Test Centre Books Catalogue 6

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Test Centre Books Catalogue 6
Will Shutes
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ACKER, Kathy. Photocopied typescript of
‘NEW YORK CITY IN 1979: to Jeanne’s insulted beauty’. Np: np, nd. 4to. 60 sheets printed
on one side each. Acker’s important early short
story ‘New York City in 1979’, which won the
Pushcart Prize, is a ‘writ(h)ing’, unflinching
account of sexual feeling and unfeeling in the
city, playing out through its style and language
the idea that ‘It’s necessary to go to as many
extremes as possible’. Like Janey, her main
character, Acker ‘doesn’t want to speak words
that are meaningless’. Her New York is populated by the poor (primarily artists) and by rich
Europeans fleeing terrorists; it is experienced
in vignettes such as ‘THE WHORES IN JAIL
AT NIGHT’, ‘ANYTHING THAT DESTROYS
LIMITS.’ (Janey and Johnny in a movie theatre), and ‘IN FRONT OF THE MUDD CLUB, 77
WHITE STREET’. Via its themes of commercialised sex, abortion, the body, feminism, and
homosexuality, ‘New York City in 1979’ offers
‘outbursts in the fake’ so that ‘New York City
will become alive again when the people begin
to speak to each other again not information
but real emotion’. The text offered here is a
photocopy made by Acker of her corrected
typescript, so that Tippex erasures and holograph additions and adjustments can be seen
in facsimile. It was sent to the original owner
in late 1979 or early 1980, and the number of
copies made (which was undoubtedly small)
would have depended on Acker’s resources and,
probably, her access to free photocopiers. This
copy seems to be similar to that held by Duke
University in their key collection of Kathy Acker Papers – ‘60-page photocopied typescript,
corrected in the photocopy, with original note
on the title page, My Copy, by Acker’ – except
for the original note, and depending on the
£2000
meaning of the second clause. This might suggest that the photocopied typescript is the primary resource for this story, since Duke seems
to note no other material relating to ‘New York
City in 1979’, and since Acker’s own copy was a
photocopy. The presentation of the photocopy
is revealing about her writing process. ‘New
York City in 1979’ is a characteristic Acker typescript in that the pages are not full of script,
often giving the impression that they are disassociated fragments. Similarly one page is in
fact half a page taped onto the reverse of ‘Performing Artservices’ letterhead (although the
tape has deteriorated now), and the text block
of one of two oversized pages is very uneven,
but not obscured. Clearly the text here was
brought together from different sources, and
Acker therefore numbered the loose sheets, yet
as the numbers are not always clear at the head
edge the recipient has stapled them (and reinforced the staple with a neat clear strip of tape).
More specifically, the many points of comparison between the typescript and its published
versions, four of which are included in this sale,
are revealing about Acker’s intentions behind
the story. Although not always credited, the
first publication of ‘New York City in 1979’ (as
‘New York City ’79’) was in International Times
vol. 5 no. 5 (January/February 1980), which
also includes a photograph by Ira Cohen of
Acker reading nymphomaniac phantasies into
Gregory Corso’s ear, and William Burroughs’
‘Bugger The Queen’. Acker probably promised
or gave the text to the editors of IT in Amsterdam in October 1979 when she attended the
One World Poetry Festival; Eddie Woods was
the Amsterdam editor. Printed mostly over the
centrespread, it appears that Acker gave no instructions for the text and, as her work was not
much known, the editors took it at face value,
typing it up as fragments and differentiating
between them by use of typefaces. Aside from
several smaller textual points, a large portion
is omitted, perhaps for reasons of space, and
some lines relating to lesbians are left out, perhaps so as not to cause offence. Yet the IT publication clearly tries to convey what is in the
typescript. The complete text was subsequently published in Crawl Out Your Window 7 (July
1980), a magazine centred around San Diego.
Acker was on the West Coast at this time and
might have overseen the typesetting, pointing
out that the pages run on even if they seem
fragmentary in the typescript, for example the
word ‘syphilis’, which has a page to itself in the
latter and is therefore given space in IT. There
are also a couple of lines which are not in the
typescript, and one would not know how the
typescript was presented from this version.
The first standalone publication was as Top
Stories 9 (1981), which possibly consulted Crawl
Out Your Window, but which incorporates photographs by Anne Turyn. On the title page of
the typescript, there is the incomplete detail
‘Photographs by’. The story was later collected
in Acker’s Hannibal Lecter, My Father (Semiotext(e), 1991), which drops the dedication ‘to
Jeanne’s insulted beauty’, as well as the short
introduction: ‘SOME people say New York
City is evil and they wouldn’t live there for all
the money in the world. / These are the same
people who elected Johnson, Nixon, Carter
President and Koch mayor of New York.’ In
the typescript the introduction is one sheet
out of place, and all these differences highlight the complexity of Acker’s text. In fact
the impression from the different versions is
that a definitive version of ‘New York City in
1979’ is yet to be published. Title page and final sheet nicked and spotted. Small red mark
to the former, stain to the latter, with both
unobtrusive. Tail edge of the two oversized
sheets rubbed. The four published items are
Very Good or better, with toning to the spine
and lower wrapper of Crawl Out Your Window.
Interest in Acker is growing at present, for example with Chris Kraus preparing the critical
biography The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula, and Jason McBride writing Kathy Acker: Her
Revolutionary Life and Work. This significant
item can be seen to connect the current critical interest back to the original reasons for Acker’s popularity.
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len Fisher, Charles Bernstein and Pierre Joris,
Bill Berkson, Bern Porter, Andrei Codrescu,
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Chris Kraus, Robert Kelly, Slavoj Zizek,
Václav
Havel, Emily Critchley, Holly Pester, Steven J.
Fowler, Sean Bonney, Tom Leonard, Stewart
Home, Marjorie Perloff, Lawrence Upton, and
Ulli Freer. Near Fine.
ANDREWS, George. Burning Joy. London:
Trigram Press, 1966. 1st edition. One of 500
numbered copies (of 550). Small 4to. White
cloth. 40pp. Cover by Barry Hall. Cycle of
eight poems tracing Andrews’ ‘trajectory
through different phases of the psychedelic
drug experience. It contains all I have been
able to record of these mental voyages, and
was made from the almost illegible scraps
of paper found near me on mornings after
the lightning struck.’ Very Good in slightly
rubbed, mottled dust jacket. Uncommon in
hardback.
£50
ANDREWS, George. Burning Joy. London:
numbered copies (of 550). Small 4to. Wrappers. 40pp. Very Good.
£15
(ARC PUBLICATIONS.) Arc Publications/The
Arc & Throstle Press Ltd. Calendar 1979. Todmorden: Arc Publications and The Arc & Throstle
Press Ltd., 1978. 1st edition. Oblong folio.
Ring bound at head edge. Unpaginated (26pp.
mostly printed on rectos only). Handsome,
unused colour calendar, printing a half-page
artwork for each month and in turn advertising Arc’s production quality. Months are by
Bill Griffiths (‘found text’, used on the cover
of his Collected Earlier Poems (1966–80)), Asa
Benveniste, Pip Benveniste, Allen Fisher, Liliane Lijn, Jeff Nuttall, Robert Clark, Annabel
Nicolson, Peter Inch, Brodnax Moore, Alan
Davies, and Tony Ward, who founded the
press. Very Good, with the front cover slightly
soiled peripherally and with a little extremely
faint discolouration. Not recognised by OCLC.
£42
ARMAND, Louis, ALIZADEH, Ali, BERRIGAN,
Edmund, DELBOS, Stephan, LEWTY, Jane,
VICHNAR, David, and WATTS, Carol (eds.).
Vlak: contemporary poetics & the arts 2. Prague:
Litteraria Pragensia, 2011. 1st edition. Square
8vo. Wrappers. 424pp. Vast, international, illustrated magazine. Contributors include
Alice Notley, Steve Benson, Charles Bernstein,
Vincent Katz, Steve McCaffery, Robert Sheppard, Adrian Clarke, Ken Edwards, and Marjorie Perloff. Near Fine.
£8
ARMAND, Louis, ALIZADEH, Ali, BERRIGAN, Edmund, MOONEY, Stephen, VICHNAR,
David, DELBOS, Stephan, LEWTY, Jane, and
COCKELBERGH, Peter (eds.). Vlak: contemporary poetics & the arts 3. Prague: Litteraria
Pragensia, 2012. 1st edition. Square 8vo.
Wrappers. 472pp. Contributors include Al-
BAAL, Iphgenia. The Hardy Tree: A story about
gang mentality. [London]: Trolley, 2011. 8vo.
Tape bound. 62pp. A dummy copy of the 1st
edition of Baal’s first novel, about which Stewart Home said: ‘Think “Suicide Bridge” era
Iain Sinclair but with a gallows humour and
voodoo swagger’. Loosely inserted handwritten note from the publisher to Iain (Sinclair)
enclosing the book. Sinclair’s response was
used in the book’s publicity: ‘one of London’s
most potent secrets’. Very Good Plus. The dummy uses the book’s interior design but with
more basic covers.
£15
BARKER, George. At Thurgarton Church. London: Trigram Press, 1969. 1st edition. 8vo.
Brown cloth. 32pp. Long meditative poem
with drawings by the author, concerning a
bleak church in Norfolk. There were also 100
numbered and signed copies bound in buckram. Near Fine in dust jacket.
£16
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BARKER, George. At Thurgarton Church. London: Trigram Press, 1969. 1st edition. 8vo.
Wrappers with dust jacket affixed at the spine.
32pp. Near Fine.
£7
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BARNETT, Anthony. The Résting Bell.
ˇ London,
Lewes, and Berkeley: Agneau 2 (Allardyce,
Barnett), 1987. 1st edition. 8vo. Maroon cloth.
382pp. Collects the contents of seventeen separate titles published between 1968 and 1985,
together with previously unpublished material. Head edge slightly dusty, otherwise Very
Good Plus in Very Good dust jacket, a little
rubbed and with a faint band. This copy has
been signed by the author (‘Anthony’) in the
year of publication, and inscribed to Ian or Iain
(Sinclair). Loosely inserted flyer for Giuseppe
Ungaretti’s Mattina, translated by Barnett, apparently also signed by the latter.
£35
BARNETT, Anthony and MARRIOTT, David.
Word and Act/Names of the Fathers. London: David
Marriott, 1996. 1st edition. One of 150 copies.
8vo. Loose sheets folded into 8pp. Published as
Archeus Series No. 1. Respectively a short prose
piece and a poem. Very Good.
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BELLOTTI, Antonio (ed.). Milk of Late. Cambridge: Equipage, 1994. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (60pp.). Gathers
work by Ulli Freer, Caroline Bergvall, Stephen
Rodefer, Tony Lopez, Rod Mengham, Christopher Cook, and Bellotti. Fine.
BENVENISTE, Asa. A Part Apart. Osterley:
The White Dog Press, 1976. 1st edition. 8vo.
Stitched wrappers. 12pp. Poems by the publisher of Trigram Press. Near Fine, with a little light rubbing. This copy is signed by the
author (‘Asa’) in the year of publication and
inscribed to Paul (Buck) and Glenda (George).
BENVENISTE, Asa. The Atoz Formula. London:
Trigram Press, 1969. 1st edition. Small 4to.
Charcoal cloth. Unpaginated (66pp.). Die-cut
half title. Twenty-two poems extending out
of Tarot and other divination images, because
divination ‘is the best way of getting to the
beginning & what else is poetry about’. There
were also 76 signed copies printed on special
paper. Spots to head edge, dust jacket spine
and some jacket edges, small pen line and nick
to tail edge of back cover, otherwise Very Good
Plus in jacket.
£15
BENVENISTE, Asa. Umbrella. London: Larry
and Ruby Wallrich, 1972. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (8pp.). Poem in
memory of Weldon Kees, published as a New
Year 1973 greeting. Very Good Plus.
£20
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BENVENISTE, Asa (ed.). 5 · 5. Hebden Bridge:
Trigram Press, 1981. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 72pp. Anthology of art and writing, featuring the work of Glen Baxter, Ian Breakwell,
Ivor Cutler, Anthony Earnshaw, and Jeff Nuttall. Near Fine.
£30
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BERGVALL, Caroline. Éclat. Lowestoft: Sound
& Language, 1996. 1st edition. Square 16mo.
Wrappers. 56pp. Designed text, published by
cris cheek, of Bergvall’s guided tour/Walkman
performance at The Institution of Rot, London,
on 17 May 1996. The performance was part of
the ‘Four Humours’ series, which also featured
Iain Sinclair, Paul Buck, and Ben Watson. Near
Fine. This copy has been signed by the author
in January 1996 and inscribed to Iain (Sinclair).
Given the book’s background, perhaps the
inscription is actually from 1997. Loosely inserted typed letter signed (from the same date)
with short handwritten postscript, not addressed but evidently to Sinclair, concerning
his reading at ‘SPELT!’ and a future reading by
Bergvall, possibly for Lights Out for the Territory
(depending on the date). Closed tear to tail, not
reaching text.
£35
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BERGVALL, Caroline. Goan Atom 1. jets-poupee.
Cambridge: rem press, 1999. 1st edition. One
of 250 numbered copies. Square 8vo. Ring
bound. Unpaginated (82pp. printed on rectos
only). Very Good Plus, with light handling to
the covers. This copy has been signed by the author (‘Caroline’) in the year of publication, and
inscribed to Iain (Sinclair): ‘Thanks very much
for including me in Falconer continued.’
£35
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BERGVALL, Caroline. Songs Lovers Pray. London: Monolith, nd. 1st pressing. MOTH 1. 12”
mini-LP (45rpm) of extracts from the (unpublished) book Words like arms and other songs. Disc
is excellent. Creasing to sleeve and a couple of
small closed splits.
£8
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BERGVALL, Caroline. Strange Passage: A Choral
Poem. Cambridge: Equipage, 1993. 1st edition.
8vo. Stapled wrappers. 24pp. Multivocal piece,
published on the occasion of the performance
at The Showroom Live Art Commission 1993.
An early standalone work. Loosely inserted
are two stapled sheets of general information
about Bergvall, listing her background, published material, live art work, and then-recent
£30
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critical essays. Very Good with mild wear to
wrappers.
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BERKE, Roberta Elzey. Sphere of Light. London:
Fire Books and Trigram Press, 1972. 1st edition.
One of 1000 copies. Narrow 8vo. Burgundy
cloth. Unpaginated (160pp., with the title page
and colophon folding out). Published as Fire
11–15, edited by Joseph Berke, the radical educationalist and anti-psychiatrist who organised
the Dialectics of Liberation congress. Winner
of the Glascock Memorial Prize for Poetry, the
book ‘interlocks lyrics and colours, Tarot and
time to evolve a resounding cycle of poems and
graphics’. Very Good Plus in dust jacket.
£18
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(BERKELEY POETRY CONFERENCE.) CREELEY, Robert. Poetry Reading. Berkeley, CA:
University of California, Berkeley, Language
Laboratory, [1965]. 1st edition. Reel-to-reel audio tape (two track, 3 3/4 ips), in total 78’20’’.
A recording of Creeley’s poetry reading on 22
July 1965, the eleventh at the Berkeley Poetry
Conference, introduced by Robert Duncan.
‘How can he possibly make us aware of what
it’s like to be a Creeley?’ As with the reels below, the recording is on a Scotch brand/3M
reel, with printed information stickers on the
case and the tape. Although issued in an official way by the Language Laboratory, it seems
unlikely that these reels would have had much
if any commercial life, and their format might
imply that they were made to order. It is also
not specified that they were made in the year
of the conference itself, although clearly they
are contemporary. A landmark gathering, the
Berkeley Poetry Conference was a dynamic
programme of readings, lectures, and seminars, and these uncommon reels provide an
exceptional record of its highlights. Case a little rubbed, and small dents to the labels. The
sound quality is clear and well preserved in
this and the following reels.
£100
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(BERKELEY POETRY CONFERENCE.) CREELEY, Robert. A Sense of Measure. Berkeley, CA:
Laboratory, [1965]. 1st edition. Two reel-toreel audio tapes (a two track and a one track, 3
3/4 ips), in total 85’55’’. The seventh lecture in
the Berkeley Poetry Conference, delivered on
23 July 1965 (incorrectly given as 1967 on the
case), and introduced by Robert Duncan. Cases
a little rubbed, small dents to a couple of labels,
and information stickers mottled.
£125
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(BERKELEY POETRY CONFERENCE.) DORN,
Ed. The Poet, The People, The Spirit. Berkeley, CA:
University of California at Berkeley, [1965]. 1st
edition. Reel-to-reel audio tape (upper track,
3 3/4 ips), in total 69’40’’. The fifth lecture in
21 July 1965. Presented in a slightly different
format from the other recordings, this reel
might suggest that the reels were not issued
commercially. Case a little rubbed, and with a
few cataloguing notes.
£100
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(BERKELEY POETRY CONFERENCE.) DUNCAN, Robert. Poetry Reading. [Berkeley, CA]:
[University of California, Berkeley, Language
Laboratory], [1965]. 1st edition. Reel-to-reel
audio tape (two track, 3 3/4 ips), in total 91’30’’.
£100
The fifth poetry reading at the Berkeley Poetry Conference, given on 16 July 1965. The
reading is introduced by Thomas Parkinson,
who was Professor of English at the university
and (like Duncan) on the conference’s advisory
committee. Case a little rubbed, and one panel
slightly bumped.
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enteen-year-old Loden’s impressionistic and
evocative notes from the conference, ‘occasionally leaping from the spoken words in the
room to others of my own invention’. Charles
Olson, Robert Creeley, Ed Sanders, Ted Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Allen Ginsberg, Robin Blaser, and
Robert Duncan. Fine.
(BERKELEY POETRY CONFERENCE.) DUNCAN, Robert. Psyche-Myth and the Moment of Truth.
Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley,
Language Laboratory, [1965]. 1st edition. Two
reel-to-reel audio tapes (a two track and a one
track, 3 3/4 ips), in total 90’25’’. The first lecture
in the Berkeley Poetry Conference, delivered on
13 July 1965 and introduced by Thomas Parkinson. Cases a little rubbed, small dents to labels,
and information stickers mottled.
£125
(BERKELEY POETRY CONFERENCE.) GINSBERG, Allen. Poetry Reading. [Berkeley, CA]:
[University of California, Berkeley, Language
Laboratory], [1965]. 1st edition. Reel-to-reel
audio tape (two track, 3 3/4 ips), in total 96’15’’.
The tenth reading at the Berkeley Poetry Conference, given on 21 July 1965 and introduced
by Thomas Parkinson. Ginsberg was designated Secretary of State of Poetry at the conference. Case a little rubbed, small dent to one label, and information sticker with unobtrusive
soiling.
£100
(BERKELEY POETRY CONFERENCE.) GINSBERG, Allen. What’s Happening on Earth. Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley, Language Laboratory, [1965]. 1st edition. Two reelto-reel audio tapes (a two track and a one track,
3 3/4 ips), in total 80’00’’. The sixth lecture in
22 July 1965 and introduced by Gary Snyder.
Cases a little rubbed, information stickers
mottled.
£125
(BERKELEY POETRY CONFERENCE.) OLSON,
Charles. The Causal Mythology. Berkeley, CA:
Laboratory, [1965]. 1st edition. Two reel-to-reel
audio tapes (a two track and a one track, 3 3/4
ips), in total 81’40’’. The fourth lecture in the
Berkeley Poetry Conference, delivered on 20
July 1965 and introduced by Robert Duncan. A
significant moment. Cases a little rubbed, information stickers mottled.
£125
(BERKELEY POETRY CONFERENCE.) OLSON,
Charles. Poetry Reading. Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley, Language Laboratory, [1965]. 1st edition. Three reel-to-reel
audio tapes (all two track, 3 3/4 ips), in total
202’55’’. The twelfth reading at the Berkeley
Poetry Conference, given on 23 July 1965 and
introduced by Robert Duncan. Loosely inserted folded sheet with a few quotations, noted
by a listener or attendee. Olson was designated
President of Poets at the conference. Cases a
little rubbed, small dents to labels, and information stickers mottled.
£150
(BERKELEY
POETRY
CONFERENCE.)
LODEN, Rachel. Kulchur Girl: Notes from Berkeley, 1965. Sydney: Vagabond Press, 2014. 1st
edition. Square 24mo. Wrappers. 88pp. Sev-
£12
BICKNELL, Laurence. Renchi Relations. London:
Albion Village Press, 1973. 1st edition. One of
400 copies. 24mo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (48pp.). Later described by its publisher,
Iain Sinclair, as ‘drawings, family snapshots…
overwritten with holograph text to contrive a
slender Jungian album of place, dream, antecedents.’ Very Good, slightly rubbed. Original
‘50p’ price sticker inside upper wrapper.
£18
(BLACKBURN, Paul.) JORIS, Pierre and PRESCOTT, W. R. (eds.). Sixpack 7/8. London and
Lake Toxaway, NC, Spring/Summer 1974. 1st
edition. 4to. Wrappers. 260pp. Special Paul
Blackburn issue. The first part prints a range
of Blackburn’s work, including ‘Tequila’ (with
Clayton Eshleman), poems omitted from The
Cities, and translations of the early troubadour
Marcabru. The second is a festschrift, including Allen Ginsberg, Jonathan Williams, Anne
Waldman, Theodore Enslin, Jerome Rothenberg, David Antin, George Quasha, Allen Fisher, Lee Harwood, Anselm Hollo, Eric Mottram,
Carol Bergé, Cid Corman, Fielding Dawson,
George Economou, Robert Kelly, Kenneth Irby,
Jackson Mac Low, Carolee Schneeman, Joel
Oppenheimer, Rochelle Owens, Armand Schwerner, Gilbert Sorrentino, and Robert Vas Dias.
Very Good, with spine tail slightly chipped.
£15
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(BLAZEK, Douglas.) “Maybe we can knock that
oatmeal back to the Cavemen!”: The Selected Critical
Writings of Douglas Blazek from OLE. Np: Planned
Obsolescence Press, nd. 1st edition (‘the learn
a trade edition’). 4to. Stapled at top corner.
Unpaginated (82pp.). Anonymous bootleg of
Blazek’s introductions, essays, book reviews,
and title pages in Ole magazine, with the aim
to establish his editorial voice as a crucial one
in the Mimeo Revolution. Near Fine.
£15
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BUCK, Paul. The Honeymoon Killers. London:
Sphere Books, 1970. 1st edition. 12mo. Wrappers. 160pp. Based on the true crimes of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, who were
electrocuted at Sing Sing prison in 1951. The
story was filmed in 1969 by Leonard Kastle;
the book is seemingly a novelisation, written from research and a couple of days with a
script, then adjusted overnight after a preview
showing. The final two-page interior monologue was written on waking, one hour before
Buck took the train to deliver the manuscript.
A Good, slightly rolled copy with light wear to
wrappers.
£30
BUCK, Paul. Mariages rouges. Trans. Robert Bré.
[Paris]: Gallimard, 1971. 1st French edition.
12mo. Wrappers. 192pp. The Honeymoon Killers was censored for its 1st US edition (Award,
1970), from which this Série Noire edition was
translated and itself censored further. Pen
number inside upper wrapper. Spine ends
rubbed, head edge slightly spotted, but overall
about Very Good.
£6
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BUCK, Paul. Naming Names. Peterborough:
Spectacular Diseases, 1988. 1st edition. One of
10 copies numbered, signed, and dated by the
author (of 350). 8vo. Stitched wrappers. 28pp.
‘writing for Sarah [Ledger]’, whose handwritten notes, made to Buck when they lived together, are reproduced in facsimile. Fine.
£35
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Spectacular Diseases, 1988. 1st edition. One
of 340 copies (of 350). 8vo. Stitched wrappers.
28pp. Near Fine.
£15
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BUCK, Paul. tide of availability ( feed. Hebden
Bridge: Pressed Curtains, 1978. 1st edition. 4to.
Stab-stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (16pp.).
Text of Buck’s performances, photographed by
Glenda George, at the York Festival and Mystery Plays (25/6/76) and at the Curtains Benefit in the Hebden Bridge Art Centre (9/12/76).
There were also 28 signed copies. Overall Very
Good Plus. Light rust to staples and marginal
staple impressions.
£10
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BUCK, Paul (ed.). Pressed Curtains: Tape 1 and
Pressed Curtains: Tape 2/3 (all published). Hebden Bridge: Pressed Curtains, 1976/77–1977.
1st editions. Two cassette tapes. Tape 1 consists
of Eric Mottram reading in public at Foster
Clough, Hebden Bridge, on 19 September
1976, Tape 2/3 of Paul Buck reading there on
1 December 1977 and Ulli McCarthy on 27
July 1977. In his ‘Sleeve Notes etc’ to Paul Buck’s
Pressed Curtains Tape Project (Test Centre, 2015),
a boxed set of these and unreleased recordings,
Buck explains his tape releases in the context
of his magazine Curtains: ‘Halfway through
the 1970s, the notion of performing, whether
relating to “performance art” or in terms of
the oral tradition of poetry, was another factor
that became part of the fabric. I was combining
the two courses and exploring the oral in terms
of poetry, music, art and ethnic traditions. It
seemed natural to extend the boundaries of
Curtains into a cassette tape series, even if no
sophisticated equipment was available, either
at home or nearby.’ The reading by Mottram,
in Buck and Glenda George’s living room, ushered the project into existence. It was followed
by the shared tape of Buck performing xxxx7
(part of xxxx 1–9, which remains uncollected)
and McCarthy (now Freer) reading counter to
a loop of Erik Satie’s Gymnopédies. Copies of
the tapes were made to order from the masters, and Buck handwrote information onto
the sleeves and labels. Two other tapes were
recorded but never issued, by Bill Griffiths
and Pierre Joris, and on the final page of bal:le:d
curtains Buck described Allen Fisher and Iain
Sinclair as future contributors, although in
the end they were never recorded specifically for the series. These copies have each been
designated as ‘Iain’s copy’ by Buck, who has
signed one of the tapes (‘Paul’), in addition
to the handwritten information. They would
therefore have been sent to Sinclair with a view
to his proposed release. The handwriting on
the j-card of Tape 1 is faded around the spine,
otherwise Very Good in cases.
