Poetry : Modern : Books from Philip Smith, Bookseller

New York: Scribner Poetry, 2013. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 320pp, printed wrappers. Familiarly INSCRIBED by the author (as "David") on the title page. Stated first printing. Otherwise a clean and unmarked copy with bumping to a few pages.

London: I B Held Bks / Edible Mag / Aloes Books, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 8vo, 16pp, stapled wrappers. A rare visual text published in connection with Aloes Books (numbered 5 in Fisher's bibliography), from the collection of period Fisherian associate Opal Louis Nations. Two notations to front cover in period associate handwriting;… Read more about this item

London: Spanner Editions, 1983. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 12mo, 126pp, printed wrappers. The rare original Spanner edition of this text (numbered 73 in Fisher's bibliography), from the collection of experimentalist cohort Opal Louis Nations. Unmarked copy, a bit of general and edge wear.

Cambridge, MA: The Imaginary Press, 1981. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 24pp, stapled wrappers. A rare chapbook Payack/Kasper collaboration from The Imaginary Press. Unmarked copy, light wear and soil.

London: I B Held Bks / Edible Mag / Aloes Books, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 16pp, stapled wrappers. A rare visual text published in connection with Aloes Books (numbered 4 in Fisher's bibliography), from the collection of Fisherian boon companion Opal Louis Nations. Unmarked copy, minor toning and wear.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1970. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+ cloth in Near VG dw. 8vo, 64pp, brown cloth with spine stamped in gold, printed dustwrapper. An unmarked copy of the stated first printing; jacket is price-clipped and has spotting and some edgewear to back panel.

Cambridge, MA: Imaginary Press, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 8pp, stapled wrappers. SIGNED by the author on the first interior page in the year of publication. A folded single-page broadside by Payack ("Why I Believe in Death") is laid in. Otherwise unmarked copy of a rare chapbook publication; light wear and… Read more about this item

San Jose, CA: Samisdat, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 16pp, stapled wrappers. SIGNED by the author on the first interior page in the year of publication. Otherwise unmarked copy of a rare chapbook publication; light toning to back cover and minor soil.

Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1980. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 36pp, stapled wrappers. Unmarked copy of a rare chapbook publication; minor wear.

Cambridge, MA: n.p, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 8pp, stapled wrappers. SIGNED by the author on the first interior page in the year of publication. Otherwise unmarked copy of a rare chapbook publication; light wear and bumping.

Richford, VT: Samisdat, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 12pp, stapled wrappers. SIGNED by the author on the first interior page in the year of publication. Otherwise unmarked copy of a rare chapbook publication; patches of toning to covers.

San Francisco: Auguste Press, 2014. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 66pp, stapled wrappers. 1 of 250 stated copies. Unmarked copy, light reading wear and soil.

Toronto: The Eternal Network, 1975. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VG in Near VG dw. 8vo, 96pp, green cloth, printed dustwrapper. Includes accompanying 45rpm disc. Peak Canadian production from the peak of the peaked 1970s. Unmarked copy, some spotting to page edges and spots/edge chips to dustwrapper.

Warwick, NY: Wyrd Press, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 28pp, stapled wrappers with printed dustwrapper. Clean copy (from the collection of the usually fastidious Opal Louis Nations) of this experimental chapbook printed in black and red. Unmarked copy, minor wear to wrapper.

Vancouver: Intermedia Press, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. INSCRIBED with a heart by the author (as "Ed") to cardiac colleague Opal Louis Nations. Number 354 of an unspecified number of copies of this experimental work with visual and poetic elements. Unmarked copy, minor wear.

Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2003. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 36pp, sewn wrappers. Number 34 of 60 copies of this SIGNED limited-edition book of poetic translations. Unmarked copy, just about as new.

Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1975 [1969]. 3rd edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. Oblong 8vo, 48pp, printed wrappers. 1 of 1000 copies of the stated third edition from 1975 of an early production from Coach House Press. Unmarked copy from the collection of sun-dappled accumulator Opal Louis Nations, a bit of sunning to spine.

Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, ~128pp, printed wrappers. 1 of stated 1000 copies of this experimental seventies work, with visual and concrete elements (and limited didactic efficacy) from Coach House Press. Unmarked copy from the collection of sagaciously efficacious Opal Louis Nations, a little spotting to edges.

Boca Raton, FL: Atlantis Editions, 1991. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by translator O'Connell to the untranslatably epitheted Opal Louis Nations. Number 244 of 250 copies; original price label to half-title page; a bit of general wear and soil.

Washington, DC: The Paycock Press, 1981. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 80pp, printed wrappers. A murmuring assembly of collage-illustrated experimental texts, warmly INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication to garrulous essayee Opal Louis Nations (about whom Myers wrote an essay, referenced in the inscription). Unmarked otherwise, minor wear and faint freckles… Read more about this item