301. Zootaxy, a book of poems ... with drawings by Cynthia Miller. Tucson: Chax Press, [1987].
$45
Edition limited to 175 copies (this copy out-of-series); square 12mo (approx. 6¾" x 6¾"); pp. [20]; printed in red and black from hand-set Garamond types on Ragston paper and sewn into a concertina binding of which the endsheets are Fabriano Ingres and the covers are Moriki scarlet. Fine copy. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
302. Alnwick Castle, with other poems. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845.
$45
12mo, pp. [3], 10-104, [2]; engraved title page; original creme cloth gilt; board soiled, text foxed, occasional light pencil marks, owners' signatures on endpaper and p. 99; good and sound.
Reprint of the 1836 edition, adding the poem "Translation from the German of Goethe."
BAL 6975.
303. Fanny. New York: published by C. Wiley & Co. ... Clayton & Kingsland, printers, 1819.
$500
First edition, 8vo, pp. 49, [1]; original printed wrappers; spine perished, wanting the front free endpaper, edges curled; good.
This is Halleck's first separate publication, a satire on social climbers in New York City.
American Imprints 48137; BAL 6960; Weglin 976.
304. Since Mary. Seventeen new poems. Springdale Twp., WI: 1969.
$125
Edition limited to 167 copies signed by Hamady, square 16mo, pp. [24]; printed in red and black; fine in original brown wrappers with embossed over-wrapper.
Hamady 26.
305. [Hamady, Walter.] Divisions & other early poems. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1968.
$500
Edition limited to 110 copies, 8vo, pp. [4], 19, [1]; unopened; original brown printed wrappers; fine. Printed on Shadwell, a paper handmade by Hamady.
This copy out-of-series, but with a note on the wrapper flap: "This is a final proof copy. It is the same as the edition save that it is not numbered. Walter Hamady." But not quite the same as it is not signed by Creeley.
Two Decades, 15.
306. [Hamady, Walter.] Flora ... Drawings by Jack Beal. Being a recollection of four friends' excursion from Umbria through various French and Italian places with digressive reflections upon matters of gourmandise, botany, beloved works of art & amourous play.... Mt. Horeb, [Wisconsin]: Perishable Press, 1990.
$850
Edition limited to 125 copies (this, no. 111) signed by the author and illustrator; oblong folio, [6] blank leaves on variously colored paper, 24 leaves, [6] blank leaves on variously colored paper; binding by Kent Kasuboske, consisting of translucent vellum spine attached to flexible three-ply plywood boards, with exposed sewing structure; publisher's green cloth clamshell box stamped in blind; fine. From the Library of Kim Merker.
Printed by Walter Hamady. "Twenty-one original poems handset in Sabon Antiqua and twenty-three evocative line-drawings printed on/into handmade papers in several greens, browns, greys and maroon, black and blind in fifty-two pressruns."
307. Plumfoot poems. Madison, WI: Perishable Press, 1967.
$850
Edition limited to 200 copies, 8vo, pp. [8], 23, [3]; portrait frontispiece, printed in red and black; purple calf-backed olive cloth-covered boards, fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
Inscribed by Hamady on the flyleaf: "For Kim Merker with all best and with hope that the movement will keep going. Yrs. Walter. 67 Oct."
An earlier edition was printed a year prior, with a limitation of only 7 copies. This edition is one of Hamady's favorite books, and was "the first book that was seriously 'perfected' and the first one that forced the importance & beauty of the paper's translucency into my consciousness."
Two Decades, 12.
308. Requiem. A poem. [Port Townsend, Washington]: Copper Canyon Press, 1983.
$125
Edition limited to 250 copies, square 8vo, pp. [32]; title page printed in blue and black, initials printed in red, mounted frontispiece; fine copy in original black cloth-backed blue paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine.
"The type is Bruce Rogers' Centaur, composed by hand; the paper is Gutenberg laid. The frontispiece is from Phyllis Hopeck and is printed on Kitakata. The binding is by Marsha Hollingsworth, and utilizes Dungeoness Blue paper made especially for this edition by Sara Krohn at the Paper Route. Designed and printed by Sam Hamill."
309. Common sense theology; or, naked truth in rough shod rhyme about human nature and human life. With a critique upon the creeds. In four parts. Lewiston, Me.: published by the author, and sold by agents, or sent by mail. Address the writer, 1872.
$200
8vo, pp. viii, 9-160; albumen photograph of the author mounted as a frontispiece; original maroon cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover; the binding somewhat faded and soiled, corners worn, but the binding is sound.
On the title page Hamilton is identified as "thirty years a practical phrenologist." In this copy he has inscribed the frontispiece, "Yours for the truth / D. H. Hamilton / Lewiston, Me."
310. A hole in the air. Four poems. [Iowa City: Pat Ray [at] the Typographic Laboratory, the School of Journalism, University of Iowa, 1978].
$125
Edition limited to 30 copies (this, no. 18), tall, narrow 8vo, pp. [8]; printed in red and black; original brown pictorial wrappers printed in white; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker.
"The designer and maker of this small book, Pat Ray, feels much gratitude ... [for] the generosity of David Hamilton, and the experience of learning with Kay Amert and Bob Craig."
Wisconsin only in OCLC.
311. Resort: a poem. St. Paul: Bookslinger Editions, 1982.
$50
Edition limited to 300 copies of which this is an unnumbered out-of-series copy, but signed nonetheless by Hampl on the colophon; 8vo, unpaged; vignette and color frontispiece by Schanilec; original pink wrappers, decorative printed paper cover label; fine.
Quarter to Midnight A.49c.
312. Handsome Harry, or the deceitful young man. Providence: printed and sold by J. S. Hayward, six rods east of the Market, n.d., [ca. 1830].
$250
Broadside (approx. 11½" x 9"), text in double column beneath the title and a wood engraving of the said Harry at a writing desk; large loss in the upper right corner barely touching the engraving, two or three other small holes affecting several letters, some old creasing; good, at best.
Not in American Imprints; Brown only in OCLC.
313. In the light. Number one. Barrington, Illinois: Jim Hanson, 1975.
$125
11" x 8½", pp. [22]; printed from typescript, side stapled; near fine. Title-page drawing and another full-page drawing ("Padgett's Rule") by David Key; the cover drawing is unattributed.