£75
BUCK, Paul (ed.). Twisted Wrist 1–10 (all published). Hebden Bridge (issues 1–3) then Paris
(issues 4–10): [Pressed Curtains], 1977–[1983?].
1st editions. Consisting of: (1) Allen Fisher,
£300
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‘doing (against aesthetics as such’. 1977. Oblong 4to. One sheet printed on both sides; (2)
Colin Simms, ‘Midwinter Housewife’. 1978.
4to. Stab-stapled at top edge. Unpaginated
(6pp.); (3) Jean Paris, ‘Planctus’. 1978. Oblong
8vo. Stab-stapled. 12pp.; (4) John Wilkinson,
‘three selections from “Prior to Passage”’, Rod
Mengham, ‘Glossy Matter’, and David Trotter,
‘Voices-Off’. 1979. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (12pp.); (5) Eric Mottram, ‘From Shadow
Borders’. 1979. Oblong 8vo. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (8pp.); (6) Pierre Joris, ‘body count’.
Nd. 8vo. One sheet folded into 4pp.; (7) Paul
Green, ‘from: “The Fetishes”’. Nd. Folio. One
sheet printed on both sides; (8) Cristopher
Cheek, ‘performed in private’. Nd. 4to. Stapled
at top corner. Unpaginated (12pp.); (9) Roger
Munier, ‘Inversely’. Trans. Lee Fahnestock. Nd.
Small 4to. Loose sheets folded into 12pp.; (10)
Gad Hollander, ‘x stet (The Hypothesis)’. Nd.
Oblong 4to. One sheet printed on both sides.
Beginning a year before Buck’s Curtains magazine ended, Twisted Wrist was established to
publish work which did not fit into the flow
of the larger magazine, but was worthy of
publication. It was to be sent out with issues of
Curtains or in general correspondence. Due to
the means of distribution and due to the variable, often fragile format, issues of Twisted Wrist
are uncommon, and complete sets are rare. A
few gentle staple indentations and offset rust
marks from issue 3, a couple of peripheral
spots to issue 5, but a Fine set.
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BUCK, Paul and JORIS, Pierre (eds.). Matières
d’Angleterre: Anthologie bilingue de la Nouvelle
Poésie Anglaise. Amiens: Les Trois Cailloux,
1984. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 400pp. Cover
by Tom Phillips. Published as in’hui 19. Text in
English and French (with the preface and incidental materials in French). An extraordinary
gathering, arranged into the sections ‘Process’,
‘Location’, ‘Body’, and ‘Language’. Contributors
include J. H. Prynne, Iain Sinclair, Chris Torrance, Lee Harwood, Paul Evans, Tom Raworth,
Bob Cobbing, Bill Griffiths, Eric Mottram,
Doug Oliver, Colin Simms, Brian Marley, Barry MacSweeney, Allen Fisher, Asa Benveniste,
Ulli McCarthy, Ralph Hawkins, and more. Very
Good with light creasing to wrappers and very
mild discolouration to spine. This copy has
been signed by Sinclair and Buck.
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BURROUGHS, William. Dead Fingers Talk. London: John Calder, 1963. 1st edition. 8vo. Grey
cloth. 216pp. The dust jacket shows a photo-collage by Ian Sommerville of the Olympia Press editions of The Naked Lunch, The Soft
Machine, and The Ticket That Exploded, which
along with some unpublished material were
used to construct this new novel. Foxing to the
edges and endpapers, which have light bands,
and very slightly to the spine, otherwise Very
Good in Good dust jacket, with small chips at
the corners and spine head. A few nicks, and
1”closed tear to base of back cover. Still an attractive production.
£75
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(BURROUGHS, William.) HARRISON, Harry
and ALDISS, Brian (eds.). SF Horizons: A magazine
of criticism and comment 2. Sunningdale, Winter
1965. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. 64pp.
Includes ‘The Hallucinatory Operators Are
Real’, an interview with Burroughs on science
fiction. Also C. S. Lewis’ poem ‘On the Atomic
£6
Bomb’, Aldiss on SF now, and James Blish on
SF critical literature. A Good copy with some
wear to the wrappers, generally not affecting
the design.
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BUTTERWORTH, Michael (ed.). Concentrate
1 (all published). Altrincham: Mwangaza Enterprises, 1968. 1st edition. Folio. One sheet
folded into 4pp. Intended as a fortnightly publication of ‘condensed writings’, the magazine
took its name from Butterworth’s ‘Concentrate’
stories in New Worlds, collaborations with J. G.
Ballard who had ‘condensed’ them from longer
manuscripts. Most copies were distributed
free with New Worlds 185 and Ambit. Contributors include John Sladek, Jim Sallis, Charles
Platt, Anselm Hollo, Alexis Lykiard, and Harry
Hoogstraten. A Good copy of a fragile production, a little creased and nicked at edges.
£10
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BUTTERWORTH, Michael (ed.). Corridor [1].
Manchester, January–February 1971. 1st edition. 4to. Stapled wrappers. 20pp. Contains
‘Pride of Empire’ by Michael Moorcock, a historical novel concerning Jerry Cornelius’s origins. Also Giles Gordon, Michael Ginley, and
art by Arthur Moyse. Very Good. Toning and
light wear around the spine.
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BUTTERWORTH, Michael (ed.). Corridor: New
Writings Quarterly 4. Manchester: Michael Butterworth Publications, 1972. 1st edition. 4to.
Stapled wrappers. 24pp. Contains the Jerry
Cornelius story by Michael Moorcock, ‘The
Swastika Set-up’. Also Kevin Dixon-Jackson,
Chris Naylor, John Riley, reviews by J. Jeff
Jones, art by David Britton, and letters (some
referring to Paul Buck’s story in issue 3, ‘I
might please other tenants every night Count
Elizabeth’). Mild peripheral toning and slight
offsetting to wrappers, light wear around the
spine, otherwise Very Good.
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to order, such as ‘An Assassination Museum’
and ‘Wilson the Athlete’, or simply ‘Graffiti’
or ‘Box’: ‘a small space in which some things
might or might not take place’. Affixed to the
title page is a strip of film of a topless woman
(with audio). Also present is an advert for International Times and the 14 Hour Technicolor
Dream (which suggests the 1967 date). A Good
copy, with edgewear to the covers and on the
front a rectangle offset from tape holding the
film reel. The reel has possibly been re-affixed.
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BUTTERWORTH, Michael (ed.). Corridor: New
Writings Quarterly 5. Altrincham: Michael Butterworth Publications, 1974. 1st edition. 4to.
Stapled wrappers. 32pp. The final issue with
this title. Includes an interview with J. G. Ballard, and fiction by Hilary Bailey, Peter Finch,
and Richard Kostelanetz. Peripheral spotting,
and light sticker ghost to upper wrapper, otherwise Very Good.
£15
BUTTERWORTH, Michael (ed.). Wordworks:
New Writings Quarterly 7. Altrincham: Michael
Butterworth Publications, 1976. 1st edition.
4to. Stapled wrappers. 56pp. The second issue
with this title, and the end of the sequence.
Contributors include Sinclair Beiles (poems,
art, and an interview), Trevor Hoyle, Terry Wilson, Jim Burns, and Heathcote Williams. Very
Good, with rubbing to spine.
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CARRUTHERS, Tony and MILLER, Roland.
Ideal Woman · Infinity [Ideal Woman Times Infinity]. London, [1967]. 1st edition. 4to. Sheets
bound with two metal clasps. 40pp. Inventive
duplicated publication, apparently geared towards an eponymous event from 23–30 April
(1967) at the Fortune of War pub, Brighton.
The book presents an illustrated catalogue
of thirteen items or performances, available
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Childish. An early work for Childish on his
Hangman imprint. Loosely inserted postcard
(unused) advertising the book and printing
the gallows-and-noose symbol. Also a postcard
from the press with the handwritten compliments of ‘Miss T. K. Emin’, i.e. Tracey Emin,
who carried out the daily running of the press
until 1987, while she and Childish were a couple. Fine.
CHALONER, David. Projections. Providence,
RI: Burning Deck, 1977. 1st edition. One of
350 numbered copies. 8vo. Stapled wrappers.
Unpaginated (28pp. mostly printed on rectos
only). Designed and printed by Rosmarie Waldrop. By the editor of One magazine. Very Good
Plus in dust jacket. This copy has been signed
by the author and inscribed to Paul Buck.
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CHILDISH, Billy. Child’s Death Letter: Selected Lyrics. Rochester: Hangman Books, 1990. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 78pp. Photographs by Eugene Doyen. With the statement common to
Childish’s books, ‘B. Childish is dyslexic, these
poems appear as written by the author’, and a
prefatory note: ‘too many people belive themselfs to be riting poetry to music, this is a trick
of their own vanity… i selected these 30 or so
lyrics, becouse to my head, they come closeist
to werking on the page.’ Self-published by the
‘specialists in North Kent literature’. Fine.
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CHILDISH, Billy. Companions in a Death Boat.
Rochester: Hangman Books, 1987. 1st edition.
8vo. Wrappers. 48pp. With death drawings by
Mick Hampshire and cover by Bill Hamper (i.e.
Childish). Poems with an epigraph by Black
Elk of the Oglala Sioux: ‘You have noticed
that the truth comes into the world with two
faces.’ Lower wrapper blurbs include Jeff Nuttall: ‘An utterly authentic outspout of creative
play’. Near Fine. This copy has been signed by
the author (‘billy’) and inscribed to Paul (Buck).
The two met at Medway College of Art and Design, where Buck began teaching shortly after
Childish’s foundation year there.
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CHILDISH, Billy. The Girl in the Tree. Rochester: Hangman Books, 1988. 1st edition. One of
100 numbered and signed copies (of 500). 8vo.
Wrappers. 68pp. Cover and woodcuts by Bill
Hamper (i.e. Childish). Fine.
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CHILDISH, Billy. Monks Without God. Rochester: Hangman Books, 1986. 1st edition. 8vo.
Stapled wrappers. 36pp. Although not credited, the cover and illustrations appear to be by
Childish. Lower wrapper with blurb by Nick
Kimberley: ‘Nihilistic self-absorption, punkish anti-intellectualism, sexual paranoia are
all rescued (I think) by a humour somewhere
between Les Dawson and Samuel Beckett.’
Near Fine, with light rubbing to wrappers.
This copy has been signed by the author (‘billy’) and inscribed to Paul (Buck).
£80
CHILDISH, Billy. Poems from the Barrier Block.
Rochester: Hangman Books, 1984. 1st edition.
8vo. Wrappers. 68pp. Although not credited,
the cover and illustrations appear to be by
£100
woodblocks by Bill Hamper (i.e. Childish), who
provides a blurb: ‘I’ve known Bill for years …
through thick and thin (and he’s both) … I like
a lot of his stuff.’ Also quotations from Mike
Horovitz and Ralph Steadman. Started by
Lewis, Lazerwolf was another imprint of The
Medway Poets, and this book is a co-production with Hangman Books. Head edge slightly
dusty, but Near Fine. See also item 209.
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CHILDISH, Billy. Poems Without Rhyme, Without
Reason, Without Spelling, Without Words, Without
Nothing. Rochester: Hangman Books, 1985.
1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 36pp. With cancel
sticker over a London address for the press.
Near Fine, with a little mild creasing around
the spine.
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(CHILDISH, Billy.) A pin badge for The Phyroid
Press. Np: The Phyroid Press, nd (late 1970s or
early 1980s). Black and white pictorial design
incorporating the name of the press, which
was formed in 1979 by Childish and Sexton
Ming. Phyroid was a forerunner of Hangman
Books. Near Fine.
£10
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CHILDISH, Billy. The Silence of Words. Rochester: Hangman Books, 1989. 1st edition. One of
500 signed copies. 8vo. Wrappers. 194pp. Cover
and woodcuts by Bill Hamper (i.e. Childish).
Eleven short stories. ‘Okay, a lot of people can’t
get beyond the language, they can’t get past
certain words, even though their children are
using worse every day in the playground.’ Very
Good Plus, with edges faintly spotted.
£55
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(CHILDISH, Billy.) THE POP RIVETS. Back
From Nowhere. Np: Hipocrite Music/M.T.
Sounds, 1980. 1st pressing. HEP 001. 7” EP
(45rpm). ‘When I Came Back’, ‘Souvenirs’, and
‘Glanced the Look’. Originally called TV21, The
Pop Rivets ran from 1977 to 1980 and included
Billy Childish in their line-up (credited here as
Hamper). Hipocrite was their own label. Light
rubbing around the spindle hole, otherwise
Excellent in plain die-cut sleeve, which is
slightly toned peripherally.
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CHILDISH, Billy. To the Quick. Rochester:
Hangman Books, 1988. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 60pp. Although not credited, the cover
and illustrations appear to be by Childish.
Near Fine. This copy has been signed by the
author (‘billy’) who has pointed at the ‘strange
Belgian lingo’ in another hand, apparently signed ‘Karima’. Karima is Tracey Emin’s
middle name. However by 1988 the press
was managed by Kyra De Coninck, who was
Belgian, and the writing matches that on the
item below.
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(CHILDISH, Billy.) THE POP RIVETS/SULPHATE. Back From Nowhere. Np: Hipocrite Music/M.T. Sounds, 1980. 1st pressing. HEP 002.
7” EP (45rpm). Includes ‘Going Nowhere’ and
‘(I’m So) Happy Tonight’ by The Pop Rivets on
Side A, ‘Sit Back In Anger’ and ‘Another Formation’ by Sulphate on Side B. At least Very Good
Plus in plain die-cut sleeve, which has a tiny
mark at the opening. 50–100 copies of this and
the item above were also packaged together in
a poster bag for a tour of Germany and Switzerland.
£30
(CHILDISH, Billy.) CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand.
Cannon-Fodder. Trans. K. De Coninck and B.
Childish. Rochester: Hangman Books, 1988.
1st edition. One of 500 numbered copies
signed by the translators. 8vo. Wrappers. 88pp.
Cover and drawings by Bill Hamper (i.e. Childish). The manuscript of Céline’s Casse-pipe was
in part destroyed or stolen when the author’s
Montmartre flat was ransacked at the time of
the Liberation in 1944. The surviving fragment here is the opening chapter, translated
into English for the first time. Some extremely mild toning to wrappers, but overall Very
Good Plus. This copy has been additionally
signed by Childish (‘billy’) and inscribed to
Paul (Buck).
£35
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(CHILDISH, Billy.) THE POP RIVETS. Empty
Sounds From Anarchy Ranch. Np: Hipocrite Music, 1979. 1st pressing. HIP-O. 12” LP record
(33 1/3 rpm). Their second LP. Very Good Plus
in sleeve. A few spots to labels and light superficial marks to disc. Light ringwear and a little
peripheral soiling to sleeve.
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(CHILDISH, Billy.) TAYLOR, Zoë and ZUSHI,
Yo (eds.). Rag & Bone 1. Np: np, December 2007.
1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 76pp. Possibly the
only issue published of this folk art magazine,
which stemmed from University College London. Childish contributes ‘Our Home Town:
An Introduction to a Work in Progress’ and the
artwork ‘Angel Over Rochester’. There is also
an interview with Marina Warner. Small stain
to upper wrapper, otherwise Very Good.
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CLARK, Tom. Light & Shade: New and Selected
Poems. Introduction by Amy Gerstler. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2006. 1st edition.
8vo. Wrappers. x, 340pp. Gathers ‘forty years
of moments recorded in a poetry lit by transcendental landscapes and maritime reveries’
(Joanne Kyger). Small dent at upper spine fold,
otherwise Very Good Plus. This copy has been
signed by the author (‘Tom’) and inscribed to
Iain (Sinclair) in 2011. Loosely inserted brief
autograph letter signed from the press to Sinclair, enclosing the book.
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(CHILDISH, Billy.) LEWIS, Bill. Rage Without
Anger: Poems 1976–1988. Np: Lazerwolf Books,
1988. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 170pp. With
£10
(CLINIC.) ALLEN, Rachael, BUCHAN-WATTS,
Sam, PARKER, Sean Roy, and PARKES, Andrew (eds.). Can I Borrow a Feeling? Np: Clinic,
2015. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (52pp.). Illustrated poetry anthology inspired by The Simpsons, named after Kirk
Van Houten’s love song. Contributors include
Sam Riviere, Jack Underwood, Sophie Collins,
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Olly Todd, Holly Isemonger, Joe Dunthorne,
Crispin Best, and Harry Burke. Loosely inserted Clinic sticker. Fine.
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COBBING, Bob. 15 Shakespeare Kaku. London:
Writers Forum, nd (1972?). 1st edition. 32mo.
Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (8pp.). Originally published in Poems for Shakespeare (Globe
Playhouse Trust, 1972). Visual texts, with the
Japanese ‘kaku’ meaning both ‘to write’ and ‘to
draw’ or ‘to paint’. Near Fine, with a few tiny
rust marks to lower wrapper. This copy has
been signed by the author and inscribed to
Paul (Buck).
£35
COBBING, Bob. ABC/Wan Do Tree: Bob Cobbing’s
Collected Poems Volume Two. Croydon: El Uel Uel
U, 1978. 1st edition. 4to. Wrappers. Unpaginated (50pp.). Cobbing’s early sound poems,
some reproduced in expressive visual form.
The book gathers all the material in Sound Poems (An A B C in Sound) and Kurrirrurriri. Listing
of Cobbing’s collected poems up to volume 5
(also 1978) affixed inside lower wrapper. Spine
slightly toned, with small nick to head, otherwise Near Fine. This copy has been signed by
the author and inscribed to Paul (Buck).
£75
COBBING, Bob. Cygnet Ring: Collected Poems –
Volume One. London: tapocketa press, 1977. 1st
edition. 4to. Wrappers. Unpaginated (32pp.).
Cobbing’s cut-up poems from 1956 to 1964,
with related newspaper, found and permutational material, plus his first visual cut-ups in
1965. Thirty-four of forty-six poems are printed here for the first time. At least Very Good,
with title to spine faded, spine bumped, and
light marginal toning to lower wrapper.
£60
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COBBING, Bob. Grogram. London: Writers
Forum, 1991. 1st edition. 4to. Glue bound.
Unpaginated (46pp. printed on rectos only).
Visual pieces. Fore edge of rear endpaper affixed to back cover in production (deliberately). Small nick to front cover at spine and some
fading to blank back cover, otherwise Very
Good Plus.
£40
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COBBING, Bob. The Kollekted Kris Kringle volume
iv. London: Anarcho Press, 1979. 1st edition.
4to. Wrappers. Unpaginated (60pp.). Alternatively ‘Kris Kringle’s Konkrete Konnektions’,
with notes on performance. Very Good Plus.
Mild toning around the spine and faintly to
head edge of upper wrapper, with small split
at tail edge.
£30
COBBING, Bob. Vowels & Consequences: collected
poems volume seven. Newcastle upon Tyne: Galloping Dog Press, 1985. Folio. Wrappers. 64pp.
An uncut and therefore oversize pre-publication copy of the 1st edition, with facsimile holograph pagination, brief notes, and guidelines
for cutting. These are marginal, so that what
would become the finished book is essentially untouched. Introduction by Bill Griffiths,
who explains that this volume presents visual
works originally produced on a duplicator
from between 1970 and 1976: ‘many of the
poems in this book are examples of an ability
to explore the process of printing itself’. Very
Good Plus, with some spotting to edges.
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COBBING, Bob, SCULLY, Maurice, and REEDY,
Carlyle. etruscan reader IV. Buckfastleigh: etruscan books, 1999. 1st edition thus (an expansion
of the smaller etruscan reader IV from 1996). One
of 400 copies. Small 4to. Wrappers. Unpaginated (122pp.). Gathers ‘RECUSANT CENTAURS’,
Cobbing’s three-part spoof of the name ‘etruscan’, Scully’s ‘two caterpillars’ and ‘Cohering’,
and ‘Snapshots, New York ’61’ and ‘Sequentia
di Tuscania’ by Reedy. Very Good.
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COBBING, Bob and SHEPPARD, Robert. Blatent blather/virulent whoops. London: Writers Forum, 2001. 1st edition. 4to. Stapled wrappers.
Unpaginated (28pp.). Cover by Patricia Farrell.
Uncommon collaboration. Near Fine.
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COBBING, Bob and GRIFFITHS, Bill (eds., assisted by Jennifer Pike). verbi visi voco: a performance of poetry. London: Writers Forum, 1992.
1st edition. Small 4to. Wrappers. 320pp. Introduction by Eric Mottram. A celebration of
Writers Forum, whose 500th publication this
was. Includes all the poets who had had an individual collection from Writers Forum, and
work from And, Kroklok, and the WF 100 anthology. Near Fine.
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(COBBING, Bob.) FINCH, Peter (ed.). Second
Aeon 13. Cardiff, nd (1971). 1st edition. 8vo.
Stapled wrappers. 104pp. Cobbing contributes
‘from e & o poem’. Other contributors include
Jennifer Cobbing, dsh, Jirí
ˇ Valoch, Opal Nations, Chris Torrance, Jeff Nuttall, Charles Bukowski, William Wantling, and more. Mild peripheral fading to wrappers, which are slightly
soiled, but Very Good.
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(COBBING, Bob.) FINCH, Peter (ed.). Second
Aeon 19–21 (in one volume). Cardiff, 1974. 1st
edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 268pp. The final issue.
Cobbing contributes two visual pieces. Other
contributors include Asa Benveniste, Theodore Enslin, Barry MacSweeney, Harry Guest,
Richard Kostelanetz, Ian Breakwell, Douglas Blazek, Larry Eigner, Clayton Eshleman,
Pierre Joris, Paul Auster, Jeremy Hilton, and
more. Second Aeon Publications’ new address
sticker over printed address. Some rubbing to
wrappers.
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COLE, Barry. Vanessa in the City. London:
specially bound copies numbered and signed
by the author. Narrow 8vo. Quarter pink and
three-quarter black buckram. 32pp. Epigraph
by Nietzsche: ‘But suppose truth is a woman?’
Very Good in mottled acetate dust jacket.
£25
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COLE, Barry. Vanessa in the City. London:
Trigram Press, 1971. 1st edition. Narrow 8vo.
Black cloth. 32pp. ‘I wanted, for once, to get
outside myself, to acknowledge the independent existence of someone totally unknown
to me. The technique is not new, but Vanessa
is.’ Very Good, with mottling to cloth, in Near
Fine dust jacket.
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COOKSON, William (ed.). Agenda vol. 4 nos. 3/4.
London, Summer 1966. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 80pp. Special Issue: U.S. Poetry. Con-
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tributors include Robert Creeley, Gary Snyder, Thom Gunn (on Snyder), Louis Zukofsky,
Denise Levertov, George Oppen, and Robert
Bly. Spine slightly toned, lower wrapper a little
marked, otherwise Very Good Plus.
CORCORAN, Kelvin. Macau. Np: np, 1995. 1st
edition. 8vo. One sheet folded into 4pp. Cover shows the Chinese for ‘Made in China’ and
‘Made in U.S.A.’. Loosely inserted autograph
letter signed from the author to Iain (Sinclair),
dated 1995, concerning Corcoran’s contribution to ‘the Picador book’ (Conductors of Chaos,
edited by Sinclair). Corcoran also solicits work
for his Short Run, and says of the press: ‘My
literal poem about Macau is not a Short Run.
I run off about 30 and send 20 to the author.’
Also enclosed is Ashley Hayles’ Short Run Four
By Seven By Five. Overall Very Good Plus with
very faint band to head of Macau.
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CORCORAN, Kelvin. Saturday Night in the Bardo.
South Croydon: GRIllE, 1996. 1st edition thus.
8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (12pp.).
Cover by Alan Halsey. Published as GRIllE
notebook 4. Originally published in an edition
of 26 copies by West House Books in the same
year, with colour illustrations by Halsey. Near
Fine. Loosely inserted typed letter signed from
Corcoran to Iain (Sinclair) from 1997, mostly
concerning Cheltenham (Corcoran’s location) in response to Sinclair’s ‘version of royal
Gloucestershire, “corpse gardens” above and
below ground’. Also loosely inserted strip of
paper repeating the printed words ‘RIVER SERIES’. Significance not known, but it could be a
found item referring to Sinclair’s Downriver, to
which Corcoran refers in his letter. It does not
seem to be related to GRIllE.
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CROZIER, Andrew. Residing. Belper: Stuart
Mills, Winter 1976. 1st edition. 4to. Stapled
wrappers. Unpaginated (12pp.). Published as
Aggie Weston’s 10, edited by Mills. ‘The name of
the magazine comes indirectly from a work by
Kurt Schwitters; “A Small Home for Seamen.” I
have been told that it was one Agnes Weston
who founded the seamen’s homes in this country and I hope that this magazine will likewise
provide some sort of refuge.’ About Very Good,
with light toning to wrappers.
