Search Results: Titles starting with R from Philip Smith, Bookseller

Berkeley, California: The Rhymers Club, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 58pp (mimeographed), printed wrappers. A scarce underground literary magazine from 1967 Berkeley. Unmarked copy with a little toning to covers.

Berkeley, CA: The Rhymers Club, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 26 leaves (printed one side), printed front wrapper. A scarce litle magazine from 1966 Berkeley, includes "The Pretty Office" by Richard Brautigan, 3 poems by Ted Berrigan, etc. Beatles cover and enthusiastic reference to "Revolver" within. Sound copy with a little outer wear (mainly to back cover).

Berkeley, CA: The Rhymers Club, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 20pp (mimeographed), printed front wrapper. First issue of this scarce litle magazine from 1966 Berkeley, at the height of the sixties revolution. This copy addressed to poet James Koller and mailed at time of publication. Horizontal mailing crease, toning to front cover.

Madison, WI: Radical America, 1970. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 96pp, stapled wrappers. This issue of the "SDS Journal of American Radicalism" is guest-edited by Paul Buhle; about half the content is focused on Benjamin Peret. Unmarked copy from the collection of Philip Lamantia, light cover wear and toning.

Madison, WI: Radical America, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. This issue of the SDS Journal of American Radicalism is focused on Radicalism & Culture and features work by d.a. levy (whose suicide as the issue was in press is noted), The Willie, Douglas Blazek, et al. Unmarked copy, a bit of toning to covers.

Madison, WI: Radical America, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 764pp, stapled wrappers. This issue of the SDS Journal of American Radicalism is focused on Radicalism & Culture and features work by a range of ideological and creative writers. Unmarked copy, a little soil to fore-edge.

Gothenburg, Sweden: Radium 226.05 Magazine, 1986. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 96pp (plus insert print), printed wrappers. Rare and excellent magazine from Sweden (content in English), includes writing by and portrait photographs of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Genesis P-Orridge, et al. Schottlaender C524. Owner monogram to blank inside front cover (no other markings), erasure mark to front cover.

Minneapolis, MN: Rain Taxi, Inc, 2004. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 54pp, stapled wrappers. This issue of Rain Taxi includes a two-page article on Dick Higgins and Something Else Press by Steve Clay, plus a piece on Stan Brakhage written shortly after his death and an interview with Barbara Guest. Just about as new with toning of paper stock.

Menlo Park, CA: The Layman's Press, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Early Civil Rights-themed issue of this essential organ of the New Left. This 1965 issue includes a large section on "The South at War". Unmarked copy, light wear.

Menlo Park, CA: The Layman's Press, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Early Civil Rights-themed issue of this essential organ of the New Left. Issue dedicated to Shwerner, Chaney, and Goodman. Includes "Harlem Diary" by Lez Edmond. Unmarked copy, a bit of general wear.

Vancouver: The Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia, 1962. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket. Good-. 8vo, 40pp, stapled wrappers. Issue leads with two poems by Malcolm Lowry. Woolmer C166-C167. Corner dampstain to cover and first 7 interior leaves, general cover soil.

Hadley, MA: Ken Lopez, Bookseller, 1994. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 32pp, stapled wrappers. A detailed collection list comprising 228 entries, with illustrations on cover and center spread. Two item numbers noted on front cover (no other markings), minor overall wear.

Grover City, CA: Rainbow Resin Press / Kaldron & Fallon, NV: Duck Down, 1981. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Tabloid format on white paper, 20pp. This experimental collaboration is basically identical in format and typographic style to a Kaldron issue, and has a Kaldron return address stamp. Unmarked copy, original address label present.

Edinburgh, Scotland: Students' Representative Council, Edinburgh University, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 42pp, printed wrappers with fabric spine. INSCRIBED by Edward Lucie-Smith to renowned collector Joseph Gold on the front cover. A mimeographed flyer for a 31 May 1966 benefit reading for The Desert Review, including Bob Cobbing, Tom Clark, Jeff Nuttal, Ward Abbott, Andrew Crozier, Anselm Hollo, and Lucie-Smith, is laid in (mentions Indica Gallery). Rare publication from Edinburgh University, includes an 11-page transcript from a February 1966 lecture and reading by Lucie-Smith. Nice copy with minor wear, flyer is Fine.

Minneapolis, MN: Region, 1963. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 24pp, stapled wrappers (plus 4-page 4to insert, folded once). Scarce mimeographed little magazine from 1963 Minneapolis, includes very early writing by John Sladek. Unmarked copy, light wear and soil.

St. Paul, MN: Region, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 40pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce mimeographed little magazine from 1964 Minnesota, includes a piece by musican Tony Glover (mentions his associate Dave Ray), plus a range of other contributors (including the enigmatic Lamont Cranston). Ownership signature of poet Richard Krech to first interior page (no other markings), center spread detached from staples, crease to front cover and some soil to first interior page.

London: Oxford University Press, 1969 [1944; 1950]. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VG+ (pencil markings) in VG+ dw. 8vo, viii+62pp, royal blue cloth with spine stamped in gold, printed dustwrapper. A photo-offset reprint of the 1950 second edition of a classic work of metaphysical Arthurian poetry by Charles Williams. Interesting pencil marginalia throughout by an unknown hand, dustwrapper has minor wear.

Oakland, CA: Rejection, 1980. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 100pp, stapled wrappers. This scarce little magazine from 1980 Oakland includes work by Charles Henri Ford, Ted Joans, Harold Norse, many others. Unmarked copy, light cover sunning and toning.

Madrid: Fundacion Banco Exterior, 1988. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. Tall 4to, 168pp, printed wrappers with French flaps. A scarce and elegant exhibition catalogue, with contributions by Octavio Paz and others and many excellent color illustrations. Corner bump affecting early pages and some sunning to covers, a little musty, small bump to spine.

San Francisco: Renaissance Publications, 1962. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 120pp, printed wrappers. Fourth and final issue of this excellent little magazine from 1962 San Francisco, edited by future underground press editor John Bryan. A fascinating juncture between the Beat Generation and the nascent hippie movement. Includes Charles Bukowski as well as Beat writers. Future psychedelic artist Michael Bowen was art editor and contributes two full-page collages. Owner name stamp to contents page (no other interior markings), remnants of erased price to cover, some outer soil, spine a bit sunned.