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Section A:
This index includes books and other separate publications
1. levy, d.a. FRAGMENTS OF A SHATTERED MIRROR
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 44 pages, 100 numbered and signed copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. The poet’s first book. (T&H P-01)
2. levy, d.a. VARIATIONS ON FLIP
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 36 pages, 100 numbered and signed copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-02)
3. levy, d.a. MORE WITHDRAWED OR LESS
a. First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 36 pages, 100 numbered and signed copies, letterpress printed in multiple colors by d.a. levy. (T&H P-03)
b. Second printing, revised:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1963
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 21 pages, 100 copies, signed, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-16)
This printing includes poems in a different sequence than in the first printing, plus one additional poem.
4. levy, d.a. A STUDY IN AERODYNAMICS
First edition:
Cleveland: n.p., July 1963
Postcard, 3″ x 5″, letterpress printed and with a block print by d.a. levy. (T&H P-10)
5. levy, d.a. THREE LEGGED INTROVERT
First edition:
Cleveland: n.p., July 1963
Postcard, 3″ x 5″, letterpress printed and with a block print by d.a. levy. Published as the second “Un-‘Pop Art’ Postcard”. (T&H P-11)
6. levy, d.a. ANKARA
First edition:
Cleveland: n.p., August 1963
Postcard, 3″ x 5″, letterpress printed and with a block print by d.a. levy. Published as the third “Un-‘Pop Art’ Postcard”. (T&H P-12)
7. levy, d.a. HAPPY HIROSHIMA DAY
First edition:
Cleveland: n.p., 1963
Folding card, 9″ x 3″, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-13)
8. levy, d.a. 5 CLEVELAND PRINTS
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Five prints laid into printed wrappers, 11.5″ x 6.75″, 50 copies, letterpress printed and with prints by d.a. levy. (T&H P-27)
9. levy, d.a. 6 CLEVELAND PRINTS, Vol. 2
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Six prints laid into printed wrappers, 10″ x 6″, 50 copies, letterpress printed and with prints by d.a. levy. (T&H P-28)
10. levy, d.a. FAREWELL THE FLOATING CUNT
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 6″ x 6.25″, 14 pages, 105 copies, letterpress printed and with block prints by d.a. levy. Dedication: “for my brother, James”.
(T&H P-40)
11. [Polluted Lake Series] levy, d.a. [untitled] “ASTER F…”
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 4.5″, 12 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Published as Polluted Lake Series, No. 6. (T&H P-48)
12. [Polluted Lake Series] Denis, Alan [pseud. d.a. levy]. SLEEP
First edition:
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 4.5″ x 2″, 8 pages, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Published using levy’s pseudonym Alan Denis. Dedication: “for Saint Ronald Jump”. Published as Polluted Lake Series, No. 11. (T&H P-53)
13. levy, d.a. ALEATORY ATTEMPTS AT MONEY MAKING *
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled in plain wrappers, 4 copies. (T&H P-60)
14. levy, d.a. CHALCHIHUITLICUE *
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 3 pages, 37 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Dedication: “for Carol Bergé”. (T&H P-61)
15. levy, d.a. 50 SECONDS TIL BLASTOFF *
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 50 pages, 37 copies, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-62)
16. [Ohio City Series] levy, d.a. GOT BUTTER ON IT
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1965
Side-stapled sheets bound in to printed wrappers, 5.5″ x 7″, 12 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Dedication: “for Bud”. Published as Ohio City Series, No. 6. (T&H P-69)
17. levy, d.a. NORTH AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DEAD
a. First edition, regular copies:
Cleveland: The Free Lance Press, 1965
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 20 pages, mimeograph printed. This first edition includes parts 1 and 2. (T&H B-03)
b. First edition, special copies:
Cleveland: The Free Lance Press, 1965
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 20 pages, 7 copies with 3 paintings by d.a. levy bound in, mimeograph printed. This first edition includes parts 1 and 2. (T&H B-03)
c. Second edition, revised:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in printed and hand-painted wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 56 pages, 210 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Unique cover painting by d.a. levy. This is the first 7 Flowers Press edition, but the second revised printing after the Free Lance Press edition, and is expanded to include parts 1-5. (T&H P-109)
18. levy, d.a. PLASTIC SAXOPHONE FOUND IN AN EGYPTIAN TOMB
First edition:
Cleveland: n.p., 1966
Side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 11 pages, 100 copies, spirit duplicator printed. (T&H P-74)
19. levy, d.a. WHITE LIGHT
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in printed wrappers, 10″ x 3.75″, 26 pages, letterpress printed by d.a. levy. Dedication: “for Sam Dogin”. (T&H P-75)
20. levy, d.a. THE CEMENT FUCK
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in painted wrapper, 8.5″ x 11″, 20 pages, 110 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Original cover art by Mara. Introduction by Khu-en-oho.
