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Literary Firsts & Poetry Alexander Rare Books CATALOGUE 29 MOSTLY POETRY: Books; Broadsides, Little & Mimeo Magazines; Novels &c. CATALOGUE TWENTY-NINE ALEXANDER RARE BOOKS – LITERARY FIRSTS & POETRY All items are US or UK First Editions & First Printings unless otherwise stated. All items guaranteed & are refundable for any reason within 30 days; and subject to prior sale. VT residents please add 6% sales tax. Checks, Money Orders, Paypal (most credit cards via electronic invoice) 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 $13 per shipment. Visit AlexanderRareBooks.com for cover scans and photos of most catalogued items. I 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 to do them more frequently in the future. If you would like to receive our electronic catalogues, please email me or subscribe at our website: www.AlexanderRareBooks.com We are always interested in acquiring first editions, single copies or collections, and particularly modernist & contemporary poetry. Orders can be placed by phone or email. Alexander Rare Books Mark Alexander 234 Camp Street Barre, VT 05641 (802) 476-0838 [email protected] LITTLE MAGAZINES 1) Aldan, Daisy & Richard Miller (publishers) FOLDER 2 (Vol. 1, No. 2). New York: Folder, 1954. The second of four issues of the first magazine associated with the New York School poets, although many others were included. Each consisting of sheets/fascicles including a print, and laid into a folder. Printed linotype by Floriano Vecchi at Tiber Press. Vol 2 contributors (22 in total) include John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, V. R. Lang, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, with Kenward Elmslie and Anne Bernays making their first appearances in print according to the contributors notes; also Alfred Leslie contributes a four-color serigraph. Coffee stain (mostly on the back) not affecting the contents which are lightly toned, but easily very good and complete. (10994) $75.00 2) Aldan, Daisy & Richard Miller (publishers); Frank O'Hara; John Ashbery; et al. FOLDER 3 (Vol. 2, No. 1). New York: Folder, 1954. The third of four issues of the first magazine associated with the New York School poets, although many others were included. Each consisting of sheets/fascicles including a print, and laid into a folder. Printed linotype by Floriano Vecchi at Tiber Press. Vol 3 contributors (22 in total) include John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara (poetry and his essay "Nature and New Painting"), Kenneth Koch, Barbara Guest, Christopher Logue, Carol Hall, and James Broughton with George Seferis, Pier Paolo Pasolini and others in translation; also Gandy Brodie contributes a four- color serigraph. The folder spine-toned, with light rubbing and stain not affecting the Grace Hartigan covers. Contents lightly toned, but easily very good and complete. (10995) $75.00 3) Anderson, C(hester). V. J. (ed.); BEATITUDE: Poetry in Progress. San Francisco: Bread & Wine Press, June 17, 1960. Stapled photographic wrappers; small 8vo. 23 pp. Nice Beat publication: Lenore Kandel ("First They Slaughtered the Angels" leads off), Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Hugh Romney and others. Fred McDarrah cover photograph. "Perhaps the quintessential ‘Beat’ publication" - Clay/Phillips p. 81. Long running 1959 - 1961 & 1969 -1987: 34 nos. Light toning, else fine and fragile. (11070) $50.00 4) Anonymous. EAT SHIT! Premier Issue. Toronto: n. p., 1969. Newsprint, folded. Folio. A Hippie paper with satires of McCleans and main stream culture, mostly collages with a "Toronto Stocks" listing prices of various banned substances. Toned, but very good. Ephemeral, and rare: no copies listed on WorldCat. (11040) $75.00 5) Beach, Mary (ed.); FRUIT CUP No. Zero. New York: Beach Books, Text & Documents, Inc., 1969. Stapled, illustrated in color wrappers. A "Free Bomkauf" (Bob Kaufman then in a California jail) on the verso of a wonderful "Beat" collage, and poetry & prose & collages for the next 96 pages. Work by Allen Ginsberg; Ed Sanders; William Burroughs; Rochelle Owens, et l. A wonderful 60's piece, evidently a Beach one off, with nary a popular cultural reference missing. Pages toned throughout, else a very near fine copy. Quite scarce. (11039) $75.00 Beach who was related to Sylvia Beach spent only a brief time in San Francisco, but was in the very mix of things when San Francisco was the place to be. With her husband Claude Pelieu she published Beach Books (Kaufman, Burroughs and Ginsberg among others) and the journal San Francisco Renaissance. Three issues of one of the most highly regarded mimeo magazines 6) Clark, Tom. ONCE Vol. 1, No. 1. Brightlingsea, Essex: Tom Clark, 1966. 