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CROZIER, Andrew. Were There. London: The
Many Press, 1978. 1st edition. One of 20 numbered copies signed by the author (of 300). 8vo.
Stapled wrappers. 36pp. Although not called
for, loosely inserted print of the cover image
by Ian Tyson, signed by the artist. Some foxing,
with one spot to print, otherwise Very Good in
dust jacket.
£25
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CROZIER, Andrew. Were There. London: The
Many Press, 1978. 1st edition. One of 280 numbered copies (of 300). 8vo. Stapled wrappers.
36pp. Near Fine in dust jacket.
£12
(DAHLBERG, Edward.) NEWMAN, Charles
(ed.) and WILLIAMS, Jonathan (guest co-ed.).
TriQuarterly 19. Evanston, IL: Northwestern
University Press, Fall 1970. 1st edition. 8vo.
Wrappers. 200pp. Cover by R. B. Kitaj. Festschrift for the novelist and essayist, intended
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for his seventieth birthday. Contains essays,
reminiscences, correspondence from Dahlberg
to Williams, tributes, bio-bibliography, poems,
photos, paeans, and an appendix by ‘the Festschriftee’. Contributors include Jack Kerouac,
Philip Whalen, Eric Mottram, Gilbert Sorrentino, Paul Metcalf, Robert Kelly, Douglas Woolf,
Cid Corman, Larry Eigner, Joel Oppenheimer,
Christopher Middleton, Anselm Hollo, and
more. Toning to spine. Very Good.
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(DUNCAN, Robert.) NEWMAN, Charles (ed.).
TriQuarterly 12. Evanston, IL: Northwestern
University Press, Spring 1968. 1st edition. 4to.
Wrappers. 256pp. Illustrated by Zbigniew
Jastrebski. Duncan contributes two chapters
from H.D., his exploration of modern poetry
and poetics which began in 1959 as a simple
homage to the poet H.D., and which was not
published in its entirety until recently. Also
Ronald Silliman, Theodore Roethke, Stephen
Spender and Nikos Stangos, Michael Hamburger, and Richard Ellmann. Very Good.
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DUNN, Carolyn interviewed by KILLIAN,
Kevin. Eyewitness: From Black Mountain to White
Rabbit. NY: Granary Books, 2015. 1st edition.
One of 300 copies. 8vo. Wrappers. 60pp. The
first interview of any kind by Dunn, the only
living witness to the ‘Boston Renaissance’, who
attended Black Mountain College and, with
her husband Joe Dunn, was brought to San
Francisco by Jack Spicer to start the White Rabbit Press. Near Fine.
£15
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(ENSLIN, Theodore.) TAGGART, John (guest
ed.). Truck 20: Theodore Enslin. Saint Paul,
MN: Truck Press, 1978. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 168pp. Special issue of David Wilk’s
magazine, printing Enslin’s ‘El Amador’ and
sections from Ranger Book 4, along with appreciations by Eric Mottram, Robert Kelly, George
Quasha and Charles Stein, George Economou,
and more. Also an interview. Associated with
Cid Corman’s Origin, Enslin lived in Maine
from 1960 until his death in 2011. Ranger is a
significant American long poem. One corner
bump. Very Good.
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(ESP.) The ESP Sampler. [New York]: ESP-Disk,
[1967]. 1st pressing, black and red cover variant. Stereo ESP 1051. 12” LP (33 1/3 rpm) of
extracts from Bernard Stollman’s label, founded in 1964, which was a significant exponent
of free jazz. Contributors include William
Burroughs (from Call Me Burroughs), The Fugs,
Allen Ginsberg, Pearls Before Swine, The Godz,
Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Andrei
Voznesensky, Gregory Corso, and Lawrence
Ferlinghetti. One mark to disc otherwise Excellent in lightly rubbed sleeve, with a little
spotting to insert.
£7
93 EVANS, Paul. Current Affairs. Gillingham: ARC,
1970. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled French wrappers. 16pp. Poems written while Evans was
working in the sawmill at Brighton’s British
Rail depot. His first book. There were also 25
numbered and signed copies. Very Good, with
peripheral toning to wrappers.
£12
94
EVANS, Paul. February. London: Fulcrum Press,
£8
1971. 1st edition. 8vo. Blue cloth. 64pp. The
first comprehensive collection of Evans’ poems.
There were also 75 specially bound numbered
and signed copies. Very Good in dust jacket.
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EVANS, Paul. Impressions of Africa. Np: Mungo Park Printing Co, 1977. 1st edition. 4to.
Poems and collages, borrowing from Félix-Archimède Pouchet’s The Universe. ‘Impressions
of Africa’ was included in Evans’ 1979 book
The Manual for the Perfect Organisation of Tourneys
(of which Mungo Park is a dedicatee), but this
standalone publication is not recognised by
OCLC, and the source is not clear. Somewhat
worn and soiled, originally stab-stapled but
now in a plastic binding. Rare.
EVANS, Paul. True Grit. Wivenhoe Park: An
Ant’s Forefoot Eleventh Finger Voiceprint Edition, 1970. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers.
Unpaginated (24pp.). Evans was editor of Eleventh Finger with Paul Matthews; The Ant’s Forefoot was edited by David Rosenberg in Toronto.
About Very Good in dust jacket, with some foxing, and jacket lightly soiled.
clude Lee Harwood, Robert Kelly, Jerome Rothenberg, Anselm Hollo, Michael Shayer, James
Koller, Günter Grass, Tristan Tzara, Brian
Patten, Theodore Enslin, Eric Mottram, Harry
Guest, John Hall, Michael McClure, Dowden,
Evans, and Matthews. Issue 1 has a section devoted to Deep Image poetry, and opens with a
statement by Rothenberg: ‘There is possibility,
and need of, a greater seriousness in poetry in
England, in terms of a renewed awareness of
the poem as structure, how to make the poem…
Open yourself to the image: something in you
will die, something will be born.’ Issue 2 contains correspondence between Kelly and Rothenberg concerning Deep Image, and it appears
that the section from issue 1 was also available
separately. A Very Good set. The wrappers of issues 3 and 4 are rubbed, the former with rusting to the staples.
£20
Books, 1985. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. x,
82pp. Poems from ‘ACCRETION’ to ‘BOOGIE
STOMP’, arranged alphabetically, providing ‘a
technique of memory and perception analysis’.
Very Good, with spotting to edges and slightly
to prelims.
FISHER, Allen. Convalescence. Np: Wiwaxia,
1992. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers with
affixed sticker (‘FREE / A WIWAXIA PRODUCTION / PLEASE TAKE ONE!’). 20pp. Part of
the work Gravity as a consequence of shape. Andrew Duncan contributes ‘ERASING THE ORTHOGONAL’. Folded a little unevenly, staples
slightly rusty, but Very Good.
£10
106
FISHER, Allen. Docking. Bishop’s Stortford:
Great Works Editions, 1978. 1st edition. One
of 200 copies. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated
(48pp. printed on rectos only). Dedicated to
Clayton Eshleman and written out of ‘dream
sentences’. Parts of Docking connect to Fisher’s
The Art of Flight and place. Very Good in dust
jacket, slightly spotted peripherally.
£25
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FISHER, Allen. Ideas on the culture dreamed of.
London: Spanner, 1983. 1st edition. 16mo.
Wrappers. vi, 120pp. ‘A book of relations’, the
first in a series of six titles. It acts as an apparatus or glossary for Fisher’s Defamiliarising_*
(the second book in the series), and the poem
titles in Brixton Fractals ‘derive directly from
the itineraries of dances’ in Ideas. Wrappers
slightly creased and rubbed, some marginal
spotting, but about Very Good.
£12
FISHER, Allen. Imbrications. Cambridge: Lobby
Press, 1981. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 20pp.
‘Business verse compiled by Allen Fisher’. Very
Good Plus.
£8
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£10
100
EVANS, Paul and BAILEY, Peter. O.I.N.C.: An adventure story. Wivenhoe Park, 1975. 1st edition.
One of 175 copies (of 200). 8vo. Stab-stapled.
Published as The Human Handkerchief 4. A story
by Evans, written to accompany thirteen drawings by Bailey. ‘All the characters in this book
are known to the author.’ A Good copy, with
covers soiled.
£16
EVANS, Paul (ed.). PCL British Poetry Conference
– June 1977. London: Polytechnic of Central
London, 1977. 1st edition. 4to. 204pp. printed
on rectos only. Uncommon, substantial booklet to accompany the conference organised
by Evans, who was part of the PCL’s Cultural
and Community Studies Unit. Contributors
(with bio-bibliographies) include Iain Sinclair,
Chris Torrance, B.Catling, Lee Harwood, Allen
Fisher, Bill Griffiths, Jeff Nuttall, Colin Simms,
Tom Pickard, Barry MacSweeney, Roy Fisher, and Elaine Feinstein. Eric Mottram, who
helped to organise the conference, provides
the essential essay ‘Inheritance Landscape
Location: Data for British Poetry 1977’. Once
stab-stapled, this copy has been ring bound,
although some copies seem to have consisted of loose sheets with a plastic strip binding.
This copy also has a light blue front cover and
no (blank) back cover, in contrast to copies
with a white front cover and (where present)
a blank white back cover. Priority not known.
Cover somewhat worn and lightly soiled, but
contents clean.
£35
EVANS, Paul and MATTHEWS, Paul (eds.).
Eleventh Finger [1]–4 (all published). London
then (from issue 2) Sussex, [1965]–1968. 1st
editions. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. 28pp.–56pp.
Covers by Jenny Harwood (issues 1–3) and Peter Bailey (issue 4). The first issue was edited by
Evans, the rest by both Evans and Matthews.
Issue 3 consists of Because I Am Tired of the Night
by George Dowden, published in an edition
of 300 numbered copies (with 26 (additional?)
copies lettered and signed). Contributors in-
£100
(EVANS, Paul.) GRIFFITHS, Bill and COBBING,
Bob. PALPI/Poetry and Little Press Information 28.
London: The Association of Little Presses, June
1991. 1st edition. Small 4to. Stapled wrappers.
32pp. Includes Eric Mottram’s ‘In Memoriam
Paul Evans’, who died while climbing with Lee
Harwood on Snowdon. Also Maggie O’Sullivan on Paula Claire’s Declarations, Allan Burgis,
and listings. Very Good.
£8
EWART, Gavin. The Gavin Ewart Show. London:
by the author. 8vo. Half black and half brown
buckram. 64pp. Cover and frontispiece by Michael Foreman. By the author of Pleasures of the
Flesh (1966), which was banned by W. H. Smith.
Near Fine in dust jacket, in acetate jacket with
a couple of tiny nicks.
£40
(FESTIVAL OF DISAPPEARING ART(S).)
MALONE, Kirby and REESE, Marshall (eds.).
Programme for the Baltimore-Washington
International Festival of Disappearing Art(s).
Baltimore, MD: The Merzaum Collective and
Washington, DC: The Washington Project for
the Arts, 1979. 1st edition. 4to. One folded
sheet, opening out into a programme of performances on one side, and biographies and
other information on the other. Held from 29
April to 7 May 1979, the Festival of Disappearing Art(s) was organized by Pamela Zulli, Ro
Malone, Mark Gulezian, Malone, and Reese.
‘The formalization (organization) of a disappearing art(s) festival occurs as an effort to
point out & to provide a context for a range of
intermedia performance activity that has (dis)
appeared continuously in this century, from
the work of Dada & Futurism, through Fluxus
& Happenings, to now: the Futurists’ future.’
Performers include Jackson Mac Low, Hannah
Weiner, Steve Benson, and VOCS (Cris Cheek, P.
C. Fencott, and Lawrence Upton). Very Good,
slightly toned at the fold and lightly edgeworn.
£12
103
FISHER, Allen. BECOMING: being most of place
book IIII & much of book V, dropped january 1978.
London: Aloes Books, [1979]. 1st edition. 4to.
Wrappers. 230pp. printed on rectos only. Good,
with wrappers spotted and a little worn.
£16
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FISHER, Allen. Brixton Fractals: Gravity as a
consequence of shape. First set. London: Aloes
£12
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102
John and Amanda (Welch).
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FISHER, Allen. The Leer. London: Branch Redd
Publications, 1976. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled
wrappers. Unpaginated (8pp.). Rodents and
Ronald Reagan. Wrappers slightly handled,
and very faint fading to lower wrapper, otherwise Very Good Plus.
£10
110
FISHER, Allen. Paxton’s Beacon. Todmorden: Arc
Publications, 1976. 1st edition. One of 235 copies (of 250). Oblong 4to. Wrappers with mounted illustration. 32pp. printed on rectos only. Extracts from Fisher’s ‘The Art of Flight :
I–XXVII : A Selection for Eric Mottram and
Jackson Mac Low’. ‘The Art of Flight’ is Fisher’s
treatise on the terms ‘light’ and ‘dark’, where
‘Flight’ is fugue, folly, and fancy. A few small
spots to wrappers, but Very Good Plus.
£20
FISHER, Allen. STANE. drafted 31.12.75. comprising most of place Book III, place forty-five to eightyone. Second Movement. London: Aloes Books,
1977. 1st edition. One of 100 numbered and
signed copies with a specially prepared cover
(of 500). Oblong 4to. Stitched wrappers with
mounted illustration. 64pp. Separate sheet
with publication details affixed to half title
verso, and separate sheet with addenda affixed
at rear. Some spotting to wrappers, and discolouration to blank lower wrapper, otherwise
Very Good. This copy has been inscribed to
£25
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112
FISHER, Allen and CLARK, Robert. The Apocalyptic Sonnets. Newcastle upon Tyne: Pig Press,
1978. 1st edition. One of 190 copies (of 200).
4to. Wrappers. 36pp. Seven etchings by Clark
and sixteen scores by Fisher, dedicated to Cosi
(i.e. Cosey Fanni Tutti) and Genesis P-Orridge.
The scores follow Albrecht Dürer’s The Apocalypse woodcuts along with the etchings The Four
Witches and The Doctor’s Dream. A Good, foxed
copy, with mild toning to wrappers.
£14
113
FISHER, Allen (guest ed.). Strange Faeces 8.
London, 1972. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled.
Unpaginated (94pp. including a found sheet
(‘Draught Excluder’ and ‘Stair Rods & Eyes’)
and a sheet with 2pp. of a book affixed (‘Borderlands of Knowledge’), + 8pp. half-pages).
Contributors include Claude Pélieu, Ed Sanders, Charles Plymell, Jeff Nuttall, Dick Miller,
Jim Pennington, Kris Hemensley, Mark Hyatt,
Pete Hoida, Opal L Nations, and Fisher. Inventive, highly visual issue of Nations’ magazine,
prefaced by Plymell on poetry now: ‘It’s anybody’s game.’ Back cover detached but present,
otherwise Very Good with occasional marginal
spots.
£18
114
(FISHER, Allen.) BROADRIBB, Chris (ed.). Kite
1. Cardiff, Winter 1986–87. 1st edition. 8vo.
Wrappers. 70pp. (erratically paginated). First
issue (of three) of a ‘frequent flight of creative
texts’. Includes Fisher’s poem ‘Boston Monkey’
and Broadribb’s ‘notes towards an extended
reading of allen fisher’s BRIXTON FRACTALS’.
Also Bob Cobbing (‘computer generated texts’)
and Lee Harwood (from ‘All these different
places before you came’). Very Good.
£10
115
(FISHER, Allen.) HAMPSON, Robert (ed.).
Alembic: a magazine of new poetry, prose & graphics 4. London, Winter 1975/6. 1st edition. 4to.
Stab-stapled. 60pp. Fisher contributes ‘6 pages
from place’, plus an interview. Other contributors include Eric Mottram, Roy Fisher, Ulli McCarthy, Ken Edwards, Richard Miller, and Jeremy Hilton. Also a double-page spread of ‘open
field notes’, gathering quotations from Charles
Olson, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners, Jack
Spicer, Robert Duncan, Lee Harwood, Robert
Creeley, Denise Levertov, LeRoi Jones, Bill Bissett, Fenollosa, and Hilton. The starting point
of the issue was Harwood’s ‘Notes on surrealist
poetry today’ from the previous issue. Strip of
fading to the covers where tape binding was
once added, otherwise Very Good.
£8
116
(FISHER, Allen.) [MARRIOTT, D. S. (ed.).]
Archeus [1]. Np, 1989. 1st edition. Oblong 4to.
Stapled at top corner. Unpaginated (8pp.).
Identified as issue 1 by the online J. H. Prynne
bibliography, as Marriott contributes a review
of Prynne’s Bands Around the Throat. The issue
is dedicated to bpNichol, who died the previous year. Fisher (whose name is given as ‘Alen
Fisher’) contributes the poem ‘Chicken’. Also
Thomas A Clark, Steve McCaffery, and Karen
MacCormack. Very Good.
£12
117
FOWLER, SJ. Poggel Intricate. [Sutton]: Writers
Forum, 2010. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrap-
£15
pers. Unpaginated (12pp.). Uncommon, and
apparently the last Writers Forum publication.
Near Fine.
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121
122
123
Stapled wrappers. 72pp. Includes an interview
with Ginsberg, ‘Q: How Does Allen Ginsberg
Write Poetry? A: By Polishing His Mind’. Also
Marilyn Baker, Ishmael Reed, and Dick Cavett.
Good, with wear to wrappers.
FREER, Ulli. Blvd.s. Cambridge: Equipage,
1994. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (32pp.). Part of Freer’s long work
TM. Fine.
£15
FREER, Ulli. A Hide of Land. London: Micro-
brigade, 1990. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (8pp.). Self-published. Near
Fine.
£18
FREER, Ulli. Sand Poles. Cambridge: Equipage,
1992. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (28pp.). Published by Rod Mengham’s press. Near Fine.
£13
FUSCO, Maria (ed.). The Happy Hypocrite 1–7.
London: Book Works, 2008–2014. 1st editions.
8vo. Wrappers. 84pp.–168pp. Issue 6 is guest
edited by Lynne Tillman, issue 7 by Isla Leaver-Yap. The first seven issues of the journal
‘for and about experimental art writing’, with
issues respectively titled: ‘Linguistic Hardcore’,
‘Hunting and Gathering’, ‘Volatile Dispersal:
Speed and Reading’, ‘A Rather Large Weapon’, ‘What Am I?’, ‘Freedom’, and ‘Heat Island’.
Regular features include ‘Say What You See’,
in which a contributor describes something
visual in words, ‘Interview’ discussing the issue’s theme, and reproductions of a seminal
magazine or journal. Issue 3 consists of a reproduction of A Great Books Primer. Contributors include Cosey Fanni Tutti, Stewart Home,
Clunie Reid, Douglas Coupland, Thomas
Hirschhorn, Steve Beard, Laura Oldfield Ford,
Chris Kraus, Laure Prouvost, and Lydia Davis.
Loosely inserted press releases for issues 6 and
7, plus an insert in each. Overall Very Good
Plus, with issues 5–7 Fine. Spine of issue 3 a little faded, and wrappers of early issues slightly
rubbed, with a couple of closed splits to the
spine of issue 1.
£50
GIBBS, Michael. Connotations. Cardiff: Second Aeon Publications, 1973. 1st edition. 8vo.
Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (32pp.). Author’s second book. Concrete and visual work:
‘Words don’t always mean what they say – their
patterns and forms reveal inner processes and
events, ambiguous connotations of meaning.’
There were also 12 signed copies. Staples rusty,
wrappers slightly foxed, otherwise Very Good.
£35
GIBBS, Michael (ed.). Kontexts 4. Exeter: Kontexts Publications, Winter 1972/1973. 1st edition. One of 250 copies. 8vo. Stapled wrappers.
Unpaginated (36pp.). Concrete, visual, and
experimental poetry. U.S. Edition, with contributors including Dan Graham, John Giorno, Clark Coolidge, Robert Lax, Hammond
Guthrie, Ken Friedman, Liam O’Gallagher,
and Richard Kostelanetz on ‘The New Poetries
in America’. Wrappers a little soiled and spotted, otherwise Very Good.
£40
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126
127
128
129
130
124
(GINSBERG, Allen.) BURKS, John (ed.). CITY
vol. 7 no. 52. SF: City Publishing Co., November 13–November 26 1974. 1st edition. 4to.
£5
ings of his Amra Imprint publications, which
were primarily his own self-published works.
Very Good, with staple slightly rusty and offset.
GOGARTY, Paul. Snap Box. London: Trigram
Press, 1972. 1st edition. One of 100 specially
bound copies numbered and signed by the
poet. 16mo. Deep red buckram. Unpaginated
(68pp.). Gogarty’s first book of poems, dedicated to Chelsea FC and therefore printed in blue
on blue. Snap Box was possibly the only submitted manuscript that Asa Benveniste published;
he usually commissioned books, or rather
asked the poets he liked. Near Fine in slightly
marked acetate dust jacket.
£32
GOGARTY, Paul. Snap Box. London: Trigram
Press, 1972. 1st edition. 16mo. Wrappers.
Unpaginated (68pp.). The poems ‘are distinguished by a complete lack of language and
sentiment, extraordinary in a poet of such mature stature.’ There were also copies bound in
cloth. Fine.
£12
GREEN, Paul. The Paul Green Poetry Review.
Np: np, 1976. 1st edition. A cassette of performances by Green, set to music and found
sound. Due to confusion over the name ‘Paul
Green’ (see item 129), one Paul Green chose to
call himself Paul A. Green; this cassette is by
Paul A. Green, who shortly afterwards made a
programme on Iain Sinclair’s Lud Heat for BBC
Radio 3. The (pre-used) j-card (from Shiphay
Audio Productions, Torquay) and cassette label
have been adapted by Green with handwritten information, for example giving the date
as 20/2/76. Green has signed the label and inscribed the cassette to Paul Buck. Very Good in
case, with the spine slightly faded.
£8
GREEN, Paul A. The Qliphoth. Surrey, BC: Libros Libertad, 2007. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers.
324pp. Debut novel, with blurb by Iain Sinclair: ‘An End-Time fabulation in the lineage of
Burroughs and Ballard: complex, fast-twitch
language spasms, loud with interference and
radio static.’ Very Good, with wrappers slightly
curling and laminate slightly bubbling. This
copy has been signed by the author (‘Paul’) and
inscribed to Iain and Anna (Sinclair) in the year
of publication.
£30
GREEN, Paul A. The Slow Ceremony. Peterborough, June 1985. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled.
12pp. Published as Loot 4:3, a supplement to
Paul Green’s Spectacular Diseases magazine
devoted to the work of one author. (The author is not the same person as the publisher.)
Contains twelve unconsecutive sections from
Green’s long poem sequence of the same name.
Light vertical crease throughout, otherwise
Very Good. This copy has been signed by the
author (‘Paul’) and inscribed to Iain (Sinclair)
in the year of publication.
£15
GRIFFITHS, Bill. Amra Imprint Book List. Seaham: Amra Imprint, 1994. 1st edition. Oblong
8vo. A4 sheets stapled at the top corner and
folded into A5, as issued. Unpaginated (12pp.
mostly printed on rectos only). Griffiths’ list-
£8
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GRIFFITHS, Bill. A Book of Legends. London:
Writers Forum and Amra Imprint, nd (1991).
1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (36pp.). Part 1 was originally published as
Quire Book (item 142), in a somewhat different
form. Near Fine, with very light rust to staples.
£15
GRIFFITHS, Bill. The Book of the Boat: Inlandand Blue-water texts with illustrations by the Author.
London: Writers Forum, nd (1988). 1st edition.
Small 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (26pp.).
Printed entirely in facsimile holograph on
French fold sheets. Bands of fading to covers,
mostly peripheral but slightly affecting design
to front cover. (The back cover is blank.) First
and last pages lightly toned.
£20
GRIFFITHS, Bill. Eight Poems against the bond
and cement of civil society. London: np (Pirate
Press), 1975. 1st edition. 8vo. Stitched wrappers. Unpaginated (16pp. printed on rectos
only). Although not stated, one of 200 copies.
Some copies were formed of loose sheets. Very
Good, with some faint peripheral soiling to
wrappers.
£18
GRIFFITHS, Bill. The Fams: An Investigation into
the Concept of Family. Seaham: Amra Imprint,
nd (1998). 2nd edition. 4to. Ring bound. Unpaginated (44pp. printed on rectos only). Mock
committee enquiry into the history and implications of the family. Although publication
details are not given, the 1st edition (published
in 1992) was A5 in size. Very Good, with front
cover slightly spotted, and crease to blank back
cover.
£10
GRIFFITHS, Bill. Idylls of the Dog, King, & other
poems. London: Pirate Press, nd (1975). 1st edition. Oblong small 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (16pp. printed on rectos only). Printed
at the Consortium of London Presses. Cover
and illustration by Amanda and Samantha
Paxton, hand-coloured. Although not stated, one of 150 copies. Includes Romany song
collected from Nomadic coppersmith gipsies
in England just before World War One, and
quotations from Jane Austen’s Persuasion and
Nelson’s letters. Very Good, with mild wear to
covers.
£25
GRIFFITHS, Bill. The Lion Man, or Four Poems in
One. Seaham: Amra Imprint, 1995. 1st edition.
One of 10 numbered copies signed by Griffiths,
with illustration mounted to front cover. 8vo.
