Search Results: Titles starting with M from Lorne Bair Rare Books

[Amsterdam]: Elzevir, 1652. 24mo (12cm). Contemporary parchment over boards, decorate blind fillet around outer edge of boards, ms title to spine, all edges sprinkled red; marbled paper endpapers; 715,[5]pp; engraved title page. 1833 ownership inscription and embossed stamp of David B. Dickens to flyleaves; bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Tight and sound, boards lightly splayed, spine dulled, gently rubbed: Very Good.

Russian Review, 1916. Reprint. Staple-bound pamphlet; 14pp. Pencil date to cover sunned along edges, else near fine.

Cleveland: an Offense Fund reprint, 1975. First edition thus. A reprint of an edition first published in an envelope in 1969. Silk-screen cover by t.l. kryss. Tall gold stapled wraps, printed in black, with black tape spine (as issued). Printed on heavy yellow paper. One of an edition of about 350 copies issued (stated). Text and collages by Levy. The overlapped edges worn and creased, name stamped on inside cover, otherwise very good. Scarce.

Madison, WI: Quixote, 1969. First Edition. Side stapled mimeograph sheets; with front cover consisting of a collage by Levy promoting MC5 (a broadside poster), back cover also a photo collage/adv. in green, both covers folded, the back cover detached. 27 sheets plus cover collages. Intro. by Dave Wagner. Very good text block, the MC5 poster colllage is worn and toned at the folds.

Cleveland: an Offense Fund reprint, 1975. First edition thus. A reprint of an edition first published in an envelope in 1969. Silk-screen cover by t.l. kryss. Tall gold stapled wraps, printed in black, with black tape spine (as issued). Printed on heavy yellow paper. One of an edition of about 350 copies issued (stated). Text and collages by Levy. The overlapped edges lightly creased, otherwise fine. Scarce.

Nagoya, Japan: Tonda Yaroh, 1958-9. Two issues of this monthly socialist-pacifist newsletter, together with a mimeographed prospectus in English. Includes issue nos. 37 (Fall 1958) and 38 (Winter 1958-9). Each issue on a single sheet of newsprint, 44cm x 32cm, folded to make eight pages. Prospectus on a single sheet, 36cm x 27cm, printed recto-only. Newletters toned (but not brittle); prospectus with old fold-lines, else fine, hand-signed "Tonda" in pencil beside red-ink chop. Included is a hand-addressed envelope to the Editors of "Proletarian News," Chicago. Newsletters entirely in Japanese, save for running title in English in upper margin. Prospectus, seeking international distributors, in English. The prospectus states that "...we make up our mind [sic] to begin publication of a new information bulletin. This new information bulletin has an aim to let you know of the views and activities of many small groups within the Japanese labour, peasants, students and peace movements...written mainly in… Read More

New York: Interim, 1969. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; thick 4to. One of 500 copies of this mimeographed underground literary magazine, this issue with a motorcycle on the cover, one of many subjects. Several pages of photographs (offset leaves bound in) with poets on motorcycles including a young Joanne Kyger taken by Gary Snyder. Publisher's flyer laid in. Jay Socin was the editor of Interim Books, his obituary is included, as well as work by Eshleman, Eigner, Berge, Major, Malanga, Lowenfels and many others. Most pages acidic, fragile; spine mostly perished. Fair to good.

New York: Mag City, 1977. First edition. Illustrated, stapled wrappers (offset). 4to. 60 pp. Third Gen New York School mag with contributions from Rene Ricard, Tom Carey, the editors and others. Lois Griffith cover. Light soiling and wear; staple rutsted, else very good. Clay/Phillips pp. 232 -233.

Buffalo, NY: Institute of Further Studies, 1964 - 1969. First Edition. Six original quarto issues, comprising the entire run. Staple-bound corrugated card wrappers; covers variously decorated, two with pasted-on pictorial labels; one with a bit of faux fur; final number with sculptural inclusion of a length of sisal baling twine penetrating front wrapper; all issues unpaginated, printed rectos only. Mild toning to wrapper edges; no. 3 with partial separation to covers at bound edge, but generally clean and complete, Very Good or better, retaining all of the original cover decorations which are often lacking. A charmingly eccentric journal of 1960s experimental poetry. Contributors include Wah, John Wieners, Charles Olson, John Clarke, Ed Sanders, Albert Glover, Robert Duncan and others. The journal was issued practically without publication information or imprint; Fred Wah's name appears most frequently in an editorial capacity but others were likely involved. Rare as a set, with early issues… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2010. First Edition. Black paper-covered boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 134 pp. Signed by the poet on the dedication page. Fine unread copy in like dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Purple cloth in dust jacket; tall 8vo. 56 pp. The poet's third book, inscribed to bookseller Burt Britton and additionally signed on the title page. The purple cloth is bright and fine; the jacket has some wear and rubbing, the spine faded, still at least very good. With the Rollie McKenna photo of the poet reproduced on the back panel. Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Scarce signed. The author was a Distinguished Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo and an early MacArthur Fellow.

New York: Knopf, 1990. First edition. First printing. The third collection, fifth book, the title indicating that the poems included are lyrics reflecting his (also true of his wife Mary Jo Salter's collections of the same period) frequent time spent outside the U.S. Fine in Fine DJ.

New York: Knopf, 1990. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed by the poet, "For David, with every best wish, Brad". The third collection, fifth book, the title indicating that the poems included are lyrics reflecting his (also true of his wife Mary Jo Salter's collections of the same period) frequent time spent outside the U.S. Fine in Fine DJ.

New York: Knopf, 1990. First edition. 69 pp. Uncorrected proof copy in yellow printed wrappers of the poet's third collection, fifth book, the title indicating that the poems included are lyrics reflecting his (also true of his wife Mary Jo Salter's collections of the same period) frequent time spent outside the U.S. Publisher information sheet taped to covers (by publisher). Crown cracked, else fine.

New York: Knopf, 1990. First Edition. First edition. Cloth. The third collection, fifth book, the title indicating that the poems included are lyrics reflecting his (also true of his wife Mary Jo Salter's collections of the same period) frequent time spent outside the U.S. Trace of sunning to top edge of cloth, else fine in fine dust jacket (in removable protective archival cover).

Minn: Red Dragonfly Press, 2007. First Edition. [10 pp.] Signed by Goldbarth on the colophon page. This is one of 10 copies (of 225 copies total) with a postal confirmation label pasted to the colophon (an in-joke as part of the colophon statement). String-tied chapbook letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine. Fine copy.

Maine: n.p., 1979. First edition. [60 pp.] Attractively printed and illustrated throughout (mostly from the Bangor daily paper), with single poems from Joel Oppenheimer, Bern Porter, Ted Enslin, Wendy Einhorn, among others. The festival held at The College of the Atlantic. Signed and dated by the editor. Fine in printed wrappers.

New York: Braziller, 205. First Edition. Trade paperback original; 8vo. 55 pp. Inscribed by the poet to a small fine press poetry publisher/printer; additionally signed by the poet on the title page. Near fine.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1975. First edition. Printed wappers; small 8vo. 54 pp. Inscribed to poet and UVM professor Dan Lusk by James Bertolino with a long inscription in 1978 in River City, Ohio. Association copy in fine condition. Early book from the press (founded in 1972), cover designed by Tree Swenson.

New York: Scribners, 1998. First edition. 309 pp. Uncorrected proof of this anthology/instruction book in the tradition of his great Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Near fine in blue wrappers, printed pub sheet laid in.