Bulb Socket by Lenhart Gary (5 results)

First edition. [38 pp]. Very good plus in side-stapled wrappers with some pale foxing to front panel. Cover art by Louise Hamlin. One of 350 copies produced at The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, NYC. Poems.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Stapled mimeographed leaves in glossy wrappers. Some soiling to the wrappers else near fine. One of 350 copies produced at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Quarto size pamphlet, (18 pages), very good condition in card covers, corners of covers creased, some marks on the covers, one of an edition of 350 copies.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is a limited first edition, first printing (of 350 copies, with a laid-in inscribed note from the poet) of "Bulb In Socket," a book of poetry by Gary Lenhart published in 1980 by Crony Books out of New York City. A stapled softcover measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 19 internal sheets (printed on once side, the verso is blank, as issued). The poems include: Perfect Earth; Lew Welch; The Pick-Up Mutiny; Lucky Stiff; Outside West Virginia; Partners; Moose in a Landscape; Bulb in Socket; Drugstore Cowboy. Laid-in is a signed and inscribed note by Gary Lenhart to his friend and fellow poet Donald Britton: "1/19/81, Dear Donald, I don't think you have the current Mag City #10 either, since we've done absolutely no mailing & minimal hand-to-hand distribution. Hope all the pages are here & legible. Best, Gary" (I purchased this and several other titles belonging to poet Donald Britton several years ago from a bookseller who had gone to his estate sale). Covers show light corner wear, light soil in places. Signed by Author(s).

Edition limited to 350 copies, 4to, 11" x 8½", [19] leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; small crease at the top left corner, else a fine copy in original decorative wrappers by Louise Hamlin, side-stapled. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.