601. Innocent. Poems by.... Princeton [St. Paul]: Kutenai Press, 1998.
$50
Edition limited to 300 copies signed by the poet, the illustrator, and the printer (this, no. 14), 8vo, pp. [48]; 2 illustrations by Seitu Jones; original blue printed paper wrappers made of cotton and raw flax by Mary Hark; fine.
602. Three poems ... set into type by SP at The Windhover Press. Iowa City: n.d..
$150
Broadside (approx. 20" x 13"), text in triple column, each ruled and each accommodating a poem ("Prisoner," "Language," and "Now"); fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker.
Emory only in OCLC.
603. The hunters. [Iowa City]: The Finial Press, 1967.
$85
"A secret edition of 9 copies unsigned & unauthorized by the author, Sherman Paul," 8vo, pp. [4] on double leaves; inscribed on the verso of the second leaf, "Signed & authorized by the author, Sherman Paul, Iowa City 1967." Fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
Designed and printed by Alvin Doyle Moore at the Finial Press.
Illinois only in OCLC.
604. Circles, spaces & gaps. Three poems.... Iowa City, Iowa: The Underhill Press, 1996.
$75
Edition limited to 25 copies, 8vo, pp. [12]; fine in original embossed blue wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker.
This copy inscribed by Pedelty on the colophon: "For Kim, Thank you for all you've taught me in the last year and for letting me do this project. Of all the things I've done in college, this is the one I'll always treasure. H. J. Pedelty."
Not found in OCLC.
605. Rings of light. [West Chester, Pennsylvania]: Aralia Press, 1990.
$45
Edition limited to 120 copies printed from Spectrum types on Frankfurt Creme; 8vo, pp. [16]; title-page drawing by Fulvio Testa; fine in original taupe wrappers printed in black. From the library of Kim Merker.
This chapbook was "completed in time to celebrate the poet's sixteenth birthday, 17 August, 1990."
606. [Peich, Michael.] A remembrance: Michael Jasper Gioia. [West Chester, Pennsylvania?]: Michael Peich, [1988].
$65
8vo, pp. [12]; title page printed in blue and black; wood engraving of a tree on title page; original gray paper wrappers repeating the tree image on the upper cover; fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
Not an Aralia Press publication, per se, rather a personal printing effort for one of Michael's dear friends.
Clearly a limited edition of an unspecified number: "This remembrance was spoken by Dana Gioia on Sunday, December 20, 1987 at the North Yonkers Community Church in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. The edition was hand-printed by Michael Peich as a gift of love to Mary and Dana Gioia in memory of their son, Michael Jasper" (colophon).
607. Divided touch divided color: XII poems. Woodcuts by Peggy Fitzgerald. Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1995.
$75
Edition limited to 200 copies, small, thin folio, pp. xx, [2]; fine copy of an attractive book, designed by Kim Merker and printed by Don Howell, and in a blue paper-backed paste-paper binding by Pamela Spitzmueller. From the library of Kim Merker.
Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 104: "What had started out to be a very simple, undecorated book ... turned into a wonderful production on the part of everyone concerned."
608. Divided touch divided color: XII poems. Woodcuts by Peggy Fitzgerald. Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1995.
$750
Edition limited to 200 copies, small, thin folio, pp. xx, [2]; fine copy of an attractive book, designed by Kim Merker and printed by Don Howell, and in a blue paper-backed paste-paper binding by Pamela Spitzmueller. From the library of Kim Merker.
Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 104: "What had started out to be a very simple, undecorated book ... turned into a wonderful production on the part of everyone concerned."
This copy is accompanied by approximately 80 proof pages (mostly 11½" x 15" but a dozen or so half-page and quarter-page strips) by the illustrator, Peggy Fitzgerald, almost all of them with her notes in pencil regarding inking, placement, coloring, and the like.
609. Sketches in winter with crows. [New York]: Strawberry Press, 1984.
$100
Square 8vo, pp. [32]; vignette title page and 6 full-page illustrations by Peter Jemison, fine. Peter Blue Cloud is the 1981 recipient of the American Book Award, and member of the Turtle Clan, Mohawk Nation. Jemison is member of the Heron Clan, Seneca, and Director of the Gallery of American Indian Community House. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
610. Celebrities: in memory of Margaret Dumont dowager of the Marx Brothers movies (1890-1965). [Berkeley]: Somber Reptiles, 1981.
$125
Edition limited to 140 copies on Rives BFK, designed and printed by Mary Ann Hayden, 8vo (approx. 10¼" x 5¾"), pp. [8] (4 folded); color illustrations; original orange wrappers, pictorial label on upper cover; tiny creases at spine and corner extremities, else fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
Includes four poems by Peters: "Gertrude Stein," "Afloat with Robert Mitchum," "Envelope Please," and "Marlene Dietrich."
611. Eighteen poems.. N.p.: publisher not identified, n.d.
$125
Narrow folio, 11 x 4.25 inches, 15, [1] foliated leaves; staple bound in green wrappers; very good with some sunning and small stain to top of upper wrapper.
Inscribed by the author to Israel "Izzy" Young, former owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York on upper cover, Izzy's notes on lower cover.
612. [Phi Beta Kappa.] Commencement, a poem: or rather commencement of a poem. Recited before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, in their dining hall, in Cambridge, Aug. 29, 1811. By a brother. Salem: printed by Thomas C. Cushing, 1811.
$100
First edition, 8vo, pp. 8, self-wrappers; stitched, as issued; near fine. With a cryptic ink inscription on title page.
American Imprints 22394; Sabin 5344; Tapley, p. 421; Wegelin 863.
613. Sweethearts. Carrboro, N.C.: Truck Press, 1976.
$250
First edition limited to 400 copies of the poet's first book, 10 of which were in boards and signed; large 8vo, pp. [60]; photograph of the author by Brent Blair; composed and printed at the Regulator Press, Durham; wrappers toned and curled at the corners, small stain at the lower left edge of the front cover; all else very good in original pictorial wrappers.
This copy inscribed by Phillips, "For Allan & Cinda - in the Iowa heartland. Jayne Anne, April 19, 1978."
