De Amor Oscuro; Of Dark Love

Francisco X. Alarcón,

with drawings by Ray Rice

[English translation by Francisco Aragon with the poet]

1991 true 1^st Edition, Moving Parts Press, Santa Cruz, Calif.

This is the original 1^st Edition limited to seventy copies and is inscribed by the poet.  Especially scarce. 

(03/E) No trades. Cash, or Credit Card sales only.                             $100.00 net.

Paula Gunn Allen

1978 First Edition, La Confluencia, Albuquerque, New Mexico

In NEAR FINE Condition; This is the author's scarce second book.

Bound in Orange and Black. Decorated. 12mo, 50pp.

 “The language of my mind slips daily out of phase / unlocking secrets I have no word, no image for. I / write words backwards, leave the familiar shore, / exchange the alien known for the estranged familiar; / like a forest knowing its strangeness, run with streams / that are filled with the spirits of another time and place, / waters that tremble between banks / filled with flowers of the ancient dark…  ”

Near Fine in wraps protected in a clear plastic envelope.

(05/B) No trades. Cash or Credit Card only.                                        $ 69.00 net.

De Amor Oscuro; Of Dark Love

Francisco X. Alarcón,

with drawings by Ray Rice

[English translation by Francisco Aragon with the poet]

1991 true 1^st Edition, Moving Parts Press, Santa Cruz, Calif.

This is the original 1^st Edition limited to seventy copies and is inscribed by the poet.  Especially scarce. 

(03/E) No trades. Cash, or Credit Card sales only.                             $100.00 net.

De Amor Oscuro; Of Dark Love

Francisco X. Alarcón,

with drawings by Ray Rice

[English translation by Francisco Aragon with the poet]

1991 true 1^st Edition, Moving Parts Press, Santa Cruz, Calif.

This is the original 1^st Edition limited to seventy copies and is inscribed by the poet.  Especially scarce. 

(03/E) No trades. Cash, or Credit Card sales only.                             $100.00 net.

        Berssengrugge, Mei Mei

Empathy

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
 

Inscribed 1989 Station Hill Press, Barrytown, NY

Soft Cover Quarto. 8vo - over 7 3/4 " - 9 3/4 " tall.

Scarce Edition in decorative green wraps.

Features glowing comments by Rosemarie Waldrop, Barbara Guest, Charles Bernstein, and Jackson Mac Low.   Ms. Berssenbrugge has received two NEA Fellowships, two American Book Awards, and book awards this year from the Asian-American Writers Workshop and the Western States Art Foundation.  She has been a contributing editor of Conjunctions Magazine since 1978, and has taught at Brown University and the Institute of American Indian Arts.   

(05/A) No trades. Cash or Credit Card only.                                      $ 30.00 net.

De Amor Oscuro; Of Dark Love

Francisco X. Alarcón,

with drawings by Ray Rice

[English translation by Francisco Aragon with the poet]

1991 true 1^st Edition, Moving Parts Press, Santa Cruz, Calif.

This is the original 1^st Edition limited to seventy copies and is inscribed by the poet.  Especially scarce. 

(03/E) No trades. Cash, or Credit Card sales only.                             $100.00 net.

 Brownstein, Michael

Strange Days Ahead

Michael Brownstein

1975 First printing Trade Paperback Original Z Press Calais, Vermont

NEAR FINE edition in pictorial wraps as issued.  Designed by Freeman Keith and  printed by the Stinehour Press and limited to 1500 copies.   

Brownstein is winner of the 1969 Frank O’Hara Award.

Jacket praise from the Village Voice by Ed Sanders. 

From the library of Duncan McNaughton and signed by him.

(06J) No trades.  Cash or Credit card only                                           $ 20.00 net.

  Codrescu, Andrei

Belligerence: New Poems

Andrei Codrescu

Inscribed 1991 First edition. Coffee House Press, Minneapolis

Illustrated wrappers, 8vo, 80 pp.. 

