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Published by Sangre de Cristo Press, El Rito, NM, 1970
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Pamphlet. 48p., 4.5x6 inches, two poetry journals in one stapled booklet in yellow wraps. Two poetry journals combined. One focuses on haiku and short forms.
Published by Oakland, CA: Mills College Library, [1980?]., 1980
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Good. BROADSIDE. Folio. 11" x 17" Very Good with minor creasing.
Published by Oakland, CA: Mills College Library, [1980?]., 1980
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Good. BROADSIDE. Folio. 11" x 17" Very Good with minor creasing.
Published by Grace Hoper Press / Sherwood And Katharine Grover, Aptos Ca, 1976
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Single Sheet, Folded. Fine. One Of 150 Copies.
Published by not identified, 1971
Seller: virtualrarities, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Unbound in cardstock folder with integral foredge. Consists of (2) + 37 fine stock leaves printed on one side. Poetry composed during 1968-1970 at San Francisco State University during a time of "crisis and ordeal," the longest college teachers' strike in U.S. history. In Professor Bentley's annotation to his title asterisk, he describes this work as "A documentary account, week by week, of the vapors and humors of scandal transpired in my Englislh 177(14 and English 177(7) seminars in the literature and practice of militant non-violence during the spring and fall semesters, respectively, of 1970." A scarce item from a renegade radical leftist American poet, academic, printer and artist. Carefully shipped.
Published by The Bentley Press, Pittsburgh, 1930
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Sewn printed wrapper. Wrapper dust smudged, otherwise a very good copy. First edition thus. Virgil's poem printed by Wilder Bentley on Fabriano as his 1930 Christmas greeting. Edition size unspecified. HAAS (BENTLEY) 1.
Published by Acorn Press, Berkeley, 1934
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 5 x 6.5 inches, 10 couplets printed on single sheet, 20 x 13 inches, folded and tipped to inside of front wrapper. Editiion of 121 copies printed on the Acorn Press in the Thousand Oaks, Berkeley. Front wrapper faded from lilac to light gray, else about very good.
Published by San Francisco, CA: Grace Hoper Press., 1976
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Good. French-Folded Leaf, 6.5 x 9 cm. 4 pp. Letterpress on Watermarked Laid Paper with Deckled Edges, Black & Red Ink. Very Good+. Scarce.Keepsake for the members of the Roxburghe-Zamorano Club joint meeting in San Francisco in 1976.
Published by Printed on the Acorn Press in the Thousand Oaks, Berkeley, 1934
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Unbound. Condition: Good. Large broadside folded as issued in printed gray sleeve. Small tears and stains at the folds, a sound but good only example. No. 2 in the Acorn Broadside Series. One of 121 copies printed on Worthy handmade paper. Uncommon.
Published by Archetype Press, Berkeley, CA, 1939
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Archetype Press (illustrator). folio. cloth with printed design on front cover. 19+(1) pages. Limited to 105 copies, set up and printed on a handpress by Wilder Bentley ("and his faithful spouse, Ellen") on dampened Strathmore Wayside Text for at The Archetype Press in Euclid Court, Berkeley, Ca and issued for private distribution among members of The Arts Club & their friends. Printed in "a bastard version" of Caslon Oldface italic and Goudy Modern roman. Wood-engraved abstraction of the initial i for the Prolegomena, vignette on the title-page, and design for the front cover by John C. Haley. Excerpts from chronicles of The Arts Club's past season. "It is not primarily designed to explain to the world in general what we are, what we do, how well we reason, or how badly we sing. Rather it is a souvenir, intended to revive some of our very happy memories." Finely printed. Bottom corner bumped, else near fine. cloth with printed design on front cover.
Published by Berkeley, CA: Acorn Press., 1934
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Good. Broadside. Unfolded: 19" x 12.5"; folded: 6.25" x 5". Letterpress on Off-White Deckled Laid Paper with Watermark (Very Good), mounted to Letterpress Deckled Grey Paper French-Folded (Good with marginal tear, faint toning).