Contributions by the editor, Steve Hamilton, Steve Levine, Ron Padgett, Ed Sanders and Simon Schuchat.
Emory, Connecticut, Berkeley, UCLA, and Santa Barbara in OCLC as a stand alone publication. Subsequent issues are not noticed.
314. Geography. [West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press, 1977.
$45
6½" x 9½" poetry broadside on green paper, signed.
315. In the light. Number Five / Six. Actual Plays. Chicago: Jim Hanson, [1979].
$250
11" x 8½", pp. [100]; printed from typescript, side stapled; light toning, else fine. Cover drawing by Jeff Levine, and printed at Iowa City Woman's Press and at the Universal Letter, West Branch, Iowa. Special thanks are given to, among others, Allan and Cinda Kornblum of the Toothpaste Press.
Contributions largely by Allan Kornblum and his Actualists buddies, Jim Mulac, Dave Morice, Darrell Gray, Elizabeth Zima, and Steve Toth.
Not found in OCLC.
316. In the light. Number seven. Chicago: Jim Hanson, [1979].
$75
11" x 8½", pp. [82]; printed from typescript, side stapled; light toning, else fine. Cover printed at the Toothpaste Press.
Contributions by Rochelle Kraut, Bob Rosenthal, Jim Hanson, Jeff Wright, Andrew Carrigan, and others.
Not found in OCLC.
317. In the light. Number three. Chicago: Jim Hanson, 1976.
$100
11" x 8½", pp. [110]; printed from typescript on rectos only, side stapled; small ink mark on back cover, else fine. Cover drawing by David Key, and printed by Allan Kornblum at the Universal Letter, West Branch, Iowa.
Contributions by the editor, Allan Kornblum, Liz Zima, Steve Toth, Darrell Gray, John Sjoberg, Art Lange, and others. Kornblum's poem is "Twin Cities Airport," a 45-line meditation thereon.
Not found in OCLC.
318. In the light. Number two. Chicago: Jim Hanson, 1976.
$75
11" x 8½", pp. [44]; printed from typescript, side stapled; near fine. Cover photo by Gary Engelman.
Contributions by the editor, Allan Kornblum, Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan, Steve Levine, Dick Gallup, and others.
Not found in OCLC.
319. Frontier ballads ... with pictures in color and other drawings by Maynard Dixon. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1910.
$75
First edition, 8vo, pp. [3]-92; frontispiece and 6 color plates by Dixon plus other illustrations in the text; original pictorial boards a little soiled, else very good.
320. Why still dance. [Minnesota: published by the Author, 2003].
$100
Sewn chapbook, 8.5" x 8", pp. 89, [3]; blue handmade paper wrappers; fine, with an inscription from Hanson to the Mankato poet John Rezmerski on title page.
This is one of 75 hand-sewn copies published exclusively for private distribution. A trade edition was published concurrently.
321. Living in it. Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, [1971].
$45
Edition limited to 240 copies, 8vo, pp. [56]; printed in black and red; original brown cloth, printed paper label on spine; fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
Berger, Printing & the Mind of Merker, 44: "This is another book of first poems ... The poems are very good. I don't think that Hanzlicek has made his mark on the world the way I thought he would, but he is still a good poet and these are good poems."
322. Many moods. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1917.
$145
6½" x 4 ¼", pp. [2], 23, [1]; portrait of the author; original green cloth-backed printed paper boards; front free endpaper excised, boards faded and a bit soiled, text a little toned; a good copy.
The book is dedicated to Marian Greenwald and a 1985 biro inscription underneath the dedication notes: "My sister Marian, April 5, 1975. H.S."
A book of both prose and poetry by a woman, possibly from San Francisco, who clearly likes her opium.
Not in OCLC.
323. Poems. San Francisco: D. P. Elder and Morgan Shepard, 1902.
$75
First edition, one of 300 copies printed at the Murdoch Press, 12mo, pp. [4], 147; title-page vignette printed in red and black; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper spine and cover labels; binding discolored, very small chip from spine; overall very good.
324. Debridement. Garden City, N.Y.: Dubleday & Company, Inc., 1973.
$75
First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 110; near fine copy in publisher's gray cloth, gilt-stamped spine, unclipped dust jacket with creases and a torn piece from the bottom of the rear panel with loss to several letters. From the library of Kim Merker.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Kim from Michael, 16 Jan 75." Also, signed by Harper on the title page.
325. History is your own heartbeat. Poems. Urbana, Chicago, London: University of Illinois Press, [1971].
$175
First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 95, [1]; fine copy in publisher's green cloth, unclipped dust jacket with slight fade at the spine, and a couple of spots on the back panel. Errata slip laid in, as issued. From the library of Kim Merker.
This is Harper's second book. This copy inscribed by Harper to Kim Merker: "March 71 / to Kim: in remembrance of good and bad tidings, and in abiding kinship - Michael."
Harper (1938-2016) was the first poet laureate of Rhode Island. "Known for his innovative use of jazz rhythms, cultural allusion, historical referent, and personal narrative, Harper was 'a deeply complex poet whose mission is to unite the fractured, inhumane technologies of our time with the abiding deep well of Negro folk traditions,' wrote John Callahan in the New Republic. Poetry reviewer Paul Breslin noted that Harper did this by drawing “upon black history, literature, and myth” (Poetry Foundation). When he retired from Brown University in 2013, where he had taught literature, poetry, and creative writing since 1970, he was the longest serving professor of English and Literary Arts at that institution.
326. Nightmare begins responsibility. Urbana, Chicago, London: University of Illinois Press, [1975].
$125
First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 97, [3]; fine copy in publisher's brown cloth, unclipped dust jacket with slight rubbing. From the library of Kim Merker.
This copy signed by Harper on the title page and with a presentation from him to Kim Merker on the front free endpaper: "For Kim, from Michael, 16 June 75."