Codrescu is the winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for poetry, editing, and radio; the General Electric Foundation Poetry Prize; the Peabody Award for the PBS version of Road Scholar; and the ACLU Freedom of Speech Award, 1995.  He is a regular contributor on National Public Radio and is editor of Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Life and Letters.  Near fine.

(05/A) No trades. Cash or Credit Card only.                                      $ 25.00 net.

Comrade Past & Mister Present

(New Poems & a Journal)

Andrei Codrescu

Inscribed 1986 First edition. Coffee House Press, Minneapolis

Illustrated wrappers, 8vo, 112 pp..  Near fine.

Codrescu is the winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for poetry, editing, and radio; the General Electric Foundation Poetry Prize; the Peabody Award for the PBS version of Road Scholar; and the ACLU Freedom of Speech Award, 1995.  He is a regular contributor on National Public Radio and is editor of Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Life and Letters. 

(05/A) No trades. Cash or Credit Card only.                                      $ 25.00 net.

Creeley, Robert

Windows

1990 Inscribed First Edition, New Directions, New York

152pp. NEAR FINE in a like dust jacket 

Inscribed by the author on title page and signed by the author on title page: 

“for ____ in respect indeed.  My Best 1/15/91” 

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Los Angeles Times Book Award, the National Poetry Series, and finalist for the National Book Award.

Dinkin, Leon

Hold Calm the Mare!

        Leon Dinkin

With 29 illustrations by Gustave Dore

1959 First Edition (so stated). Joe Connor Publishing, Berkeley

Stapled pictorial wraps.  93 pp.  the author, a “successful San Francisco stockbroker and author of contemporary poetry, feels that the sentiments of the beat generation exists in every individual, sometimes secretly.  The difference is in degree-we are all victims of the nuclear age, and he questions if our compensations are equal to the emotional upheavals.”  Eccentric San Francisco sincere flattery: Beatnik aspiration period piece.  Herb Caen tips hat with cover blurb. 

Seminary Poems

Diane di Prima

1991. First Printing; Floating Island, Pt. Reyes Station

Limited Edition  (1/2000) Signed by di Prima on the title page.

With calligraphy and cover illustration by the famed Kobun Chino Roshi.

“I spent the summer of 1988 at Rocky Mountain Dharma Center attending what is known as “Seminary” a three month program of study and meditation.” 

These poems are the product of that effort. 

Elsa’s Housebook:

A Woman’s Photojournal

Elsa Dorfman

1974. Softcover First Edition. David R. Godine, Boston

Original illustrated wrappers.  Issued in paperback only. In GOOD condition

Now a portrait photographer, Dorfman was friendly with a number of literary lights of her time. Interesting photos of Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Andrea Dworkin, Hannah Green, Robert Duncan, Ann Waldman, Robert Bly, Joanna Kyger, Charles Olson, Ed Sanders, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Paul Blackbur, and Gary Snyder.

(07D) No trades.  Cash or Credit card only.                                          $ 20.00 net

Duncan, Robert

The Years as Catches

Robert Duncan

1977. Second Edition; Oyez Press, Berkeley

Pictorial wraps with photo of the author in VERY GOOD condition. 93 pp plus bibliography of work written.  Flier from 544 Natoma Performance Gallery & review notes from Duncan’s performance laid in. 

  Eggers, Dave

McSweeney's No. 4, Late Winter, 2000. Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying,

Dave Eggers

First Edition New York: McSweeney's, Winter 2000.

Contains 14 separate stapled pictorial chapbooks in an illustrated white cardboard box by writers such as: Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem, George Saunders, Denis Johnson & Lydia Davis, Haruki Murakami, et al.  A collection of fourteen different stories and articles, individually bound, each "published as a finger in the slightly irregular glove of McSweeney's Quarterly.

(04/l) No trades. Cash or Credit Card only.                                       $ 125.00 net.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Introduction by Lawrence A. Innani, Provost, San Francisco State University

1988 First, thus.  Signed by Ferlinghetti on the Front Free Endpaper.

 50 pp. in VERY GOOD condition.  This is the author’s Alvin Fine Lecture at San Francisco State University, April 6, 1987 plus four long poems.  His talk was delivered to students at the time of Regan’s death squad Central American wars:  “It is still you that have to forge the conscience of our race.” 

