(No place: No publisher), 1974. First edition. One of 220 copies of a mimeo publication of 11 poems of O’Hara, published after his death, with a short explanatory note by Berrigan about the composition of the poems which were written in 1964 but never published. Wrappers faintly sunned, otherwise a fine copy. 4to, 12 mimeograph sheets, original pictorial stapled wrappers by Alice Notley. More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1964). First edition. One of 1500 copies printed. Cook 50. In 1959, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg met O’Hara at Larry Rivers’ studio. Intrigued by the idea that O’Hara was writing poems on his lunch hour, Ferlinghetti proposed publishing a book of his Lunch Poems. O’Hara began corresponding with Ferlinghetti and Donald Allen, who was helping to select the poems for the book, which was finally published by City Lights Books nearly six years later, dressed in O’Hara’s favorite colors, orange and blue. (Gooch). A very fine copy, virtually as new, and rare in this condition. Small 8vo, original printed wrappers. More
RIVERS, Larry. N. Y. Tibor De Nagy Gallery, 1951. First edition of O'Hara's first book, the birth of the New York School of Poetry. One of 20 copies printed by hand in Bodoni types on Japanese Kochi paper by Ruthven Todd for Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, specially bound with an original drawing by Larry Rivers as a frontispiece; this copy number 8. The drawing in this copy, a beautiful drawing of a reclining nude woman, is signed by Rivers. According to the colophon, A City Winter was published in March-April 1952 in an edition of 150 numbered copies, in two forms: a regular issue of 130 copies printed on French Arches paper [copies 21-150] and a deluxe issue printed on Japanese Kochi paper with an original drawing by Larry Rivers [copies 1-20]. However, according to Brad Gooch, 280 "folded paper" copies were printed in addition to the copies on Kochi paper. The regular issue, bound in blue paper wrappers, sold for $1.00; the deluxe hardbound issue on Kochi paper with an original drawing by Rivers for $20.00. (Gooch, City Poet, p. 213.) Not all of the copies in the regular issue were bound, a fact probably explained..... More
N. Y. Tibor De Nagy Gallery, 1951. First edition of O'Hara's first book, the birth of the New York School of Poetry. One of 130 copies printed on French Arches paper out of a total edition of 150 copies (there were 20 copies on Japanese Kochi); this copy number 38. According to the colophon, A City Winter was published in March-April 1952 in an edition of 150 numbered copies, in two forms: a regular issue of 130 copies printed on French Arches paper [copies 21-150] and a deluxe issue printed on Japanese Kochi paper with an original drawing by Larry Rivers [copies 1-20]. However, according to Brad Gooch, 280 "folded paper" copies were printed in addition to the copies on Kochi paper. The regular issue, bound in blue paper wrappers, sold for $1.00; the deluxe hardbound issue on Kochi paper with an original drawing by Rivers for $20.00. Brad Gooch, City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara (N. Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993), p. 213. Not all of the copies in the regular issue were bound, a fact probably explained by the large over-run of 130 copies of the regular issue – twice the number specified in the..... More