Published by Wilder Bentley, Occidental, CA, 1999
Seller: Eve's Book Garden, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. A rare and what appears to be a handbound copy. Illustrated with reproductions of 29 original drawings, one photograph and two maps. A charming collection of drawings and descriptions of San Francisco and North Bay bridges, many of them small and out of the way, by the well-known Berkeley artist and son of poet-printer Wilder Bentley of the same name. Very clean and neat in freshlooking medium-blue, soft paper covers. Small (about 1/2 inch) darker-blue colored stain along the edge of front cover, and front corners have a slight curl. Glued-on title label has a little fold to the lower corner and some bleed through of the glue from underneath, causing a mild effect of staining, but other than these small detractants it is a tidy, attractive, crisp copy. Pages are very bright white and neatly bound with an unusual kind of strung cord arrangement. Very scarce.
Published by The Burlington Chapbooks, Philadelphia, 1935
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIREBRANDS : FIVE POEMS. A chapbook of ANARCHIST RADICAL POETRY by JUAN ORTEGA, WILDER BENTLEY, NORMAN MACLEOD, LAWRENCE A. HARPER, FRANK ANKENBRAND, JR. Published by The Burlington Chapbooks, Philadelphia, 1935. Printed by ALPRESS in a LIMITED EDITION of only 175 copies. This is the fifth publication in the Burlington Chapbooks series. Chapbook / Booklet, heavy stock paper covers, paper title label on the front cover, string bound, 5.5x8.5 inches, six numbered pages of poems, plus an unnumbered Title Page, Contents Page, and Colophon Page. The poems are: CHAUVINISM, by Juan Ortega; ANARCHIST PORTRAIT IN CALIFORNIA, by Norman Macleod; LAST PRELUDE, by Lawrence A. Harper; TO A POET OF THE PROLETARIAT, by Wilder Bentley; and FOR THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONIST L. F., by Frank Ankenbrand, Jr. GOOD condition, a bit of wear to the corner tips, a small area of light shorelining to the top edge of the title page; overall remains tight, bright, clean and unmarked. One of the nicer copies this delicate chapbook that I have seen.
Published by Self-published by the poet, hand-set & printed at The Bread & Wine Press by Harvey Wilder Bentley, San Francisco, 1960
Manuscript / Paper Collectible First Edition Signed
Pamphlet. 14p., 6.5x9.75 inches, frontispiece, dedication, biographical note, 15 poems, colophon hand-numbered 44/300 copies and signed by the poet with block-print vignette signed by Wilder Bentley, very good chapbook in sewn lavender wraps with yoni decoration on cover in green. The poet's first book of poetry, dedicated to a friend back home in Florida. Only 10 copies found in OCLC as of 10/2021. Anderson was born and raised in Florida and became one of the Beat poets in Greenwich Village and later San Francisco's North Beach. There he edited "Beatitude" and founded the Communication Company with Claude Hayward which printed most of the handbills, posters and pamphlets of the Diggers and the SF Mime Troupe. Bentley was an important Bay Area printer, calligrapher, poet and fine press publisher exhibited at the De Young. Martinelli was Ezra Pound's helpmate at St. Elizabeth's.
Published by Hand Written, Oakland, Berkeley, Montrose (Colorado) and Los Angeles, 1960
Seller: Recycled, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Dave Rike was a local San Francisco printer, union activist and SciFi fanzine writer/artist who befriended Wilder Bentley in the late 1950's in Berkeley. These four letters (three handwritten, one typed) and postcard chronicle Bentley's travels, and observations, as he traveled around California and Colorado seeking both employment and spiritual enrichment in the 1959/60 time period. Quite a charming batch, especially since Bentley had such a calligraphic turn to his writing!. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Printed on the Acorn Press in the Thousand Oaks, Berkeley, 1934
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Large broadside folded as issued in printed brown sleeve. Small tear in one margin and at the bottom of the spine, else very near fine. No. 1 in the Acorn Broadside Series. One of 121 copies printed on Worthy handmade paper. Uncommon.