Harper (1938-2016) was the first poet laureate of Rhode Island. "Known for his innovative use of jazz rhythms, cultural allusion, historical referent, and personal narrative, Harper was 'a deeply complex poet whose mission is to unite the fractured, inhumane technologies of our time with the abiding deep well of Negro folk traditions,' wrote John Callahan in the New Republic. Poetry reviewer Paul Breslin noted that Harper did this by drawing “upon black history, literature, and myth” (Poetry Foundation). When he retired from Brown University in 2013, where he had taught literature, poetry, and creative writing since 1970, he was the longest serving professor of English and Literary Arts at that institution.
327. The Basho poems. Iowa City: Cyathus Press, 1975.
$75
First edition, one of 200 copies printed by hand with Bembo types on Ragston paper, this being one of 75 numbered and signed by the poet; 12mo, pp. [80]; linen-backed Nagisa, a Japanese handmade paper and canvas over boards; fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
Half serious and half a literary spoof, "the Basho of these poems is a chameleonic poet living somewhere between 17th century Japan and present day Midwestern America."
328. Poems. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1871.
$125
First edition, later printing, small 8vo, pp. 152; spine a little sunned, else a very good copy in orig. brown cloth.
Apparently an unrecorded printing, with no Fields-Osgood monogram on title and with the corrected text on p. [136]; but with the Fields Osgood (not James R. Osgood) monogram on the spine.
See BAL 7253 where it states: "All examined James R. Osgood printings have the corrected caption on p. [136] and the JRO monogram on the spine." Contains Harte's tribute to Charles Dickens, 'Dickens in Camp'.
329. The heathen Chinee ... With illustrations by S. Eytinge, Jr. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1871.
$250
16mo, pp. [6], 21, [1]; 7 full-page wood engravings; original pictorial orange wrappers; light soiling, but near fine; contained in a red cloth slipcase, gilt lettering on spine.
Harte's satire of bigotry overestimated the reading comprehension of his targets, and his Heathen Chinee became a wildly popular poem among racists.
BAL 7248 F and 7425 issue B.
330. The heathen Chinee and other poems mostly humorous. London: John Camden Hotten, [1871].
$75
First British edition, 8vo, pp. 140, [2], [30] (ads); 8 text illustrations and 2 leaves of folding music using the first few lines of the poem as lyrics; original burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered spine; light wear, upper board unevenly faded, upper hinge starting. With a short introduction educating English readers on the American context of the poem. BAL 7433.
331. Station. Iowa City: Ocotillo Press, 1973.
$50
Edition limited to 80 copies in Bembo "printed ... under Kay Amert" on Fabriano, 8vo, pp. [20]; fine copy in original tan pictorial wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded the Toothpaste Press and Coffee House Press.
This copy inscribed by Harvey: "For Allan, Iowa City Public Works, 02 January 1974.".
Iowa State, Univ. of Iowa, Loras, Univ. of Utah an Utah State in OCLC.
332. A sense of humour. Drawing by Dave Morice. West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1983.
$45
Edition limited to 200 numbered and signed copies by Hawkins and Morice (this, no. 30); oblong 12mo, pp. [12]; title page printed in red and black; fine in original decorative wrappers.
"Printed in celebration of the author's reading at St. Catherine's College as part of the Walker Art Center Reading series."
333. Three winter poems. [Lisbon, Iowa]: printed for the Friends of the Penumbra Press to celebrate and welcome The New Year, 1973.
$75
Edition limited to 90 copies on Gekkeikan (this, no. 12), this one of 45 in Kurotani wrappers; 12mo, pp. [14]; title page printed in brown and black; woodcut frontispiece; fine copy in original blindstamped wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker.
Hand-set and printed by Bonnie O'Connell.
334. Story of the barn. [Hindsboro, Illinois]: Nemesis Press, 1975.
$85
Edition limited to 50 copies printed by the author and designed by Christine Frey; oblong 4to, pp. [4]; printed in red and black in double columns; original black wrappers printed in orange; very good. From the library of Kim Merker.
University of Chicago only in OCLC.
335. Shards and scarabs from Egypt. [New York]: The Harbor Press, 1931.
$50
First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 50, [4]; color frontispiece after a watercolor by the author plus 3 plates from photographs; original black cloth-backed marbled boards; near fine.
Ransom, Harbor Press, 62.
336. The illuminators ... A poem read at the installation of the Eta chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Massachusetts, at Wellesley College, January seventeenth MDCCCCV. [Campden, Gloucestershire: Essex House Press, August, 1905.]
$325
Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 132); folio (approx. 12½" x 8¾"), pp. 13, [1]; printed in blue, red and black; strapwork, pictorial initials and ornamentation; original printed brown wrappers; a few nicks in the margins; near fine.
Hazard (1856-1945) was a Rhode Island educator, philanthropist, and author. She served as the fifth president of Wellesley College, from 1899 to 1910.
337. Moses resisted. A poem, in twelve cantos. Nashville, Tenn.: Press of Haynes & Camp, 1881.
$100
First edition, 8vo, pp. 129, [1]; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; a small mark on the front free flyleaf and previous owner's bookplate; very good, bright, and sound.
Inscribed by the author in pencil on the flyleaf, "With the compliments of W. T. Helms, Nashville, Tenn." One small correction in pencil in the table of contents, likely authorial.
338. 12 prose poems. [Brooklyn]: Clown War Press, 1976.
$45
First edition, 8vo, pp. [20]; drawings by the author; original pictorial self-wrappers; fine.
339. Skipped stones / Faces in time. Cedar Falls, Iowa: Corycian Press, 1994.
$50
Edition limited to 200 copies printed at Congdon Printing and designed by Philip M. Fass; small square 4to, consisting of 32 leaves printed in Optima on 28 pound Gilbert Gilclear; original portfolio with string-and-button closure; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy is unsigned.
Harvey Hess (1939-2012) was an American poet, librettist, educator, arts critic and theologian. Harvey specialized in poetry with meter and rhyme systems, lyrics for musical setting, and Japanese poetic forms tanka, senryu and haiku.[7] Five books of his poetry have been published. See Wikipedia for more.
340. Blackwell's Miracle. Volume I, number 1: Summer's end. Bakersfield, CA: Cypress Publications, [1970?].
$60
4to, pp. [2], 30, [2]; printed from typescript; 6 illustrations (4 full-page) by Alan Fields, Cindy Odom, and Candice Macbeth; original pictorial wrappers by Bill Rahn, side-stapled; near fine.