614. Nearing land. Port Townsend, Washington: Graywolf Press, [1975].
$70
Edition limited to 312 copies, this one of 26 signed and numbered by the poet (this, no. 17), 8vo (approx. 9.5" x 6.5"), pp. [32]; gray paper covers with flaps, illustration on cover and title page; fine.
615. Error pursued. Iowa City: The Windhover Press, University of Iowa, 1959.
$250
Edition limited to 190 numbered copies (this, no. 22); 12mo, pp. [22]; original gray paper-covered boards; slight toning of the spine and edges, else near fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
This is Pinkerton's first book.
Berger, Printing & the Mind of Merker, 6: "Co-published with Harry Duncan at the Cummington Press. This is the book which Harry allowed the Stone Wall Press to share the imprint with the Cummington Press. When I did the same kind of thing in the future [with Bonnie O'Connell and with Kay Amert and Howard Zimmon], it was a continuation of Harry's generosity to me."
Richmond 67.
616. Error pursued. Iowa City: The Windhover Press, University of Iowa, 1959.
$375
Edition limited to 190 numbered copies (this, unnumbered, but one of the XL special copies in brown morocco-backed Laga paper-covered boards and gilt-stamped spine and publisher's slipcase); 12mo, pp. [22]; generally fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
This is Pinkerton's first book.
Berger, Printing & the Mind of Merker, 6: "Co-published with Harry Duncan at the Cummington Press. This is the book which Harry allowed the Stone Wall Press to share the imprint with the Cummington Press. When I did the same kind of thing in the future [with Bonnie O'Connell and with Kay Amert and Howard Zimmon], it was a continuation of Harry's generosity to me."
Richmond 67.
617. Meat and memory. Oak Park, IL: The Erie Street Press, [1987].
$85
First edition of the author's first book; 8vo, pp. 54; photographs by Paul Rosin; fine in original pictorial wrappers. Signed and dated by Pintonelli on the half title. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
618. Barbed wire and other poems. Iowa City: Midland Press, 1919.
$50
Second printing, 12mo, pp. [10], 125; original linen-backed boards, printed paper label on spine, and preserving the original printed dust jacket, with small chips out at the bottom of the spine, and at the bottom edge of the rear panel (neither with any loss of letterpress); jacket soiled; book is fine.
First printed in 1917.
619. Canterbury pilgrims. Iowa City: Clio Press, 1935.
$45
First edition, 8vo, pp. 59; original grey pictorial wrappers, generally fine. Inscription on half title page.
Whirling World Series no. 3.
620. Tease the tiger's nose ... Drawings by Dorothy Varian. Boston: Plowshare Press, 1965.
$65
First edition, wrapper issue; 8vo, 7½" x 5½", pp. [80]; yellow pictorial wrappers; some soiling, but generally very good or better.
This copy warmly inscribed in 1969 by Platov to Israel "Izzy" Young, former owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York. Also with an autograph postcard signed by Platov, offering this title on consignment to the Folklore Center.
621. Apocalypse rose. San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1966.
$50
First edition, 8vo, unpaged; original white pictorial wrappers, edges a bit toned, else fine.
Introduction by Allen Ginsberg.
622. Outrider. Nine poems [cover title]. [Iowa City, Iowa: Han-Job Press, privately printed at the Typographic Laboratory of the University of Iowa, n.d., ca. 1965].
$50
Printed in a limited edition of an unknown quantity, 8vo, pp. [20]; original cream wrappers printed in blue; text block not sewn evenly into wrappers, some toning at the edges, else near fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
This is almost certainly Polite's first book. OCLC notes the Yale, Southern Florida, Sarah Lawrence, Univ. of Victoria, and Minnesota-Duluth copies only.
623. Catawba: omens, prayers & songs. Port Townsend, Washington: Graywolf Press, 1977.
$50
Edition limited to 100 copies, signed and numbered (this no.7) by the poet, out of a total edition of 740, 8vo, pp. [2], 32, [4]; signed by the author on title page, maroon cloth, orange dust jacket with etching by Roy Nydorf printed on upper cover; jacket has a couple of small ink spots, else near fine.
A collection of 24 poems.
624. Drafts & fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII. London: Faber and Faber / Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1969.
$950
Edition limited to 310 copies signed by Pound (this, no. 229) and one of 100 for the British market with the imprint as above; small folio, pp. [2], 40, [2]; printed in red and black; original maroon cloth, printed paper label on spine, publisher's slipcase; small ink smudge on spine, otherwise fine, but without the laid-in errata slip. From the library of the printer, Kim Merker.
Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 27; Gallup A91d.
625. Drafts & fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII. [Iowa City]: New Directions / Stone Wall Press, 1969.
$1,250
Edition limited to 310 copies signed by Pound (this, no. 29) and one of 200 for the American market with the imprint as above; small folio, pp. [2], 40, [2]; printed in red and black; original maroon cloth, printed paper label on spine, publisher's slipcase; fine copy, including the laid-in errata slip. From the library of the printer, Kim Merker.
Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 27; Gallup A91d.
626. The cantos (1-95). New York: New Directions, [1956].
$75
Second printing, 8vo, various paginations; very good, sound copy in publisher's cloth and a rubbed but unclipped dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker.
627. The hidden airdrome and uncollected poems. Rowe, Masstts.: The Cummington Press, 1956.
$100
Edition limited to 170 copies "printed by HD and WMW"; 8vo, pp. 53, [3]; title-page illustration by Theodorus Stamos; 9 unbound gatherings (complete); fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
Richmond 62.
628. Muscipula sive cambromyomachia: the mouse-trap, or the battle of the Welsh and the mice; in Latin and English: with other poems, in different languages. By an American. New York: M. W. Dodd, [1840].
$300
First edition, 8vo, pp. 96; original brown cloth, stripe-grained, decorative blind-stamping; gilt lettering on front cover; spine extremities chipped down to textblock, mid-spine a bit chipped; corners scuffed; otherwise very good.
A collection of Greek, Latin, and French poems with corresponding English translations for the use of education. The poem Muscipula sive cambromyomachia was written anonymously by the neo-Latin poet Edward Holdsworth (1864-1746) and first published in London in 1709. Other poems in the volume were composed by the American essayist Benjamin Young Prime (1733-1791).
