San Francisco / New York: The Arion Press / Grove Press, 2006. Wiley, William T. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Artist book: Number 68 of 300, elephant folio size, [67] pp., signed by William T. Wiley, with prospectus and invitation to the publication party. Trade book: octavo size, 365 pp. Samuel Beckett..... More
[San Francisco]: The Arion Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Folio sheet, folded. One of 100 copies, quarto size, [4] pp. A lovely bit of early ephemera from The Arion Press, being a poem in Italian by Franceso De Martini, and a poem in English by Andrew Hoyem. Both poems are on..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2008. Lobdell, Frank. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 198 of 275 copies, quarto size, 96 pp., signed by Frank Lobdell, with signed print (number 19/20) and prospectus. Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was one of the most influential American poets of the second half of the twentieth century..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1992. Kitaj, R.B. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 196 of 200, folio size, 63 pp., signed by Allen Ginsberg and R.B. Kitaj. Written three years after the death of his mother, Ginsberg focused on a cryptic note left to him by her, the mother who had..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 425 copies, unnumbered, octavo size, 175 pp., inscribed by Andrew Hoyem, with prospectus. The second book of the Arion Press, a self-proclaimed "commonplace book by commonplace people", full of familiar lines relating to the most essential of pastimes -..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1990. Kenna, Michael. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, unnumbered, oblong quarto size, 115 pp., signed by Michael Kenna. The Désert de Retz is a landscape garden in north-central France, known for its lavish architecture in the style of classical antiquity, created by French..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2002. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 400 copies, octavo size, 16 p. A keepsake published in a limited edition of 400 copies, which "came about because Seamus Heaney, the Nobel prize-winning poet, visited the press and presented us with his translation of a poem by Alexander..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1983. Chappell, Warren. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, folio size, [72] unnumbered pp., with prospectus. René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (known as Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926) has been described as "one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets". An existential writer, he..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 209 of 300 copies, quarto size, 430 pp., signed by Henry Roth, with prospectus. Largely ignored when it first appeared in 1934, "Call It Sleep" was republished in 1964 to overwhelming acclaim and rose immediately to the top of the bestseller..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2015. Kentridge, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 126 of 400 copies, folio size, 171 pp., signed by William Kentridge, with prospectus. The text is the original telling of the Lulu tale by Wedekind; as the inimitable Andrew Hoyem writes in the book's prospectus, "these works..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2008. Washburn, Stan. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 209 of 300, octavo size, 331 pp., with prospectus and notes. Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer best known for his work in the science fiction genre, with novels such as "The Time Machine" and "The..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1990. Diebenkorn, Richard. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 271 of 400 numbered copies, quarto size, 204 pp., signed by Richard Diebenkorn. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was both an Irish poet and ardent nationalist; he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923 (the first Irish..... More