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A catalogue of books designed, printed, published, presented to, written by, and/or with contributions by Allan Kornblum (1949-2014), American poet and founder of both Toothpaste Press (West Branch, Iowa) and Coffee House Press (Minneapolis), together with assorted ephemera relevant to the Actualist Poetry Movement which he helped found in Iowa City, Iowa, beginning about 1972 with fellow students and friends at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, including Darrell Gray, Anselm Hollo, Dave Morice, George Mattingly, and Steve Toth, among others.
A note on OCLC
As is now the norm, OCLC counts are tentative, at best, as we recognize that searches using different qualifiers will often turn up different results. Searches are now further complicated by the vast numbers of digital, microfilm, and even print-on-demand copies, which have polluted the database considerably, making it difficult, without numerous phone calls or emails, to determine the actual number of tangible copies. Hence, even though the counts herein have been recently checked, most all should be taken as a measure of approximation.
1. 7 new titles: The Toothpaste Press. West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1980.
$15
4¼" x 10" trifold letterpress catalogue for the 1980 new releases, green trim along right edge.
2. A brief description of the excellent vertues of that sober and wholesome drink called coffee. [Saint Paul]: Coffee House Press, n.d., [ca. 1984].
$100
23" x 16" letterpress broadside, text in double column under a running head, printed in red and black on coffee-colored paper. Gaylord Schanilec traced the vignette illustration printed at the top, and adapted it for the Coffee House Press press mark. The text of this broadside, the first illustrated broadside advertising an English coffee house, was first printed in 1674.
3. A brief description of the excellent vertues of that sober and wholesome drink called coffee. [Saint Paul]: Coffee House Press, n.d., [ca. 1984].
$20
17½" x 11½" letterpress broadside, text in double column under a running head, printed in red and black on white paper. Gaylord Schanilec traced the vignette illustration printed at the top, and adapted it for the Coffee House Press press mark. The text of this broadside, the first illustrated broadside advertising an English coffee house, was first printed in 1674.
4. A brief description of the excellent vertues of that sober and wholesome drink called coffee. [Saint Paul]: Coffee House Press, n.d., [ca. 1984].
$35
17½" x 11½" letterpress broadside, text in double column under a running head, printed in red and black on coffee-colored paper. Gaylord Schanilec traced the vignette illustration printed at the top, and adapted it for the Coffee House Press press mark. The text of this broadside, the first illustrated broadside advertising an English coffee house, was first printed in 1674.
5. Joie de vivre. [Davis, CA]: Blue Suede Shoes, [1972].
$100
First edition, oblong 8vo, pp. [18]; printed from typescript on pink and brown paper; some toning, else near fine in original pictorial wrappers, side-stapled. Cover art by the author.
This copy inscribed: "For Allen [sic] & Cinda 'Don't look back (not at this book)' Keith Abbott (I don't)."
6. Red lettuce. Fremont, California: The Fault, 1974.
$65
First edition, 8vo, pp. [28]; printed from typescript; illustrations by Opal L. Nations; light toning, else near fine in original pictorial wrappers.
This copy inscribed, "For Allan & Cinda 'This, my most memorable book was written with you in mind.' Keith."
7. The book of Rimbaud. [New York]: New Rivers Press, 1977.
$75
First edition limited to 750 copies, square 8vo, pp. [42]; original pictorial wrappers; some toning at the edges and one or two small spots, else near fine.
This copy inscribed by Abbott: "For Allan & Cinda remembering fondly the night when you helped me write this - Keith."
8. [Actualist Convention.] Actualist flyer: the newsletter of the Actualist Movement in the arts. Number 2. [Iowa City: 1973].
$12
11" x 8½" flyer, announcing the second annual Actualist Convention in Iowa City, with readings and/or performances by Jim Mulac, Howard Zimmon, Steve Toth, Joyce Holland (aka Dave Morice), Morty Sklar, Cinda Wormley, Allan Kornblum, Darrell Gray, and others.
Not in OCLC.
9. [Actualist Convention.] Autumn actualization. November 3, 1973. [West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, .
$15
8½" x 5½", pp. 12; printed blue self-wrappers; light toning; near fine.
Program for the second annual Actualist Convention in Iowa City, including "The Actual Sequence of Events" (with readings and/or performances by Jim Mulac, Howard Zimmon, Steve Toth, Joyce Holland (aka Dave Morice), Morty Sklar, Cinda Wormley, Allan Kornblum, Darrell Gray, and others); the cast and scenes of the play by Dave Morice, The Umbrella That Predicted the Future; and a number of local advertisements.