14 near legal-sized pages, side-stapled, and printed on rectos only. The first issue (of eleven). Poems by Robin Blaser, Ed Dorn, Tom Raworth, Ron Padgett, Philip Lamantia, Aram Saroyan and others. Top corners creased else fine. (11089) $150.00 7) Clark. THRICE Vol. 1, No. 1. Brightlingsea, Essex: Tom Clark, 1966. 27 near legal-sized pages, side-stapled, and printed on rectos only. The third issue (of eleven). Poems by Clark, Gael Turnbull, Ed Dorn, Ron Padgett, Ted Berrigan, Charles Olson, Aram Saroyan, Clark Coolidge, Joanne Kyger and others. The last page is an advertisement for a bookstore appearance by Jack Kerouac for TOWN AND THE CITY, with a photo of the author. Bottom corners creased else fine. (11090) $150.00 item # 6 item #7 8) Clark. SLICE Vol. 1, No. 1. Brightlingsea, Essex: Tom Clark, circa 1967. 28 near legal-sized pages, side- stapled, and printed on rectos only. Ninth issue (of eleven). Poems by James Brodey, Steve Carey, Ed Dorn, Ron Padgett, Ted Berrigan, Dick Gallup, Tom Raworth, LeRoi Jones, Aram Saroyan, Sotere Torregian (name added in blue ink, presumably in Clark's hand) and others. (11091) $150.00 Clark published eleven issues of this mimeo magazine while in England from 1966 to 1968. Each issue was "a one shot", "no copyright no nothin", and individually titled "Twice" "Thrice", "Frice", etc. Clay/Phillips p. 288. item #8 9) David Antin & Jerome Rothenberg (eds.). SOME/THING No. 1. New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1965. Illustrated wrappers. 64 pp. The first of four issues, one being a double. Special section on red paper with a long poem by Jackson Mac Low: "The Presidents of the United States". Poetry by Wakoski, Blackburn, Hollo, Ignatow and the editors among others, with act one of "Homo" by Rochelle Owen. A short crease on the spine, but a very tight and close to fine copy. (11042) $75.00 10) David Antin & Jerome Rothenberg (eds.). SOME/THING No. 2. New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1965. Illustrated wrappers. 68 pp. The second of four issues, one being a double. Work by Brecht, Rochelle Owen, Berrigan, Enslin, Eshleman, Mac Low, Wakoski, and the editors among others. Wear at foot and crown of spine, but a very tight and close to fine copy. Not marked other than by slips of paper, but Jackson Mac Low’s copy. (11053) $50.00 11) David Antin & Jerome Rothenberg (eds.). SOME/THING No. 4-5. New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1968. Illustrated wrappers. 68 pp. The final of four issues, this being a double number. Work by Berge, Blackburn, Edson, Eshleman, Mac Low, Malanga, Snyder, Wakoski, Rosemarie Waldrop and the editors among others. Light wear, but a very tight and close to fine copy. Not marked but Jackson Mac Low's copy. (11054) $50.00 12) Deutch, Richard & Connors, Thomas (eds.). THE SECANT Vol. II, No. 2. Belleville, IL: 1965. College Mimeo mag, with poems by Levertov and Malanga with original work by Joel Sloman (prior to his first book) and others. There seem to have been a total of five issues. The original price inked out, small ink circle, mild toning else very good. Rare: a handful of copies listed on WorldCat. (11038) $50.00 13) Duerden, Richard (ed.); FOOT NO. 1. San Francisco: n. p., [Sept. 1959]. Orange printed wrappers, designed by Robert Duncan. Great line up: Robert Duncan; Richard Brautigan (five poems); Larry Eigner; Jess Collins; Philip Whalen. Text "block"--- 10 folded leaves, once string-tied (string still present), now loosely inserted. Edited by Richard Duerden, issued in San Francisco. Undated, but 1959. Bertholf C89. With ownership stamp of beat photographer Fred McDarrah. (11072) $75.00 14) [Eliot, T. S.] . The Waste Land, in THE CRITERION: October 1922 Volume I, Number I. London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, 1922. First edition. Original printed wraps. [Pp. 50- 64.] The first publication anywhere (published in the US in the Nov. issue of THE DIAL) of one of most important works of literature in the 20th C. Wear and creasing to extremities of the yapped covers, with discreet tape at spine head and tails, but complete; text block with a very few spots of foxing, but else clean and bright and largely unopened (though "The Waste Land" has been opened). A 1952 invoice with revenue stamp from Bertram Rota laid in. A very good copy of one of the most desirable literary journals of the century. Rare outside of institutions. (11081) $1,250.00 THE CRITERION was founded and edited by Eliot. "The Waste Land" is arguably the poetic equivalent of Joyce's ULYSSES: As Gilbert Seldes (in THE DIAL) wrote, "Until I read 'The Waste Land' by Mr. Eliot I believed that Ulysses was the only complete expression of the spirit which will be 'Modern' for the next generation". 15) [Eliot, T. S.]. The Waste Land, in THE DIAL, November 1922 Volume LXXIII, Number 5. New York: Dial Publishing, 1922. First edition.
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