The Adventures of Mr and Mrs Jim and Ron
by PADGETT, Ron & Jim DINE
N. Y.: Cape Goliard in Association with Grossman Publishers, 1970. First edition. Fine copy in slightly rubbed jacket.. 4to, illustrations by Dine, original boards, dust jacket. Fine copy in slightly rubbed jacket.
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How to Be Perfect. Poems
by PADGETT, Ron
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (2007). First edition, a paperback original. As new. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. As new.
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Supernatural Overtones
by PADGETT, Ron & Clark COOLIDGE
(Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1990). First edition. One of 500 copies. Though not called for, signed by Padgett & Coolidge. As new.. Square 8vo, original white wrappers. As new.
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Crazy Compositions
by PADGETT, Ron
(Bolinas, CA): Big Sky, (1974). First edition. Inscribed by Padgett on the title-page "For Jim, love Ron. Covers lightly dust-soiled, otherwise a very good copy. (SCHNEEMAN, George).. 8vo, original glossy wrappers illustrated by George Schneeman. Covers lightly dust-soiled, otherwise a very good copy.
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Collected Poems
by PADGETT, Ron
Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2013. First edition. Signed by the poet on the title-page. Very fine copy. Thick 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. Very fine copy.
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Supernatural Overtones
by PADGETT, Ron & Clark COOLIDGE
(Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1990). First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Padgett and Coolidge, out of a total edition of 500 copies. As new.. Square 8vo, original white wrappers. As new.
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100,000 Fleeing Hilda
by PADGETT, Ron & Joe BRAINARD
(No place: Boke Press, 1967). First edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Padgett and Brainard. Fine copy.. 8vo, illustrations by Brainard, original wrappers. Fine copy.
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Albanian Diary
by PADGETT, Ron
Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, (1999). First edition. Limited to 750 copies printed. As new. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. As new.
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The Big Something
by PADGETT, Ron
(Great Barrington, MA): The Figures, (1990). First edition. As new.. 12mo, original wrappers. As new.
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Bun. Cover by Jim Dine
by PADGETT, Ron & Tom CLARK
(N. Y.): Angel Hair Books, (1968). First edition. One of 500 copies. Head of spine & top corner bumped, covers slightly rubbed, otherwise a fine copy bound in two sets of wrappers.. (DINE, Jim).. 4to, original glossy wrappers. Head of spine & top corner bumped, covers slightly rubbed, otherwise a fine copy bound in two sets of wrappers.
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Sweet Pea. Cover & illustrations (by) George Schneeman
by PADGETT, Ron
London: Aloes Books, 1971. First edition. One of 25 numbered copies signed by Padgett and Schneeman, out of a total edition of 200 copies printed, the present copy unnumbered. Fine copy.. (SCHNEEMAN, George).. Oblong 16mo, original wrappers. Fine copy.
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Summer Balloons
by PADGETT, Ron
(No place, but Tulsa, OK: The Author, Spring 1960). First edition of Padgett's rare first book, a four-page chapbook. Presentation copy, inscribed on verso front cover to his close friend and collaborator, the artist George Schneeman: "for George Schneeman, Here is my latest and possibly last work, April 1967. Ron Padgett recollects that Summer Balloons "consists of a few poems that I wrote for a girl I was in love with in our senior year of high school in... Read More
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The Adventures of Mr and Mrs Jim and Ron
by PADGETT, Ron & Jim DINE
N. Y.: Grossman Publishers, 1970. First edition, simultaneous paperback issue. Fine copy.. 4to, illustrations by Dine, original wrappers. Fine copy.
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Poem-Scapes
by PATCHEN, Kenneth
Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams, 1958. First edition. One of 75 copies "prepared and painted" by Patchen, with hand-written colophon & handpainted boards. Jargon 11. An exceptional copy, the covers painted with two marvelous creatures characteristic of Patchen's very best imaginative paintings. Very fine copy, preserved in a custom-made cloth folding box with leather label on the spine. PATCHEN, Kenneth. 8vo, original hand-painted boards by Patchen. Very fine copy, preserved in a custom-made cloth folding box with leather label... Read More
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CCCLXXIV Poems
by PATCHEN, Kenneth
(New York: Padell, 1948). First combined edition of the reprints of First Will & Testament, The Dark Kingdom, and Cloth of the Tempest, the jacket made by Miriam Parchen. Limited to 126 copies with a specially printed colophon tipped to the front endsheet numbered and signed by the author. This is copy no. 40. Morgan A15. Patchen's original plan to do a special limited edition of these three books fell through, and it was decided to combine the three... Read More
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Sleepers Awake
by PATCHEN, Kenneth
(New York: Padell, 1946). First edition, Limited Edition issue, with a special colophon tipped to the front free endpaper that reads: "This is one of seventy-five copies of a Limited Edition of SLEEPERS AWAKE which has an original decoration by the author on the cover. These books are bound in white buckram, whereas the seventy-five copies which do not have decorations are bound in red buckram. No two of these cover-paintings are alike. This is Copy No. 8." This... Read More
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Poem-Scapes
by PATCHEN, Kenneth
Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams, 1958. First edition. One of only 42 copies thus with an original holograph poem by Patchen on the back endpaper. This copy number 30. Jargon 11. Very fine copy. 8vo, original gray boards with gold label, custom-made linen folding clamshell case. Very fine copy.