10. Gone sailing. Poems ... Drawings by Ann Mikolowski. West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1980.
$50
Edition limited to 1150 copies, this one of 150 numbered and signed by the author and artist (this, no. 140); tall 8vo, pp. [32]; 6 full-page drawings by Ann Mikolowski; fine copy in original cream cloth, printed paper label on upper cover.
Peich 47.
11. Margaretta's rime. [West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger Editions, 1983.
$100
Letterpress broadside, edition limited to 70 numbered copies (this, marked 'os' - ?), approx. 14½" x 10½", printed in brown and black; printed on the occasion of the author's reading at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 2, 1982. This copy signed by Adam.
Only 3 in OCLC: Buffalo, San Diego, and Delaware. Also included in the Bookslinger Twenty Broadsides portfolio, 1981-82.
12. Summer 1981. [West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press, 1983.
$6
5" x 7" letterpress announcement for Helen Adam's Fall 1983 book The Bells of Dis. Printed by Allan Kornblum of the Toothpaste Press at the Bookslinger A.B.A. Booth in Dallas, June 1983.
13. From St. Paul...Reading Poetry. [West Branch: Toothpaste Press, 1977].
$35
Letterpress broadside. 7½" x 10", signed by Allan Kornblum on the verso.
Not in OCLC.
14. Mercury, a short story ... Drawings by Robert Ferguson. West Branch, Iowa : The Toothpaste Press, 1981.
$25
Limited edition in 900 copies, 50 of which were bound in cloth (not this, but see below); oblong 8vo, pp. [20]; title page printed in black, gold and green; 8 illustrations by Ferguson; fine in original pale green printed pictorial wrappers. Agee's second book.
Peich 58.
15. Mercury, a short story ... Drawings by Robert Ferguson. West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1981.
$150
Edition limited to 900 copies, this one of 50 bound in cloth, signed and numbered by Agee and Ferguson; oblong 8vo, pp. [20]; title page printed in black, gold and green; 8 illustrations by Ferguson; fine in original pale green cloth, illustrated paper label on the upper cover. Agee's second book.
Peich 58.
16. Circles of madness / Circulos de locura. Mothers of the Plaza De Mayo. Photographs by Alicia d'Amico and Alicia Sanguinetti. Translated by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman. [Fredonia, N.Y.]: White Pine Press, [1992].
$30
First edition, 8vo, pp. [104]; 23 illustrations from photographs; about fine in original pictorial wrappers.
This copy inscribed "To Alan [sic] Kornblum - with respect Marjie Agosin." The photographs are largely of Iowa women taken 1957-1975.
Marjorie Agosín is a Chilean-American writer. She has gained notability for her outspokenness for women's rights in Chile.
17. Moonstone. Volume I, no. 1 [all published?]. [St. Louis: printed by S.A.T. Press], June, 1971.
$45
8vo, pp. [16], 9-33, [5]; printed from typescript; 4 full-page uncredited illustrations; original black cloth-backed drab wrappers; generally fine.
Contributors include Allan Kornblum, John Knoepfle, Eileen Holloran, Neil McAndrew, Kathleen Ahner, Antia Martin, and others. We find no other issues that were published.
Not in OCLC.
18. We are the river. [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1986.
$15
Letterpress broadside, 10" x 13", poem in double column, printed as Hungry Mind Broadside no. 7.
19. No visible means of support. [San Lorenzo]: Shameless Hussy Press, [1971].
$75
First edition, square 8vo (approx. 8½" x 7"); pp. 71, [1]; printed from typescript in various color inks; price sticker on front cover, else near fine in original printed red wrappers, stapled.
This copy inscribed, "For Allan, love Alta."
20. New York Times #1. New York: Swollen Magpie Press, 1970.
$100
4to, pp. [44]; printed from typescript; stapled pictorial wrappers; near fine. A NYC zine, with contributions by Charles Hasseloff, Dick Gallup, Tony Towle, Bill Zavatsky, Carter Ratcliffe, Allan Kornblum, and others. Cover art by Phyllis Rosenzweig. This is the first of only four issues published. Although not stated, this is from the library of Israel "Izzy" Young, former owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York.
21. An excerpt from a new novel ... High holiday sutra. [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1997.
$8
11" x 7½", letterpress broadside printed to announce the Fall 1997 publication of High Holiday Sutra.
