A 1 PRECISE FRAGMENTS
First Edition:
[in burgundy] PRECISE FRAGMENTS | [in black] poems by | HOWARD McCORD |
privately printed | at The Dolmen Press | 1963
[8] 9 - 39 [40]pp. 5 1/2 X 8”. Cream wraps printed in burgundy, in glassine; perfect-
bound, spine printed upward, PRECISE FRAGMENTS: HOWARD McCORD.
Colophon - verso title-page: Set in Pilgrim type and printed at the Dolmen Press, Dublin in
the Republic of Ireland, 250 copies, November 1963.
250 copies, 1963.
Contents: WRYNECKS: Fragment for a Grecian Lady - Complaint - Scholia to that Long
Cry Heard on Paxos - For Catullus - For Ovid’s First Wife - Papyric Fragment
QUAESTIONES QUODLIBETALES: Explanation - Paraje Colorado - Lost Children and
Impediments - Now if I were to give a Child - And so he Whittled at the Stick of Love - On
Music as the Death of Sound -At the Front -On a Line by Dorothy Osborne -On Coming
Out of Sleep - Homily on the Age - Word - The Fourth Question of the Examination - A
System of Co-ordinates - El Baile de la Tierra - Details seen in a Portrait - Hart Crane - For
a Child - Song
DE POTENTIA DEI: On the Slaying of St. Dympna by her Father - Riddles on the Lord
as Harvester - The Lesson of Iron - Peyote - Evil - The Dark Night of the Soul from the
Spanish of San Juan de la Cruz
CHINESE CHARACTERS: Curious Details from the Chinese Reader’s Manual - Jade
Ideogram -Excuses for the Fall of China -Chapters from the Life of a Dragon -Sze
Chuan:1929 -Dora -Inscription
A 2 12 BONES [1964]
First Edition:
Cover/title-page: [facsimile autograph] Howard McCord | 12 Bones | NPP:23, 30c
Unpaginated. [12]pp. 4 1/4 X 6 7/8’”. Black-printed white self-covers, text draped by arm
of skeleton - illustration extending to rear cover; saddle-stitched.
[100] copies published by Goosetree Press, Lanham, Maryland in 1964 @ 30c; reportedly
followed by a second impression of another 100.
Contents: The Voices of Rocks - Drunk Prophet - Partners - Toltec Figure - Nichomachus
-Telemachus, in Age - Meditation - Girl Song - Boy Song - Stanzas on The Gods at 8 a.m.
-Colleague - Men and Women
A 3 THE SPANISH DARK
First Edition:
The | Spanish | Dark | AND OTHER POEMS | [rule] | Howard McCord |
Washington State University Press - 1965
[vi] vii - x [half-title; verso blank] 1 - 67 [68]pp. 8 3/4 X 5 5/8”. Wraps, white titling,
four-color abstract design; perfect-bound, spine black-printed downward, THE SPANISH
DARK / McCORD WSU PRESS; rear cover - [author, title, bio note, blurbs by Lawrence
Clark Powell, James Boyer May, Walter Lowenfels, publisher], $2.00.
An unknown number of copies published 1965 @ $2.00.
Contents: The Spanish Dark - Purification - Concerning the Fervid Carnal Art - History -
Taught the Language -Letter for Stob -Li Po as Greek Kachina -For George Eliot and
Mute Women -A Birthday Poem for Robert Sterling -From the Minor Gnostic
Preachments -The Objects and Categories - Sailor - Cancellation - Poem and Mosaic for
Sargis Tmogveli - The Five Broken Stories of a Poor Man - The Painting - For Dora - The
Poet Explains His Domesticity - Colman - Elegy: The Poet at Diss - Work - Muse - From a
Georgian Shard - The Little Anathema of My Twin - Poet at War - Equipment - Lines for
Unamuno - Truth Nine - Waiting Out the Night - Time - Translation from the Persian - The
Beach at Altata -Age -Constant Miseries -The Conversion of Attila -Census -Talk Three
Oracles for Cassandra - Pretense - The Breaking Shadows - Fata Morgana -
Analogue to Genesis XXII Discovered in a Chinese Herbal - Quartered Troops - Pisgah
Sayings - The Plan - Tzjara’s Letter - Shaman Song - Shaman Song II - Quasi-Stellar
Radio Sources - Notes to the Poems
A 4 BEING MEN AND WOMEN TOGETHER [1966]
First Edition:
BEING MEN | AND WOMEN | TOGETHER
Single leaf broadside. 18 X 9 1/2”. Black-printed white tri-fold card. “Illustrated and
printed for The Tribal Press by Roger L. Miller...”
[100 copies, 1966].
A 5 FABLES & TRANSFIGURATIONS 1965 [1967]
a. First Private Edition:
Unseen by the compiler, this item from McCord’s own Tribal Press is reportedly an earlier
version of A5b’s eponymous poem.
b. First Trade Edition:
[in brown] fables & | transfigurations | poems | by | howard mccord | a kayak book
[2] 3 -52pp. 9 X 6 3/8”. Black-printed blue burlap-patterned paper pasted over heavy white
stock; saddle-stitched; endpapers.
Colophon (p.52): 400 copies of this book designed and printed by George Hitchcock at the
Kayak Press.
400 copies, 1967.
Contents: A Day’s Journey with Geoffrey Young - The Months of the Tribe - The Spirit
Dream -The Toad Man -Dear -The Falls of Poetry -Learning -Fables & Transfigurations
-Kathmandu Valley: a Hillside -My Brother’s Death -Ysleta, Texas, 1947 -All Hallows’
Eve - A Letter of Saint Andrew the Dancer - Dora
c. First Trade Edition, Second Printing:
Printer’s bullets which preceded and followed *FABLES* and *&* on the cover of the
first edition have been removed from the ampersand. The price appears in the lower right-
hand corner of the front cover. White paper has been used throughout, whereas wheat colored paper was mainly used in the first edition. In the first edition the page numbers 7 and 46 were switched; in this second printing each numeral has simply been removed. The statement of limitation has been dropped from p.52. At least some copies have variant endpapers. Contents and format remain identical with (b).
