Search Results: Poetry from G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA

N.Y.; New Haven; Knoxville: Humanities Press; Yale University Press; Chaucer Society 1958-86. Very Good. 1958. Hardcover. 8vo; cloth, Sources without jacket; Renaissance in white dust jacket, with stain top of spine; Catalogue in wrappers. .

Firenze: G. C. Sansoni (c1905-1923). Very Good. 1905. Softcover. Texts in Italian. 108 volumes; 8vo; original printed wrappers. Housed in 7 vellum-backed slipcases with leather spine labels lettered in gilt, string ties. 1. INFERNO, cantos I-XVIII (16 vols.); 2. INFERNO, cantos XIX-XXXIV (19 vols.); 3. PURGATORIO, cantos I-XVII (16 vols.); 4.PURGATORIO, cantos XVIII-XXXIII (10 vols.); 5. PARADISIO, cantos I-XVI (16 vols.); 6. PARADISIO, cantos XVII-XXXIII (14 vols.); 7. CONFRENZE VARIE, (17 volumes). Most volumes well preserved (some sections unopened) with occasional scattered foxing to covers, contents clean. Slipcases with soil and stain to vellum, most volumes with somewhat repaired cracks & splits. The series collects the most important readings made in Florence at the Sala di Dante in Orsanmichele. According to a publishers ad, the total volumes devoted to the 100 cantos in three sections total 116, with some cantos recieving two or three volumes. So 91 of those volumes here,… Read More

San Francisco: New Spirit Press [1971]. 1971. First Printing. Softcover. 74 pp.; illustrated, stapled gray wrappers. Light fading to spine. Near fine condition. .

San Francisco: Open Space; White Rabbit Press. Good. 1964; 1967. 1st Editions. Softcover. Spotting to front cover lower leading corner, with a smudge of red middle of front cover; staples with some rust. Good condition. ; 58 pp. ; white wrappers; 11" x 8.5", side stapled. One of a majority issued without collage cover. Johnston A22; The Star Year: 48 pp. ; 8vo; coated white wrappers; two endpapers, one blue with a touch of fading to extremities, and one black; rear cover with a very light crease across leading edge. Cover collage by Fran Herndon. 500 copies printed letterpress. Very good condition. [Johnston A39] .

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1965, 1968. Fine. 1965. Hardcover. 8vo; blue cloth in dust jackets with chips and minor loss at top of spine. Jack Bennett (1911-1981); an indigent student who beat malnourishment with Cornish pasties; became known as scholar of Middle English at Oxford; was part of a group there known as the New Zealand Mafia, and a member of an informal literary group known as the Inklings which included J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis. Near Fine s, with protective mylar wrap .

Toronto; Vancouver: Talon; Coach House 2003; 2006. Fine. 2003. First Edition. Softcover. with wax; 95pp.; blue wrappers. Signed by the author on title page. fractal: 96pp.; 8vo; pictorial wrappers. Inscribed on the title page "for Charles (Cameron), hope you enjoy it, Derek. Visual poetry, with an afterword by the author.; Signed by Author(s) .

San Francisco: By the Author. Fine. 1986,88,89. Softcover. Bit of toning along spine on joaquin. ; Wrappers; all with cover illustration by dana f. Smith. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Vintage Books. Very Good. 1990. Softcover. 0679725342 . Light age toning at edges of text pages, otherwise crisp copies. ; Pictorial wrappers.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New Directions; Scrimshaw 1967-76. Very Good. 1967. Softcover. Wrappers; moderate wear; gift inscription in Hallelujah; faint library stamp top edge Wonderings but no other markings. .

[Vancouver, BC]: Georgia Straight; Canada Councli. Very Good. 1969-70. Newsprint Magazine. Moderate, overall even tanning to paper. ; Tabloid sheets folded at spine to 17" x 11" plus one horizontal fold; printed on newsprint. Includes work by Joanne Kyger, Harold Dull, Stan Persky, Robin Ridington, Dennis Wheeler, Karen Tallman, Ebbe Borregaard etc. .

