Imago Press

The Pearl

de Ford, Sara and Others, editors and translators · 1967

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

Northbrook IL, AHM Publishing, 1967. Perfect binding, 109 pp. 5"-7.5". Fine. If composed in Homeric Greek, this would have been titled, “Hymn to Clitoris' -but it's in Middle English with a whole host of Christian gnomons covering the sepulchre. Durer's Death and Youth on blac...

Where Ashes Float

de Gruttola, Raffael · 1989

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

Natick MA, Cordillera Press , 1989. Perfect binding, 38 pp. 5.5"-8.5". As New. Mostly longer poems, but the sun /descends / past the lake -- / in the caves / fires burn out.

Vaspete Strain

Codrescu, Ion · 1999

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

Constanta, Romania, Ex Ponto, 1999. Perfect binding, 174 pp. 5"-8". good. A Foreign Guest, is the translation into English. Bilingual haiku diary of the Romanian poet and painter when he was a haiku guest in the USA. Water stains to upper corner.

Wormwood

Carson, Jerrry · 1978

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

Cambridge MA, privately printed, 1978. Staplebound, 28 pp. 5"-6.25". fine. Across the river / Out of the sky / A butterfly.

Genesis

Di Palma, Ray · 1980

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

Toronto, Underwhich Editions, 1980. Staplebound, 44 pp. 8.5"-10.75". good. Spare and light rotations of toner and geotypes through a high-wire of pages. Covers show the wear of the ages.

A Wave

Ashbery, John · 1985

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

New York, Penguin, 1985. Perfect binding, 92 pp. 6.25"-9.25". Good. 2 sections are haiku-related; "37 haiku"( all one-liners) e.g. A blue anchor grains of grit in a tall sky sewing -and "6 Haibun". Face-stains, lift to the laminated cover.

Cicada Voices: Selected haiku of Eric Amann, 1966 - 1979

Amann, Eric · 1983

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

Battle Ground IN, HIGH/COO Press, 1983. Perfect binding, 64 pp. 5.5"-8.5". Good. walking alone / only an echo and I -- / autumn mountains.

To My Wife /In Two Volumes

Nagai, Moriaki · 2007

CA$35.00 (€22.26 | $24.54 | £18.58 | ¥3,918)

Tokyo, Zodiac Corporation, 2007. Perfect binding, 745 pp. 5"-75". As New. A 12 month haiku diary of love for my wife -now that she's recently passed. in the cold season/ squealing of nighttime train wheels/ my wife's moaning - Deluxe jackets.

Too Good To Be Entirely True

Wyszomierski, Donna · 1981

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

Buffalo, Top Stories of Hard Press, 1981. Staplebound, 15 pp. 5.25"-8.5". Good. Very first of the 'Top Stories' and my favourite of the first 77. Green on grey graphics dance the cover. Minor stain there.

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Winterson, Jeanette · 1985

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

New York, Grove Press, 1985. Perfect binding, 176 pp. 5.5"-8.25". Good. Hilarious Bildungsroman of a writer's coming out. Won the Whitbread First Fiction Prize for 1985. Edges are warped -and that's only the physical part of the volume.

Sexing the Cherry

Winterson, Jeanette · 1989

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

London, Vintage, 1989. Perfect binding, 144 pp. 5"-8". Fine. First Vintage UK edition. Parables outrageously imagined and illustrated in miniature with a fruit. Stainless paperback.

Art & Lies

Winterson, Jeanette · 1995

CA$35.00 (€22.26 | $24.54 | £18.58 | ¥3,918)

Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Cloth, 216 pp. 6.25"-9.5". Mint. First Canadian edition. The voices in parallel are named ' Handel', 'Picasso' & 'Sappho'. "There is no art, only lies and autobiography". Even the jacket is mint.

Spring Trances in the Control Emerald Night

Dewdney, Christopher · 1978

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

Berkeley, The Figures, 1978. Perfect binding, 49 pp. 5"-7.5". As New. First edition paperback original and Number 1 of 'A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario'. Vegetal green covers.

Lighthousekeeping

Winterson, Jeanette · 2006

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

New York, Harcourt, Inc, 2006. Perfect binding, 232 pp. 5.5"-8". As New. First Harvest Book edition of inspired binaries: Pewter & Silver, Jekyll & Hyde, Tristan & Iseult, dark & lighthouse.

The Best Known Works of Ivan Turgenev

Turgenev, Ivan · 1913

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

New York, Literary Classics, Inc. 1913. Cloth, 375 pp. 5.5"-8". Fair. Includes, 'Fathers and Sons', 'Smoke' and 5 other stories. No translator or dates given. Faded type and tear to spine. Clothbound reading copy.

Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein

Stein, Gertrude · 1982

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

West Glover VT, Something Else Prss, Inc. 1982. Perfect binding, 278 pp. 6"-9.25". good. GMP' accompanied by two shorter stories A Long Gay Book and Many Many Women. Chipped spine and corners to this most distinctive format with pastel caps.

The Magician in Love

Rooke, Leon · 1981

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

Toronto, Aya Press, 1981. Perfect binding, 95 pp. 5.5"-9". Fair. A Pack of Magician stories. Captivating is the quirky quality of the situations related with utterly amoral detachment. Soot and water stains.

La Maison de Rendz-vous

Robbe-Grillet, Alain, Richard Howard, translator · 1967

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

New York, Grove Press, 1967. Perfect binding, 254 pp. 4.25"-7". Good. First Evergreen Black Cat edition of 1967 -sixth printing. Kept title in French, naked woman in cuffs on scuffed cover, pocketbook format.

Topology of a Phantom City

Robbe-Grillet, Alain, John Underwood, translator · 1977

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

New York, Grove Press, 1977. Perfect binding, 142 pp. 6"-9". Fine. First Evergreen edition of what was his first novel in 7 years. Reader as archaeological partner on a dig. Lift to gloss-card cover.

Les Gommes

Robbe-Grillet, Alain · 1953

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

Paris, Editions MInuit, 1953. Perfect binding, 265 pp. 5.25"-7". Good. His first novel,(1953), this reprint has stains to its classic white fold-in matte cover printed black with titles' caps in blue.