Ephemera

[Planks Turned to Marble]

Irby, Kenneth · 1979 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Lawrence, KS: Tansy Press, 1979. Broadside. 11 x 17-1/2 inches. Single sheet of beige paper. Upper right corner creased; small tear on right edge, three tiny tears at bottom. Overall Very Good. .

Reading Their Poetry at the Guggenheim Museum. Robert Duncan

Duncan, Robert · 1967 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

New York: The Guggenheim Museum, 1967. Poster. Announcing a reading by poet Robert Duncan at the museum. Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. 10-3/8 x 17 inches. Small stains at top and upper left, a two-inch tear at bottom, tape shadow on verso, some handling wear at e...

Little Movie without a Middle

Garrett, George · 1978 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

NP: George Garrett, 1978. Broadside. Printed recto only, in red and black inks. 9-1/4 x 12 inches. Hand-numbered and signed by poet. Issued as Palaemon Broadside Number Eight. "LITTLE MOVIE WITHOUT A MIDDLE by George Garrett is printed in an edition of 126 copies. 100 copies n...

Wild Oats

Brainard, Joe; Tom Clark, Kenward Elmslie, Ron Padgett, and James Schuyler · 1966 · Wittenborn Art Books

$500.00 (€453.65 | £378.46 | ¥79,844)

New York: No Publisher, 1966. Sheaf of broadsides, on variously colored papers, printed with a title sheet and stapled at upper left corner. 14-1/4 x 22 inches. Rare publication by first and second generation New York School poets. Somewhat curled, perhaps from being stored ro...

Unicorn Folio Series One, Number Four

Bly, Robert, Bertolt Brecht, Eugen Gomringer, Guillevic, John Haines, Lenore Marshall, Boris Pasternak, Jaime Sabines, and Nathaniel Tarn · 1967 · Wittenborn Art Books

$175.00 (€158.78 | £132.46 | ¥27,945)

Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn Press. 1967. Broadsides. Ten broadsides by ten poets (one missing here), with contributor's notes and contents, 11 leaves in all, of various dimensions. (A broadside by Thomas Merton, originally included, is missing.) Presented in a light brown paper...

Ail in 5: Zoo's Who. Special Issue 2

MacBeth, George · 1970 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Kettering, UK: Nina Steane, ND. Broadside. Printed black and white on coated stock. 17-1/16 x 13-1/ 16 inches. Illustrated by Nina Steane. Another in Steane's series of "wallstickers," this one featuring a child's alphabet by Scottish poet George MacBeth. No date, but probably...

The Wand

Eshleman, Clayton · 1970 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Santa Barbara, CA: Noel Young, 1970. Broadside. Single sheet of wallpaper sample, printed on recto only in red and black inks. 10 x 20 inches. Inventive printing by Noel Young of the Unicorn Press. Lower right corner torn, otherwise Near Fine. .

What the Chairman Told Tom

Bunting, Basil · 1987 · Wittenborn Art Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,953)

[San Francsico]: Lee Engdahl, 1987. Broadside. Single sheet of fine paper, printed on recto only. 12-1/2 x 19 inches. "This is the eleventh in a series Tutto a uno Bello Pezzo. The poem is taken from The Second Book of Odes." Fine. .

Murder of Crows

Engdahl, Lee · 0 · Wittenborn Art Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

[San Francsico]: Lee Engdahl, ND. Broadside. Single sheet of fine paper, printed on recto only. Illustrated. 12-1/2 x 19 inches. "This is the fourth in a series of twelve broadsides entitled Tutto a uno Bello Pezzo. The poem is taken from an unpublished book Different Varietie...

Building the Great Wall of China

Dickey, William · 1995 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

[San Francisco]: Lee Engdahl, 1995. Broadside. Single sheet of fine gray paper, printed recto only. 13-5/8 x 19-3/4 inches. Poem by William Dickey from an unpublished manuscript. Printed in a edition of 94 copies, of which this is number 16. Hand-numbered. Fine. .

