London, England, UK: Poets' and Painters' Press, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. “1. We go sailing on the black road toward death, | Slipping over the ice! | The dark days end, clumps of darkness | hanging in the trees, | And we notice nothing! 2. The hours after supper, precious hours, hours full of sweetness, | When our bones | Give off fragrance… | 3. Faces appear and vanish. |..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1961. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage 1961 number of the venerable literary, art & cultural journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features a "Russian Poetry Portfolio" including poems by Boris Pasternak (translated or "Adapted" by Robert Lowell), Ossip Mandelstam, Andrei Vozneisenski & other twentieth-century Giants of Russian poetry. Also in this issue: Fiction by Cecil Dawkins & others; interviews including of Marianne Moore conducted by..... More

Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. "This is the sixteenth annual volume of the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards - a series that has attained stature as "the best contemporaneous anthologies of poetry available" (Northwest Review, front pastedown sticker). Among the award-winning poems in this number of the prestigious series in which Scottish-born writer & lecturer Lionel Stevenson (1902-1973) was Chairman-Editor, include the classic earlier poems..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1963. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features an excerpt of four chapters from the then-work-in-progress Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan, which would later be published in full during 1967 & become a cult classic. Also in this issue is the poem "The Lean Rats on the March" by Anselm Hollo; transcript..... More

New York, NY: Hawk's Well Press, 1963. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The fifth volume in the series of poetry anthologies compiled & edited by Jerome Rothenberg, the renowned poet & ethnopoeticist, published by his imprint, Hawk's Well Press. This issue features poems by Beat Generation & other important figures including Robert Duncan ("Four Songs the Night-Nurse Sang"); Harry Fainlight ("Sussicran"); David Ignatow ("At Home"); Robert Kelly ("The Road at the..... More

Paris, France: The Paris Review, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. A most unusual copy of this Paris Review issue, a binding error created a one-of-a-kind version that excludes Henry Miller (1891-1980) at the height of his censorship battle in the United States. We can’t say for sure that this is why it happened, but it is very interesting that the missing section includes his contribution as well as those of Jack..... More

Tucson, AZ: Ironwood Press, 1972. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This very first number of the distinguished literary journal edited by Michael Cuddihy features three poems by Diane Wakoski, the acclaimed & prolific Beat-influenced poet then-associated with the Deep Image School pioneered by Robert Kelly. Above the first poem, "When the Shoe Fits," below her printed name, Wakoski has hand-written her signature with characteristic series of vertical doodles..... More