Ring bound. Unpaginated (58pp. printed on
rectos only). Taking its title from Bob Marley
(‘We are the children of the Lion Man’), much
of the book is drawn from a longer and unpublished version of Rousseau and the Wicked
(Invisible Books, 1996). Loosely inserted typed
letter signed (‘Bill’) to John (Welch) in the year
of publication, enclosing the book: ‘I know
you did not ask for it, but neither did nine
other lucky people. It is the only way I could
devise to get through the coming fortnight,
with bills pending. I got the idea from Readers
Digest. If you are agreeable, you place a fiver in
the enclosed envelope [not present] (wrapped
if necessary to give a bit of disguise) and pop
it back to me in the post.’ Letter slightly soiled.
Small dog-ear to mounted illustration (to one
of the lion’s legs), a few spots, otherwise Very
Good Plus. Unsigned and unnumbered copies
had the illustration printed onto the front cover, albeit hand-coloured.
137
GRIFFITHS, Bill. Materia Boethiana. Newcastle upon Tyne: Galloping Dog Press and
Hay-on-Wye: The Poetry Bookshop, 1984. 1st
edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 62pp. printed on rectos only. Cover by Alan Halsey. Collection including ‘Guide to the Giants of England’, ‘The
Hawksmoor Mausoleum’, and ‘The Peacock
Variations’. Very Good Plus.
£15
138
GRIFFITHS, Bill. Metrical Cookery. London:
Amra Imprint, nd (1991). 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled hand-coloured wrappers. Unpaginated
(24pp.). Poetic pieces as recipes: ‘a performance
text by Bill Griffiths for two mouths or more’.
Very Good, slightly foxed.
£15
139
GRIFFITHS, Bill. Mid North Sea High. Seaham:
Amra Imprint, 1992. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled
wrappers. Unpaginated (16pp.). Poems on the
sea out from County Durham. Historic horizontal fold (causing little impact now), and
wrappers slightly spotted.
£12
140
GRIFFITHS, Bill. Mr Tapscott: a poem in nine
sections with inserts & list of resources. Seaham:
Amra Imprint, [1999]. 1st edition. One of 100
copies, numbered and signed by Griffiths
(which dates the publication to 1999). Oblong
8vo. Ring bound. Unpaginated (40pp. printed
on rectos only, two folding out to reveal an insert each). Hand-coloured front cover. ‘As I
was walking down one day / Down by the Albert Docks / I heard an immigrant Irish girl /
Conversing with Tapscott….’ Blank back cover
very slightly soiled, otherwise Near Fine.
£22
141
GRIFFITHS, Bill. On Plotinus. London: Amra
Imprint, nd (1990). 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled
wrappers. 30pp. Four poems, embedded in
extracts from the Enneads and followed by a
collage essay, using Lyall Watson’s Supernature
and The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins
and Christopher Bird. Fine.
£15
142
GRIFFITHS, Bill. Quire Book. Np: Writers Forum, 1987. Redesigned edition. Square 24mo.
Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (12pp.). Originally published in 1985. Sequence of seven
poems. A Good copy with foxing to wrappers,
also a few small spots and a small white circle
(apparently Tippex) around the spine, without
much impact.
£12
143
GRIFFITHS, Bill. Review of Brian Greenaway;
Notes from Delvin McIntosh. Seaham: Amra Imprint, nd (1992). 1st edition. Oblong 8vo. Holepunched for string binding, but stab-stapled.
Unpaginated (32pp.). Two poems, the first a
commentary of Greenaway’s book Hell’s Angel,
the second concerning ‘a friend of a friend’. Almost imperceptible historic vertical fold, otherwise Near Fine.
£10
£35
GRIFFITHS, Bill. Star Fish Jail. Seaham: Amra
Imprint, 1994. 4th edition, revised. Oblong
8vo. Ring bound. Unpaginated (60pp. printed on rectos only). Hand-coloured front cover.
Originally published in 1993 in an edition of
40 copies, ‘to raise funds for the prisoner whose
story the poem represents’. Griffiths explains:
‘I issued the poem in my name…. It is though a
two-author work, growing from conversational
and oral material, to reach focus in my own theory.’ Doug Jones’ bibliography in The Salt Companion to Bill Griffiths does not seem to be aware
of this 4th edition, nor does Griffiths’ own Amra
Imprint Book List. Very Good, with blank back
cover slightly soiled, the front less so.
£15
GRIFFITHS, Bill. A Tour of the Fairground and
other poems. Exbourne: Etruscan Books, 2007.
1st edition. Small 4to. Wrappers. 106pp. Published shortly after Griffiths’ death. ‘I only
claim for these poems that they are strange.’
Very Good Plus.
£12
GRIFFITHS, Bill (trans. and ed.). The Battle of
Maldon: Text and Translation. Pinner: Anglo-Saxon Books, 1991. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers.
90pp. Published on the battle’s thousandth anniversary. The book includes a reconstruction
of the Old English source text, literal and verse
translations, and an introduction. Very Good.
£5
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GRIFFITHS, Bill (trans. and ed.). The Gododdin.
London: Writers Forum and Pirate Press, nd
(1974). 1st edition. Oblong folio. Stab-stapled.
Unpaginated (20pp.). Although not stated, one
of 200 copies. The Gododdin is a Welsh elegiac
poem or set of poems describing the battle of
Catraeth in c. AD 600, by the survivor Aneirin. This book prints a holotype version of the
13th-century source manuscript, along with
examples of literal translations. A Good copy,
with a vertical fold, some soiling and light
wear. Some copies were bound with a plastic
strip, or the sheets were loose.
£22
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[GRIFFITHS, Bill.] The Kid That Carried the
Satchel: A tale of derring-do and dark pit-craft, lazer-published for ye 1997 Miners Gala at Durham.
Np (Seaham): np (Amra Imprint), 1997. 1st
edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated
(8pp.). Anonymous short story, written in dialect. Griffiths was a supporter of miners and
was a special guest at the gala every year. The
title is not recognised by OCLC, but it is held
in the Bill Griffiths Collection at Brunel University London. It is also listed in Doug Jones’
bibliography. Very Good.
£18
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edition. LPC005. The cassette was not always
issued with Richard Tabor’s magazine; issue
17 cost 30p on its own, or £1.50 with the tape.
(The magazine is not present here.) Both authors contribute to each side, George reading,
Griffiths singing and (with bird accompaniment) playing piano. Very Good in original
case, with printed j-card.
151
GRIFFITHS, Bill and MACINTOSH, D. R. [Delvan McIntosh]. Seventy-six Day Wanno, Mississippi and Highpoint Journal. Seaham: Amra Imprint,
nd (1993). 1st edition. Oblong 4to. Ring bound.
Diary and letters, some in facsimile holograph:
‘in this journal you can judge between Highpoint and a London prison like Wandsworth,
and see which one you reckon needs sorting
out first.’ Some peripheral spots and very faint
discolouration to covers, otherwise Very Good
Plus.
£12
GRIFFITHS, Bill and COBBING, Bob (eds.). ALP
The First 22.5 Years: A PALPI Supplement. London:
The Association of Little Presses, September
1988. 1st edition. 4to. Stapled wrappers. 40pp.
Issue 22.5 of Poetry and Little Press Information,
providing a history of the Association of Little Presses from its inauguration in 1966. Very
Good Plus.
£10
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(GROSSETESTE.) LONGVILLE, Tim. Seven
Years of Grosseteste, 1966–1973. Pensnett: Gr/ew
Books, 1973. 1st edition. Narrow 8vo. Stitched
wrappers. Unpaginated (16pp.). Provides an
index to Grosseteste Review volumes 1–6, issues 1–22, and a catalogue of Gr/ew Books,
1966–1973. The latter includes J. H. Prynne,
John James, Longville and John Riley (who
ran the press), Kris Hemensley, and John Hall.
A couple of pages a little creased to header, in
production, very faint band to head of upper
wrapper, but Near Fine.
£20
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(GROSSETESTE.) Grosseteste: A Descriptive
Catalogue, 1966–1975. Pensnett and Leeds:
[Grosseteste], 1975. 1st edition. Oblong 16mo.
Stitched wrappers. Unpaginated (64pp.). Designed, set, and introduced by Tim Longville;
‘John Riley & Carol Riley did everything else’.
Contains bibliographic details, short excerpts,
quotations from reviews, and other information. Forthcoming books and Grosseteste Review
are also covered. A few spots to fore edge, otherwise Near Fine in dust jacket.
£15
HALSEY, Alan. Apotheca (in three volumes).
Okehampton: np, 1977 then (the third volume) Hay-on-Wye: np, 1978. 1st edition. 4to.
Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (12pp., 40pp., and
32pp.). Halsey’s self-published second book,
preceded by Moor Words and preceding his first
book from an established press, Yearspace (Galloping Dog, 1979). The two parts from 1977
were issued simultaneously, the third soon after Halsey moved to Hay. Subtitled ‘a poem in
12 parts or more’ (simply ‘a poem in 12 parts’ in
the final volume), Apotheca was abandoned after these three parts, respectively titled ‘Ramshorn’, ‘A Spring & Summer’, and ‘Mandala
(Ars Memorativa)’. At one stage all twelve parts
were drafted. Very Good, with light soiling and
peripheral spotting to covers and edges.
£100
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GRIFFITHS, Bill and FENCOTT, Clive. The
Dinosaur Park. London: Micro Brigade, 1992.
1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. 28pp. Collaborative work laid out to reflect the poem
in performance. It grew out of the real place
Teesaurus Park in Middlesbrough, ‘as a set of
associations, imaginings, experiences, visions,
views, and myths seeping out into the world’.
Very Good Plus, with upper corner slightly
bumped.
GRIFFITHS, Bill and GEORGE, Glenda. Cassette forming part of Lobby Newsletter 17 (vol.
4 no. 2). Cambridge: Lobby Press, 1981. 1st
£10
£12
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HALSEY, Alan. Sections Drawn Across the Vortex.
Np: np, 1980. 1st edition. One of 30 copies
printed for private circulation. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (40pp. printed on rectos
only). Necessarily rare, this edition prints part
one of the work, of which all four parts were
subsequently published with illustrations as a
Binnacle Bootleg in 1996. The text was written
after that of Perspectives on the Reach, but appeared before it. A bibliography is included at
the rear, including William Blake, Charles Olson, William Burroughs, and Ezra Pound. Fore
edge slightly bumped, spotting to edges and
front cover (which is the title page), but a Very
Good copy considering the format.
£50
HARWOOD, Lee. Cable Street. Np: Aloes Books,
2013. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled and bound
with spine tape (as issued). Unpaginated (16pp.
printed on rectos only + ‘Compulsory Purchase Order’ attached by paperclip + ‘MEMO’
bound in). The first separate publication of
Harwood’s ‘Cable Street’, which appeared first
in Poetmeat 7 (December 1964). Although this
copy is designated a ‘proof printing’ of approximately 15 copies, this printing comprised the
complete run, evocatively mimeographed. In
total there were nearer 20 copies. Fine.
£20
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HARWOOD, Lee (ed., as Travers Lee-Harwood).
University of London Union Students’ Handbook
1960–61. Np: np, [1960]. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 156pp. An early appearance by Harwood,
who studied English at Queen Mary College,
University of London, from 1958 to 1961. This
handbook, from Harwood’s own collection, is
a straightforward ‘guide to life outside study
hours’, as he writes in the introduction, since
university ‘primarily seeks to produce men
and women educated in living’. In his own
life, in a few years’ time Harwood would edit
the significant one-shot magazines Night Scene,
Night Train, Soho, and Horde. He was working
as a librarian at the University of London
when he discovered the work of Tristan Tzara,
whom he promptly visited in Paris the month
before Tzara died. Wrappers somewhat rubbed
and soiled. Some foxing. Of three loosely inserted flyers, for life assurance, The Lancet, and
the Queen Mary College Dramatic Society, the
latter credits design of its posters and programmes to ‘lee’, conceivably Harwood. London Underground map affixed at rear.
£35
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(HARWOOD, Lee.) ACKROYD, Graham (ed.).
Nineties Poetry 1. Hove, Summer 1994. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 90pp. Produced by Reality
Studios, and dedicated to Charles Bukowski.
Harwood contributes ‘Unemployed’, ‘Summer
1993’, and ‘October Night’. Also Gavin Ewart,
David Tipton, and Ken Edwards. Very Good
Plus. Loosely inserted short autograph letter
signed from the editor to Iain Sinclair enclosing the issue, and mentioning ‘Ian Thomson’s
and my son’s [Peter Ackroyd’s] tribute to you in
the Independent magazine’. Graham Ackroyd
left his family when Peter was a baby, and they
never met again.
£10
(HARWOOD, Lee.) SCHMIDT, Michael (ed.).
PN Review 219 (vol. 41 no. 1). Manchester, September–October 2014. 1st edition. 4to. Wrappers. 72pp. Includes a conversation between
Oli Hazzard and Lee Harwood, ‘A Triangle of
£5
160
London, Paris and New York’. Also Aram Saroyan on Robert Duncan. Very Good, with dog-ear
to lower wrapper and final page.
161
(HARWOOD, Lee.) TZARA, Tristan. Cosmic Realities Vanilla Tobacco Dawnings. Trans. Lee Harwood. Todmorden: Arc Publications, 1975. 1st
edition. One of 485 copies (of 500). 8vo. Stapled
wrappers. Unpaginated (32pp.). Text in French
and English. Written by Tzara in 1914 and
originally published in De nos oiseaux (1929). A
few very faint pencil annotations, including to
blank final page, staples a little rusty, otherwise about Very Good in slightly rubbed and
soiled dust jacket, with price crossed out on
back cover.
£15
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(HARWOOD, Lee.) TZARA, Tristan. Selected
Poems. Trans. Lee Harwood. London: Trigram
Press, 1975. 1st edition, paperback variant.
Small 4to. Wrappers. Unpaginated (96pp.).
The first large collection of Tzara’s poems to
be published in this country. About Very Good
Plus in dust jacket. This copy has been signed
by Harwood.
£30
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HAWKINS, Ralph and INGHAM, Charles
(eds.). Ochre Magazine 1–6 (all published). Ilford (issue 1), Little Clacton (issues 2–4), and
Oxford (issues 5–6), 1976–[1980?]. 1st editions.
4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (76pp.–144pp.
printed on rectos only, except for Douglas
Oliver’s ‘Diagram-poems’ in issue 4 (which is
the largest issue, although seven sheets appear twice)). A substantial magazine offering
generous space to its writers, of whom there
are just five per issue (four in the final issue).
Contributors include Tom Raworth, Lee Harwood, Paul Evans, Bill Griffiths, Iain Sinclair, J.
H. Prynne, Anne Waldman, Allen Fisher, Opal
L. Nations, Ulli McCarthy, Pierre Joris, John
James, Douglas Oliver, Wendy Mulford, Nick
Totton, Rochelle Kraut, David Tipton, Anthony Barnett, John Welch, Ingham, and Hawkins.
Covers of issue 1 lightly marked and spotted,
staples slightly rusty and the whole gently
bumped, small corner bump to issue 2, a little
wear around the staples of issues 3 and 4, some
edges spotted, but overall about Very Good
Plus. All issues of Ochre Magazine are difficult to
find, and complete sets are rare.
£250
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[HAWKINS, Ralph, OLIVER, Doug, and
PETTET, Simon (eds.).] The Human Handkerchief 2. Colchester, nd (1974). 1st edition. 4to.
Stab-stapled. 106pp. printed on rectos only.
Contributors include Iain Sinclair, Joe Ceravolo, Lewis Warsh, Clark Coolidge, David Chaloner, Charles Ingham, Pettet, and Hawkins. Very
Good with a little light wear, and mild soiling
to blank back cover. This copy has been signed
by Sinclair.
£35
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[HAWKINS, Ralph, OLIVER, Doug, and
PETTET, Simon (eds.).] The Human Handkerchief 3. Np (Colchester), Summer 1974. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (120pp.
printed on rectos only). Contributors include
Barry MacSweeney, Andrew Crozier, Diane di
Prima, Wendy Mulford, Alice Notley, Anselm
Hollo, John James, Ted Berrigan, Mark Hyatt,
Michael Haslam, Ted Greenwald, Brian Marley, Andrei Codrescu, and Martin Thom. Very
£35
Good. A couple of small chips to one edge, gentle bump to upper corner, and mild soiling.
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HELICZER, Piero. The Soap Opera. London:
copies (of 500). Small 4to. Quarter blue cloth.
40pp. Collection by the founder of The Dead
Language Press, including ‘a purchase in the
white botanica’. Illustrations by Wallace Berman, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Jack Smith, Andy
Warhol, and Harold Chapman. Cover by Paul
Vaughan. Overall Very Good in dust jacket.
Cloth slightly rubbed, light fading to endpapers, and some spots to prelims. Jacket a little
rubbed and marked, with a couple of nicks,
but still handsome.
£50
HEMENSLEY, Kris. No Word – No Worry: prose
pieces 1968–1970. Lincoln: Grosseteste Press,
1971. 1st edition. One of 400 numbered copies.
12mo. Wrappers. 64pp. Ownership inscription
of Iain Sinclair (‘31 dec 71 / compendium’).
Very Good in dust jacket.
£12
HILTON, Jeremy. Metronome. Todmorden: Arc
Publications, 1976. 1st edition. One of 285
copies (of 300). 8vo. Wrappers. 26pp. Although
dated 1974 on the title page, the book is copyright 1976. Very Good Plus in dust jacket. This
copy has been signed by the author (in 1976)
and inscribed to Iain Sinclair.
£12
HIRSCHMAN, Jack. Black Alephs: Poems 1960–
1968. London: Trigram Press, 1969. 1st edition.
Small 4to. Charcoal cloth. 160pp. ‘I wish these
poems as an experience to the young and a
solace to the old.’ Cover and half title illustrations by Wallace Berman. There were also 100
specially bound copies, numbered and signed.
Very Good Plus in Very Good, slightly rubbed
dust jacket.
£40
HIRSCHMAN, Jack. Black Alephs: Poems 1960–
1968. London: Trigram Press, 1969. 1st edition.
Small 4to. Wrappers. 160pp. Very Good, with
unobtrusive soiling to tail edge of lower wrapper.
£25
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HOLLO, Anselm. The Coherences. London:
Grey cloth. 56pp. Light spotting to head edge,
otherwise Near Fine in Very Good Plus dust
jacket.
£15
175
HOLLO, Anselm. Faces & Forms. London: Ambit (Books), 1965. 1st edition. 8vo. Black cloth.
72pp. Titled after lines by Louis Zukofsky:
‘As who should say, / This is my face, / This is
my form, / Faces and forms, I would put / you
down / In a style as of leaves growing.’ The first
volume to be published by Ambit. There were
also 60 numbered and signed copies. Good,
with mottling to boards, which are very slightly bowed, in slightly rubbed dust jacket with
spotting to back cover.
£7
HOLLO, Anselm. with ruth in mind. Barrytown,
NY: Station Hill Press, 1979. 1st edition. One
of 1424 copies (of 1500). 8vo. Wrappers. 48pp.
Or, ‘to hocus the animals of the pursuers / by
changing their dream cassettes / (old thibetan
trick)’. Published by George and Susan Quasha,
and dedicated to Tom Raworth. Very Good.
£10
(HOLLO, Anselm.) KLEE, Paul. Some Poems by
Paul Klee. Trans. Anselm Hollo. Lowestoft: Scorpion Press, 1962. 1st edition. 12mo. Red cloth.
36pp. Of a piece with his art, Klee’s poems were
never published anywhere during his lifetime,
and were not discovered until after his death
in 1940. They were eventually published in
1960, from which book Hollo selected and
translated them. Also includes a note by Hollo, and Artaud’s ‘A Painter of the Mind’. Good
in dust jacket. Bump throughout lower corner (not affecting text), head edge soiled and
bumped, and a couple of small nicks to jacket.
£15
(HOME, Stewart.) BIN LADEN, Osama. The
Islamic Millennium. Islamabad, Kabul, and London: Martyrdom Press, nd (2006). 1st edition.
8vo. Stapled wrappers. 24pp. Praised as ‘the
very finest of Osama bin Laden’s early literary
works’ (but actually by Home), the story describes the future ‘tracking down and killing
of the very last American’. Staples a little rusty,
otherwise Near Fine.
£14
HOME, Stewart (ed.). Seven novels from the
Semina series. London: Book Works, 2008–
2010. 1st editions. Small 8vo. Wrappers.
120pp.–128pp. Consisting of: (1) Bridget Penney, Index; (2) Maxi Kim, One Break, A Thousand
Blows!; (3) Mark Waugh, Bubble Entendre; (4)
Jana Leo, Rape New York: The Story of a Rape and
an Examination of a Culture of Predation; (5) Katrina Palmer, The Dark Object; (6) Jarett Kobek,
HOE #999: Decennial Appreciation and Celebratory
Analysis, or The Dead Un-Dead; (7) Stewart Home,
Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie. Named after Wallace Berman’s magazine, the Semina series
describes itself as being ‘where the novel has
a nervous breakdown’, publishing writers and
artists ‘who demonstrate total disregard for
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HOLLO, Anselm. & it is a song. Birmingham:
Migrant Press, 1965. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 50pp. Published by Gael Turnbull’s press,
with cover and three section plates by John
Furnival. Some poems reproduced in facsimile
holograph. Very Good, with wrappers slightly
rubbed and a little fading to spine.
£8
HOLLO, Anselm. Alembic. London: Trigram
Press, 1972. 1st edition. Oblong 8vo. Black
cloth. 96pp. Iowa City Blues, with drawings
by John Collings. There were also 100 specially bound copies, numbered and signed. Very
Good in dust jacket.
£18
HOLLO, Anselm. The Coherences. London:
copies numbered and signed by the author.
Small 4to. Blue cloth. 56pp. Drawings by Tom
Phillips. Jacket blurb by Denise Levertov, John
James, Tom Clark, and Adrian Mitchell: ‘They
say that Anselm Hollo is a Finnish poet who
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the conventions that structure received ideas
about fiction’. Intended as nine books, seven
have been published. Although there has been
a new call for submissions this year, the seven
here appear to comprise a first series. Home
acted as commissioning editor. Overall Fine
in dust jackets. No. 1 slightly rubbed superficially, jacket of No. 3 lightly creased in production. Loosely inserted press release for the final
three titles, an invitation to their launch, and
an autograph letter signed (‘Stewart’) from
Home to Iain (Sinclair) enclosing ‘the latest
including mine’.
writes in English, but I think he is a good spy
from the planet Venus.’ Very slightly rolled,
otherwise Near Fine in Very Good Plus dust
jacket, with a couple of spots and some extremely mild peripheral toning.
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HOROVITZ, Michael (ed.). New Departures 12.
Stroud: New Departures, September 1980.
1st edition. 4to. Ring bound. 42pp. A special
anthology issue to celebrate the conception
and launch of the first Poetry Olympics, from
Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey on Friday
26th September 1980. Readers at the launch
were Gregory Corso, Anne Stevenson, Stephen
Spender, Derek Walcott, John Cooper Clarke,
Dennis Lee, Edward Limonov, and Linton
Kwesi Johnson. Other contributors to the
publication include Samuel Beckett, Kathleen
Raine, Heathcote Williams, R. D. Laing, Adrian
Mitchell, David Hockney, Ted Hughes, Ernst
Jandl, Seamus Heaney, Frances Horovitz, and
Michael Horovitz. After the launch, The Times
confirmed ‘that poetry is not dying, nor poets’.
Peripheral spotting to covers and to some edges, very mild fading to back cover and one light
mark to front, otherwise Very Good.
185
(IF A LEAF FALLS PRESS.) FAMA, Ben. PAGE
SIX. Np: If a Leaf Falls Press, 2016. 1st edition.
One of 28 copies. Narrow 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (16pp.). The rich and famous. Fine.
£8
186
(IF A LEAF FALLS PRESS.) ISEMONGER, Holly. Hip Shifts. Np: If a Leaf Falls Press, 2016. 1st
edition. One of 26 copies. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (12pp.). Nine poems. Small
corner bump, but Fine.
£8
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(IF A LEAF FALLS PRESS.) RIVIERE, Sam.
Cont. Np: If a Leaf Falls Press, 2015. 1st edition.
One of 24 copies. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. 12pp.
Self-published menagerie. Fine.
£10
188
(IF A LEAF FALLS PRESS.) WHALLEY, Charles.
RETURNS. Np: If a Leaf Falls Press, 2016. 1st
edition. One of 30 copies. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (28pp.). Lists arts award
recipients from 2003 to now, and their impressive spoils. Fine.
£8
189
(IF A LEAF FALLS PRESS.) WILLIAMS, Chrissy.
This. Np: If a Leaf Falls Press, 2016. 1st edition.
One of 32 copies. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (20pp.). Usages of the word ‘this’, as
in: ‘This is a found poem.’ Fine.
£8
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JIRGENS, Karl (ed.). Rampike vol. 5 no. 3. Toronto, 1987. 1st edition. Narrow folio. Wrappers.
80pp. ‘Terra Incognita’ issue of the striking
international magazine. Contributors include
Opal L. Nations, Charles Bernstein, Steve McCaffery, Monty Cantsin, and George Bowering.
A little wear around the spine, otherwise Very
Good Plus. The address of James Gray, one of
Rampike’s New York editors who contributes to
this issue, is written on the inside front cover.