"A San Joaquin quarterly." Contributions by Nik Zachreson, Michael Tanner, Doug Odom, and Linda Burge. Apparently the only issue. OCLC locates two holdings (Davis and UCLA), each with just this first number.
341. Kill series. I: Last. II. Dream of Bones. III. Knives Wake [and 9 others]. Los Angeles: Arundel Press, 1992.
$150
Edition limited to 225 copies signed by the author (this, no. 40), 8vo, pp. [20]; typographic design and 3 illustrations from pencil drawings by Gerald Lange, the Bieler Press, Los Angeles; photopolymer plates made by Patrick Reagh and printed letterpress on dampened handmade Fabriano Umbria Bianco paper by Emily Mason Strayer at the Kutenai Press; fine in original black cloth-backed spine with black marbled paper over boards.
A collection of 12 poems inspired by Desert Storm.
342. Bartering ivory. Iowa City: Ausable Press, 1975.
$500
Edition limited to 100 copies (this, no. 95), "printed on Beckett Text with Perpetua types," 8vo, pp. [12]; original printed black wrappers; some toning at the edges, else about fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
I had thought this might have been Hillman's first book, but searching OCLC I noticed a book, also published in 1975, Case History and Other Poems, by Brenda Hillman and Colin Simms. So, I tracked Ms. Hillman down and she sent a speedy reply: "Bartering Ivory was printed by the poet Chase Twichell when we were in a printing class as graduate students at University of Iowa Writers Workshop. I printed her chapbook of poems as well. My very earliest publications were of course in high school and college magazines, but Case History would be my first chapbook publication [together with Colin Simms]. I never met Colin Simms, but he solicited my work while I was living in England for a time, and he printed that little booklet ... I think that would be my first publication, officially."
So, Bartering Ivory would have been her second book, but the first written entirely by herself.
Arizona, Yale, Virginia, and University of Reading in OCLC.
343. The man upstairs. [Madison]: Modine Gunch, 1971.
$100
Edition limited to 250 copies, square 4to, pp. [20]; 4 illustrations from photographs; pictorial card wrappers; light edge wear but generally fine. From the Modine Gunch Press poetry booklet series, published by the Wisconsin Union Literary Committee. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
This copy inscribed by Hilton: "For Allan, the greatest guy in the world, Dave. June 1, '72."
Topical poems on the Vietnam War, Iowa, the U. S. Government, etc.
Wisconsin (2), Bowling Green, and George Washington University in OCLC.
344. [Newport.] Sestina of the Newport tricentenary and other Newport poems. Newport: printed by Remington Ward, 1939.
$50
4to, pp. 54, [4]; later blue cloth with original front wrapper laid down; very good.
Signed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the front flyleaf.
Many of these poems first appeared in the Newport Herald.
345. Renewal. Poems by.... Muscaine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1940.
$45
Edition limited to 250 copies, 8vo, pp. [10], 15-71, [1]; fine copy in original linen, stamped in brown on spine. From the library of Kim Merker.
Cheever 33.
346. Mining camp melodies. Butte, MT: Oates & Roberts Press, 1924.
$90
8vo; pp. [8], 1-120; original maroon cloth, gilt lettering on front cover; spine extremities slightly scuffed; otherwise very good.
Holliday regarded Butte as the "greatest mining camp on earth." The book is comprised of light-hearted poems and songs that celebrate life in mining country.
347. Doubletalk. [Iowa City: [privately printed by] T. G. Miller, 1969].
$250
Edition limited to 240 copies printed on Curtis Rag paper in Palatino type, signed by Hollo and Berrigan; narrow folio (11¼" x 4½"), pp. [4] gatefolded; original green printed wrappers; fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
Hollo's poem "He She Because How" parallel with Berrigan's "Poem of Morning," with a portrait of each poet. These poems were written while Hollo was visiting professor at the Iowa Writers Workshop and Berrigan was teaching there for a year.
348. Doubletalk. [Iowa City: [privately printed by] T. G. Miller, 1969].
$425
Edition limited to 240 copies printed on Curtis Rag paper in Palatino type, signed by Hollo and Berrigan; narrow folio (11¼" x 4½"), pp. [4] gatefolded; original green printed wrappers; fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
This copy inscribed by Berrigan "For Peter from Ted / Ann Arbor, October 1969" and with a small correction in ink to the last stanza of his poem.
Hollo's poem "He She Because How" parallel with Berrigan's "Poem of morning," with a portrait of each poet. These poems were written while Hollo was visiting professor at the Iowa Writers Workshop and Berrigan was teaching there for a year.
349. [Hollo, Anselm, translator.] Serious poems. Minneapolis: Rain Taxi, [2000].
$50
First edition in English limited to 300 copies, this the letter F of 26 signed copies; 8vo, pp. 35, [3]; fine copy in decorative color wrappers. This copy signed by both Nieminen and Hollo on the title page.
Issued as no. 5 in the publisher's Brainstorm series.
350. Black book no. 1. Conway, N.H.: Walker's Pond Press, 1975.
$45
First edition of the first issue of this poetry magazine, each issue featuring the work of a single author; 8vo, pp. 45, [1]; light soil, else near fine in original printed wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
This copy inscribed: "To Allen [sic] & Cinda Kornblum - oh, let the good times roll! (such good ones in West Branch), love, Anselm 2-17-75 E-Lansing."
351. Curious data. [Buffalo: White Pine Press, 1978].
$45
First edition, 8vo, pp. [20]; printed from typescript; fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
This copy with a presentation from Hollo to Kornblum and his wife: "For Allan and Cinda, dear fellow data-accumulators & - " - generators -- w/ love, Anselm. Aug. '78, W. Branch." Also with 3 corrections in the text, likely authorial.
352. Gee Apollinaire: birth of a poem, a documentary poem. Iowa City: Nomad Press, [1970].
$50
Edition limited to 178 copies, printed by T. G. Miller on Hosho paper using Spectrum type, this one of 152 copies unsigned; this copy also out of series; oblong 8vo, pp. [12]; original plain blue wrappers with silver wrap-around label; a little wrinkling, but on the whole, near fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
This copy inscribed by Hollo: "For Allen [sic] & Cinda - GREAT to see you again! - & all love - Anselm. 2-8-75 W. Branch."
