Number Magazine, A Quarterly of Modern Poetry, Volume 1, Number 5, November 1954
San Francisco: Number Magazine, 1954. Original printing. Paperback. 31pp. Thin duodecimo [19 cm] Saddle-stitched printed wraps. An issue featuring Rosalie Moore. More
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Number Magazine, A Quarterly of Modern Poetry, Volume 1, Number 6, Spring 1955
San Francisco: Number Magazine, 1955. Original printing. Paperback. 27pp. Thin duodecimo [19 cm] Saddle-stitched printed wraps. With age-toning to the wraps. A Quarterly of Modern Poetry. Featuring Jeanne McGahey. More
Number Magazine, A Quarterly of Modern Poetry, Volume 1, Number 7, Summer 1955 (Mills College Issue)
San Francisco: 1955. Original printing. Paperback. 31pp. Thin duodecimo [19 cm] Stapled printed wraps. Camilla Spalding is the Mills College Guest Editor. More
Number Magazine: A Quarterly of Modern Poetry Volume 1, Number 8, Autumn 1955
San Francisco: Number Magazine, 1955. Original printing. Paperback. 28pp. Thin duodecimo [18.5 cm] Saddle-stitched printed wraps. Very good. A Quarterly of Modern Poetry. Featuring Waltrina Furlong, Betty Turnoy, Jeanne McGahey and others. More
Kissing the Air
Menlo Park, Portola Valley: Twin Elephants Press, 2004. Limited Edition. Paperback. 72pp. Octavo [22 cm] Stiff wraps. The cover is a linocut cum cordage, on Arches Lavis Fidelis paper. The covers are a bit bowed. Number 18 in an edition limited to 50 copies. More
Mattering Maps: Mattering Maps; The Mind's Eye; Desire and the P(a)lace of Memory; 2002 Ways of Looking at the World (4 volumes)
Menlo Park / Portola Valley: Twin Elephants Press, 1999-2002. Limited Edition. Octavo [22 cm] White, red, and black illustrated wraps with rough-cut edges. The wraps have sporadic areas of minor soiling, and there are 5 small stains on the front wrap of volume 4. The first volume is a second..... More
My Family Album
Twin Elephants Press, 1995. Limited Edition. Paperback. SIGNED. Slim quarto [26 cm] White wraps with a paper title label on the front wrap. Minimal soiling to the wraps. Illustrated with monotypes that the author made in 1987. The monotypes are mostly based on old family photographs. Number 8 in an..... More
Where We Swam When We Were Swimmers
Menlo Park, Portola Valley: Twin Elephants Press, 1998. Limited Edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 75pp. Octavo [22 cm] Handcrafted stiff blue card wraps. With nine hand-pulled woodcuts by the author. Number 36 in an edition limited to 50. In addition to being a poet, Browning is also a book printer and designer..... More
Observations: An Agenda
[San Francisco, CA]: Kayak Press (distributed by City Lights), 1968. First edition. Paperback. 68 pp. Stapled wrappers. 1 of 800 copies printed. Inscribed in the year of publication "To Don Allen from Lennart Bruce with best wishes Christmas - 68" More
Remembering the Dawn: Poems
Marvin, SD: The Blue Cloud Quarterly, 1983. Paperback. Octavo [21 cm] in stapled wraps. Light rusting to staples, else As New. From the book: "[Bruchac's] poems and stories have appeared in hundreds of magazines and he is the author of eighteen books and editor of a dozen anthologies." More
There are No Trees Inside the Prison (Signed)
Brunswick, ME: Blackberry Press, 1978. First edition. Paperback. 20pp. Octavo. Gray wrappers. Near fine. Subtle yellowing to extremities. INSCRIBED by the author on the front free endsheet. Inscription reads " For Diana - With warmth. - Peace, - Joe" More
Dangling in the Tournefortia
Santa Rosa: Ecco, 2001. Later printing. Paperback. 281pp. Octavo [22.7cm]. Illustrated paper wraps. From Publisher: There is not a wasted word in Dangling in the Tournefortia, a selection of poems full of wit, struggles, perception, and simplicity. Charles Bukowski writes of women, gambling and booze while his words remain honest..... More
South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life
New York: Ecco / Harper Collins, 2007. Later printing. Paperback. 189pp. Octavo [22.6cm]. White matte wraps and spine with black and red lettering. South of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society. More
Those Marvelous Lunches (A New Year's Greeting from Black Sparrow Press 1993)
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. Original keepsake. Paperback. Very slim sextodecimo [17.5 cm] Saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers. Printed January 1993 as a New Year's Greeting for the friends of the Black Sparrow Press. More
Underwater Poetry Festival; Salt Lake City, Utah October 5th, 1974
Salt Lake City: The Temple, 2006. First Edition. AudioCD. CD. Recording of Charles Bukowski's appearance in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Underwater Poetry Festival in 1974. Never before released reading by Bukowski consisting of 29 separate poems. Bukowski read at the One Big Union Bar on State Street one..... More
Ole Number 3, November 1965
Bensenville, IL: 1965. Paperback. Thin octavo [21.5 cm] Stapled printed wraps. Good plus. The covers are age-toned and lightly soiled. There are several small light stains on the front wrap, and the rear wrap has a large area of darkening, and a multitude of small light stains. The bottom edge..... More
On Cats
New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2017. First Ecco Paperback. Paperback. 118pp. Octavo [20.5cm]; illustrated wraps. From publisher website: “Acclaimed writer Charles Bukowski turns his signature eye on the world of felines. A series of essays and poems all about cats, Bukowski’s classic funny and frank tone becomes, at times, even endearing..... More
On Love
United States of America: ecco, 2017. First ecco Paperback Edition. Paperback. 216pp. Octavo [20cm]; illustrated wraps. From publisher's website: A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a...... More
The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: with Notes, Glossary, Index of First Lines, and Chronological List
London: Oxford University Press, 1921. Leather bound. 20; 635pp. Duodecimo [18.5cm]. Bound in pebbled navy leather. Raised bands and gilt stamped title on spine. Light gilt stamped decoration on spine and boards. Patterned endpapers. Gilt textblock edges are lightly rubbed. Spine is mildly sunned. An attractive volume compiling the poetic..... More
What You Know: Poems by Reid Bush
Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur Press, 2004. Caroline Whitesel. Hardcover. 70 pp. Octavo. [24 cm]. Red paper over boards with original dustjacket. Bush recollects life and death in his poetry which alternates between morose and magical. One of 500 limited printings. More
Grenstone Poems: A Sequence
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 307pp. Red cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the front cover and spine. Very good. Wear and rubbing to extremities. The spine is subtly rolled. The edges of the text block are lightly scratched, and there is..... More
Indian Earth
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First printing. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR - Brown cloth spine and boards are clean. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine and just the faintest bump to the tip of the upper front corner. Signed, inscribed and dated in black pen..... More
The New World
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. 63pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Red cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles. Very good. The edges of the covers are lightly bumped and rubbed. The spine is subtly faded. There is a faint 1 and 1/2 inch indentation in the front board..... More
Stretching Toward Wild Swans
Utah: Utah State Poetry Society, 1994. Heal, Tamara K. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED 64pp. Octavo. Teal cloth over boards. More
anche i giocattoli giocheranno even the toys will play; (poesie in italiano) (poems in Italian)
Salt Lake City, UT: Alissandru (Alex) F. Caldiero, 2017. 1/26. Paperback. Duodecimo [16.5cm]. Pearlized cream wraps. Italian poems mirror English translations. Contents copyright 2000-2004. More