£12
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JOHNSON, B S. Poems Two. London: Trigram
Press, 1972. 1st edition, paperback variant.
Narrow 8vo. Wrappers. 64pp. Poems written
between 1964 and 1971, in the sections ‘Exorcising’, ‘Loving’, ‘Observing’, ‘Unthinking’, and
‘Rotting’. Very Good, with wrappers slightly
rubbed.
£40
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JORIS, Pierre. Goodbye to England. Peterborough,
April 1987. 1st edition. 4to. Wrappers. 14pp.
Published as Loot 5:4, the final issue of the
supplement to Paul Green’s Spectacular Diseases.
Cover by Maggi Hambling. Very Good, with
small bump to head of spine and some spotting to wrappers.
£14
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KELLY, Brenda then (from issue 56) BOON, £1000
Richard (issues 82–88 with CONNELLY, Laura) (eds.). A collection of sixty-six issues of
The Catalogue. London: (from issue 63) Rough
Trade Distribution, 1985–1991. 1st editions.
4to. Stapled wrappers. 14pp.–48pp. The collection consists of issue 22 (January 1985) then a
consecutive run from issue 25 (April 1985) to
issue 89 (February 1991), which seems to have
been the final issue. (There are a few cases of
incorrect numbering, as issued.) Published
monthly (except for November/December),
The Catalogue was the UK magazine ‘for the £45
HOUÉDARD, Dom Silvester (ed.). Kroklok 3.
London: [Writers Forum], December 1972. 1st
edition. 4to. Stapled wrappers. 32pp. Sound
poetry. Contributors include Brion Gysin,
Peter Mayer, Jeremy Adler, Peter Finch, August Stramm, Christian Morgenstern, Ernst
Jandl, Michael Chant, Peter Greenham, Ilya
Zdanevich, Helmut Heissenbuttel, and Bob
Cobbing. Tiny bump to tail edge, with very
small marginal split through the first couple
of pages, mild tape offsetting to blank lower
wrapper, which has faint peripheral fading.
Nonetheless Very Good Plus overall.
£50
HOUÉDARD, Dom Silvester (ed.). Kroklok 4.
London: Writers Forum, nd. 1st edition. 4to.
Wrappers. 32pp. Final issue. Contributors
include David Toop, Charles Verey, Thomas
A. Clark, John Furnival, P C Fencott, dsh, bpNichol, Bill Griffiths, Lawrence Upton, Bob
Cobbing, Jeremy Adler, Bill Bissett, and Raoul
Hausmann. Toning to the spine and head edge
of blank lower wrapper, a little creasing in production, otherwise Very Good Plus.
£40
HOULTON, Yvonne. No Boy Dolls. Hove: Switch
First collection by the writer and performer.
Lower wrapper lightly marked and creased,
otherwise Near Fine.
£15
(IF A LEAF FALLS PRESS.) ATTLEE, Edwina.
Roasting Baby. Np: If a Leaf Falls Press, 2016. 1st
edition. One of 20 copies. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (8pp.). Prose. Published by
Sam Riviere’s new small press, which has ‘an
emphasis on appropriative and arbitrary writing processes’. Fine.
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independent music trade’, providing wide-
ranging features, label and radio spotlights,
opinions, interviews, listings, reviews, independent charts, and marketplace news. Each
issue is also full of record artwork, band
photos, label adverts, and distributor listings.
As a result, The Catalogue is as thorough and
committed a document about independent
music from the period as one can imagine,
and its striking artwork and design add to its
dynamism and enjoyment. Boon explains in
his opening editorial that the magazine ‘has
made a significant contribution to the development of the independent sector, as a source
of information both to the trade and anyone
with a professional interest in independent
music, as well as the general reader… the essential role of The Catalogue [is] as a switch,
helping to make connections and provide a
flow of information, as an access, a reference
and a tool.’ The founding editor Kelly closes
her parting editorial: ‘Being independent
doesn’t guarantee quality but it’s still true
that most good music is on independent labels. / So, resist the chain retailers taking too
much power, resist the tyranny of the charts
and, of course, the rising tide of censorship
and conservatism!’ Present across the run are
thirty-six flexi discs (in thirty-two issues), including Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine,
Dinosaur Jr, Spacemen 3, Test Dept, Butthole
Surfers, The Mekons, Inspiral Carpets, Saint
Etienne, The Soup Dragons, The Sundays,
Band of Susans, Throwing Muses, The Lightning Seeds, Lydia Lunch, Galaxie 500, The
Smiths, Lunachicks, Renegade Soundwave,
Napalm Death, and John Zorn. This collection
seems to encompass every flexi disc included
with The Catalogue in its history. There are also
various inserts, primarily to advertise labels
such as Soft Immolation or Third Mind, and
bound into issues are an independent artists supplement, a John Peel supplement, a
supplement to coincide with the New Music
Seminar, New York, and Musexpo Trade Fair,
London, and a Lydia Lunch centrefold. Other
featured subjects and artists (additional to
those with flexi discs) include Creation Records, Blast First, Factory Records, Warp Records, One Little Indian, Genesis P-Orridge
and Temple Records, The Pastels, Coil, Wire,
Nitzer Ebb, They Might Be Giants, The Pixies, Swans, Blurt, Cocteau Twins, John Giorno,
Nick Cave, Hank Wangford, Bill Drummond,
Einstürzende Neubauten, vinyl production,
fanzines and the music press, US and foreign marketplaces, retail trends, major label
conservatism, The Archive of Contemporary
Music, the Leeds scene, alternative venues,
censorship, German independents, licensing
and copyright, and very many less well known
artists and labels. Also included are four issues
of The Independent Catalogue (issues 2, 9, 10, and
12 (1993–1994)) edited by Jenny Lewis, which
replaced The Catalogue. It would appear that
The Catalogue only commenced retail sales
with issue 36; in any case, as a magazine for
the trade it was not widely available, and such
a large, complete run would be very difficult
to form. Overall Near Fine, with only very occasional actual wear. One page of issue 54 has
had its tail edge neatly clipped, apparently
where there was a One Little Indian offer for
readers – the magazine was apparently issued
with the offer removed. A few of the (untested) flexi discs show signs of degradation, and
some have small, light creases, but generally
they appear to be unused.
KEROUAC, Jack. The Subterraneans. NY: Avon
Publications, 1959. 1st edition thus. 16mo.
Wrappers. 126pp. Originally published in the
previous year. This is the 1st edition (Avon
T-302) to have the preface by Henry Miller:
‘Jack Kerouac has done something to our immaculate prose from which it may never recover.’ Also a quotation by Kenneth Rexroth. One
historic dog-ear, otherwise Near Fine with just
light rubbing to wrappers. Visible space between the spine and the sheets in production,
but the binding is unaffected.
£10
(KEROUAC, Jack.) GIFFORD, Barry and LEE,
Lawrence. Jack’s Book: Jack Kerouac in the Lives and
Words of his Friends. London: Hamish Hamilton,
1979. 1st UK edition. 8vo. Green cloth. 340pp.
Retraces the steps of the ‘King of the Beats’,
with famous voices such as William Burroughs,
Allen Ginsberg, Gore Vidal, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as well as boyhood and bar-room
friends, lovers and hustlers. Some spotting to
edges and a few bumps to boards, otherwise
Very Good in slightly rubbed dust jacket, lightly sunned to the spine and with a stain to the
back cover, not affecting the text.
£5
KEYS, John. Hammersmith Poems. London:
by the author. Small 4to. Half black and half
green buckram. 48pp. Keys’ first full collection.
Foreword by Anselm Hollo: ‘myself an “expatriate” the greater part of my life, i have particular admiration for the way this American
poet dwells and delves into this Hammersmith,
timing and placing it for me’. Very Good in
slightly chipped acetate dust jacket.
£35
Black cloth. 48pp. Jacket blurb by Jeff Nuttall:
‘He wanders farther than most and, having
reached the extent of possibility he plots and
maps his sensations like a medieval map-maker plotting future voyages on a foundation of
instinct, rumour and myth.’ About Very Good
in dust jacket, with superficial rubbing to
cloth and back cover of jacket.
£15
198
Wrappers. 48pp. About Very Good, with superficial rubbing to wrappers.
£6
199
KHALVATI, Mimi. The Meanest Flower. Manchester: Carcanet, 2007. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 84pp. Named after Wordsworth’s ‘meanest flower that blows’, which suggested to him
‘thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears’.
The poem ‘Overblown Roses’ contains the line,
used as the title for a Test Centre anthology, ‘I
love roses when they’re past their best.’ Near Fine.
This copy has been signed by the author.
£12
KORAL, Randall and STRAND, J. G. (eds.). Paris
Exiles 2. Paris: Association Paris Exiles, 1985.
1st edition. Oblong 4to. Wrappers. 56pp. (Text
in English.) ‘Fiction, poetry, images and private tragedy’. Includes an extract from Pierre
Guyotat’s Eden, Eden, Eden, banned shortly
after its publication in 1970 until late 1981.
£20
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Also an open letter to Guyotat from Michel
Foucault from 1970, an excerpt from the Preface to Le Livre (1984), and the first excerpt to
be printed from his novel l’Histoire de Samora
Machel, which is yet to be published. Other
contributors include Pierre Joris, Robert Kelly, Douglas Oliver, Steve Benson, and Edmund
White. Very Good, with a few ineffective splits
at the spine.
201
KOSTELANETZ, Richard. More Short Fictions.
Brooklyn: Assembling Press, 1980. 1st edition.
One of 900 copies (of 1000). 8vo. Wrappers.
Unpaginated (224pp.). Texts, visual and typographical pieces, and artwork. Near Fine, with
spine ends slightly bumped. This copy has
been signed by the author and inscribed to Iain
Sinclair in 2000.
£14
(KOSTELANETZ, Richard.) Ecce Kosti: published
encomia, 1967–1995. NY: Archae Editions, 1996.
1st edition. One of 974 copies (of 1000). 8vo.
Wrappers. 160pp. Anthologises reviews of and
public notices concerning Kostelanetz’s work,
in his words showing ‘a truth about being noticed in America, which is that regardless how
much scattered recognition a writer might receive, it doesn’t really have much impact upon
the impressionable unless orchestrated by an
aggressive publisher and his publicists’. Very
Good Plus.
£5
(KÖTTING, Andrew.) The Suspension of Disbelief
By Means of a Common Sense: Andrew Kötting in
conversation with Neil Jackson. [Newcastle upon
Tyne]: Post-Nearly Press, 2015. 1st edition. 4to.
Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (54pp.). Cover by
Craig Turnbull. Although not stated, one of
approximately 80 copies. ‘ruptures and disjunctions’. Small bump at fore edge otherwise
Fine. This copy has been signed by Jackson.
£6
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LAKE, Grace. Bernache Nonnette. Cambridge:
Equipage, 1995. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (24pp.). Cover by the author,
born Anna Mendleson. Near Fine, slightly
soiled inside upper wrapper.
£20
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(LAKE, Grace.) HAWKINS, Ralph, MUCKLE,
John, and RAWORTH, Ben (eds.). Active in Airtime 2. Colchester, Summer 1993. 1st edition.
8vo. Wrappers. 80pp. Includes five poems
by Lake. Other contributors include Anselm
Hollo, Maurice Scully, and Charles Ingham.
Loosely inserted folded flyer advertising the
magazine and books by Dario Villa and Ralph
Hawkins. Also an autograph postcard signed
from Muckle (‘John’) to Iain (Sinclair) enclosing the issue. Very Good Plus.
£8
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(LAKE, Grace.) HORNE, a.m., s.t., and DRUMMOND, Rory. involution 4. Cambridge, April
1996. 1st edition. 8vo. Loose sheets folded into
wrappers. Unpaginated (36pp.). Experimental
poetry. Lake contributes ‘Truth or Vermilion’.
Also Out to Lunch, Mas Abe, and Peter Philpott.
Near Fine. Some copies had stapled wrappers.
£6
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(LAKE, Grace.) KINSELLA, John (ed.). Salt 8.
Western Australia: FOLIO (Salt), 1996. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 128pp. Lake contributes
two poems, ‘“unknit that”’ and ‘antiphon’.
Also John Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, Peter
Riley, August Kleinzahler, and Rod Mengham.
Near Fine.
£6
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LEWIS, Bill. Night Clinic. Ditton: The Lazerwolf
By founder member of The Medway Poets.
Lower wrapper quotations by Ralph Steadman,
Michael Horovitz, and Paul Buck: ‘He shapes
our pulsations.’ Tiny rub to one corner. Near
Fine.
£14
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MACSWEENEY, Barry. Hellhound Memos. London: The Many Press, 1993. 1st edition. 8vo.
Stapled wrappers. 24pp. Cover photo of Robert
Johnson. Near Fine.
£15
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MACSWEENEY, Barry. Odes: 1971–1978. London: Trigram Press, 1978. 1st edition. One of
574 copies (of 600). Small 4to. Wrappers. 64pp.
Odes begun in 1971, the first being a poetical
biography of Jim Morrison. Very Good Plus.
£15
212
MALANGA, Gerard. 10 Poems for 10 Poets. LA:
Black Sparrow Press, 1970. 1st edition. One
of 1000 copies (of 1226). 8vo. Wrappers. 76pp.
An ‘outgrowth of an esthetic obsession with
the theme of the aura of the poet’. Subjects (all
of whom are pictured) include Robert Creeley,
Piero Heliczer, Charles Olson, Anne Waldman,
Leonard Cohen, and Charles Henri Ford. Ownership inscription of Iain Sinclair (‘11 june 71
/ compendium’). Very Good, with wrappers
rubbed and spine slightly discoloured.
£10
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MANNING, Hugo. The Secret Sea. London:
copies (of 500). 8vo. Blue cloth. 64pp. Frontispiece with blind-stamped facsimile holograph
and tissue guard. The complete version of
Manning’s long philosophical poem, originally published in shortened form in 1962. ‘The
Secret Sea is song, satire, introspection, exposition, mysticism, and transcendence – the sum
of man’s experience.’ Head edge slightly spotted, otherwise about Very Good Plus in dust
jacket, with small unobtrusive mark.
£10
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[MARCHBANK, Pearce (ed.).] The Wall Sheet
Journal. [London]: [Pearce Marchbank], [1969].
1st edition. One of 500 numbered copies. 4to.
Collection of posters in a polythene bag, stapled to a printed card at the head edge. The
only issue of this ‘Magazine of Multiples’, assembled by Marchbank whilst he was a student at the Central School of Art. Contributors
include Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason, Terry Jones,
Ron Sandford, Michael Foreman, Carol An-
£100
£25
KOSTELANETZ, Richard. Recyclings: A Literary
Autobiography. Volume One: 1959–67. Brooklyn:
Assembling Press, 1974. 1st edition. One of
1500 copies (of 1526). 8vo. Stapled wrappers.
64pp. Short prose pieces, ‘Fixed connections
being abolished’. Very Good Plus, with small
chip to spine head. This copy has been signed
by the author and inscribed to Iain Sinclair,
with loosely inserted typed letter signed, dated
2000, enclosing this book and another (probably More Short Fictions).
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nand, Alan Wilkinson, Adam Ritchie, Richard
Hollis, Alan Kitching, and Martin Wright. An
unopened copy. A few spots to the card, and
light external wear including one tiny hole to
the polythene, but presumably Fine internally.
MARLEY, Brian. Eight Poems to Photographs of
Les Krims. Peterborough: Spectacular Diseases,
1980. 1st edition. One of 50 copies, numbered
and signed with additional holograph material. 8vo. Twelve loose sheets in a box, with label
mounted to upper lid. Introduction by Asa
Benveniste: ‘Marley works at his concisions
like fire at an iceberg, like a psychic comedian
on the ocean floor, a short-haired masonic mayan listening at music in the rare stacks at the
British Museum.’ He refers readers to Krims’
Eight Photographs (1970): ‘Krim’s [sic] eye makes
for a natural collaboration. Though you’d be
hard put to see the connection, it’s there in the
transmuted sympathy for human disparities.’
Contents Near Fine. The box is slightly shelfworn, mildly toned and spotted at sides, with
ineffective external 2” split between two panels of the blank lower lid.
£85
MARLEY, Brian. House & Garden. London and
Piraeus: Kater Murr’s Press, 2008. 1st edition.
One sheet folded into 4pp. Two poems (‘House’
and ‘Garden’). Fine.
£8
MARLEY, Brian. Resurgam: Six Poems. Drawings
by Raf Fulcher. Sunderland: Ceolfrith Press,
4to. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (16pp.).
Published as Ceolfrith 48 in the Poet and Artist
series. Very Good, with light toning to wrappers.
£12
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MARLEY, Brian. The Second Before You Hit the
Sidewalk. Bexleyheath: Joe DiMaggio Press,
1972. 1st edition. One of 200 copies. Folio.
Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (24pp. printed on
rectos only). Marley’s first book, with an Escheresque cover by Mary Wright. Covers toned
and slightly worn, otherwise Very Good.
£18
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MARLEY, Brian. Sons and Daughters of the Lawnmower. Newcastle upon Tyne: Makaris Publications, 1974. 1st edition. One of 130 numbered
copies. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated
(8pp.). His second book. About Fine. This copy
has been signed by the author (‘Brian’) in the
year of publication, and inscribed to Paul
(Buck). Brief correction to the text in the author’s hand.
£22
MARLEY, Brian. Springtime in the Rockies. London: Trigram Press, 1978. 1st edition. One of
26 lettered copies signed by the poet (of 600).
Small 4to. Green buckram. 64pp. Near Fine in
very slightly chipped acetate dust jacket.
£30
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MARLEY, Brian. Turbines. London: The Many
Press, 1977. 1st edition. One of 90 numbered
copies (of 100). 16mo. One sheet folded into
4pp. Published as Many Press Broadsheet
Number Three. ‘Wearing the betrayed look of
a survivor always / puts me right, coughing
death on the Circle Line’. A few faint spots, otherwise Fine.
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MARLEY, Brian and BENVENISTE, Asa. Dense
Lens. London: Trigram Press, 1975. 1st edition. One of 50 slipcased copies signed by the
authors and numbered (of 550). 8vo. Stitched
wrappers. Unpaginated (52pp. printed on one
side). ‘We must get some dream sessions going’.
Inventive collaboration, printing ten poems
by Marley on versos only from 10 down to 1,
then Benveniste’s 1–10 on rectos only, the two
separated by green ‘endpapers’. ‘We’re both
very neat writers’. Spotting around the spine
otherwise Very Good Plus in tissue dust jacket. Slipcase a little toned peripherally and very
slightly rubbed.
£32
MARLEY, Brian and BENVENISTE, Asa. Dense
Lens. London: Trigram Press, 1975. 1st edition.
One of 500 copies (of 550). 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (52pp. printed on one side).
Staples rusty, otherwise Very Good Plus in tissue dust jacket.
£15
MARLEY, Brian (ed.). Breakfast. Newcastle
upon Tyne: Laundering Room Press, First
Quarter 1974. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled
wrappers. 54pp. Contributors include Asa
Benveniste, Tom Raworth, Barry MacSweeney,
Andrew Crozier, Ulli McCarthy, Bockris-Wylie,
Martin Thom, Tony Jackson, Paul Gogarty, and
Elaine Randell. Also Opal L. Nations, whose
12pp. booklet ‘Steady Jelly’ is loosely inserted. Very Good, with a little sunning and wear
around the spine (not affecting design). One
sheet is bound upside-down and back-to-front.
£35
MARLEY, Brian and HAINSWORTH, Di (eds.).
The Lycanthrope Quarterly/Saintly Fingers. Newcastle upon Tyne: Laundering Room Press,
December 1975. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled
wrappers. Unpaginated (106pp.). Consisting of
The Lycanthrope Quarterly (ed. Hainsworth) with
Saintly Fingers (ed. Marley) running concurrently on the facing pages, i.e. upside-down.
Respectively described as No. 3 and No. 4,
where Breakfast (above) is No. 1, these were
in fact conceived as a string of (rather than a
series of) one-shots. All are uncommon. Contributors include (The Lycanthrope Quarterly)
Asa Benveniste, Allen Fisher, Ric Caddel, David
Chaloner, Tony Jackson, Jeremy Reed, Peter
Hoida, Andrei Codrescu, Lucebert, and Marley;
(Saintly Fingers) Opal L. Nations, Paul Gogarty,
Ian Patterson, Stefan Themerson, Paul Brown,
and Jeremy Hilton. Loosely inserted is an 8pp.
supplement from Pig Press, Ranganathan (one
of 150 copies), with contributions by John Riley, Tim Longville, John Seed, John Bagnall,
and Gael Turnbull. Splits and chips (without
loss) to the spine, which is sunned, otherwise
Very Good.
£40
(MARLEY, Brian.) BENVENISTE, Asa (ed.).
Singe. Newcastle upon Tyne: Laundering
Room Press, Winter 1976–77. 1st edition. 4to.
Stab-stapled wrappers with mounted illustration. Unpaginated (92pp. printed on rectos
only). The fifth of Marley’s one-shots. Fore
edge of upper wrapper with small deliberate
singe mark. Loosely inserted illustration of a
monkey (as ‘singe’ means ‘monkey’ in French).
Contributors include Jim Dine, Diane di Prima,
Tom Raworth, Louis Zukofsky, Edwin Morgan,
and Ken Campbell. Very Good, with mild wear
to wrappers, which are lightly spotted and
£35
soiled. Mounted illustration partially loose
but attached.
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(MARLEY, Brian.) Jackson, Marley, Caddel. Newcastle upon Tyne: Laundering Room Press,
[1976]. 1st edition. 4to. Stapled at top corner.
Unpaginated (8pp. printed on rectos only). A
document issued by the press soliciting readings for Tony Jackson, Brian Marley, and Richard Caddel, with light-hearted biographies,
bibliographies, and comments. Marley writes,
about being ‘a living-in manservant for an aristocratic family’: ‘It was during this last period
in my teens that I suffered an accident while
punting, which totally robbed me of my Religious Conviction. A direct result of this was
the formation of the Laundering Room Press
in 1974, the perfect vehicle in which to air my
views through the publication of other writers’
work.’ Very Good, with horizontal fold.
£15
MCCARTHY, Cavan and LLOYD, Andrew (eds.).
Tlaloc 12/How 6. Leeds: [Location Press], nd
(1966). 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (22pp.). Joint production, the penultimate issue of Lloyd’s How and the sixth issue
of the second series of McCarthy’s Tlaloc, which
focused on concrete and visual poetry. Contributors include Daniel Richter, Bill Bissett,
Anselm Hollo, Jim Burns, George Bowering, T.
A. Clark, and Pete Hoida. Also a review by Patrick Hughes of Cornelius Cardew at the Leeds
Institute Gallery. Two historic horizontal folds
(one faint, one very faint), a little soiling to covers, otherwise Very Good.
£25
MCCARTHY, Tom. Remainder. Paris: Metronome Press, 2005. 1st edition. 12mo. Wrappers. 288pp. The uncommon first edition of
McCarthy’s debut novel, subsequently revised
for the second edition in 2006 (Alma Books)
and filmed in 2015 by Omer Fast. Although
not stated, one of 750 copies. ‘About the accident itself I can say very little.’ About Very
Good Plus. Slightly rubbed at corners and very
slightly rolled, with faint creasing to the lower
corner and the spine, which is faded as usual.
£500
(MCCARTHY, Tom.) HELLBERG, Fatima (ed.).
Dirty Literature: Electra presents a series of performances & readings exploring the moment when
language threatens (or promises) to become illegible. London: Electra, 2011. 1st edition. One of
1500 copies. Small 4to. Stab-stitched wrappers.
42pp. Published to coincide with events at the
National Portrait Gallery between March and
June 2011. McCarthy read from Remainder,
brief extracts from which are published here,
‘to reflect on the breakdown of narrative coherence within modernity and the possibilities
that might emerge from such a collapse’. Tony
White also contributes. Fine. Loosely inserted
invitation to the series.
£6
MCKEOWN, Adam (ed.). Intimacy 3. Maidstone, April 1994. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled.
76pp. With the theme ‘Pathologos Sexualis:
Readings between the corpora’, intended to
be a cumulative response to issue 1 (‘written
being/being written’) and issue 2 (‘(dis)embodied image/imagining’), and to be a gathering of works concerned with ‘Reading and/
or Sexuality’. Contributors include Paul Buck,
£25
David Barton, Yvonne Houlton, Richard Tabor, Anthony Barnett, Stephen Barber, Aaron
Williamson, and Paul Green. Very Good Plus.
Loosely inserted typed letter signed from
Mckeown to Iain (Sinclair) in the year of publication soliciting a contribution, and enclosing
this copy in response to Sinclair’s The Shamanism of Intent. Mckeown has also enclosed a sheet
with the cover artwork of issue 2 and a sheet of
excerpts from issue 1.
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MEAD, Matthew. Identities. Worcester and
Ventura, CA: Migrant, 1964. 1st edition. 8vo.
Stapled wrappers. 20pp. By the editor of Satis.
Very Good, with faint peripheral toning to
wrappers.
£5
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MELTZER, David. Yesod. London: Trigram
poet. Small 4to. Quarter grey and three-quarter black buckram. 64pp. One work in three
sections: ‘The Ten Lost Books of the Ten Lost
Prophets’, ‘Yehudal: The Small Songs of Yehudi’, and ‘Round the Poem Box’. Very Good in
slightly marked acetate dust jacket.
