Waldport, OR: Untide Press, 1945. First Edition. Paperback. Second impression after the first printing was aborted (only approx. 30 copies surviving). Black heavy paper with glossy wrap around pasted printed label; 8vo. 32 pp. This copy inscribed in heavy black ink: "for my good friend Bobby, with every affectionate wish.....
New York: Random House, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Red cloth; large 8vo. 131 pp. Poet's first collection. Mottled red cloth, spine heavily toned, very light foxing, else clean; lacking the uncommon dust jacket.
[Berkeley]: Bern Porter, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick raw boards, plain blue jacket; square 8vo. [2], 67 pp. No. 23 from an edition limited to 150 copies. Printed in blue with red & blue title page. Cover painted in color and signed by Kenneth Patchen with interior monochrome illustrations from.....
New York: New Directions, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Yellow cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 64 pp. Lyric even somewhat formal poems by one of the most important experimental poets of the mid-century. Bright, clean very good copy, with minor wear at the edges, in a bright (usually found toned) price-clipped.....
New York: New Directions, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, author painted issue; square 8vo; 64 pp. Cloth spine over painted boards which extend beyond the published book. Number 40 of 108 copies; the covers front and back and the inside back cover (the limitation page signed and numbered by.....
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper over boards in dust jacket; 8vo. Hardcover issue, one of 500 copies (of 3000 total); Poet of the Month series. Offsetting to end papers else about fine in a worn at edges and spine dust jacket with two tears repaired with.....
New York: Padell, 1946. First edition. Paperback. Stapled card covers in original printed jacket (no hardcover issue). Variant with the image by Patchen printed in red. Prose. 32 pp. Spine lightly toned, light wear, easily very good. (In removable protective archival covers.).
New York: Padell, 1946. First edition. Paperback. Stapled card covers in original printed jacket (no hardcover issue). Variant with the image by Patchen printed in red. Prose. 32 pp. Gotham Book Mart sales flyer for "Sleeper's Awake" laid in. Age-toning, light wear, very good.
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1957. First Edition. Dark navy cloth-backed blue paper-covered boards in dust jacket*; tall 8vo. 112 pp. Major collection by this essential mid-century poet. Morgan A27. Minor wear essentially near fine in like dust jacket. (In removable protective archival covers.). *Morgan seems in error describing a blue.....
[West Chester, PA]: Aralia, 2000. First Edition. no binding. Broadside "Printed at Aralia Press from Optima types for the Philobiblon Club, 10 October 2000" [Verso] Scarce ephemeral item (5 found on WorldCat) from the press. Top edge creased, else fine.
London: Enitharmon Press, 1977. First edition. Paperback. One of 900 (plus 60 in hardcover) in green card covers and printed paper jacket; small 4to. Brief pieces from friends and admirers including, Everson, Ferlinghetti, Schevill, di Prima and Hugo Manning. Includes a poem by Patchen in facsimile. Near fine in a......
Chicago: Modern Poetry Assoc. May 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Printed yellow wrappers; small 8vo. Pp.63-124. Single issue. Contributions by W C Williams "Of Asphodel Book 2", John Ciardi, a very early appearance and first in this magazone by Philip Levine "The Toys", William Bronk, Kenneth Patchen and others. Spine and.....
Waldport, OR: The Illiterati, 1945. First Edition. Paperback. Single volume (7” x 8.5”). Unpaginated [34 pages]. In illustrated, stapled wraps. The Illiterati “includes anyone . . . whose ideology is of a more or less revolutionary pacifism. . .” [p. 24] Designed by Kemper Noland. Contributions from Kenneth Patchen, and.....
