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ID	Author	Title	Place	Publisher	Date	OCLC Number	Call Number	Description	Reviews
4117	Levy, d.a.	The Praps I Series	Cleveland (?)	Mostly Broken Scabs Press	1977	70215925		Fourteen leaves of faux parchment paper, mimeo printed in green ink; staple & glue bound in red construction paper featuring a green to yellow silkscreen cover (artist unattributed). First edition, 125 copies, poems: PRAPS (I) PRAPS (I); TWO ; PRAPS I (THREE); PRAPS EYE FOUR; PERHAPS (#5); P'ER APS 6; PRAPS I/7 (FOR J.S.); PRAPS I/ ATE. On cover page: January 77, the first stone of the new year A GARDEN PRODUCTION . This series is reprinted from ukanhavyrfuckincitibak".
4118	Levy, d.a.	The Tibetan Stroboscope	Cleveland, Ohio	Ayizan Press	1968	2490160		Quarto, newsprint, in staple bound, pictorial self-wrappers. [28 pp]. First edition. Concrete poetry by levy, consisting of blacked out text, collage elements, paste-up, and other techniques; illustrated throughout. Spontaneity, dependent on intuition, was everything to Levy;s work. Approximately 4,000 copies were printed but an estimated 3,000 were destroyed by Levy prior to his death. From the back cover: "... an experiment in DESTRUCTIVE WRITING, "other" communications, and Concrete prose."
4119	Levy, d.a.	The Madison Collages	Cleveland	an Offence Fund Reprint	1975	6978189		Mimeograph printed on bright yellow-colored paper; illustrated cover (Levy & rabbit) with silkscreen by t.l.kryss, on textured, gold wrappers, stapled at top and covered with black binding tape. A posthumous reprint of levy's collages first published in Madison, Wisconsin by QUIXOTE in 1969 while Levy was at the University of Wisconsin "Free University" as "poet-in-Residence" - an unofficial appointment. Twenty-two leaves printed with b+w reproductions of levy's varied collages. Published in an edition of 350 copies.
4120	Levy, d.a.	Red Lady	Cleveland, Ohio	Para-Shakti Press	1969	4490757		Paper, mimeo printed and staple-bound in bright yellow card wraps. Twenty-two pages in an edition of 500 copies. Second printing of the original Open Skull Press publication one year earlier, also in an edition of 500.
4121	Naropa University	2008 Summer Writing Program: The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics	Boulder, CO	Naropa University	2008			Paper catalogue, staple bound in illustrated card wrappers. A catalogue outlining the 2008 Summer Writing Program including lectures, readings, and faculty biographies. The Summer Writing Program is a four-week-long convocation of students, poets, fiction writers, scholars, translators, performance artists, activists, Buddhist teachers, musicians, printers, editors and others working in small press publishing. Programming includes workshops, lectures, panels, readings, special events, and more.
4123	Baca, Jimmy Santiago	Jimmy Santiago Baca	Santa Barbara, Calif.	Mudborn Press	1978	8143687		Pamphlet chapbook, staple bound in illustrated grey paper wrappers. A first edition of the author's first book, written in prison where he served 14 years. Back cover drawing by Emiliano Hinojosa. Published in 1978, issued as Rockbook 3. Baca is one of the most important Chicano writers and activist.. He has won the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, and others.
4124	Larsen, Carl & James Singe	The Beat Generation Cook Book	New York	7 Poets Press	1961			Paper, bound in illustrated yellow wrappers, 36 pages. First Edition. A collection of oddball 'beat' recipes, including some strange cocktails. The recipes include 'Kerouac Kocktail', 'Haiku Hash' etc. With amusing illustrations by D.G. Christian.
4125	Berkson, Bill	The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings ...	Rhode Island	Qua Books	2003		N 7445.2 .B48	Trade, paper bound in full color illustrated wrappers. Cover painting by Alex Katz. SIGNED & inscribed by Berkson on the title page. A collection of essays that spans nearly twenty years of poet, critic, and professor Berkson's career as an art writer.	Gift from Victoria Rowe Berry.
4126	Waldman, Anne	In the Room of Never Grieve: New and Selected Poems 1985-2003	Minneapolis	Coffee House Press	2003		PS 3573 .A4215 I49	Hard bound in blue cloth with spine stamped in silver; full color illustrated dust jacket with cover art by George Schneeman. With audio CD. SIGNED by Waldman on the title page. Charts Anne Waldman's dynamic career from 1985 to 2003 revealing a mature, wise and spiritual poet with immense energy and vast literary powers. The CD featuring Waldman's performance of her signature work introduces a vital component to her poetry. A gift from Victoria Rowe Berry.
