Mormon Settlement in Arizona: A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert
by McClintock, James Henry
Phoenix: James McClintock, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 307pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped title on front board and backstrip. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Folding map at rear. The text block is periodically cracked. There is a previous owner's notation on the front pastedown. Flake/Draper 5120.
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The New Book / A Book of Torture
by McClure, Michael
New York and London: Grove Press, Inc.; Evergreen Books Ltd, 1961. First printing. Paperback. SIGNED. 64pp. Slim octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good plus condition. The wraps are subtly age-toned. In 1953, Michael McClure settled in San Francisco, where his poems were published in a number of little magazines, and where he grew to be associated with the... Read More
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Gorf or Gorf and the Blind Dyke
by McClure, Michael
New York: A New Directions Book, 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 79pp. Octavo [21 cm] Rose-red cloth over boards with black lettering on the backstrip. Near fine. The spine ends and edges of the covers are marginally rubbed, and the pages are tanned. In a very good dust wrapper, with mild age-toning. Inscribed by Michael McClure, with a... Read More
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The New Book / A Book of Torture (the poet Keith Abbott's copy)
by McClure, Michael
New York and London: Grove Press, Inc.; Evergreen Books Ltd, 1961. Second printing. Paperback. Very good. 64pp. Slim octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. with mild toning to the wraps. Ex-libris Northwestern poet Keith Abbott, with his name at the head of the half title. In 1953, Michael McClure settled in San Francisco, where his poems were published in... Read More
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The Grabbing of the Fairy: A Masque by Michael McClure
by McClure, Michael
St. Paul, MN: Truck Press, 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Stewart Brand. SIGNED. 41pp. Octavo [23 cm] Heavily foxed white ivory cloth over boards. Fold-out frontispiece illustration (lightly creased). With photographs by Stewart Brand. One of one hundred casebound copies. This copy is not numbered. Signed by Michael McClure on the limitation page.
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September Blackberries
by McClure, Michael
New York: A New Directions Book, 1974. First New Directions Paperbook Printing. Paperback. SIGNED. 151pp. Octavo [20 cm] White and black pictorial wraps. Very good condition. A collection of 75 poems demonstrating McClure's "bio-alchemical" aesthetic. Signed by McClure on the title page.
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The Grabbing of the Fairy: A Masque
by McClure, Michael
St. Paul, MN: Truck Press, 1978. Limited Edition. Paperback. Stewart Brand. Slim octavo [22 cm] Pictorial wraps. Very good. There is a small gouge in the surface of the rear wrap, near the spine. With photographs by Stewart Brand. One in an edition of 1026 copies, designed and typeset at Bull City Studios and printed at the Regulator Press... Read More
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The Surge
by McClure, Michael
Frontier Press, 1969. First stitched printing. Paperback. Thin octavo [24 cm] Stitched orange and green folded wraps, with a rough-trimmed front fore edge. Very good condition. The Surge was first published in Foot in 1962.
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Jaguar Skies
by McClure, Michael
New York: A New Directions Book, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 87pp. Slim octavo [21 cm] Beige cloth over boards with a red ink stamped title on the spine. Near fine, in a very good dust jacket, with age-toning. Michael McClure is a poet and playwright who was associated with the "San Francisco Renaissance.
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Poisoned Wheat
by McClure, Michael
San Francisco: [Privately printed], 1965. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Very slim duodecimo [20 cm] Saddle-stitched pictorial wraps. McClure's poem written in protest of the Vietnam War.
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Scratching the Beat Surface (An Extract)
by McClure, Michael
San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1982. Paperback. Very good. [13]pp. Very slim duodecimo [20 cm] Stapled pictorial wrappers. Michael McClure wrote the internationally acclaimed play, The Beard, and attended San Francisco State College, where he studied with poet Robert Duncan. He gave his first poetry reading in the company of Allen Ginsberg in 1955.
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The Sermons of Jean Harlow & The Curses of Billy the Kid
by McClure, Michael
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation with Dave Haselwood Books, 1968. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Slim octavo [23.5 cm] Saddle-stitched printed wraps. The wraps are mildly age-toned. One of 1200 copies bound in paper.