22. New listings. New York: Inwood Press, [1974].
$30
First edition, 12mo, pp. 63, [1]; original printed wrappers; some light toning at the edges; all else near fine.
This copy inscribed, "To one Allan from another, with great affection, 6/6/74."
23. Not so much love of flowers: poems 1969-1972. West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1975.
$20
Edition limited to 501 copies, this one of 475 in wrappers; 8vo, pp. [36]; title page printed in red, orange, and black; fine in original red Beau Brilliant wrappers, printed paper label on the upper cover.
Peich 25: "First appearance of the [Toothpaste] press mark designed by Pat Dooley."
24. Bondage and discipline. A magazine of shortworks. Volume I no. 3. [Chicago: Never Again Press, 1976].
$50
Oblong 16mo, 3½" x 4¼"; pp. [52]; printed from typescript; original pictorial wrappers by Anne Waldman; generally, very good or better.
With contributions by Larry Eiger, Steve Levine, Allan Kornblum, Pat Nolan, Larry Fagan, and Ron Silliman, among others.
25. Chinese whispers. Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2002].
$150
First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], viii, 100; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket.
Inscribed "For Allan Kornblum, John Ashbery, May 8, 2004."
26. Some books are meant to be tasted. [Minneapolis: Coffee House Press], 1986.
$10
9½" x 6½" letterpress broadside, printed by the students of Franklin and Sorteberg Schools at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1986.
27. Some books are meant to be tasted. [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, n.d., .
$7
6½" x 9½" two color letterpress broadside, with a blue relief print by Charles Henrickson, printed as part of a tour made possible by the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Literary Publishers Marketing Development Program.
28. Some books are meant to be tasted. [Minneapolis: Coffee House Press], 1986.
$10
9½" x 6½" letterpress broadside, printed by the students of Central Lutheran School at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1986.
29. Some books are meant to be tasted. [Minneapolis: Coffee House Press], 1986.
$10
9½" x 6½" letterpress broadside, printed by the students of Bellaire School at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1986.
30. Scenes from East Hill Farm: seasons with Allen Ginsberg. Coventry, [UK]: The Beat Scene Press, 2007.
$45
First edition limited to 125 signed and numbered copies, 8vo, pp. [36]; fine in original pictorial wrappers.
This copy inscribed: "For Allan, with all good wishes, Gordon 12-10-07 Lexington."
31. Japanese paper. [Minneapolis]: printed by Coffee House Press, 1986.
$15
Letterpress broadside, approx. 12½" x 6", from handset Blado and Poliphilus types on handmade Japanese Etching paper.
From Japanese Papermaking, Traditions, Tools and Techniques by Timothy Barrett (Weatherill, 1983). Reprinted by permission of the author "as a keepsake for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, May, 1986."
Timothy Barrett won a MacArthur Award in 2009 for his much-admired work on the history of paper and papermaking.
Texas A&M only in OCLC.
32. [Excerpt from:] Peter Pan. [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1992.
$35
11" x 15" letterpress broadside excerpted from Peter Pan, with a relief print, artist unknown.
33. The mad shoemaker. West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, February, 1973.
$150
First edition limited to 300 copies, this one of 26 lettered and signed by Bataki and Morice (this, the letter D); 4to, 11" x 8½", side-stapled, pp. [42]; printed from typescript; cover linoleum block by Morice; fine copy in original pictorial wrappers.
Peich 16.
34. The mad shoemaker. West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, February, 1973.
$50
First edition limited to 300 copies, this one of 274 in the regular edition; 4to, 11" x 8½", side-stapled, pp. [42]; printed from typescript; cover linoleum block by Morice; fine copy in original pictorial wrappers.
Peich 16.
35. Falling upwards. Cambridge, Mass.: Dolphin Editions, [1976].
$40
First edition, 8vo, pp. [32]; illustrations by the author; small ink smudge on front wrapper, else near fine in pictorial wrappers.
This copy inscribed: For Allan Kornblum, all along the way, love, John, Jan. 5, Cambridge 1976."
36. Bill. San Francisco: Gallery 16 Editions, 2008.
$35
First edition, 8vo, pp. [46]; illustrated throughout by Colter Jacobsen; fine copy (don't let the illustration fool you) in original pictorial laminate boards. Designed by Griff Williams and Troy Peters at Urban Digital Color, San Francisco.
This is a review copy with a letter Ryan Arthurs at Gallery 16 to Allan Kornblum seeking a review, together with an 11" x 8½" prospectus for Bill.