629. Rural lays and sketches, and other poems. Essex: printed by the author, 1845.
$125
First edition, 16mo, pp. 80, [1]; original brown cloth, blindstamped with title in gilt; boards and spine rubbed, text foxed and dampstained, one correction in pencil, good and sound.
With many poems on places of local interest, such as Chebacco River, Falls-Brook, a meeting-house of the First Religious Society in the West Parish of Gloucester (which prince calls the "Oldest church edifice standing in Essex"), Cape Ann Harbor, and so on, along with the occasional note to elaborate.
630. Borne on the wind. San Diego: privately printed [by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press, Muscatine], 1939.
$75
First edition, 8vo, pp. [16], 19-208; title page printed in red and black; original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine; near fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
Cheever 26.
631. Ragged homeless dogs. Champaign, Illinois: The Finial Press, 1975.
$150
Edition limited to 50 copies on Shinsetsu (this, no. 12); small folio, pp. [20] frenchfold, 6 wood engravings printed directly from the wood on the versos; near fine copy in original decorative orange boards. From the library of Kim Merker.
Printed as part of the graphic design program at the University of Illinois, "handset, printed and bound by: GG, DH, JJ, BM, PS, RS, WS, JW, MCF-W, [and] TW" (colophon).
Urbana only in OCLC.
632. Echoes. Boston: RIchard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1904.
$75
First edition, 12mo, pp. 55; title-page printed in red and black; original light orange cloth stamped in maroon with floral motif in the art nouveau style and lettered in gilt on front cover; small vertical tear on leaf 27/28, otherwise a handsome, near fine copy.
Religious-themed verse and prose, plus several poems of sentimental emotion.
633. Give me tomorrow ... with illustrations by Alex Katz. New York: Vehicle Editions, [1985].
$45
First edition limited to 1000 copies, folio, pp. [8], 11-44, [4]; original card wrappers and dust jacket, jacket a little chipped at the bottom edge; all else very good.
Contains portraits by Alex Katz of Ron Padgett, Rudy Burckhardt, Julian Lethbridge, Jayne Anne Phillips, Cynthia O'Neal, and others.
634. Lion lion. [London: Trigram Press, 1970].
$100
First trade edition, square 8vo, pp. [48]; printed in red and black; 5 plates; light soiling else near fine in original pictorial wraps. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
This copy inscribed "For Allan, waiting for the bus, regards Tom Raworth, Iowa City, Feb. 8 / 72."
635. The mask ... Poltroon Modern Poets volume one. Berkeley: [Poltroon Press], 1976.
$50
4to, pp. [58]; 3 full-page illustrations of masks, with perforated borders; original card wrappers with decorative dust jacket; fine copy. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
636. Tracking. [Bowling Green, N.Y.C.]: Doones Press, [1972].
$75
First edition printed in a limited but unspecified number; 4to, 11" x 8½", [9] leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; covers lightly spotted and toned, else near fine in original pictorial wrappers by Fielding Dawson, side-stapled. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
637. Sprie: Duane Caryl Spriestersbach. Dean of the Graduate College, 1965-1989, Vice-President for Research, 1966-1970, Vice-President for Educational Development & Research 1970-1989, Acting President, 1981-82. [Iowa City]: University of Iowa [printed by Kim Merker at the University of Iowa Center for the Book, 1989].
$2,500
Edition limited to 1 copy only, with 14 proof copies (of which this is one); 8vo, pp. [36]; title page "with a green turtle drawn by hand" by Glen Epstein; printed in green and black throughout on paper made by Timothy Barrett, and bound into stiff wrappers also made by Barrett; fine. From the library of the printer, Kim Merker.
On the colophon Merker has crossed out "The binding is by William Anthony," and has written in underneath, in ink, "The binding is by Larry Yerkes. The turtle on the title page is by Glen Epstein." The 14 proof copies were "for the people involved with the book" (Merker, in Berger's Printing and the Mind of Merker).
This copy inscribed by Spriestersbach in December, 1989: "To Kim / I will treasure this personalized evidence of the quality of the artisans associated with the Center for the Book and wish you all Godspeed. / Sprie." Also, with a one-page autograph letter signed from Sprie laid in: "I am delighted to have the copies and, as usual, they are printed in a form and style that I find overwhelming - and undeserved..."
Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 93: "D. C. Spriestersbach was my 'godfather' from the very beginning of my career at Iowa. Without him there would have been no Windhover Press or Center for the Book. He supported me, protected me, and helped me in hundreds of ways over the years."
Princeton, Utah, and Iowa only in OCLC.
638. Focus. Cambridge: Lowell-Adams House Printers, in Harvard Yard, 1966.
$350
Edition limited to 100 copies signed by the poet; 8vo, pp. [4]; full-page linocut illustration signed by the artist; original mustard-colored wrappers; fine.
A single sonnet signed.
639. Metacomet: a poem, of the North American Indians ... First American, from the London edition. London: John Wiley ... New York: Stanford & Swords ... Providence: John F. Moore, printer, 1851.
$150
12mo, pp. xxiii, [2], 26-47, [1]; original brown blindstamped cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover; fine.
This copy inscribed lightly in pencil on the front free endpaper: "Miss Alden / from the author."
Richmond (1808-1868) was a Providence native. This is the first and only published canto of his epic poem on King Philip, written while the author was an unwilling inmate at the McLean Asylum for the Insane at Somerville, Mass, and which seems to have been published to vindicate his sanity and to attack the medicos who pronounced him insane. A few years later he was murdered in Poughkeepsie.
Bartlett, p. 232; Sabin 71136.
640. "The Old Swimmin'-Hole" and 'leven more poems. Neighborly poems on friendship, grief, and farm-life by Benj. F. Johnson of Boone [i.e., James Whitcomb Riley]. Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1891.
$375
First edition, first printing, BAL's binding B; small 8vo, pp. ix, [5], 90; 6 plates (2 in color) and 1 full-p. illus. by Will Vawter; t.e.g, orig. maroon and tan cloth, gilt-lettered on spine and upper cover; extremities rubbed, title-page loosening; all else good and sound; 1/4 red morocco slipcase.