(07D) No trades.  Cash or Credit card only.                                     $ 20.00 net.

Fixel, Lawrence

The Scale of Silence

Signed 1970 First Edition.  Kayak Books, Santa Cruz

Softcover in FINE condition. 8vo. Illustrated wrappers.  52pp. 1/1000 copies.

“Lawrence Fixel has been at the center of committed intellectual life of writers and artists for 60 years in California. At age 19, he was the youngest of the writers in the WPA Writers Project, where his older contemporaries included Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.” --Ed Mycue

Fixel is a first rate writer of astonishing subtlety.  This edition is signed on the title page.

(07/D) No trades. Cash or Credit Card only.                                        $ 25.00 net.

Green, Matthew

The Spleen and Other Poems

Matthew Green  (1696–1737)

1925, 1st edition, thus. The Cayme Press, Kensington, U.K.

One of 500 limited edition copies, in red and blue marbled paper boards now a little faded with a small tear on the spine and some offsetting on end papers, else a very nice private press production of this 18^th century work.

(03/G) No trades.  Cash, or Credit Card sales only.                              $30.00 net.

De Amor Oscuro; Of Dark Love

Francisco X. Alarcón,

with drawings by Ray Rice

[English translation by Francisco Aragon with the poet]

1991 true 1^st Edition, Moving Parts Press, Santa Cruz, Calif.

This is the original 1^st Edition limited to seventy copies and is inscribed by the poet.  Especially scarce. 

(03/E) No trades. Cash, or Credit Card sales only.                             $100.00 net.

De Amor Oscuro; Of Dark Love

Francisco X. Alarcón,

with drawings by Ray Rice

[English translation by Francisco Aragon with the poet]

1991 true 1^st Edition, Moving Parts Press, Santa Cruz, Calif.

This is the original 1^st Edition limited to seventy copies and is inscribed by the poet.  Especially scarce. 

(03/E) No trades. Cash, or Credit Card sales only.                             $100.00 net.

Be Angry at the Sun

1941. First Printing (so stated). Random House, New York.  

Gilt letters on black cloth boards quarto. 9 x 6", cloth, 156pp,

Approaching Near Fine but without dust jacket.  Absolutely square and tight without bumps or tears.  There is a little discoloration at the hinges and the previous owners name and date on the ffep.

Glassine wrapped, this is a beautiful original keepsake.  

(05/A) No trades. Cash or Credit Card only.                                      $ 100.00 net.

  Jeffers, Robinson

The Double Axe

1948. First Printing (so stated). Random House, New York.  

Red letters and gold publishers logo on the spine.  Blue cloth boards.  

Quarto. 9 3/4 x 6", 150pp,

Approaching VERY GOOD but without dust jacket.  Head tips bumped but square and tight.  There is a little browning and the previous owners name shows neatly on the endpapers.

This volume was limited to about 2500 copies and is noteworthy because of the publisher’s disclaimer after publishing 13 of Jeffers books previously. 

Glassine wrapped.  Scarce.  

(05/A) No trades. Cash or Credit Card only.                                        $ 35.00 net.

Kearney, Lawrence

Five

1976 First Printing, Tombouctou, Boilnas.

Illustrations by Terry Bell

Unpaginated [80 pp]. NEAR FINE in printed wrappers.

titles are: The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, Moonfleet,

A Generalization is a Short-Hand Notation With Predictive Power,

An Introduction to the History & Practice of Ophism, and Lost Hearts.

Kearney's first two books were published by the legendary White Rabbit Press.

(05/E) No trades. Cash or Credit Card only.                                        $ 39.00 net.

Kyger, Joanne

Going On:

Selected Poems 1958-1980.

1983 First Edition (so stated) Dutton, New York

Part of the National Poetry Series selected by Robert Creeley

Inscribed on the half title page,

“Kerin, you must know that what is green in Ireland,

 is soft silver here. ” Joanne in Bolinas

Near Fine in wraps protected in a clear plastic envelope.

