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ALEXANDER Literary Firsts & Poetry RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE THIRTY-FIVE Mark Alexander Alexander Rare Books 234 Camp Street Barre, VT 05641 (802) 476-0838 [email protected] All items are US, UK or CN First Editions, First Printings, unless otherwise stated. All items guaranteed & are fully refundable for any reason within 30 days; orders subject to prior sale. VT residents please add 6% sales tax. Checks, money orders, PayPal, and most credit cards accepted. Net 30 days. Institutions billed according to need. Reciprocal terms offered to the trade. Shipping is free in the US (via Priority or First Class Mail); Canada $10 per shipment; elsewhere $20 per shipment. Visit AlexanderRareBooks.com for scans of most items. We encourage you to visit for the latest acquisitions. Thank you in advance for perusing this list [printed on recycled paper] Catalogue 35 Literary Mags 1. ADDRESS Vol. I, No. 2. NY: Keim Publishing, July- August 1987. Jones, Alan (ed.). First Edition. Stapled wrappers with illustrated paper wrappers; oblong 4to. Poems by William Bronk, Rainer Maria Gerhardt, Denis Goacher, Barry Goldensohn, Mary de Rachewiltz, Frank Samperi and Nathaniel Tarn. Creased with soling; about very good. [12434] $25.00 2. AGENDA: Louis Zukofsky Special Issue: Vol. 3; No. 6. London, December 1964. Stapled green wrappers; 8vo. 36 pp. Special Issue entirely devoted to LZ, and edited by Charles Tomlinson. Zukofsky's own copy, signed and dated on inside of the front cover. With 8 corrections to the text by LZ, including two textual ones. Purchased from the Zukofsky's by the Gotham Book Mart in 1972--- pencil docket in rear. Near fine copy. [12517] $200.00 3. AHNOI! #3. N. Bergen, NJ: Lewis, 1980. Lewis, Joel (ed.). First Edition. Side stapled mimeograph, with hand-colored covers. Cover by Rochelle Kraut, lettering by Eileen Myles. Third issue. A wide-range of avant garde poets including Ginsberg "Garden State", Tom Savage, Padgett, Theodore Enslin (his copy - though not noted, but the cover illustration does seem to be specially colored - by Kraut?), Notley, Hollo, Waldman, Margaret Randall, Myles, Kraut, Baraka, and others. Unevenly toned, else about very good. [12281] $50.00 4. BEZOAR Vol. 17, #4. Gloucester: Folding, 1979. First Edition. Eight sheets stapled, folded. Prose by Joanne Kyger (six sheets) and Lee Harwood. Unusual little mag along the lines of Floating Bear. This issue seems to have had difficulty reaching the recipient poet Ted Enslin, and there are stamps of the postage and postage due type as well as a return to sender stamp. Folded, some minor soiling, else about very good. [12261] $15.00 5. BITS 10. Cleveland: Case Western, 1979. Abbott, Lee et al. (ed.). First Edition. Sewn illus. wrappers. Poetry anthology with short poems Sheila Nickerson, Doyle W. Walls, Peter Wild, William J. Smith, John Druska, Jared Carter, Leonard Nathan, Jim Handlin, Robley Wilson, Jr., Reg Saner, Merry Speece, Albert Goldbarth, Scott Simmer, John Fandel, Dennis Trudell, Jean Balderson, Frank Short, William Hoagland, Sonia Gernes, and Joseph Bruchac. Near fine. [12264] $20.00 6. THE CAMEL'S HUMP No. 5. Reno, NV: Morris, 1967. Richard Morris (ed.). First Edition. Four single sheets stapled at one corner and folded for mailing. A poetry newsletter "put out now and again", and devoted to individual poets; here with short poems by Besmilr Brigham. Mentions of other similar small presses, including The Jim Lowell Defense Fund. Heavily wrinkled and toned. Addressed to poet Ted Enslin. Good. [12295] $25.00 7. CENTER #12. Alburgurque, NM, 1979. Berge, Carol (ed.). First Edition. Stapled wrappers; 4to. 68 pp. Errata slip laid in. Begun in 1970 in Woodstock, NY as a mimeo, this penultimate issue was printed. Decidedly avant garde, most of the work short fiction, with Erica Jong, Gene Frumkin, et al. Clay Phillips pp. 204-205. Edges toned, else about very good. [12280] $20.00 8. THE DIFFICULTIES Vol. 1, No. 2. Kent, OH: Viscerally Press, Winter 1980-1981. Beckett, Tom (ed.) First Edition. Original illustrated wraps; 4to. Second issue of this little magazine that lasted about a decade, often single issues exploring a poet; this with work by Cid Corman, Ron Silliman, Charles Bernstein, Lyn Hejinian, Ted Enslin, Bob Perelman, Larry Eigner, and several others. A bit rubbed, else very good. [12284] $45.00 Eight Issues with work by John Updike 9. HARVARD LAMPOON. Cambridge: Harvard Lampoon, 1950-1953. First edition. 24 - 28 pp. each; stapled Illus. covers. Eight issues, all with prose, poetry, art or cartoons by John Updike (class of 1954), of this scarce humor magazine published by Harvard Students. Beginning with the Vol. CXL, No.2, October (?) 