New York, NY: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. The first thing one sees when opening the Fall 1970 issue of The Paris Review is a contemporary ad for the release of the now-legendary "Anthology of New York Poets" co-edited by Ron Padgett and David Shapiro. Turn a few pages further to our illustrious list of contributors and the surprise (and treat) waiting there quietly reveals itself: "The Basketball..... More
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Santa Barbara, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1980. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tom Clark. "I do not believe the State, a deity of illusion, least of all against its own hallucinations. The CIA giveth, the CIA taketh away. But the powers that be would be well advised to deport (Chogyam) Trungpa to his native land, where after due reprocessing he might be given a hoe and sent to a commune..... More
[Item #3791]
West Branch, IA: The Toothpaste Press, 1981. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed & with hand-drawing & quote by Tom Clark. "Death is good, revenge is a waste of time, and who ever thought up the profit motive didn't understand either of those things, John said, tipping his head back to pour another drink into it." (from "Death, Revenge and The Profit Motive") A small chapbook of very short stories..... More
[Item #3782]
Santa Barbara, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1981. Most Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Hand-lettered edition signed by Tom Clark & with holograph poem. "Perhaps it's because it's such a threatening space/ what with its great expanse of unaffectionate sky/ that workers in this boom region travel from/ job to job with their housing intact/ & never further than ten feet behind them." ("Wyoming") A collection of short poems & prose-poems by Tom..... More
[Item #3765]
Santa Barbara, CA: Am Here Books/ Immediate Editions, 1982. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. "Since 1967, the mutilation of cattle by unknown phantoms on the American rangelands has mystified lawmen, scientists, and ranchers. This colloquium is part of an ongoing inquiry into the question." (Preface). A discussion of the eerie phenomenon recently documented by History Channel's "Ancient Aliens" of overnight Cattle Mutilation by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the gifted American poet, editor..... More
[Item #3945]
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. First Softcover Edition Review Copy; Limited First Hardcover Edition. Softcover; Hardcover. Review Copy signed by Tom Clark & with signed illustration, autograph poem; hardcover edition signed by Tom Clark. "Goodbye to love, life and art is on every tongue/ Our time tiptoes to the edge of the extinct volcano/ The future holds hands desperately with the past/ The way the Flatirons look at..... More
[Item #3829]
Stout, OH: Bloody Twin Press, 1987; 1988; 1990. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers; Photograph; Postcard. Chapbook with drawing & signed autograph poem by Tom Clark; photograph with Clark's hand-notations on verso. "If the wind sets off people's car alarms/ is that legitimate inspiration/ or merely nature's way of seeking social approval" ("Animated Bedlam") A chapbook of poems by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the prolific American poet, editor, novelist, biographer & artist..... More
[Item #3913]
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Limited Lettered Edition; Limited Numbered Edition; First Trade Softcover Edition. Hardcovers; Softcovers. Lettered Edition signed by Tom Clark & with signed hand-drawing; numbered edition signed; softcover edition with titled & signed hand-drawing. "The humiliation of being/ constantly observed/ by a hostile or derisive eye/ is certainly no joke/ but neither is/ not being able to find/ your shoes" ("Commuting," first stanza, pg. 111)..... More
[Item #3905]
Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1987. Limited First Edition. Softcover. One of only four copies numbered & signed by Tom Clark, also with signed autograph poem & hand-initialed artwork reproduction. "Easter Sunday joins recent poems by Tom Clark with rediscovered and revised earlier poems to form a book that expresses the abiding spirit of this poet's entire work. "One comes more and more to think of a poet as somebody..... More
[Item #3900]
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. Limited First Edition; First Softcover Edition. Hardcover; Softcover. Lettered edition signed & with an original signed drawing by Tom Clark; softcover edition with original signed drawing. "Death greets life in a moment of liftoff./ In this moment one may read divine intent,/ Less ominous than luminous, less fade than loft:/ A plum light, Mars violet, blent/ By angled sunlight in an expansive flooding."..... More
[Item #3864]
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Tom Clark & with an original drawing. "While everything external/ dies away in the far off/ echo of the soul/ still there's a mill wheel turning/ it is like a good/ kind of tiredness in/ the moment before sleep/ by some distant stream/ a note of peace/ in a life which/ will..... More
[Item #3851]
San Francisco, CA: Beach Books Texts Documents, 1967. First American Edition. Soft Cover. Published in the USA by Mary Beach's Beach Books Texts & Documents. Printed in San Francisco by Vortex printers owned & operated by Charles and Pamela Beach Plymell. This copy has been signed by Charles Plymell, also the printer of the first ZAP Comic for R. Crumb. A selection of poetry, prose, letters & cut-ups by My..... More
[Item #1296]