37. Zero Star Hotel. [Washington, D.C.: Edge Books, 2002].
$35
First edition, large 8vo, pp. [8], 101, [3]; original pictorial wrappers by Emilie Clark; fine copy.
Inscribed to Allan Kornblum of the Coffee House Press: "For Allan w/ best wishes & fondness 5/13/03 2nd Ave. Deli, Anselm."
38. Neckeverse. [Newcastle upon Tyne]: Galloping Dog Press, 1985.
$45
First edition, wrapper issue; 8vo, pp. [6], 66, [6]; fine copy in original printed wrappers.
This copy with a greeting card from the author laid in, dated British Columbia, 1989: "Dear Allan Kornblum, I waited for the dust to settle, then I called George Evans to make sure all is well with him ... He told me we can look forward to his from Coffee House, and I do ... I wonder if you'd send me a catalogue or a list of yopur authors and accept Neckeverse by way of introduction? Greetings and best wishes, Guy Birchard."
39. The tender organizations ... with wood engravings by Jack Molloy. Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1989.
$150
Edition limited to 310 copies, this one of 275 signed by Carol Bly (this, no. 197), 8vo, pp. [2], 34, [5]; accordion fold; folding wrap-around pictorial gray paper wrappers by Jill Jevne, designed and printed by Gaylord Schanilec "with a gang of interns" at MCBA; near fine.
This copy inscribed to Kornblum and his wife: "For Allan & Cinda - Carol Bly." And, additionally inscribed by Schanilec, "Happy trails" with his chopmark.
MCBA's second annual 'Winter Book.'
Quarter to Midnight A.93.b.
40. A man and a woman sit near each other. [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1988.
$20
Edition limited to 50 copies (this, out-of-series), 11" x 15" letterpress broadside, two color, printed to celebrate the rehearsal dinner for the marriage of Lori Lynn Larsen to Sam W. Grabarski, Jr.
41. Books are delightful society.... [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1989.
$15
11" x 14" letterpress broadside, printed at the first Coffee House Press Open House, 1989.
42. Books, books, books, books.... Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1988.
$10
15" x 6" letterpress broadside celebrating CHP's move to its new home at 27 North Fourth Street, printed on blue paper. "The display types appearing above ("Books, Books, Books, Books...) "represent sixteen years of quixotic acquisition."
43. Books, books, books, books.... Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1988.
$7
15" x 6" letterpress broadside celebrating CHP's move to its new home at 27 North Fourth Street, printed on white paper. "The display types appearing above ("Books, Books, Books, Books...) "represent sixteen years of quixotic acquisition."
44. Rite for the beautification of all beings. West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1983.
$25
Edition limited to 555 copies, signed by the author, oblong 12mo, pp. [24]; fine copy in original orange Canson wrappers with printed label; 4 illustrations in the text by Brandi; handset by Ehrhardt & Hadriano, designed by Allan Kornblum, printed by David Duer. 55 of the copies were handsewn into Richard De Bas wrappers.
45. A well-made book. [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1992.
$12
10" x 13" Tricolor (yellow relief print) letterpress broadside printed over relief print by Leslie Ross, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the American Printing History Association.
46. A well-made book. [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1992.
$10
6.5" x 9.5" tricolor (blue relief print) letterpress broadside accompanied by relief print by Leslie Ross, printed as part of a tour made possible by the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Literary Publishers Marketing Development Program.
47. What being responsible means to me. [Brooklyn]: Hanging Loose Press, [1988].
$25
First edition, wrapper issue; 8vo, pp. 60; fine copy in original printed wrappers.
This copy inscribed "To Allan, a gifted publisher & charming guest and a hell of a nice guy - yours in small pressness, Donna 1/20/88."
48. Night work. Toothpaste Press, 1983.
$12
Broadside, 6½" x 4½", printed by the Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger at the ABA,1981, excerpted from Bukowski's Dangling in the Tournefortia forthcoming from Black Sparrow Press.
49. Playing it out. Toothpaste Press, 1983.
$12
Letterpress broadside. 7½" x 5", printed by the Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger at the ABA, Dallas, June 1983.
50. from Inland. West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1980.
$15
Edition limited to 150 copies, signed by Bullis (this, a printer's proof marked 'pp'), letterpress broadside, 7¼" x 14¼", printed by the Toothpaste Press for the fourth Midwestern Writers' Festival and Book Fair.
