First Half of “A”-9. 1940 New York [privately printed]

[41 pages, 12 x 8 ¾ inches, mimeographed, bound in manila folder]

First edition, limited to 55 autographed copies, numbers 1 to 15 for presentation.

Some Time. 1956 Jonathan Williams, Publ.

[10 x 6 inches, paper wrappers]

300 copies, Author’s edition [boxed] of 50 by Dr. Cantz’sche Druckerei, Stuttgart, Germany, autumn 1956 designed and published by Jonathan Williams as Jargon 15

[with musical score by CZ on front cover].

5 Statements for Poetry. 1958 San Francisco State College

[58 pages, 11 x 8 ½ inches, mimeographed, paper wrappers]

Limited to 110 copies

[published 25 June while LZ was poet-in-residence at SFC at Robert Duncan’s invitation during the summer 1958].

Barely and widely. 1958 [Published by] C.Z. New York

[78 pages, 5 x 6 3/8 inches, paper wrappers]

[Note at back]: Except for the page number, pages 8 through 73 [i.e. the poems] are the handwriting of LZ. All other matter is in my own, since the poet was unaware of this venture. The holocaust [sic] on the cover is part of the original draft of the poem “4 Other Countries.” C.Z.

This book is a facsimile of Louis Zukofsky’s handwriting limited to three hundred numbered and signed copies.

Offset for Celia Zukofsky, 135 Willow Street, Brooklyn 1, New York.

Jargon 31: 14 Poets, 1 Artist. Dec. 12-14, 1958, New York

[15 looseleaf cards dedicated to WCW. Handwritten poems and signed by the poets with drawings by unidentified artist. Other poets include Allen Ginsberg, Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Jonathan Williams, Bob Brown, Walter Lowenfels, Max Finstein, Paul Goodman, Edward Dahlberg].

“A” 1-12. 1959 Origin Press

[296 pages, 7 ¼ x 5 3/8 inches, red cloth]

With an essay on poetry by the author and a final note by William Carlos Williams

This first edition is limited to 200 copies printed by the Genichido Printing Company in Kyoto, Japan, December 1959. The text has been entirely handset in Garamond 10.5 pt.

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It Was. 1961 Origin Press

[132 pages, 7 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches, green cloth]

Of this first edition limited to 250 copies handset and printed by the Genichido Press in Kyoto, Japan, October 1961, the author has numbered and autographed fifty.

[Contents lists years “written”: “It was” 1941, “A Keystone Comedy” 1941, “Ferdinand” 1940-2, “Thanks to the Dictionary” 1932].

16 Once Published. 1962 The Wild Hawthorn Press, 2 Fettes Row, Edinburgh

[22 leaves, 8 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches, paper wrappers, stapled]

a selection by his wife from 55 Poems, Anew, Some Time, Barely and widely (1925-1958)

Linocuts by James Gavin.

[limited to 350 copies].

I’s (pronounced eyes). 1963 trobar / new york

[40 pages, 4 ½ x 6 7/8 inches, paper wrappers, stapled]

[front cover with Rykon scroll to right printed upsidedown]

Drawing of LZ on inside backcover by Sandra Olenik.

Cover from a photograph of Ryokan’s Scroll from the collection of Cid Corman.

BOTTOM : ON SHAKESPEARE With music to “Pericles” by Celia Zukofsky. 1963 Published by the Ark Press for The Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas, Distributed by University of Texas Press, Austin 12, Texas

[2 volumes boxed, 10 x 7 inches, Vol. 1: 470 pages, blue cloth stamped in gold; Vol. 2: 232 pages, maroon cloth stamped in gold]

[Vol. 1:] Acknowledgements for appearances of parts of the contents of this volume to: Black Mountain Review, Damascus Road, Folio, New Directions, Origin, and Poetry.

The author takes this occasion to thank Longview Foundation for its award to “Ember Eves” which appeared in Poetry, December 1960, and Mark Van Doren for his gift of a facsimile volume of the original First Quartos of Shakespeare’s Poems and Pericles, inscribed 10/7/47.

1040 copies of this first volume of Bottom : on Shakespeare have been printed in Baskerville & Bulmer types by The Printing Division of The University of Texas

Drawings by Cyril Satorsky

Design by Kim Taylor

[Vol. 2: ] Acknowledgements for previous appearance of Gower Chorus, Act I to Black Mountain Review.

1040 copies of this second volume of Bottom : on Shakespeare have been printed in Baskerville & Bulmer types together with reproductions of the original music by Celia Zukofsky

Drawings by Cyril Satorsky

Design by Kim Taylor

[the drawings in both volumes on the end pages, title pages, etc. are essentially the same exept that the image of sword, crown and book in Vol. 1 is replaced by that of a lute in Vol. 2].

Found Objects 1962-1926. 1964 A Blue Grass Book (Blue Grass #3) Published by H.B. Chapin. 404 Oak Street Georgetown, Kentucky $1.25

[43 pages, 8 ½ x 5 3/8 inches, paper wrappers, stapled]

Cover by Don McIntosh.

After I’s. 1964 Boxwood Press/ Mother Press Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

[26 pages, 6 x 4 inches, paper wrappers, stapled]

Cover by Sally Barnes. Inside back cover [abstract drawing of LZ], by Jonathan Williams reproduced from Some Time (Jargon).

Finally a valentine — Opening No. 1. Jan 1965.

[one sheet folded in on each side to form a card, 9 x 4 ½ inches]

Edition of 500.

[Gives LZ’s address as] 77 Seventh Avenue New York 10011.

