San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by Taylor & Taylor], 1918. Lundborg, Florence. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 65 of 300 copies, quarto size, 38 pp. Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was a then little-known poet; he would go on to become famous for his fantasy, horror and science fiction..... More
[San Francisco]: Designed and printed by Lemoncheese Press, [2019]. Limited Edition. No binding. No. 16 of 50 copies, folio size. Printed in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Herman Melville's birth in 1819 in edition of 50 copies, this no. 16. The Lemoncheese Press is owned and operated by Li..... More
[Berkeley]: Tangram, 1990. First and Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 200 copies, octavo size, 20 pp., inscribed by Denise Levertov on the half-title page. Priscilla Denise Levertov (1923-1997), recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry and a Guggenheim Fellowship, was socially active in the 1960s and 70s, serving as..... More
San Francisco: Philip I. Figel (printed by Upton Bros.), 1884. Hardcover. Octavo size, 106 pp. Ella Ferré, of whom little can now be discovered, was one of many poets in the latter part of the nineteenth century to sing the praises of California. The title poem opens the volume, "In..... More
[Berkeley]: Oyez, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 197 pp., signed by Brother Antoninus. A highly-regarded poet and literary critic in his own right, Brother Antoninus (William Everson, 1912-1994), a one-time member of the Dominican Order (hence his nickname, the "Beat Friar") fully acknowledged Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) as one of..... More
London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald [printed by the Chiswick Press], 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 7 of 150 copies signed by T.S. Eliot (total edition 450), folio size, 44 pp., in a custom porfolio. While Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) may be best known for his monumental "A Dictionary of the..... More