Dragonette Ree (13 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Poetry. Staple bound. Light sunning to wraps. Unmarked clean pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Gilt spine lettering & front cover decoration on blue covers. 8vo, 62 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover - clean, no marks, clean inside, clean dj - from a private collection -.

Side-Stapled A4 Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (16pp.) Although intended as an issue of Move, brought out between issues 6 & 7. Covers just fractionally soiled & creased. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo.1st Edition, about Fine in Very Good D.J.INSCRIBED."To Berenice (Abbot??) your illuminated self.Ree. (HP3). Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, ~80pp (mimeographed), stapled wrappers. Number 73 of 250 numbered copies of this mimeographed underground literary magazine (originally intended as a one-shot, but which was continued as a series). Unmarked copy, light wear and typical toning of mimeo stock, binding glue staining to inside covers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo, stapled wrappers, a few spots, NICELY INSCRIBED in the year of publication.(VV2/3). Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. [New York: Mercedes Books, 1970.] First Edition Stated. Quarto (28cm); original staplebound serigraphed wrappers designed by Thom Gavin (according to manuscript sticker inside rear wrapper); 28ll. printed mimeograph. Light wear to wrapper margins, faint glue residue along spine edge, brief ink scribble to title page, else Very Good and sound.

Designed by Don Katzman (illustrator). Ree Dragonette was a dedicated craftswoman and nurturer of poetry in New York City for decades until her death in 1979. Issued in 1962, Like Pharao's Eye Like Onyx Stone is her first work of poetry to be published. Following a nearly decade-long "silence" (as she referred to the years between 1950 and 1958)---a period she dedicated to raising her three children---she began writing again. Her creative output was spurred by her organizational work in the west village, coordinating readings at Goody's, the Harlequin, Le Metro and Les Deux Megots. By the time LPELOS was published, she was participating in performances blending jazz and poetry at the Village Vanguard, and eventually she would perform with the Eric Dolphy Quintet at the Town Hall concert, organized by Martin Mitchell and Ross Fagin. The performance has since been described by Ree's friend and fellow author Calvin Hernton as "unprecedented", featuring many poems from LPELOS, which has since become an incredibly scarce publication. Featuring the collage work of Don Katzman on the cover and an introduction from Howard Ant. [information quoted from The American Voice 29: Lost Women's Writing, 1992, 'Ree Dragonette : A Brief Memoir' by D.H. Melhem]. Very good, wraps lightly chipped at crown of spine and edges, gently worn otherwise with some discoloration to rear cover most likely a sun stain Saddle-stapled, [octavo] in illustrated b/w paper wraps, 30 pp Limited numbered first edition, #173 of 500 copies.

First Edition. 4to, 28pp in screenprinted wrappers. Inscribed on the title page: "To D.H. Melhem, herself, her beautiful works, Love, Ree." Inside the rear wrapper is a handwritten label crediting the cover art to Thom Gavin. The binding was originally reinforced with blue fabric tape, only a small piece of which remains on the rear; wrappers still sturdy and intact.

First edition. 8vo, 62pp; cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed affectionately to another poet on the front flyleaf. FIne in plain gold-foil wrapper with handwritten label.

Katzman, Don (illustrator). . . and other poems" Forward by Howard Ant, Edited and designed by Don Katzman. Signed, limited numbered first edition, #192 of 500 copies.Good+, gently worn otherwise with some discoloration to rear cover. Saddle-stapled, one staple loosened, in illustrated b/w paper wraps, 30 pp.

Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Magazine. Dave Cunliffe and Tina Morris (eds.), Poetmeat no. 7, Screeches Publications, Blackburn, England, Christmas 1964. Printed black and white mimeo pages in stapled covers. Unpaginated. The inside fo the frotn cover features a full page illustration by Arthur Moyse. The editors write, 'That rare species, the British experimentor/innovator (long regarded as extinct) has been rediscovered &, tho not exactly over-stocked with talent, may soon be powerful enough to boot the island's academy up off its fat imitative ass.' With contributions by: Geogre Montgomery entitled 'Big Apple - Part 22', Lionel Kearns, William Wantling, Jim Burns, Kirby Congdon, Julian Beck, Allen Katzman, Cal Hernton, Tom McNamara, Sam Morland, Lee Harwood, Carol Berge, Paul Evans, Carl Larsen, Duane Locke, Robert M Chute, Stan Gooch, Emilie Glen, Ian Vine, Kenneth L Beudoin, Tracy Thompson, George Dowden, Allen De Loach, Neil Chassman, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara A Holland, Chris J Torrance, Rudyard Tupling (alias Tuli Kupferberg), Margaret Randall, Michael Skaife d'`ingerthorpe, Ree Dragonette, Earle Birney, Michael Wilkin. Featured on the back cover are 'Cable Street' by Lee Harwood, 'The Riddle Fights the Mocking Bird' by Margart Randall, 'The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express, July 18, 1963' by Allen Ginsberg, and 'An Important Essay' entitled 'The Roots of Concrete Poetry as the New Anti-Poetry' by George Downden which quotes John Sharkey amongst many others. Condition: Internally very good +, in Very Good wraps, no tears or writing. Overall: Very Good +.