Manroot Press (21 results)

Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Condition: Very Good. --ALL INVENTORY 40% OFF in Sept--Unmarked text. Art by Renee June. 25p. Second edition. Clive Matson (b. 1941) pursued Vipassana meditation and extensive psychotherapy in the 1960s and 1970s. Both brought depth to his poems about relationships. Equal in Desire, 1982, expanded the direct expression style into love poems, at the same time including awareness of gender and pro-feminist concerns. …

Paperback. 21p., 5.5x8.5 inches, very good second edition booklet in stapled red printed wraps. Poetry with uncertain sexual content.

21p., 5.25x8.25 inches, book announcement for Manroot together with a Manroot price list laid-in, very good second edition review copy in red printed slim trade paperback wraps. Poetry with uncertain sexual content.

Condition: Small cover spots: VG+. 21pp. Illustrated by Renee June.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Paperback. 96p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with vintage art that has been retouched to include exposed phalluses, lightly worn first edition, one of 1,100 copies, trade paperback in white pictorial wraps. Collages of phallicized vintage engravings.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Trade Paperback. First Edition. Unpaginated. Limited to 1100 copies. Vintage prints altered by the artist with the male genital appendage as collage. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Second edition. Small octavo. Stapled blue wrappers. About near fine with sunning at the edges and crease on the front wrap. Mariah is a pioneer of the gay literary scene in San Francisco who founded Manroot Books in 1969.

Softcover First Printing. First Edition. 1000 copies. Fine.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 21 pages, 8vo, limited to 250 copies, signed by the author, in excellent condition. June, Renee (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

First Edition; First Printing. Tall softcover. Fine.

Paperback. 160p., one of 1,100 copies, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Poetry and rants. Poetry and rants. Wraparound cover image, in colors, by Robert Berner, is a "computer generated" (mid 80s technology) recreation of a public baths scene in ancient Minos, two ladies in Minoan interior. Berner has ad space on p.85 for work on demand, this leaf also bears computer distortions of Lonidier photographic portraits and a three-quarter standing portrait of her "holding her two pet garter snakes".…

First edition, first printing Affectionately inscribed by Clive Matson to the poet Janine Pommy Vega on the opening flyleaf. Always interesting work by this poet. Often the tell-tale sign of Janine Pommy Vega with a folded down corner of a favorite poem : "Star Spawned". Near fine wraps.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Edition of 1000. Manroot Press, 1988 85 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are clean, bright, undamaged. Size: 5" x 8.25". Signed by Translator. Edition of 1000. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Cocteau, Jean. Cocteau, Jean (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Bound in red wrappers. 8vo. 5-3/8 x 8-1/4 inches. Artwork by Renee June. Slight bend along right edge keeps this from being Fine, but otherwise a Very Good copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book has light rubbing and smudges to covers with aging/toning to edges, tiny bends to tips of cornes, faint creasing along spine hinge of front cover, a touch of wear to edges with slight bumps. otherwise in very good condition, strong binding, clean and unmarked pages; an overall sturdy, handsome reading copy.…

Paperback. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo in off-white glossy wraps with red imagery/text; dark red endpapers; 85 pages: illustrations, portrait; 22 cm. Frontispiece by Modigliani; illustrations by Jean Cocteau. One of 1,000 printed. Bilingual French and English on opposing pages, illustrations on most pages and tribute to Joseph Lomax (translator) at the end. Strange and beautiful prose poetry for the Francophone and Anglophone alike. // French poetry, French poetry Translations into English, Gay men, Gay men Poetry, Gay poetry, Gay poets, Homosexuels masculins Po?sie, Poetry, Po?sie homosexuelle. Very good with bright, clean pages, tight binding; wraps show a bit of rubbing and very light toning; bookshop sticker on back of wraps and verso of front cover. Jean Cocteau (illustrator). …

Condition: Good. Perfectbound in pictorial wraps, with Cocteau line drawing and reproduced signature. 8vo. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches. 85 pp. First edition, printed in an edition of 1,000 copies. Short prose works by the French poet, playwright, and filmmaker. French and English on facing pages. Translated by David Fisher, Paul Mariah, Chet Roaman, with Joseph Lomax. Spine slightly sunned, otherwise Near Fine. …

Condition: Good. Collaged steel engravings by painter and dancer Richard Maitland. 4to. Wraps. Very good.

No Binding. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. BROADSIDE Poem SIGNED and numbered by PAUL MARIAH, #31 of 50 copies. Finely Printed by [ManRoot Press, San Francisco], September 21, 1973. First Edition Limited to only 50 Copies. Single Sheet Broadside, 8.5" x 11", Textured artist paper, printed in purple and black. NEAR FINE CONDITION: Excellent, bright and clean with only a hint of toning to the edges. Paul Mariah (1938-1996). Founder of ManRoot Press (1969), the First Gay Literary Press in America. A Prominent Gay Poet and Influential Pioneer of the San Francisco Gay Literary Scene. An essential figure in the new post Stonewall era Gay Liberation Movement. A Noted Post Beat Poet, Editor, Printer, and Prisoners' Rights Activist, his work is becoming increasingly sought after. Signed by Author(s).…