This copy signed on the title-p. "James Whitcomb Riley" and with a presentation on the front free endpaper "To Eugene Field, with hale Hoosier greetings James Whitcomb Riley," with the drawing of a naked boy on a river bank just above the inscription; additionally, the title-p. is also signed "Eugene Field, Chicago, Sept. 14, 1895" [3 days prior to the earliest presentation noted by BAL, and less than 2 months before Field died].
Laid in is a letter to a woman in St. Paul from Eugene Field, Jr. stating "This signed copy of 'Neighborly Poems' bearing the signatures of James Whitcomb Riley and Eugene Field, my father, courses direct from the Eugene Field estate." The letter is certainly original; the rest are likely forgeries of Henry Dayton Sickles.
BAL 16576.
641. Green fields and running brooks. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1895.
$175
Later edition, 8vo, pp. 224; publisher's green cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g.; binding unevenly sunned; contemporary presentation "to Rev. J.G. [?] Mackey, By J.M. Rickey," below which is added the author's signed inscription with 3-line manuscript poem starting "Lo! where is the beginning..."; contemporary bookplate on front pastedown; fine.
See BAL 16594 for the first (1893) edition.
642. His pa's romance. Illustrations by Will Vawter. Portrait by John Cecil Clay. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903.
$250
First edition, 8vo, pp. 168; portrait frontispiece, text illustrations throughout; publisher's green cloth, upper cover and decorative spine stamped in gilt, t.e.g.; edges scuffed, joints cracked; some spotting throughout, else interior very good.
Affectionately inscribed "James A. Marine, Esq., From his ever-loving nephew, James Whitcomb Riley, July 29, 1909".
BAL 16666.
643. The flying islands of the night. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1892.
$75
First edition, first issue, binding A, as noted by BAL; 8vo, pp. 88; publisher's white flexible boards embossed with a decorative design of cherub heads, upper cover lettered in silver, white printed dust jacket; jacket edges and spine (tape repair) toned, shallow chips and tears along jacket edges not affecting text; front hinge loosening, contemporary bookplate on front pastedown; textblock fine.
BAL 16587.
644. The poems and prose sketches. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914.
$2,500
Volumes XV and XVI of the Homestead Edition, comprising Early Poems and Fugitive Pieces; 8vo, pp. [2], xi, [1], 268; [2], xi, [1], 227; contemporary full brown crushed levant, quadruple gilt rules on covers enclosing central arabesques with green morocco onlays, arabesques and onlays in corners, matching motif on gilt-decorated spines in 6 compartments, gilt lettered in 2, full doublures of green crushed levant, moiré endpapers; 2 gravure frontispiece portraits plus 38 original watercolors throughout, comprising title vignettes, marginal decorations, head- and tail-pieces, etc., showing agricultural and pastoral scenes, spiders, fish, butterflies, books, and art deco designs and ornamentation. In a brown cloth slipcase.
645. For those in the know. Poems. Iowa City: Meadow Press, 1976.
$45
Edition limited to 200 copies (this, no. 32) signed by the poet; 8vo, pp. [20]; woodcuts and the binding by the printer, Leigh McLellan; original mustard wrappers printed in black; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker.
"Handset and handprinted in two colors by Leigh McLellan with Palatino and American Uncial types on Nideggen, a mould made paper, and sewn into paper wrappers."
646. The children of the night. Boston: Richard G. Badger & Co., 1897.
$325
First edition of the author's second book, edition limited to 550 copies, this 1/500 on Batchworth laid paper, 12mo, pp. [8], vii-ix, [1], 11-123, [1]; old portrait of Robinson from a newspaper tipped to the blank recto of p. [1], old ownership stamp of Geo. H. Marr at the bottom of the title page; all else near fine copy in original decorative cloth after a design by T. B. Hapgood, Jr.
A seminal book of poetry, containing some of Robinson's most famous work, including Luke Havergal and Richard Cory.
647. [Deibig-Lacaria, Judith.] How I love. 7 poems ... with original woodcuts by Judith Deibig-Lacaria. Madison, Wisconsin: The Pantagruel Press, 1968.
$150
Edition limited to 34 copies, 8vo, pp. [16]; original brown card wrappers and pictorial dust jacket; generally fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
Hand-set and printed by Judith Deibig-Lacaria in Palatino, roman and italic, on hand made Torinoko paper. Created for Walter Hamady's class, Print Layout and Design, at the University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin and Michigan State only in OCLC.
648. Life, love, and the weather. Cleveland: Rowfant Club, 1945.
$65
Edition limited to 212 copies printed by the Marchbanks Press, 12mo, pp. 123; title-page printed in red and black; very good in original black cloth-backed orange paper-covered boards, gilt spine, gray paper label on upper cover.
A collection of poems first appearing in publications such as The Saturday Review of Literature and the Saturday Evening Post.
Rowfant Bibliography 1925-1962, p. 47.
649. [Stone Wall Press.] Sequence ... sometimes metaphysical. With wood engravings by John Roy. Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1963.
$425
Edition limited to 330 copies (copies I-LX are signed by Roethke and the engraver); this copy unnumbered; 8vo, pp. [32]; 14 full-page wood engravings by Roy; original russet paper-covered boards, gilt-stamped spine, publisher's slipcase; fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 13: I was printing at this time in my basement and not making any money ... I loved Theodore Roethke's poetry. We corresponded and he finally agreed to let me do this sequence." Roethke died before the book was completed.
650. Sequence ... sometimes metaphysical. With wood engravings by John Roy. Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1963.
$2,500
Edition limited to 330 copies, of which copy numbers I-LX are signed by Roethke and the wood engraver, John Roy; this is copy LXIX, signed by both; 8vo, pp. [32]; 14 full-page wood engravings by Roy; original russet morocco-backed pictorial boards, gilt-stamped spine, publisher's slipcase; fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 13: "I was printing at this time in my basement and not making any money ... I loved Theodore Roethke's poetry. We corresponded and he finally agreed to let me do this sequence ... ." Roethke died before the book was completed.
651. A poem, on liberty and equality. Albany: printed for the author at the office of the Albany Centinel, Court Street, 1804.
$75
First edition, 12mo, pp. 29, [3]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; title page stained and foxed, penetrating into a couple of the following pages, a few shallow chips, first and last leaf starting to separate, fair to good.