51. And there never seems to be enough time. [West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press, 1982.
$8
4.5" x 7.75" letterpress broadside excerpted from Printing Poetry by Clifford Burke. Printed for the New York Book Fair, April 1982.
52. Typewriter. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8. Iowa City: 1971-78.
$950
Seven issues in all; Illustrated throughout, much from the typewriter; Allan Kornblum's set assembled while he was in Iowa City; aside from a touch of fading here and there, these are in near fine condition. As best I can tell, ten issues of Typewriter were published.
No. 1, 11" x 8½", side-stapled, 23 leaves printed on rectos only, plus pictorial wrappers; contributions by Ira Steingroot, Joyce Holland (aka Dave Morice), Allan Kornblum, Cinda Wormley, David Oshel, Rachel Faber, and others. Signed by Allan Kornblum on the front wrapper.
No. 2, 8" x 8½", side-stapled, 19 leaves printed on rectos only (1 folding), plus pictorial wrappers; contributions by Mary Ferris, Darrell Gray, Lloyd Quibble, Sandra 'Sandy' Skoglund (yes, THAT Sandy Skoglund), Ira Steingroot, Joyce Holland (aka Dave Morice), Kent Zimmerman, and others.
No. 3, 8" x 8½", side-stapled, 24 leaves printed on rectos only, self-wrappers and with a red plastic overlay; contributions by Ray Di Palma, Andrew Hawks, A. G. Sonin, Jeremy Adler, Loid Quibel, Luis Camnitzer, Dave Oshel, and Helena Paul. This copy inscribed to Allan Kornblum by Quibel: "Allan - your long promised copy, Loid."
No. 4, 8" x 8½", perfect-bound, 44 leaves (2 folding), mostly printed on rectos only, printed yellow wrappers; contributions by David Mayor, Hugh Fox, Jeremy Adler, Peter Finch, Kent Zimmerman, David Oshel, and others.
No. 6, 7½" x 5", pp. 48, saddle-stapled, pictorial wrappers; contributions by Alan Riddell, Better Radin, Tim McDonough, Jiri Valoch, Kent Zimmerman, David Oshel, and others.
No. 7, 7" x 9½", 16 leaves, saddle-stapled, pictorial wrappers; contributions by Ian Krieger, John Vieira, Ladislav Nebesky, Glen Boggess, Ruth Wolf Rehfeldt, Karl Kempton, Peter Payack, and Joan Endres.
No, 8, 8½" x 8½", pp. [80], saddle-stapled, pictorial blue wrappers; contributions by Richard Kostelanetz, Diane Kistner, Ed Kaplan, Al Weiner, Beverly Muzak, Seth Wade, Steven Smith, Karl Kempton, Jeremy Adler, Richard Truhler, and Luis Camnitzer.
53. All that mankind has done.... Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1986.
$12
7½" x 11" letterpress broadside, printed on the occasion of the Grand Opening of Rizzoli International Bookstore in Minneapolis.
54. You poems. Ann Arbor: Crowfoot Press, [1979].
$45
First edition limited to 350 copies, 8vo, pp. [24]; fine in original embossed brown wrappers lettered in gilt.
This copy inscribed: "To Allan, Cinda ... with love, Andrew / Salinas 4/13/79."
55. [Excerpt from:] Alice through the looking glass. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1986.
$9
8" x 10" letterpress broadside printed for the fun of Book Week at the Children's Museum.
56. Poems & psalms. Chicago: Big Table, 1990.
$30
8 x 5¼, pp. 53, [3]; pictorial paper wrappers; fine.
Inscribed by Carroll to Allan Kornblum.
57. Candy #1 [all published]. Iowa City: Sticky-Fingers Press, 1973.
$125
12mo, pp. [46]; printed from typescript; original red wrappers, red cloth spine; very good, except that a piece of candy [?] has been removed from the front cover.
With contributions by Larry Eiger, Allan Kornblum, Curtis Faville, Dave Gitin, Joyce Holland (aka Dave Morice), Dave Morice, Steve Toth, among others.
58. Spring in this world of poor mutts. New York and London: published for the Frank O'Hara Foundation at Columbia University Press, 1968.
$45
First edition, wrapper issue; 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 85, [1]; original pictorial wrappers a bit rubbed; otherwise, very good.
Inscribed by Ceravolo: "May 11, 1976, to Allan and Cinda, with my best wishes, Joe." This book is the first to win the Frank O'Hara Award for Poetry.
