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[San Francisco]: Auerhahn Press, nd [1959]. 8vo. Single sheet printed in red and black, folded three times, tipped into a printed cream colored card folder. A minor crease, else fine. A broadside catalogue of Auerhahn authors and artists, culminating the first year of publications by the press. Included are John Wieners “Bag Dad by the Bay,” Michael McClure’s part 2 of “A Small Secret Book,” the press release in prose for Michael McClure’s Hymns to St. Geryon by Philip Lamantia, the graphic abilities of Robert La Vigne (a flaming Zoe Phos) and Philip Whalen’s “Bodhisattva in Bear World.” Future works from Philip Whalen, Allen Ginsberg and John Hoffman are announced. Listed under Auerhahn Phamphlets [sic] is Narcotica by Philip Lamantia and under In Preparation are Dark Brown by McClure and The Boobus on the Tarot by The Boobus.

San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, [1959].. First edition.. Single long sheet folded three times and tipped into a near fine printed folding card (7 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches, closed). Presents poems and provides publication details, in two colors, for new work by John Wieners, Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, and Philip Whalen.

Berkeley, CA: Poltroon Press. 1976. Hardcover. Fine; Somewhat less than 500 copies, covers are blue and white. ; Ltd; Decor. cloth; 8vo; No DJ .

San Francisco, CA: Auerhahn Press, [1963].. 18mo. Oblong, Folded Sheet, Letterpress On Fine Paper with Deckled Edge, Near Fine. Illustrated.

Berkeley: Poltroon Press, (1976).. First edition.. 87 pp. Light foxing to page edges, else near fine in full decorated cloth with printed spine label. Errata, printed on the verso of a reproduction of a letter by Dave Haselwood, and John Wieners’ A Poem for Benzedrine broadside (folded once, else fine) laid in.

Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Somewhat less than 500 copies printed on a variety of presses" (from the colophon). Founded by printer-poet Dave Haselwood in 1958, the Auerhahn Press published many key poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, including John Wieners, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, David Meltzer, and William Everson (Brother Antoninus). Octavo: [88] p. with illustrations and facsimiles. Full silkscreened cloth-covered boards, with a printed paper spine label. Issued without a dust jacket. Near fine.

Berkeley: Poltroon Press. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine copy without the ephemera laid into new copies ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 86 pp .

Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1976. decorated cloth, paper spine label. Auerhahn Press. tall 8vo. decorated cloth, paper spine label. 87, (3) pages. Limited to 500 copies. Near fine. Essentially a study of modern literature as many authors such as Burroughs, McClure, Ginsburg and others were published by the press. Printed in mulitple colors.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.

Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1976. Somewhat less than 500 copies printed on a variety of presses (colophon), 26 of which have been "grangerized" with Auerhahn ephemera (not here); 8vo, pp. [2], 87, [3]; illustrations and facsimiles throughout; decorative blue silkscreen cloth over boards, printed paper label on spine; fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. This copy inscribed in pencil by Johnston: "For Allan & Cinda Kornblum, yrs. Alastair Johnston. 'You'll wonder where the yellow went / when you brush your teeth with wet cement'." This is a reference, no doubt, to Kornblum's Toothpaste Press, a letterpress operation which he operated in West Branch, Iowa, and later in Saint Paul, Minnesota from 1970 to the early 1980s.