Search Results: Small Press, Independent Press from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Kemp Town, Brighton, UK: Creative Aid Trust, 1969. Pamphlet. 27, [1]p., illustrations, wraps. 10 x 8 in. Colophon on rear cover: "Duplicated at the Brighton Combination February 1969." Minor tear to the fore-edge of rear cover; top left corner of rear cover creased. Good. Mimeographed volume of poems. Two locations in WorldCat, only one of which is in the US (October 2023).

San Francisco: Inferno Press Editions, 1960. paperback. 42p., 5.75x8 inches, very good first paperback edition in stapled glossy black wraps with white title labels affixed. San Francisco based poet who served in WWII in North Africa & the Pacific. Published in hardcover as well.

Los Angeles: Aviva Press, 1993. Pamphlet. vi, 21, [1]p., wraps. 8.25 x 5.5 in. Edition of 50. Edges sun toned, otherwise Very Good. Poetry chapbook. Not in OCLC as of January 2024, nor is anything else by this press.

n.p.: Habenicht Press, 2003. Sewn Binding. 21 pg. thread-bound pamphlet. First printing. Signed and inscribed on title page by author. Wraps have some minor soil on rear cover, else very good. No copies in OCLC as of December 2021. Jagannathan was born in Iowa, raised in West Virginia, and settled in Pennsylvania. She was the Board Chair and Director of Development of the Philadelphia-based Asian Arts Initiative, and founded Itinerant Ink, a company that works with non-profits.

San Francisco: Emily Rose Press, 1974. 62p., 5.25x8.25 inches, very good first edition booklet in stapled blue wraps. Lane's first book.

Seattle: The Real Comet Press, 1989. Pamphlet. Unpaginated flip book, 3.5x3 inches, all illustrations with no text, old price sticker on rear wrap else very good condition.

Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press, 1982. 95p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Dennis Cooper's publishing house which published mostly Southern California poets and poets connected to his reading series at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California.

[Berlin]: [publisher not identified], 1936. Pamphlet. 31, [1]pp., wraps. 9.5 x 6.5 in. Bound in blue wrappers with printer's device on front cover. Edges sunned and head of spine bumped. Numbered 273 [of 300]. Private press. In honor of the 50th anniversary of Leo Samuele Olschki's esteemed rare book firm, based for many years in Florence.

[Place of publication not identified]: Crimethinc. Central Committee, 2002. Pamphlet. [8]p., wraps. 8.5 x 5.5 in. Final two pages blank. Minor stains and creasing. Good. Zine "purging" the membership of Crimethinc. Written in response to and against the reception of the Crimethinc. "memoir" Evasion as a lifestyle guide. The author(s) rail against those who advocate for "shoplifting, hitchhiking, scamming, [and] unemployment [separate] from a program of life- and world-transformation.".

Galveston, TX: Press of the Painted Bricks, 1945. Pamphlet. [2], 15, [3]p., wraps. 8.25 x 5.25 in. Minor shelf wear, otherwise Very Good. Holiday greeting filled with dark humor. Consists of a dialogue between personifications of Peace, the World, and Humanity. Events of 1945 are allegorized; ends with the detonation of the Atomic Bomb. WorldCat lists three locations.

Scarborough, ON: Catalyst, 1975. pamphlet. [22p] 6.5x6.5 inches, poetry, previous ownership name else very good chapbook in stapled blue wraps. Young 2627. Very early chapbook from the Canadian poet and author. Noted in Young but the homosexual poetry is far outweighed by the poet's attentions to very young girls.

Ellsworth, ME: Backwoods Broadsides, 2005. Pamphlet. Eight panel pamphlet folded to 3.5x8.5 inches, limited to 750 copies, personal inscription to Bob & Nona signed by Jack May Day 2005 on front panel else very good. Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series #90.

San Francisco: Hoddypoll Press, 1976. [34p] printed recto only, 8.5x11 inches, lightly-soiled otherwise very good in white string hand-sewn pictorial wraps.

Pittsford: State Street Press, 1979. 26p., 5.5x9.5 inches, notes on the poets, text-block separated from the covers else good first edition booklet limited to 500 copies in stapled pictorial Frenchfold wraps.

Lafayette, CA: d press, 1995. Pamphlet. [6], 8, [4] pages, wraps. 7.5 x 4.75 in. Edition of 10 (this copy is #5). Bound in semi-stiff boards covered in dark green washi paper, with title printed on paper onlay attached to the front cover. Author's presentation inscription on title page: "For Allan, The auspicious occasion of purchasing one of my crap books, [signed] Bryan, 10/20/95.". Scarce chapbook containing five short poems, published by a small Bay Area press (seemingly unconnected to Richard Denner's dPress; according to the biography on his website, Denner did not return to California until 1997). No other works by Harms or this publisher could be located in WorldCat as of February 2023.

Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions, 1977. Paperback. 55p., wraps lightly worn else very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Plymell was a Hipster from Kansas who moved to Haight Ashbury, lived with Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, introduced The Beats to the Hippies, made films and collage art, and published underground comic artists Spain and Crumb and others.

New York: American Fabrics, 1967. Pamphlet. [40]p., illustrations, wraps. 8.25 x 6 in. Author's inscription on title page, signed in black marker and thumb printed in red ink. Very Good. Series of 16 short poems with accompanying illustrations, inspired by Zen Buddhism.

Berkeley: The Cherry Street Fault, 1992. 50p., 5.5x8.5 inches, poems, reproduction of a letter from Rhys on inner rear cover, signed with a doodle on half-title page by the poet, very good first edition chapbook in stapled pictorial wraps. By a Bay Area educator and poet. The letter from Rhys praising his poems was one of her last letters.

n.p.: Brass Tacks Press, 2006. Staplebound. 63 pg. staplebound sci-fi novella, 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Price sticker on rear cover, else very good. No copies in OCLC as of January 2022. Campbell was born in Marshall, Texas in 1951 and moved to Los Angeles when he was 24. He worked as a scenic painter for film and theater, and passed away in 2004. This unfinished novella was found by one of his friends, and published posthumously.

New York: Caterpillar, 1967. twenty-two 8.5x11 inch sheets mimeographed one side only and stapled in yellow card stock wraps with yellow plastic tape spine limited to 300 copies (there was a variant orange cover) Caterpillar Series #9 edited by Clayton Eshleman. Early work by the avante-garde poet/playwright/performance artist Mac Low who was connected to Fluxus and The Living Theatre. At the time he was married to the cover artist Lezak. Several of the poems reference Beck and Malina.