North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: The Capilano Review, 1974. First Printing. Softcover. “Fluid as music we pass through, / and return, bringing ancestors / to this new place: / our childhoods merging, melting. / The map’s divisions snarl, breaking / as we pass effortlessly through. / The continent takes us on / and begins to dream us: / worlds shading into worlds. / What integrity in our bones’ structure?-- /..... More

Iowa City, IA: The Spirit That Moves Us Press, 1980. First Softcover Edition (Library Copy). Softcover. "We decided on the time period 1965-1977 partially arbitrarily, partially with a reason. The small, alternative, literary press had existed before Hawthorne and Emerson, had grown and pulsated along with an increasingly national literacy up to a minor heyday in the 1920s. It was fueled further, though partially appropriated, by the college boom of..... More

London, England: Tangerine Press, 2009. Limited Lettered First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Douglas Blazek. “You have the first DWANG in your hands. This should be a good thing. The intended definition of ‘dwang’ is a NZ/Scots word for a noggin in a stud wall. If you are holding an old man’s cock, then you are holding the wrong definition.” (from Afterword “What We Talk About When We Talk About DWANG”..... More

London, England: Tangerine Press, 2011. Limited Edition- Author/Artist Proof. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed to Charles Plymell by Michael Curran. "I've held on to the wheel alongside the road of progress like/ The grass, the weeds always half beaten down & sorrowful/ Dandelion pride under the feet of those who walk unawares." ("They Too May Embrace the Rattlesnake" by Charles Plymell, last stanza, pg. 11) This third number of the literary..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1977; 1978; 1979. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers. Four vintage, contiguous numbers of the literary review journal subtitled "A Small Press Review Magazine" co-published & with contributions by Legendary Literary Outlaw Charles Plymell, & chiefly edited by his wife & co-publisher Pamela Beach Plymell, productions of their Cherry Valley Editions imprint: (1) NRS Vol. 2 No. 8 & 9 (1977)- this issue features a lengthy..... More

New York, NY: AMS Press, Inc., 1969. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This early, vintage number of the literary journal co-edited & with contributions by John Hopper includes the poem "With Words" by Diane Wakoski, the venerable & prolific poet who has long resided in Michigan. Just below her printed name above the poem on page 26, Wakoski has hand-written her signature with characteristic series of vertical doodles..... More