(Los Angeles: Printed for Ernest Dawson by John Henry Nash, 1925.), First separate edition. Cowan, page 142. A poem celebrating the glories of Los Angeles, which Coolbrith laments in this poem, first published in 1895 in her Songs of the Golden Gate, was already suffering from the "price of civilization.".....
San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, [1984]. First edition, number 21 of 226 copies signed by Everson, Killion and Wilson. Designed and printed by Adrian Wilson at The Press in Tuscany Alley. From the library of David and Valerie Belch. Original prospectus laid in.
Reno, Nevada: The Black Rock Press, 1968. First edition, one of 180 copies, signed by Everson on the front blank. Bartlett & Campo A30. Seven previously unpublished poems by William Everson, originally written in 1947 and printed by Kenneth and Patricia Carpenter of the Black Rock Press in a edition.....
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(Berkeley: University of California General Library, 1960). First edition, one of 200 copies printed by Kenneth J. Carpenter as a keepsake for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs, 1960. Bartlett & Campo A17. One of several early poems written by William Everson that remained unpublished until years.....
(Reno, Nevada): The Black Rock Press, (1965). First edition, one of 80 numbered copies. The first book of the Black Rock Press and the first book of poetry by playwright George Herman, a collection of six amusing poems on sparrows. The Black Rock Press was founded by Kenneth and Patricia.....
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1952. First edition, one of 129 copies signed by the printer, artist and translator. A handsomely printed and illustrated selection of the poems of poet Oscar Venceslas Lubiz-Milosz (1877-1939), who though Lithuanian by birth wrote in the language of his adopted country, France. The text.....
(Deia, Mallorca: The New Seizin Press, 1985). First edition, one of 75 copies signed by Tomas Graves and Ralph Nelson.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1925. First edition, one of 600 copies designed and printed by John Henry Nash. ¶ An impressive selection from over 100 contemporary California poets, e.g.: George Sterling, Robinson Jeffers, Stephen Rose Benét, Ina Coolbrith, Yone Noguchi, Xavier Martinez, Sara Bard Field and Charles.....
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1915. First edition, one of 525 copies. BAL 18762; Mattila A8. ¶ Sterling's famous ode that celebrated the opening of the exposition that celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal. Handsomely printed and bound in the manner of the Kelmscott Press by Taylor & Taylor.....
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(San Francisco: Taylor, Nash & Taylor, 1915). First and only edition. OCLC 44411941 records two copies (NYPL & UVa). A five-stanza, 92-line poem on the opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in February 1915, which inspired numerous local San Francisco poets to commemorate the occasion. Edward Robeson Taylor (1838-1923), politician.....
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San Francisco: Printed by Andrew Hoyem of the Arion Press, 1976. First separate edition, one of 150 copies printed. De Bellis & Broomfield, John Updike, A Bibliography, A57. A handsome broadside of John Updike's amusing poem about San Francisco, first collected in The Carpentered Hen (1958). It was separately printed.....