From Canto LXXXI

Pound, Ezra · 1991 · Wittenborn Art Books

$300.00 (€272.19 | £227.08 | ¥47,906)

San Francisco: Lee Engdahl, 1991. Broadside. Single sheet, printed on recto only. IIlustrated. 14-7/16 x 21 inches. Numbered edition. Poem by Ezra Pound, "What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross." The colophon states: "Printed in an edition of 500, December 1991, by L...

Dangerous Games

Kizer, Carolyn · 1985 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Colorado Springs, CO: The Press at Colorado College, 1985. Broadside. Single sheet of handmade paper, with untrimmed edges. Design embossed on paper. About 13 x 20 inches. Originally part of Printed Poem/The Poem as Print: Twenty-four Broadsides of American Poetry, printed by ...

Margot Blum, America's Brightest New Star . .

Blum, Margot · 1950 · Wittenborn Art Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Los Angeles: Alexander Haas Artists Management, ND. Artist's promotional poster. Monochrome purple photo portrait of opera singer Blum. 13-1/4 x 21-5/8 inches. Margot Blum was a West Coast opera singer in the 1950s and early 1960s. She later became, as Margot Blum Schevill, a ...

Berkson, Bill, Michael Davidson, Robert Duncan, Ronald Johnson, Jeanetta Jones, Michael McClure, Michael Palmer, Leslie Scalapino · 1976 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Berkeley, CA: Cody's Books, 1976. Poster. Announcing "The Sand Dollar Reading," by poets Berkson, Davidson, Duncan, Johnson, Jones, McClure, Palmer, and Scalapino. Reading held at Cody's Books in Berkeley at 8 pm on November 24, 1976. Printed by fine printer Wesley Tanner. Sli...

All in 2

Steane, Nina · 1969 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Kettering, UK: Nina Steane, [ca. 1969]. Broadside. Single sheet 13-1/4 x 18-1/2 inches. Offset on coated stock. Hand lettering, illustrated with drawings by Steane. Second of Steane's poetry "wallstickers," poster-size presentation of poems by English poets, many from Northamp...

Poetry Reading. Edward Dorn, Michael Mcclure, Lewis Macadams, Duncan Mcnaughton. New College of California

Dorn, Edward, Lewis MacAdams, Michael McClure, Duncan McNaughton · 0 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

San Francisco: New College of California, ND. Poster. Single sheet printed recto only. 10-1/8 x 15-3/4 inches. Handpainted lettering reproduced. Illustrated with reproduction of painting, uncredited. "Funds raised by this reading will be used to pay Imamu Amiri Baraka's (Leroi...

Finding out Something in a Cafe

Tate, James · 1966 · Wittenborn Art Books

$900.00 (€816.56 | £681.23 | ¥143,718)

Iowa City, IA: Shepherd's Press, 1966. Broadside. Single sheet, printed on recto only, illustrated. 10-1/2 x 17-1/4 inches. Typography by Sandra Swenson. One of an edition of about 23 copies. Signed by the author. Fine. .

Outlaws in Andover

Tate, James · 1970 · Wittenborn Art Books

$225.00 (€204.14 | £170.31 | ¥35,930)

[Santa Barbara, CA]: [Unicorn Press], [1970]. Broadside. Single sheet, printed on recto only, illustrated. 10 x 13 inches. Issued as Unicorn Broadside Series II, number 2. Fine. .

San Francisco State University & the Poetry Center Present Stephen Spender

Spender, Stephen · 0 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

San Francisco: San Francisco State University, ND. Poster. 11-3/8 x 17-1/2 inches. Red and black type. Black and white photograph (uncredited) of Spender inside red rule. "First in a series of free public lectures." Very Good. .

The Meaning of Simplicity

Ritsos, Yannis, translated by Edmund Keeley · 1987 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

[Berkeley, CA]: Kelsey Street Press, [1987]. Broadside. Printed in three colors on buff paper. 13-1/4 x 20 inches. Illustration by Kate Delos. Design by Robert Rosenwasser.Printed by Wesley Tanner. Produced as a gift for members of Small Press Traffic. Fine. .