£30
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MELTZER, David (ed.). The Path of the Names:
Writings by Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia. Berkeley, CA: Tree Books and London: Trigram
Press, 1976. 1st edition. One of 800 copies. 8vo.
Wrappers. 80pp. Published as Tree Texts Number 4. Selections by the founder of the school
of ‘Prophetic Kabbalah’, who lived in the 13th
century. Translations and adaptations are by
Bruria Finkel, Jack Hirschman, Meltzer, and
Gershom Scholem. Fine in dust jacket.
£20
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MIDDLETON, Christopher. Briefcase History:
Nine Poems. Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1972.
1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (40pp. mostly printed on rectos only). Of an
edition of 250 copies, this has been designated
a proof copy, probably because the dust jacket
front cover image is also on the reverse of its
back cover. Designed and printed by Rosmarie
Waldrop. An important figure, Middleton died
last year. Very Good Plus in Very Good jacket,
slightly toned peripherally.
£12
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MIDDLETON, Christopher. If from the Distance:
Two Essays. London: Menard Press, 2007. 1st
edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 48pp. ‘Of Gods and the
Individual’ and ‘A Spirit-Voice in Loose Alcaic
Measure’, with an introduction by Alan Wall
and an afterword by the publisher, Anthony
Rudolf, who calls Middleton a ‘singular figure
who (along with Roy Fisher) is, in my opinion,
the most significant British poet to be found
on that important frontier between the mainstream and the experimental’. Near Fine.
£5
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MILLER, Richard. Yellow Jersey. London: New
London Pride and The Postal Collective, 1980.
1st edition. 4to. Wrappers. 40pp. An Exclusive
Mimeograph Masterpiece. New London Pride
was run by Allen Fisher. Yellow Jersey presents
the majority of written work which Miller considered for publication prior to 1973. There
were also 30 signed copies. Very Good, with a
couple of nicks at the head of the upper wrapper.
£15
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MILTON, Ted. Longes de Louanges. Nottingham: Tak Tak Tak, nd (1988). 1st edition. 8vo.
Wrappers. Unpaginated (44pp.). Poems by the
leader of Blurt, written in parallel English and
French. Near Fine.
£25
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MOORE, Steve. Regrettable Denouements: More
Tales of Telguuth. Np: Somnium Press, 2011.
1st edition. One of an unspecified quantity
of numbered copies. 8vo. Stapled wrappers.
22pp. Gathers ‘The Burning Desire of Verok
Yabronith’ and ‘The Unfortunate Occurrence
in Bok’, produced using fragments from the
original 2000AD comic strips, and the new story ‘The Last Testament of Selura Reth’. Moore
distributed his self-published Somnium Press
booklets privately. His final one, The Marmoreal
Frown of Ahuralura Marrz, arrived as news of his
death spread. Near Fine.
£15
(MOORE, Steve.) WOOD, Jonathan (ed.).
Through the Woods 2, 4, 5, and 6. London and
Bristol: Arbor Vitae Press, 2002–2008. 1st editions. Issue 2 is specified as one of 150 copies.
4to. Stapled wrappers. Issue 2 unpaginated
(32pp.), the rest 32pp.–60pp. Esoteric magazine, with the motto ‘Archness for Archness
Sake’. Moore contributes the stories ‘One Babylonian night’, ‘A séance in the ruins’, and ‘The
music of the moon’ to issues 4–6 respectively.
Loosely inserted compliments slips in issues
4–6 and insert in issue 2, all signed by the editor and inscribed to Iain Sinclair. Very Good
Plus or better.
£12
MOTTRAM, Eric. 1980 Mediate. Maidstone:
Zunne Heft, nd (1980). 1st edition. 4to.
Stab-stapled wrappers. 44pp. printed on rectos only. War, Gyula Illyes, Gerrard Winstanley,
and Legeza’s Tao Magic. Published by Ulli McCarthy and uncommon, as Zunne Heft titles
probably did not appear in shops. Edges slightly spotted, faint peripheral fading as usual, a
few marks around one staple at lower wrapper,
but overall about Near Fine.
£40
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NOTLEY, Alice. Songs for the Unborn Second Baby.
Lenox, MA: United Artists, 1979. 1st edition.
One of 750 copies. Small 4to. Wrappers. Unpaginated (56pp.). Covers by George Schneeman. Published by Bernadette Mayer and
Lewis Warsh. Very Good Plus, with light corner
crease to upper wrapper.
£28
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NOTLEY, Alice. Tell Me Again. Santa Barbara:
Am Here Books/Immediate Editions, 1982. 1st
edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (48pp.
printed on rectos only). Autobiographical
prose pieces: ‘How does a person happen to
become a poet?’ Very Good, with covers lightly
worn and staples a little rusty. Faint offsetting
of last page to blank back cover, in production.
£18
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NOTLEY, Alice (ed.). Chicago European Edition 3. Wivenhoe: The Chicago Press, June
1974. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (148pp. printed on rectos only). Covers
by George Schneeman. Final issue of the uncommon magazine. The European Edition of
Chicago followed the original US series of six
issues. It is particularly interesting for the relationship between the two continents at the
time, with the University of Essex a key place.
Contributors include Ted Berrigan, Robert
Creeley, Edwin Denby, Carl Rakosi, Anne Waldman, Tom Clark, Bill Berkson, Kenneth Koch,
and Notley. Also a facsimile of Jack Kerouac’s
final piece, ‘After Me, The Deluge’, printed in
The Washington Post the day after he died. Soiling to covers (peripherally) and edges, otherwise Very Good.
£30
NOTLEY, Alice and OLIVER, Douglas (eds.).
Gare du Nord vol. 1 no. 1. Paris, 1997. 1st edition.
4to. Stab-stapled. 42pp. Contributors include
Joe Brainard, Tom Leonard, Elio Schneeman,
Grace Lake, Rudy Burckhardt, Anselm Hollo,
Bill Griffiths, Tony Lopez, Oliver, and Notley.
Erratum slip present. Very Good.
£12
Gare du Nord vol. 2 no. 2. Paris, 1999. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. 44pp. Contributors
include Joanne Kyger, Keston Sutherland,
Kelvin Corcoran, Simon Pettet, Bill Griffiths,
Richard Caddel, Peter Riley, Oliver, and Notley.
Respondents to the ‘Reader Inquiry Feature’
(concerning risk) include Kenneth Koch, Anne
Waldman, Robert Sheppard, Allen Fisher, Lee
Harwood, and Iain Sinclair. Loosely inserted
Subscription Appeal. Very Good.
£12
Scarlet 3. NY, Winter 1991. 1st edition. 4to. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (24pp.). Contributors include Tom Clark, Eileen Myles, Peter Riley, Barbara Guest, Joe Brainard, Fielding
Dawson, Wendy Mulford, Rudy Burckhardt,
Oliver (‘Penniless’ instalment), and Notley. Very Good Plus, with light scuff to upper wrapper.
£12
Scarlet 4. NY, Spring 1991. 1st edition. 4to. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (24pp.). Contributors include Fielding Dawson, John James,
Donna Dennis, Joe Brainard, Clark Coolidge,
Anne Waldman, Anselm Hollo, Keith Abbott,
Elio Schneeman, Harris Schiff, Tony Towle,
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the first poem of two is dedicated. Some pencil
annotations to the text.
MOTTRAM, Eric. Windsor Forest: Bill Butler In
Memoriam. Newcastle upon Tyne: Pig Press,
1979. 1st edition. One of 190 copies (of 200). 4to.
Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (8pp.). Takes
off from W. Harrison Ainsworth’s Windsor Castle, and uses George Cruikshank’s illustrations
to the novel. Good, somewhat knocked but secure. This copy has been signed by the author
(‘Eric’) in the year of publication, and inscribed
to Iain (Sinclair).
£60
MOTTRAM, Eric. ‘No Centre to Hold : A Commentary on Derrida’. Np: np, nd. 4to. Stapled
at top corner. 22pp. Extra sheets from Curtains,
le prochain step (1976), issue 14/15/16/17 of
Paul Buck’s Curtains. After collating copies of
the magazine, sometimes Buck would staple
unbound extra sheets if they were an essay or
similar, or he might retain extra sheets if they
were art pages. Probably 6 to 10 copies of ‘No
Centre to Hold’ in this standalone form were
created and sent to Mottram. This copy has
been signed (‘Eric’) and sent in turn to Iain
(Sinclair) with an inscription on the outer
page (Paul Neagu’s contribution to the magazine): ‘The “Derrida” piece (inside), is really
part of an onward-going investigation – of
which “Towards Design” is another section
– Thanks for a magnificent reading the other
night – ’. Mottram’s Towards design in poetry
(1977) is his important essay on poetics. Very
Good.
£20
(MOTTRAM, Eric.) GREEN, Paul A. and PEEL,
Robin (eds.). Negative Entropy 2. Torquay, January 1981. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (20pp.). Produced from South Devon
Technical College. Contains an interview with
Mottram, ‘EDUCATION FOR INNOVATION
– the arts, politics and teaching’. Also David
Miller, and visuals. A bumped copy, but Very
Good.
£12
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MOTTRAM, Eric. Dionysus in America. Np: np,
[1976]. 1st edition. 4to. Stapled at top corner. 54pp. printed on rectos only. Reprinted
with revisions, and in different format, from
Other Times 1 (ed. Paul Brown, November
1975–January 1976), for The Open University. The essay was included in Mottram’s 1989
collection Blood on the Nash Ambassador: Investigations in American Culture. This printing is not
recognised by OCLC, but a copy is held in the
Mottram archive at King’s College London.
Their listing, which provides the 1976 dating,
suggests that Mottram presented the essay at
The Open University as two lectures, and that
this printing was reproduced from Mottram’s
typescript. Slightly worn but about Very Good.
£25
MOTTRAM, Eric. Spring Ford. Newcastle upon
Tyne: Pig Press – Hasty Editions, 1977. 1st
(8pp.). One of approximately 100 copies produced to coincide with a reading by Mottram
at the Colpitts Hotel, Durham on April 22nd
1977. A little light soiling to lower wrapper,
but Very Good Plus. This copy has been signed
by the author (‘Eric’) a fortnight after the reading and presented to Lee Harwood, to whom
£30
247
248
249
NATIONS, Opal L. Hummi Grundi: Part One.
London: Edible Magazine, 1971. 1st edition.
One of 90 copies (of 100). 8vo. Stapled wrappers. 36pp. mostly printed on rectos only. Author’s first book. Surreal prose. Ownership
inscription of Iain Sinclair (‘compendium / 26
Nov 71’) within book motif on lower wrapper.
Very Good.
£30
(NATIONS, Opal L.) ABBOTT, Keith. Red Lettuce.
Fremont, CA: The Fault, 1974. 1st edition. 8vo.
Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (28pp.). Poems by Abbott with drawings by Nations, and
photographs of the two unearthing valuable
manuscripts in the back yard. Loosely inserted
prospectus for Fault Publications. Very Good,
with lower wrapper toned peripherally.
£8
NOTLEY, Alice. Selected Poems of Alice Notley.
Hoboken, NJ: Talisman House, 1993. 1st edition, paperback variant. 8vo. Wrappers. 138pp.
Cover by George Schneeman. ‘Alice Notley’s
rare work moves in the intensity of her own
life, but equally in all the myriad terms of life
which any one of us must now acknowledge’
(Robert Creeley). Fine.
£14
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256
and Notley. Mailing sticker of Iain Sinclair.
Somewhat knocked from posting, but about
Very Good.
257
Scarlet 5. NY, September 1991. 1st edition. 4to.
Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (24pp.). Contributors include Ralph Hawkins, Denise
Riley, George Schneeman, Tom Clark, Leslie
Scalapino, Alex Katz, Joe Brainard, Oliver
(‘From PENNILESS POLITICS’), and Notley.
Loosely inserted are two sheets reproducing
part of the excerpt of Penniless Politics but in
the form used for the first edition, published
by Iain Sinclair’s Hoarse Commerce in the
same year. The page numbers here (38 and
39) correspond with the page numbers in the
book, which is reproduced from typescript in a
reduced, smaller format. This copy is from the
collection of Iain Sinclair, but it is not obvious
whether the sheets are simply advertising the
subsequent book The Scarlet Cabinet, described
in the editorial here as issues 6–8 ‘composed
of two or three long works by each of the two
editors’, including Penniless Politics, or if these
sheets were used for the Hoarse Commerce
edition. The sheets are not present in another
copy consulted, and The Scarlet Cabinet is a more
formal production altogether. Very Good Plus.
£15
258
(NOTLEY, Alice.) FOSTER, Edward (ed.). Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 1. Hoboken, NJ, Fall 1988. 1st edition. 8vo.
Wrappers. 104pp. The Alice Notley issue. Contributors include Douglas Oliver, Ron Padgett,
Tom Clark, Anselm Hollo, Eileen Myles, Simon Pettet, Andrei Codrescu, Anne Waldman,
Harris Schiff, and Notley (plus an interview).
Loosely inserted flyer/subscription form for
the magazine. Near Fine.
£12
259
NUTTALL, Jeff. Objects. London: Trigram Press,
1976. 1st edition. One of 174 (of 200) hardback
copies (of 700). 8vo. Red cloth. Unpaginated
(64pp.). Errata slip present. Cover by Nuttall.
His first collection of poems since 1968. Near
Fine in dust jacket.
£20
260
NUTTALL, Jeff. Objects. London: Trigram Press,
8vo. Wrappers. Unpaginated (64pp.). Errata
slip present. Fine.
£10
261
OLSON, Charles. The Distances/Poems. New
York: Grove Press and London: Evergreen
Books, 1960. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 96pp.
Important collection, bringing together works
such as ‘The Kingfishers’, ‘Letter for Melville
1951’, ‘In Cold Hell, in Thicket’, and the title
poem. Very Good.
£12
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OLSON, Charles. Letter for Melville 1951. Black
Mountain, NC: Black Mountain College, 1951.
1st edition. Although not stated, one of approximately 50 copies. 8vo. Two folio sheets
printed on one side each, tipped into wrappers and folded. Printed under the direction
of Larry Hatt at Black Mountain College. 10
special copies also had a watercolour design by
Charles Oscar and, in their bibliography of Olson, Butterick and Glover note a manila envelope enclosing the publication, both of which
£1200
are extremely rare. A combination of poetry
and prose, ‘written to be read AWAY FROM the
Melville Society’s “One Hundredth Birthday
Party” for MOBY-DICK at Williams College,
Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 2–4, 1951’. Letter for
Melville 1951 is addressed to Eleanor Melville
Metcalf, Herman Melville’s granddaughter
and the steward of his legacy. Olson, whose
Call Me Ishmael, a celebrated study of Moby-Dick,
was published in 1947, protests against the
Melville Society event as a promotion by ‘commercial travellers’, who ‘scratch each other’s
backs with a dead man’s hand’: ‘o that these
fellow diners of yours might know / that poets
move very fast, that it is true / it is very wise to
stay the hell out of / such traffic, of such labor /
which knows no weekend’. Olson explained in
a letter of 31 July 1951 (reported by Butterick
and Glover) how the piece, ‘written in a moment of flame’ two weeks previously, came to
be published after he read it: ‘i had the wild
idea, to take the LETTER… and fire it as a bit of
verse pamphleteering (something I don’t know
has been much done since the Elizabethans)
and by god if the kids last night didn’t raise the
20 bucks to have it set by electrotype in Caslon,
so that we can sell it at that damned stupid celebration, and also sell it as a olson poem!’ Previously with this copy, much has been made
of the neat gift inscription by ‘Diana’ in the
lower corner of the upper wrapper: ‘“go west
young man go west.” Winnie the Pooh. Hope
your San Francisco days are glorius [sic]’. It has
been suggested that this might be from Diana
Woelffer (who was resident at Black Mountain),
or Diane di Prima (whose magazine The Floating Bear took its name from Winnie-the-Pooh),
or Diana Hadley. These Dianas, however, are all
conjectural, and it is easier to simply think of
the instruction to ‘go west’ as connecting Black
Mountain with the San Francisco Renaissance,
as there were many links between the two locations. Moreover, the inscription might be
from a later date (and possibly not associated
with Black Mountain College), as previous sellers have overlooked the ownership stamp (on
the inside of the lower wrapper, underneath
the broadsides) of C. Warner Williams. This is
undoubtedly Carroll Warner Williams, who
taught graphic arts at Black Mountain College
from 1951 (the year in which Olson became a
visiting professor there) until 1954, and who
published un huh oh? and forget it! during his
tenure. Northwestern University holds letters from Warner Williams to John Cage, and
he went on to work with Buckminster Fuller
on geodesic domes, providing links with two
other Black Mountain teachers. North Carolina Wesleyan College catalogues books with
the ownership stamp of C. Warner Williams
in its Black Mountain Collection of items from
Black Mountain College’s library, confirming
the association. Faint, historic horizontal fold,
with little impact now. Light rubbing and a
couple of tiny pinholes to two outer corners of
the wrappers. Originally green, the wrappers
are faded to brown (as usual, due to the stock),
but the black and maroon print is intact. The
lower wrapper (which is mostly blank) is rather stained in pale colours, and there is a small
red stain to the upper wrapper. Nonetheless
an attractive, secure copy, internally clean, of a
fragile and necessarily rare production. Of the
50 or so copies printed, OCLC locates 17 holdings, meaning that not many survivors are in
private hands.
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OLSON, Charles. The Maximus Poems. NY: Jargon/Corinth Books, 1960. 1st edition. 8vo.
Wrappers. 162pp. Published as Jargon 24, designed and edited by Jonathan Williams in
North Carolina. Collects Maximus Letters
1–10 (Maximus I) and 11–22 (Maximus II)
published in Stuttgart in 1953 and 1956 respectively, along with other Maximus Letters
(from Maximus III) collected and/or published
for the first time. There were also 101 specially
bound copies. Sticker ghost (not very obtrusive) to lower wrapper. Very Good.
£16
OLSON, Charles and CREELEY, Robert. Charles
Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence volumes 1–5. Ed. George F. Butterick. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980–1983.
1st editions, paperback variants. 8vo. Wrappers.
160pp.–222pp. The first five volumes of ten,
covering just over a year from April 1950 – an
indication of how extensive the correspondence was. When it began, Olson had not quite
completed his ‘Projective Verse’ essay, and he
had not written his first Maximus poem; Creeley was primarily a story writer, seeking to be
a man of letters. Within the first four months,
though, Olson told a friend: ‘Creeley and I have
since engaged in perhaps the most important
correspondence of my life.’ Olson would come
to term Creeley ‘The Figure of Outward’, the
man who gave him ‘the world’, while Creeley
found Olson’s letters to be ‘of such energy and
calculation that they constituted a practical
“college” of stimulus and information’. Small
number of basic annotations, otherwise Very
Good overall, with some spotting to edges and
light soiling to wrappers.
£50
(OLSON, Charles.) BUTTERICK, George F. (ed.).
OLSON: The Journal of the Charles Olson Archives
1–10 (all published). Storrs, CT: University of
Connecticut Library, 1974–1978. 1st editions.
8vo. Wrappers. 72pp.–114pp. A substantial
publication, making available materials from
the Olson Archives and drawing together additional primary materials from widespread
sources. Contents across the set include Olson’s reading, Black Mountain College, the
Vancouver Poetry Conference, the background
to the Maximus poems, Olson’s 1936 journal
of a swordfishing cruise, posthumous publications, and poems, interviews, letters, lectures,
and essays by Olson, along with illustrations
including photographs and manuscripts.
Other contributors include Fielding Dawson,
George Bowering, Pauline Wah, Clark Coolidge, Robert Duncan, Jerome Rothenberg, and
Jonathan Williams. Brief annotation to one
page, otherwise generally clean. Wrappers
somewhat rubbed, with 1” split to spine of issue 1. Price stickers to upper wrappers of two
issues (not too obtrusively). Overall a Good to
Very Good set.
£100
(OLSON, Charles.) BUTTERICK, George F.
(guest ed.). Maps 4: Charles Olson. Shippensburg, PA, 1971. 1st edition. One of 500 copies. 12mo. Wrappers. 96pp. This issue of John
Taggart’s magazine devoted to Olson, printing
his first letter to Robert Creeley, the essays ‘A
Syllabary For A Dancer’ and ‘On Black Mountain’, and the poems ‘Dylan Thomas, and Now
Matthew Mead – As He Himself, “To Edward
Thomas”’, ‘As the shield goddess, Mycenae’,
and ‘Hotel Steinplatz, Berlin, December 25
£20
(1966)’. Also photographs, William Carlos Williams on The Maximus Poems / 11–22, Cid Corman ‘On Poetry As Action’, and more. A Good,
somewhat rubbed copy.
(OLSON, Charles.) MEACHEN, Clive. Charles
Olson: His only weather. London: Spanner, March
1983. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. 90pp. Published as Spanner 23 (vol. 3 no. 3), edited by Allen
Fisher. Extended essay, with the chapters ‘the
father’, ‘the mother’, ‘ishmael’, and ‘the rose’.
Some toning and soiling, but clean internally.
£10
268
PETTET, Simon. An Enigma & Other Lyrics. London: [‘a very delayed friendly book’], 1984. 1st
(32pp.). Pettet’s second book, dedicated to Ted
Berrigan, Alice Notley, and Eric Mottram. Near
Fine, with mild crease towards head edge, and
one staple a little crumpled but secure.
£15
269
PETTET, Simon. Leaving London (Back Soon).
Np: [‘A “Late Night Friday” Presentation’],
1977. 1st edition. One of 200 copies (this copy
unnumbered). 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (16pp.). His first book, privately printed and distributed. A few small rust marks to
wrappers, tail edge very slightly rubbed, but
Very Good Plus. As above, uncommon.
£18
270
PETTET, Simon (ed.). Saturday Morning 1.
London: [‘A “Late Night Friday” Presentation’], Spring 1976. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled
wrappers. Unpaginated (68pp.). Contributors
include Chris Torrance, Barry MacSweeney,
Ralph Hawkins, Allen Fisher, Jeff Nuttall,
Mark Hyatt, Sean O’Huigin, Gael Turnbull,
David Chaloner, Jeremy Hilton, and Eric Mottram interviewing Roy Fisher. Very Good.
£14
271
PETTET, Simon (ed.). Saturday Morning 3. London: [‘A “Late Night Friday” Presentation’],
Spring/Summer 1977. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (56pp.). Printed
and assembled by Cris Cheek. Contributors
include Andrew Crozier, Antony Lopez, Colin
Simms, Jeremy Hilton, Pettet, and a conversation with George and Mary Oppen. Very Good,
with wrappers slightly rubbed.
£10
272
PETTET, Simon (ed.). Saturday Morning 4. London: [‘A “Late Night Friday” Presentation’],
Autumn/Winter 1977. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled
wrappers. Unpaginated (52pp.). Printed and
assembled by Cris Cheek. Concludes the first
series of the magazine. Photograph of Bill
Griffiths on the cover. Contributors include
Griffiths (plus a conversation with Cheek),
Paul Buck, Paul Evans, Eric Mottram, Geraldine Monk, Jeremy Hilton, and Pettet. A little
soiling, and wrappers somewhat worn. Pen
‘filling in’ of title.
£8
273
PETTET, Simon (ed.). Saturday Morning vol. II
no. 1 & 2 (New York City Issue) (in one volume).
Also numbered as 5 & 6. NY and London: [‘A
“Late Night Friday” Presentation’], Summer
1978. 1st edition. Small 4to. Stapled wrappers.
Unpaginated (76pp.). Final issue. Contributors
include Kathy Acker, John Cage, Ted Berrigan, Allen Ginsberg, Alice Notley, Harris Schiff,
£12
267
Gerard Malanga, Ray Bremser, Peter Orlovsky,
Carl Solomon, Eileen Myles, Maureen Owen,
Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, John Giorno,
and Dick Higgins. Light (peripheral) superficial rubbing to wrappers, with a couple of
spots, and faint toning to lower wrapper, otherwise Very Good.
274
(PETTET, Simon.) Programme for A Festival
of British Poets (1982), presented by The Committee for International Poetry (Bob Rosenthal
and Pettet) and White Columns Gallery, NY
(Joshua Baer and Peter Schuyff). New York,
1982. 1st edition. 4to. Wrappers, with 12pp.
printed on rectos only stapled to the lower
wrapper. Cover by Malcolm Morley. Bio-bibliographical, ‘informative and fun’ sketches
about Tom Raworth, Denise Riley, Jeremy
Reed, Wendy Mulford, Douglas Oliver, Eric
Mottram, Allen Fisher, and Tom Pickard, the
poets involved in the festival from 30 April–2
May 1982. There was also a showing of a Basil
Bunting interview, and an exhibition of ‘Some
British Painters’ including Patrick Procktor
and Trevor Winkfield. The names of Richard
Miller and Peter Rippon are crossed out (and
the latter replaced), as is that of Jeremy Reed,
who had to cancel. Very Good, with light creasing, and mild toning to the lower wrapper. Not
recognised by OCLC.
£15
275
QUASHA, George. Giving the Lily Back Her Hands.
Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1979. 1st
edition. One of 1413 copies (of 1473). Narrow
4to. Wrappers. 64pp. Published by the author
and Susan Quasha, and described as ‘a psychotypographic romance caught listening to the
voices inside the voice from which it issues’.
Very Good. Possible partial discolouration to
the title, and a little wear around the spine.
£6
276
QUASHA, George. Somapoetics: Book One. Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1973. 1st edition.
