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Eugene, OR: Dead Skin Press, 1999. First printing. 18.5 x 12.5 inches, letterpress on paper, mounted on foamcore, with velcro dots for hanging. Minor rumpling and indentations at edges, otherwise essentially in fine condition. One of several dozen truncated proverbs, printed on variously sized sheets of paper for display as part of Invisible Bullets, a public art installation by O'Connell at Michael Graves's Portland Building in Portland, OR. Each text fragment was printed only once or twice; some were mounted on rigid backing and hung on the wall, and others displayed in vitrines.

Eugene, OR: Dead Skin Press, 1999. First printing. 9.5 x 7.5 inches, letterpress. A couple of tiny indentations, otherwise essentially in fine condition. One of several dozen truncated proverbs, printed on variously sized sheets of paper for display as part of Invisible Bullets, a public art installation by O'Connell at Michael Graves's Portland Building in Portland, OR. Each text fragment was printed only once or twice; some were mounted on rigid backing and hung on the wall, and others displayed in vitrines.

Prairie City, IL: Press of James A. Decker, 1947. First printing. 178 pp., 5.25 x 8 inches. Cloth over boards. Light wear to extremities of cloth, rubbing to cover and spine lettering; tasteful bookplate on front pastedown and age-toning to page edges, otherwise very good. Flannery OÂ’Connor's first book appearance, a short story published while she was a student at the University of Iowa, after a handful of magazine appearances in the year or two preceding. The story appears on pages 113-124 of an anthology edited by Alan Swallow. The cover and spine give the title as “New Signatures 1948” and the halftitle as “American Signatures”; Swallow (then at the University of Denver) contributes an introduction. The collection includes early appearances by John Hollander and Warren Miller as well. The Decker Press is best known for having published the first books of Louis Zukofsky, Lorine Niedecker, and others, though is also notorious for the sensational ending of the enterprise. This, like many… Read More

San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1969. First Edition. [45] pp., 4.75 x 8.75 inches. Saddle-stapled into printed card covers. Light wear to covers, otherwise very good. Number 4 in the Nova Broadcast pamphlet series, featuring concrete and found poems and graphics.

New York: Grove Press, 1960. First Edition. Wrappers. 224 pp., illustrated. Four plays (Try! Try! by O'Hara; The Heroes by Ashbery; The Bait by Merrill; and Absalom by Abel) with an introduction by Herbert Machiz. Mild bump to lower corner, faint red stripe across top edge, and publisher's price sticker, otherwise a very good, tight copy in scuffed wrappers. Small 8vo.

Buffalo, NY: Institute for Further Studies, 1968. First edition. Pamphlet. About Fine. Small broadsheet, folded once for mailing, else fine. In original printed envelope, unmailed.

Berlin: Literarisches Colloquium, 1969. First Thus. Wrappers. Translated and annotated by Klaus Reichert, with cover photograph by Gerard Malanga. Light edgewear, otherwise very good. Square 16mo.

Bolinas, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1977. Wrappers. 125 pp. White wrappers a bit darkened. 8vo.

Buffalo, NY: Institute for Further Studies, 1968. First edition. Pamphlet. About Fine. Small broadsheet, folded once for mailing, else fine. In original printed envelope, unmailed.

New York: Jargon/Corinth, 1960. First printing. 160 pp., 6.25 x 9.25 inches. Designed and edited by Jargon Press, and published in association with Corinth Books. One of 75 numbered copies, specially bound by hand in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels pasted down. Issued without dust-jacket. Spine label a bit darkened, faint spotting to top edge, a little bleed-through of glue on endsheets, still a bright, tight copy of the only limited edition of the first collected volume of Maximus.

Buffalo, NY: Institute for Further Studies, 1968. First edition. Pamphlet. About Fine. Small broadsheet, folded once for mailing, else fine. In original printed envelope, unmailed.

Midwestern Writers Publishing House, 1981. First Edition. Pamphlet Series Number Three. 8 pp. Slight age toning to wrappers; one corner very lightly bumped; otherwise very good in stapled wrappers. 32mo.

London: Permanent Press, 1978. First Edition. Wrappers. 41 pp. 1/550 copies. Cover illustration by David Chaloner. Preface by Jerome Rothenberg. A poignant sequence of poems in response to the death of a friend. Laid in is a Lionhead Publishing postcard, printed at Membrane Press, of Olson's poem "A Kind of Psychology." Postcard fine; slight sunning to edges of book, otherwise very good. Small square 8vo.

Milwaukee: Membrane Press, 1974. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. (22) pp., 16mo. Slight age-toning to paper, otherwise fine in stapled wrappers darkened at the spine.

Toronto: Coach House Press, 1979. First Edition. Wrappers. 343 pp. Landmark anthology comprising nine long poems (by Robert Kroetsch, Stuart MacKinnon, Daphne Marlatt, Don McKay, Robin Blaser, Frank Davey, George Bowering, Roy Kiyooka, bpNichol), with a statement by and bibliography of each author, and an introduction by the editor. Very slight sunning to edges of blue (second issue) wrappers, otherwise a fine, unopened copy. 8vo.

London, Ontario: Brick Books, 1991. First printing thus. 52 pp., 5.5 x 5.5 inches. Sewn signatures glued into printed card covers. Scattered foxing to edges, and tiny nick to corner of front cover, otherwise very good. First printing of this bilingual ”traveller’s” edition, with French translation by Lola Lemire Tostevin, and illustrations from archival sources. A satirical absurdist essay disguised as a textbook, consisting of four sections: Elimination Dance, Four Maps (including one that shows ”Locations in Canada where Brian Mulroney has been burned in effigy or pissed on from great heights during a motorcade”), Study Questions, and Further Eliminations. Inscribed by the author on the title page.

Coach House Press, 1967. Later printing. Wraps. Near Fine. 8vo, 77 pp. Signed by the author. Tiny nicks to head and heel of spine, top of fore-edge lightly bumped.

New York: Dramatists Play Service. First Thus. Paperback. Very Fine. n.d. (ca. 1939). 16 pp. A listing, with descriptions and fees, of twenty-six plays of O'Neill, to which the Dramatists Play Service had recently acquired leasing rights. (The DPS was "established by members of the Dramatists' Guild of the Authors' League of America for the handling of the non-professional rights of members' plays and the encouragement of the non-professional theatre.") Paper very faintly and evenly tanned, otherwise pristine in stapled wrappers. 16mo.

New York: Grove Press, 1966. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Evergreen Playscript No. 3, published in wrappers only. Vertical scrape on back cover, very faint bump to foot of spine, still about very good. 8vo.

N.p.: Jargon Society, 1956. First Edition. Wrappers in dustjacket. First edition, second binding of scarce early title, printed by the Windhover Press. 1/200 copies of the regular edition, published as Jargon Sixteen. Frontispiece by Joe Fiore. Margaret Randall's copy, with her signature. Faint dampstain to small area in upper corner of pages and covers, otherwise very good in dustjacket chipped along top edge and lower spine. 8vo.