1950 issue (Updike began classes in September, and according to the recent Arlen biography Updike didn't wait according to custom until the Spring semester, but began submitting to the Lampoon as soon as he arrived) with a poem, cartoon and signed illus.; June 1951, two poems by Updike; Sept. 1951, one poem, five pieces of art/cartoons; Nov., 1951(Yale Game issue - he is listed on the masthead as "Narthex" - one of three designated editorial positions) a poem and seven art/cartoons; March 1952, the "Movie Issue" with "Worst Pictures" etc. ending with a poem from JHU to Errol Flynn, a second film related poem and three signed illustrations; May 1952, two poems, four cartoons (one full-page) and a two page article "Summer of the Ivy"; June 1952 (Updike is listed as "Ibis", nothing signed), a Fred Gwynne cartoon; April 1953, Updike also dominates this issue with at least two poems, seven signed art/cartoons, AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p.3 two prose pieces, one sharing credit, one a long piece on "Little Schism", and he is listed on the masthead as President. Michael J. Arlen and Fred Gwynne appear frequently, Updike with easily with the most contributions. All about very good or better, covers still bright, the first issue with a few pages separating, and only minor wear and stains. Quite scarce especially in this condition. [12511] For eight issues: $395.00 The Harvard Lampoon which occupies one of the most interesting buildings on any campus anywhere began in 1876; among its many notable alumni are William Randolph Hearst, Robert Benchley, George Santayana, George Plimpton, Fred Gwynne, and Conan O'Brien. One could claim that it is the most infuential humor magazine ever in the US, with its numerous spinoffs like Bored of the Rings, and alumni contributing heavily to The National Lampoon, Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons, among many other TV shows. 10. HIP POCKET POETS: Number 2. Hanover: The Pinwheel Press, 1960. Snyder, Emile; Jack Hirschman (ed.); First Edition. Blue stapled wrappers; near miniature. Translations of Enzensberger, Cesaire, Lorca, and four poems by Weldon Kees, among others. Sunned spine; a few leaves heavily acidic and brown; about very good. [12303] $15.00 11. HIP POCKET POETS: Number 4. White stapled wrappers; near miniature. Poems by Levertov, Houser, Eshleman, Hirschman, Robert Kelly, and others. Staples rusty, covers a bit soiled, about very good. [12304] $15.00 12. INSERT. Portland, OR: V. H. Flach jr., 1955. First Edition. Stapled wrappers with black and white graphic designed by Vic Flack; thin 8vo. Evidently the first and only issue: a platform for the editors Flack and G. R. Speeden; only one other poet Richard Dixon Schade is represented. Avant-garde prose and poetry, most apparently written in Korea, printed in Japan. Staples rusty, else very good. [12516] $20.00 13. LIGHT no. 29; nos. 40-41 A Quarterly of Light Verse. Chicago: Light, 2000; 2003. John Mella (ed.). First Edition. [64 pp.] [96 pp.]. Two issues (one a double) of this literary journal specializing in light verse. Review copies with slips laid in. A poem each by A.E. Stallings and Thomas Disch in each issue, and many other poets. Uncommon. Light wear, top tips bumped, still close to fine, with mailing label on back cover. For the pair. [7056] $35.00 14. LUNA TACK, a magazine, #2. Iowa City: Dog Hair Press, 1982. First edition. Includes two early Hoagland poems ("Pastoral" and "The Question") published while he was studying for his MFA, a decade before his first full-length collection. Also early work by "Poetry Comics" graphic artist and "Actualist Poet" Dave Morice. Published in March 1982, basically a "mimeo" magazine, stapled into green illustrated wraps, 36 pages. 200 copies printed. All corners bumped, but AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p.5 interior fresh and clean. A gem of early work. (Two of Cinda Kornblum's poems are here: wife of Alan Kornblum and co-publisher of Toothpaste Press.) [9702]$ 35.00 15. OROGRANDE: Issue Six. San Francisco:, 1981. Kunz, Peter; Pat Phelan (eds.) First Edition. Stapled handpainted (likely) covers; 4to. [8 pp.] Scarce poetry journal, this with poems by Stanley Noyes and one by Eleny Akers and Brian Unger. Covers heavily and unevenly toned, good. Holding at UC Berkeley only. [12431] $15.00 16. OROGRANDE: Issue Three. San Francisco, 1980. Kunz, Peter; Pat Phelan (eds.) First Edition. Stapled handpainted (likely) covers; 4to. [8 pp.] Scarce poetry journal, this with a poem by Larry Eigner, Keith Wilson, Paul Galos and Merry White. Covers heavily and unevenly toned, good. Holding at UC Berkeley only. [12430] $15.00 17. THE PENNY DREADFUL: One, One. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University English Dept., [1972]. DeHaven, Tom and Steve Crowe (ed.). First Edition. Tabloid newspaper format (though not on newsprint); 6 pp. A student literary newspaper, "Being a periodical of fiction, poems, articles, reviews, interviews.", with a short short story by Philip F. O'Connor and featuring part 1 of a two part interview with Diane Wakoski. Three entries on WorldCat.