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Buffalo, NY: Apex of the M, 1997. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 168pp, printed wrappers. Unmarked copy of the final issue of this impressive literary review from Buffalo. Includes interesting letters between Helen Adam and Robert Duncan from 1955-56. This nice unmarked copy from Duncan's collection is just about as new with minor outer wear.

Apex of the M. Near Fine. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Apex of the M (Buffalo) , c1997, paperback, "around 1000 copies". , Near Fine with minor spine fading. 168 pages, unmarked. Rikki Ducornet, Paul Celan, Andrew Schelling, Clayton Eshleman, Kenneth Irby, Robert Duncan and Helen Adam, Norman Finklestein, Juliana Spahr, Kevin Killian, Will Alexander, David Matlin, Elena Rivera, Mary Hilton, Noah de Lissovoy. POETRY LITERATURE; E2631 V1V; 168 pages .

Paperback. Very Good.

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some areas of toning and very light spoiling to areas of the wraps, but in lovely shape overall. Includes B&W illustration by a variety of Oregonian artists. Poetry/Art.

San Francisco: The Poetry Center, [1977].. Flyer. White type reversed out of black and white image (artist not credited). 11 x 8-1/2 inches. According to the archives of the Poetry Center, this reading took place in 1977 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, then located on Van Ness Avenue. One corner slightly bumped; tape shadow at corners of verso; folded twice for mailing (though not addressed). Near Fine.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1916. Early Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good +/No Dust Jacket. 8" Tall. 308 Pp. Orange Cloth Stamped In Green And White, Top Edge Gilt, Spine Lettered In Gilt, The Vroman Photographs With Tissue Guards Printed With Descriptive Text. No Marks Or Inscriptions. Slight Wear, Tiny Fray At Lower Front Tip, Hinges Tight Although Binding Cracked Before Frontispiece, A Few Tiny Waterspots On Spine. Per The Getty Museum Website, Adam Clark "A. C." Vroman (1856-1916), Vroman Worked For The Chicago, Burlington And Quincy Railroad Company For Sixteen Years Before Moving To California In 1893. Upon Opening A Store That Sold Books, Stationery, And Photographic Supplies In Pasadena--Which He Gifted To His Employees And Which Remains In Operation As "Vroman's Bookstore" Today--He Began To Pursue His Interest In Photography. From 1895-1905, Vroman Travelled Throughout Southern California And Made Eight Trips To Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, And Utah, Where He Photographed Local… Read More

Berkeley, California: Oannes, 1963. Softcover. Good. First edition. Illustrated reproducing black-and-white drawings by Jess Collins. Pictorial wrappers reproducing a drawing by Jess Collins. Small quarto. [98]pp., [12]pp. Wrappers are rubbed and lightly browned on spine and extremities of covers, internal joints cracked, else a very good copy, with the text and illustrations fresh and clean. Helen Adam (1909-1993), influential Scottish-American poet, collagist, actress (in two experimental films), and photographer, was born in Glasgow, and attended Edinburgh University. She wrote her first book in 1923, and became a journalist; she moved to the United States in 1939, where she lived for the rest of her life (in San Francisco and later New York City). One of only four women poets included in the influential 1960 poetry anthology, 'The New American Poetry 1945-1960' (edited by Donald Allen), Helen Adam was active in the San Francisco Renaissance, especially with Robert Duncan, and artist Jess… Read More

Coffee House Press, 1985. Unabridged.. Wraps. Very good. Signed by author.. Mikolowski, Ann. Coffee House Press, 1985, number 152 of an edition of 500, in stitched wrappers, signed by author and illustrator, no owner's mark or underlining, light wear

Berkeley: Oannes. Near Fine. 1963. First Edition. Softcover. Original wraps. Limited edition, one of 500 copies. A small number inkstamped to rear outer wrap. Tight and square. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .

New York : powerHouse Books, 2004. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 120 pages, hardcover. Some of the photographer's finest unpublished work, in one volume. Most of the photographs were taken in New York City, Levitt's primary subject in the course of a seven-decade photographic journey (she spent some time in Mexico City, and the pictures she took there are collected in a book named after the city). Here are 110 photographs, 90 of them never before published, including portraits of her close friends James Agee and Walker Evans. Record # 351295

Berkeley: Oannes, 1963. First edition. Fine. First edition, one of 500 numbered copies printed. Stiff wrappers with attached printed dust jacket. Printed on textured brown paper. 110 pp. A two-act ballad opera set in San Francisco in 1906. Slightest rubbing to head of spine, still a fine copy.

[San Francisco]: Oannes, [1963].. First edition.. 12 x 5 inch flyer. Fine. Unfolded advertisement for the first, and it turns out only, screening of this film by Adam and McNeill at Robin Blaser’s Peacock Gallery. Illustrated with four stills, two on each side. A rare bit of ephemera from this experimental space, that existed for all of a month.

Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1997. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good+. Gilt stamped blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 782pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of shelfwear to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has sun to spine, mild rubbing, now in archival mylar wrap.

New York: powerHouse Books, 2003. Fine in a fine photo-illustrated jacket.. First Edition. Small oblong quarto. This copy SIGNED by Helen Levitt to title page. A fine collection of Levitt's lesser-known images, most of which were shot on the streets of New York City. With foreword from Adam Gopnik.