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Bern Porter – Books

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SECTION A:
This index includes books, chapbooks, and pamphlets


1. Porter, Bern. DOLDRUMS: A STUDY IN SURREALISM 
Newark: AI Press, 1941

2. Porter, Bern. WATER FIGHT 
Newark: AI Press, 1941

3. Porter, Bern. ART TECHNIQUES
Berkeley: Gillick Press, 1947

4. Porter, Bern. DRAWINGS: 1955-1956
Berkeley: Bern Porter, 1957

5. Porter, Bern. PHYSICS FOR TOMORROW
Burnie: Rockcliff Printers, 1959

6. Porter, Bern. SCANDINAVIAN SUMMER: A PSYCHO-VISUAL RECOLLECTION
Madison: Bern Porter, 1961

7. Porter, Bern. APHASIA: A PSYCHO-VISUAL SATIRE
Madison: Bern Porter, 1961

8. Porter, Bern. WHAT HENRY MILLER SAID AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT
Pasadena: Marathon Press, 1964

9. Porter, Bern. ART PRODUCTIONS: 1928-1965
Pasadena: Marathon Press, 1965

10. Porter, Bern. 468B: THY FUTURE
Huntsville, 1966

11. Porter, Bern. DIERESIS
Rockland: Bern Porter, 1969

12. Porter, Bern. I’VE LEFT: A MANIFESTO AND A TESTAMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART
Something Else Press, 1971

13. Porter, Bern. KNOX COUNTY MAINE, A REGIONAL REPORT, 1969 SUMMARY
Knox County Regional Planning Commission, 1969

14. Porter, Bern. THE MANHATTAN TELEPHONE BOOK
Somerville: Abyss Publications, 1972

15. Porter, Bern. WASTEMAKER: 1926-1961
Sommerville: Abyss Publications, 1972

16. Porter, Bern. FOUND POEMS
Millerton: Something Else Press, 1972

17. Porter, Bern. WHERE TO GO, WHAT TO DO WHEN IN NEW YORK, WEEK OF JUNE 17, 1972
n.p.: Bern Porter, 1974

18. Porter, Bern. SELECTED FOUNDS
Athens: Croissant and Company, 1975

19. Porter, Bern. RUN-ON
Belfast: Bern Porter, 1975

20. Porter, Bern. GEE-WHIZZELS
Rockland: Maine Coast Printers, 1977

21. Porter, Bern. AMERICAN STRANGE, special edition of SPANNER
London: Spanner, 1978

22.Porter, Bern. ISLA VISTA
Isla Vista: Turkey Press, 1981

23. Porter, Bern. THE BOOK OF DO’S
Gardiner: The Dog Ear Press, 1982

24. Porter, Bern. HERE COMES EVERYBODY’S DON’T BOOK
Gardiner: Dog Ear Press, 1984

25. Porter, Bern. MY MY DEAR ME
Madison: Xexoxial Editions, 1985

26. Porter, Bern. THE LAST ACTS OF SAINT FUCK YOU
Madison: Xerox Sutra, 1985

Bern Porter

Cover of Bern Porter’s THE BOOK OF DO’S (The Dog Ear Press, 1982)

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Section A: Books, Chapbooks, and Pamphlets


Bernard Harden “Bern” Porter (1911-2004) was an American artist, writer, publisher, performer, and physicist. In his 93 years on this earth, Porter contributed to some of the most important scientific and artistic innovations of the twentieth century. He worked on the development of the cathode-ray tube (for television), the atomic bomb (with the Manhattan Project), and NASA’s Saturn V Rocket. When the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, in 1945, Porter walked away from his position with the Manhattan Project and, disappointed with his work as a physicist, turned his attention to artistic pursuits.

In the aftermath of World War II, a flood of visual information spread across the United States. Advertisements in newspapers and magazines and on billboards and television promised an easier and happier life through the purchasing of products. For his collages, which he dubbed “Founds,” Porter gathered the waste of this new culture—advertisements, junk mail, instruction booklets, scientific documents, and other material—and turned it into art. In addition to his books of Founds, Porter authored treatises on the unification of science and art (what he called “Sciart”) and books of experimental poetry. He published work by major figures in art and literature, such as Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen, and Dick Higgins. Also, as the self-proclaimed inventor of mail art, Porter was an active participant in a vast international network of artists who shared their work with each other through the post.