59. Transmigration solo. West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1979.
$225
First edition limited to 1,100 copies, this being no. 33 of 100 numbered and signed by Ceravolo, 8vo, pp. [7], 10-45, [1]; title page printed in red and black; original black cloth-backed pictorial orange paper-covered boards by Mona daVinci; designed by Cinda Kornblum, printed by Allan Kornblum; fine copy.
"Ceravolo is associated with the second generation of the New York School (which includes writers such as Bernadette Mayer, Bill Berkson, Ron Padgett, Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh)" (Wikipedia).
60. Transmigration solo. West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1979.
$35
Edition limited to 1,100 copies, 8" x 5", pp. [7], 10-45, [1]; fine copy, perfect-bound in orange printed wrappers, cover illustration by Mona daVinci; designed by Cinda Kornblum, printed by Allan Kornblum.
61. Entry from Ho-Ping's Journal, kept during internment at Re-education Center #12, Beijing. Dated October, 1969 . [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1986.
$15
Letterpress broadside 11" x 15" Hungry Mind Broadside no. 12.
62. New faces of 1952. [Ithaca, N.Y.]: Ithaca House, [1985].
$35
First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 57, [3]; original pictorial wrappers with cover drawing repeated as a frontispiece by Glen Baxter; overall light wrinkling due to damp, else very good.
Inscribed by Chernoff: "For Allan, Xmas '84, Maxine."
63. CHP holiday open house invitation. West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House Press, [1984?].
$10
4½" x 6½" letterpress invitation to CHP's Holiday Open House in West Branch, Iowa.
64. Mammatocumlus. [Iowa City, Iowa]: Ocotillo Press, 1977.
$25
First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 46; near fine in original pictorial wrappers.
This copy inscribed: "'it all happened between two showers' (p. 12) / To Allan & Cinda with my love, Josie. West Branch '78."
65. Character is fate. West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House Press, 1981.
$10
Letterpress broadside announcement 5" x 8" for Clark's forthcoming book Heartbreak Hotel printed by the Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger at A.B.A.
66. Heartbreak hotel.. Short stories ... accompanied by the author's drawings. West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1981.
$25
Edition limited to 550 copies, this one of 500 numbered and signed by Clark; square 16mo, pp. [14] frenchfold; original Indian Bengal stab-sewn wrappers; fine.
Fifty copies were marked for review and were not for sale.
67. The border. West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House Press, 1985.
$15
Edition limited to 500 copies, signed by the author, 9¾" x 6½", pp. [24]; fine copy in original orange Grandee wrappers; cover illustration by the author; 6 additional illustrations throughout the text; handset by Denise Grimsman, designed and printed by David Duer.
68. The border. Poem and drawings. West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House Press, 1985.
$10
Letterpress broadside announcement for a reading by Clark and the publication of his book, 6" x 8", illustration by the author.
69. The end of this side ... with an intro by Ed Sanders. [Bowling Green, Ohio]: Black Book / Number four, [1979].
$40
First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 49, [3]; near fine in original black wrappers printed in white.
This copy inscribed to Allan Kornblum: "For Al, hoping your Korn continues to blum, best John Clarke."
70. Here is another bone to pick with you... [West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger Editions, 1981.
$100
Letterpress broadside, edition limited to 90 numbered copies (this, marked 'os' - ?), approx. 14¼" x 10¼", printed in purple and black; printed on the occasion of the author's reading at the Walker Art Center, November 24, 1981. This copy signed by Clifton.
Arizona, Delaware, Brown, Emory and Toledo in OCLC. Also included in the Bookslinger Twenty Broadsides portfolio, 1981-82.
71. & grammar & money. Berkeley: Ārif Press, 1973.
$100
Edition limited to 350 copies, 26 of which have been lettered and signed by the author; oblong 12mo, pp. [22]; title page printed in red and black; original tan wrappers printed in red and black; back wrapper with a few small, light coffee stains; all else near fine. Printed by Wesley Tanner.
This copy inscribed: "For Allan, for Kornblum, peace to both. Andrei Codrescu, April 26, '73." And later, in the same hand: "West Branch, June 3 (5' stop)." Cinda Kornblum clarifies: "Andrei's reference to the signature he did on the 5 minute stop. He and family were traveling cross country. We weren't home but usually left the door unlocked. Andrei came in and signed all his books while we were gone. We found them when we returned."
