Literature from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

New York: The Albondocani Press, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 5 inches. [35] pp., including 14 full-page illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers, stitched. Prospectus card laid in. Numbered by the published and signed by the artist on the colophon. Fine. From a stated edition of 426 signed copies (400 numbered and for sale, 26 lettered and not for sale);… Read more about this item

Dennis, Massachusetts: Salt-Works Press, 1973. 5 1/8 inches. Brown printed wrappers, stitched. [4] illustrated leaves, printed on rectos only. Signed by the author on the front wrapper. Fine. First separate issue (together with issue in orange wrappers, with no priority between them) of a work first published the same year as part of SOMA-HAOMA, No. 3 ("Trajectories"), a collection of… Read more about this item

[New York]: The Fantod Press, 1992. First Separate Edition. 5 1/8 inches. 2 volumes. Both volumes [16] ff., including, after the title page, one illustrated phrase on each leaf, printed on rectos only, plus colophon on rear wrapper recto. Original color pictorial wrappers, stapled, in original printed envelope. Numbered and signed by the artist on the colophons. Envelope light scuffed… Read more about this item

New York: Albondocani Press, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Edward Gorey. 7 3/4 inches. 54,[2] pp. including six illustrations. Publisher's marbled wrappers, paper cover label. Fine. From a stated edition of 226 copies (200 numbered copies for sale, and 26 lettered and not for sale); this copy out of series and unnumbered. The first book publication of two… Read more about this item

[New York]: The Fantod Press, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 4 1/2 inches. [40] ff., printed rectos only, including [3] text and [37] pictorial pages. Original stiff pictorial wrappers. Numbered and signed by the artist in anagrammatic pseudonym on the colophon. Fine. Number 473 of the first edition, limited to 526 copies (500 numbered copies for sale, 26… Read more about this item

[Farnham, England]: Ashgate, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in silver, in color pictorial dust jacket. Light shelfwear to jacket, else fine. From the publisher: "New York City was the site of a remarkable cultural and artistic renaissance during the 1950s and '60s. In the first monograph to treat all five major poets… Read more about this item

New York: Expanding Cinema [script published by arrangement with Viking Press], 1965. First Separate Edition. 11 x 8 1/2-inch leaves in an 11 1/2 x 9-inch folder. [4],58,[3] pp. Leaves in printed blue metal tab folder. Fine. PASSAGES FROM JAMES JOYCE'S FINNEGANS WAKE was the final film produced and directed by Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983), a pioneer in experimental film… Read more about this item

New York: Adventures in Poetry, Coach House South, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 135,[6] pp.Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers moderately rubbed, light creasing in upper-outer corner of front wrapper, else near fine. Published in a limited edition of 750 copies. "Larry Fagin notes that he published this book with David Rosenberg, who was then an editor at Coach… Read more about this item

Kathmandu: [Angus Maclise and Francis Brooks], 1973. Folio (18 1/4 inches). [16] pp., including numerous woodblock illustrations (printed variously in black and red) plus 1 full-page woodblock print tipped in. In original pictorial wrappers, all on handmade rice paper. Small closed tears at head of front wrapper, light discoloration from original paste affixing large print, else fine. Numbered 102 of… Read more about this item

[Kathmandu, Nepal: Angus Maclise], 1972. Folio (15 inches). [10] pp., including in-text woodblock illustrations and 4 full-page woodblock prints tipped in. In original pictorial wrappers, all on handmade rice paper. Fine. Numbered 144 of 150 copies, with editor's manuscript note in colophon, "corrections: | print 2: Arhat | print 3: Yabyum." The first of three issues of TING PA, a… Read more about this item

New York: Printed by Lew Ney for Gotham Book Mart, 1935. Small quarto. Single sheet folded twice. [4] pp. Lettered "HC" in contemporary red ink in the colophon. Near fine. The "deluxe" edition of a satirical poem composed by Christopher Morley and designed and printed by Lew Ney to help their friend and patron, Frances Steloff, founder and owner of… Read more about this item

New York: Boke Press, [1966]. 11 inches. [108] pp. plus both covers printed recto and verso, all illustrated. Stiff pictorial wrappers, stapled. Mild wear and light toning in covers, small marginal stain on rear cover. Near fine. The second and final issue of the comics mimeo publication bridging the work of the first and second generations of the New York… Read more about this item

[New York]: [Boke Press], [1965]. 11 inches. [37] leaves, of which 36 are illustrated, plus colophon printed on recto of rear cover. Stiff pictorial covers, side-stapled and backed in black cloth. Numbered and signed by Elmslie and Brainard. Minor soiling to rear cover, else fine. Numbered 27 of 500 copies (of which 1-50 were signed by the author and illustrator… Read more about this item

New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Co., 1914. 100 pp. Original printed wrappers. Light pencil marks and underlining. Wrapper rubbed and lightly chipped at extremities; rear wrapper creased. Very good. The first English-language edition of Otto Rank's seminal psychoanalytic reading on heroes in myths across ages and cultures, after the German first edition of 1909.

Venice, California: Jeffrey Reiss Publications, 1964. Very good. [3],42,[1] pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Inscribed to Kenward Elmslie and signed by the author in the flyleaf. Wrappers lightly rubbed and edgeworn, with a few small creases and two small chips at heads of wrappers. Very good. Third printing of Taylor Mead's first book (after the first printing of… Read more about this item

Brooklyn: Richard Fulani, 1973 (first two volumes), 1974 (third volume). Three volumes. 35; [4],31; 41,[1] pp. plus author's portrait and biography on recto of rear wrapper of third volume. Original stiff printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers lightly worn and rubbed, else fine. The first three books of poetry by Richard Fulani, with covers printed, respectively, the pan-African colors of green, yellow,… Read more about this item

[New York]: Telegraph Books, 1971. 36 pp. Pictorial wrappers. Light shelf wear, 1/4-stain at head of rear wrapper, else near fine. The second book of poems by poet, educator, and longtime denizen of Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side, Tom Weatherly (1942-2014). In his review for Weatherly's last published book, SHORT HISTORY OF THE SAXOPHONE, Andrei Codrescu said his… Read more about this item

Rockport, Massachusetts, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Gorey, Edward. 86,[2] pp., containing numerous in-text and full-page illustrations. Pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly shelf-worn. Very good. First issue of a short-run literary magazine, including the first (partial) publication of Edward Gorey's story-without-words, LEAVES FROM A MISLAID ALBUM. LEAVES here contains eight full-pages illustrations of 17 that would later be… Read more about this item

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1945. xi,309,[1] pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine titled in gold, in pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Jacket lightly rubbed, lightly worn at extremities, else near fine. Near fine in a near fine jacket. The full first book (preceded by a 40-page pamphlet) by H. P. Lovecraft protégé and author… Read more about this item

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. [5],208,[1] pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine titled in gilt, in pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author on dedication leaf verso. Jacket lightly rubbed, else fine. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Warmly inscribed by the author to a fellow World War I veteran and… Read more about this item