(T&H P-88)
21. levy, d.a. VISUALIZED PRAYERS & HYMN FOR THE AMERICAN $GOD$
First edition:
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 9″ x 5.75″, 12 pages, 115 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Dedicated “to americans dying in foreign countries when there are battles to be fought in america”. (T&H P-89)
22. levy, d.a. LINES FOR LADY JANE
First edition:
Cleveland: n.p., 1966
Side-stapled in card covers with unique painting tipped on to each copy, 5″ x 7″, 2 pages, mimeograph and letterpress printed with block prints and oil paint by d.a. levy. (T&H P-90)
23. levy, d.a. SCARAB
First edition:
Cleveland: n.p., 1966
Side-stapled and bound in printed card covers, 4.5″ x 7″, 12 pages, mimeograph and letterpress printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-91)
24. levy, d.a. HAPY HIROSHIMA DAY
First edition thus, second printing:
Cleveland: n.p., 1966
Single 6″ x 7″ sheet folded once to make four pages, letterpress printed and with a block print by d.a. levy. (T&H P-93)
25. levy, d.a. THE GREAT TIBETAN TRAIN ROBBERY MYSTERY PLAY IN COLOR: A MANDALA HERNIA RUPTURED WORD GAME
First edition:
Swamp Erie, n.p., 1966
Side-stapled in printed wrappers, 5″ x 8″, 38 pages, 73 copies, mimeograph printed. Includes multiple sheets laid in with hand-written titling. Distributed by Ganglia Press as Singing Hands Series #3.
(T&H P-96)
Note: According to the Ganglia Press Index (Ganglia, Series 1, No. 8) this item was “printed in Cleveland by 7 Flowers Press & distributed by Ganglia”.
26. levy, d.a. CLEVELAND UNDERCOVERS
a. First edition, regular copies:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in illustrated wrappers, 6″ x 8.5″, 18 pages, 500 copies, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by dagmar. Dedicated to Jim Lowell. (T&H P-107)
b. First edition, special copies:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled and bound in collaged and printed wrappers, 6″ x 8.5″, 18 pages, 65 special copies with “Freak” covers by the author, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Dedicated to Jim Lowell. (T&H P-107)
27. levy, d.a. CLEVELAND: THE RECTAL EYE VISIONS
First edition:
Niagara Falls: press : today : niagara, 1966
Side-stapled in unprinted wrappers. 8.5″ x 13″, 40 pages, 126 copies. Introduction “Putting Things in Perspective a Little” by Douglas Blazek.
(T&H B-05)
28. levy, d.a. GREAT MAN SLEEPING IN A CLOSET
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966
Side-stapled in printed and collaged wrappers, 4.75″ x 2.5″, 6 pages, letterpress and mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Dedicated to Richard Allen Morris. (T&H P-108)
29. levy, d.a. KIBBUTZ IN THE SKY
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967
Side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 13 pages, 150 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover art by j.r.s. (T&H P-132)
30. levy, d.a. KIBBUTZ IN THE SKY, BOOK 2
a. First edition, first printing
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967
Side-stapled, 8.5″ x 11″, 8 pages, 200 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy.
(T&H P-133)
b. First edition, second printing
Cleveland: Free Love Press, 1967
Side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 8 pages, 200 copies, spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (not in T&H)
31. levy, d.a. THE BOX LUNCH TRAVEL-OG OF FREMONT GULCH
First edition:
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967
Side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 10 pages, spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-134)
32. levy, d.a. POEM FOR JULIE
First edition:
Cleveland: Grass Coin Publishing, 1967
Side-stapled in silk-screened cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 8 pages, 260 copies, mimeograph printed by d.a. levy. Cover illustration after a photo by M.J. Roach. (T&H P-146)
33. levy, d.a. POEMS
First edition:
Cleveland: Find-us-if-you-can Press, 1967
Side stapled in printed cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 24 pages, spirit duplicator printed. Edited by Matt Shulman. (T&H B-06)
34. levy, d.a. LETTRE TO ALAN KATZMAN
First edition:
Parma Heights: Find-us-if-you-can Press, 1967
Side stapled in printed cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 4 pages, spirit duplicator printed. (T&H B-07)
35. levy, d.a. TANTRIC STROBE (PARTS 1 & 2)
First edition:
Cleveland: Ghost Press, July 1967
Stapled sheets and bound in illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 24 pages, 150 copies. Cover art and internal silkscreens by Kryss. Published as Persecuted Poet Series #2.
