Edited John Ridland (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: As New. This is Number 8 Summer 1970 "Flying Fingers Issue" Floyce Alexander, Robert Davies, Tom Artin. 35 pages. ; 6 1/8 x 6 1/8 ".

First edition, first printing Holding 19 poems by Walter Clark. The first issue of the journal edited by John Ridland. Near fine stiff wraps with strong spine and crisp bright text.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Single issue. Pictorial lavender wrappers. Contains pages 273-333pp. Spine lightly sunned, near fine. Contributions by Charles Tomlinson, Turner Cassity, Allen Grossman, John Tagliabue, Allen Kanfer, Daniel G. Hoffman, John W. Clark, John M. Ridland, Horace Hamilton, John Koepfle, Eda Lou Walton, Horace Gregory, Hayden Carruth, X.J. Kennedy, Samuel French Morse, and Peter Miller.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Periodical. Square 16mo. Printed wrappers. Tiny closed tear at the crown, near fine. Special "American Indian Issue" of poetry and prose including two tales from *The Journey of Tai-me* by N. Scott Momaday, eight poems from *Indian Thoughts* by Norman H. Russell, and contributions by John Skinner, Alan Stephens, Ann Clark, and more.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Nina Miller (illustrator). First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Printed at Bill Horton's Sun Press, Santa Barbara. ***Near fine in rose-red card wrappers. Spine slightly faded. No inscriptions. Pages clean. No tears. Spine tight. ***150 mm x150 mm. 28 pages including two-page introduction by the poet, Barry Spacks. Two-page note on the poet by the editor to the rear. ***Contents: Acknowledgments, A Note on Poetry by Barry Spacks; Twenty Poems by Barry Spacks: October, Dandy, Freshmen, Recommendations, The Company of Children, The Artichoke, Exercises: 1. The Rose 2. The Onion 3. The Egg, Song of the Long-Married Man, Homage to Henry James, The Solitary at Seventeen, Widow, The Pedagogical Guest and the Child, Birthday, The Changing, Blind in his Sorrow, In the Calm and Measured Country, At Thirty-Five, Envoi, A Note on this Issue. ***Barry Spacks (1931-2014), was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a professor and prize-winning poet and novelist. He taught writing and literature at MIT from 1960 to 1981, then taught in the English Department and the College of Creative Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara for 32 years. He was poet laureate of the City of Santa Barbara from 2005 to 2007. ***The Little Square Review ran for ten numbers in eight issues as follows: the first four issues each featured the work of a single poet: 1) Walter Clark, 2) Robert Peters, 3) Edwin Fussell, and 4) Barry Spacks. The joint 5th/6th joint issue featured work by and about Native Americans. The 7th issue featured "Three Poets of the Inland West" - Robert Brandts, F. R. Bresgal and Dick Strong. The 8th issue was the "Flying Fingers" issue and featured Floyce Alexander, Robert Davies and Tom Artin. The final issue was the joint 9th/10th issue, the "Waving hands" issue, and contained 49 poems by seven poets. ***First impression of the true first edition of the fourth issue of The Little Square Review in very nice collectable condition. ***Of interest to collectors of 1960s American poetry first edition small press and magazine titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Inscribed by Author(s).