353. [Hollo, Anselm.] Selected poems. Edited and translated from the Finnish by Anselm Hollo. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968.
$85
First edition in English, wrapper issue; this one of 1000 such for the American market; small 4to, pp. [70]; the text is lightly toned, else a fine copy in original blue pictorial wrappers stamped in red and silver. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
This copy with an inscription: "For Allan [small drawing of an apple speaking the words, 'nice day'), from Dave after TILT." Dave is likely David Morice, the American writer, visual artist, performance artist, and educator. Tilt was a self-illustrated book by Morice which was published by Allan Kornblum at his Toothpaste Press in 1971.
354. Maya. Works 1959-1969. London: Cape Gollard Press, in association with Grossman Publisher, New York, [1970].
$100
First edition, wrapper issue, 8vo, pp. [8], [2], 141, [1]; the first 8 pages printed in red on beige paper; some light toning to the covers, else about fine. There was also an issue of 50 copies signed and in boards. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
This copy with Kornblum's ownership signature inside the upper cover, and with a presentation from Hollo to Kornblum and his wife Cinda on the title page: "For Allen [sic] and Cinda - & all the good times, xi / 71 Iowa City. Anselm."
355. Motes. Baltimore: Joujouka Toujours, 1976.
$100
First edition limited to 60 numbred I-X, and 11-60 (this, copy no. X), 8vo, pp. [24]; printed from typescript; fine in original pictorial yellow wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
This copy inscribed by Hollo on the blank flyleaf: "For Allan & Cinda - love & greetings, hasta luego, Anselm. I/IX/76."
356. No complaints. West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1983.
$75
Edition limited to 1,075 copies, this one of 100 signed by the author; 8vo, pp. 45, [3]; title-page illustration by Joe Giordano, title page printed in red and black; original gray cloth-backed orange paper-covered boards; the text handset by David Duer, designed and printed by Allan Kornblum.
357. From court to court. A collection of verses touching upon the ancient, popular, and sacred rite of divorce. Sioux Falls, SD: Press of Will A. Beach, 1905.
$75
First edition, 16mo, pp. [3]-61, [1]; woodcut initials and vignettes; a very good copy in original pictorial black cloth stamped and lettered in red on the upper cover. Privately printed and produced in a limited, but unspecified edition.
358. Happy days ... By C. E. Holmes. [Aberdeen, SD: News Printing Co.,, ca. 1900].
$100
First edition, 12mo, pp. [6], 72; title-page with decorative ornaments; original light gray cloth, decorative design stamped in gilt on front cover; covers a bit smudged and former owner's inkstamps and signature on front endpapers, else very good. Attractive cover design by J. H. Snyder.
Holmes (1868-1926), a Connecticut native and Yale graduate, taught in South Dakota schools 1894 - 1899 and published prolifically in newspapers and periodicals. "Holmes' best poems are found in his little volume entitled 'Happy Days.' Among them are 'The Cowboy's Sweetheart,' and 'The Cake Walk'" (Coursey, Literature of South Dakota, p. 124).
359. The carrier's dream and the Broomstick Train. The carrier boys of the Salem Gazette and Essex County Mercury to their patrons. Salem: [publisher not identified], 1891.
$375
First edition, 8vo, pp. 12; self-wrappers, stitched, as issued; light fade mark on first leaf, else fine; laid into a library folder with printed label on spine.
BAL 9207: "The Broomstick Train, pp. [9]-12, reprinted from Over the Teacups (Nov. 1890)."
Uncommon: OCLC locates the LC, Texas, Brown, Washington Univ., and Clarke History Library only.
360. Astraea: the balance of illusions. A poem delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College, August 14, 1850. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.
$200
First edition, 8vo, 4pp. ads between front endpapers, pp. 39, [1]; original glazed cream-yellow paper-covered boards, slight rubbing, one small crack starting at upper joint, generally a fine copy of a fragile book.
First printing, state "A" with ampersand in printer's imprint on copyright page set above the line, and signature mark 3 on p. 33 set under the "en" in "fragment," and in the earliest binding.
BAL 8757.
361. Somebody talks a lot. Chicago: Yellow Press, [1982].
$45
First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 54, [2]; fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum, fine press printer, poet, and founder of the Coffee House Press.
Inscribed "For Allan with thanks & best wishes, Paul Hoover 1/26/83."
362. A penetential [sic] primer. [Cummington, Mass.]: Cummington Press, 1945.
$150
Edition limited to 330 copies on Worthy Dacian, and printed in Centaur and Arrighi types in red and black; 8vo, pp. [34]; original plain wrappers with a printed wrap-around label on the upper cover and spine; extended edges of the wrappers creased and with several short tears (as is common); all else very good. From the library of Kim Merker.
Richmond 20.
363. The Amerindian coastline poem. [New York]: A Telephone Book, [1975].
$450
First edition of Howe's first collection of poetry, this one of 26 copies signed and lettered by the author and illustrator, Hugh Kepets (this is copy 'N'); 8vo, pp. [48]; near fine in original pictorial wrappers.
"Born in Buffalo, New York in 1940, Fanny Howe grew up in Cambridge and Boston. Her father was a noted lawyer and, later, a teacher at Harvard University. Her mother, Mary Manning, was born in Dublin and wrote plays and acted for the Abbey Theatre before moving to the United States. Her mother had been a close friend in Ireland with Samuel Beckett, and the entire remained friendly with him during his lifetime ... Howe is the author of numerous volumes of fiction for adults and younger adults, essays, and poetry. Her first collection of poetry was The Amerindian Coastline Poem in 1976, which was followed by Poem for a Single Palet (1981) and Alsace Lorraine (1982)" (pippoetry.blogspot.com).
364. The presence [drop title]. N.p., n.d.: [1908].
$450
Oblong 8vo, 7 leaves (the first and last blank); printed from typescript; string-bound into hand-lettered tan paper wrappers. Possibly a unique book.
