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Alexander Rare Books CATALOGUE Alexander Rare Books CATALOGUE 30 MOSTLY POETRY: Books; Broadsides, Little & Mimeo Magazines; Novels &c. MOSTLY POETRY: Books; Broadsides; Little & Mimeo Magazines; Ephemera; &c. CATALOGUE THIRTY ALEXANDER RARE BOOKS – Literary Firsts & Poetry All items are US, UK, or CN First Editions & First Printings unless otherwise stated. All items guaranteed & are refundable for any reason within 30 days; subject to prior sale. VT residents please add 6% sales tax. Checks, Money Orders, most credit cards via electronic invoice (Paypal) accepted. Net 30 days. Libraries & institutions billed according to need. Reciprocal terms offered to the trade. SHIPPING IS FREE IN THE US (generally Priority Mail) & CANADA, elsewhere $15 per shipment. Visit AlexanderRareBooks.com for cover scans and photos of most catalogued items. We encourage you to visit for the latest acquisitions: the best items usually appear on the website, then in catalogues, before appearing elsewhere online. We also send catalogues electronically, and plan regular (electronic only) short lists in the future. If you would like to receive them please let us know via email or phone or subscribe at our website (we use MailChimp for your security): AlexanderRareBooks.com We are always interested in acquiring first editions, single copies or collections, particularly modern & contemporary poetry. Orders can be placed by phone or email. Alexander Rare Books Mark Alexander 234 Camp Street Barre, VT 05641 Office: (802) 476-0838 Cell: (802) 522-0257 [email protected] [printed on recyled paper.] LITTLE MAGAZINES 1. Aldan, Daisy (ed.) A NEW FOLDER: Americans: Poems and Drawings. NY: Folder Editions, 1959 [1960]. Reddish-orange printed wrappers; 8vo. 128 pp. Magazine associated with the New York School poets, although many others were included. Aldan also edited the four issues of FOLDER, which ceased publication after four issues in 1956. One of 1000 copies of which 150 were in cloth. Contributors include John Ashbery, Jackson Pollack, Kenneth Koch, Franz Kline, Larry Rivers, Joan Mitchell, Frank O'Hara, William de Kooning, most of the major Beats as well as James Merrill, Anais Nin and other more mainstream writers. Foreword by Wallace Fowlie and cover drawing by Nell Blaine. Photos; illustrations. Light rubbing and wear, cover a bit splayed, but very good. (11163) $20.00 2. [Camus, Albert]. VENTURE: Vol. 3, No. 4. Albert Camus: 1913 – 1960: A Final Interview. NY: Venture Publications, 1960. Photographic wrappers; 8vo. Literary magazine of Long Island University. Contributions by Diane Wakoski, John Clellon Holmes, Bink Noll and others. etc. Camus on front cover---prints his final interview (answers to questions from a LIU professor received at the publication offices two weeks prior to Camus' death). One crease to front cover, rubbed, otherwise easily very good. (11165) $35.00 3. Eshleman, Clayton, (ed.). FOLIO Vol. XXV, No. 1. Bloomington: Dept. of English, Indiana, 1960. Purple and white wrappers. 8vo. 64 pp. A solid issue with "Poem" by William Carlos Williams, an essay by Solt on WCW and poems by Cid Corman, Robert Bly, Eshleman, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Kelly and others, with three by Neruda in original Spanish (facing translations by Eshleman with others). Light wear at extremities else about fine copy. (11209) $25.00 Eshleman was briefly an editor of Folio while a graduate student at Indiana. This issue contains some of his earliest work, and precedes his editorship of the better known Caterpillar by seven years. 4. Fisher, Stanley (ed.). BEAT COAST EAST: An Anthology of Rebellion. NY: Excelsior Press, 1960. Yellow wrappers; Fred McDarrah photo on front. Kerouac, Mailer, Leroi Jones, etc. Illustrations by Oldenburg and Elaine deKooning created for this edition. Classic early anthology. Tight clean copy, lightly toned spine else very good, with ink number (“25”) on cover and two checkmarks on back cover (from Fred McDarrah's library - though not otherwise noted). (11126) $35.00 5. Flaherty, Douglas & James Bradford (eds.). ROAD APPLE REVIEW; Vol. 1, No. 1. Albuquerque: Road Runner Press, 1968. Orange printed, stapled wrappers; square 8vo. 38 pp. Scarce first issue of this little mag. Poetry, with contributions from Gene Frumkin; John Tagliabue; James Bertolino; Margaret Randall; Douglas Blazek et al.; an interview with Creeley on politics following the 1968 election. Very good. (11113) $15.00 6. Killian, Kevin and Dodie Bellamy. MIRAGE #4/PERIOD(ICAL) #7. San Francisco: n. p., 1992. Stapled wrappers. Cover drawing by Johnny Noxzema. Poems by Tom Carey, Steve Caroll, Carla Harryman, Catriona Strang, Kathe Burkhart and Bellamy. Early issue of this long-running periodical. Near Fine. (11271) $15.00 7. Kupferberg, Tuli (ed.). BIRTH No. 3, book 2. NY: Birth Press, 1960. Red stapled covers. 