah-Native Champion Gene Fullmer vs. Sugar Ray Robinson and Dick Tiger.
- "Save Joe Hill" Postcard Addressed to Utah Governor [William Spry]. 
Pacific Northwest Poetry & The Port Townsend Scene: 3 small archives from the library of poet & artist Cheryl Van Dyke

Pacific Northwest Poetry & The Port Townsend Scene: 3 small archives from the library of poet & artist Cheryl Van Dyke

Featuring:

-One of the first Graywolf Press publications in both simultaneous issues, with ephemera, and each inscribed to Cheryl Van Dyke. The handbound hardcover issue was limited to just 20 copies.

-Three works that trace a lovely collaboration between poet & artist Cheryl Van Dyke and designer Tree Swenson during the most prolific years of Copper Canyon Press (including a gorgeous calligraphic manuscript executed and produced as a fine hand-made single-poem book).

-A correspondence archive (seventeen items, all addressed to Cheryl Van Dyke) documenting part of the administrative and social structure of the Port Townsend, Washington literary scene surrounding The Imprint bookshop and Centrum Foundation’s annual Writers’ Conference at Fort Worden State Park during its foundational years. Includes TLS, ALS, or APCS from Diane Wakoski, Gary Snyder, Tree Swenson, Richard Hugo, and Maxine Kumin, among many others.

Poet and artist Cheryl Van Dyke’s early work, Cheat Grass, helped define the nascent literary landscape of Port Townsend’s Copper Canyon Press in the 1970s. An integral figure in the region's fine press circle, she also managed The Imprint from the mid-70s through the early 1980s—a bookstore that served as a vital social and literary hub for the PNW poetry community.

40 Items Related to Metaphysics, Hermetica & the Occult - Part 5

40 Items Related to Metaphysics, Hermetica & the Occult - Part 5

Our fifth list of items related to metaphysics, hermetica & the occult. Inside you'll find a series of Arthur Edward Waite first editions and a signed title from the founder of Salt Lake City-based Summum, a philosophical and religious organization that functions as a winery (Nectar Publications) and practices modern mummification.

Earth First!, Edward Abbey, & The Monkey Wrench Gang – 68 New Arrivals – April 2, 2026

Earth First!, Edward Abbey, & The Monkey Wrench Gang – 68 New Arrivals – April 2, 2026

Featuring an absorbing correspondence archive, some nice prints & posters (one of which comes with a small archive of nearly fifty pieces of ephemera), two pieces of original watercolor artwork, a few books, a couple calendars, many many periodicals, and more.

Earth First! is a group of radical environmentalists that formed in the American Southwest in the spring of 1980, founded by Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke, Bart Koehler, and Ron Kezar, among others. Earth First! quickly came to national attention with their "cracking" of Glen Canyon Dam activist stunt, which was performed and filmed in the spring of 1981. Edward Abbey is considered to be the "literary father" of the group, and the monkey wrench is their ever-present emblem and tool.

Twenty Items by Sam Hamill, from Copper Canyon Press et al. – Poetry New Arrivals List – February 17, 2026

Twenty Items by Sam Hamill, from Copper Canyon Press et al. – Poetry New Arrivals List – February 17, 2026

Featuring fine press books/chapbooks, poetry collections, broadsides, and a manuscript (see item #20). Most are signed or inscribed. Many first & limited editions. 

American poet and translator Sam Hamill (1943–2018) was also co-founder of the influential Copper Canyon Press. Over his five-decade career, he published poetry collections, taught in prisons, and founded Poets Against the War, a movement to protest the 2003 Iraq invasion. Copper Canyon Press is a nonprofit, independent poetry publisher that "believes poetry is vital to language and living." The press was founded by Sam Hamill, Tree Swenson, and other associates in 1972 in Denver, CO, and moved to Port Townsend, WA in 1974.