Various Places: Various Publishers. Very Good+. 1958-1983. Hardcover. NOZOMI. The Written Part. No Place: By the Author, 1969. 8vo. Typed, mimeographed sheets, folded and stapled. 'For Ruth Witt-Diamant' inscribed on front endpaper. Typed letter, signed by the poet to Witt-Diamant regarding her 27th birthday, and preparations to depart (Japan? ) for (San Francisco State University? ) and ' Do you have a dog (Ruth) ? I wish I can have a dog. If I can keep a dog, I will call him Jeremiah'. NOZOMI. O Wonder! No Place: By the Author, [1970]. 8vo. Typed, mimeographed sheets, folded and stapled. Inscribed in purple pen "To Mrs. Witt-Diamant" above printed quotation front page 'Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful? ' "from Nozomi, Jan. 1970. EDWARD MYCUE: Damage Within The Community. Inscribed, with holograph letter, geeting card, and notes, to Ruth Witt-Diamant. San Francisco: Panjandrum Press, [1977]. 2nd Printing. Unpaginated; illustrated blue… Read More

San Francisco: Second Coming Press. Very Good. 1975. First Edition. Softcover. 0915016028 . 25 pp.; 8vo; stapled white wrappers. Slight dog ear to top leading corner front endpaper (where I tried to erase on old red! pencil price and blew it); there is an odd horizontal thin crease across the leaf at p. 15, possibly a printing or paper fault. Not terribly obtrusive; faint age discoloration to white cover on front. Minor defects on an overall clean copy. "Len Fulton of Dust Books has described 7 On Style as a kind of comment on style in seven modes, moving from Beckett through Bukowski to Neruda." [comments, A. D. Winans] .

no place: no publisher (Book & Print) no date (c 1986). Fine. 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Extract; 3 leaves (i, p. 237-239); 8vo; printed wrappers. Text in French. Emile Verhaeren was a poet and art critic. This is a bibliographic description of the first edition of his 'Les Soirs' published in 1888 by Edmund Deman. .

Farrar Straus & Giroux. Good in Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0374127492 . Front endpaper, and part of pastedown with broad offset tanning. ; Black cloth back and black paper over boards, in dust jacket. ; 9.2 X 6.4 X 1.4 inches; 387 pages .

San Francisco: David Levi Strauss. Very Good. 1986. Softcover. 139 pp., ads; 4to; photo-illustrated gray wrappers; copy design by Richard Zybert; cover photographs by Bobby Adams. Includes poetry, prose, interview; photographs. Minor wear at edges. "The first issue of Acts, printed in Robert Duncan's Basement in 1982, was intended to show the range of work being done by poets associated with the Poetics Program at New College in San Francisco. Acts (grew) to become one of the most coherent and exciting contexts for contemporary experimentation in the U.S., including translations and photographic/text works." (abstract from subscription ad, last page) .

San Francisco: David Levi Strauss. Fine. 1987. Softcover. 110 pp., ads; 4to; photo-illustrated white wrappers; design, Richard Zybert. Includes poetry, prose, b&w photographs. Analytic Lyric (?) a term taken form a talk by Michael Palmer at Iowa City, 1986. From the "anxiety of signification . . .problematics of self-expression" (ex. Spicer, Holderlin) and Edmond Jabes, and Paul Celan with "the hope of recovering the meanings of words in a time when words have lost their meanings," to a "critique of the discourse of power", and the struggle to renew the function of poetry as exemplified by the writers and artists in this and other issues of Acts. "The first issue of Acts, printed in Robert Duncan's Basement in 1982, was intended to show the range of work being done by poets associated with the Poetics Program at New College in San Francisco. Acts (grew) to become one of the most coherent and exciting contexts for contemporary experimentation in… Read More

Portland: Sanborn & Carter. Very Good. 1852. Third Edition. Hardcover. 251 pp.; 8vo; red cloth; spine lettered and decorated in gilt; engraved title and frontis; printed half-title; engraved half-title, and finally a full title page. Eleven full page illustrations from engravings (nine without tissue guards). Light foxing / toning to engraved frontis and title, plates and text pages generally very clean with only a few spots of moderate foxing. .

no place: no publisher no date. Very Good. Softcover. Xerox Typescript: 36 leaves, typed on one side, pagination on rectos only starting with page 3, (The Inward Look); title on orange construction paper covers with three hole punch and one brad at top. Shallow crease back cover at corner; small faint stains front cover. Text in English. This title, translated by Ehrenzwieg was published by Euopaischer, 1965, in German & English. This item from the library of the late Ian Jackson. Possibly a working manuscript for an American publication? .

San Francisco: Kayak Press. 1969. First Edition. Softcover. 31 pp.; decorative green wrappers; drawings by Lynn Schroeder. Moderate fading and tanning at edges. Very good condition .

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University Of California Press. Very Good. 1959. Hardcover. 8vo; blue cloth. Scuff to paper at top leading corner of front pastedown, else a crisp copy. 2nd Printing, with additions and corrections. .