[1000 copies] at $1.50.
A 6 WANTS [1967]
First Edition:
WANTS
Single leaf broadside. 11 X 8 1/2”. Black-printed orange card, ornamental elements surrounding text. [The Hare Press, Santa Barbara].
An unknown number of copies published in [1967].
A 7 DEAR [1967]
First Edition:
DEAR
Single leaf broadside. 9 X 5 7/8”. Black-printed mauve card; verso upper right-hand corner,
STAMP [ornament]; printed downward mid-card, POETRY POSTCARD COPYRIGHT,
1967; across the base of which line, THE HARE [publisher’s device] PRESS.
An unknown number of copies published in 1967.
A 8 LONGJAUNES HIS PERIPLUS [1968]
First Edition:
[in brown] HOWARD MC CORD | [rule] | [in black] LONGJAUNES | HIS
PERIPLUS | [in brown] GEORGE NAMA | [rule] | [in black] 13 COLOR PRINTS
Unpaginated. [48]pp. 8 1/4 X 6 1/2”. Title in grey, author in red, below another [thus 14th]
print of Nama’s in grey, red, yellow & ochre; rear cover, KAYAK, $1.50; saddle-stitched;
endpapers. Distributed by City Lights Books, San Francisco.
Colophon (p.48): One thousand copies of this book were designed by George Nama &
printed by George Hitchcock. Text set in 13 pt. Palatino by Achilles Friedrich.
1000 copies published in 1968 @ $1.50.
Contents: [The eponymous poem in IV sections.]
A 9 CELEBRATION AT ELKIN’S CABIN [1969]
First Edition:
[facsimile holograph] Celebration At Elkin’s Cabin
Single leaf broadside. 11 X 8 1/2”. Green-printed grey stock. “THE SOLO PRESS | 1613
VALENCIA N.E. | ALBUQUERQUE 87110 NM”, ornament lower left corner.
An unknown number of copies published in [1969].
A 10 THE LIFE OF FRAENKEL’S DEATH [1970]
First Edition:
The Life of Fraenkel’s Death | A Biographical Inquest | by | WALTER LOWENFELS |
and | HOWARD McCORD | Assisted by | Lillian Lowenfels and Will Slotnikoff |
Washington State University Press [half-title; blank; title; Copyright; Acknowledgements; blank; Contents; blank] [1-4] 5 - 92 [93-96]pp. 9 X 6”. Purple- and black-printed white wraps with subject’s portrait extending
to rear cover; perfect-bound, spine printed downward, LOWENFELS / McCORD Life
of Fraenkel’s Death W.S.U. PRESS; rear cover, $3.00.
An unknown number of copies published 1970 @ $3.00.
Prose: An academic study of the writing, philosophy and life of Michael Fraenkel with
contributions by the four named scholars, including Walter Lowenfels’ reminiscences and
correspondence between himself and McCord who bowed to the elder Lowenfels in title-
page top billing.
A 11 MIT BRENNENDER SORGE [1970]
First Edition:
[in red] MIT BRENNENDER SORGE | (14 March 1937) Single leaf broadside. 13 X 10”. Black-printed cream stock; verso, “A note on the poem: ..”, TWOWINDOWS PRESS.
An unknown number of copies published as [Twowindows Folio VI, 5 broadsides by 5
poets, in red paper portfolio with printed paper label, San Francisco, 1970].
A 12 LATRODECTUS MACTANS (1970?)
First Edition:
Unseen by the compiler, this single leaf broadside was reportedly published c1970 by
Lillabulero Press of Northwood Narrows, NH, in an edition of 1 (one) copy.
A 13 THE FIRE VISIONS [1970]
a. First Edition, deluxe signed issue:
THE | FIRE | VISIONS | Howard McCord | [ornament] | twowindows press: san
francisco
Unpaginated. [32]pp. 8 1/2 X 5 3/4”. Black-printed red wrappers; sewn.
Colophon (p.32): Printed in an edition of 1,000 copies. Designed by Don Gray. Fifty
copies are on Curtis Rag with Fabriano wrappers and are signed by the author. June 1970.
[Additionally, this page bears, in the handwriting of the maker, “ End Pages by Ocean
7/13/70.”]
50 copies, 1970.
Contents: The Fire Visions - My Cow - Two Days the Buddha Wind Was Blowing -
Witnessing the Phoenix - Seven Temples To God In The Air - Signs And Gifts - The Air
Between
b. First Edition, ordinary issue.
The covers show a wash design; without Ocean’s hand-made endpapers; plain stock;
unsigned; saddle-stitched; contents and format identical with (a).
950 copies, 1970.
A 14 OVENS
First Edition:
OVENS poems on the war and tyranny HOWARD McCORD | august 1970, black rabbit
press cleveland Unpaginated. [30]pp. 11 X 8 1/2”. Card covers, pale green or grey, silk-screen illustrated,
side-stapled. Underfit black-printed title-page on hotpink stock, acknowledgements verso.
Typewritten text on pale green and pale pink paper, recto only, mimeo.
An unknown number of copies published 1970.