References Consulted:

Schevill, James. Where To Go What To Do When You Are Bern Porter: A Personal Biography
Gardiner: Tilbury House, 1992


Online Resources:

· Colby College – archive
· Getty Research Institute – archive
· MoMA – biography/bibliography
· Tara Odorizzi – biography/bibliography
· UbuWeb – biography/bibliography

Bern Porter

“Porter is to the poem what [Marcel] Duchamp was to the art object, a debunker of handiwork fetishism and exemplary artist-as-intercessor between phenomenon and receptor. He rejects the typical artist’s role of semi-divine creator. Porter’s eye never tires of seeking accidental, unconventional literature in odd pages of textbooks, far corners of advertisements, the verbiage of greeting cards and repair manuals, ad infinitum.”
—Peter Frank (Something Else Press, McPherson & Co., 1983)

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Section A:
Books, Pamphlets, Broadsides, Separate Publications

A1. HEAVENLY CITY, EARTHLY CITY
Berkeley: Bern Porter, 1947
(Bertholf A1)

A2. POEMS, 1948-49
Berkeley: Berkeley Miscellany Editions, 1949
(Bertholf A2)

A3. MEDIEVAL SCENES
San Francisco: Centaur Press, 1950
(Bertholf A3)

A4. FRAGMENTS OF A DISORDERED DEVOTION
a. First edition, privately published:
San Francisco: privately printed, Fall 1952
Hand-sewn in printed and hand-colored covers in ink and crayons, 6″ x 8.25″, 28 pages, 50 numbered and signed copies, multilith printed. Text is reproduced from the author’s holograph. (Bertholf A4a)

b. Second edition, first issue:
San Francisco: Gnomon Press, 1966
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 6.5″ x 8″, 24 pages, 70 copies distributed but withdrawn from sale due to the cover being rejected by Duncan. Cover by Anton Van Dalen. Produced jointly by Victor Coleman’s Island Press in Toronto and Jonathan Greene’s Gnomon Press in San Francisco. (Bertholf A4b)

c. Second edition, second issue:
San Francisco: Gnomon Press, 1966
(Bertholf A4c)

A5. THE SONG OF THE BORDER-GUARD
First edition:
Black Mountain Graphics Workshop, 1952.
Folio broadside measuring 12.5″ x 19.5″ tipped into illustrated wrappers, 200 copies, letterpress printed by Nicola Cernovich and Joel Oppenheimer. Cover art by Cy Twombly. (Bertholf A5)

A6. BOOB, Nos. 1 & 2
First edition, privately published:
(San Francisco): privately published, (1952)
Set of broadsides measuring 11″ x 8.25, 250 copies. (Bertholf A6)







A7. FAUST FOUTU
a. First edition, privately published:
San Francisco: Privately published, 1953
Corner-stapled sheets, 8.5″ x 11″, 70 pages, 100 copies, mimeograph printed. (Bertholf A7a)



b. Second edition, abbreviated copies:
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, March 1958
Hand-sewn in printed wrappesrs, 6.5″ x 8.5″, 17 pages, 300 copies. (Bertholf A7b)



c. Third edition, regular copies
Stinson Beach: Enkidu Surrogate, November 1959
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 72 pages, 700 copies. Cover art by Robert Duncan. (Bertholf A7c)

d. Third edition, signed and illustrated copies
Stinson Beach: Enkidu Surrogate, November 1959
Saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 72 pages, 50 illustrated and signed copies. Cover art by Robert Duncan. (Bertholf A7d)

A8. CAESAR’S GATE
a. First edition, regular copies:
Palma de Mallorca: Divers Press, 1955
(Bertholf A8a)

b. First edition, numbered copies:
Mallorca: Divers Press, 1955
(Bertholf A8b)

c. First edition, lettered copies:
Mallorca: Divers Press, 1955
(Bertholf A8c)

d. Second edition, first hardbound impression:
Sand Dollar, 1972.
(Bertholf A8d)

e. Second edition, first paperbound impression:
Sand Dollar, 1972.
(Bertholf A8e)

f. Second edition, second paperbound impression:
Sand Dollar, 1972.
(Bertholf A8f)

A9. LETTERS
a. First edition, paperbound copies:
Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1958
(Bertholf A9a)

b. First edition, hardbound copies, first state:
Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1958
(Bertholf A9b)

c. First edition, hardbound copies, second state:
Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1958
(Bertholf A9c)

d. First edition, hardbound, decorated copies:
Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1958
(Bertholf A9d)