(05/B) No trades. Cash or Credit Card only.                                      $ 75.00 net.

Levine, Phillip

Not This Pig

Philip Levine

1968 First Edition (so stated) Wesleyan University, Middletown

Signed on the front free end paper

VERY GOOD+ in pictorial wraps. .

His other poetry collections include The Mercy (1999);

The Simple Truth (1994), which won the Pulitzer Prize;

What Work Is (1991), which won the National Book Award;

New Selected Poems (1991); Ashes: Poems New and Old (1979), received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the first American Book Award for Poetry; 7 Years From Somewhere (1979), won the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Names of the Lost (1975), won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. 

He has also published a collection of essays, The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (1994), edited The Essential Keats (1987), and co-edited and translated two books: Off the Map: Selected Poems of Gloria Fuertes (with Ada Long, 1984) and Tarumba: The Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines (with Ernesto Trejo, 1979).  He has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize from Poetry, the Frank O'Hara Prize, and two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships.

Near Fine in wraps protected in a clear plastic envelope.

(05/B) No trades. Cash or Credit Card only.                                      $ 100.00 net.

They Feed They Lion

Philip Levine

1972 First Edition (so stated) Atheneum, New York

Inscribed “For Irene, TODAY from Phil Levine.”

NEAR FINE in pictorial wraps.

The cover photograph features a wounded lion from an Assyrian relief.

His other poetry collections include The Mercy (1999);

The Simple Truth (1994), which won the Pulitzer Prize;

What Work Is (1991), which won the National Book Award;

New Selected Poems (1991); Ashes: Poems New and Old (1979), received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the first American Book Award for Poetry; 7 Years From Somewhere (1979), won the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Names of the Lost (1975), won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

He has also published a collection of essays, The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (1994), edited The Essential Keats (1987), and co-edited and translated two books: Off the Map: Selected Poems of Gloria Fuertes (with Ada Long, 1984) and Tarumba: The Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines (with Ernesto Trejo, 1979).  He has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize from Poetry, the Frank O'Hara Prize, and two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships.

Near Fine in wraps protected in a clear plastic envelope.

(05/B) No trades. Cash or Credit Card only.                                      $ 75.00 net.

 Lockett, Reginald

 
Where the Birds Sing Bass

Inscribed First edition. (No date) Jukebox Press, Oakland: 

NEAR FINE.  109 pp. Lockett won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award in 1996 for this book.  Signed by the poet.

(05/A) No trades. Cash or Credit Card only.                                      $ 40.00 net.

De Amor Oscuro; Of Dark Love

Francisco X. Alarcón,

with drawings by Ray Rice

[English translation by Francisco Aragon with the poet]

1991 true 1^st Edition, Moving Parts Press, Santa Cruz, Calif.

This is the original 1^st Edition limited to seventy copies and is inscribed by the poet.  Especially scarce. 

(03/E) No trades. Cash, or Credit Card sales only.                             $100.00 net.

Africa and the Marriage of

Walt Whitman and Marilyn Monroe

Lewis MacAdams

1982 1^st Edition, Los Angeles; Little Caesar Press

Trade Paperback Original. A collection of poetry and essays.  Lewis MacAdams is the Los.Angeles poet, journalist and ecological activist who in 1985, founded Friends of The Los Angeles River, “a 40 year art work” to bring the Los Angeles River back to life.  Fine in color-illustrated wraps.  Front cover photo by Francis Shishim, rear cover photo by Renate Von Mangoldt.

(03/C) No trades. Cash, or Credit Card sales only.  Scarce.               $150.00 net.

De Amor Oscuro; Of Dark Love

Francisco X. Alarcón,

with drawings by Ray Rice

[English translation by Francisco Aragon with the poet]

1991 true 1^st Edition, Moving Parts Press, Santa Cruz, Calif.

This is the original 1^st Edition limited to seventy copies and is inscribed by the poet.  Especially scarce. 

(03/E) No trades. Cash, or Credit Card sales only.                             $100.00 net.