Contents: I’ve Got a Home in Beaulah Land that Outshines the Sun -Homage to the
Leaders -On the War -Now -Dream -Solitude -A Report from the Rand Corporation Two
Poems Beginning “In America” - On Board the USS Calhoun Pentecost, 1970
A 15 SOME NOTES TO GARY SNYDER’S MYTHS & TEXTS 1968, 1971
a. First Private Edition:
some notes I to I Gary Snyder’s I MYTHS I & I TEXTS
Six leaves. 8 1/2 X 11”. Mimeographed, corner-stapled.
[50 copies], The Tribal Press, July 1968. Rerun April, 1969.
b. First Trade Edition:
SOME NOTES TO GARY SNYDER’S MYTHS & TEXTS | by Howard McCord |
[device] | SAND DOLLAR | Berkeley :: 1971
Unpaginated. [12]pp. 8 X 5 3/8”. Buff wraps, replicated by title-page; saddle-stitched; rear
cover lists three previous Sand Dollar titles, with distributorship by Serendipity Books
noted, $1.00.
Colophon (p.11): Sand Dollar / 4. One thousand copies printed. Berkeley. January 1971.
With thanks to [individuals for services].
1000 copies, 1971 @ $1.00.
In the prefatory note by the author dated July 1968, “I have not attempted to identify every
allusion ... But a knowledge of certain of the references ... can help the reader enter a
difficult poem and emerge the richer. Gary Snyder has helped immensely, and answered
every question that I’ve asked...”
(Item B29, Katherine McNeil, GARY SNYDER A BIBLIOGRAPHY (NYC: The
Phoenix Bookshop, 1983).)
A 16 AMERICA AS DESOLATION 1971
First Edition:
Cover/title-page: AMERICA AS DESOLATION | Howard McCord | The Tribal Press |
1971 | [device]
Unpaginated. [8]pp. 5 1/4 X 4 1/4”. Yellow self-wraps; saddle-stitched; mimeo.
Colophon (p.7): Eighth in a series by The Tribal Press, Three Forks, Washington, 99163.
This edition 50 copies for private distribution. Earlier titles are: [list].
50 copies, 1971.
Prose: Lt Calley impugned; America as “... power-obsessed empire, blessed once by fate,
then left to flower, fruit, and rot. ...”
A 17 KAI 1971
First Edition:
KAI | for Gary, Masa, Kai
Single leaf broadside. 12 X 6”. Ochre on khaki stock. “A free poem for Seattle, May 1971.
Arranged by Toothpick, Lisbon and the Orcas Islands”, at foot.
An unknown number of copies published in 1971.
A 18 GNOMONOLOGY 1971
a. Trial Issue:
4 1/4 X 5 1/2”. Top-stapled wraps bear Pacific Northwest map; or variant, hand-lettered,
lacking map. Fan-fold; text identical to (b); without Copyright (unless rubber-stamped) or
colophon. Unknown number of copies: [“I don’t think 60...” cf. McNeil, SNYDER, B33].
b. First Edition:
GNOMONOLOGY: A HANDBOOK OF SYSTEMS | Howard McCord | 1) the study
of texts is a TAO | 2) perception is a mystery, yet | all our knowledge is based on it. | 3)
land - landscape is anchor and | refuge, a guide to time - history | - the flow. | 4) the
lyric is an epistemic form | utilizing leaps, compressions, | shadows. | 5) so, a book of
clues, fragments | of an interpretatio mundi, a | mode of knowing, a pack-book | for
wanderers. | SAND DOLLAR BERKELEY 1971
Unpaginated. [28]pp. 8 1/4 X 5 3/8”. Buff cover bears a black-bordered red-printed map of
the Pacific Northwest; title, author, publisher in black; saddle-stitched.
Colophon (p.26): SD/7 : Summer 1971 One Thousand Copies Printed distributed by:
Serendipity Books [address].
1000 copies, 1971.
Contents: [refer title-page; at rear,] Finding a Way [a 2pp. statement by Gus Blaisdell
followed by 2pp. afterword by Gary Snyder].
(Item B33, GARY SNYDER A BIBLIOGRAPHY, Katherine McNeil.)
A 19 MAPS [1971]
First Edition:
[in brown] MAPS | Poems toward an Iconography of the West | [ornament] |
HOWARD MC CORD | PRINTS BY | ROBERT STERLING
[1-7] 8 - 64 pp. 8 5/8 X 6 1/8”. Yellow or brown card covers with a map of eastern
Washington State printed in brown, author’s name superimposed in black; perfect-bound,
spine printed downward, McCORD -MAPS -KAYAK; rear cover, KAYAK $1.50. Five
color prints by Sterling.
Colophon (p.64): Twelve hundred copies of this book were designed and printed by
George Hitchcock at the Kayak Press. Bindery work by Louis Rangaves.
1200 copies, 1971 @ $1.50.
Contents: Listening to Maps - The Rim of the Great Basin - Kai - Ataraxy - The Rock
Climber - One - Two - Metanoia: The Fullness - The He-Linnet - Reverie for Sylvia - The
Five Laws of Nature - Celebration at Elkin’s Cabin - Landscape: Cutter, New Mexico -
Litany - Metaphysics - Ontology - Reptiles - The Search - Four Birds - The Bear that Came
to the Wedding - Tao Poem - Poppies - Three Poems from Cusik and North Skookum
Creek - Her Drum - Palouse Tavern - Out - July Trips - A New Moon Moving into Taurus
- The Poet’s Regimen - Notes from a Journey to Shambala - Up Beyond the Lostine -
Walking to the Far Sea - Snake River Divination - Dreams in Fever - Simple Speech at
Walk: Synergy - Poem for Scriabin Who Used the Earth for Bell Moon for Clapper Broke
the Sky to Dust -Spiritual Exercises -Shape -Karl von Clausewitz Teaches the Shape of
Poetry -Ten Ch’In Gnomes -Five Things that Happened Beside the Snake River -Snakes-Oh,
A 20 THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL [1972]
First Edition:
The Diary | of a Young Girl | [ornament] | HOWARD McCORD
Unpaginated. [24]pp. 9 X 6”. Black-printed pale blue wraps with an ornament in red;
saddle-stitched; rear cover, publisher’s device in red, and in black, LILLABULERO
POETRY PAMPHLET NUMBER 16 $1.50.