A10. SELECTED POEMS
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959
(Bertholf A10)

A11. THE OPENING OF THE FIELD
New York: Grove, 1960
(Bertholf A11)

A12. AS TESTIMONY
San Francisco: White Rabbit ,1964
(Bertholf A12)

A13. WRITING WRITING
Albuquerque: Sumbooks, 1964
(Bertholf A13)





A14. ROOTS AND BRANCHES
New York: Scribner’s, 1964
(Bertholf A14)

A15. WINE
Berkeley: Oyez, 1964
(Bertholf A15)

A16. MEDEA AT KOLCHIS / THE MAIDEN HEAD
Berkeley: Oyez, 1965
(Bertholf A16)

A17. THE SWEETNESS AND GREATNESS OF DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY
San Francisco: Open Space, 1965
(Bertholf A17) (Johnston A32)

A18. UPRISING
Berkeley: Oyez, 1965
(Bertholf A18)

A19. OF THE WAR: PASSAGES 22-27
Berkeley: Oyez, 1966
(Bertholf A19)

A20. THE YEARS AS CATCHES: FIRST POEMS, 1939-46
Berkeley: Oyez, 1966.
(Bertholf A20)

Circle Magazine

Circle Magazine was published from 1944 to 1948 by George Leite, initially with poet Bern Porter. Produced at Leite’s Berkeley, California bookstore, daliel’s, the 10 issues featured poetry, prose, criticism and art from many of those whose creative works and their successors would later come to be called the San Francisco Renaissance. In addition to the magazine, Circle Editions published contemporary authors such as Albert Cossery and Henry Miller (a personal friend of Leite’s).


1. CIRCLE, No. 1, edited by George Leite and Bern Porter
mags_circle01Berkeley: Circle, 1944

  • Contents:
    1. Henry Miller – “Open Letter to Small Magazines”
      Philip Lamantia – “Two Poems”
      Bern Porter – “You’re No Dope: Let Me Save You”
      Jeanne McGahey – “Street with People”
      Rosalie Moore – “Poem in 2 Scenes”
      George Elliott – “The Red Battery”
      George Leite – “Toward a Technique of Rule”
      Josephine Miles – “Four Poems”
      Joseph Van Auker – “Pirandello in Chains”
      Lawrence Hart – “The Map of the Country”

2. CIRCLE, No. 2,  edited by George Leite and Bern Porter
mags_circle02Berkeley: Circle, 1944

  • Contents:
    1. Henry Miller – “To Anaïs Nin”
      Glen Coffield – “Two Poems”
      William Everson – “Two War Elegies”
      Robert Barlow – “Four Poems”
      Bern Porter – “Letter to Gabene”
      W. Edwin Ver Becke – “Four Line Prints”
      C.F. MacIntyre – “Rilke and the Lost God”
      Dean Jeffries – “Three Poems”
      William Carlos Williams – “To the Dean”
      George Leite – “To Henry Miller”
      Philip Lamantia – “Two Poems”
      Shaemus Keilty – “Quinquin”

3. CIRCLE, No. 3, edited by George Leite and Bern Porter
mags_circle03Berkeley: Circle, 1944

  • Contents:
    1. Harry Hershkowitz – “The Bulbul Birds”
      Kenneth Patchen – “Four Poems”
      W. Edwin Ver Becke – “The Father”
      Yvan Goll – “Histoire de Parmenia L’Havanaise”
      Thomas Parkinson – “Morning Passage”
      George Elliott – “Two Poems”
      Douglas MacAgy – “Palimpsest”
      Pvt. Leonard Wolf – “Two Poems”
      Hamilton Tyler – “Mr. Eliot and Mr. Milton”
      Jackson Burke – “Poem”
      Pvt. J.C. Crews – “Poem”
      M. Wheelan Grote – “First Impression of College”
      Lt (jg) Hubert Creekmore – “Two Poems”
      Marie Wells – “Two Poems”
      Lawrence Hart – “About Marie Wells”
      Robert Lottick – “Poem”
      Wendel Anderson – “Poem”
      Kenneth Rexroth – “Les Lauriers sont Coupés”

