Robert Lax from Philip Smith, Bookseller

Washington, DC: Dryad, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 76pp (plus photo plates), stapled wrappers. Scarce late sixties poetry magazine, includes "Tractatus I-IV" (8pp) by Robert Lax. Unmarked copy, light cover wear and soil.

New York: The Columbia University Forum, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 48pp, stapled wrappers. This issue includes excerpts from Robert Lax’s journal, Erich Goode on The Marijuana Market, and work by other prominent contributors. Nice unmarked copy, minor spine wear, no markings

n.p.: Hanging Loose, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG overall (VG+ contents in Good only envelope). 8vo, 16 separate items (including ads) in printed envelope. This alternative-format poetry magazine from 1967 includes work by Kay Johnson, Robert Lax, Marge Piercy, et al. Contents solid with minor toning and soil; envelope frayed and… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Voyages, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. Special Robert Lax issue, includes work by and about Lax. Unmarked copy, rubbing to spine edge and light wear.

Berkeley: Synapse, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 34pp (mimeographed), stapled wrappers. Low-run mimeo revolution title from 1965 Berkeley. Includes poems by Robert Lax, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Jackson Mac Low, Tom Clark, Denise Levertov, Robin Eichele, et al. Unmarked copy, light general wear.

New York: The New York Quarterly, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 120pp, printed wrappers. Impressive literary review from 1971 New York, includes an interview with Jerome Rothenberg and work by Robert Lax, Ron Padgett, et al. Unmarked copy, light wear.

Lugano, Switzerland: James Fitzsimmons, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 224pp, printed wrappers. Stout double issue of this elegantly produced sixties literary and art magazine from 1965 Switzerland; about half of the issue is devoted to "Sea & Sky" by Robert Lax (which runs nearly 120 pages). Unmarked copy, spine has rubbing… Read more about this item

Silver Spring, MD: Dryad, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 68pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce late sixties poetry magazine, includes a poem (occupies center spread) and four photographs by Robert Lax. Unmarked copy, light wear and toning.

Silver Spring, MD: Dryad, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 44pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce late sixties poetry magazine, includes three poems from Heading East by Robert Lax. Unmarked copy, light wear.

Den Haag, Holland, and Rockville, MD: Eugene Carl and Marshall Reese, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 36pp, stapled wrappers. Clean copy of the rare second (and final) issue of this important seventies review of experimental and visual work (later combined with Pod to form E Pod). Unmarked copy, light sunning at… Read more about this item

New York: The New York Quarterly, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 144pp, printed wrappers. Impressive literary review from 1971 New York, includes an interview with Allen Ginsberg, a 25-page section on Black Poets in New York, and work by Robert Lax, Muriel Rukeyser, et al. Unmarked copy, light wear.