Typographer Edward Wright London

Artist John Furnival Woodchester, Glos, England

Printer Stephen Craig—The Piccolo Press, 48 Lansdown Stroud Glos. England

Poem by LZ Oct 23/63

“my last short poem for a long time”

this finally a valentine will close or now closes my collected short poems to be called ALL.

An Unearthing. 1965

77 copies set and printed by hand in Harvard Yard by the Adams House & Lowell House Printers May, 1965

[8 pages (4 pages of text of the first 37 lines of “A”-14), 4 ¾ x 3 ½ inches, paper wrappers].

[numbered and signed].

I Sent Thee Late. 1965 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Mass

[4 pages, 2 ½ x 3 inches, paper wrappers]

20 copies printed by LHS on an 1816 Washington hand-press in Harvard Yard, June, 1965.

[numbered and signed].

IYYOB. 1965 Turret Books / 5 Kensington Church Walk London W.8.

[12 pages, 4 x 6 inches, paper wrappers]

Designed and printed by Barry Hall and Tom Raworth at the Goliard Press / 10a Fairhazel Gardens, London N.W.6.

100 signed and numbered copies

[5 unnumbered pages of text of first 45 lines of “A”-15. On cover the title is echoed in Hebrew].

“A” Libretto. 1965 New York [privately printed]

[21 pages, 11 x 8 ½ inches, mimeographed, paper wrappers]

Not for sale

[excerpts from throughout “A”  composed to date].

“a”-9. 1966 future 5 / edition hansjörg mayer

[One folded sheet, 25 x 19 inches]

[Contents:]

Die form [handwritten note: “mistranslates original LZ”]

Chronological note [includes:] “lines 1 to 75 of “a”-9 first appeared in first half of “a”-9 limited to 55 copies not to be reprinted. LZ”

Guido Cavalcanti’s “Donna mi priegha”

Two halves of “A”-9

[signed and hand-corrected in red ink by LZ].

“A”-14. 1967 Turret Books 5 Kensington Church Walk, W8

[61 pages, 7 ½ x 5 inches, blue cloth]

Printed by Villiers Publications Ltd, Ingestre Road, London NW5

275 copies of this book have been printed. 250 of these, numbered and signed by the author, are for sale. A further 25, lettered from A to Y, are for the author’s own use.

Little: a fragment for careenagers. 1967 Black Sparrow Press

[27 pages, 10 x 6 7/8 inches boards, 9 ¾ x ½ inches paper]

Acknowledgement to Kulchur vol. 2 no. 5 (Spring 1962)

Designed and printed December 1967 in San Francisco by Graham MacKintosh for Black Sparrow Press.

Limited to 250 / 50 bound in boards and 200 in wrappers – all signed by the author

[Text consists of first 8 chapters of the novel. Dated 1950, revised 1967].

From Thanks to the Dictionary. 1968 The Galley Upstairs Press (3400 Main Street Buffalo New York 14214).

[Large broadside 24 x 35 inches]

[two short, lineated quotations dated 1932 reproduced in LZ’s handwriting]

Catullus Fragmenta. January 1969. Turret Books (5 Kensington Church Walk London W8).

Trans. by Celia and Louis Zukofsky. Music by Paul Zukofsky.

[10 pages, 12 x 10 inches, paper wrappers]

Acknowledgements to Cape Goliard Press.

Designed & printed at Trigram Press London WC1

Edition limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by the composer & the translators.

[One page of translations of Fragmenta with original Latin, followed by 5 pages of music with dedication: “for two singers in Syracuse”].

AN ERA. 1970 Unicorn Postcard Series I / Unicorn Press, P.O. Box 1469, Santa Barbara, Calif. $1.75.

[standard size postcard]

[The opening block of three lines of “A”-22 printed in dark blue letters on a yellow background and signed LZ.

One of a series of 8 postcards that also includes: James Tate’s “Jim’s All Night Diner,” Gary Snyder’s “Go Round,” Nhat Hanh & Vo-Dinh’s “Peace,” a Papuan Drawing Post Card, Octavio Paz & Tim Reynolds’ “Scribble,” Anselm Hollo’s “Message.” On the paper binder for the series, LZ’s poem is listed as “Concrete Poem”].

Initial. 1970 The Phoenix Book Shop, New York

Designed and printed at the Ferguson Press, Cambridge, Mass.

26 copies lettered A to Z. 100 copies numbered and signed.

[10 unnumbered pages of text of the first 100 lines of “A”-22, excluding the opening block of three lines].

From “A”-22. 1972 Pomegranate Press, Cambridge, MA

Illustrated by Karyl Klopp

Edition of 50 copies numbered and signed.

[broadside]

80 Flowers. 1978 The Stinehour Press

[boxed, off-white cloth]

to C

signed and dated by Louis Zukofsky is limited to 80 copies printed for him by letterpress in Monotype Bembo at The Stinehour Press Lunenburg, Vermont.

[signed] Atque in Perpetuum L.Z.

January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978  C.

[paginated 1-80 plus opening poem: “Heart us invisibly thyme time”].

An Alphabet of Subjects (contents this notebook) 1979 Slug Press, Vancouver, Canada

This enlarged reproduction is taken from the original draft of Volume One, Part Three of Louis Zukofsky's long study Bottom: On Shakespeare, published in September, 1963, in an edition of 1040 copies by the Ark Press at Austin, Texas. The manuscript, torn from a spiral-bound notebook, later destroyed, measures approximately 5 inches by 8, and is at the Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. The broadside is published in an edition of 226 numbered copies, the first 26 of which are signed by Celia Zukofsky.

[50.8 x 40.6 cm, color facsimile].