One of 1000 copies (of 1126). 8vo. Wrappers.
116pp. Epigraph from William Blake: ‘All
things reversd flew from their centers…’. Robert Kelly writes in the preface: ‘Eros also has
its Intellect. I would speak to that in Quasha’s
Somapoetics. There is a pleasure in it that is
thinkable.’ Very Good, with wrappers slightly
rubbed, and spine text possibly faded.
£10
277
RAMSAY, Jay, PASKIN, Sylvia, and GODBERT,
Geoffrey (eds.). The Third Eye [1]–[2] (all published). London, 1983–1984. 1st editions. 4to.
Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (52pp.) and
136pp. Respectively titled ‘a special primitive issue’ and ‘the psychic issue’ (which was
edited by Ramsay alone). A lively, short-lived
magazine, which aimed ‘to fuse editors, contributors and readers in an on-going collective
project’: ‘Drawing on thematic explorations
through the widest possible range of writers,
THE THIRD EYE will also provide a reciprocal
platform of letters, performances & meetings
involving everyone concerned.’ The magazine
took its title from a quotation by Michael Rothenstein: ‘The artist has three eyes, two of which
may sleep, but the third is always open, awake
and aware’. Contributors include Allen Fisher,
David Gascoyne, Libby Houston, Ken Edwards,
Edwin Morgan, Grace Nichols, Alison Fell, Jeff
Cloves, Peter Redgrove, Emmanuel Hocquard,
Deborah Levy, Harry Fainlight, Ruth Fainlight,
£30
and Paul A. Green. Very Good Plus. Very slight
yellowing to blue wrappers of issue 2, probably
from the yellow wrappers of issue 1.
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RAWORTH, Tom. Act. London: Trigram Press,
1973. 1st edition. 8vo. Blue cloth. Unpaginated (96pp.). Raworth’s largest collection at that
point, with Artaud epigraph: ‘Forthcoming
events will put all this straight again’. Cover and text illustrations by Barry Flanagan.
There were also 60 specially bound copies,
numbered and signed. Light peripheral fading to endpapers, otherwise Very Good Plus in
Fine dust jacket.
£30
RAWORTH,
Tom. Act. London: Trigram
Press, 1973. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers with
dust jacket affixed at the spine. Unpaginated
(96pp.). Light peripheral fading to endpapers,
some spotting to edges, otherwise Near Fine.
£12
HOFNER, Paul, (from issue 2) UNSWORTH,
Cathi, CHAINSAW, Billy, and (from issue 3)
ROLLINS, Henry (eds.). PURR 1–5 (all published). London: Blue Eyed Dog Publishing
then (issue 5) Purr, 1993–1995. 1st editions. 4to.
French wrappers then (issue 5) wrappers, with
issue 4 having one French wrapper. 64pp.–
112pp. A complete set of the ‘style necronomicon’ of literature, art, film, and comics, titled
PURR Quarterly for the first two issues and
thereafter subtitled ‘a gun to the head in print’.
Raymond is interviewed by Unsworth in issue
2 (on the occasion of his record of I Was Dora
Suarez) and he contributes ‘Every Day Is A Day
In August’ to issue 3, which is dedicated to him.
Raymond wrote the story between drafts of I
Was Dora Suarez, and presented it to PURR shortly before his death. Other contributors include
Raymond Pettibon, Ted McKeever, Lydia Lunch,
H. R. Giger, Hubert Selby Jr., Richard Hell, Barry Adamson, Michael Gira, Richard Kern, Iggy
Pop, and Unsworth. Also interviews with Edward Gorey, Harry Crews, Dame Darcy, Marilyn Manson, and Russ Meyer. Complete with a
12pp. insert in issues 1–4 comprising the comic
‘She Ate My Porridge’ by Dix, and a Barry Adamson CD in issue 5. Also present are the four
10” Kennel Club EPs produced in conjunction
with PURR, and released in editions of between
1000 and 3000 copies. The first three are titled
Savage Soundtracks for Swingin’ Lovers, Love Bites
(additionally provided in red vinyl with a white
label, presumably a promotional copy), and The
King And I (which has an Elvis board game poster). The fourth (the two-disc Search & Disobey) is
a collaboration with Blast First, and contains
recordings of Iain Sinclair, Stewart Home, and
Robin Cook (Derek Raymond) at the Bridewell
Theatre in 1994. Also Sonic Youth, Iggy Pop,
and Band of Susans. Overall the magazines are
Very Good Plus, often better, the records Very
Good in sleeves. Included in the sale are a PURR
T-shirt (XL, unopened in polythene) and a pack
of stickers (unused except for one ghost) advertising the magazine.
280
RAWORTH, Tom. All Fours. London: microbrigade, 1991. 1st edition. One of 250 copies. 8vo.
Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (8pp.). Very
Good Plus.
£20
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RAWORTH, Tom. Eternal Sections. LA: Sun &
Moon Press, 1993. 1st edition. 12mo. Wrappers.
64pp. Published as Sun & Moon Classics: 23.
Very Good, with wrappers curling.
£15
RAWORTH, Tom. Lion Lion. London: Trigram
author. Square 12mo. Quarter brown buckram
and three-quarter snakeskin paper-covered
boards. Unpaginated (48pp.). Tipped-in frontispiece. Named after the lines by Gregory Corso: ‘The wife ran up to it and on her knees fell
/ “Lion, lion” she said, “my mind is not well”.’
Very slight offsetting from frontispiece, and a
couple of spots (not affecting text). Otherwise
Near Fine in acetate dust jacket.
£45
283
RAWORTH, Tom. Lion Lion. London: Trigram
Press, 1970. 1st edition. Square 12mo. Wrappers.
Unpaginated (48pp.). Tipped-in frontispiece.
There were also copies bound in cloth. Very Good.
£15
284
(RAWORTH, Tom.) FOWLER, SJ (ed.). Enemigos/Enemies: Poesía contemporánea de la Ciudad
de México y Londres/Contemporary Poetry from Mexico City and London. Mexico: EBL-Colección Cielo Abierto and CONACULTA, 2014. 1st edition.
8vo. Wrappers. 240pp. Text in English and
Spanish. Collaboration, transliteration and rewriting, ‘through the eurhythmic play of malleable e-mails’. Contributors include Raworth,
Tom Chivers, and Holly Pester. Fine.
£12
(RAWORTH, Tom.) SLEASE, Marcus and
FOWLER, SJ. Elephanche. Manchester: deptpress, 2013. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. Unpaginated (32pp.). Collaborative work, involving Kenneth Koch and avant-garde theatre.
Raworth provides the cover image. Fine.
£8
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(RAYMOND, Derek.) HENWOOD, Simon, DIX,
£100
8vo. Stitched wrappers. Unpaginated (16pp.).
Published by the authors, who say of the book
(in item 154): ‘It sounds like both of us & neither of us & is itself. The words, in fact, are all
Lou Andreas-Salome’s.’ Of the 200 copies, 125
were New Year gifts to subscribers of Grosseteste
Review. Although not called for (but possibly as
part of the gift), this copy has been signed by
both authors, and Riley (it appears) has added:
‘this is Paul Buck’s copy’. Very Good Plus, with
tiny nick to spine head.
291
RILEY, Peter. Following the Vein. London: Albion Village Press, 1975. 1st edition. One of 275
copies (of 300). 4to. One sheet folded into 4pp.
Published by Iain Sinclair. Fine.
£15
292
RILEY, Peter. The Linear Journal. Pensnett: GR/
EW Books, 1973. 1st edition. One of 300 numbered copies (of 350). Small 4to. Stitched wrappers with mounted label. 52pp. Published
as Grosseteste Review Books Number 9. Described by Andrew Crozier (in item 154): ‘there
is a threadlike extension across actual terrain…
Yet this topographical element, with all its potential for the rich & the exotic, is played down
throughout; within the poem the actual journey is made the occasion of the poet’s apperception of the total world he inhabits.’ Some
staining to wrappers, but not particularly intrusive. About Very Good.
£18
RILEY, Peter. A collection of fifty-seven catalogues from Peter Riley (Books). Cambridge,
[1987]–2005. 1st editions. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. 12pp.–28pp. Comprising fifty-one numbers of Riley’s regular catalogue from 25 to 87
([1987]–2005), four numbers of his Special List
(1, 2, 5, and 8 ([1990]–?)), and numbers 1–2 of
his Small Press Poetry lists (1996–1997). Of the
regular catalogue, fifteen numbers are missing
from the run (tending to be towards the end
of the sequence), made up for by the fact that
number 27 is in two separate parts, and 62 is
in three separate parts (the latter causing some
confusion to the numbering, as happens once
elsewhere). Additionally there are nine supplementary lists loosely inserted, along with
other brief additions and flyers, for example
for GRIllE, Parataxis, etruscan books including Iain Sinclair’s Saddling the Rabbit, and Tom
Raworth’s Collected Poems. The gathering is
from Sinclair’s collection; eleven are addressed
to him (where the rest were probably sent in
envelopes), thirteen have brief notes by him
(generally the catalogue numbers of books in
the lists), and three have brief notes from Riley
to Sinclair. Riley’s catalogues are an extremely
useful resource for modern poetry, primarily,
and his (no doubt hard-fought) commitment
to publicising and selling contemporary work
is admirable. Of particular interest, for example, is his Special List 8, ‘The Small Press Archive: British Poetry c1960–1989’, described as
‘A Catalogue of beginnings and endings with
a few middles’, which amongst other things
features Paul Buck and Curtains. The collection
is also notable for what it says, implicitly and
explicitly, about the book trade and the book
catalogue during these years. Catalogue 87,
which ‘might be the last catalogue’, concludes
with a statement on the lower wrapper, beginning: ‘The business, by the way, is up for grabs.
Any offers?’ The collection is also notable for
what it might say about Sinclair’s own book
£250
293
REED, Jeremy. The Isthmus of Samuel Greenberg.
London: Trigram Press, 1976. 1st edition. One
of 500 copies (of 526). 8vo. Wrappers with
dust jacket affixed at the spine. Unpaginated
(64pp.). Named after ‘a tubercular boy who
died, at twenty three, in Manhattan State Hospital for the destitute, on Ward Island’. Hart
Crane referred to Greenberg’s ‘quality that is
unspeakably eerie and the most convincing
gusto’. Fine.
£15
REED, Jeremy. Jack’s in his Corset. London: The
Many Press, 1978. 1st edition. One of 175 copies. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. 12pp. Seven poems.
Small amount of soiling, tiny bump to corner,
otherwise Near Fine in dust jacket.
£10
RILEY, Denise. Dry Air. London: Virago Press,
1985. 1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 64pp. A selection including poems from Riley’s early books
Marxism for Infants and No Fee (with Wendy
Mulford). ‘She takes apart the everyday language of femininity, turning it on itself, in an
often tragi-comic style’. Very Good.
£12
RILEY, John and LONGVILLE, Tim. The Lou
Poems. Pensnett: Grosseteste Review, 1971. 1st
edition. One of 200 numbered copies. Narrow
£20
dealing and catalogues (which superficially
resemble Riley’s) – Sinclair’s own catalogue 25
was dated January 1986, not long before Riley’s
(if the postal stamp dates it accurately). Overall Very Good, considering the wear typical of
catalogues.
294
RILEY, Peter (ed.). Collection 2. Hove, August
1968. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. 50pp. + 2
sheets of illustrations. Contributors include
Charles Olson, Barry MacSweeney, David Chaloner, John Temple, Victor Coleman, Stephen
Rodefer, Fred Buck, and Paul Metcalf. Also a
section with J. H. Prynne, Ray Crump, Tim
Longville, Geoffrey Hazard, and John James,
from an aborted magazine called ‘Little Wren’.
A Good copy, with rusting to staples and light
overall soiling to covers. Clean internally.
£18
295
(RIVIERE, Sam.) BROWN, Victoria and BRAMMER, Richard (eds.). Cassette 86: a sampler. Np:
Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2015. 1st edition. 8vo.
Wrappers. 128pp. Poetry sampler named after
the C86 compilation released by the NME in
1986, and which spawned a musical subgenre.
Riviere contributes eight poems. Fine.
£8
296
SCHJELDAHL, Peter. An Adventure of the
Thought Police. London: Ferry Press, 1971. 1st
edition. One of 274 copies (of 300). 12mo.
Wrappers. 44pp. Second book by the New York
poet, co-editor of Mother. Very Good in Joe
Brainard dust jacket.
£25
297
SCULLY, Maurice. Over and Through. Cambridge: Peter Riley, 1992. 1st edition. One of
200 copies. 8vo. Loose sheets folded into 12pp.
Cover by Leda Scully, ‘then aged eight’. Published as Poetical Histories No. 21. Poems comprising part of the section ‘Over and Through’
in Scully’s Priority. A couple of spots otherwise
Near Fine.
£10
298
SCULLY, Maurice. Prior. Durham: Pig Press,
1991. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (10pp.). Published as an unnumbered
‘dietary supplement’ of Richard Caddel’s Staple Diet series. The printed date of June 1990
has been altered by hand to 1991. Short prose,
written in Zimbabwe and Lesotho. A Good
copy, with historic horizontal fold and vertical bump. Loosely inserted typed letter signed
from 1991 from Scully to Iain Sinclair, enclosing the book and praising the Paladin Poetry
Series, which Sinclair edited, in particular the
new William Carlos Williams publication.
£14
299
SHEPPARD, Robert and FARRELL, Patricia.
The Cannibal Club. Esher: Ship of Fools, 1989.
1st edition. 4to. Seventeen sheets printed on
rectos only, in plastic wallet. Self-published
novella, a collaboration of text and image.
Sheets Very Good Plus, wallet slightly soiled.
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300
SHEPPARD, Robert. The Education of Desire. Np:
Ship of Fools, 1988. 1st edition. 8vo. One sheet
folded into 4pp. A text prepared for students
studying A Level Literature, concerning what
Sheppard believes ‘is happening in the kind of
poetry I write and in the kinds of poetry I believe to be really important today’, and ‘why I
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think this writing is revolutionary’. Very Good
Plus.
301
302
303
304
305
306
Looking North. Sussex: Ship of Fools, 1987. 1st
edition. 4to. Eleven sheets printed on rectos
only, in plastic wallet. Texts and images produced independently from a common pool of
thirty photographs of the Brownswood Park
area of North London. Sheets Near Fine, wallet a little rubbed. Loosely inserted autograph
letter signed from Sheppard to Iain Sinclair
enclosing ‘a batch of my homemade world’ and
agreeing ‘to write the introduction to Allen’s
work’. This refers to Sinclair’s ‘new job’ editing the Paladin Poetry Series, which included
Allen Fisher in its anthology Future Exiles: 3 London Poets (1992).
307
SHEPPARD, Robert (ed.). Pages 322–341. London, June 1995. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled.
attributes ATTRIBUTES by Cris Cheek, with a
response by Ken Edwards, essay by Peter Middleton, and bibliography. Near Fine.
£8
308
SHEPPARD, Robert (ed.). Pages 342–361. London, December 1995. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (40pp. printed on rectos
only). Peter Middleton’s Sacred Object: Purpose
Unknown, essays by Gavin Selerie and Ira Lightman, and bibliography. Very Good Plus.
£8
SHEPPARD, Robert (ed.). Pages 362–380. London, January 1996. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (38pp. printed on rectos
only). ‘Critical Essays Issue’: Sheppard on Ulli
Freer, John Wilkinson on Rod Mengham, Adrian Clarke on Virginia Firnberg, and Sheppard
answering ‘Why Do You Do What You Do?’
Near Fine.
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SHEPPARD, Robert (ed.). Pages 381–396. London, February 1996. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (32pp. printed on rectos
only). Ken Edwards’ Three Movements from ‘Glissando Curve’, responses by Kathleen Fraser and
Sheppard, and bibliography. Loosely inserted
notice of Sheppard’s move to Southwick. Near
Fine.
£8
SHEPPARD, Robert (ed.). Pages 397–420.
Southwick, March 1996. 1st edition. 4to.
Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (48pp. printed on
rectos only). Alan Halsey’s Shadow Recension,
essays by Gavin Selerie and Tim Woods, and
checklist. Very Good, with faint marginal band
to front cover.
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SHEPPARD, Robert and CLARKE, Adrian (eds.).
Floating Capital: new poets from London. Elmwood,
CT: Potes & Poets Press, 1991. 1st edition. 8vo.
Wrappers. vi, 132pp. Introduction by Bruce
Andrews. Blurb by Robert Creeley: ‘A sound investment, like they say.’ Contributors include
Bob Cobbing, Allen Fisher, Kelvin Corcoran,
Cris Cheek, Maggie O’Sullivan, Ken Edwards,
Clarke, and Sheppard. Near Fine, with tiny
corner bump.
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SHEPPARD, Robert and THURSTON, Scott.
Turns. Liverpool: Ship of Fools/Radiator, 2003.
1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. 16pp. Near
Fine. Loosely inserted autograph letter signed
(‘Robert’) to Iain (Sinclair) concerning Sinclair’s work, about which Sheppard wrote
a study for the ‘Writers and their Work’ series, and Sinclair’s ‘partial removal to Hastings’. Also present are two sheets printing
Sheppard’s ‘The Pissing Bridge: John Cowper Powys in “Southwick”’ (2002), his ‘surreal
impression of one of the few literary things
that has happened’ in Southwick, not far from
Hastings.
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[SHEPPARD, Robert (ed.).] The Flashlight Prospectus 2. Np: np, nd. 1st edition. 8vo. One sheet
folded into 4pp. Prospectus for Sheppard’s Letter from the Blackstock Road: The Flashlight Sonata,
Book 4 (Oasis Books, 1988), with centrespread
£5
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Mesopotamia. London: Ship of Fools, 1987. 1st
edition. 4to. Fifteen sheets printed on rectos
only, in plastic wallet. Collaboration of text and
images. Later collected as part of Sheppard’s
network Twentieth Century Blues, about which
Lee Harwood described ‘A drive and anger, a
vivid sexual and erotic violence, a grim Burroughs wit, and at times a marvellously raunchy humour’. The title page suggests a London
publication, the final sheet suggests Sussex.
Sheets Very Good Plus, wallet slightly soiled.
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SHEPPARD, Robert (ed.). Pages 219–238. London, April 1994. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled.
Issues of Pages were numbered consecutively
(from 1–8 to 421–445), taking into account
the number of pages (or rather sheets) in each
issue. With an editorial by Sheppard, this example commences the second series, subtitled
‘resources for the linguistically innovative
poetries’. Issues tended to feature one poet;
the focus here is Adrian Clarke, with poems, a
bibliography, and essays by Sheppard and Out
to Lunch. Loosely inserted flyers for Ramraid
Extraordinaire magazine and Clarke’s Obscure
Disasters. Near Fine.
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SHEPPARD, Robert (ed.). Pages 280–281. London, February 1995. 1st edition. 4to. One sheet
printed on both sides. Prints ‘Recording and
Informing a Generation’, Sheppard’s piece on
Eric Mottram, who died in January 1995. Very
Good.
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SHEPPARD, Robert (ed.). Pages 282–300. London, February 1995. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (38pp. printed on rectos
only). Hazel Smith’s radio/performance piece
Nuraghic Echoes, commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1993 for its
international sound art programme, The Listening Room. Roger Dean created the sound. Response by Peter Manson, essay by Joy Wallace,
and bibliography. Near Fine.
£8
SHEPPARD, Robert (ed.). Pages 301–321. London, May 1995. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled.
John Wilkinson’s Colour Swatch, plus response
by N H Reeve, essay by Drew Milne, and bibliography. Very Good Plus.
£8
314
– Summer 72. London: Albion Village Press, 1972.
1st edition. One of 100 copies. 4to. Stapled
wrappers. Unpaginated (36pp.). Necessarily
uncommon early work. Wrappers slightly
soiled, with two stains at the header (not affecting design), otherwise Very Good. This
copy has been signed by the author.
extracts, a brief interview with Steven Pereira,
and a quotation by Adrian Clarke. Finsbury
Park in 1985: ‘This is not so much “writing
about” as in-the-thick-of and at speed; the
result less a record of time and place than of a
mind negotiating them and their written and
verbal evidences’. Very Good Plus, with faint
creasing.
315
SIMMS, Colin. Humility. London: Spanner, October 1977. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. 20pp.
printed on rectos only. Published as Spanner
12 (vol. 2 no. 2), edited by Allen Fisher. Spanner
subscription form bound in. ‘(It is better to
travel than to arrive.)’. Very Good, with bump
to head edge.
£15
316
SIMMS, Colin. No Northwestern Passage: a long-poem. London: Writers Forum, 1976. 1st edition.
Oblong 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (32pp.).
Quinault Forest, WA and the ‘New Albion’ coast.
Mild toning to blank back cover, small split at
head edge, otherwise Very Good Plus.
£20
317
SIMMS, Colin. Voices. London: The Many Press,
1977. 1st edition. One of 185 numbered copies
(of 200). 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated
(24pp.). Silkscreened cover by Steve Herne.
Loosely inserted folded sheet of ‘POETRY PUT
OUT as at October 1979’ by Simms. ‘New Drift
Country’: further States poems. Near Fine in
dust jacket.
£13
SINCLAIR, Iain. Brown Clouds: in the tin zone,
Pendeen, Cornwall, April/may 1977. Newcastle
upon Tyne: Pig Press, 1977. 1st edition. 4to.
Stab-stapled and bound with spine tape (as
issued). Unpaginated (18pp. printed on rectos only). Published in an edition of 200 copies, this copy has been ‘numbered’ ‘E2’ and
stamped ‘REVIEW COPY / NOT FOR SALE’.
Uncommon early Sinclair release. Nick to
tail edge of title page and small closed tear to
tail of blank back cover, otherwise about Very
Good with covers slightly worn. This copy has
been signed by the author.
£95
SINCLAIR, Iain. Flesh Eggs & Scalp Metal: Selected
Poems, 1970–1987. London: Paladin, 1989. 1st
edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 172pp. Work from ten
books, including Sinclair’s Albion Village Press
releases, his clandestine editions of the 1980s,
and RED EYE (then ‘a closed secret’). Very Good
with some rubbing and creasing to wrappers.
One corner bump. This copy has been signed
by the author.
£35
SINCLAIR, Iain. Lud Heat: a book of the dead hamlets,
May 1974 to April 1975. London: Albion Village
Press, 1975. 1st edition. One of 390 copies (of
400). 8vo. Wrappers, with illustration mounted
to upper wrapper. 112pp. Self-published. ‘“The
living can assist the imagination of the dead”’.
Slightly toned at the fore edge, small mark to
the fore edge of the pages, and spine faded as
usual and bumped at the tail. Nonetheless a
bright, Very Good Plus copy of a book which is
increasingly hard to find in any condition. This
copy has been signed by the author.
£100
SINCLAIR, Iain. Muscat’s Würm: Summer 71
£125
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SINCLAIR, Iain. Shallow Excavations. Np: Words
Press, 2015. 1st edition. Published as Bookmark
Poems No. 4. One of 5 copies signed by the author for Test Centre. The twelve (unsigned)
bookmarks comprising the first series, by various authors, are otherwise available as a complete set only. Fine.
£5
323
SINCLAIR, Iain. Suicide Bridge: A Book of the Furies. A Mythology of the South & East, Autumn 1973–
Spring 1978. London: Albion Village Press, 1979.
1st edition. One of 385 copies (of 400). 8vo.
Wrappers. Unpaginated (160pp.). With drawings by Susan Wood and photographs by Sinclair. Very faint sticker ghost to upper wrapper,
light creasing to the spine, and slightly soiled
tail edge. Very Good Plus. This copy has been
signed by the author.
£50
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(SINCLAIR, Iain.) FOWLER, S. J. (ed.). nyr
´
skáldskapur. Newton-le-Willows: The Knives
Forks And Spoons Press, 2010. 1st edition. 8vo.
Wrappers. 52pp. Four collaborations as part of
Fowler’s Enemies project, this time in Iceland.
Includes Iain Sinclair and Ragnhildur Jóhanns,
and Eiríkur Örn Norddahl and Stewart Home.
Near Fine. This copy has been signed by Sinclair.
£12
325
(SINCLAIR, Iain.) LISTER, Andrew and STUART, Matthew (eds.). Bricks from the Kiln 1.
London, December 2015. 1st edition. One of
700 copies. 8vo. French wrappers. 136pp. + 2
inserts. Handsome journal bringing together pieces of larger structures, ‘bricks’ which
‘stem from larger bodies of work and ongoing
research’. Edited by the designers Traven T.
Croves, it takes its name from the magazine
Der Ziegelbrenner (‘The Brick-Burner’ or ‘The
Brick-Maker’), edited by Ret Marut, who later
became B. Traven (probably). Sinclair contributes ‘Westering’, concerning time spent in the
West Country in the 1970s and also available as
a separate edition from Test Centre. Also Ralph
Rumney and Ian Breakwell. Fine.
£10
326
(SINCLAIR, Iain.) SHEPPARD, Robert. Where
Treads of Death: five books of Iain Sinclair reviewed.
Liverpool: Ship of Fools, 2004. 1st edition. 8vo.
Stapled wrappers. 26pp. Gathers reviews of
The Ebbing of the Kraft, Rodinsky’s Room, Sorry Meniscus, London Orbital, and White Goods, written
as warm-up acts for Sheppard’s longer study of
Sinclair. Very Good.