4. CIRCLE, No. 4, edited by George Leite and Bern Porter
mags_circle04Berkeley: Circle, 1944

  • Contents:
    1. Anaïs Nin – “The All-Seeing”
      Theodore Schroeder – “Where is Obscenity?”
      Arthur Ginzel – “Four”
      Walter Fowlie – “The Two Creators”
      George Leite – “Low Darkened Shelter”
      Henry Miller – “Varda: The Master Builder”
      Lee Ver Duft – “Poems”
      Herbert Cahoon – “Marley and the Gemini”
      Lt. Joseph Stanley Pennell – “Two Poems”
      Bern Porter – “All Over the Place”
      James Franklin Lewis – “To John Wheelwright”
      Forrest Anderson – “Sea Poems”
      Warren d’Azevedo – “Deep Six for Danny”
      Lt. Robert L. Dark – “Two poems”
      Kenneth Rexroth – “Les Lauriers sont Coupés”

5. CIRCLE, No. 5, edited by George Leite and Bern Porter
mags_circle05Berkeley: Circle, 1945

  • Contents:
    1. Weldon Kees – “The Purcells”
      E.E. Cummings – “Five Poems”
      Dane Rudhyar – “Neptune, Evocator Extraordinary”
      Jess Cloud – “Three Portraits”
      Henri Hell – “Max Jacob”
      Douglas MacAgy – “Clay Spohn’s War Machines”
      Henry Miller – “Preface for the Power within Us”
      Aline Musyl – “Four Little Poems”
      Albert Clements – “Rain”
      Alfred Young Fisher – “Voltas for Fugues”
      George Leite & Bern Porter – “Photo-poems”
      Frederic Ramsey, Jr. – “Artist’s Life”
      Nicholas Moore – “A Poem & A Story”
      Marguerite Martin – “First Pity”
      Paul Radin – “Journey of the Soul”
      Max Harris – “Two Poems”

6. CIRCLE, No. 6, edited by George Leite and Bern Porter
mags_circle06Berkeley: Circle, 1945

  • Contents:
    1. Lawrence Hart – “Some Elements of Active Poetry”
      Rosalie Moore – “Letter to Camp Orford, Poem in Two Scenes”
      Robert Barlow – “Framed Portent, Table Set for Sea Slime”
      Marie Wells – “Death at Noon, Monody in One”
      Jeanne McGahey – “Road To Chicago”
      Alfred Morang – “Darling Sister and the Pound of Liver”
      Haldeen Brady – “Whirl”
      Henry Miller – “Knud Merrild: A Holiday in Paint”
      Robert Barlow – “Tepuzteca, Tepehua”
      James Laughlin – “Poem in 38 Lines”
      Thomas Parkinson – “John Works on a Figure of Virginia, Carving It”
      Harry Roskolenko – “Return, the Expert”
      Eugene Gramm – “A Gallery of Americans”
      Maude Phelps Hutchins – “Soliloquy At Dinner”
      Alex Comfort – “The Soldiers”
      William Pillin – “My Reply as a Jew”
      Leonora Carrington – “Flannel Night Shirt”
      Richard O. Moore – “Villanelle 1, Villanelle 2”
      Kenneth Rexroth – “Les Lauriers sont Coupés”