"A half satirical attempt to give a historic and philosophic basis to the ideas of liberty and equality." Poorly reviewed in Otis' American Verse, where he calls it an example of "the depth to which college verse can sometimes sink." (American Verse, 1625-1807)
American Imprints 7206
652. Moon. Poems by... Illustrated by R. W. Scholes. Saint Paul: Bieler Press, 1984.
$50
Edition limited to 150 copies signed by the poet and the illustrator, this copy not numbered; 8vo, pp. 76, [4]; 3 scratchboard illustrations by Randy Scholes printed in blue, gray buckram-backed linen-covered boards, lettered in gray on upper cover and spine; fine.
Romtvedt's first book-length poetry collection.
Smith, Bieler, 32: "A winning entry in the A.I.G.A. Book Show, the Chicago Book Clinic Exhibit, and the Type Directors Club Awards Exhibit."
653. American sampler. A selection of new poetry edited by.... Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1951.
$85
First edition (700 copies printed), 8vo, pp. [12], 15-70, [6]; title page printed in red and black; fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker.
Among the contributing poets are Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, Richard Eberhart, Kenneth Pachen, Randall Jarrell, Weldon Kees, and Richard Wilbur, among others.
Cheever 96.
654. Sweet substitute ... Front and back covers by Rochelle Kraut. Chicago: Yellow Press, 1973.
$125
First edition limited to 200 copies, 25 of which were signed and numbered; 4to, 11" x 8½", [23] leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; covers lightly spotted and toned, else near fine in original hand-colored pictorial wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
Inscribed on the title page "For Allan, Bob Rosenthal." Also signed by Rochelle Kraut.
655. Evergreen review vol. 1 no. 2. The San Francisco scene. New York: Grove Press Inc., 1957.
$50
8vo, pp.159, [1]; 8 pages of plates; pictorial paper wrappers, wrappers soiled, spine and joints rubbed and creased, edges foxed, textblock clean with a few pencil marks on table of contents and owner's inscription on final page, good.
Featuring the leading figures of the "San Francisco Renaissance," including Ginsberg, Miller, Kerouac, Rumaker, Snyder, Spicer, Ferlinghetti, etc.
656. The offering: a collection of prose and poetry. Hardwick, Mass.: James L. Ruggles, 1848.
$150
First edition, 8vo, pp. 64; original printed tan wrappers, upper cover creased, a couple pages foxed, very good. James Ruggles started losing his sight at a young age, and by adulthood was completely blind. He was nonetheless well educated and inherited his father's farm. Only 7 in OCLC, all on the east coast.
657. Gardening. Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1960.
$85
Edition limited to 150 numbered copies signed by Rutsala (this, no. 138); tall 8vo, pp [4]; double-fold; fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, A2: David Knudsen (Merker A1) and Gardening were preliminary tests for the [Collected Poems of Weldon Kees]. I'm not sure what I learned but that was the reason for them. I used them as gifts to people who were buying books from the press."
658. Small songs. A sequence.... Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1969.
$50
Edition limited to 180 copies; 12mo, pp [2], 15, [1]; fine in original printed blue wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker.
Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 34: "I like this little book a great deal. The poems are very sad and very nice. ... I think the things I have done best are small-format pieces."
659. World without words. Poems ... translated by Takako Uchino Lento. Champaign, Illinois: The Ceres Press, 1971.
$45
8vo, pp. [26]; original taupe wrappers; fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
Printed in a limited but unspecified number. Tamura was born in Tokyo in 1923. He was a Japanese poet, essayist and translator of English language novels, notably Agatha Christie, and poetry, and was a Guest Poet at University of Iowa, 1967-68. World Without Words was originally published in Japanese in 1962. This appears to be his first book in English.
660. Typefoundry. Madison: Bieler Press, 1978.
$100
Broadside (approx. 13" x 9¾"), edition limited to "150 copies designed and hand printed by Gerald Lange in celebration of the third anniversary of the Bieler Press," (this, no. 68), printed in green and black, and with an embossed lizard; signed by the author; fine.
Smith, Bieler, 7.
661. Starman and the two sisters. [West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press, 1980.
$50
Edition limited to 125 signed and numbered copies, 10" x 13" letterpress broadside, printed on occasion of the author's reading at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Peich, p. 15.
662. Chicago poems. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916 [printed March 1922].
$175
8vo, pp. xi, [1], 183, [1], [2] ads; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover and spinel spine a bit dull, pages toned; good or better.
Signed by Sandburg on the title page.
From the library of Mary Celia Kimber, Chicago Illinois with her ownership signature on the front free endpaper, and her notation of "Goucher College / Baltimore, MD, May 1923," and a subsequent inscription noting "University of Illinois / Champaign, Ill. 1923-24." Her University of Illinois bookplate is on the front pastedown. Four of the poems have annotations by her as well.
From the library of Kim Merker, likely a relative of Mary Celia.
663. Smoke and steel. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1920].
$125
8vo, pp. ix, [1], 268; original deep green cloth stamped in orange on upper cover and spine; very good copy.
Signed by Sandburg on the verso of the front flyleaf. Dedicated to photographer Edward Steichen, whose sister was married to Sandburg. The book was first published by Harcourt, Brace and Howe in 1920, which became Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1921 after Will David Howe left the firm. Hence, this is a later printing of Sandburg's fourth collection of poetry.
664. [Sanders, Ed.] The Ed Sanders story. N.p., n.d. [likely New York: 1964].
$1,750
8½" x 11", 3-page mimeograph printed from typescript; some toning and curling at the edges; all else very good.
Ostensibly inscribed by Ed Sanders to Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) at the top of the first page in ink: "to Ted Berrigan, my ideal love, Ed." In fact, it's inscribed by Berrigan, facetiously. Berrigan (1934-1983) was an American poet, married to Alice Notley, and a significant figure in the New York School of Poets.
Ostensibly, a biographical sketch - but no. It's eroticism, drug-taking, yoghurt-taking, the FBI, and seeing God, almost certainly written by Berrigan as a pastiche of Sanders and the Sanders persona.
Not found in OCLC, and almost certainly printed in a very small edition. No mention in Clay & Phillips.
