Poetry : Modern : Periodicals from Philip Smith, Bookseller

New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1962. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 28pp, stapled wrappers. Poet Cid Corman's copy, with his ownership signature to front cover. Issue includes poems by William Stafford, Earle Birney, et al. No other markings, minor wear overall.

New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 40pp, stapled wrappers. Clean copy of the penultimate issue of this literary review, includes poems by Cid Corman, Theodore Enslin, Gena Ford, and Anselm Hollo. Unmarked copy, light reading wear.

New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1970. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Nice copy of a later issue of this literary review, includes poems by Cid Corman, Theodore Enslin, Larry Eigner, and others. Unmarked copy, light wear.

New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 28pp, stapled wrappers. Poet Cid Corman's copy, with his ownership signature to front cover and notation to cover (and small mark inside). Issue includes poems by Theodore Enslin, David Ignatow, et al. No other markings, minor wear overall, light staple rust.

New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1970. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 60pp, stapled wrappers. Nice copy of a later issue of this literary review, includes poems by Cid Corman, George Oppen, and others. Unmarked copy, light wear and soil.

New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1962. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 28pp, stapled wrappers. Nice copy, includes poems by David Ignatow, August Derleth, et al. Owner name lightly penciled to last interior page, clean and tight overall.

Ann Arbor, MI: Street Fiction Press, Inc, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. Uncommon literary magazine, includes a photo-reprint of a Harry Houdini letter from 1923. Unmarked copy, a little outer wear.

New York: The Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Literature and Art, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Uncommon literary magazine from 1966, includes Wakoski et al. Unmarked copy with some cover wear and surface losses and light soil.

London: John Trafford, 1956. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 64pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Another great issue of this seminal 1950s British little magazine. Includes work by Patrick Kavanagh, Denis Goacher on Ezra Pound, other great material. Library stamp to cover (else unmarked), a little sunning and stains to wrappers.

Woodstock, NY: Sanders Russell, 1941. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good only. 8vo, ~80pp, printed wrappers. Third and final issue of this important World War 2-era journal of literary experiment, with very early work by Robert Duncan (Bertholf C22-4) as well as Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Kenneth Patchen, Lawrence Durrell, et al. Unmarked copy (except for… Read more about this item

Maidstone, England: Paul Buck, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 40pp, stapled front wrapper. This issue of Paul Buck's important avant-garde UK review features work by prominent experimentationalists (including Mark Hyatt, to whom the issue is dedicated). Unmarked copy, light general wear.

New York: Unmuzzled Ox, 1974. 2nd edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG in VG box. Stated second edition. 8vo, Booklet + 5 accordion-fold sections + colophon leaf in printed box. This double issue of Michael Andre's important early seventies underground cultural magazine is devoted to an unusual poetic visual work by Gregory Corso. Unmarked copy, a little… Read more about this item

Reno, NV: Richard Morris, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 16pp, stapled self-cover. Scarce early issue of Camels Coming, includes poems by d.a. levy and John Sinclair, plus others. Unmarked copy, staple holes to fore-edge throughout (but has not been addressed or mailed); small closed tear to top margin of front covers, a bit… Read more about this item

Nevada City, CA: Kuksu Press, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. Sixth issue of this little magazine of poetry and writing, edited by ethnobotanist Dale Pendell. Includes verse by Gary Snyder and a "Poetry and Magic Initiatory Questionnaire" by Pendell. Unmarked copy, light toning to spine and cover margins.

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.