(T&H B-08)
36. levy, d.a. TOMB STONE AS A LONELY CHARM
First edition:
Sacramento: Runcible Spoon, 1967
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 8 pages, 500 copies, mimeograph printed. (T&H B-10)
37. levy, d.a. TOMB STONE AS A LONELY CHARM, PART 2
First edition:
Sacramento: Runcible Spoon, 1968
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 6 pages, 500 copies, mimeograph printed. (T&H B-11)
38. levy, d.a. TOMB STONE AS A LONELY CHARM, PART 3
First edition:
Sacramento: Runcible Spoon, 1968
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 6 pages, 500 copies, mimeograph printed. (T&H B-12)
39. levy, d.a. THE BEGINNING OF SUNNY DAWN
First edition:
Cleveland: Ghostflower Press, 1968
Side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 10 pages, 236 copies, spirit duplicator and mimeograph printed. Cover art by Sandy Webb. (T&H B-13)
40. levy, d.a. SUBURBAN MONASTERY DEATH POEM
a. First edition:
Cleveland: Zero Edition, 1968
Side-stapled and bound in illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 28 pages, 500 copies, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Barb O’Connelly.
(T&H B-14)
b. First edition, second printing:
Cleveland: Offense Fund, May 1976
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 7.25″ x 8.75″, 40 pages. Cover photographs by Mark Kaufman. (not in T&H)
41. levy, d.a. POEMS
First edition:
Madison: Quixote Press, 1968
Top-stapled in printed wrappers, 4 ” x 14″, 15 pages, 150 copies, offset printed. (T&H B-15)
42. levy, d.a. THE TIBETAN STROBOSCOPE
First edition:
Cleveland: Ayizan Press, 1968
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 7.5″ x 11.75″, 32 pages, 4000 copies (though 3000 are rumored to have been destroyed by the author), offset printed on newsprint. Dedicated to Allen Ginsberg, Alan Watts, Robert Aitken, Phillip Kapleau, Paul Reps, and Philip Whalen. “An experiment in destructive writing other communications and concrete prose”.
(T&H P-174)
43. levy, d.a. ZEN CONCRETE: TRANSLATIONS & A NEW INTERPRETATION OF BUDDHIST DOCTRINES
First edition:
n.p.: Blewointment Press, October 1968
Side-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 48 pages, 8.5″ x 11″, 300 copies, mimeograph and offset printed. Front cover photo by M.J. Roach.
(T&H B-16)
44. levy, d.a. PROSE: ON POETRY IN THE WHOLESALE EDUCATION AND CULTURE SYSTEM
a. First edition, first printing:
Milwaukee: Gunrunner Press, 1968
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 20 pages, 300 copies, offset and mimeograph printed. Folded one-page letter laid in from editor Jim Soric: “Letter to Those Who Haven’t Heard: d.a. levy is Dead”. Purportedly the last piece written for publication by d.a. levy. (T&H B-17)
b. First edition, second printing:
Milwaukee: Gunrunner Press, n.d. [c. 1968]
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 12 pages, 250 copies, offset printed. (not in T&H)
c. First edition, third printing:
Cleveland: Offense Fund, November 1974
Side-stapled and bound in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 20 pages, 380 copies. Silkscreen insert by T.L. Kryss. (not in T&H)
45. levy, d.a. POEM FOR BEVERLY
First edition:
Cleveland: Cold Mountain Publishing Company, December 1968
Side-stapled and bound in silk-screened wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 8 pages, 400 copies. Cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. (T&H B-18)
46.levy, d.a. THE MADISON POEMS
a. First edition *
Madison: Quixote Press, January-March 1969
Silk-screened manila envelope measuring 9.25″ x 12″, contains reproductions of collages and concrete poems on loose cards and paper-stock, a folio of cards, and a side-stapled booklet with collage covers containing The Madison Poems, and Suburban Monastery Death Poem. Cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. Publisher’s Preface by Morris Edelson, Introduction by Dave Wagner. Published as Quixote Vol. 4, No. 6. (T&H B-19)
[included in The Madison Poems]
levy, d.a. 7 CONCRETE POEMS / CONCRETE POEMS / ELECTRIC GREEK POEMS (for Bob Gabriner)
Loose sheets in folio measuring 5.5″ x 6″, offset printed. This is a collection of poems under 3 different titles (as noted above): 6 under the 1st title (the title says “7”, but there were only 6); 7 under the 2nd title; and 6 under the 3rd. Each poem is printed on separate card (cards of varying sizes), and the cards are inserted in a blue wraparound pocket that serves as the cover.