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Printed at Bill Horton's Sun Press, Santa Barbara. Inserted to the rear is a detailed announcement of Menashtash by Alvaro Cardona-Hine - a small bilingual book of short poems in Spanish and English on facing pages by the well-known Los Angeles poet, Alvaro Cardona-Hine. ***Near fine in olive card wrappers. No inscriptions. Pages clean. No tears. Spine tight. ***150 mm x150 mm. 35 pages plus a list of back issues to the rear. ***Contents: An Apology for this issue; Floyce Alexander: A Preface; Poems: Storm at Mazatlan, Near the Sea Wall, The First Day, Sections from Wine Blood, Elegy for Morning Glories, A Snake's Song, Los Angeles, The Last Hour. ***Robert A. Davies: A Note; Poems: Balloons, Overnight the Walnut, Morning Glory, Night-Blooming Cereus, Aunt Dolorus, Poetry Reading, The Bums, In a Field of Queen Anne's Lace / Wild Carrot, A Particular Landscape, A Dandelion for Sunyata, Visit to the Place. ***Tom Artin: A Note: Poems: Flight, Nude with a Lemon, Ephemera, Sea, The Cenotaph, Splices, The Northmen, Sequence, Love Song, Chemistry, Names. ***The Little Square Review ran for ten numbers in eight issues as follows: the first four issues each featured the work of a single poet: 1) Walter Clark, 2) Robert Peters, 3) Edwin Fussell, and 4) Barry Spacks. The joint 5th/6th joint issue featured work by and about Native Americans. The 7th issue featured "Three Poets of the Inland West" - Robert Brandts, F. R. Bresgal and Dick Strong. The 8th issue was the "Flying Fingers" issue and featured Floyce Alexander, Robert Davies and Tom Artin. The final issue was the joint 9th/10th issue, the "Waving hands" issue, and contained 49 poems by seven poets. ***First impression of the true first edition of number eight of The Little Square Review in very nice collectable condition. *** Of interest to collectors of 1960s and 1970s American poetry first edition small press and magazine titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Douglas McClellan (illustrator). First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Printed at Bill Horton's Sun Press, Santa Barbara. Illustrated with a colour design by Douglas McClellan on page 6. Original subscription postcard loosely inserted. ***Near fine in pale grey card wrappers. No inscriptions. Pages clean. No tears. Spine tight. ***150 mm x150 mm. 24 pages including two-page introduction by the poet, Robert L. Peters. Two-page note on the poet by the editor to the rear. ***Contents: Acknowledgments, A Note on the Convert as Poet by Edwin Fussell; A Design by Douglas McClellan; The Purgatory Poems by Edwin Fussell: A Little Night-Work, Crap in the Hand, In the Hospital, Gin for Breakfast, Yellow as Through Dark Glasses, Where We Lay, In My Winding Sheet, Until the Real Thing Comes Along, Eat Me, A Short Twelve for St. Francis, The Lady in Blue, Good Friday, From the Purgatory Poems, Before Morning, A Note on Edwin Fussell. ***Edwin Sill Fussell (1922-2002), was Professor Emeritus of Literature, University College San Diego. He was a poet and a scholar of American fiction and poetry (1800 to the present). ***The Little Square Review ran for ten numbers in eight issues as follows: the first four issues each featured the work of a single poet: 1) Walter Clark, 2) Robert Peters, 3) Edwin Fussell, and 4) Barry Spacks. The joint 5th/6th joint issue featured work by and about Native Americans. The 7th issue featured "Three Poets of the Inland West" - Robert Brandts, F. R. Bresgal and Dick Strong. The 8th issue was the "Flying Fingers" issue and featured Floyce Alexander, Robert Davies and Tom Artin. The final issue was the joint 9th/10th issue, the "Waving hands" issue, and contained 49 poems by seven poets. ***First impression of the true first edition of the third issue of The Little Square Review in very nice collectable condition. *** Of interest to collectors of 1960s American poetry first edition small press and magazine titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Inscribed by Author(s).

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Printed in an edition of 600 copies at Bill Horton's Sun Press. Original tipped-in subscription postcard to rear. ***Near fine in mustard-yellow card wrappers. No inscriptions. Pages clean. No tears. Spine tight. ***150 mm x150 mm. 24 pages including two-page introduction by the poet, Walter Clark. One-page note on the poet by the editor to the rear. ***Contents: Acknowledgments, A Note on Poetry by Walter Clark; Nineteen Poems by Walter Clark: Uncle Death, Turning a Corner, Gone Dogs, Villanelle, Sonnet from a Summer Place, On Reading a Chinese Poems, Unwelt as Carrot, Science, To Achieve Order, Free Will, Guests at the Door, Walking a Very Old Dog, Pigeon, The Morning After, Stations, Vaquero, Preface and Ambiguous Directions, Homage to Adam, Run; A Note on Walter Clark. ***The Little Square Review ran for ten numbers in eight issues as follows: the first four issues each featured