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Birmingham, New York: The Silverado Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. Limited Edition. Softcover. Several light, shallow creases to the front cover. Lightest bumps to head and tail corners. Front cover slightly lightened adjacent to spine.; This book reproduces T. J. Cobden-Sanderson's 20 November 1914, written in bed, personal letter to "Rbt." In it, Cobden-Sanderson recounts the workings of his Doves Press "...we are binding Shelley and printing Keats," the loss of an employee called to "the front" of World War I, and being "daily depressed by the atmosphere of the world yet happy in one another." He mused "At the actual moment I am in bed tho it is already 11 a.m. I find the morning time in bed between waking and getting up the golden time of day, the borderland between the dreams of night and the still, still stranger dreams of the world without." Cobden-Sanderson was an author, editor, a founder of Doves Press, and… Read More

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press. Fine. 1979. Limited Edition. Softcover. Seven, tiny poems, each creating a scenario for a mystery. Example: "You return to / your bedroom / visibly shaken / as you turn down / the covers a cobra / leaps for your throat / paralyzed you collapse // you are no longer suspect". Each is accompanied, on the facing page, by one of Ann Mikolowski's illustrations of board game pieces, objects, and textures. Signed and inscribed to Kenward Elmslie. "For Kenward - / these big enigmas / Ken Mikolowski / Grindstone City" Provenance: From the library and estate of Kenward Elmslie, prolific poet associated with the New York School of poetry, editor, performer, and founder of Z Magazine and Z press. Ken Mikolowski was a founder of "Alternative Press" in Detroit and a friend of Elmslie. Monochrome drawings and cover illustration by Ann Mikolowski. This is the letterpress edition limited to 800 copies. Designed, handset in Blado and… Read More

San Francisco: twowindows Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1968. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Faint smudges of silkscreen ink to front cover and tail corner of the rear cover. Tiny hole in the cloth at the tail edge of both covers.; Don Gray's six short-lined, jagged poems for his very young child, Rasan. Interspersed with the text are Rasan's drawings of people, all in the manner of a child just learning to depict people. Some figures don't have arms, one has a single arm, some don't have pupils in their eyes, one has eyelashes, one has a beard. Of an edition of 262, this is copy 9 of 12 that are specially bound in cloth and signed on the front endpaper by the the author "9/12 / Don Gray / 24 June 68" Don Gray was a poet, artist, and founder of twowindows press, publisher of numerous authors of poetry. This book was a family effort with poetry and presswork by Don Gray, drawings by Rasan Gray, and Elenore Gray bound the special copies and… Read More