The author is known only by an inscription on the front wrapper: "To E. W. H. on her eighty-second birthday, January 25th, 1908. / M. A. De W. H." The inscription is marred a bit by an ink pressing, but it is entirely legible.
A 64-line poem on finding Christ on earth. E. W. H. is clearly Eliza Whitney Howe (1826-1909), the third wife of the Rev. Bishop Mark Anthony DeWolf(e) Howe, married in 1857. And the presenter and poet is Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe, Jr., Eliza's son, and a prominent editor and author, winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1925.
Not found in OCLC. The poem is likely unpublished.
365. Invitation hymn. [Enfield, Mass.: S. Howe, 1838.]
$150
Small oblong broadside (approx. 6¼" x 7¾"), text in double column beneath the running head and woodcut incorporating masonic emblems; near fine.
Hymn in ten numbered stanzas; first line: "We're travelling home to heaven above, will you go?"
OCLC notes: Printed by Solomon Howe at Enfield, Mass., about 1838. Cf. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 1950, v. 60, p. 223. Another edition has a different woodcut with the caption: "Passage free accommodation lane."
Solomon Howe, printer, son of the Baptist minister and author Solomon Howe (1750-1835), printed with his brother John (1783-1845) in Greenwich and Enfield, Mass.; Solomon printed some broadsides with his own imprint in the 1830's.
AAS, Amherst, Brown, Mass. Historical, and Boston Athenaeum in OCLC. Not in American Imprints.
366. No love lost: a romance of travel. New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 1869.
$100
First edition, squarish 8vo, pp. 58; wood-engraved frontispiece and title page, 1 wood-engraved plate; spine and upper cover slightly sunned otherwise near fine and bright in original maroon cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover, beveled edges, a.e.g. BAL 9552.
367. The wake. San Francisco: The Auerhahn Press, 1963.
$100
First edition limited to 785 copies, this one of 750 of the regular edition; 8vo, pp. [36];original blue printed wrappers; edges lightly sunned, else near fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
Hoyem's first book. This copy inscribed by Hoyem to Allan Kornblum: "For Allan, in April 1989, Andrew Hoyem."
Founded by printer-poet Dave Haselwood in 1958, the Auerhahn Press published many key poets of the San Francisco Renaissance. Stated in advertisements appearing in Evergreen Review, Poetry, City Lights Journal and Big Table magazines, the press’s goal was “to re-marry good printing and writing,” and to this end the Auerhahn published 28 letterpress-printed titles between 1958 and 1964.
368. Human conditions. Iowa City, Iowa: Green River Press, 1976.
$50
Edition limited to 10 copies (this, no. 4); square 8vo, pp. [16]; 6 wood engravings; very good in original black cloth. From the library of Kim Merker.
In this copy there are at least 8 corrections in ink to typographical errors in the text.
Not found in OCLC.
369. A poem on industry. Addressed to the citizens of the United States of America. Philadelphia: printed for Mathew Carey, no. 118, Market-Street, October 14, 1794.
$275
First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, [3], 8-22; removed from binding; lacks the terminal ad leaf, otherwise very good.
An influential poem, combining the images of patriotism, manufacturing, and the work ethic. Humphreys was a colonel in the Revolutionary War and served as Washington's aide-de-camp.
Evans 27145; Sabin 33813; Wegelin 225.
370. The writings of Nancy Maria Hyde, of Norwich Conn., connected with a sketch of her life. Norwich, Conn.: Russell Hubbard, 1816.
$375
First edition, 12mo, pp. [5], 6-252; original printed gray paper-covered boards; front joint cracked, cords holding, covers rubbed, spine perished; all else good and sound. The last 10 pages constitute a subscribers' list of primarily Connecticut names. Ownership inscription on title page of Charles P. Huntington. No fewer than 13 Huntingtons in the subscribers' list, but not Charles P.
A collection of letters, poems, and journal entries by Nancy Maria Hyde (1792-1816), who died young from an illness. The writings were assembled by her classmate, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and published posthumously. BAL notes that the book was "edited, with commentary, by Mrs. Sigourney, anonymously. The dedicatory verse p. [3] and the final verses, pp. 234-241 are also probably by Mrs. Sigourney." Russell Hubbard, for his part, was the proprietor of the Norwich Courier.
BAL 17616; American Imprints 37903; Sabin 34125.
371. The Beloit poetry journal, vol. 14, no. 1. William Carlos Williams: a memorial chapbook. Beloit, WI: Beloit Poetry Journal, 1963.
$125
Staple-bound booklet, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, pp. 48; pictorial paper wrappers; light wear to covers, annotations in pen throughout, overall very good.
Although not stated, this is from the library of Israel "Izzy" Young, former owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York. The annotations in the book are his, and are severely critical of the poetry within: the note on the inside back cover reads, "I can't believe Williams begot only imitators."
372. Alaskana or Alaska in descriptive and legendary poems. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1894.
$100
Third edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 410; 20 plates from photographs; fine and bright in original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt, a.e.g.
373. The last of the Lenape, and other poems. Philadelphia: H. Perkins, 1839.
$100
First edition, 12mo, pp. 180; endpapers badly discolored, spine and covers a little faded, else a good copy or better in original brown floral embossed cloth. Janney (1801-1880) was a Quaker minister, reformer, and historian of some note in Virginia. He was active in the Hicksite division of his sect, was among the first and most outspoken advocates of abolition in the District of Columbia, and briefly served as a superintendent of Indian affairs. This book, Janney's first, is a compilation of verses on various subjects such nature, emotions, and elegies, and includes a section on scientific subjects such as light and electricity. Janney's "verses, although decorous, correct, and varied, lack wings. His reputation as an author deservedly rests on his prose works," which include a much reprinted biography of William Penn (1852), autobiographical Memoirs (1881), and the 4-volume History of the Religious Society of Friends, from its Rise to the Year 1828 (1860-67) (DAB V, 611).
374. Unholy sonnets. [West Chester, Pennsylvania]: Aralia Press, 1993.
$125
Edition limited to 100 copies, oblong 12mo, pp. [12]; title page printed in red and black; fine in original printed taupe wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker.
This copy inscribed on the colophon: "Kim - You probably never make mistakes like these! Love, Mike."