£10
327
(SIX TOWNS POETRY FESTIVAL.) Etruscan
Jetty: Anthology of the Fifth 6 Towns Poetry Festival,
November 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 1996. Newcastle under
Lyme: etruscan books, 1996. 1st edition. One
of 125 copies. 8vo. Wrappers. 34pp. Afterword
by Nicholas Johnson (who is probably the editor). Blurb by Bill Griffiths: ‘Etruscan was an
independent language, but insufficient to allow the possibility of full translation. Perhaps
they got it just right?’ Contributors include
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Edward Dorn, Griffiths, David Gascoyne, P. Inman, Alan Halsey, David Jones, Maggie O’Sullivan, Aiden Andrew Dun (sic), Robin Blaser,
Denise Riley, Carl Rakosi, Brian Catling, and
Barry MacSweeney. Loosely inserted is the ‘Last
minute addition! A poster-poem by Geraldine
Monk’. Very Good, with wrappers very faintly
toned and top corner lightly creased. Wear to
the poster-poem at the corners, as overhanging
the book.
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329
330
331
(SIX TOWNS POETRY FESTIVAL.) JOHNSON,
Nicholas (ed.). Peacocks Two: Six Towns Poetry
Festival 1993. London: The Many Press, 1993.
1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. 16pp. Cover by Bob Cobbing. Anthology of the festival
of avant-garde and lyric poetry, held from
22–24 October 1993 at Staffordshire Theatre.
Contributors include Tom Raworth, Barry
MacSweeney, Bill Griffiths and P C Fencott,
Elaine Randell, John Welch, John Hall, Jim
Burns, and Tom Leonard. Near Fine.
£10
SMITH, Simon (ed.). GRIllE 1. London, Spring
1992. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (40pp.). Contributors include Kelvin
Corcoran, Tony Lopez, Peter Riley, John Welch,
Ken Edwards, and D. S. Marriott. Loosely inserted autograph letter signed from Smith to
Iain Sinclair introducing the magazine and soliciting work. Staples rather sharply protruding from the back cover, otherwise about Very
Good Plus.
£12
[SOUSTER, Raymond (ed.).] Combustion 3. Toronto: Contact Press, July-September 1957.
1st edition. Folio. Sheets held by paperclip at
top corner. 20pp. printed on rectos only. An
early issue (from the same year as number
one) of the significant Canadian mimeo mag,
preceded by Souster’s Contact and preceding
the Vancouver Poetry Conference. Contributors include Denise Levertov, Stuart Z. Perkoff, Jacques Prevert, Barriss Mills, Larry Eigner, Theodore Enslin, Jonathan Williams, and
René Char. Folded horizontally and with staple ghosts at corners, presumably to hold the
magazine together when posting. This copy is
addressed to Roy Fisher (visible through the
final page, but not obtrusively), and stamped
by Contact Press. Some foxing and staining to
slightly worn edges and outer pages, including
a fairly light pen scribble. Paperclip rusty – it is
not clear if this was added by the recipient after
removing the holding staples, and/or if it is the
original binding. About Very Good, given the
newsletter format, a precursor of magazines
like The Floating Bear.
£35
[SOUSTER, Raymond (ed.).] Combustion 5. Toronto: Contact Press, January 1958. 1st edition. Folio. Stapled twice at top corner. 24pp.
printed on rectos only. Contributors include
Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder (translations of
Han-shan), Fielding Dawson, Theodore Enslin, Gael Turnbull, Cid Corman (translation
of Pedro Salinas), Paul C. Metcalf, Larry Eigner,
and Barriss Mills. Folded horizontally and addressed to Roy Fisher, with faint Contact Press
stamp. Staple ghosts at corners, light wear, a
few spots, and a basic hand-drawn map on the
lower outer page (blank except for the address).
Very Good.
£35
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SOUSTER, R. H. (ed.). Combustion 6. Toronto:
Contact Press, April 1958. 1st edition. Folio.
Stapled twice at top corner. 20pp. printed
on rectos only. Contributors include Robert
Duncan, Kenneth McRobbie, and Cid Corman
(translations of Wang Wei, Tu Fu, and Wang Po).
Brief review of Gregory Corso’s Gasoline. Folded
horizontally and addressed to Roy Fisher (visible through the final page, not too obtrusively),
with faint Contact Press stamp. Light wear, and
peripheral soiling and spots. Very Good.
£35
SOUSTER, Raymond (ed.). Combustion 12. Toronto: Contact Press, January 1960. 1st edition. Folio. Stapled three times at top corner.
24pp. printed on rectos only. Consists of Cid
Corman’s long poem ‘Invitation to Primavera’, written in ‘Boston 1949 – Kyoto 1959’, followed by a list of books from the press. Folded
horizontally and addressed to Michael Shayer,
with Contact Press stamp. First three sheets
just about loose, otherwise Very Good. Staple
ghosts to corners, some staining and spotting,
and light wear.
£25
SOUSTER, Raymond (ed.). Combustion 13. Toronto: Contact Press, May 1960. 1st edition.
Folio. Stapled three times at top corner. 24pp.
printed on rectos only. Contributors include
LeRoi Jones, Theodore Enslin, Barriss Mills,
Kenneth McRobbie, and Larry Eigner. Folded
horizontally and addressed to Michael Shayer.
Staple ghosts to corners. Outer pages foxed,
otherwise Very Good.
£30
SPICER, Jack. Billy, Graal, Langage. Trans. Joseph Guglielmi, Jacques Roubaud, and Jean
Pierre Faye. Np (Paris): Change [Seghers/Laffont], 1976. 1st edition thus. 8vo. Wrappers.
98pp. Text in French. A standalone publication
of Spicer’s pages from Change 28, translating
Billy the Kid, The Holy Grail, and Language, with
a short foreword and afterword. The book is
an issue of the original sheets (pp. 125–222)
in different wrappers, specific to the contents.
Since it is not priced, perhaps extra sheets
were bound in a small quantity – this copy is
number ‘025’ of an unspecified total – for the
translators to use to further the cause of Spicer:
‘L’énigmatique poète américain contemporain
– Jack Spicer, mort inconnu dans son pays –’.
Very Good, with light superficial rubbing to
wrappers, title slightly faded at spine, and evidence at the front of this extraction from a
larger production.
£20
SUTHERLAND, Keston. Prag. Cambridge: Equipage, 1996. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (12pp.). A couple of tiny
bumps, but Fine.
£35
340
SUTHERLAND, Keston, FARRELL, Patricia,
MATTHEWS, Shelby, and PERRIL, Simon. New
Tonal Language. London: Reality Street, 1999.
1st edition. Narrow 8vo. Wrappers. 80pp. Published as ‘RSE 4packs: No 3’, in their new writers series. Sutherland contributes ‘A Pow Ode’
and ‘The Code for Ice’. Loosely inserted typed
letter signed (‘Simon’) from Perril to Iain (Sinclair) enclosing the book, and concerning Perril’s piece about Brian Catling’s The Stumbling
Block, Its Index. Very Good Plus.
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341
(TAK TAK TAK.) Cassette supplement to Tak
Tak Tak 2. [Nottingham]: [Tak Tak Tak], nd. 1st
edition. With printed j-card, but information
about the contents is only contained in the
magazine (not present). Spoken word and music, including The Poet Milton (i.e. Ted Milton),
The Colonels, Martien Groeneveld, Double Exposure, ‘She’s fresh’ (found in Ladbroke Grove),
and Owen Davies, Cathy Stevens and Charles
Dickie. Very Good in case.
£8
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(TAK TAK TAK.) Cassette supplement to Tak
Tak Tak 3. [Nottingham]: Tak Tak Tak, 1988.
1st edition. One of 300 numbered copies.
Magazine not present. Contributors include
Ted Milton and Blurt, Left Hand Right Hand
(which included the anonymous editor of Tak
Tak Tak, Andrew Brown, and his brother Tim,
who was also probably an editor), The Lemon
Kittens, The Colonels, Ray Lee, ‘Bar Mitzvah
Girls’ (found in London), and Zwickys Engineering, Wokingham. Very Good in case, with
printed j-card.
£8
(TAK TAK TAK.) Mother Country/Fatherland:
an anthology. Nottingham: Tak Tak Tak, 1991.
1st edition. One of 500 numbered copies. 8vo.
Wrappers. 98pp. Published as number 5 in the
Tak Tak Tak series. Anonymously edited collection of writing and art. Contributors include
Jeff Nuttall, Ian Breakwell, Michael Horovitz,
Peter Blake, Geraldine Monk, Alan Burns, and
Ted Milton. A free cassette supplement could
be obtained by detaching a rear corner and
sending it to Tak Tak Tak, but the corner is
still present. (The two cassettes above, by contrast, seem to have been issued with their corresponding magazines.) Light wear to spine,
otherwise Very Good Plus.
£6
TARN, Nathaniel. October. London: Trigram
Press, 1969. 1st edition. Small 4to. White
cloth. Unpaginated (48pp.). Cover and illustrations by Paul Vaughan. Sequence of ten
poems concerning crisis, breakdown, and renewal, plus an elegy for the suicide of a friend,
‘Requiem Pro Duabus Filiis Israel’. There were
also 100 numbered and signed copies bound
in buckram. Very Good, with edges slightly
soiled, in mottled dust jacket also slightly
soiled.
£8
TARN, Nathaniel. October. London: Trigram
Press, 1969. 1st edition. Small 4to. Wrappers.
Unpaginated (48pp.). Very Good Plus.
£5
343
STINSON, Erik. Popular Photo: A collection of
thoughts in verse. [New York]: Jerkpoet, 2015. 1st
edition. 12mo. Wrappers. 48pp. By the creative
advertising writer and future Test Centre author. Slightly rubbed but new.
£12
337
SUTHERLAND, Keston. Lidia. Cambridge:
Equipage, 1996. 1st edition. 8vo. Stapled
wrappers. Unpaginated (24pp.). Uncommon
early work. Near Fine, with wrappers slightly
curling.
£35
338
SUTHERLAND, Keston. The Odes to TL61P. London: Enitharmon Press, 2013. 1st edition. 8vo.
Wrappers. 80pp. Sequence of five odes, mostly
in prose. Fine.
£5
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TORRANCE, Chris. Acrospirical Meanderings in
a Tongue of the Time: poems: Glynmercher Isaf, June
1970 to October 1972. London: Albion Village
350). 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated
(48pp.). Illustrations and map by Val Torrance,
and photographs by Iain Sinclair. Torrance’s
first publication by Sinclair’s press. Early copies of the book were distributed with stapled
wrappers, as in this case; the rest were stitched.
Very Good Plus with a couple of bumps.
£30
347
TORRANCE, Chris. Acrospirical Meanderings in
a Tongue of the Time: poems: Glynmercher Isaf, June
1970 to October 1972. London: Albion Village
350). 8vo. Stitched wrappers. Unpaginated
(48pp.). A Good copy, nearly Very Good, with
a light vertical crease throughout and some
peripheral spotting. Dog-ear to upper wrapper.
This copy has been signed by the author, who
has made a couple of small corrections to the
text. It is additionally signed by Torrance and
inscribed to ‘George & Jean’ in 1974. It is conceivable that ‘Jean’ is Jean McIntosh, to whom
‘The Sparrowhawk’ in this collection is dedicated, whilst alternatively ‘George’ could be
George Dowden. However the names George
and Jean do not seem to connect up, so they are
probably unidentified.
£40
348
TORRANCE, Chris. Citrinas: The Magic Door Book
II. London: Albion Village Press, 1977. 1st edition. One of 285 copies (of 300). Narrow small
4to. Wrappers. Unpaginated (48pp.). Illustrated with cyan-blue photographs. Dedicated ‘To
/ The inhabitants / of the Vale of Neath / & its
tributaries’. Very Good, with some fading to
wrappers. This copy has been signed by the author (‘Chris’) and inscribed to ‘Lee [Harwood] &
Jud & Rafe’ in the year of publication.
£35
349
TORRANCE, Chris. The Magic Door: a cycle. Book
One. London: Albion Village Press, 1975. 1st
edition. One of 290 copies (of 300). 8vo. Stitched
wrappers. Unpaginated (48pp.). Cover and illustrations by Val Torrance. The first book in
Torrance’s major sequence, of which Acrospirical
Meanderings was a forebear, as it was Torrance’s
first book completed in Wales. Very Good Plus.
Errata slip not present, but it appears not to
have been issued with all copies. This copy has
been signed by the author in 2013.
£40
350
TORRANCE, Chris. Southerly Vector/The Book of
Heat. Np (Neath): Cwm Nedd Press, nd (1996).
1st edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 80pp. Two further
books in the Magic Door series. 1” scuff from
sticker removal to upper wrapper, affecting
the periphery of the illustration, a couple of
tiny nicks, otherwise Very Good.
£6
351
TOTTON, Nick. making a meal of it. London:
Curiously Strong, 1976. 1st edition. One of
300 copies. Narrow 4to. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (24pp.). Poems, with words of others swallowed and digested, ‘Because the full
mouth never wants to stop cooking’ (Grace
Slick). Wrappers somewhat bumped and
creased, but about Very Good.
£5
352
TOTTON, Nick. Seeing it Through, or The Man
£10
Who Put the ‘I’ in Mirror. London: The Many
Press, 1978. 1st edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (20pp.). Uses intensively Freud’s Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis and William
Bates’ Better Eyesight Without Glasses. Peripheral
discolouration to covers, lower staple rather
close to the edge (but secure), otherwise Very
Good.
A Sketchbook & A Morula. Birmingham: Migrant
Press, 1966. 1st edition. 12mo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (28pp.). Words from ‘boomerang’ to ‘poor’, via ‘nincompoop’, picked
randomly for each day from November 17 to
December 6, 1963. Very Good Plus.
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[TROCCHI, Alexander (ed.).] LAING, R. D. The
Present Situation. Np: Project Sigma, [1964]. 1st
edition. Folio. Stapled at top corner. 6pp. Published as number 6 (although not stated) in
Trocchi’s Sigma Portfolio, the exact number
of whose releases has never been clear. Project Sigma was Trocchi’s attempt to establish
a wide-reaching network of countercultural
activity and interaction. This ‘sigmatic’ paper
by Laing was delivered in London at the 6th
International Congress for Psychotherapy, in
August 1964. Laing was at the time collaborating with Trocchi and William Burroughs on ‘a
definitive work on Drugs and the Creative Process’. A Very Good, slightly rubbed copy, with
rusting to the staple.
£40
[TROCCHI, Alexander (ed.).] SIGMA ASSOCIATES. Letter to Universities. London: Project
Sigma, nd (1964). 1st edition. Small 4to. One
sheet printed on one side. Published as number 16 (although not stated) in the Portfolio. A
covering letter, designed to be sent along with
Sigma material to invite interest in the project.
The document portrays Sigma as ‘what we believe to be a new dimension in the dissemination of information’ which ‘attempts to throw
light on a “development” in human affairs
which could be said to be already happening’.
It would appear that the item below was enclosed with this letter. Historic horizontal fold,
and offsetting from staple rust. Very Good.
£25
[TROCCHI, Alexander (ed.).] List of People Interested. London: Project Sigma, 1964. 1st edition. Folio. One sheet printed on both sides.
Published as number 17 in the Portfolio. Individuals who ‘have, at one time or another,
expressed serious interest in the possibilities
implied in the sigma experiment’, including
William Burroughs, Wallace Berman, Allen
Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Bill Butler, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, Ann Quin, Jeff Nuttall, Michael
McClure, Timothy Leary, John Latham, Michael Hollingshead, Colin Wilson, Rosemary
Tonks, and Jim Haynes. A Good copy, slightly
rubbed and nicked at edges. Staple ghost at top
corner.
£30
TURNBULL, Gael. Thronging the Heart. Belper:
Stuart Mills, Summer 1976. 1st edition. Published as Aggie Weston’s 12. 4to. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (12pp.). Spotting throughout one corner (not affecting text) and slightly
to wrappers. Staples slightly rusty. This copy
has been signed by the author in 1980 and inscribed to Paul Buck. Turnbull has also added
‘after thoughts of afterthoughts’, rewriting
some lines, giving a couple of preliminary
notes (one a quotation by Breton), and providing a variation on the title: ‘RESIDUES (Part
Two)’.
£25
TURNBULL, Gael. Twenty Words: Twenty Days:
£18
359
360
361
Very Good Plus in jacket.
WELCH, John (ed.). The Many Review 1–5. London: The Many Press, 1983–1987. 1st editions.
8vo. Stapled wrappers. 32pp.–40pp. The first
five (of six) issues of the magazine of criticism
and commentary, concerned mainly with new
poetry. Contributors include Alan Halsey, Paul
Green, Peter Robinson, Geoffrey Ward, Robert
Sheppard, Robert Hampson, John Hall, Tony
Baker, W. G. Shepherd, Anthony Howell, Peter
Middleton, D. S. Marriott, and Welch. Subjects
include J. H. Prynne, Roy Fisher, Richard Caddel, George Oppen, Cid Corman, Harry Guest,
Peter Riley, Rod Mengham, David Chaloner,
Wendy Mulford, Clark Coolidge, and William
Burroughs. Staples of issue 1 not present,
without much impact, otherwise a Near Fine
run.
£35
WELCH, John (ed.). Vanessa Poetry Magazine
1–7 (in six volumes plus supplement) (all published). London: The Many Press, [1975?]–1981.
1st editions. Issues 2 and 3 are each specified as
one of 200 copies. Dimensions and bindings
vary (issues 1, 4, and double issue 5/6 are 4to,
stab-stapled; issues 2, 3, and 7 are 8vo, stapled
wrappers). Issue 7 40pp., the rest unpaginated (respectively 74pp. printed on rectos only,
40pp., 28pp., 28pp., 26pp.). Also present is the
supplement to issue 5/6, English Literature by
Ralph Hawkins (oblong 8vo, wrappers with
mounted illustration, unpaginated (30pp.
printed on rectos only)). A rare complete run of
Vanessa, the magazine of The Many Press; the
press is introduced at the end of issue 1. The
magazine’s exact name seems to shift between
Vanessa Poetry Magazine and just Vanessa, and issue 7 is combined with David Chaloner’s One
magazine issue 5 to become Vanessa and One.
Contributors across the run include Anthony
Barnett, Tom Lowenstein, Anthony Howell,
Bill Shepherd, Martin Thom, Cory Harding,
Nick Totton, Paul Brown, Neil Oram, Peter
Philpott, Geoffrey Ward, Paul Green, Jeremy
Hilton, William Sherman, Jim Burns, Colin
Simms, Rod Mengham, Peter Riley, Deborah
Evans, Simon Pettet, Yann Lovelock, Vivienne
Finch, Peter Robinson, Elaine Randell, Alan
Halsey, Fielding Dawson, Chaloner, and Welch.
A Very Good set, often better, with peripheral
spotting to wrappers of issue 2, staples of that
issue rusty, and spotting and marginal rust
marks to issue 1.
£125
364
WILKIE, B. [Britton]. Limits of Space and Time.
NY: Angel Hair Books, 1971. 1st edition. One
of 500 copies. Square 16mo. Stapled wrappers.
Unpaginated (12pp.). Short prose pieces of
‘Mummification and Space Travel’, from ‘Observations of Egyptian Artifacts’ to ‘Modern
Western History’. Published by Anne Waldman
and Lewis Warsh. Very Good Plus, with stock
toned as usual.
£32
365
WILLIAMS, Jonathan. Mahler. London: Cape
Goliard Press, 1969. 1st edition thus, paperback variant. Small 4to. Wrappers. Unpaginated (64pp.). Cover by R. B. Kitaj. A sequence of
forty-four responses to the forty-four movements of Gustav Mahler’s ten symphonies.
Originally published in 1967 in a folio edition
by Marlborough Fine Art Limited. Williams
provides a note for this edition, which has mi-
£8
362
UPTON, John and DUKE, Jim (eds.). The Brighton Head and Freak Mag [1]. Brighton: John
Upton & Jim Duke, 1968. 1st edition. Folio.
Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (38pp. mostly
printed on rectos only). Unnumbered first
issue of the infamous magazine, with details
stamped to hand-coloured front cover. Including Richard Miller, the Sussex Federation
of Anarchists, Roy Pennington (‘cut-up throeback chuck-away’), a homage to dsh, Roger
‘Egg-man’ Caney, A. Anderson, Ian Stevenson, a
signed and numbered print (one of 100) by Upton, found items, Jim Pennington (language
games), the Brighton Combination, ‘RIPPER,
RIPPER BURNING BRIGHT’ (not credited,
but possibly by Ted Kavanagh), and a short
story and picture by Duke. Also a sheet (bound
in) on which to collect signatures and addresses in protest at the trial and conviction of Bill
Butler, whose Unicorn Bookshop was raided
in 1968 under the Obscene Publications Act.
Very Good, with rusting to staples and slightly rubbed tail edge. The exact contents of the
magazine seem to vary a little between copies.
£35
UPTON, John and DUKE, Jim (eds.). Head and
Freak Mag 6. Brighton: John Upton and Jim
Duke, nd (1969). 1st edition. Folio. Stab-stapled at head edge. Unpaginated (70pp. mostly
printed on rectos only). Includes Ed Sanders
(‘in defence of KISS & SCREW’), Arthur Moyse
(‘Military twostep’ and the collage ‘Police Raiding the Offices of the International Times’),
found pages comprising the ‘sequence’ ‘TNATSISSA DOGIMED’ or ‘TNATSISA DOGIMED’,
Richard Miller (on paper stolen from the
Brighton College of Technology Union), Ian T.
Stevenson, Peter McFarlane, Roy Pennington
(‘EveryMan’s Hang-Up….the premature Orgasm’), a w b anderson, and Duke (poems and
pictures, including a signed original painting
and ‘a journey to Janis Joplin’). Tail edge of
some pages rubbed and nicked because oversize, some dog-ears and other edgewear, and
possibly restapled. A fragile, wild production.
£35
VAS DIAS, Robert (ed.). The Atlantic Review (New
Series) 1. London: Antioch International Writing Programs, Spring 1979. 1st edition. 4to.
Wrappers. 80pp. British and American writing.
Contributors include Robert Creeley, Andrew
Crozier, Carl Rakosi, Diane Wakoski, Fielding
Dawson, Jackson Mac Low, David Chaloner, Wendy Mulford, William Bronk, Gilbert
Sorrentino, Paul Evans, Nathaniel Tarn, Paul
Blackburn, and Paul Green. Also reviews by
Lee Harwood (of John Hall) and Chris Torrance (of Barry MacSweeney). Foxing to title
page and a few margins, light vertical crease to
upper wrapper, otherwise Very Good.
£14
WELCH, John. The Fish God Problem. London:
The Many Press, 1977. 1st edition. One of 180
numbered copies (of 200). 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (28pp.). Self-published.
With drawings by Ken Kiff, including the dust
jacket design – a relatively early contribution.
£20
363
nor revisions, and ‘Symphony No. 10’ is new.
About Very Good, with rubbing to wrappers,
and small nick to lower wrapper. Loosely inserted card from the publishers designating
this an advance review copy. Faint note on the
front endpaper (pencil on black) noting the
book’s publication and arrival dates.
366
WILLIAMS, Jonathan and PHILLIPS, Tom.
Imaginary Postcards. London: Trigram Press,
1975. 1st edition. 8vo. Red cloth. Unpaginated
(96pp.). A striking collaboration of text and
image, but one whose (handsome) design led
to a disagreement between Williams (founder of The Jargon Society) and the publisher.
Asa Benveniste had already bound 120 copies,
but due to the disagreement he decided not
to publish the book. (The 40 signed copies
mentioned in the book never materialised.)
Some copies have a slip with this information,
adding that the bound copies were being distributed to friends of the press. However, not
all copies were distributed. This copy does not
have the slip (which is not integral to the book),
and was indeed not distributed at all. Phillips,
incidentally, is said to have liked the book,
whereas Williams is thought not to have been
given a copy. Fine in dust jacket.
£200
367
ZUKOFSKY, Louis. “A” 22 & 23. London:
Trigram Press, 1977. 1st UK edition. 8vo.
Brown cloth. 80pp. “A”, begun in 1927, is completed in these two sections (as “A”–24 was
written and published before them). ‘In a sense
the poem is an autobiography: the words are
my life…’ A few faint spots to edges, otherwise
Near Fine in dust jacket, which is very slightly
marked and creased.
£30
368
ZUKOFSKY, Louis. “A” 22 & 23. London:
Trigram Press, 1977. 1st UK edition. 8vo.
Wrappers with dust jacket affixed at the spine.
80pp. Zukofsky’s discovery of a few punctuation omissions in the book meant that he
refused to sign copies. This disillusioned Asa
Benveniste and although Trigram continued
for a short while afterwards, the experience led
to the end of the press. Tiny nick to head edge
of lower wrapper, otherwise Near Fine with
light wear to front cover.
£15
369
(ZUKOFSKY, Louis.) TAGGART, John (ed.).
Maps 5: Louis Zukofsky. Shippensburg, PA,
1973. 1st edition. One of 400 copies. 12mo.
Wrappers. 136pp. Essays on Zukofsky, including by Hugh Kenner, Cid Corman, Guy Davenport, and Eric Mottram. Also photographs,
and a poem by Theodore Enslin (from Synthesis,
#13). Quotation by Ezra Pound on the lower
wrapper: ‘In his tour de force L. Zukofsky gives
a phonetic representation of an American
chewing chewing-gum.’ A Good, somewhat
rubbed copy.
£14
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