Search Results: Poetry : Modern : Books from Philip Smith, Bookseller

Toronto: Art Metropole, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 26 leaves (printed one side), printed wrappers. 1 of 500 stated copies. Unmarked copy from the collection of Opal Louis Nations; a bit of cover wear and light spots to fore-edges.

London: Trigram Press Ltd, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 72pp, printed wrappers. Immaculately designed anthology of art and writing from Asa Benveniste's Trigram Press. Tight, unmarked copy, light toning to wrappers.

Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou Books, 1981. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. Small 8vo, 48pp, printed wrappers. Unmarked copy from the collection of Opal Louis Nations, sunning at spine and a bit of cover rubbing.

Berkeley, CA: Tree Books, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. Fine in Fine dw. 8vo, [56]pp, plain wrappers with printed dustwrapper. A scarce and attractively designed collection of Kabbalistic and mystical verse, with reference to the Zohar, from David Meltzer's Tree Press. Fresh uncirculated copy, minor shadowing to endpapers from the dustwrapper paper.

New York: Vintage Books, 1970. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, xl+606pp, printed wrappers. Massive and classic anthology of exemplary work from the New York School, compiled and circulated at a time when the sky seemed the limit. Unmarked copy from the collection of Opal Louis Nations; last dozen or so pages and back cover have some wear; typical toning of paper stock.

Monte Rio, CA: Doris Green Editions, 1984. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good only. 4to, 17 leaves (printed one side), stapled wrappers. 1 of 250 stated copies. Unmarked copy from the collection of known associate Opal Louis Nations; back cover has heavy band of wear with losses to outer margin, and last 5 leaves have related wear and light stains (no text loss).

Tucson, AZ: Chax Press, 2002. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. Narrow 8vo, 80pp, printed wrappers. Warmly INSCRIBED by Bromige to Opal and Ellen Nations. Unmarked copy otherwise, minor wear.

Berkeley, CA: Tree Books, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 32pp, stapled wrappers. A scarce collection of esoteric-themed poems, published by David Meltzer and Tree Books. Fresh copy, minor wear.

Berkeley, CA: Atelos / Hip's Road, 1998. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, x+158pp, printed wrappers. Briefly INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. 1 of 1,000 stated copies of this unclassifiable work of experimental prose, the second title under Lyn Hejinian's Atelos imprint. Just about as new, light wear.

New York: Benzene Editions, 1981. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 32pp, stapled wrappers. Unmarked copy (from the collection of Opal Louis Nations) of this collection of short experimental texts, light sunning at spine.

San Francisco: Momo's Press, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 12mo, 28pp, sewn wrappers. Copy A of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by author and artist. A wild early '70s artistic response to attempted George Wallace assassin Arthur Bremer, with fantastic artwork by radical Zephyrus Image designer Michael Myers. The most primary possible copy of an amazing period piece with very minor wear.

Sebastopol, CA: dPress, 2003. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 24pp, sewn wrappers. Warmly INSCRIBED by Bromige to Opal and Ellen Nations. Stated limitation of 27 lettered copies, but this unlettered. Unmarked copy otherwise, minor wear.

Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. Square 8vo, 120pp, printed wrappers. 1 of 750 stated copies of this mid-seventies collection of concrete and experimental work by Bob Cobbing. Clean, unmarked copy from the collection of Opal Louis Nations, light sunning at spine and minor wear.

New York: Angel Hair Books, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 11 leaves (printed one side), stapled wrappers. An unmarked copy of this rare work (edition of 2500 copies), from the collection of Opal Louis Nations, a bit of reading wear.

Berkeley, California: Oyez, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 8vo, 12pp, sewn wrappers. SIGNED by the author on the last page. 1 of 250 copies of this Christmas 1976 giveaway. General reading wear.

Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2008. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, [iv]+252pp, printed wrappers. Uncorrected galley proofs copy of this experimental novel by poet Robert Kelly, with some handwritten publisher's editorial corrections to early pages. Cover typography is different than that for the published version.

Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2008. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Fine. 8vo, [iv]+252pp, printed wrappers. A tight, unmarked copy of the first edition of this experimental novel by poet Robert Kelly.

Bolinas, CA: Tree Books, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 36pp, printed wrappers. 1 of 300 copies. Elegantly designed and printed book of Jewish-themed verse by Jerome Rothenberg, an early production of David Meltzer's Tree Books. Unmarked copy, minor soil to front cover.

Stuttgart & London: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1979. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 224pp, printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by the author to Opal and Ellen Nations on the first interior page. Unmarked otherwise, some outer spotting and reading wear.

Berkeley: Tree Books, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. Fine in Fine dw. 8vo, ~48pp, card wrappers with dustwrapper. Contains poems with Jewish mystical and other themes, published by David Meltzer and Tree Books. An uncirculated copy, just about as new.