Printed by William Drenttel and Michael Peich.
375. Flagons and apples. Los Angeles: Grafton Publishing, 1912.
$500
First edition of the author's first book; small 8vo, pp. [8], 5-46; very good copy in original crem cloth-backed paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on upper cover and spine.
This is Jeffers's first book. 500 were printed.
Alberts 13.
376. Footsteps of departure. Iowa City: The Prairie Press, [1963].
$85
First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 13-63, [1]; title page printed in blue and black; fine copy in original black cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards, the dust jacket slightly toned, else fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
This copy inscribed by Jennings: "For Dr. Roberta Cornelius, President, Poetry Society of Virginia, with best wishes, Leslie N. Jennings." Also, with a tri-fold brochure printed in red and black consisting of an order form for the book as well as an announcement of the book having been selected by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the Fifty Books of the Year.
Cheever 135.
377. A sky empty of Orion ... Drawing by Janice Mae Schopfer. San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1985.
$200
Edition limited to 130 copies (this, no. 30) signed by the poet and illustrator, 8vo, pp. [6], 20, [3]; title page printed in blue and black; frontispiece by Schopfer printed in blue, yellow and brown; original gray cloth-backed marbled boards, spine stamped in black; a fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker.
378. Afrodisia. New Poems. New York: Hill & Wang, [1970].
$150
First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 150; original pictorial wrappers a little rubbed.
With a long inscription from the author to "Izzy who continues to be busy with active 'some' bodies and aiding (by not degrading) those many parasitic nobodies whom float floksy through the Folklore, no, Floc; I mean F***more, I mean..." and dated October 19, 1971, New York. Although not stated, this is from the library of Israel "Izzy" Young, former owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York.
Theodore "Ted" Joans was an American jazz poet, surrealist, trumpeter, and painter. His work stands at the intersection of several avant-garde streams and some have seen in it a precursor to the orality of the spoken-word movement (Wikipedia).
379. The man among the seals. Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, [1969].
$950
Edition limited to 260 copies, 8vo, pp. 55, [1]; original brown cloth, printed paper label on spine; fine in a near fine original glassine dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker.
This is Johnson's first book.
Berger, Printing & the Mind of Merker, 33: "When I first read Denis Johnson's poems, I thought, 'Of course I'm going to print them.' There are some wonderful poems here. He has since become an established novelist as well as a war correspondent in Iraq and will probably be a major literary figure as he goes on."
380. Cafe charivari charlatan chrom. Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1975.
$50
Edition limited to 200 copies, oblong 12mo, pp. [36]; fine in original printed tan wrappers. Composition at the Arif Press. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
Artist's book of concrete poetry, with ruled headlines page numbers, and selected entry words from Heath's English-German Dictionary (1906), from "bunk" to "Joe Lewis." The text of the book, including the title page, are solely the rubrics and page numbers appearing at the head of selected pages of that dictionary (the page numbers appear between the rubrics; thus, the title actually reads: Cafe 230 Charivari. Charlatan 231 Chrom.)
381. Corrected wronger poems of Alastair Johnston. Habitual own way. Photographs by Shelly Vogel. Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1981.
$150
First edition, 8vo, pp. [48]; photographs by Vogel on covers and dust jacket, plus 7 others in the text; fine copy in the dust jacket. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
This copy inscribed: "To Allan & Cinda with love Alaistair Johnson." The inscription is in red pencil and is a bit faint.
382. Valhalla the myths of Norseland. A saga, in twelve parts. San Francisco: Edward Bosqui & Co., 1878.
$100
12mo, pp. 156; publisher's red cloth gilt; stain to upper cover, text clean and sound, very good. An early California work, being a poetical retelling of the Norse sagas. The dedication is to De Witt Clinton, former Governor of the State of New York, and the author's grandfather.
383. Curriculum vitae. [Pittsburgh]: University of Pittsburgh Press, [1988].
$50
First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 57, [3]; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker.
Signed by Joseph on the title page, and with an inscription from him to Kim Merker on the half-title: "For Kim Merker, with the greatest admiration and respect for your life & work, and every good wish, Larry. January 1991, New York City."
384. Philo: an evangeliad. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1850.
$50
12mo, pp. 244, [6]; publisher's brown cloth, gilt title on spine; light edge wear, a couple pages with light foxing, first gathering shaken, very good.
Sylvester Judd is best known for his novels, particularly Margaret, a tale of the real and ideal, "virtually the only novel of the Transcendentalist movement," even though Judd himself denied being a part of that movement. "Judd’s Philo, An Evangeliad (1850), a verse drama, is a Unitarian fantasia of universal reform. It culminates in the abolition—by divine love expressed in human choice—of war, slavery, imprisonment, and poverty. Compared with Judd’s best rhythmic prose, Philo’s verse is awkward; despite homely and interesting metaphors, it lacks Margaret’s simultaneous earthiness and exaltedness. Yet Emerson liked Philo, and Judd’s friend Edward Everett Hale at one time 'seriously expected ‘Philo’ was to convert the world.'" (ANB)
385. A Donald Justice reader. Selected poetry and prose. Hanover & London: Middlebury College Press, [1991].
$100
First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 171, [7]; fine copy in the dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker.
This copy inscribed by Justice to Merker: "To Kim - Who could have made a better book of this, but it wasn't his deal. Don." Additionally, this copy is signed by Justice in full on the title page.
386. A local storm. Iowa City: Stone Wall Press & The Finial Press, 1963.
$100
First edition limited to 270 copies, 8vo, pp. [20]; last leaf is a fold-out; lightly faded at edges and lower corner creased, else very good in original printed green wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker.
Printed with A. Doyle Moore of the Finial Press.
Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 11.
387. Banjo dog. Poems and linocut illustrations by.... Riverside, University of California: printed by the Doc Press for Thaumatrope Press, 1995.
$125
Edition limited to "about 200 copies" signed by Justice; 8vo, pp. [16]; 4 linocuts, printed in gray and black; original die-cut black wrappers with red and yellow sun-like inset; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker.