An unknown number of copies published in 1972 @ $1.50.
Contents: Midrash on Hosea I - Five Schemes for Escaping the Culture of the Damned -
Walking with Mooncalf, Holding His Hand - London, 1914 - The Marksman or, De
Contemptu Mundi - Some Information about the Devil - The Lesson - On Love - A
Spiritual Exercise - The Wednesday Dream - Sparrow-Lore - Further Particulars
Concerning Lost Girls Generally - On Tattoos, A Curse - Meredeor - Christ the Dancer -
Raca -Her Epitaph
A 21 THE UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY & KEY TO THE ENIGMAS OF THE WORLD, or, The Gnomon Squared, and then Ascended, being a Solace to Perplexed Readers of McCord’s Gnomonology
First Edition:
8pp. Self-covers; saddle-stitched. 5 1/2 X 4 1/4” . A maze illustrates front and rear. The
Tribal Press.
“100 copies made for The Pilgrims of Thoth and Friends of the Obscure 20 i 72”
A 22 MIRRORS [1973]
First Edition:
MIRRORS | [drawing by Cheryl Doering] | HOWARD McCORD [vertical line]
CHERYL DOERING | poems [continuation of vertical line] drawings | [publisher’s
device][title-page; verso copyright/colophon] 1 - 21 [22]pp. 8 5/8 X 6 3/4”. Tan wraps, cover
replicated by title-page; saddle-stitched; rear, upper left, $1.50, MIRRORS repeated 4 sides
of a postage-stamp simulacrum, author and artist’s names beneath, publisher’s device and
STONE-MARROW PRESS across lower left. Eleven drawings by Doering.
Colophon/copyright page -verso title-: [Acknowledgements. Copyright.] Published by
James Bertolino in an edition of 700 copies at Stone-Marrow Press, Ithaca, New York.
Distributed nationally by Serendipity Books [...etc].
700 copies, 1973 @ $1.50.
Contents: Ratios - Latrodectus Mactans - My Son’s Speech - March - Outline of the Curse
Now in Effect - Exorcism - For Them - Past Dusk - The Least Demand - Alexandria
A 23 [MAYAN GLYPH] [1973?]
First Edition:
[glyph] | Howard McCord
Unpaginated. [20]pp. 5 1/2 X 4 1/4”. Yellow wraps replicated by title-page; saddle- stitched; rear cover repeats glyph, Tribal Press. Photocopied typewritten text. [“I let this
glyph be the title simply to confuse librarians & bibliographers.”]
An unknown number of copies published in [1973?].
Contents: Manual Service -She -The New Physics -Four -Menestor of Sybaris: His
Fragment - Call - Analog - Where Things Go - Knowledge - Fool’s Mate - Genres -
Energy - All for Gus
A 24 FRIEND [1974]
First Edition:
F | R | I | E | N | D | howardmccord
[1-4] 5 -31 [32]pp. 8 1/4 X 5 1/2”. B/w photo of the poet on black-printed white card;
saddle-stitched; rear cover, [publisher’s device], a new rivers press chapbook, $1.25.
Colophon/copyright (p.2): [Copyright. Acknowledgements.] this book was manufactured
in the u.s. for new rivers press, p.o. box 578, cathedral station, new york, n.y. 10025 by the
print center, inc., 194 state street, brooklyn, n.y. 11215 in a first edition of 600 copies.
600 copies, 1974 @ $1.25.
Contents: [The book-length poem in series.]
A 25 THE SELECTED POEMS [1975]
a. First Edition, in wraps:
THE SELECTED POEMS | OF HOWARD McCORD | 1955-1971 | [illustration] |
Preface by Theodore Enslin | The Crossing Press, Trumansburg, New York 14886
[1-8] 9 - 128pp. 8 1/2 X 5 1/2”. Black-printed, illustrated blue wraps; perfect-bound, spine
printed downward, THE SELECTED POEMS OF HOWARD McCORD [illus.] THE
CROSSING PRESS; rear, upper left corner, $4.95, [author photo, blurbs by Thomas
McGrath and Keith Wilson], THE CROSSING PRESS [address, publisher’s device]. The
book, with illustrated section dividers by Harley Elliott, is one in the Crossing Press Series
of Selected Poets.
1965 copies published June 15, 1975, Frank West, Binghamton, N.Y., printer, @ $4.95.
Contents: Introduction by Howard McCord
from FABLES & TRANSFIGURATIONS: A Day’s Journey with Geoffrey Young -The
Months of the Tribe - The Toad Man - Learning - The Spirit Dream - Fables &
Transfigurations - Kathmandu Valley - My Brother’s Death - Ysleta, Texas - All Hallow’s
Eve - A Letter of St. Andrew the Dancer - Dora
LONGJAUNES HIS PERIPLUS
from FIRE VISIONS: The Fire Visions - My Cow - Two Days the Buddha Wind was
Blowing - Witnessing the Phoenix - Seven Temples to God in the Air
from MAPS: Listening to Maps - The Rim of the Great Basin - Kai - The Rock Climber -
One - Two - The He-Linnet - Litany - Metaphysics - Ontology - Reptiles - Four Birds -
The Bear that Came to the Wedding - Poppies - Three Poems from Cusik & N. Skookum
Creek -Her Drum -Notes from a Journey to Shambala -Walking to the Far Sea -Spiritual
Exercises
from EARLY POEMS: 1955-1965; from PRECISE FRAGMENTS, 12 BONES, THE
SPANISH DARK: Song - Sze Chuan: 1929 - The Voices of Rocks - Colleague - Men and
Women -The Spanish Dark -Concerning the Fervid Carnal Art -Taught the Language From
the Minor Gnostic Preachments - The Objects and Categories - Poem and Mosaic for
Sargis Tmogveli -The Five Broken Stories of a Poor Man -The Painting -For Dora Work
- From a Georgian Shard - Poet at War - Equipment - Lines for Unamuno - Truth
Nine - Translation from the Persian - The Beach of Altata - Talk - Pisgah Sayings -
Tzjara’s Letter
Bibliography
b. First Edition, hardbound:
500 copies, Riverside Book Bindery, Rochester, N.Y., contents & format identical with (a).