665. On the question of body tones. [Buffalo]: T. Dreamer and M. Morgulis, [1976].
$100
Broadside approx. 16¾" x 11", limited to 150 copies (this, no. 79); fine. The first 50 were signed by Sanders.
Buffalo and Connecticut only in OCLC.
666. The poem beginning ...A poem by Sappho. [West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger Editions, 1983.
$150
Letterpress broadside, edition limited to 90 numbered copies (this, marked 'os'), approx. 13" x 10", printed in red and black; printed on the occasion of the author's reading at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 3, 1983. This copy signed by Sanders. Greek phrase in red letters below title information. Calligraphy by Glen Epstein.
Only 2 in OCLC: Connecticut and Chapel Hill. Also included in the Bookslinger Twenty-one Broadsides portfolio, 1982-83.
667. The cutting prow. Santa Barbara: Am Here Books / Immediate Editions, [1981].
$45
4to, [21] leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; illustrated with line drawings and diagrams; original pictorial wrappers; side-stapled; fine.
My friend and colleague Mark Gustafson notes: "The Fug, Sappho-lover, glyph-master poet does it again."
668. Memoir of Mrs. Julia H. Scott; with her poems, and selections from her prose. Boston: Abel Tompkins, 1853.
$125
First edition, 8vo, pp. [3], iv-viii, 13-432; engraved frontispiece of Julia H. Scott; original black cloth with publisher's monogram; gilt spine lettering; spine extremities scuffed; some cracking of the cloth along the upper joint; light foxing; mild dampstain in lower inner margin pp. [1]-185; otherwise very good.
Bookseller sticker of H. A. Lantz of Reading, PA in upper left corner of front pastedown.
Julia H. Scott was well-known in Universalist circles and frequently published in Universalist newspapers.
669. Lazro. Iowa City: Childs Press, 1974.
$45
Edition limited to 25 copies "hand-printed in Octavian types on Warren's Old Style paper by CMS for GMS for his tenth birthday," 8vo, pp. [12]; original gray printed wrappers. Fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
A short story by the ten-year-old Gordon Sayer printed by his father. This is his first (of at least nine) books now published as an adult.
University of Iowa and Utah only in OCLC.
670. The arts anthology. Dartmouth verse 1925. With an introduction by Robert Frost. Portland, Maine: The Mosher Press, 1925.
$60
Edition limited to 500 copies printed on Van Gelder paper (this no. 262), small 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 56, [10]; title page printed in red and black; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback; printed title on spine; spine darkened, near fine. With a leaf of typescript poetry signed by Marshall Schacht inserted, and with one of his poems sporting some corrections in pen, likely in his hand.
A collection of student poetry meant as "a favorable indication rather than as an evidence of accomplishment." Robert Frost, in his introduction, reinforces this attitude, describing the poetry within as derivative but hopefully indicating potential. He calls out a poem by Richard A Lattimore as having merit. Lattimore would go on to be the most successful of the bunch, in terms of literature, with a career as classicist, poet, and translator of Homer. Marshall W. Schacht contributed three poems to the collection, and produced a single book of poetry, but does not appear to have gone further.
671. On returning. [Saint Paul]: Midnight Paper Sales, 1981.
$125
First edition limited to 70 copies of which this is no. 64, 12mo (approx. 6" x 4¾"), pp. [12];; blue pictorial wrappers, grey endsheets; magnesium plate made from a reduced image of a woodcut by Schanilec on title page; fine.
This copy without the small laser-printed broadside, beginning "The ninth section..." which was laid into all copies that were sold and/or distributed after 1991.
This was Schanilec's first attempt at poetry since his college days at the University of North Dakota.
Quarter to Midnight A.43: "I was sixteen when the moon stuck in my pocket. Thomas McGrath visited our school ... [and] strode into the room. I was changed before he uttered a single word. Poetry became my passion. Two years later I went off to the University of North Dakota to become a poet, but before long I realized I lacked the courage. I finished my college days hiding in the art department ...
“One day, however, I thought I might give poetry another try, and I wrote a poem about it called "On Returning" in which I claim to have learned to recognize Thomas McGrath’s tracks. I printed the poem into a little book and sent him a copy. He replied with a polite note thanking me for the “mysterious” little book, and that was that.
“Years later, after he had died, I was reading through his last book of poems (Death Song, Copper Canyon Press, 1991), and I found this:
WARNING
So-
You recognize my footprint…
But don’t think that you know
Which way I’ve gone.”
In a letter dated December 22, 1998, Schanilec writes: “During his lifetime I had one opportunity to do a drawing for the cover of one of his books, and he rejected it. But, when Copper Canyon asked me to do the cover of the complete Letter to an Imaginary Friend, he was no longer around to object. I think the image of the footprints [on the Copper Canyon edition] completes the story!”
672. Refugee. [Saint Paul]: Midnight Paper Sales Press, 1981.
$375
Edition limited to 15 copies, 274 mm. Bifolium, with a wrap-around band on which is printed “Refugee,” and with a printed leaf beginning “White feathers swept…” mounted on the verso of the first leaf. Linoleum cut, numbered and signed by GS on the recto of the second leaf.
Gaylord was unhappy with this effort, and he recollects now that he may have destroyed part of the edition.
Quarter to Midnight A-42.
673. White country. New York: Corinth Books, 1968.
$225
First edition of Schjeldahl's first book of poetry, 8vo, pp. 48; original pictorial wrappers; edges rubbed and lightly soiled, else very good. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
This copy inscribed: "For Allan Kornblum, in Chicago, Peter Schjeldahl, 1/8/73."
674. The 4 3 2 review. "A literary magazine" owned and operated by Simon Schuchat. [Issue no. 7]. New York: Poetry Project, 1978.
$75
Folio, pp. 90, [10]; occasional illustration; original pictorial wrappers by Rochelle Kraut, side-stapled; fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
Issue no. 7 was the last published of the 4 3 2 Review. Contributions by Herman Melville, Alice Notley, Paul Violi, Lewis Warsh, Ted Berrigan, John Godfrey, Allan and Cinda Kornblum, Jim Hanson, John Ashbury, and many others. To our knowledge, this is the only 'zine' to which Herman Melville contributed, albeit unwittingly.