7. CIRCLE, No. 7-8 , edited by George Leite
mags_circle07Berkeley: Circle, 1946

  • Contents:
    1. Robert Duncan – “The Years as Catches”
      Ian Hugo – “Two Block Prints”
      Anaïs Nin – “Hedja”
      Hamilton Tyler – “Finnegan Epic”
      Bern Porter – “Map of Joyce’s Life”
      Lindley Williams Hubbell – “Jacques Vache”
      Kenneth Patchen – “Sleepers Awake”
      Thomas Hughes Ingle – “Tattooed Sailor”
      Kenneth O. Hanson – “Falstaff and the Chinese Poet”
      Douglas MacAgy – “Without Horizon”
      James McCray – “Four Paintings”
      Yvan Goll – “The Magic Circle”
      Brewster Ghiselin – “Concert in Dorse”
      Charlotte Marletto – “Oblique Epitome”
      A.M. Klein – “In Memoriam”
      Thomas Parkinson – “Letter to a Young Lady”
      Howard O’Hagan – “The Colony”
      Edmund de Coligny – “The Poem of the Two Oscars”
      Robert Barlow – “Angel Hernandez, Artist”
      George Leite & Bern Porter – “Two Photo-poems”
      Edwin Ver Becke – “A Line Drawing and a Story, The Tryst”
      Gil Orovitz – “Flamenco”
      Shaun FitzSimon – “Easter Bells”
      Roger Pryor Dodge – “A Non-esthetic Basis for the Dance”
      Alex Austin – “Civilization”
      Oscar Williams – “The Lemmings”
      Paul Radin – “Three Conversions”
      Osmond Beckwith – “Fire Sale”
      Warren D’ Azevedo – “Blue Peter”
      Darius Milhaud – “French Music between Two Wars”
      George Barrows – “Creative Photography”
      W.S. Graham – “Three Poems”
      Eithene Wilkins – “Two Poems”
      Jack Jones – “A Story, A Poem”
      Samuel Holmes – “The Death of an Innocent”
      James Steel Smith – “Murder and Complacency”
      Georges Henein – “There are no Pointless Jests”
      Martin H. Mack – “It All Depends on How You Want It”
      David Cornel DeJong – “Three Poems”
      Henry Miller – “Three Books Tangent to Circle”

9. CIRCLE, No. 9 , edited by George Leite
mags_circle09Berkeley: Circle, 1946

  • Contents:
    1. Lawrence Durrell – “Eight Aspects of Melissa”
      Gerald Burke – “Essay on Children”
      Richard O. Moore – “A History Primer”
      Jim Fitzsimmons – “Four Experimental Nudes”
      David Stuart – “The Inflammable Angel Kezia”
      C.F. MacIntyre – “The Ars Poetica of Paul Valery”
      William Everson – “The Release”
      A. Seixas – “Ellwood Graham”
      George Leite – “The Wing: The Mirror”
      Alexis Comfort – “Taras and the Snowfield”
      Walker Winslow – “NP Ward”
      Hilaire Hiler – “Manifesto of Psychromatic Design”
      Harold Norse – “Three Poems”
      Robert Wosniak – “The Man in the Cape”
      Robert Stock – “Triumphal Arch”
      Ericka Braun – “Oath of The Tennis Court”
      Max Harris – “Revolutionary Poem”
      Mary Fabilli – “The Memorable Hospital”
      Will Gibson – “Poem for Three”
      Selwyn Schwartz – “Four Poems”
      Ernst Kaiser – “The Development from Surrealism”
      Richard Lyons – “A Note to Kenneth Patchen”
      Byron Vazakas – “Two Poems”
      Henry Miller – “Rimbaud Opus (Part Two)”
      Harry Roskolenko – “PR, The Portable Review”

Circle, No. 10, , edited by George Leite
mags_circle10Berkeley: Circle, 1948

  • Contents:
    1. John Whitney & James Whitney – “Audio-Visual Music”
      Joseph Stanley Pennell – “Logistics”
      Mary Fabilli – “The Boss”
      Giuseppe Ungaretti – “Eight Poems”
      Antony Borrow – “The Great Refusal”
      Douglas MacAgy – “A Margin of Chaos”
      Charles Howard – “The Bride”
      Harry Partch – “Show-horses in the Concert Ring”
      Robert Barlow – “The Malinche of Acacingo”
      Alex Comfort – “Two Enemies of Society”
      D. Rentis – “Forward”
      Attile Joseph – “Two Poems”
      Clarisse Blazek – “Poet in Hungary”
      George Elliott – “Story”
      Luis J. Trinkaus – “Eight Inches of Snow”
      Kendrick Smithyman – “Legends of the Gunner and his Girl”
      Warren D’Azevedo – “Shuttle”
      Robert Duncan – “Toward an African Elegy”
      Jody Scott & George Leite – “Admission of Fission”

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Circle Magazine 

Philip Lamantia

lamantia
photo by Harry Redl

 

Philip Lamantia was born to Sicilian immigrants in San Francisco in 1927. His father was a produce broker in the old Embarcadero. He began writing poetry in elementary school and was later inspired by the paintings of Miro and Dali at the San Francisco Museum of Art. After being expelled for “intellectual delinquency” at age sixteen, he dropped out of high school and moved to New York City, where he lived for several years and where he was associated with Andre Breton and other exiled European artists such as Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy. During these years he worked as an assistant editor of View magazine and his poems were published in View as well as in publications like Hemispheres, which was being published by another French ex-patriot Yvan Goll.

