Below are details of the three small press bibliographies written by Alastair Johnston
Illustrations: 104 illustrations of Zephyrus Image related items
27 photos by Rob Rusk and Ellen Mann
Size: 16 x 24 cm
Binding: Case-bound in foil-stamped black cloth, in 2-colour laminated dustjacket.
Pages: ii + 90
ISBN: 0-918395-22-4
Price: $40
Description: Zephyrus Image, the brainchild of Holbrook Teter & Michael Myers, was a Northern Californian press that operated through the nineteen-seventies -- a time of great social change in America. With their own idiosyncratic methods they produced subversive, anarchic works of great wit and elegance that lampooned the foolish. They attacked the Nixon White House and took on environmental adversaries, donating their labour to worthy causes. They subverted the gallery system and ignored normal channels of distribution open to small presses, taking their work to the streets to give away. Poets Ed Dorn & Tom Raworth were strongly allied with them, and they published a varied and eclectic range of work by Robert Creeley, Joanne Kyger, Fielding Dawson, Robert Bly, Lucia Berlin, Gary Snyder, Stan Brakhage & William T. Wiley. This bibliography tells their story, and details their output, pointing out the strong connection between their creative use of structure in paper engineering and the Artist's Book movement that appeared in their wake.
Illustrations: 21 illustrations of Auerhahn related items
Size: 16.5 x 24 cm
Binding: Case-bound by Hans Schuberth into silkscreened cloth, printed by Goodstuffs, of a repeat pattern based on an Auerhahn logo devised by Philip Van Aver.
Pages: ii + 90
ISBN: No ISBN
Price: $75
Description: Annotated bibliography of 40 books published by Auerhahn Press, 18 books published by Dave Haselwood, plus broadsides and ephemera of this important small press who were first to publish the Beat era poets and authors. Despite the misinformation persistently spread by Andrew Hoyem in newspaper interviews, Auerhahn was the brainchild of Dave Haselwood who wanted to see the works of Whalen, McClure, Burroughs, Wieners, Lamantia, Welch, et al in print. (And just to set the historical record straight, Haselwood and his partner James McIlroy had already published the books of these authors when Hoyem arrived and went to work at the press.)
Note: This copy is signed by the compiler/printer, and includes several ephemeral items: a facsimile letter from Haselwood, with errata to the book printed on the back; a facsimile of a postcard from Wallace Berman to Jack Hirschman, and a two-colour broadside of John Wieners' "Poem for Benzedrine."
Illustrations: 23 illustrations of White Rabbit Press items
Size: 16 x 24 cm
Binding: Cloth in letterpress dustwrapper
Pages: iv + 96
ISBN: 0-918395-02-X
Price: $55
Description: An annotated bibliography of the 63 books & 10 broadsides published by White Rabbit Press in San Francisco between 1957 and 1981. At the suggestion of Jack Spicer, White Rabbit was established by Joe Dunn to publish the works of members of Spicer's Magic Poetry workshop at SF State University. The authors included Robin Blaser, Robert Duncan, Richard Brautigan, George Stanley, Stan Persky and Helen Adam. Graham Mackintosh later took over the imprint and continued to print works of the group. Included are Bob Hawley's "Ad Interviewum," Mackintosh's essay "On ___" and notes on associated imprints such as the Natoma Tap-Dance Society, Open Space and Buzz Gallery.
Note: Included (if you request it) is an offprint of an interview between Johnston and Mackintosh from The Ampersand.