72. San Francisco. [San Francisco: Fits Collective, 1972].
$25
First edition limited to 200 copies, 26 of which were signed and lettered by the authors (not this); 16mo, (4¼" square), pp. [12]; lightly toned, else fine in self-wrappers. Dedicated to Jack Kerouac.
73. Strange faeces 10. London and San Francisco: Strange Faeces / Kingdom Kum Press, [ca. 1972].
$60
Staple-bound journal, pp. [114]; mimeographed text, illustrations, and cartoons on tan and green paper; printed paper wrappers in a duotone comics motif by Nanos Valaoritis. Light toning and sunning to edges, else fine.
With contributions by Lewis MacAdams, Harold Norse, Tom Veich, Allan Kornblum, Gerard Malanga, Ted Berringan, Aram Saroyan and others. Also includes an interview with Philip Whalen by Aram Saroyan.
74. Aggressive hospitality. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1990.
$25
Edition limited to 250 copies, signed by the artist, 9¾" x 5½"; fine copy, tri-fold sewn in rose printed St. Armand wrappers; 1 illustration by Leslie Ross; designed by Allan Kornblum.
75. Babies and the two. [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1991.
$35
Edition limited to 80 copies, 7½" x 11" letterpress broadside, signed by Codreasu, burnt-orange/pink paper.
76. License to carry a gun. Chicago: Big Table Publishing Company, [1970].
$100
8vo, pp. 80; black-and-white photographic portrait of the author on page 33; fine copy in original black cloth, red lettering on spine, in a rubbed, but unclipped dust jacket. The book won for Codrescu the 1970 Prize in the Big Table Series of Younger Poets.
This copy inscribed by Codrescu on the title page, where he has crossed out the word "gun" and has inserted the word "book." So the inscription reads, in effect, "A book for Allen who makes mine. Love, Andrei Codrescu Boulder July 23, '91."
77. Master Manole to Anna. Based on a Romanian folktale. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, [2012].
$45
Limited edition of an unknown quantity, 8vo, pp. [8]; fine in original printed hand-made paper wrappers from the St. Armand Mill in Canada. Signed by Codrescu on the flyleaf.
"'Master Manole to Anna' was reprinted from So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems: 1968-2012 ... In Romanian folklore, the master builder, Manole, was the chief architect of the Curtea de Arges Monastery in Wallachia. A ballad based on the legend referenced in this poem was originally published by Vasile Alecsandri in 1852, in the first collection of Romanian folktales ever published" (colophon).
Buffalo only in OCLC.
78. Secret training. [San Francisco: Grape Press, 1973].
$75
First edition limited to 376 copies, this one of 350 in wrappers; light toning, else a near fine copy in original pictorial wrappers.
This copy inscribed: "For Allan Kornblum In the same camp (different barracks) Andrei Codrescu, April 26, 1973."
79. Coffee House Press. [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, n.d., [after 1992].
$15
12" x 19" letterpress broadside printed in brown with relief print border, artist unknown, featuring an abridged conception of Coffee House Press through the European coffee house tradition, trimmed to image, as issued.
80. Coffee House Press. [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, n.d., [after 1992].
$18
19½" x 13" letterpress broadside with relief print border, artist unknown, featuring an abridged conception of Coffee House Press through the European coffee house tradition, with blank border on 3 sides.
81. Coffee House Press 1984-1999: fifteen years of fiction and poetry. [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1999.
$10
13½" x 10½" letterpress broadside commemorating the 15th anniversary of CHP, featuring relief print, artist unknown.
82. Coffee House Press letterpress imprints. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, [1993].
$10
4¼" x 10" Coffee House Press trifold letterpress catalogue detailing letterpress printing services offered and products available. Red ink trim along right edge.
83. Coffee House Press. Handset metal type, letterpress printing, elegant papers, handsewn bindings. [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, n.d., .
$15
11" x 14" letterpress broadside listing the print services offered through the Coffee House Press Letterpress Program.
84. Coffee House Press: where good books are brewing. [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, n.d., [1992 or after].
$15
Letterpress broadside, 11½" x 18", two color on blue paper.
85. Compliments of Graywolf Press. [Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, n.d., ca. late 1980s].
$8
3½" x 5" letterpress presentation card for Graywolf Press printed by Allan Kornblum at the Coffee House Press.
86. Manna. [Ashland, Mass.]: Toothpaste Press, December, 1981.
$25
Edition limited to 250 copies "for friends of the press" signed by Corman; 12mo (6¼" x 3¼"), pp. [12]; fine copy in original brown printed wrappers.