In 1943, when Lamantia was only fifteen years old, Breton heralded him as being “a voice that rises once in a hundred years.” In 1946, at the age of nineteen, his first book of poems Erotic Poems was published by Bern Porter Books in Berkeley, California, followed by two collections (Narcotica and Ekstasis) published in 1959 by Auerhahn Press. A literary prodigy whose poems delved into the worlds of the subconscious and dreams, his love of Surrealism had a major influence on the Beats and other American poets. On March 7, 2005 he died of heart failure in his North Beach, San Francisco apartment at age seventy-seven.

–Thomas Rain Crowe


Section A: Books and Broadsides

1. Lamantia, Philip. EROTIC POEMS
First edition:
(Berkeley): Bern Porter, 1946
Hardcover issued without dust jacket, 42 pages.

2. Lamantia, Philip. EKSTASIS
lamantia_ekstasisFirst edition:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1959
Perfect-bound in printed wrappers, 5.75″ x 7″, 48 pages, (circa 950 copies). Titling by Robert La Vigne.
(Auerhahn 3)

Note: Printed announcement issued.

3. Lamantia, Philip. NARCOTICA
lamantia_narcoticaFirst edition:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1959
Saddle-stapled in printed and photo-illustrated wrappers, 6.25″ x 8.5″, 16 pages, (750 copies). Cover photographs by Wallace Berman. Published as Auerhahn Pamphlet No. 1.
(Auerhahn 5)

Note: Printed announcement issued.

4. Lamantia, Philip. DESTROYED WORKS
lamantia_destroyeda. First edition, regular copies:
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962
Perfect-bound in photo-illustrated wrappers, 7″ x 8.75″, 48 pages, 1250 copies.
(Auerhahn 18)

b. First edition, hardcover, signed copies:
Hardcover in cloth-bound boards, 7″ x 8.75″, 48 pages, 50 numbered and signed copies, bound by the Schuberth Bindery.
(Auerhahn 18)

5. Lamantia, Philip. TOUCH OF THE MARVELOUS
a. First edition, regular copies:
(Berkeley): Oyez, 1966
Perfect-bound in printed and photo-illustrated wrappers, 65 pages, 1450 copies.

b. First edition, hardcover, signed copies:
(Berkeley): Oyez, 1966
Hardcover in cloth-bound boards with gilt-stamped spine, 65 pages, 50 copies on handmade Tovil paper, numbered, signed by the author, bound by Dorothy Hawley.

6. Lamantia, Philip. SELCETED POEMS 1943-1966
First edition:
(San Francisco): City Lights Books, (1967)
Perfect-bound in printed wrappers, 100 pages, published as Pocket Poets Series Number 20.
(Cook 61)

7. Lamantia, Philip. THE BLOOD OF THE AIR
lamantia_blooda. First edition, regular copies:
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1970
Perfect-bound in printed and photo-illustrated wrappers, 45 pages, published as Writing 25.

b. First edition, hardcover, signed copies:
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1970
Hardcover in paper-bound boards with gilt-stamped cloth spine, 45 pages, 50 copies, numbered, signed by the author, published as Writing 25. (pictured)

8. Lamantia, Philip. TOUCH OF THE MARVELOUS
Second, expanded edition:
Bolinas: Four Seasons Foundation, 1974
Perfect-bound in printed and illustrated wrappers, 47 pages, includes three poems not in the original edition: “Celestial Estrangement”, “Submarine Languor”, and “To You Henry Miller”. Published as Writing 32.

9. Lamantia, Philip. BECOMING VISIBLE
a. First edition, regular copies:
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1981
Perfect-bound in printed and illustrated wrappers, 96 pages, published as Pocket Poet Series No. 39.
(Cook 146)

b. First edition, hardcover, signed copies:
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1981
Hardcover in cloth-bound boards in printed and illustrated dust jacket, 96 pages, published as Pocket Poet Series No. 39.
(Cook 146)

10. Lamantia, Philip. MEADOWLARK WEST
First edition:
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1986
Perfect-bound in printed and illustrated wrappers, 73 pages.
(Cook 171)

11. Lamantia, Philip. BED OF SPHINXES: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, 1943-1993
First edition:
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997
Perfect-bound in printed and illustrated wrappers, 141 pages.