Bentley, Harvey Wilder. HOLOGRAPH LETTER AND TYPED PAGES OF POETRY. 1. A letter dated in 1986, handwritten on both sides of a sheet of yellow paper, addressed "Dear Margot (Margot Archer)," and signed "Wilder," and with the writer's Berkeley, CA address at lower left of the recto. Interestting content, discussing his college days at Yale, his godfather, Frank Jewett Mather, who was an art historian at Princeton, his visits to Princeton, the influence of Mather's collection of Claude Lorraine drawings on his own work, his need to give up his work as a printer of fine press books (he was the proprietor of the Archetype Press in San Francisco) because of cataracts and arthritis, and his contempt for Existentialism and Expressionism as "the perversion of Personalism into self-indulgence, and self-pity posing as confession." 2. A typed sheet, dated 1 September 1972, titled "On Memories of a Labor-Day Weekend With Richard and Margot Archer Exactly Two and Thirty Years Ago Today, containing two sonnets, a nd signed in red ink "Wilder" with the typed signature "Wilder Bentley the Elder." A photocopy of the same is attached to the original. 3. A typed sheet containing a Sonnet titled "A Hippotypical Toast to the Sign of the Hippogryph," signed "Wilder" in red ink, and with the typed signature "Wilder Bentley the Elder/On the Feast Day of/St. Victricius of Rouen). Below on the same sheet, a typed letter or note addressed "Dear Richard," presumably Richard Archer, complaining about the fact that U.S.C. had stopped ordering his Scrolls, which were a series, thus leaving him with incomplete sets. This initialed "W." He hoped that Archer might know someone, as his communications and those of "Muir" (Dawson?) had not been responded to. 3. A typed sheet titled "A New Year's Sonnet for Margot and Richard Archer," followed by the sonnet, and signed "Wilder" in red ink, and dated Christmas Day, 1976. Attached is a photocopy of a New Year's Sonnet for Marka and Ward Ritchie." H. Richard Archer (1911-1968), a specialist in the history of printing was the Custodian of Rare Books at the Chapin Library of Rare Books at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. from 1957-1977. He also had his own press called The Hypogryph Press. With Ward Ritchie he authored a book titled "Modern Fine Printing" in 1968. All in excellent condition.
Published by Archetype Press, Berkeley, 1975
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
The collection includes 26 printed scrolls (that for the lettes A and B are supplied in Xerox facsimile), some rolling out to about 15 feet in length, each with the text of this epic poem arranged in columns, each in a tube beautifully covered in various colors of hand-made papers. The edition size varies and may be in question; it is doubtful that the edition size was ever as large as 100 for any of the one scrolls, the edition of some is a stated forty, and a few may even be less. "These scrolls," Emerson Wulling wrote about Bentley (A Comp's-Eye-View of Wilder Bentley and the Archetype Press), "are a humanistic autobiography of life lived on the border of materialism.written in various metrical forms. This is a typographical and literary accomplishment. One thinks of the Education of Henry Adams as being like The Poetry of Learning. Both are life views. Adams is a historian among whose symbols of life is the dynamo. Bentley is a man of letters who lives with a printing press. Both use their education as bases for reviewing their lives in context with their times. In doing so they offer substantial thought about human values. The early scrolls are largely narrative and descriptive about travels in Europe, about teaching, about printing. The later scrolls are more epigrammatic, about people, about current events, about environment. All are written in more or less traditional English poetic diction, with occasional sly puns. They read comfortably despite several rigorous structures: terza rima, sonnet, canzone, sestet, and free verse." Bentley was one time Laboratory Assistant at the Laboratory Press, Carnegie Institute of Technology where he worked 1930-34, and from then on in Berkeley. Scroll A is in facsimile but the tube is original; scroll B has been reproduced on water-marked paper, but the tube is blue cardboard. All else fine or better, as issued.