the work of a single poet: 1) Walter Clark, 2) Robert Peters, 3) Edwin Fussell, and 4) Barry Spacks. The joint 5th/6th joint issue featured work by and about Native Americans. The 7th issue featured "Three Poets of the Inland West" - Robert Brandts, F. R. Bresgal and Dick Strong. The 8th issue was the "Flying Fingers" issue and featured Floyce Alexander, Robert Davies and Tom Artin. The final issue was the joint 9th/10th issue, the "Waving hands" issue, and contained 49 poems by seven poets. ***First impression of the true first edition of the first issue of The Little Square Review in very nice collectable condition. ***Of interest to collectors of 1960s American poetry first edition small press and magazine titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition of the last ever issue of the Little Square Review. Printed at Bill Horton's Sun Press, Santa Barbara. Loosely inserted to the fore is a printed 'notice to subscribers and collectors' with a handwritten note in blue biro from the editor John Ridland: 'Here at last is the last issue J. R.' ***Loosely inserted to the rear is a detailed announcement of Menashtash by Alvaro Cardona-Hine - a small bilingual book of short poems in Spanish and English on facing pages by the well-known Los Angeles poet, Alvaro Cardona-Hine. ***Near fine in bright blue card wrappers. No inscriptions. Pages clean. No tears. Spine tight. ***150 mm x150 mm. 48 pages including note on contributors, and two comics by David Dunlop. ***Contents: Acknowledgments; A Note on this Issue; Tall Corn issue - Four Iowa Poets: Norman Hoeberg, Eight Poems; George Chambers, Nine Poems; Stuart Friebert, Three Poems, A. G. Sobin, Nine Poems; David Dunlap, Blue Cherry Way; Dennis Mannisto, Two Poems; Robyn Bell, Eleven Poems; David Dunlap, Blackheart Joe; Notes on Contributors. ***The Little Square Review ran for ten numbers in eight issues as follows: the first four issues each featured the work of a single poet: 1) Walter Clark, 2) Robert Peters, 3) Edwin Fussell, and 4) Barry Spacks. The joint 5th/6th joint issue featured work by and about Native Americans. The 7th issue featured "Three Poets of the Inland West" - Robert Brandts, F. R. Bresgal and Dick Strong. The 8th issue was the "Flying Fingers" issue and featured Floyce Alexander, Robert Davies and Tom Artin. The final issue was the joint 9th/10th issue, the "Waving hands" issue, and contained 49 poems by seven poets. ***First impression of the true first edition of the very last issue (No. 9-10) of The Little Square Review, with a handwritten note by the editor loosely inserted on the typed last issue notice in very nice collectable condition. *** Of interest to collectors of 1960s and 1970s American poetry first edition small press and magazine titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. SIGNED by the editor with note handwritten (to Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry - though not addressed) in black fountain pen on loosely inserted slip of thin card- paper: "Never mind about paying me for sub. (send me a pamphlet now & then!) Jon Ridland". Printed at Bill Horton's Sun Press, Santa Barbara. Also loosely inserted, two typed erratum slips: 'on front cover: for volume read number', and a typed review notice slip for a book of poems published by the editor of The Little Square Review. Also inserted to the rear is a detailed announcement of Menashtash by Alvaro Cardona-Hine, a small bilingual book of short poems in Spanish and English on facing pages by the well-known Los Angeles poet, Alvaro Cardona-Hine. ***Near fine in tan card wrappers. Spine slightly faded. Pages clean. No tears. Spine tight. ***150 mm x150 mm. 36 pages including short introduction / statements by the poets. ***First impression of the true first edition of the seventh issue of The Little Square Review in very nice collectable condition. ***Of interest to collectors of 1960s American poetry first edition small press and magazine titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Signed by Editor.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. From the library of poet William Matchett, and is inscribed by the editor to Matchett in No. 9-10 on the title page: Bill, This may well beat us (signed) John 7/22/72. Ten issues in 8 volumes (5-6 9-10 are double issues) Each issue 24-48pp., in color printed cardstock covers. Light wear, else a Very Good set. // Features Nineteen Poems by Walter Clark; Fourteen Poemd by Robert Peters; The Purgatory Poems by Edwin Fussell; Twenty Poems by Barry Spacks; the American Indian Issue (Poems and Prose by John Skinner, N.Scott Momaday, Alan Stephens, Clarence Alva Powell, Norman H.Russell, Ann Clark, Robert Brandts); Three Poets of the Inland West (Brandts, Bresgal, Strong); Flying Fingers Issue (Floyce Alexander, Robert Davies, Tom Artin); Waving Hands Issue (Norman Hoegberg, George Chambers, A.G. Sobin, Stuart Friebert, Robert Pinsky, Dennis Mannisto, Robert Bell, plus 2 comics by David Dunlap).