c. First Edition, limited:
35 numbered copies, signed at statement of limitation on prelim, in cloth case by Unicorn
Work Community, Greensboro, N.C., contents and format identical with (a).
A 26 PERFECTING AN UNSPEAKABLE ACT [1975]
First Edition:
Howard | McCord
Unpaginated. [24]pp. 8 X 5 1/2”. Black-printed pink wraps; saddle-stitched; rear cover,
MUD HEAD HOUSE.
Colophon (p.24): An edition of three hundred copies set in 12 pt Aldine Roman on an IBM
Composer & printed at the West Coast Print Center, Berkeley, CA, May 1975
300 copies, 1975.
Contents: Love Poem - Cloak - October - Recalling Your Body - In Iceland - Manual
Service - In This House - Poem Constructed after the Three Parts of a Valencia Orange -
History is a Photograph Taken at the Customs Shed - Tongues for Samuel Palmer - For
Kepler - Naturally - Linguistic Physiology - Menestor of Sybaris: His Fragment - Small
Cautions - It is Called Breaking out of the Ground and it is Done by Force - What It Was -
Jennifer, -For Someone Far South
A 27 POEM FOR AN OLDER CHILD [1975]
First Edition:
Poem For An Older Child
Single leaf broadside. 11 X 8 1/2”. Black-printed pale green card.
An unknown number of copies published as [Hard Press No.1 by Ellen’s Old Alchemical
Press, Sacramento, one of 23 broadsides by 23 poets, 1975.]
A 28 THE OLD BEAST
a. First Edition, in wraps:
THE OLD BEAST | HOWARD McCORD | [ornament] | [ornament] COPPER
CANYON PRESS [ornament] 1975 [ornament]
Unpaginated. [44]pp. 9 3/4 X 5 1/2”. Green- & grey-printed pale green wraps; perfect-
bound, spine printed downward, McCORD THE OLD BEAST COPPER CANYON
PRESS; rear cover, upper left, $3. Grey endpapers.
Colophon (p.41): 1000 Copies designed & printed at Copperhead, September ‘75, and
perfect bound at Northwest Bookbinding in Portland. 26 autographed copies have been
bound by hand with quarter cloth and hand-marbled paper over boards, and 12 copies in
quarter goatskin with hand-marbled paper. Hand-binding by The Watermark, Indianola,
Washington.
1000 copies, 1975 @ $3.
Contents: Old Beast Talk - The Old Beast Mourns - The Old Beast Drabs and Mulligrubs -
The Old Beast Gives Advice -The Old Beast and Power, Buncombe Street -“How is it
that Nobody Knew that a Plain Tiny Crevice Could Take Care of Every Mortal
Complexity?”, Edward Dahlberg -The Childhood of the Old Beast -At Breakfast -The
Old Beast Mocks Rules and True Rewards - The Old Beast Has Religion - Sign Says
“Coins and Curios” - The Old Beast Dead at Mainz - Calling the Ice - The Old Beast
Warms to a Subject -The Old Beast Acts -The Old Beast Dreams -The Old Beast after
Supper - The Circumnavigation of the Void - The Massacre of the Innocents - Sermon in
Jacksonville -The Old Beast Has an Apothegm -The Old Beast Heals a Paralytic -The
Old Beast on Retreat - In Hoc Signo Vinces - Epilogue
b. First Edition, quarter cloth:
Unseen by the compiler, 26 autographed copies, contents and format identical with (a).
c. First Edition, quarter goatskin:
12 copies, quarter goatskin, hand-marbled paper over boards, autographed, contents and
format identical with (a).
A 29 THE ARCTIC DESERT 1975
First Edition:
THE ARCTIC DESERT | Howard McCord | Stooge Editions 1975
Unpaginated. [66]pp. 6 X 6”. Black-printed white wraps; perfect-bound, spine printed
downward, HOWARD McCORD THE ARCTIC DESERT STOOGE EDITIONS.
Colophon/ copyright (p.4): This edition of The Arctic Desert is limited to 400 copies, and
forms a combined issue of Stooge and Measure. Typeset by Joann Engelhart in 11 point
Univers Bold. Distributed by Sand Dollar [address. Copyright. Acknowledgements.]
400 copies, 1975.
Prose: from the PREFACE, “The Arctic Desert was written following travels in Iceland,
Norway, and Sweden in the summer of 1973...”
A 30 AMERICAN FAMILY MOTTOES 1975
First Edition:
AMERICAN FAMILY MOTTOES | Collected by Howard McCord | Special
Bicentennial Edition of one hundred | Black Rabbit Press, Cleveland, Ohio 1975 |
AMERICAN.
Unpaginated. [16]pp. 2 7/8 X 9”. Gold lamé front cover, pale green rear; side-stapled;
alternating pink and yellow pages, typewritten, mimeo recto only.
100 copies, 1975.
Contents: [A chrestomathy of over 100 slogans ironic, anarchic, wise...]
