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

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1. Padgett, Ron. EPILOGUE
First edition:
New Haven: Penny Poems, 1959
Broadside, 7″ x 10″. Published as No. 88 in the Penny Poetry broadside series edited by Marvin Bell.

Note: first edition of Padgett’s first separate publication.

2. Padgett, Ron. SUMMER BALLOONS
First edition:
Tulsa: privately printed, 1960
Saddle-stapled in printed wrappers, 4.25″ x 6″, 4 pages, 100 copies, printed by a local printer in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Note: first edition of Padgett’s first book.

According to Ron Padgett, as noted in James Jaffe’s Tulsa School catalog Many Happy Returns: “Summer Balloons was intended as a gift for a girl I had a big crush on, in the spring of 1960, our final semester of high school. I took the text to a local job printer, a man named Casebeer, who had an offset press in his garage. I gave him the specs and asked him to print a small number, perhaps 5 or 10 copies. He told me that it would cost virtually the same to print, say, 100. So I did. I gave the girl some copies, plus a few to friends (Ted, Joe, and Dick) and to a few penpal poets. I don’t know what happened to the rest. Ted went around destroying his first pamphlet [A Lily for My Love] because he was deeply embarrassed by its mawkish sentimentality. I never destroyed Summer Balloons, but whenever I glance at it I have to forgive myself for having printed it. I was just a kid.”

3. Padgett Ron. FOR PATRICIA, and David Meltzer. FROM TWO POEMS TO DO MEDITATION ON
First edition:
New Haven: Penny Poems, 1961
Broadside, 7″ x 10″. Published as No. 143 in the Penny Poetry broadside series edited by Marvin Bell.

4. Padgett, Ron. QUELQUES POÈMES / SOME TRANSLATIONS / SOME BOMBS
First edition:
New York: privately printed, 1963
Illustrated portfolio with 24 loose sheets, 8.5” x 11”, 100 numbered copies. Cover and three full-page illustrations by Joe Brainard.

According to a Granary Books catalog entry for this item: Padgett self-published this work in mimeographed loose sheets to allow the reader to rearrange the poems and pictures at will. Three full-page illustrations, as well as the cover, were created by Joe Brainard and printed on cardstock as part of the portfolio presentation of the work. The text is presented in three 6-part sections, each preceded by a Brainard “collage drawing” and a title page. The first section includes the poems by Reverdy in French, the second, Padgett’s translations, and the third, his “mis-translations”.

5. Padgett, Ron. IN ADVANCE OF THE BROKEN ARM
a. First edition:
New York: Lorenz Gude, 1964
Side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 11”, 42 pages, 200 numbered and signed copies (also 10 copies with a silver gelatin print of Ron Padgett by Lorenz Gude tipped in), mimeograph printed. Cover art and illustrations by Joe Brainard.

b. Second edition:
New York: C Press, 1965
Side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 11”, 200 numbered copies, mimeograph printed. Edited by Ted Berrigan. Cover art and illustrations by Joe Brainard (all differ from the first edition).

6. Padgett, Ron. TWO STORIES FOR ANDY WARHOL
First edition:
New York: C Press, 1965
Side-stapled with illustrated cover, 8.5” x 14”, 11 pages, mimeograph printed. Thermo-Fax cover by Andy Warhol.

The found text was excerpted from an early twentieth-century novel and is repeated on each page of the mimeographed book, reflecting the poet’s interest in appropriation and repetition.

7. Padgett, Ron. ROBERT’S BALL
First edition:
n.p.: privately printed, 1966
Accordion-fold with printed cover, 8.5″ x 4.5″, 6 copies. Hand-lettered and colored by Padgett.

8. Padgett, Ron. SKY
First edition:
London: Goliard Press, June 1966
Folded broadside, 325 copies of which 25 are numbered and signed.

9. Padgett, Ron. TONE ARM
First edition:
Wivenhoe Park: A Once Book, 1967
Side-stapled in illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 3 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Tom Veitch.

10. Padgett Ron. GREAT BALLS OF FIRE
a. First edition:
New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1969
Cover art by Joe Brainard.

b. Second edition, revised
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1990

11. Padgett, Ron. STRANGE FAECES, No. 3: Ron Padgett Issue
First edition:
London: Strange Faeces Press, 1971

12. Padgett, Ron. SWEET PEA
First edition:
London: Aloes Books, 1971
200 copies. Cover art and illustrations by George Schneeman.

13. Padgett, Ron. CRAZY COMPOSITIONS
First edition:
Bolinas: Big Sky, 1974
750 copies.

14. Padgett, Ron. TOUJOURS L’AMOUR
First edition:
New York: Sun, 1976

15. Padgett, Ron. POEM [“The Baby Jesus…”]
First edition:
Bolinas: Yanagi, 1977

16. Padgett, Ron. TRIANGLES IN THE AFTERNOON
First edition:
New York: Sun, 1979

17. Padgett, Ron. TULSA KID
First edition:
Calais: Z Press, 1979

18. Padgett, Ron. TRIANGLES IN THE AFTERNOON
First edition:
New York: Sun, 1980

19. Padgett, Ron. THE BIG SOMETHING
First edition:
Great Barrington: The Figures, 1989

20. Padgett, Ron. BLOOD WORK: SELECTED PROSE
First edition:
Flint: Bamberger Books, 1993

21. Padgett, Ron. NEW & SELECTED POEMS
First edition:
Boston: David R. Godine, 1995

22. Padgett, Ron. POEMS I GUESS I WROTE
First edition:
New York: Cuz Editions, 2001

23. Padgett, Ron. YOU NEVER KNOW
First edition:
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2001

24. Padgett, Ron. HOW TO BE PERFECT
First edition:
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2007

25. Padgett, Ron. HOW LONG
First edition:
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2011

26. Padgett, Ron. COLLECTED POEMS
First edition:
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2013

27. Padgett, Ron. ALONE AND NOT ALONE
First edition:
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2015

28. Padgett, Ron. BIG CABIN
First edition:
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2019

29. Padgett, Ron. DOT
First edition:
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2022