New York, NY: Corinth Books, 1969. Second printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Ted Berrigan to Anne & Ken Mikolowski. A volume of poems by the great New York School/post-Beat poet Ted Berrigan (1934-1983). With front cover illustration by legendary artist-poet Joe Brainard (1942-1994), also part of the NYC poetry & art scene along with Berrigan, Anne Waldman et al. during this period. Stated second printing, issued the same year..... More

New York, NY: Vehicle Editions/A. Levitt, 1971. Limited First Edition. Softcover. A volume with the title poem by Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), the canonical New York School-Beat influenced poet with his own inimitable style. The poem is sub-titled & dated February 18, 1971; & is dedicated to "Joe," who is his friend the legendary poet-artist Joe Brainard (1942-1994). The poem was written during a train ride on the date noted according..... More

New York, NY: Adventures in Poetry, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) attended Providence College for a year before joining the army in 1954 at age 19. After serving in Korea, Berrigan went on to receive an MA in English from the University of Tulsa in 1962. After completion of his studies in Tulsa, Berrigan moved to New York City. A cyclone of amphetamine..... More

New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1994. First Printing. Softcover. "This 'master of pathos," as Robert Duncan called him, who could so move the reader with such unaggressive method and such relaxed and seemingly common language was, in fact, a most subtle and resourceful innovator...."(from back cover blurb by Robert Creeley) A selection of poems by Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), the New York School poet's-poet who has a special, unique place in..... More

Berkeley, CA: Rumor Books/Listening Chamber, 2007. Limited First Edition. Softcover. A slim volume of translations by Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), the canonical New York School poet's-poet; in collaboration with noted scholar Gordon Brotherston. Among the great poets whose works are translated here are Guillaume Apollinaire, Heinrich Heine & Pablo Neruda. With short introductions by Beat-&-Beyond legend Anne Waldman & the esteemed Finnish-born poet & translator Anselm Hollo (1934-2013). Original languages &..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. "Letters illuminating a legendary literary love affair and the young artists who made 1960s New York the world's cultural capital. Ted and Sandy Berrigan's honeymoon ended when her father...forced Sandy into a mental hospital, had Ted run out of town by the sheriff, and hired private detectives to investigate his friends. These intimate, irresistible letters, written over the course of their..... More

Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Publishing, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed (twice) by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "On October 24, 2000, twelve students and three teachers from Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky set out into the Red River Gorge for a photography hike. We were led by poet and essayist John Lane and photographer Mark Olencki, both of whom were visiting Sayre as part of the Books Alive..... More

Chicago, IL: Big Table, Inc., 1959-1960. First Printings. Softcovers. Here are all five contiguous issues of one of the most important literary journals ever published: Big Table. A legendary response to censure & censorship by the mid-twentieth century American academic-literary establishment, Big Table was conceived by Irving Rosenthal, the editor of the prestigious Chicago Review. Issues of the review published in 1958 featured writings & excerpts by Jack Kerouac &..... More

Chicago, IL: The Bijou Publishing Empire, Inc./The Print Mint, 1970. Second printing. Stapled Wrappers. The second number of this golden-age exemplar of underground comix features two pages of classic work by Robert Crumb (with Itzy & Bitzy, Mr. Natural, Flakey Foont, Eggs Ackles et al.), Kim Deitch, Rory Hayes, Jay Kinney, Jay Lynch, Jim Osborne, Gilbert Shelton (an early appearance of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers prior to their separate..... More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The combination of superb and thoughtfully-arranged illustrations, definitive text, and up-to-date illustration maps, all in a single volume, has already established the pocket-sized version of this guide...as the most essential reference to European bird identification. This sumptuous large-format edition with entirely redesigned text is intended to complement the field guide and permit greater appreciation of the extraordinarily beautiful artwork. The..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Limited Trade Edition. Softcover. "Paul Blackburn died on September 13, 1971, at Cortland, New York, in his forty-sixth year. In the months before his death he had prepared a number of manuscripts for publication. The present collection of Blackburn's earliest published work, with unpublished poems of the same period, is as Blackburn arranged it. "The sole basis for this book is the..... More

Seattle, WA: Double Elephant Folio & Quarto Co., Inc., 1969. First Edition Thus. Softcover. A very large (appx. 11&1/3" x 13&2/3") folio with very high-quality facsimile reproductions of engraved illustrations by the iconic British artist, poet & printer William Blake. As explained in colophon, "This book has been printed by photo-offset lithography from the original edition of 1804. It is number three in the Double Elephant- San Vito Press series..... More

Demarest, NJ: Analecta Press, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. “Your poems show more natural warmth-care than any writer I know. You are warm toast in the morning, a bottle of beer at night with a good cigar and the feet up on the coffee table. Knowing death is a minute away, but loving each life-second they give your crazy Polack body & soul & cock & surroundings. You’ve got all this..... More