b. Second edition
Madison: Quixote Press, May 1972
Silk-screened manila envelope measuring 9.25″ x 12″, contains reproductions of collages and concrete poems on loose cards and paper-stock, a folio of cards, and a side-stapled booklet with collage covers containing The Madison Poems, and Suburban Monastery Death Poem, plus a reproduction of The Tibetan Stroboscope. Cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. Publisher’s Preface by Morris Edelson, Introduction by Dave Wagner. Published as a reproduction of Quixote Vol. 4, No. 6. (T&H B-19)
47. levy, d.a. SONGS FOR DEAD CHILDREN
First edition:
San Francisco: Black Rabbit Press, May 1969
Side-stapled and bound in silkscreened wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 6 pages, 100 copies, silkscreen and mimeograph printed. Cover art by Barbara O’ Connelly. (T&H B-20)
48. levy, d.a. THE BEGINNING OF SUNNY DAWN & RED LADY
First edition, thus:
San Francisco: Open Skull Press, 1969
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 8″ x 9 “, 20 pages, 500 copies, offset printed. Cover art by Douglas Blazek. This is the second printing of The Beginning of Sunny Dawn, first published by Ghostflower Press in 1968 in an edition of 236 copies. This is the first printing of Red Lady. (T&H B-23)
49. levy, d.a. RED LADY
First edition, thus:
Cleveland: Para-Shakti Press, November 1969
Side-stapled in printed wrapper, 6.25″ x 7.5″, 22 pages, 500 copies, mimeograph printed. Originally published along with “The Beginning of Sunny Dawn” in an edition of 500 by Open Skull Press in 1969. (T&H B-21)
Second edition, thus:
Vancouver: blewointmentpress, March 1970
Saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 12 pages, 700 numbered copies, offset and mimeograph printed. Cover photo by Klaas Verboom. Originally published along with “The Beginning of Sunny Dawn” in an edition of 500 by Open Skull Press in 1969. (not in T&H)
50. levy, d.a. POSTCARD
First edition:
Toronto: Ganglia Press, 1969
Folding card with printed and illustrated cover, 4.25″ x 5″. Cover drawing by levy. Published as “#26 in the mimeo march to total madness. A Ganglia 5¢ gun for the revolution.”
(T&H B-22)
51. levy, d.a. STONE SARCOPHAGUS
First edition:
Madison: Radical America, c.1970
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 24 pages. Issued as “the first in a series of poetry pamphlets published by Radical America”.
(not in T&H)
52. levy, d.a. NOTES: VARIATIONS ON A SHORT POEM
First edition:
Sacramento: Runcible Spoon, 1970
Side-stapled in printed cover, 4.25″ x 5.5″, 12 pages, 300 copies, mimeograph printed. Cover illustration by Allen Ginsberg.
(T&H B-24)
53. levy, d.a. THE MADISON COLLAGES
First edition:
Cleveland: Offense Fund, November 1975
Top-stapled in silk-screened cover with library tape binding, 9″ x 13.5″, 48 pages, 350 copies, silkscreen and offset printed. Cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. The Madison Collages were first published in an envelope by Quixote Press in Madison in 1969 (see A46). (T&H B-25)
54. levy, d.a. SCARAB POEMS
First edition:
n.p.: Writersforum, 1978
Side-stapled in hand-printed and illustrated wrappers, 14 pages, 6″ x 8″. (T&H B-26)
55. levy, d.a. KIBBUTZ IN THE SKY, BOOK 3
First edition, thus:
Brigham: Samisdat, n.d. [c.1978]
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 16 pages. Published as Samisdat, Vol. 12, No. 4, 67th release. (not in T&H)
56. levy, d.a. BERET: A CONCRETE POEM FOR THE WAR MONUMENTS
First edition, thus:
Detroit: Planet Detroit Poems, August 1984
Saddle-stapled in un-printed wrappers [present image is of title page], 5.5″ x 8.5″, 16 pages.
(not in T&H)
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