Search Results: Authors starting with O from Philip Smith, Bookseller

San Francisco: FITS Collective, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 4to, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Publisher's circular (illustrated by Bill Griffith) laid in. Scarce second (and final) issue of this low-circulation underground magazine that contains both text and artwork by comix and literary luminaries. Includes 10 pages of Nancy comix by Joe Brainard and Bill Berkson. Unmarked copy with rippling to covers and closed tear at base of spine; interior newsprint stock has typical toning.

San Francisco: 7 Freds Press, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 56pp, stapled wrappers. First issue of this low-circulation underground magazine that contains both text and artwork (including a classic cover and full-page interior plate by Rory Hayes). Inside front cover features an ad by R. Crumb for "Thrilling Murder Comics." Unmarked copy with some wear to covers, interior newsprint stock has typical toning.

Elmwood Park, IL: The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1989. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 256pp, printed wrappers. Issue includes sections on Kathy Acker, Christine Brooke-Rose, and Marguerite Young. Unmarked copy, corner bend to cover.

New York: New American Library, 1952. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 12mo, 320pp, printed wrappers. An uncommonly sharp copy of the 1955 first printing of the eighth volume of this important series. Includes "You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead" by Flannery O'Connor, plus Thomas Berger, Federico Garcia Lorca, E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Rolfe Humphries, Upton Sinclair, et al. Lamination starting to peel at one corner of cover, cover slightly off-center (as usual), VG+ overall.

Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 220pp, printed wrappers. Softcover copy of the 1961 first printing of the 19th volume of this important series. Includes the story "Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Connor (Farmer C.1961.10), plus Theodore Roethke, et al. Light toning and soil to covers, no markings.

Stanford, CA: Journal of the New African Literature and the Arts, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 88pp, printed wrappers. Uncommon first issue of this pioneering Sixties journal. Unmarked copy, surface abrasion wear and soil/stains to wrappers.

Paris: Gare du Nord, 1999. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 44pp, stapled wrappers. Nice copy of the fifth and final issue of this rare English-language experimental writing magazine published in Paris. Unmarked copy, light outer wear.

Paris: Gare du Nord, 1998. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 44pp, stapled wrappers. Solid copy of the second issue of this rare English-language experimental writing magazine published in Paris. Unmarked copy, light reading wear.

Santa Cruz, CA: Guabi, 1970. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. Oblong 4to, 56pp, stapled wrappers. The rare and psychedelicized second issue of this magazine from 1970 Santa Cruz, includes work by Robert Bly, W. S. Merwin, George Hitchcock, et al. in a multicolored graphical presentation. Faint price stamp to first interior page (else unmarked), a bit of wear to wrappers with minor edge chips.

Santa Cruz, CA: Guabi, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Square 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Uncommon magazine from 1969 Santa Cruz, includes Ted Berrigan, John Cage, Thom Gunn, Peter Beagle, George Hitchcock, et al. Unmarked copy, a bit of external wear and staple rust.

Kingston, Canada: The Quarry Press, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Michael Ondaatje was editor of this issue, which includes work by Margaret Atwood, Al Purdy, et al. Unmarked copy with light outer wear and soil.

Chicago: Living Blues Publications, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 52pp (including stapled wrappers). Unusual fusion of Chicago Blues and Surrealist practice; includes 16-page "Surrealism & Blues" supplement (edited by Franklin Rosemont), with collage by Ted Joans and a baked article equating 7 blues performers with 7 African masks, plus other prescient content. Issue also includes obituaries of Howlin' Wolf, Hound Dog Taylor, Mance Lipscomb, and Jesse Fuller. Light soil and wear to cover, no interior markings, typical toning to newsprint stock.

Cleveland, OH: Mother / Asphodel Book Shop, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. Near Fine. 8vo, 36pp, plain white wrappers with printed dustwrapper. The first issue of the second edition of Oppen's first book, with text reprinted photographically from the 1934 edition and a new cover by future White Panther Party co-founder Leni Sinclair. Very nice copy, appears uncirculated.

San Francisco: Intersection and The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, 1983. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, heavy card folded to form 4-page program. A scarce piece of Oppen ephemera from a 75th birthday event. A memorial booklet for Oppen collecting excerpts, a tribute leaf from his half-sister June Oppen Degnan's memorial, and a copy of Poetry Flash 121 (June 1983), featuring Oppen on the front, are laid in.

New York: The Poetry Project, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. An early poetry review from the Poetry Project at St. Mark's. Good+, light overall wear.

Oakland, CA: Inkblot Publications, 1983. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 32pp, stapled wrappers. Rare first issue of this great magazine of experimental writing from Theo Green's Inkblot Publications. Includes Moebois Rex on Alchemy as well as experimental writing. Contents clean, some outer foxing,

London: Allan Wingate, 1948. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. VG+ in unclipped VG dw. 8vo, 264pp, brown cloth with spine stamped in gold, printed dustwrapper. This original anthology includes a 10-page introduction by George Orwell. Gift inscription from 1949 to front free endpaper (no other markings), a little toning to endpapers, dustwrapper has a little wear at top edge.

London: Theatre-Craft, ca. 1919. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket (as issued). Fair (VG interior in Poor wrappers). 8vo, 60pp, printed wrappers. Gallup C513. Contains the essay "Masks and Abysmal Ignorance" by Ezra Pound, as well as the first installment of an article on Nietzsche in Modern Drama by Margaret Storm Jameson. Covers detached and worn at edges, contents unmarked.

New York: Maureen Owen, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Folio, 60 leaves (mimeographed one side), stapled wrappers. Scarce third issue of Maureen Owen's long-running magazine, printed at The Poetry Project in NYC; includes a cover and work by Joe Brainard, plus other period luminaries. Solid copy with minor soil.

New York: Maureen Owen, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. Folio, 106pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce eighth issue of Maureen Owen's long-running magazine, printed at The Poetry Project in NYC; includes a striking cover and work by Charles Plymell, a Piero Heliczer poem for Marshall McLuhan, plus work by many other period luminaries. Solid copy with a little spotting to back cover and minor wear.