4127	Whalen, Philip	Monday in the Evening, 21, VIII, 61	Milano	East 128	1964			Paper, staple-bound in printed red wrappers. Two folded double pages with three black and white pictures of the author taken by Ettore Sottsass. Limited First Edition, number 23 of 291 numbered copies. Printed in calligraphic text, written out by Whalen, with sketches in hand-ground Chinese ink, also by Whalen.
4128	Giorno, John	Balling Buddha	New York	Kulchur Foundation	1970			Trade paper bound in full color pictorial wraps featuring a cover design by Les Levine. Text printed on 6 colors of paper. First Edition. An American poet and performance artist Giorno's text-based poetry evolved from direct appropriation of entire texts from newspapers, montaged into the development of his signature double-column poems, a device that allowed Giorno to mimic the echoes and distortions he was applying to his performance art.
4129	Dorn, Edward	What I See in the Maximus Poems	Ventura, Calif.	Migrant	1960			Paper, octavo. 17 mimeographed pages staple bound in light blue printed wrappers. First edition. Poet Edward Dorn's first book. Dorn was a student of Charles Olson at Black Mountain. This, Dorn's first book, is an essay on the importance of Olson's 'The Maximus Poems.'
4130	Dorn, Edward	Yellow Lola	Santa Barbara	Cadmus Editions	1981			Cloth bound with linen spine and marble-papered boards. Paper label on spine. Letterpress set and printed on bright yellow paper by Mackintosh & Young. "Dark Mist" a print by David Hockney, tipped-in frontispiece. This book was formerly titled "Japanese Neon (Hello Jolla Book II)." This edition includes a portrait of Ed Dorn by Tom Clark, SIGNED by Dorn. Number 140 of an edition limited to 161 copies.
4132	Patchen, Kenneth	Because It Is: Poems and Drawings	New York	New Directions	1960		PS 3531 .A764 B38	Trade paperback bound in illustrated black & white wrappers, with a cover by Ray Johnson. Inion on half-title page, 6th printing, 83 pages. Patchen creates a comic, disturbing world of poems and drawings in a universe of fantastic revelation. 41 poems with black & white drawings. American Kenneth Patchen (1911 - 1972) wrote more than forty books of poetry, prose and drama. Modern critics regard Patchen's work as comparable to the Dadaists, Beats, and Surrealists. His work also foreshadowed contemporary literary art-forms including poetry read to jazz accompaniment and Patchens late experiments with visual poetry (which he called his "picture poems"). Title page includes a touching, poetic inion by an unknown party.
4133	Patchen, Kenneth	But Even So	New York	New Directions	1968		PS 3541 .A764 B8	Paperbound, trade edition, in b/w illustrated wrappers. 44 all new picture poems. Patchen was friends with Henry Miller and had a close, lifelong friendship with the poet e.e. cummings. In the 1950s, Patchen was a reluctant, but major influence on the younger Beat poets including Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Patchen also collaborated with the composer John Cage on a radio play 'The City Wears a Slouch Hat' and worked with jazz master Charles Mingus.
4134	Dorn, Edward	Gunslinger book III: The Winterbook	West Newbury, Mass	Frontier Press	1972		PS 3507 .O73277 G8	Paper, staplebound in sepia illustrated wrappers. SIGNED & INSCRIBED [In Logan, Utah] by Edward Dorn on half-title page (dated 1986). 1st printing. Copy 2.
4136	Kerouac, Jack	Pic: a novel by Jack Kerouac	New York	Grove Press	1973			Mass-market paperback bound in black, white & turquoise photo-illustrated wrappers. An Evergreen Black Cat Book, second printing. "Pic" is Kerouac's final novel and one of his most unusual. Narrated by ten-year-old Black boy with the unusual name of 'Pictorial Review Jackson' in a North Carolina vernacular, the novel charts the adventures of Pic and his brother Slim as they travel from the rural South to Harlem in the 1940s. A Gift from Denis Brunke.
4138	Bukowski, Charles & Carl W	Terpentin on the rocks: Die besten Gedichte aus der amerikanischen Alternativpresse, 1966-1977	Ausburg	MaroVerlag	1978			Paper, trade edition bound in color illustrarted wrappers. Poems by Blazek, Bukowski, DiPrima, Locklin, Norse, Micheline, Potts, Wantling, Winans, and many others. Text entirely in German. (subtitled: 'American Underground Poetry 1966 - 1977.') Gift of Charles Potts.