80 pp. More on "Dope". With Ted Joans; Allen Ginsberg. Stray black ink mark, else about fine. (11028) $40.00 8 Lockhead, Gordon (ed.); Jim Smith; David Phillips. NMFG (No Money from Government): Nos. 17-26; Vancouver, BC: NMFG, 1977-79. Ten issues (the last ten issues); 4to.; mimeographed, stapled at corners. Illustrated throughout. Clip-bound into a binder with autographed titling. Also, with typed letter from NMFG to Jim Smith, envelope; and David Phillips Wake Me When The Dancing Starts, Prince George, circa 1978; 8vo. chapbook issued from the press, with envelope. With a few pencil notes by Smith. Minor wear, overall easily very good. (11224) $200.00 Final ten issues of this periodical produced by Gerry Gilbert, Stan Persky and Brian Fawcett, and edited by Lockhead, which was published between 1976 and 1979, and distributed primarily via subscription. These are all from writer Jim Smith. Contributors included West Coast poets and other Canadian avant garde (one issue says 24 issues without Irving Layton). Contributors from these ten issues include: Jack Spicer, Margaret Randall, Stan Persky, Brian Fawcett, Duncan McNaughton, Jim Carroll, John Thorpe, Tom Clark "To Ungaretti", Fred Wah, Robin Blaser, Lewis MacAdam, J. T Osborne (all of iss. 23), Daphne Marlatt, and Amiri Baraka "Das Kapital". 9. Masters, Greg (ed.). THE POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER No. 66. NY: The Poetry Project, June 1979. Eight mimeograph pages stapled at corner. Addressed to Tom Carey, 2nd Gen New York School poet. Poems by Bob Rosenthal and Rochelle Kraut; reviews by John Yau and Bruce Andrews. Folded for mailing, but very good. (11270) $10.00 10. Masters, Greg (ed.). THE POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER No. 52. NY: The Poetry Project, February 1978. Eight mimeograph pages stapled at corner. Addressed to Tom Carey, 2nd Gen New York School poet. Prose poem by Coolidge, poem by James Schuyler and a review by Alice Notley of Koch's The Duplications, and more. Toned, folded for mailing, but very good. (11269) $10.00 11. Masters, Gregory; Michael Scholnick and Gary Lenhart (eds.). MAG CITY #3. NY: Mag City, 1977. Illustrated, stapled wrappers (offset). 4to. Third Gen New York School mag with contributions from Rene Ricard, Bob Holman, John Godfrey, Ted Greenwald, Tom Carey, Steve Levine, the editors and others. Light soiling and creasing; easily very good in wraps. Clay/Phillips pp. 232 -3. (11265) $25.00 12. Sorrentino, Gilbert (ed.). NEON No. 4. Brooklyn: Neon, 1959. Illustrated stapled printed wrappers; 8vo. Work by Lorine Niedecker, Louis Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams, Paul Goodman, and others including very early Hubert Selby fiction. Final issue of four of Sorrentino's little mag, plus two supplements. Fielding Dawson cover. Inked over price on contents page; stamp of Fred McDarragh the great Village Voice photographer. Clay/Phillips p. 287. Light wear, scratches, but very good. (11238) $75.00 13. Warsh, Lewis; Anne Waldman (eds.). ANGEL HAIR 6. NY: Warsh, 1969. Illustrated white card covers, stapled; large 4to. George Schneeman cover. [64 pages] Eleven poems by O'Hara, work (mostly poetry) by Berrigan, Warsh, Waldman, Steve Carey, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, Ron Padgett, Jim Carroll, Clark Coolidge, Brownstein, Bathurst, Veitch, Giorno, Clark, Elmslie, Berkson, Malanga, Borregaard, Thorpe, Franks, Kyger, Koller and Fagin. Terrific issue with a wonderful Schneeman cover. Stray, short, ink mark on cover over title, minor wear and soiling, title page unevenly toned, but easily very good. (11116) $35.00 BROADSIDES / POSTERS & the Like 14. Bruchac, Joseph. “In Milan”. Binghampton: Bellevue Press, 1978. Crisp elegant miniature broadside, postcard size, with striking poem by Bruchac on orange stock, printed letterpress by Stuart McCarty. Signed by the author beneath the poem. (9144) $10.00 Two Christodora House Broadsides 15. Dickinson, Emily. "A Bird Came Down the Walk". NY: Poet's Guild, n. d. (after 1924). First Separate Edition. A single sheet, printed on both sides, and measuring 4 5/8 by 7 3/8 inches. One of two of Dickinson's poems printed as "The Unbound Anthology", like the Frost and others in this series quite uncommon. Not in Myerson. Toned paper, but fine. (3642) $200.00 16. Dickinson, Emily. "Before You Thought of Spring" NY: Poet's Guild, n. d. (after 1924). First Separate Edition. A single sheet, printed on both sides, and measuring 4 5/8 by 7 3/8 inches. Retitled in some volumes as "The Bluebird". Not in Myerson. Toned paper, but fine. (3641) $200.00 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 17. Dylan, Bob. The iconic Milton Glaser poster that accompanied most of the early pressings of Dylan’s “Greatest Hits” Album of 1966. Though some 6 million were reportedly produced it is somewhat uncommon in collectible form. Folded into eleven inches square it unfolds into a large 66 x 66 inch bit of nostalgia for many of us. Glaser founded Push Pin Studios in 1954, but this poster was one of his first (of hundreds), and one of the most recognized of his many well-known designs. The typeface was created specifically for the poster. Near fine (folded as issued) in a lightly worn near fine cover with the album appearing to be in similar condition, the sleeve quite toned.
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