year |
author |
title |
hardback |
paperback |
notes |
| 2012 | Alastair Johnston, ed. | Typographical Tourists | $20 | 178 pp. The lore of tramp printers: Drawing on books, trade periodicals and newspaper accounts of erudite and disreputable traveling printers from the second half of the nineteenth century, this anthology includes Mark Twain, Bill Nye, Bob Burdette, & others. With a bibliography. | |
| 2012 | Darrell Gray & G.P. Skratz |
Everything Else | $18 | 72 pp. Wild & witty collaborative poems by two of the leading lights of the Actualist Poetry movement. With 2 drawings by Dave Morice, and 15 photographs by Shelly Vogel | |
| 2011 | Kevin Power | Where You're At: Poetics & Visual Art | $20 | 210 pp, indexed. Interviews with Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Robert Duncan, George & Mary Oppen, Bill Berkson, David Meltzer | |
| 2010 | Joanne Kyger | Fact checking | $55 | broadside poem, 15 x 22 inches, of a humorous piece by Joanne Kyger, illustrated with a multi-coloured linoleum cut of Ganesha by Alastair Johnston. 30 copies for sale. | |
| 2010 | Alastair Johnston | Serendipitous Books | $75 | pre-mortem memoir of Peter B. Howard, proprietor of Serendipity Books in Berkeley. Handset Ehrhardt type, printed on Wookey Hole mould-made paper, hand sewn in wrappers. With 15 colour photographs bound in. Includes a checklist of a dozen books commissioned by Peter from 1976 to 2009. (Only a few copies remain) | |
| 2010 | Steve Lavoie/Pat Nolan | Life of Crime | $20 | complete facsimile reprint of the scurrilous mag that documented the San Francisco poetry wars of the late 1970s. With essays by the principals and photos by Maureen Hurley & David Highsmith | |
| 2009 | Alastair Johnston | A Discography of Docteur Nico | $20 | catalogue of singles, albums and CDs released by Nico Kassanda (1939-85) and African Fiesta, with essay and photos | |
| 2007 | Alastair Johnston | ... [Ellipsis] | $20 | essays on small presses & poets | |
| 2006 | Butler & Johnston | Pshaw! | $500 | 100 copies, calligraphy & pochoir by Frances Butler, includes 28 tipped-in ephemera | |
| 2003 | Alastair Johnston | Zephyrus Image: A Bibliography | $40 | photos by Rob Rusk | |
| 2002 | Mark Coggins | Vulture Capital | $26 | $13 | detective fiction |
| 1999 | Mark Coggins | The Immortal Game | $13 | detective fiction; Shamus & Barry Awards nominee 2000 | |
| 1995 | Tom Raworth | Muted Hawks | $400 | 40 copies; accordion fold in slipcase, illustrated by Alastair Johnston | |
| 1995 | Butler & Johnston | Trance & Recalcitrance | $25 sewn, in letterpress wraps | $10 perfectbound | checklist of titles, publications, exhibits and essays |
| 1993 | Walter Hood | Blues & Jazz Landscape Improvisations | $50 | architectural study, plans and models; photos by Lew Watts | |
| 1990 | Luxorius (Translated by Art Beck) | Simply to See | $125 | Poltroon Modern Poets vol 9; coptic binding | |
| 1989 | Lucia Berlin | Safe & Sound | OP | $8 | short stories, illustrated by Frances Butler |
| 1987 | Robert Gregory | Interferences | $12 | Poltroon Modern Poets vol 8 | |
| 1987 | Darrell Gray & Alastair Johnston | Wreck O'lections | $40 | poetry, illustrated by Alastair Johnston | |
| 1986 | Alastair Johnston | Horror Vacuui | $50 | poetry, published by Jungle Garden Press; Coptically sewn; AIGA 50 Books | |
| 1986 | Jess | Critical Dreams | $225 | illustrated by the author | |
| 1985 | Alastair Johnston | A Bibliography of the White Rabbit Press | $55 | ||
| 1985 | Frances Butler | Gloved Hand; or, Ladies' What-not | $25 | ||
| 1984 | Darrell Gray | Halos of Debris | $40 | $20 | poetry, photos by Kathryn Silva |
| 1981 | HDL Vervliet | Cyrillic & Oriental Typography in Rome at the End of the Sixteenth Century: an enquiry into the later work of Robert Granjon (1578-90) | $90 | 1981 | Alastair Johnston | Habitual Own Way (The Corrected Wronger Poems) | $50 | OP | poetry; photos by Shelly Vogel | 1980 | Philip Whalen | The Diamond Noodle | $100 signed | $15 | illustrated by Frances Butler |
| 1980 | Marc Treib | Fables of Content | $20 | poster designs | |
| 1979 | Tom Raworth | Nicht Wahr, Rosie? | $25 | Miscellaneous poems 1964-69; cover by Arne Wolf, winner of AIGA Excellence in Typography Award | |
| 1979 | Larry Fagin | Stabs | $25 | Poltroon Modern Poets | |
| 1976 | Tom Raworth | Logbook | OP | $25 | Illustrated by Frances Butler. Bound in silkscreened paper wrappers. One of our most celebrated titles, shown in the Grolier Club's 70 for the Seventies Show, etc. |
| 1975 | [Alastair Johnston] | A Bibliography of Auerhahn Press | $75 | an account of the important Beat-era publisher, with details of their books as well as those of their successor Dave Haselwood Books, with many items reproduced in facsimile | |
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