A 31 MAKING THE BEAT COME OUT EVEN [1976]
First Edition:
[in blue] MAKING THE BEAT | COME OUT EVEN
Single leaf broadside. 14 3/4 X 7 1/2”. Text in green on cream stock below a design of
conifer needles within and among bubbles in ice, the title and poet’s name in blue.
[150] copies published as [Copperhead 3, 16 broadsides by 16 poets, boxed, from Copper
Canyon Press, Port Townsend, 1976].
A 32 THE HONEY BEE AND THE MUSTANG
First Edition:
THE HONEY BEE AND THE MUSTANG | or, | Bill Yeats Out West, | Nobodaddy
Riding Shotgun | In Search of the Winding Stair | [double bullets] | [double bullets] |
by Howard McCord | Black Rabbit Press, | Cleveland, 1976
Unpaginated. [8]pp. 7 1/4 X 4 1/2”. Chartreuse equine motif on cadmium red fabricoid;
saddle-stitched. Typewritten, mimeo.
An unknown number of copies published 1976.
Contents: [5 short untitled poems: vignette, aphorism.]
A 33 PEACH MOUNTAIN SMOKE OUT [1977]
First Edition:
PEACH MOUNTAIN | SMOKE OUT | HOWARD McCORD | [illustration] | salt-
works press
Unpaginated. [16]pp. 9 X 6”. Black-printed, blue/red illustrated grey wraps; sewn; rear
cover illustrated. Blue endpapers.
Colophon (p.16): This 1st edition limited to 400 copies Set in 14 pt. Cloister wide with
bold On 70lb Ticonderoga laid text Strathmore Grandee covers and endpapers Lino
blocks by Timothy Dibble Printed and hand sewn at salt-works press Box 649, Dennis,
Mass. 02638 USA
400 copies, 1977.
Contents: [The poem in VIII sections with] Envoi.
A 34 THE ARCS OF LOWITZ [1979]
First Edition:
The Arcs | of Lowitz | A Tale of Undoing | HOWARD McCORD | salt-works press
[Title-page text superimposed on ornamental design.]
Unpaginated. [44]pp. 9 1/4 X 6 1/8”. Brown-, red-, black-printed cherry wraps, design
extending front to rear; sewn. Cherry endpapers.
Colophon (p.43): This 1st edition limited to 500 copies Body handset in 12 pt. Garamond
Old Style, Small Caps, & Italic, with 24 pt. Caslon Old Style Open Face initial letters On
Ticonderoga Colonial White Laid text, Grandee covers & endpapers Graphics by salt-
works press Printed letterpress & hand sewn At salt-works press, box 649, Dennis, Ma.
02638
500 copies, 1979.
Contents: [Prose-poem in 41 unnumbered sections with] CODA. “Even the maker of the
casket does not understand all that he has done.”
A 35 THE GREAT TOAD HUNT [1980]
a. First Edition, in wraps:
THE GREAT | TOAD HUNT | And Other | Expeditions | [illustration] | Poems and |
Narratives by Howard McCord | [rule] | THE CROSSING PRESS - Trumansburg,
N.Y. 14886 | [rule] | [publisher’s device]
[1-9] 10 -111 [112]pp. 8 1/4 X 5 3/8”. Black-printed green wraps, designed & illustrated
by Tom Parker; perfect-bound, spine printed downward, THE GREAT TOAD HUNT
HOWARD McCORD [publisher’s device]; rear cover, upper left, $4.95 LITERATURE
[bibliographical note], “Together with The Selected Poems (The Crossing Press, 1975),
The Great Toad Hunt & Other Expeditions comprises the poet’s own selection from the
body of his work”, [blurbs by Stan Brakhage, Theodore Enslin, Geoffrey Young,
publisher & address, device], ISBN.
An unknown number of copies published 1980 @ $4.95.
Contents: THE POEMS: The Least Demand - Travel - Naturally - Back From The
Mountain -Gestures -Three Admissions, A Question -Winter Storm -Tonight -Field
Note - Louisville View - For Kepler - Cloak - Recalling Your Body - Dusk - These Places
-In This House -Tongues For Samuel Palmer -The Man -To Someone Standing Progress
- Dents - Three Poems With Latin Titles - May By North - The Little Tao -
Making The Beat Come Out Even -Of Women, Now -Midrash on Nahum I:5 - Guns -
Down -At Pool -Commercial -To Be Sung To A Simple Tune -A Memory -For
Ourselves -Four -Hell -Several Early Theories Of Fire -Catalogue Raisonne -Linguistic
Physiology - About Glaciers - October - Candlemas - Summer Poem - Call - A Grackle’s
Poem - Some Versions From The Latin - Some Music - Ode and Entr’Acte for Timon of
Athens - Purity of Heart Is To Will One Thing - Two Lives - Critical Histories - Poem For
An Older Child - On Fallacies // On Energy - A Lesson in Famous Chemists - Flying -
Peach Mountain Smoke Out - Envoi
THE NARRATIVES: Two Stories: The Great Toad Hunt - The Life of Battleship Billy
Eight Dreams: The Great Beasts - The Mirror - Initiation - The Kabbalah - Kundalini -
Simplicity - Separation - Uncle Shorty
Three Notes On Ohio: The Geography of Ohio - A Ramble in Northwest Ohio - The
Ethnology of Ohio
Four One-Page Novels: Prior Causes Justify -The Sanctuary of Need -Free-Roaming
Dogs - The Story of Nabit
About The Poet
b. First Edition, hardbound:
Fabricoid boards with (a) covers pasted down front and rear; gilt (or black) printed spine.
Contents and format identical with (a).
Unknown number of copies published 1980 @ $8.95.
