Imago Press

The Educated Imagination

Frye, Northrup · 1962

CA$10.00 (€6.36 | $7.01 | £5.31 | ¥1,119)

Toronto, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. 1962. Perfect binding, 68 pp. 5"-8". Good. The Massey Lectures, Second Series delivered over Canadian Public Radio (CBC) in 6 parts in 1961. Spare cover design includes a Chinese ideogram.

La Poesia Chilena

Alegria, Fernando · 1954

CA$17.00 (€10.81 | $11.92 | £9.02 | ¥1,903)

Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1954. Sewn cloth, 314 pp. 5.5"-8.75". As New. Origenes y Desarrollo del Siglo xvi al xix. Text entirely en espagnol and printed in Mexico on almost transluscent paper. Jacket intact, sturdy binding to its ethereal pages.

Surrealism and its Others

Conley, Katherine and Pierre Taminiaux, editors · 2006

CA$15.00 (€9.54 | $10.52 | £7.96 | ¥1,679)

New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 2006. Perfect binding, 146 pp. 6"-9.25". As New. Nine essays in dialogue with Andre Breton expanding towards an aesthetically informed anti-colonialism.

Salvage

Hlynsky, David · 1981

CA$18.00 (€11.45 | $12.62 | £9.55 | ¥2,015)

Toronto, Coach House, 1981. Perfect binding, 50 pp. 6"-8.75". As New. 42 sharp duotones of everyday objects dressed to kill. Text as illustration. waitress serving a plastic tablesetting on cover. This is a review copy.

Murder

Halliday, David · 1986

CA$20.00 (€12.72 | $14.02 | £10.61 | ¥2,239)

Toronto, Coach House, 1986. Perfect binding, 40 pp. 8"-6". Fine. Bold-printed poems of ""man slaying woman"'. With an envelope of 20 collages for the reader to tip in at the parallel recurrence. Red cover, appropriately disturbing.

When I Look At Pictures

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence · 1990

CA$25.00 (€15.90 | $17.53 | £13.27 | ¥2,798)

Layton UT, Gibbs Smith Publishers, 1990. Perfect binding, 47 pp. 7.5"-8". As New. Poems and meditations on painting and paintings (over 20 fully reproduced in colour) by the San Francisco poet.

Skiamachia

Burnett, Virgil · 1982

CA$15.00 (€9.54 | $10.52 | £7.96 | ¥1,679)

Erin ON, The Porcupine's Quill, 1982. Perfect binding, 28 pp. 8.75"-7". Fine. First trade edition. Text and illustrations previously serialized in Penthouse Magazine (13-1) with 6 of the artist-author's illustrations. Fading blue cover complements the phantasy.

The Wind People

Barbour, Carol E. · 1990

CA$15.00 (€9.54 | $10.52 | £7.96 | ¥1,679)

Toronto, Carol Barbour, 1990. Perfect w/ jacket, 140 pp. 5.5"-8.5". Fine. Text mostly but paintings copied and glued on pages beside text. Drawings and photos too. Cult living with Blakesian inlays.

Confessions of a Hooligan

Esenin, Sergei, Geoffrey Thurley, translator · 1973

CA$15.00 (€9.54 | $10.52 | £7.96 | ¥1,679)

Cheshire UK, Carcanet Press, 1973. Perfect binding, 107 pp. 5.25"-8.5". Good. 50 poems, in the English only, many of them more than a page long, introduced by the translator. Set in smallish serif type between brown on yellow covers. Sturdy.

against natural impulse

Winke, Jeffrey · 1992

CA$13.00 (€8.27 | $9.11 | £6.90 | ¥1,455)

Albany NY, BOOG Literature, 1992. Staplebound, 16 pp. 4.25"-5.5". fine. Printed white within black squares. Green endpapers, yellow covers: the old bluesman / sips milk between / sax solos.

center stillness

Walsh, Phyllis · 1989

CA$12.00 (€7.63 | $8.41 | £6.37 | ¥1,343)

Dakota MN, Scythe Press, 1989. Sewn thread, 16 pp. 4.75"-3.75". Fine. Cover of untrimmed card sewn with blue thread: canoeing closer/ driftwood branch /e /r /o /n.

water in a stone depression

van den Heuvel, Cor · 1969

CA$45.00 (€28.63 | $31.55 | £23.88 | ¥5,037)

New York, chant press, 1969. Sewn and stapled, 38 pp. 4.5"-6.25". As New. Some haiku in this one; with a b x w raised cover: the still pool / floats / slowly into sunlight - Handprinted, "# 68 of 80", and signed, "Cornelisz".

3 Jazz Chants

van den Heuvel, Cor · 1962

CA$75.00 (€47.71 | $52.59 | £39.80 | ¥8,395)

New York, chant press, 1962. Sewn and stapled, 28 pp. 4.5"-6.25". As New. Begins with the mesmerizing," a bag of marbles" then courses through 2 other fascinations. Cover a grey-auburn-yellow mottling of cardstock. Signed by the poet and "Cornelisz".

This Morning's Mockingbird

Swede, George · 1980

CA$13.00 (€8.27 | $9.11 | £6.90 | ¥1,455)

Battle Ground IN, HIGH/COO Press, 1980. Staplebound, 16 pp. 4"-3". As New. As she undresses/ by the window . The moon/ through the poplars.

My Shadow Doing Something

Swede, George · 1997

CA$9.00 (€5.73 | $6.31 | £4.78 | ¥1,007)

Enfield CT, Tiny Poems Press, 1997. Staplebound, 24 pp. 6.5"-8.5". fine. where the path ends/ my shadow doing something/ in the bushes.

Sunken Schooners

Saunders, Margaret · 1983

CA$8.00 (€5.09 | $5.61 | £4.25 | ¥895)

Hamilton ON, Wee Giant Press, 1983. Staplebound, 20 pp. 4.25"-5.5". fine. In and out/ of the cannon/ a mottled sculpin.

Oracle

Reichhold, Jane and Werner Reichhold · 1993

CA$15.00 (€9.54 | $10.52 | £7.96 | ¥1,679)

Gualala CA, AHA Books, 1993. Staplebound, 40 pp. 5.5"-8.75". fine. Tan renga presented throughout in concrete haiga style: " hailing/ a taxi/ a wolf/whistle / overheard " juxtaposed with " GUNSHOTS RING / THE DOWN TOWN ".

You gotta / go in /it's / the big game

Elliot, Joseph · 1989

CA$10.00 (€6.36 | $7.01 | £5.31 | ¥1,119)

Brooklyn NY, A Musty Bone, 1989. Glued wrapper, 36 pp. 7.25"-8.75". Good. Contains the wonderfully cadenced poem, "Valentine" :"Swollen /the bedding / is a great wave / we have made / have imagined / ..." Paper green covers glue-on wrapper.

Sixteen Haiku

Kusama, Tokihiko, Jack Stamm, translator · 1992

CA$10.00 (€6.36 | $7.01 | £5.31 | ¥1,119)

Tokyo, NAGATA, 1992. Hand-sewn, 20 pp. 4"-7". As New. Fold-in covers and rice-endpapers. around, e.g. Fickle March wind/ turns and makes a jump at/ a girl selling flowers.

TURFS, etc.

Kostelanetz, Richard · 1988

CA$15.00 (€9.54 | $10.52 | £7.96 | ¥1,679)

Battle Ground IN, HIGH/COO Press, 1988. Saddlestitched, 22 pp. 3"-4". Good. Only four words are used, placed in the corners of an invisible rectangle, floating in space -from the author's preface.