MIDSTREAM by Bruner, Margaret E - 1940

New York, New York: Nicholas L. Brown. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1920. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 103 pages: 5.25 x 7.5 in.: 0.8: KB#010257: No dustjacket is included. Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Boards are bright red with paper author and title labels on spine and front cover. Label on front is complete but spine label is chipped. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered (except for very slight rubbing at board corners). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Evelyn Scott (1893–1963) was an American novelist, playwright and poet, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Ernest Souza and Elsie Dunn. This book "Precipitations" was her first book. .

San Francisco: Shirt Pocket Editions, 2006. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 32mo, 25 leaves (printed one-side on card stock), comb binding. INSCRIBED to the painter Jack Freeman by the author on the first interior page. One of an unknown but presumably microscopic number of copies of the self-published first edition of this pocket-sized poetic collection by a key figure in San Francisco's North Beach from the Beat era until his death a few years after this was issued. Just about as new (minor marks on cover appear to be printing artifact).

San Francisco: Beatitude, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 48pp, stapled wrappers. 1 of 250 stated copies. Nice copy of this mid-seventies issue of the classic San Francisco underground Beat magazine, includes a range of contributors. Unmarked copy with minor damp staining to top and left margin.

Berkeley: Tree, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Fine. 8vo, [iv]+204pp, printed wrappers. Beautiful as-new copy of the fourth issue of this groundbreaking literary and Kabbalistic magazine edited by David Meltzer. Includes Image of the Wall by Wallace Berman, a lengthy 1964 letter from Lenny Bruce to a judge, a number of Kabbalistic pieces from traditional authorities, and other material from writers associated with the Semina scene. Unmarked copy, as new.

New York: The Poetry Project, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 42 leaves (mimeographed one side), stapled wrappers. Rare early issue of this seminal little magazine, includes collaborations and work by Ted Berrigan, Rene Ricard, et al. Unmarked copy, light wear and minor outer spots.

New York: Dodd Mead, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Dodd Mead, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition in clean original unclipped dust jacket. Clean unfaded red cloth boards with black title box, gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 190 pages. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped (2.50 on front inside flap), a few very tiny edge chips, short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..

The Fortune Press, London, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, second state (bound in grained cloth instead of smooth). Slim 8vo. 94pp + [ii] advertisements. Dark purplish-blue grained cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A small area of discolouration to the head of the backstrip where the dust wrapper is defective, paperstock very lightly tanned and with just a hint of spotting to the title page and to very occasional text leaves. A very crisp copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel with a single small area of loss, and with a little further uneven tanning to the front and rear panels. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper, along side a date to the base of the front pastedown (this last obscured by the wrapper flap). Larkin's second mature appearance in print. Also includes contributions from Drummond Allison, William Bell, Ian Davie, W.J.Harvey, John Heath-Stubbs, Brian Hutton, Francis King, Christopher… Read More

Paris: GLM, 1937. Livre. Très bon. plaquette agrafée. Edition originale. In-16. Paris, GLM, 1937. Coll. "Habitude de la poésie", n° 6. 14,5 x 9,5 cm, in-16, (16) pp. y compris la couverture, plaquette agrafée sous couverture imprimée. Edition originale. L'un des exemplaires de tête non justifiés sur papier couché bicolore, ici orange et jaune paille. Très bel exemplaire. (CORON, 127).

John Murray, London, 1980. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition - the uncommon first state, which was subsequently withdrawn and pulped; this copy seemingly the publisher's file copy, with that text lightly inkstamped to the front free endpaper. 8vo. 66pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, just slightly faded at spine panel and at the head of the upper panel, and with a small sliver of staining to the lower edge. Thirty Betjeman poems accompanied by a Piper frontispiece and seventeen line drawings, several of them full-page. Printing errors impacting the poems 'Bristol and Clifton' and 'Sunday Afternoon in St. Enodoc Church, Cornwall' necessitated a complete recall and a corrected edition was published the following year. See Peterson A48..

New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED on a preliminary page by Clarence Major, one of the authors featured in this anthology: "to Bert / good luck! / Clarence Major." An anthology featuring works by 72 poets, most of them Black or people of color. Besides Major, poets include Julian Bond, Victor Hernández Cruz, David Henderson, Calvin Hernton, Marvin Jackman, Bob Kaufman, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, and Gloria and Stephen Tropp. Lengthy prologue by the editor, Walter Lowenfels. (For the full list, please see the second photo.) Clarence Major (b. 1936), who inscribed this book, has written more than a dozen collections of poetry. He is a distinguished professor emeritus of 20th-century American literature at the University of California, Davis. This is a review copy, with the Random House notice laid in. Copies signed by any of the contributors are uncommon. An excellent anthology of mostly Black writing, with short bios of the poets. SCARCE SIGNED.
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