87. Tu: poems. N. P.: The Toothpaste Press, 1983.
$25
Edition limited to 500 copies, signed by the author, 7" x 5¼", pp. [43], [1]; fine copy in stab-bound tan printed wrappers with calligraphic title by Glen Epstein; designed by D. Duer and A. Kornblum, handset and printed by D. Duer on Masa paper.
88. Charms. West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1981.
$12
Edition limited to 850 copies, 6½" x 4½", pp. [24]; fine copy in black printed wrappers with a heart-shaped cutout; designed by Allan Kornblum, handset by Ellen Weiss, printed by A. B.
89. Echoes. West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1982.
$50
Edition limited to 2,200 copies, this no. 92 of 200 on Frankfurt White, and signed by Creeley, 12mo, pp. [20]; fine copy in bound in gray cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper label on spine. Handset by David Duer, designed and printed by Allan Kornblum.
90. Echoes. West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1982.
$15
Edition limited to 2,000 copies, 7¾" x 5", pp. [20]; fine copy in original grey Fabriano Ingres printed wrappers; handset by David Duer, designed and printed by Allan Kornblum.
91. Hotel Schrieder, Heidelberg. West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1980.
$45
Letterpress broadside (approx. 9½" x 6"), limited to 150 copies signed by Creeley. "Printed at the Toothpaste Press, Walker Art Center, 2:21:84" on stiff mauve paper.
92. Later. A poem. West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, Spring, 1978.
$20
Edition limited to 900 copies, this one of 800 sewn into Strathmore wrappers; 8vo, pp. [16]; title page printed in brown, black and orange; cover and title-page drawing by Louis Picek; fine.
93. Red Haw. Poems. Iowa City, Iowa: New Wave Press, [1980].
$35
First edition limited to 2500 copies (this, no. 218), 8vo, pp. [20]; original printed red wrappers; fine.
With an inscription on the first leaf "June 6, 1980 To Allan Kornblum - Keep up the fine printing. Watch for the new mag Empty Window: it will be out late this summer. Michael Cummings." Issued as volume I in the Independent Writers Series. This is Cumming's first book.
Four in OCLC: Iowa, Iowa State, Emory, and New College of Florida.
94. Talk & slide show on west coast bookmaking and a poetry reading ... at Jim's Books, 8 p.m. Friday September 15, 1978. [West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press, 1978.
$15
Letterpress broadside 7" x 10" on blue card stock. Designed and printed by Allan Kornblum.
Not in OCLC.
95. Dayton Hudson corporate staff mission statement. [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, [1986].
$15
Letterpress broadside 7¾" x 11¼" mission statement of the Dayton Hudson corporate staff.
96. Dayton Hudson corporate staff mission statement. [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, [1986].
$45
Large letterpress broadside 22" x 15" mission statement of the Dayton Hudson corporate staff.
97. From Maine ... Edited by Terry R. Weaver. [Buffalo: University Press, 1970].
$30
Edition limited to 1000 copies of which 100 are numbered and signed by the author; 8vo, pp. [4], viii [i.e. ix], [1]; fine iin original green printed wrappers. Issued as no. 3 in the publisher's Beau Fleuve series.
This copy inscribed: " For Allan in Buffalo. Beau Fleuve derivative / your reading terrific, humor & by the way, where do you come from? Love & [?], Allen 7/14/79 ... Kotcha Magiere White Buffalo."
98. [Denby, Edwin.] An interview with Edwin Denby, conducted by Anne Waldman. [Boulder]: Erudite Fangs Editions, [1997].
$250
First edition limited to 200 copies; 4to, 11" x 8½", [5] leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; fine in original pictorial wrappers, side-stapled.
This copy inscribed by Waldman, "For Allan, love, A." Laid in is an 11" x 8½" photocopied typescript by Waldman entitled "Notes on Sitting Beside a Noble Corpse - Light Breeze Stirring the Curtains, Blue - Faint Tremor of His Blue Shroud," on the death of Allen Ginsberg, 1997. The right margin is a little curled. This piece not found in OCLC.
99. The printer is the friend of intelligence.... [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1986.
$12
13¼" x 9½" letterpress broadside printed at MCBA 'Dirty Works' in April 1986, on blue paper.
100. The printer is the friend of intelligence.... [Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1986.
$15
15" x 11" letterpress broadside printed at MCBA 'Dirty Works' in April 1986, light gray paper.