A 36 WALKING EDGES [1982]
First Edition:
WALKING EDGES | A Book of Obsessional Texts | Howard McCord | Raincrow
Press | 153 Maple St. | Rossford, OH.
[title-page; copyright; “Also by...”; blank; PREFACE; blank; THE CHILD IN THE
SWING; blank; AROUND THE WORLD WITH WILLIAM BLAKE...; ...conclusion of;
blank leaf] 1 -79 [80]pp. 8 1/4 X 5 3/8”. Black-printed white wraps with Kris Haight’s
b/w photo of author descending a glacier; perfect-bound, spine printed downward,
WALKING EDGES Howard McCord Raincrow; rear cover, Raincrow Press, $5.95 in
lower left corner.
Unknown number of copies published 1982 @ $5.95.
Contents: Prose. [As well as the prefatory note and the two variations of] The Child in the
Swing [opening and closing the book:] Around the World with William Blake - The
Invasion of Burma, A War Story -The Arctic Desert [reprinting A 29] -In That Act
A 37 JENNIFER, [1984]
First Edition:
[in green] HOWARD McCORD | [in black] JENNIFER, | [in brown, a cameo of
Jennifer]
Unpaginated. [20]pp. 9 X6”. Pale green wraps; front cover replicated by title-page; sewn.
Buff endpapers.
Colophon: This first edition is limited to 350 copies, publication supported in part by a
grant from The National Endowment for the Arts. JENNIFER, a book of poems was
handset in Goudy & Italian Oldstyle types, treadle printed on Classic Laid text, handsewn
in Classic endsheets & wrappers. The cover illustration is from a drawing by Kathy Jacobi.
Designed & produced by Salt-Works Press RFD 1 Box 141 Grenada, Mississippi
38901.
350 copies, 1984.
Contents: [A suite of 12 poems, each one addressed JENNIFER,.]
A 38 IT’S GETTING DARK [1986]
First Edition:
IT’S GETTING DARK
Single leaf broadside. 10 7/8 X 6 7/8”. Black-printed pale blue stock, single fine line
border. Verso: Copyright Howard McCord, 1986 | Printed at Bloody Twin Press, March
‘86 [etc.]
An unknown number of copies published in 1986.
A 39 THE SORROWS OF LORUHAMAH
First Edition:
THE SORROWS | OF | LORUHAMAH | and other poems | Howard McCord |
Malpais Press | 1987
Unpaginated. [36]pp. 8 1/4 X 6 7/8”. Black-printed grey wraps; saddle-stitched. Two lines
inside rear cover, “This edition is limited to 200 signed copies. | Number _____”
200 copies, 1987.
Contents: THE SORROWS: Midrash on Hosea I -Five Schemes for Escaping the Culture
of the Damned - London, 1914 - The Marksman, Or, De Contemptu Mundi -Some
Information About The Devil - The Lesson - On Love - A Spiritual Exercise - The
Wednesday Dream - Sparrow-Lore - Further Particulars Concerning Lost Girls Generally -
On Tattoos, A Curse - Christ the Dancer - Raca - Her Epitaph - Note
THE OTHERS: Tongues for Samuel Palmer -The Clear Water of Iceland -Naturally -
Menestor of Sybaris: His Fragment - In Praise of Impatience - History is a Photograph
Taken at the Customs Shed - Recalling Your Body - Love Poem - A Religious Question -
Old Habits -Fatherhood
A 40 THE DUKE OF CHEMICAL BIRDS [1989]
First Edition:
THE DUKE OF CHEMICAL BIRDS | and Other Risibles | Howard McCord | [illus.]
Unpaginated. [32]pp. 8 5/8 X 6 1/4”. Black-printed grey wrapper illustrated front to rear by
Futzie Nutzle, by whom also the title-page; sewn; in identical carmine dust jacket, the front
flap stating, Bloody Twin Press, Stout, Ohio 45684. Carmine endpapers.
Colophon (p.31): [note on, and évidemment by,] THE AUTHOR; 300 copies | Designed,
set, printed, and bound at Bloody Twin Press, June, 1989. [etc.]
300 copies, 1989.
Contents: The Duke of Chemical Birds - The Duke of Chemical Birds Meets the
Loupgarou of Wood County - The Post-Baroque Hits Ohio - What Ohio Needs - A Song
by Benjamin Skye Called Sans Tache - The Observations of Benjamin Skye - Getting a Pig
Ready for Breakfast -The Intelligence Community -Sam Pendergrast Talks Cowboy Talk
-S.P. Recommends - Sam Pendergrast Again -Nihil est ab omni Parte beatum Horace,
ODES, xvi, 27 - Turning Fifty-One - Cela Passe le Jeu - Some Epitaphs
A 41 THE ARMED FREEHOLDER
First Edition:
THE | ARMED | FREEHOLDER | First Citizen and Last Hope | Howard McCord |
Malpais Press | 1990
[title-page; copyright] 1 - 13 [14-18]pp. 9 X 4 1/8”. Black-printed red yapped wraps; sewn;
rear cover, $2, Badlands Tract #1.
An unknown number of copies published 1990 @ $2.
Contents: [Essay.] “The armed citizen is the best social defence against sporadic violence a
free society can have.”
A 42 A GARLAND OF SHORT STONES 1990
First Edition:
Cover/title-page: A GARLAND OF | SHORT STONES | essays | Howard McCord |
1990
[publisher; blank; copyright; blank; Table of Contents...; ... conclusion of; blank leaf] 1 - 39
[40]pp. 8 1/2 X 5 1/2”. Black-printed grey wraps; saddle-stitched. Published by Jeff
Rybak, Bowling Green State University.
An unknown number of copies published in 1990.