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Tirkizni Revolver: Izabrane pesme
by McClure, Michael; Vojo Sindolic
Beograd [Belgrade]: Nezavisna dzepna izdanja" knjiga broj tri, 1984. Croatian edition. Paperback. Very good +. 71pp. Sextodecimo [17 cm] White wraps printed in black and green.
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Selected Poems
by McClure, Michael
New York: A New Directions Book, 1986. First New Directions Paperbook Edition. Paperback. Very good. SIGNED. 116pp. Octavo [20 cm] Black and white photographically illustrated wraps, with moderate surface wear. The first major retrospective collection of the poet and Obie-winning playwright associated with the San Francisco Renaissance and early Beat movement. This copy is inscribed by Michael McClure,... Read More
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Jaguar Skies
by McClure, Michael
New York: A New Directions Book, 1975. First New Directions Paperbook Printing. Paperback. Very good. 87pp. Slim octavo [20 cm] White and black pictorial wraps. From the foreword- "With poetry we can meet an old perception on a mountain top or in a subway, or view a new perception loping in the distance like a wolf- or glimmering... Read More
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The Book of Joanna
by McClure, Michael
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1973. Limited Edition. Paperback. Very good. Very thin octavo [20.5 cm] Sewn printed wraps, with light soiling to the rear wrap. Sand Dollar 9. One of 400 copies printed at the Arif Press.
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The New Book / A Book of Torture
by McClure, Michael
New York and London: Grove Press, Inc.; Evergreen Books Ltd, 1961. First printing. Paperback. Very good. 64pp. Slim octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. The wraps are mildly age-toned, creased, and scratched. In 1953, Michael McClure settled in San Francisco, where his poems were published in a number of little magazines, and where he grew to be associated with... Read More
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Gorf or Gorf and the Blind Dyke
by McClure, Michael
New York: A New Directions Book, 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. 79pp. Octavo [21 cm] Rose-red cloth over boards with black lettering on the backstrip. Near fine. The spine ends and edges of the covers are marginally rubbed and bumped, and the pages are tanned. In a very good dust wrapper, with mild age-toning and very light soiling. There... Read More
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The Blossom or Billy the Kid
by McClure, Michael
Milwaukee, WI: Great Lake Books, 1967. Limited Edition. Paperback. Very good. 32pp. Very slim octavo [21.5 cm] Saddle-stitched white and black pictorial wraps. A play by Michael McClure. One in an edition of 500 copies numbered 11 to 510.
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Hail Thee Who Play
by McClure, Michael
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. Limited edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Quarto [27 cm] 1/4 decoratively woven orange, tan and yellow cloth with yellow paper covered boards, and an embellished title on the front cover. Deckled edges. Very good. The covers are very lightly soiled. Number 43 of 250 numbered copies. Signed by McClure on the limitation page. With an... Read More
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Little Odes and The Raptors: Poems & a Play
by McClure, Michael
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First trade edition. Paperback. Very good. 42pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Bluish gray wraps. Blue free endpapers. With minor fading at the spine, and a previous owner's last name on the front free endpaper. Printed February 1969 in Santa Barbara by Noel Young for the Black Sparrow Press. Design by Barbara Martin. One... Read More
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The Beard
by McClure, Michael
1965. First edition. Paperback. Very good. 70 pp (printed on rectos only). Slim quarto [33 cm]. White, brown and blue pictorial wraps. The wraps are mildly age-toned, soiled and creased. The true first edition of this work. Copyright page reads: "...for actors and friends of the auther only..." An underground theater classic. Not only was McClure associated with... Read More
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Little Odes and The Raptors: Poems & a Play
by McClure, Michael
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First trade edition. Paperback. Near fine. 42pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Bluish gray wraps. Blue free endpapers. Publisher's review copy, with review slip tucked in. With only trivial fading to the spine. Printed February 1969 in Santa Barbara by Noel Young for the Black Sparrow Press. Design by Barbara Martin. One in an... Read More
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Love Lion Book
by McClure, Michael
San Francisco: Writing II; Four Seasons Foundation, 1966. Second printing. Paperback. Very good. 21pp. Slim octavo [23 cm] Blue wraps, with areas of light sunning to the wraps.
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Antechamber & Other Poems
by McClure, Michael
New York: A New Directions Book, 1978. First New Directions Paperbook 455. Paperback. Very good. SIGNED. 90pp. Slim octavo [20 cm] Wraps. Signed by the author on the title page.
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