The wake

San Francisco: The Auerhahn Press, 1963. First edition limited to 785 copies, this one of 750 of the regular edition; 8vo, pp. [36];original blue printed wrappers; edges lightly sunned, else near fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. Hoyem's first book. This copy inscribed by Hoyem to Allan Kornblum: "For Allan, in April 1989, Andrew Hoyem." Founded by printer-poet Dave Haselwood in 1958, the Auerhahn Press published many key poets of the San Francisco Renaissance. Stated in advertisements appearing in Evergreen Review, Poetry, City Lights Journal and Big Table magazines, the (truncated) press’s goal was “to re-marry good printing and writing,” and to this end the Auerhahn published 28 letterpress-printed titles between 1958 and 1964. (Inventory #: 64715)