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The Journal of Albion Moonlight
by PATCHEN, Kenneth
(New York: Kenneth Patchen, 1941). First edition, first issue (Subscriber's Edition), self-published. One of 50 copies printed in Bodoni types on specially made Italian handmade paper by Peter Beilenson at the Walpole Printing Office in Mount Vernon, N. Y., and signed by the author. Morgan A3. Morgan calls for a three-quarter leather binding; Larry Smith also mentions such a binding; we have seen numerous copies of the Subscriber's Edition over the course of almost fifty years, but none in... Read More
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Glory Never Guesses & Other Pages
by PATCHEN, Kenneth
(No place: Privately Published, 1955). First edition. "Being a collection of 18 poems with decorations and drawings reproduced through silk screening from the original MS. pages of Kenneth Patchen". One of 200 copies, with the broadsides printed on handmade Japanese papers by Frank Bacher. As Morgan notes, some of the broadsides were hand-colored by Patchen, and these bear a sticker or a stamp on the back noting this distinction. A fine copy, complete, with the broadsides bright and fresh.... Read More
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The Famous Boating Party
by PATCHEN, Kenneth
(N. Y.): New Directions, (1954). First edition, special (painted) issue. One of 50 copies with painted holograph colophon, signed by Patchen, this being copy no. 33. Morgan A22b. A fine copy with two excellent Patchen paintings on the covers. 8vo, frontispiece portrait, original cloth-backed boards with original paintings by Patchen tipped to the front and back covers. A fine copy with two excellent Patchen paintings on the covers.
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Poem-Scapes
by PATCHEN, Kenneth
Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams, 1958. First edition. One of 1500 copies. Jargon 11. With a blurb by Henry Miller on the back cover. Fore-edge lightly foxed, covers a little dusty, otherwise a fine copy.. 8vo, stiff wrappers. Fore-edge lightly foxed, covers a little dusty, otherwise a fine copy.
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St. EOM in the Land of Pasaquan: The Life and Times and Art of Eddie Owens Martin as told to & recorded by Tom Patterson. Photography by Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, Guy Mendes. Foreword by Jonathan Russell
by PATTERSON, Tom
(Highlands): Jargon Society, (1987). First edition. One of 100 numbered copies of the Patron's Edition specially bound & signed by Patterson, JW, Manley & Mendes, out of a total edition of 4000 copies; though the colophon calls for the Patron's Edition copies to be bound in full leather, they were ultimately bound in red cloth, like the regular trade edition copies. Jargon 64. As new. With prospectus laid in.. Square small 4to, illustrated with photographs, pictorial endpapers, red... Read More
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Fishing. A Single Poem with an Original Mixed Media Print By William Weege Da Barba
by [PERISHABLE PRESS] OLSON, Toby
Driftless, WI: Perishable Press, 1973. First edition. One of only 50 copies printed on Shadwell and signed by the artist. "The cover is six vertical scraps of variegated Shadwell randomly zig-zagged together with the text block sewed to one end of the blank side. The cover is then folded under and around the text block with a real fishing fly affixed to the cover. . . . Needless to say this is/was a bibliographer's nightmare about which many letters... Read More
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For The Hundredth Time, Gabberjab Number Five
by [PERISHABLE PRESS] HAMADY, Walter
Minor Confluence, WI: Perishable Press, 1981. First edition. One of 200 copies printed. Hamady 100. Selected as one of the A.I.G.A.'s Fifty Best Books of the Year. A fine copy. 12mo, original boards. A fine copy.
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Wowa's First Book
by [PERISHABLE PRESS] HAMADY, Walter
(Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin): Perishable Press, 1977. First edition of the smallest book from the press, "just the right size for a two-year-old little girl", the little girl being Laura Evans Hamady, the author's daughter. One of only 60 copies salvaged from an intended edition of 365 copies. Hamady, Two Decades of Hamady & The Perishable Press, 78. A very fine copy of this rare miniature. A miniature book, 2 x 1 3/4 inches, original Swedish marbled paper wrappers... Read More
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