The
Jack Spicer Collection
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After
Lorca (unbound signatures and first english printing)
Homage to Creeley
Billy the Kid
Heads of the Town Up to the Aether
The Holy Grail
Language
The Day Five Thousand Fish Died in the Charles
River
A Book of Music
Indian Summer: Minneapolis 1950
The Ballad of the Dead Woodcutter
Some Things from Jack
Postscript
An Ode and Arcadia
15 False Propositions about God
Admonitions
Manroot
A Lost Poem
The Collected Books of Jack Spicer
One Night Stand and Other Poems (hardcover and soft)
Collected Poems 1945-1946
After
Lorca.
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1957.
Unbound signatures of Spicer’s
first book
(preceded only by a 1952 offprint written under the name John
L. Spicer). Scarce in this state.
A fine copy housed in a black cloth slipcase
with black morocco label stamped in gilt.
$3000
After
Lorca.
London: Aloes Books, 1971.
First English Edition of Spicer’s first book.
Light cover wear else fine.
$40
Homage
to Creeley.
Anapolis: privately printed, 1959.
Mimeographed sheets in blue
wrappers.
First Edition of Spicer’s second book of poems and generally considered
to be his rarest book,
due, in part, to the limited run (thirty-five copies)
and the fact that it was only circulated among friends.
Single crease along
middle of front and back wrapper, fading along the same to back, very faint
discoloration to front edges, but about as nice a copy of this rare book as
you could
hope to find.
$1750
Billy
the Kid.
Stinson Beach:Enkidu Surrogate, 1959.
Limited Edition in wrappers.
One of 750 copies.
A fine copy with the word ‘face’ omitted on the last
line of page eight.
$75
Heads
of the Town Up to the Aether.
San Francisco: Auerhahn Society, 1962.
Limited Edition in decorated wrappers.
One of 750 copies. Illustrated with lithographs
by Fran Herndon.
$150
The
Holy Grail.
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1966.
First Edition in wrappers.
$175
Language.
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1966.
First Edition in wrappers.
$60
Book
of Magazine Verse.
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1966.
First Edition in
wrappers with promotional flyer layed in.
$70
The
Day Five Thousand Fish Died in the Charles River.
Pleasant Valley: Kriya Press,
1967.
Broadside. One of one hundred numbered copies. A fine copy.
$120
A
Book of Music.
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1969.
Limited Edition in second
state wrappers printed in red and black.
One of one hundred and fifty copies.
Fine.
$60
Indian
Summer: Minneapolis 1950.
[Brooklyn]: Samuel Charters, 1970.
Broadside. One of one thousand copies published as Portents 16. Fine.
$50
The
Ballad of the Dead Woodcutter.
[Berkeley: Arif Press, 1972.].
First Edition in
wrappers. Single sheet folded twice as issued. Fine.
$45
Some
Things From Jack.
Verona: Plain Wrapper Press, 1972.
Limited Edition in wrappers.
One of ninety-one numbered copies. Fine.
Contact
us for price.
The
Red Wheelbarrow.
Berkeley: Arif Press, 1973.
First Trade Edition in wrappers.
One of one thousand copies.
Light cover wear, faint trace of sticker removal
to fron wrapper, else fine.
$25
Postscript.
Albuquerque: Billy Goat Press, [ca. 1973].
Broadside. One of one hundred
numbered copies. Fine.
Contact
us for price.
An
Ode and Arcadia.
Berkeley: Ark Press, 1974.
First Edition in wrappers. Co-authored
by Robert Duncan. One of one thousand copies. Fine.
$30
15
False Propositions about God.
South San Francisco: ManRoot, 1974.
First Edition
in Wrappers. Fine.
$35
Admonitions.
New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1974.
First Edition in wrappers. Quarto.
Single crease to back wrapper, else fine.
$35
Manroot.
South San Francisco: ManRoot, 1974.
First edition in wrappers. Issue Number
10, the Jack Spicer issue. Fine.
$45
A
Lost Poem.
Verona: Plain Wrapper Press, 1975.
Limited Edition in boards. Quarto.
One of one hundred and fourteen copies signed by the illustrator Ariel (Parkinson).
A fine copy of a beautiful book.
$400
The
Collected Books of Jack Spicer.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975.
Limited Edition handbound in boards and slipcase.
Edited and with a commentary
by Robin Blaser.
One of one hundred numbered copies signed by Blaser.
Fine in fine slipcase.
$200
One
Night Stand and Other Poems.
San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1980.
First Edition
in cloth, without dust jacket as issued.
Edited by Donald Allen with a preface
by Robert Duncan. Fine.
$110
One
Night Stand and Other Poems.
San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1980.
First Edition
in wrappers. Some very light rubbing else a fine copy.
$35
Collected
Poems 1945—1946.
Berkeley: Oyez Press, 1981.
Facsimile Edition in wrappers
of the unique typewritten copy in
the University of California’s Bancroft
Library. Fine.
$35
