Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Philip Smith, Bookseller

New Haven, CT: The Yale LIT, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. Wide 8vo, 40pp, stapled self-cover. This rare 1974 issue includes a well-selected Portfolio of Contemporary American Poems and Translations edited by David Pollens. Nice copy of an ephemeral production, with fragile covers, unmarked and showing only minor wear.

New Haven: Yale Literary Society, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 36pp, stapled wrappers (cover hand-colored, as all copies). Special Young American Poets issue from 1969, includes many then budding young experimentalists now toplofty with laurels. Near Fine copy, minor soil/wear.

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Literary Society, 1963. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. Tall 8vo, 72pp (plus 6pp addendum laid in), printed wrappers. An important collection of experimental poetry at the time, includes an interesting introductory essay interpreting developments in the light of Olson's Projective Verse. Unmarked copy, a bit of soil and toning to covers, scrape to fore-edge, and light marginal stain to first few leaves.

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Literary Society, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. Tall 8vo, 92pp, printed wrappers. Another important collection of experimental verse at the time. Tight, unmarked copy, light outer wear and toning.

Sausalito, CA: Bill Barrett et al. / New College of California, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, ~86 leaves (mimeographed one side), stapled wrappers. Bulky first issue of this thick mimeographed poetry magazine from seventies Marin County, with a prime roster of contributors. Unmarked copy, light outer wear and staple rust.

Mill Valley, CA: Louis Patler and Bill Barrett, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, ~75 leaves (mimeographed one side), stapled wrappers. Third issue of this thick mimeographed poetry magazine from mid-Seventies Marin County. Unmarked copy with a little staining and reading wear to covers.

Berkeley, CA: Yardbird Publishing Cooperative, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, xiv+226pp, printed wrappers. Second issue of this important seventies literary magazine focused on African-American culture and history. Unmarked, internally clean copy, rubbing to covers.

Berkeley, CA: Yardbird Publishing Incorporated, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, x+326pp, printed wrappers. SIGNED by contributor Maggi Payne at one of her contributions. Thick fifth issue of this important seventies literary magazine focused on African-American culture and history. Internally clean copy with light outer wear.

New York: Birth Press, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 104pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce, thick final issue of this Birth Press era title edited by Tuli Kupferberg of the Fugs. An antiwar anthology lovingly assembled with an imaginative collage layout. (This copy does not have the Fuck for Peace insert leaflet found in some copies.) Unmarked copy with some toning and soil (overlay illustration to one page has associated shadowing from original glue).

Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1984. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 60pp, printed wrappers. One of an unspecified number of copies of this elegant Bancroft Library keepsake designed and printed by the Arion Press. Includes a chapter on "Romantics and Beatniks" including Spender's memoirs of meeting Allen Ginsberg (and some general thoughts on the Beats). Original order card laid in. Clean and unmarked copy with some wear and small tears to the lap wrapper edges.

Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press, 1981. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. Tall 8vo, 32pp, stapled wrappers. The authors scarce first book, from the estimable Little Caesar Press. Unmarked copy, light outer wear, toning and soil, plus a bit of staple rust.

New York: Julius Bien (Oakland: Octavo), 1868; 2003. 1st edition. Other Binding. New/No Jacket (as issued). Digital facsimile (in electronic PDF format on CD-ROM disc; not a printed book) of the 1868 first edition of this landmark of nature photography and conservation. California State Geologist Josiah Dwight Whitney created this lavish publication, issued in an edition of only 250 copies, as part of his campaign to preserve the area that later became Yosemite National Park. Photographer Carleton Watkins contributed albumen-print photographs, actual prints of which were mounted into each copy. The book also features two large- scale foldout maps by Charles Hoffmann and others. This Octavo Edition contains detailed digital images of every page of the original book, as well as optimized viewing images of the plates and maps and supplementary materials including an introductory essay, extra maps (some never before published), a provenance essay and detailed bibliographical information. Unsold original… Read More

San Francisco: Coyote, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, [viii]+152pp, printed wrappers. Warmly INSCRIBED to a friend by the author in a neat calligraphic hand on February 16, 1969. Foxing/spotting to page edges and endpages, no other markings.

n.p.: e.g, 1986. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 16pp, stapled wrappers. Recently SIGNED by Opal Louis Nations and rubber-stamped by him on the inside front cover. 1 of 100 stated copies of this rare collaboration. Uncirculated example, just about as new.

New York: George Montgomery, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 10 leaves (mimographed one-side), stapled and folded for mailing. This copy was addressed and mailed to poet George Bowering. A rare, rollicking and very underground poetry magazine, with contributions by a range of period luminaries. Unmarked copy with some wear and toning, stain to one corner and mailing crease.

New York: Yugen, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 40pp, stapled wrappers. The uncommon fifth issue of this seminal Beat-era little magazine edited by LeRoi and Hettie Jones. Includes excerpts from Ginsberg's Kaddish and writing by Kerouac and others. This copy, though unmarked, is from the collection of poet Bill Berkson. Light corner stain to later pages and back cover, a bit of general soil.

New York: Yugen, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 52pp, stapled wrappers. Seminal Beat-era little magazine edited by LeRoi Jones. Includes the first publication of "Rimbaud" by Jack Kerouac. A mimeographed advance flyer for the first issue of Kulchur magazine is laid in. Clean copy, light toning to covers.

New York: Totem Press, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 68pp, stapled wrappers. Seventh issue of this Beat-era literary review edited by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), with contributions by Charles Olson, John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Diane di Prima, Stuart Z. Perkoff, and others. Nice copy, light outer toning/soil, first page of Creeley piece has some underlining (no other markings).

New York: Totem Press, 1962. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Final issue of this seminal Beat-era little magazine edited by LeRoi Jones. Includes The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin by William Burroughs (Schottlaender C48; Shoaf III-37). Unmarked copy, light bend to front cover and early pages, small closed edge tears to back cover and late pages, general soil and wear.