675. Broadway 2: a poets and painters anthology. Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1989.
$50
4to, pp. 135, [1];20 full-page illustrations from various artists including Joe Brainard original pictorial wrappers;fine. Numerous contributors: John Ashbury, Bill Berkson, Maxine Chernoff, Kenward Elmslie, Allen Ginsberg, Larry Fagin, Alice Notley, Ron Padgett, David Shapiro, Tony Towle, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, and many others. Published 10 years after the first issue, these are the only two issues of Broadway printed.
This copy with a letter laid in from Robert Hershon (1936–2021), founding editor of Hanging Loose, on Hanging Loose stationery "To Allan, Thought you might enjoy this. Hope all is well withuyou. I've started playing with the new manuscript and will probably send it in August." Signed "All best, Bob."
676. The lightfall. New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1963.
$125
Perfect bound pamphlet, 7.25 x 5 inches, pp. 32; white paper wrappers; light wear to wrappers, else fine.
Inscription by the author reading: "With the strong memory of almost 2 decades of shared things & people," to Israel "Izzy" Young, former owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York, on the half-title.
677. In the palm of space. [Co-edited & funded by friends of the press]. [Winona, Minnesota]: privately printed [at the Sutton Hoo Press], 2001.
$125
Edition limited to 126 copies, 12mo, pp. [48]; fine in original brown cloth-backed marbled boards. From the library of Kim Merker.
Issued as Sutton Hoo Select Number Three. Scott (1931-2006) was the founding editor of the literary New Issues Press, which he started in 1996. He was the author of a handful of poetry books, and was the recipient of an NEA Fellowship.
678. Blue lights, or the convention. A poem, in four cantos. New York: printed and published by Charles N. Baldwin, bookseller, 1817.
$100
First and only edition, 16mo, 150pp., original printed blue paper-covered boards rubbed, spine partially perished, binding split; all else good. Text concerns the Hartford Convention. Writing in his dotage, the author, a "melancholic student of Yale" and a resident of Connecticut, includes a preface in which he acknowledges a debt to his "Scottish namesake," and comments on the state of learning in New England. He is "fixed as a district teacher in the village of ----, where he takes his morning walk with the parson, his evening pipe with the deputy sheriff, and on Saturdays, after dinner, rehearses his literary productions to his maiden sister, an elderly lady of excellent judgement."
Wegelin 1132; Sabin 78325.
679. Poems by Julia H. Scott. Together with a brief memoir by Miss S. C. Edgarton. Boston: A. Tompkins & B. B. Mussey, 1843.
$85
First edition, 12mo, pp. 216; striking mezzotint frontispiece portrait after S. A. Mount engraved by J. Sartain; original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind with light blue endpapers; some scuffing to covers, wear to extremities revealing boards at corners, and small areas of light foxing to endpapers and a few leaves of prelims and terminals, but still a very good copy with the gilt fresh and bright.
A Pennsylvanian, Scott (1809-1842) published several poems and prose pieces in gift annuals and periodicals during her short life. This work, compiled by Edgarton "in obedience to an explicit and dying request" (Preface) made by Scott, is apparently the first gathering of her verses in book form. Many are of a religious nature and reflect her beliefs as a Unitarian-Universalist.
Sabin 78334.
680. Restricted. N.p. [Iowa City, Iowa?]: 1978.
$375
Edition limited to 29 copies (this, no. 22), broadside (approx. 12¾" x 20"), the poem Restricted printed letterpress within a colored lithograph 11" x 10"; a few small wrinkles at the extremities else near fine. Signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil by Sexauer at the lower margin.
"Roxanne Sexauer was born in the Bronx, New York. She has both BFA and MFA degrees in Printmaking. The former was granted by The University of Iowa, where she studied with Mauricio Lasansky and the latter from The State University of New York at Purchase, where she worked with Antonio Frasconi. She has been awarded residencies at The Plains Museum of Art, Fargo, North Dakota; Palenville Interarts, Palenville, New York; The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA; and Dorland Mountain, Temecula, CA" (Woman's Studio Workshop). She illustrated the Windhover Press edition of Robert the Devil (1981), as well as works by Charles Olsen (1978), Robert Dana (1987), and Mark Van Tilberg (1976).
681. [Toothpaste Press.] Melissa & Smith. St. Paul: Bookslinger Editions, 1976.
$75
Limited edition in 300 copies, signed by the author, 7" x 5½", pp. [19], [1]; fine copy in purple Richard De Bas blind-stamped wrappers with Darjeeling endsheets; handset by David Duer, designed and printed by Allan Kornblum. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded the Toothpaste Press and Coffee House Press.
682. Sassafrass. [Berkeley: Shameless Hussey Press, 1978].
$45
Second printing, 12mo (7" x 4"), pp. [60]; illustrated title page and photographic portrait of the author; price on rear cover of $1.95; fine copy in original printed wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
683. Take the A train ... from It Has Not Always Been This Way. [West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger Editions, 1982.
$250
Letterpress broadside, edition limited to 90 numbered copies (this, marked 'os'), 10½" x 14¼", printed in blue and black; printed on the occasion of the author's reading at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 17, 1982. This copy boldly signed by Shange.
Only 5 in OCLC: Cornell, Delaware, Lafayette, University of South Carolina, and Washington University. Also included in the Bookslinger Twenty Broadsides portfolio, 1981-82.
684. Poems from Deal. n.p.: Pauper Hill Press, 1969.
$100
Issued as Pauper Hill Press, No. 2, 4to, 37 loose leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; near fine.
Published later the same year by Dutton in New York. Pauper Hill Press does not show up in OCLC searches.
685. Lyrics of joy. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1904.
$75
First edition limited to 150 copies signed by the author and printed at the Riverside Press, 8vo, pp. x, 102; publisher's device on title page; original light blue paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine, mostly unopened; the covers a little smudged and the spine yellowed but still overall very good.
686. Late verses and earlier. Wood engravings by John DePol. Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 1988.
$75
Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 66), 8vo, pp. 27, [1]; wood-engraved frontispiece and 5 wood engravings by DePol; original blue cloth-backed patterned Curwen paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; fine. Original prospectus laid in.