4139	Kerouac, Jan	Baby Driver	New York	St. Martin's Press	1981			First Edition, hardbound in black paper-covered boards with black cloth along spine with a full-color illustrated dust jacket featuring a painting by Jim Cherry. Black & White photo of the author on back. Just as Jack Kerouac captured the beat generation, his daughter captures the rhythm of the generation that followed. From an adolescence of LSD, detention homes, probation, and a pregnancy at the age of 15 to peace marches in Haight-Ashbury and Washington state, or traveling by bus through Central America, this memoir / novel (subtitled, "A Story about Myself") is the first book by Ms. Kerouac. Born in 1952, Jan Kerouac died in 1996.
4140	(de Claremont)	The Ancient Book of Formulas	New York	Dorene Publishing Co.	1940			A 94-page magical "formulary" originally published in 1940. Pamphlet format bound in decorated paper wrapper, front cover printed in silver on black. Subtitle: "The most complete book covering the Occult and Mystic Sciences ever published in the English Language." The un-credited author was the same man who wrote several other books of this genre under the names Louis de Claremont and Lewis de Claremont. Designed as a workbook for OPC's customers who would buy the named Compounds and Bouquets (Stock Oil Blends) from the OPC and use them to make up their own dressing oils, incense, and so forth at home. Gift of Franklin R. Cole.
4141	I & M Ottenheimer	Secrets of the Black Arts! a Key Note to Witchcraft	Baltimore	I. & M. Ottenheimer	n/d			Paper, bound in color printed white wrappers. Cover features image of a witch riding a broomstick with black cat on her shoulder, printed in blue & white on a dark red background. Full title: "The secrets of black arts. A key note to witchcraft, devination, omens, forewarnings, apparitions, sorcery, daemonology, dreams, predictions, visions, and, the devil's legacy to earth mortals; compacts with the devil!" 96 pp. A friend of the artist Wallace Berman, Cameron (Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel) (1922-1995) was a charismatic painter, occult practitioner, and a follower of Aleister Crowley. Many in the beat generation explored Eastern religions, particularly Buddhism, but there was also an attraction to the pagan, earth-centered religions and certainly the occult. Such influences provide a vivid picture of subculture within subcultures. A gift of Franklin R. Cole.
4142	Rosevear, John	Pot: A Handbook of Marihuana	New York	University Books	1967			Hardbound in brown buckram covered boards with photo-illustrated green, black & white dust jacket. In the spirit of scientific inquiry Rosevear grew a patch of pot within a few blocks of the local police station and was subsequently arrested and eventually sentenced to 1 - 10 years (he served one). The book is full of contemporary drug lingo and what a reviewer referred to as 'A biased it's-a-crime-that-it's-a-crime handbook.' The book is a history of Marihuana, its cultivation, and its chemical and psychic properties. Gift of Franklin R. Cole.
4143	Fleming, Dave	The Complete Guide to Growing Marihuana	San Franicisco	Sundance Press/Peace Press	1970			Booklet, staple bound in photo-illustrated green & black printed wrappers featuring a close up of a marihauana plant on the cover. First Edition, second printing of a minor classic, 43pages, plus an unpaginated with Crop Log. Illustrated with b/w plates. This very first marijuana growing book sold for $1 (and has been out-of-print for decades). Author Fleming says: "it is not the intention of this book to encourage anyone to break the existing law, but 'whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well' and it is in this spirit that this book was written." Gift of Dr. Franklin R. Cole.
4144	Petersen and Stillman, Editors	Cocaine: 1977, NIDA Research Monograph #13	Washington, D.C.	U.S. Govt. Printing Office	1977			Journal, bound in black & white wrappers. One of a series of government supported publications researching psychoactive drugs. Includes a bibliography, summaries of psychosocial research, and The Lifestyles of Nine American Cocaine Users. A Gift of Dr. Franklin R. Cole.
4145	Singer, Arnold J. (Editor)	Marijuana: Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Patterns of Social Use	New York	New York Academy of Sciences	1971			Bound periodical in blue and white printed wrappers. Volume 191 of this science series. A collection of scientific articles on (1) Chemistry and Pharmacology, and (2) Psychopharmacology and Sociology. A Gift of Dr. Franklin R. Cole.