New York, NY: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the highly prestigious literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton along with such esteemed literary figures as Donald Hall & Tom Clark (its official Poetry Editor) features an interview with Charles Olson, the 'Maximus' intellectual & physical Giant of Black Mountain School-&-Beyond poetry. Olson (1910-1970) had passed away very early in the year this issue appeared..... More
[Item #3435]
Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1965. First Printings. Softcovers. This important vintage number of the legendary literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features contributions by three primary poets of the Beat Generation: "Hop, Skip, and Jump" & "Poem" by Gary Snyder; "What Are You Saying," "Sounds in the Night" & "The Spoiled Son" by John Wieners; & "To the Muse" by Philip Whalen. Also in this issue, an in-depth..... More
[Item #3679]
Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1967. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary journal then-edited by George Plimpton features an in-depth interview with the canonical Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov conducted by Herbert Gold, with two photographs- one a contemporary portrait in Switzerland where he was living at the time, & from 1937 in the company of distinguished literary figures in Paris. Also in this issue are contributions..... More
[Item #3723]
Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1969. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features a deep & insightful very-late-in-life interview with the great American writer John Dos Passos (1896-1970), author of the canonical USA Trilogy, conducted by David Sanders & preceded by a facsimile manuscript page of his later novel, Mid-century (which reminds us almost of a Burroughsian cut-up). Also in..... More
[Item #3753]
Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features an in-depth interview of the canonical, Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Anne Sexton (1928-1974), conducted (three years prior to Sexton's suicide) by Barbara Kevles & preceded by a facsimile manuscript page. Also in this issue are contributions of fiction including the innovative short story "Plot" by the great..... More
[Item #3801]
Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1972. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features the poem "An Open Window on Chicago" by Beat Generation Founding Father Allen Ginsberg, dated January 8, 1967- near the apex of his Buddhist-hippie flower power phase. The next year, Ginsberg would famously be among those vainly attempting to keep the peace at the Democratic National Convention..... More
[Item #3773]
Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1973. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features an in-depth interview of the great, highly influential British writer Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) conducted by John Culinnan & preceded by a facsimile manuscript "in Gascon dialect." Also in this issue are contributions of fiction by Jane Bowles (who died that year shortly before publication), Erica Jong, Philip..... More
[Item #3814]
San Francisco, CA: 1965. Original Artwork. Original Collage Artwork on Stiff Board. Original Collage Artwork by Charles Plymell. By 1965, Charles Plymell was at the forefront of avant-garde printing & publishing, and like other legendary Beat authors and artists, had lived at 1403 Gough St. in San Francisco. Contextualizing the larger literary scene at the time, what is nebulously referred to as “The Mimeograph Revolution” was well under way. Ed..... More
[Item #2909]
San Francisco, CA: Dave Haselwood, 1966. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. James Perrizo's copy with his hand-written marginalia & underlining. The now-classic early collection of poems by the legendary Charles Plymell, an important member of the Beat Generation & beyond as writer, printer & publisher. With the incisive introduction by Allen Ginsberg in which Plymell & friends are declared to have invented the "Wichita Vortex," referring to their origins in Kansas..... More
[Item #3050]
New York, NY: Telephone Books, 1973. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Charles Plymell. "Plymell and his friends inventing the Wichita Vortex contribute to a tradition stretching back from Lamantia thru Sherwood Anderson to Poe and earlier American vibration artists of those provinces. I interpret his statement as prophetic fragment memory of innocence, visionary great fear, & warm glimmer: a new species?" (Allen Ginsberg, quoted on back cover) This is..... More
[Item #1545]
New York, NY: Telephone Books, 1975. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Iconic Literary Outlaw Charles Plymell. In 1975 Charles Plymell published Blue Orchid Numero Uno, a book of poetry intertwined with his widely-respected collages, which Plymell first began exhibiting at notorious galleries like The Batman in San Francisco during the early 1960s. By 1975, Plymell had already practiced in the collage genre for over ten years, and his execution..... More
[Item #2882]
Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1977. First Edition. Original Wraps. Book & 7" Record This recording was made live at Johns Hopkins University on April 30, 1976. Includes a ten-page book plus a 6-1/2" 33-1/3 rpm vinyl record of Rod McKuen reading the poem by Charles Plymell. The record has never been played. In very fine condition with only slight smudging on front cover & staples beginning to rust..... More
[Item #1313]
Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. For over forty years, Charles Plymell has been an active participant in the formation of American literary history. Important as printer, publisher, poet & novelist, his works have been published around the world. Hand on the Doorknob is a concise selection of Plymell's best poetry & prose, published by Jeffrey Weinberg's Water Row Press- Kansas, San Francisco, Cherry Valley, NY- William..... More
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