Auerhahn Press (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. Another great issue of this underground literary review, this focusing on Auerhahn Press, with a cover by Wallace Berman. Unmarked copy, light wear. Not Signed.

Paperback. 5 x 8" sheet of blue paper, folded once, with bird device to front panel. An advertising leaflet offering the services of the press, suggesting that they can produce a wide variety of material, from stationary to reproduction proofs to pornography. The inside of the card is pictured in Alastair Johnston's Auerhahn Bibliography on p. 51. Some faint handling creases else fine.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Dudecimo. One fold-out sheet. Illustrated with a black & white reproduction of drawings. Fine in original plain lettered wrapper with fold-out tipped-in. No date, but estimated to be from the late 1950s, likely 1958 or 59, from the forthcoming book list.

First edition. Single long sheet folded three times and tipped into a near fine printed folding card (7 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches, closed). Presents poems and provides publication details, in two colors, for new work by John Wieners, Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, and Philip Whalen.

Condition: Good. 18mo. Oblong, Folded Sheet, Letterpress On Fine Paper with Deckled Edge, Near Fine. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dustjacket as issued. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding. Toning on pastedowns & endpapers. Text is unmarked.

First Edition, 1976. 89 pages. Book measures 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Hardcover covered in silkscreened cotton of Auerhahn device by Philip Van Aver, with paste down label to spine. Includes three pieces of ephemera laid in, including: A Poem for Benzedrine by John Wieners, a facsimile letter by Haselwood, and a facsimile verifax work by Wallace Berman for Jack Hirschman. An in depth history of Dave Haselwood's activity as a letterpress printer & publisher beginning with the Auerhahn Press in the Bay Area during the 1950s, and chronicling his later imprint Dave Haselwood Books. Includes many details from books and ephemera reproduced in facsimile. Auerhahn published books by Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, John Wieners, Lew Welch, Phil Whalen, David Meltzer, Diane di Prima and William Burroughs. Over 40 books are describe, as well as broadsides, ephemera, and jobwork done by the press. A beuatiful book printed letterpress by Alastair Johnston, and an unconventional bibliography done in the spirit of the content. An uncommon book on all levels. Highly recommended. A Fine copy.

Auerhahn Press (illustrator). tall 8vo. decorated cloth, paper spine label. 87, (3) pages. Limited to 500 copies. Near fine. Essentially a study of modern literature as many authors such as Burroughs, McClure, Ginsburg and others were published by the press. Printed in mulitple colors.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. decorated cloth, paper spine label.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Single sheet folded to create a broadside with printing on five of the eight panels. Measures 5 5/8 x 5 inches (143 x 128 mm) when folded. SIGNED by Michael McClure, one of the authors featured in this broadside for Auerhahn publications. The broadside features excerpts of poetry by McClure, John Wieners, Philip Lamantia, and Philip Whalen. The idea was to promote Auerhahn's books and pamphlets. Although the broadside doesn't contain a publication date, we estimate 1959, based on the broadside's list of forthcoming publications. Dave Haselwood founded Auerhahn in 1958 and published works that increased the influence of the Beat movement. His publications "were known to those on the scene as thoughtfully designed, beautifully produced aesthetic objects showcasing some of the finest voices of the 'new poetry.'" (Steven Belletto, The Beats: A Literary History, page 252.)Michael McClure, who signed this broadside, was instrumental in launching the Beat movement. He died on May 4, 2020, at age 87. McClure took part in a legendary poetry reading at the Six Gallery in San Francisco in October 1955. Other readers were Allen Ginsberg (who read an early version of Howl), Philip Lamantia, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen, with Kenneth Rexroth acting as master of ceremonies. A beautiful broadside from Auerhahn Press signed by the late Michael McClure. Copies of the broadside are scarce to the market, signed copies even more so. CONDITION: Light crease running throughout, toning to extremities. Very Good or better. Signed by Author(s).

Folding Broadside. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Only printing. An undated folding broadside advertisement tipped into a folding cover, as issued. Announcing the publication of McClure's Hymns to St. Geryon, and listing Wieners's Hotel Wentley Poems, Lamantia's Ekstasis, Whalen's Memoirs of an Interglacial Age (the last "in preparation"); includes a poem "OH CHRIST GOD LOVE CRY" by McClure. There are two holographic price-corrections in an anonymous hand, which has also written, in ball-point pen, inside the cover "Next Book: Hellan Hellan Ed Marshall". Considering that the Marshall book was not published until 1964, this announcement might have been used for some period after its initial presumed printing date in 1959. Scarce. Q09683.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. A fine copy without the ephemera laid into new copies ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 86 pp.

Somewhat less than 500 copies printed on a variety of presses (colophon), 26 of which have been "grangerized" with Auerhahn ephemera (not here); 8vo, pp. [2], 87, [3]; illustrations and facsimiles throughout; decorative blue silkscreen cloth over boards, printed paper label on spine; fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. This copy inscribed in pencil by Johnston: "For Allan & Cinda Kornblum, yrs. Alastair Johnston. 'You'll wonder where the yellow went / when you brush your teeth with wet cement'." This is a reference, no doubt, to Kornblum's Toothpaste Press, a letterpress operation which he operated in West Branch, Iowa, and later in Saint Paul, Minnesota from 1970 to the early 1980s.