Walsdorf A14.
687. [Shipwrecks.] Loss of the Albion. New York: printed and sold by C. Brown, n.d., [ca. 1822].
$250
Broadside, approx. 8" x 9", wrinkled, with loss and tears at all margins (no loss of letterpress); 9-stanza poem in double column beneath a running head.
Not found in OCLC.
688. The way the past comes back. Poems. Willington, CT: Kutenai Press, [1991].
$50
Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 42) signed by the author, the artist, and the printer; 8vo, pp. [24]; full-page illustration by Evelyn Askey; original printed Moulin de Fleurac wrappers; fine. Original prospectus laid in.
689. The voice of flowers. Hartford: H.S. Parsons and Co., 1846.
$150
Third edition; 16mo, pp. iv, 123, [4]; inserted color frontispiece; publisher's red cloth (a bit soiled), gilt-stamped pansies at center of front board, decorative gilt-tooling along spine, a.e.g.; spine and edges toned, interior fine.
Faxon, 831; BAL 17811, binding A.
690. Man of Uz, and other poems. Hartford: Williams, Wiley & Waterman, 1862.
$650
First edition, 8vo, pp. 276; original glazed black wrappers lettered in gilt; spine worn with pieces missing, joints rubbed; a good copy in the unusual paper binding.
This copy inscribed to the "Revd. Dr. Hawes, with good wishes for his health and happiness on his birth-day from his friend L. H. Sigourney Saturday morning, December 20 1862." This inscription predates the one listed in BAL by 5 days.
The Reverend Hawes is likely Joel Hawes, pastor of the First Congregational Church in Hartford, a frequent contributor to the religious press and periodicals, and the author of no fewer than a half dozen books.
BAL 17941
691. The leaving. Five poems. Lisbon, Iowa: The Penumbra Press, [1973].
$100
Edition limited to 75 copies printed by Bonnie O'Connell on Wooky Hole Mill's Cream Laid Book Paper (this, no. 9); 8vo, pp. [8]; self-wrappers printed in yellow and black; fine, in a printed manila envelope, as issued. From the library of Kim Merker.
Issued as number 1 in the publisher's Manila Series.
692. What the grass says ... With 12 prints by Joan Abelson. San Francisco: Kayak, [1967].
$100
First edition of Simic's first book, limited to 1000 copies designed and printed by George Hitchcock, 8vo, pp. [48]; lightly toned, but very good or better. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
693. Duels & duets. Poems with the world. Iowa City: The Qara Press, 1960.
$250
Edition limited to 190 copies (this, no. 14); 4to, pp. 37, [1]; original gray cloth-backed Curwen paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker.
Included in a front and back cover pockets are two vinyl audio 33⅓ rpm records, "pressed by RCA Custom Record Division for the Qara Press" containing a reading of the poems by Skellings.
Laid in is an invoice from the Qara Press to the Stone Wall Press for this book, marked paid with initials, price was $10, pre-publication.
694. Duels & duets. Poems with the world. Iowa City: The Qara Press, 1961.
$100
First trade edition, 10.25 x 7.25 in., pp. 37, [3]; board backed in black cloth; light toning to endpapers and edges, near fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
Included in a front and back cover pockets are two vinyl audio 33⅓ rpm records, "pressed by RCA Custom Record Division for the Qara Press" containing a reading of the poems by Skellings.
695. Small song of the new moon. N.p.: The Bellweather Press, [1977].
$75
Edition limited to 100 copies (this, no. 63), "printed in Weiss types on Nideggen. 10 copies are cased in cloth and 90 copies are wrapped in paper covers. Woodcut by Leigh McLellan." 8vo, pp. [16]; fine in original printed gray wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker.
Gleeson Library, Iowa, Hollins University and Seminary of the Southwest only in OCLC.
696. Alive & kicking! Nos. 1 and 2 [all published?]. Jackson Heights, New York: Alive & Kicking, 1976-78.
$50
2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [12]; 24; original pictorial wrappers; fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
"A magazine for the elderly but everyone's invited to submit work..." Among those submitting were Raeburn Miller, Selma and Morty Sklar, Lawrence Veach, Daniel Quigley, and others. We can't find where there were any further issues published.
697. Arse poetica. Oakland: Emergency Press, 2014.
$45
Oblong 16mo (4¼" x 5½"), pp. [16]; pictorial self-wrappers with an illustration by Linda Lemon; fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
This copy inscribed by Skratz, "For my dear old friends Allan & Cinda, Love G. P. Skratz."
698. Sleeping. Lines suggested by the death of Miss Julia M. Shaw, at Exeter, Maine, April 21st, 1886. Malden, Mass.: 1886.
$85
Small folio broadside, approx. 10¼" x 8", text of 24 lines beginning "In the grave-yard yonder, on the brow of the hill"; 6 quatrains within a ruled border; fine.
John Kilbourne Clough Sleeper (b. 1828) was mayor of Malden and served in the Massachusetts State Legislature as both a Representative and a Senator.
Not found in OCLC.
699. With some justification. Nine poems. Iowa City: Windhover Press, [1983].
$45
Edition limited to 225 copies, 8vo, pp. [16]; partially printed in blind; original gray wrappers printed in black on spine; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. With a postcard prospectus laid in.
Slesinger's poems are in the form of dictionary definitions.
Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 81: "This is a funny book. It didn't turn out very well. It was a bad experiment and it could have been a good one ... I received two letters from librarians in different parts of the country who said essentially the same thing: 'Our copies seem not to have been inked in various places. We cannot understand why that should be, but could you send us copies that are completely inked?'"
700. Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kai-kiak; or, Black Hawk, and scenes in the west. A national poem in six cantos. By a western tourist. New York: Edward Kearney, 1848.
$75
First edition, 8vo, pp. 299, [1]; lithograph frontispiece portrait and title, lightly foxed; rebacked with most of the original spine laid down, corners rubbed; binding (signed by the binder, S. Middlebrook, New York); good and sound.
"Embracing an account of the life and exploits of this celebrated chieftain, the Black Hawk War...a succinct description of Wisconsin and Lake Superior countries...the massacre of Chicago and other deeply interesting scenes in the West."