12. Lamantia, Philip. WHAT IS NOT STRANGE?
First edition:
San Francisco: City Lights, 2005
Broadside.


Section B: Contributions to Books and Anthologies, Selected

sequence within years is alphabetical

BEATITUDE ANTHOLOGY. San Francisco: City Lights, 1960

THE BEATS, edited by Seymour Krim. Greenwich: Gold Medal, 1960

THE BEAT SCENE, edited by Elias Wilentz, photographs by Fred McDarrah. New York: Corinth Books, 1960

THE NEW ORLANDO POETRY ANTHOLOGY. New York: New Orlando Publication, 1963

PENGUIN MODERN POETS, 13. London: Penguin, 1969

AERO INTO THE AETHER. Philip Lamantia, Clark Ashton Smith.  Black Swan Press, 1980

FREE SPRITS: ANNALS OF THE INSURGENT IMAGINATION. San Francisco: City Lights, 1980. First edition, wrappers, 223 pages

WHITMAN’S WILD CHILDREN, edited by Neeli Cherkovski. Venice: Lapis Press, 1988

TAU & JOURNEY TO THE END. Philip Lamantia, John Hoffman. San Francisco: City Lights, 2008

CITY LIGHTS POCKET POETS ANTHOLOGY, edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. San Francisco: City Lights, 2009


Section C: Contributions to Periodicals, Selected

sequence within years is alphabetical

VIEW, Series III, Number 2. New York, June 1943

VIEW, Series III, Number 3. New York, 1943

VIEW, Series IV, Number 2. New York, Summer 1944

VVV, Number 4. New York, 1944

HEMISPHERES, Number 5. New York, 1945

VIEW, Series V, Number 2. New York, 1945

NEW DIRECTIONS, Number 9. New York, 1946

CONTOUR QUARTERLY, Volume 1, Number 1. Berkeley, 1947

NOW, Number 7. London, February-March 1947

CITY LIGHTS, Number 4. San Francisco, Fall 1953

NEW DIRECTIONS, Number 14. New York, 1953

BEATITUDE, Number 9. San Francisco, September 1959

SEMINA, Number 4. San Francisco, 1959

SEMINA, Number 5. San Francisco, 1959

EVERGREEN REVIEW, Volume 4, Number 11. New York, January-February 1960

THE GALLEY SAIL REVIEW, Number 5. San Francisco, Winter 1960

YUGEN, 6. New York, 1960

DAMASCUS ROAD, Number 1. Allentown, 1961

POEMS FROM THE FLOATING WORLD, Volume 3. New York, 1961

MEASURE, Number 3. Milton, Summer 1962

THE OUTSIDER, Number 2. New Orleans, Summer 1962

TOBAR, Number 4. New York, 1962

EL CORNO EMPLUMADO, Number 9. Mexico City, 1964

FUCK YOU: A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, Volume 5, Number 7. New York, September 1964

DAMASCUS ROAD, Number 2. Allentown, 1965

RESIDU, Volume 1, Number 1. Athens, Spring 1965

THE PARIS REVIEW, Number 36. Paris, 1966

THE FLOATING BEAR, Number 33. New York, February 1967

THE FLOATING BEAR, Number 34. New York, 1967

THE FLOATING BEAR, Number 35. New York, April 1968

CATERPILLAR, 10. New York, January 1969

CATERPILLAR, 17. Sherman Oaks, October 1971

INTREPID, Number 20. Buffalo, 1971

ANTAEUS, 6. Tangier, Summer 1972

THE LAMP IN THE SPINE, Number 4. Iowa City, Spring 1972

THE SEVENTIES, Number 1.  Madison, Spring 1972

ARSENAL, Number 2. Chicago, Summer 1973

CULTURAL CORRESPONDENCE, Number 12-14. Providence, Summer 1981

ZYZZYVA, Volume 1, Number 4. San Francisco, Winter 1985

CITY LIGHTS REVIEW, 1. San Francisco, 1987

CALIBAN, 7. Ann Arbor, 1989

CITY LIGHTS REVIEW, 4. San Francisco, 1990


Section D: Ephemera

THE AUERHAHN PRESS CATALOG, 1962
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962. First edition, wrappers

A KIND OF BEATNESS: PHOTOGRAPHS OF A NORTH BEACH ERA 1950-1965
San Francisco: Focus Gallery, 1975. First edition, wrappers


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Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1976

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