Poetry : Modern : Periodicals from Philip Smith, Bookseller

Berkeley: Noh Directions Press, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 12pp, stapled wrappers. 1 of 500 stated copies of this Berkeley poetry magazine from the height of the 1960s. Printed in chapbook format on alternating sheets of red and yellow paper. Poet Norm Moser has made marginal notations (generally checkmarks and exclamation points)… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Christopher Books / Tree Books, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Fine. 8vo, 170pp, printed wrappers. Beautiful as-new copy of the second issue of this important (and increasingly scarce) Kabbalistic and literary journal from the early 1970s; about half of the issue is devoted to work by Carlo Suares, some of it reprinted from handwritten… Read more about this item

Venice, CA: Beyond Baroque Foundation, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Contemporary publisher's letter and order form laid in. 8vo, 24pp, stapled wrappers. 1 of 1,500 stated copies. Issue includes the essay K S [Kabbala Surrealism] by Jack Hirschman (12pp, later issued separately). Also a piece by publisher Harry Smith. This copy has been addressed… Read more about this item

New York: The Academy of American Poets, 1979. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 12pp, stapled self-cover. Uncommon poetry newsletter, includes 5 poems by Delmore Schwartz plus a page of comment on Schwartz by Merrill Leffler. Unmarked copy, a little edge wear.

Sewanee, TN: The University of the South, 1946. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 222pp, printed wrappers. Poet William Jay Smith's copy, with a 1946 letter to him laid in. Includes "Instructed of Much Mortality : A Note on the Poetry of John Crowe Ransom" by Delmore Schwartz, plus work by other noteworthy contributors. Smith's… Read more about this item

London: Julian Symons, 1938. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 8vo, 40pp, stapled wrappers. Prime 1930s magazine of verse, includes work by Delmore Schwartz, Wallace Stevens, et al. Juvenile markings to covers and two later pages; ink marginal note to one poem. Wrappers have some wear and covers are pulling at staples.

Madras, India: Poet, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 56pp, printed wrappers. Rare poetry magazine from India; this 'American University Poets Number' reprints work by Delmore Schwartz, Allen Ginsberg, et al. Unmarked copy, light wear.

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 370pp, printed wrappers. Extensive commemorative publication for this important 1962 festival, includes transcriptions of poems read and author remarks. Library notations to cover (else unmarked), a bit of general wear.

Gambier, OH: Kenyon College, 1946. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 176pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Contains verse by Delmore Schwartz, Robert Penn Warren on Melville poetry, other important content. Nice unmarked copy with minor wear.

Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review, 1984. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 116pp, printed wrappers. Contains Delmore Schwartz letters (selected by Robert Phillips), other important content. Resale price to first interior page and remainder-type mark to page edges, else unmarked with some outer rubbing.

Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College, 1979. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 108pp, printed wrappers. Scarce 1979 issue, includes a seven-page memoir of Frank Stanford by Thomas Lux (includes Stanford poems), plus work by Gary Snyder, Benjamin Peret, and a number of other great writers. Unmarked copy, light cover wear.

London: Oasis Books, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 40pp, stapled wrappers. Issue devoted to poetry and translations by Clayton Eshleman. Unmarked copy, minor wear.

Providence, RI: Diana's Bimonthly Press, 1980. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 28pp, stapled wrappers. From the collection of Opal Louis Nations. This enigmatic experimental work comprises the seventh volume of Diana's Bimonthly. Unmarked copy, a little wear and staple rust.

New York: Stroker, 1981. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Includes three letters from Mohammed Mrabet (translated by Paul Bowles), a Henry Miller section, work by other writers. Unmarked copy, light wear.

New York: Parenthese, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 56pp, printed wrappers. Nice copy of this elegant seventies little magazine, includes Paul Auster et al. Unmarked copy, minor wear.

Martin, TN: Stephen Mooney, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 60pp, printed wrappers. Special Robert Bly issue, includes an interview, bibliography, and work by and about the poet. Unmarked copy, minor signs of age.

Amsterdam: Kontexts Publications, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. Oblong 8vo, 120pp, printed wrappers. 1 of 750 stated copies of this uncommon Kontexts volume, this from the collection of contributor Opal Louis Nations. Contains work by global localists of an experimentational bent. Unmarked copy, some soil and spotting to covers and first and last… Read more about this item

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1953. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 128pp (plus 8pp of Albers plates), printed wrappers. Issue includes a Josef Albers Art Feature. Poet Cid Corman's copy with his ownership signature and date to front cover. No other markings, a bit of general wear.

Agincourt, Ontario: The Book Society of Canada Limited, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. Book-format anthology, includes the poem Story by Leonard Cohen (printed around the time of his first album), with didactic commentary. Volume also includes work by Stevens, Plath, Lowry et al. Unmarked copy, minor wear.

Montreal: CIV/n, 1955. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 38pp, stapled wrappers. The final issue of this scarce and seminal fifties Canadian literary magazine, includes a poem by "Leonard N. Cohen" ("young Montrealer, now at McGill"), plus work by Robert Creeley and many Canadian luminaries. Unmarked copy from the estate of contributor Louis Dudek, a… Read more about this item