Titles beginning with F from Passages Bookshop (36 items)

New York: George Braziller, 1986. First U.S. Edition. Cloth. Near fine in like dustjacket. By the author of the much-acclaimed Lanark. 8vo.

New York: Pup Press / Birth Press, 1959. First printing. Stapled wrappers. Very good. (20) pp., 8vo. Stapled into printed wrappers. The first of apparently three publications of the Poets Union Press, affiliated with Tuli Kupferberg's Birth magazine and press (the others being books of poems by Steve Tropp and Kupferberg). Poems interspersed with quotations attributed to Pound, Whitman, Williams, Sherwood Anderson, J.P. Morgan, and others. Who was Bill Godden? There's little trace online, but he seems also to have had a connection to the visual arts, as he designed the cover for Birth 3 (announced in the back of this book), and is presumably the same person who wrote the essay on painter Raymond Parker for B.H. Friedman's Grove volume School of New York: Some Younger Artists, and who appears with James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, Ted Joans, Shel Silverstein and others in a widely linked Fred McDarrah photo of a gathering in Robert Cordier's apartment to discuss "The Death of the Beat Generation." Light… Read more

n.p.: Portents, 1969. First printing. Pamphlet. Near Fine. [8] pp. Square 8vo, single signature stapled in stiff printed wrappers. Edition of 200. Illustrations by Samuel Charters. Volume 14 in the "Portents" series, published by Charters. Very slightly darkened and worn on spine; otherwise fine.

Bremen, Germany: Bremische Zentralstelle fur die Verwirklichung der Gleichberechtigung der Frau, 1996. First printing. 56 pp., 7.75 x 11 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Bilingual German and English text, illustrated in color throughout. Introduction by the curator, followed by essays by Detlef Stein (on Marikke Heinz-Loek and Kirsten Johannsen), Ruth Wöbkemeyer (on Irmgard Dahms, Isolde Loock, and Anne Schloepke), and Hannah Higgins (on Alison Knowles). With biographies, and a list of lectures and performances. Light edge-wear and handling to wrappers, otherwise fine. Scarce; WorldCat cites just one institutional holding, in Germany. An exhibition and series of events at the Bremen Central Office for the Realization of Equal Rights for Women, featuring artworks, installations, performances, and lectures by twenty-one artists, among them Barbara Bloom, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Alison Knowles, and Valie Export. From Richter-Glück’s introduction: “The curatorial concept of the… Read more

London: Softly Loudly Books, 1971. First Edition. 14 pp., 6.5 x 8.5 inches. Stapled into printed card covers. Softly Loudly No. 2, with cover artwork by Andrew Eden (a relief print in two colors). Published in an edition of 300 copies. An uncommonly bright and clean copy, nearly as new.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. First printing. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. 94 pp., 16mo. Contains "It Was," "Ferdinand," selected bibliography, and note on the author. About fine, in the Grossman/Cape dustjacket for distribution in the USA, price-clipped, with light edgewear and very slight darkening to spine.

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

Portland, OR: Author, 2012. Original work. 4 x 5.25 inches. Unique artist's book, titled, signed, and dated on the spine. Fine condition. Artist Gabriel Liston, whose paintings typically depict an unsentimental view of the world of children's experience, creates these one-of-a-kind "book tiles" by sewing shut copies of cheaply made commercial children's books (all from the same series), sealing them with acrylic medium, and painting images in a blue reminiscent of Delft tiles. Liston maintains the book tiles' tenuous connection with their origin by typically taking the title from a caption in the book, and by sanding away tiny areas to allow the original cover coloration to show through.

Los Angeles: Red Hill Press, 1977. First printing. Paperback. Fine. (48) pp. Square 16mo, perfect bound in wrappers.

Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1994. First American edition. Paperback. Fine. 77 pp. 8vo, sewn in wrappers. Review copy with a letter from the publisher laid in, addressed to Mitchell Levitas at the New York Times Book Review. Winner of the T. S. Eliot prize.

Los Angeles: Larry Edmunds Book Shop, 1951. First printing. Hardcover. About Fine/Poor. 91 pp. 8vo, cloth. Edition of 375 numbered and signed copies. Drawings by Lia Nickson. Covers very slightly edgeworn; internally fine except for slight yellowing. Fragile dustjacket yellowed at extremities and broken alongspine, with several chips, small losses, and closed edge-tears. From the library of poet Gene Frumkin, who knew Rolfe in Los Angeles in the late 50s.

Portland, OR: press-press-pull, 2014. First printing. (7) pp., narrow oblong 16mo. Typewritten sheets, side-stapled and glued into colorful decorated paper wrappers that vary with each copy. (To request a specific wrapper pattern, contact us before ordering.) New. An excerpt from a long poem, dedicated to Chris Ashby. From a series of "typed books," in which each copy is individually typewritten by hand; for other books in the series, search for the publisher by name.

Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, 2008. First printing. 105 pp., tall narrow 8vo. Book 2 of 5 in the TrenchArt Tracer Series. Back-cover image by Ken Ehrlich and Susan Simpson. With an introduction by Danielle Dutton. As new, perfect-bound in wrappers.

Boise, ID: Ahsahta Press, 1985. First printing. 56 pp., 6 x 8.75 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. This copy signed by the author. Very slight wear to corners of cover, otherwise essentially as new. Author's first book.

Tucson, AZ: Chax Press, 2012. First printing. 141 pp., tall 8vo. Signed by the author. New. The first full-length collection by poet, editor, bookseller, and publisher Abel; a book of collage texts spanning twenty-five years of work. Blurbs by Andrew Joron ("There is a darkly musical design behind the bright stars of these texts"), Beverly Dahlen ("This stunning, wry collection is a tonic"), and Norma Cole ("Alluring, captivating, it's a must-read!").

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.

New York: Boss Books, 1982. Stapled wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies (no. 169). Unpaginated. Inscribed by the author to Alice (Notley), Anselm and Edmund (Berrigan). Wrappers edgeworn, otherwise fine. 8vo.

Baltimore: Charles Street Press, 1980. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 22 pp. Author's first book, winner of the "University Prize Chapbook Contest...chosen from manuscripts submitted by college and university students throughout the nation." Very good in lightly rubbed wrappers. 8vo.

Copenhagen: Samlerens Forlag, 1943. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 17 pp., 8vo. First edition of Munk's last play, published shortly before assassination by the Gestapo on January 4, 1944. A parable on Hitler and the Nazis, using the classical figures of Hannibal and Fabius. In Danish, illustrated with two drawings on classical themes. Bound in decorated paper over thin boards, with printed spine label. Some edgewear and small tears, with minute loss to corners, but still an attractive copy of an uncommon title.

Tucson, AZ: Chax Press, 2019. First edition. 109 pp., 6.5 x 8.75 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. With woodcuts by Wendy Osterweil and drawings by Michael Moore. New.