"Designed and printed on an Imperial Press by Sidney Berger with the assistance of Lisa R. Bills [and others] and with help in design, printing, and binding from Michèle V. Cloonan. Deluxe copies [not this] bound by Roswitha Mott" (colophon).
388. Departures. [Iowa City]: Penumbra Press / Stone Wall Press, 1973.
$250
First edition, first issue, limited to 175 copies signed by Justice (this, no. 3); 8vo, pp. [8], 52, [6]; errata slip laid in; printed in red and black; original beige linen stamped in red on upper cover, printed paper label on spine printed in red; fine copy. Printed in Emerson types on Fabriano handmade paper. From the library of Kim Merker.
Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 53: "Printed as a joint publication with Bonnie O'Connell of the Penumbra Press ... Two issues are identified: the first begins (page 19 line 19) 'Then...,' with the erratum tipped in at the bottom of the page [here laid in]; the second begins at the same point with 'When...,' the corrected reading.
389. From a notebook. Iowa City: The Seamark Press, 1972.
$75
Edition limited to 317 copies printed on Shinsetsu from Emerson type, 16mo, pp. [48]; printed on rectos only; original olive cloth, printed paper label on spine; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker.
Printed by Kay Amert (1947-2008), Director of the Typography Laboratory at the University of Iowa, and Howard Zimmon of the Seamark Press.
Kay established her own imprint, the Seamark Press, in 1967, while she was still an undergraduate at Iowa. It published its first, somewhat tentative, book in 1969. In all she printed 14 books over a space of 16 years.
Kay’s colophons (where they are present at all) are laconic, and the size of the edition is often unstated. Where a number is given, it is usually between 200 and 300 copies. It appears, however, that the number of copies bound was often much smaller than the number printed.
390. Night light. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, [1967].
$450
First edition of Justice's second book; 8vo, pp. 77, [3]; fine copy in publisher's gray cloth and a near fine dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker.
This copy inscribed to Merker and his wife: "This copy is for / Kim & Con / who'd have designed things better / &, yes, kept the lights brighter, / longer. / Don Justice / March 1967." Also, one correction in ink by Justice on p. 21.
391. Selected poems. New York: Atheneum, 1979.
$125
First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], ix, [1], 137, [3]; spine of jacket slightly sunned and with one small break at the top of the back panel, else a fine copy in the dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker.
This copy inscribed by Justice to Merker: "For Kim Merker - first printer if not first cause, not from poker to poetry and back again, in long friendship - Donald Justice Nov. 19, 1979."
392. Sixteen poems. Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1970.
$100
First edition limited to 250 copies, 8vo, pp. [32]; generally a fine copy in original printed brown wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker.
Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 40: "I like this book; it's handsome, though now I think the title page is a little too large for the text. The printing is nice, the design is simple, the title page is good. I think it has a certain restrained elegance."
393. The sunset maker. Poems / stories / a memoir. New York: Atheneum, 1987..
$100
First edition, review copy, with publisher's slip printed in red and black, with prices, publication date, etc. laid in; 8vo, pp. [10], 73, [3]; fine copy in a fine, unclipped jacket. From the library of Kim Merker.
394. Three poems ... with drypoints by Virginia Piersol. [Iowa City: privately printed at the Typographic Laboratory of the University of Iowa, n.d., [1966].
$600
First edition limited to 19 copies (this, no. 4), 8vo, pp. [16]; 4 drypoint etchings (3 full-page); original blue paper wrappers; fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
This copy inscribed, albeit faintly, "For Kim Merker" in an unknown hand.
Delaware and Buffalo only in OCLC.
395. Tremayne. Four poems. [Iowa City]: Windhover Press, [1984].
$65
Edition limited to 210 copies, 8vo, pp. [10]; title page printed in blue and black; original pictorial brown wrappers by Laurence Donovan; small spot on back cover, else fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
Berger, Printing & the Mind of Merker, 84: These poems ... are Don Justice's variations on the Robinson poems in the Weldon Kees book [Collected Poems, Stone Wall Press, 1960]. Don has been influenced by Kees. There are only four of these and I wanted to get them into print."
396. Mechos. Paisley: Gleniffer Press, 1982.
$75
First edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 10); narrow folio (approx. 11¾" x 4¼"), [14] leaves printed on rectos only; a few little smudge marks on the binding, else near fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded the Toothpaste Press and Coffee House Press.
This copy inscribed to Allan Kornblum and his wife, Cinda: " 6/82 / To A. & C. w/ [heart] / [flower] / Edward Kaplan."
397. How we missed Belgium. [Minneapolis]: Milkweed Editions, 1984.
$100
First edition, 8vo, pp. 48; generally fine in original pictorial wrappers.
Published in Milkweed's Mountains in Minnesota series.
398. Dear anyone. Poems by.... Lisbon, Iowa: Penumbra Press, [1976].
$100
Edition limited to 200 copies, (this, no. 19 and one of 100 case bound) signed by the poet and printed by Bonnie P. O'Connell on White Hosho from Centaur and Arrighi types; frontispiece illustration from a snapshot of the poets' father; 8vo, pp. [5], 7-28, [3]; original gray cloth, printed gray cloth label on spine; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker.
399. Twenty-six poems. n.p.: privately printed, 2009.
$45
Edition limited to 100 copies printed by Michael & Winifred Bixler, this the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, not signed, and marked 'binder's copy" in pencil on the colophon; slim 8vo, pp. [6], 11-43, [3]; title page printed in red and black; original green cloth, title blindstamped on upper cover, printed paper label on spine; fine. Designed by Howard I. Gralla, New Haven.
400. Five lost poems. With an engraving by Barry Moser. Iowa City: Windhover Press, [1995].
$85
Edition limited to 250 copies, 8vo, pp. [18]; die-cut title page revealing part of the full-page wood engraving by Moser; fine in original blue paper wrappers. Bound by Larry Yerkes in a limp cover of Timothy Barrett's blue flax paper. From the library of Kim Merker.
Introduction by James Reidel.
Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 105: "Barry Moser as an act of kindness agreed to do an engraving for the book. I sent him a number of photographs of Kees and he came up with a three-part image ... each part of which carries a different part of Kees's face from a different photograph."
Gillane & Niemi A.I.21.