Berkeley, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. | "Great brass bell of austerity | and the ghosts of old picnickers | ambling under the box elder, when the sobriety | was the drunkeness, John" | (from the poem Sousa, pg. 22) A collection of poems by Edward Dorn (1929-1999), among the greatest of the Black Mountain School poets along with his contemporaries/mentors Robert Creeley (1926-2005), Robert Duncan (1919-1988)..... More

Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 1989. Limited Edition. Inscribed, signed & dated by Edward Dorn. A unique piece by Edward Dorn (1929-1999), among the greatest of the Black Mountain School poets along with his colleagues/mentors Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan & Charles Olson. As noted in the colophon, this selection of poems is from the larger collection, Abhorrences, and was released “to commemorate the poet’s return to Idaho for a reading tour..... More

New York, NY, USA: Totem Press/ Corinth Books, 1964. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "I will have to pick my cluster of grapes/ in this country,/ after everyone else has gone/ to Korcula or Spain. It will be strange/ here, walking through the parks, the folding/ chairs gone, the meandering lovers/ and old women in their Sunday hats gone;/ an empty air, and a peaceful kind of rest./ I an american..... More

Bolinas, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. A highly rewarding volume featuring vital, totally overlooked interviews of Ed Dorn (1929-1999), the great American poet most often affiliated with the literary journal, Wild Dog — Dorn's organizational contribution to the avant-garde print culture of the Mimeograph Revolution. A favorite author of Stephen King’s (b. 1947), who described Dorn’s work as “perfect talismans of writing,” the author behind Gunslinger and..... More

Buffalo, NY: Frontier Press, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. A rare prose work by Edward Dorn (1929-1999), among the greatest of the Black Mountain Poets along with his contemporaries Robert Creeley (1926-2005), Robert Duncan (1919-1988) & Charles Olson (1910-1970). The Rites of Passage; A Brief History as seen here would eventually be revised and published by Black Sparrow Press in 1971 under the new name By the Sound — and you..... More

San Francisco, CA: Frontier Press, 1969. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed, signed & dated by Edward Dorn. "It is deep going from here/ from the old world to the new/ from Europa home/ the brilliant scrolls of the waves/ wave// the runic secret of homeward/ when Diego de Landa/ the glyphic books destroyed/ there were old towns/ in our hemisphere sadness/ now as then// no sense in old towns chontal/..... More

London, England, UK: Permanent Press, 1975. Limited First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "I left my room key | in the pigeon hole | there are some books there | I forgot to mention | please take them, even | if they scream out | that they are not | worthy of your attention." ("Dear Herbie," unpaginated). A vintage 1975 collection of poems by Edward Dorn (1929-1999), among the greatest..... More

New York, NY, USA: Artists & Writers Militia/Black Mask, 1968. First Edition Thus. Single Sheet. “Art matters little to us, we profoundly hope that wars, and colonial insurrection will annihilate this Western civilization whose vermin you defend even in the orient…We assert that we have found treason and whatever else can harm the security of the state more reconcilable with than the sale of large quantities of lard to a...... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: COUGH, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Investments in oil, broadcasting or film could prove profitable if you have some risk capital to spend. Try to see your partner's point of view. Two heads are better than one." (Virgo Horoscope, 9/11/72). COUGH 3, a Toronto, Canada based underground double-sided literary magazine guest-edited by Canadian Brad Shubat (b. 1970), is the third issue..... More

New York, NY: Yugen, 1960. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Amiri Baraka, Michael McClure, Hubert Selby Jr., and Kenneth Koch. (McNeil C75-C78, p.124 in “Gary Snyder: A Bibliography”; Charters C78, p. 60 in “A Bibliography of Works by Jack Kerouac”). “‘Merde!’ screams Rimbaud / at Verlaine salons --- / Gossip in Paris---Verlaine Wife / is jealous of a boy / with no seats to his trousers / ---Love sends..... More

San Francisco, CA: James Koller, 1967. First Printing. Softcover. "rages/ strain/ Dog of Tartarus/ Guards of Tartarus/ Finks of the Bosses. War Makers" (untitled, Charles Olson, first stanza pg. 1) This vintage 1967 number of the literary journal co-edited (with Edward van Aelstyn) & published by the noted poet-ecologist James Koller (1936-2014) is the proverbial Embarrassment of Riches, with contributions of cutting-edge poetry, prose-poetry & prose by a dizzying array..... More

London, England: Antioch International Writing Programs at the Antioch Centre for British Studies, 1979. First Printing. Softcover. This Autumn 1979 number of the British literary journal features a review of a volume of poems by Edward Dorn (Hello, La Jolla, 1978) by Peter Ackroyd, another by Linda W. Wagner of a work by Michigan poet Diane Wakoski (The Man Who Shook Hands) & more. With contributions of poetry by Don..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Printing. Broadside. "...a vital new work by one of America's best and most exciting young poets...the first completed section of a long narrative poem to be published in installments..."(from description) An original publisher's letter-sized broadside prospectus announcing Edward Dorn's Gunslinger, Book I. First issued in parts beginning in 1968 by Black Sparrow Press before its publication in complete form in 1975 by..... More