Contents: The Depression - Cranks - Environments - Wilderness - Liberals And Losers -
On Being A White Bourgeois Male -Women & History -Postscript -Marxism -The City
-Warriors And Warlocks Again - Religion - Why The Literature Of Exhaustion Is Written
by White People -Drama -South Africa -The Old Lore -In Praise Of Explorers
A 43 CUTTING SIGN 1990
First Edition:
Cover/title-page: Cutting Sign | Howard McCord | 1990
[acknowledgements/copyright; blank; Table of Contents; blank; dedication; blank] 1 - 29
[30]pp. 8 1/2 X 5 1/2”. Black-printed blue wraps; saddle-stitched. No publisher identified;
no place indicated.
An unknown number of copies published in 1990.
Contents: Ode of Sevenths to Thirst and Hunger - Sermon at Pentecost - Folk-Tale from
the Face of Mount Asgaard, Baffin Island - August Storm on the Jornada del Muerto - For
Kepler -Latrodectus Mactans -Weight -Sitting at the Frye Cove -Ratios -Call Atmospherics
- Armatures - Nachtmusik - Emergency - Gloss on Bell’s Theorem - The
Wind is Like a Membrane on My Face - More Physics - Hunter’s Stew - Mountain Diet -
Hymn -Divination in Mose Hollow -Identities
A 44 MEGADEATH [1991]
First Edition:
MEGADEATH | an essay by | Howard McCord | the Academic & Arts Press
[title-page; copyright; epigraph] 1 -20 [21]pp. 8 1/2 X 5 1/4”. Black-printed white label on
blue wraps; saddle-stitched. Salmon endpapers. A Blue Light Book, Paul Dilsaver, editor.
Presented as the Annual Cortez Honors Lecture, Weber State University, April 1989.
An unknown number of copies published in 1991 @ $5.
Contents: Prose. “It takes no genius to recognize that the single most important element
involved in the destruction of the biosphere is excessive human population.”
A 45 WHAT TO DO IN THE WAR [n.d.]
First Edition:
WHAT TO DO IN THE WAR
Single leaf broadside. 14 X 8 1/2”. Black-printed tan card.
An unknown number of copies published as Badlands Broadside # 1 by Malpais Press.
A 46 “THE DESERT IS AUSTERE” [1992]
First Edition:
Single leaf oblong, 12 X 18”, commemorative broadside commissioned by the College of
Arts & Sciences, Bowling Green State University, and published by Logan Elm Press in an
edition limited to 75 numbered copies signed by Howard McCord and by the illustrator,
Adrian Tio.
75 copies, [1992].
A 47 THE WISDOM OF SILENUS
First Edition:
The Wisdom of Silenus | & Other Essays | Howard McCord | St.Andrews College
Press | 1996
[Half-title; blank; title; Acknowledgments/Copyright; dedication; Contents...; ... conclusion
of; blank] [1-2] 3 -126 [About the Author;128]pp. 8 1/2 X 5 1/2”. Yellow-printed brown
wraps, the front cover illustrated with an image of Silenus; perfect-bound, spine printed
downward, The Wisdom of Silenus Howard McCord St.Andrews College Press; rear
cover, author photo, [blurbs by Andrei Codrescu, Philip F. O’Connor, Dr. Martin J.
Rosenblum, publisher / ISBN], $11.95.
An unknown number of copies published April 1996 @ $11.95.
Contents: Part I: On Literature: Metcalf: The Sailings -Sad Jackself Hamlet -The Vision of
Rumpelstiltskin - Law and Equity in Measure for Measure - The Genesis of The Life of
Fraenkel’s Death - The Common Exile, The Single Ground - The Wisdom of Silenus:
Myth in the Modern World - On V.S. Naipaul - The Wryneck in The Waste Land -
Marianne Moore’s Chinese Tadpoles - Russell Banks’ Shew of Martyrs - Propaedeutic to
a Celebration of Blake - James Liddy - The Development of Eastern Civilizations -
Contentions - Intemperance (includes the following): Turning the Other Cheek - The
Depression - Marxism - Liberals and Losers - Cranks - Environments - Wilderness - On
Being a White Bourgeois Male - Women and History - Favorite Women Writers - The City
- Religion - Warriors and Warlocks Again - James Joyce - Drama - White People -
Opportunity - South Africa - The Old Lore - In Praise of Explorers - The Language Poets -
Concluding Incomplete Contentions
Part II: More on Society and History: If You’re So Equal, Why Aren’t You? -Megadeath The
Armed Freeholder: First Citizen and Last Hope -The Apache Kid -Jornada del
Muerto - West of Chihuahua: 1955
Part III: Envoi: Waiting for the Elf
Notes
A 48 THE MAN WHO WALKED TO THE MOON [1997]
a. First Edition, numbered and signed issue:
THE MAN | WHO WALKED | TO THE MOON | A NOVELLA BY | HOWARD
McCORD | [double jagged line ornament] | McPHERSON & COMPANY
[1-11] 12 - 123 [124-128]pp. 8 1/4 X 5 1/2”. Blue cloth boards; spine gilt-printed
downward, HOWARD McCORD THE MAN WHO WALKED TO THE MOON
McPHERSON & COMPANY. Dust wrapper bears a color detail photo of a SIG 210
pistol courtesy Mitch Rosen, title and author in white print; rear, author photograph by Julia
McCord; spine identical; front flap, “Autograph Edition - $18.00 [etc]”; rear flap bio note.
Grey endpapers.
Verso title-page: First Edition.
Colophon (p.127): The first printing of The Man Who Walked to the Moon consists of one
thousand numbered and twenty-six lettered copies signed by the author. This is copy ___.
[signed].
1000 copies published 1997 @ $18.00.
b. First Edition, lettered and signed issue:
Unseen by the compiler, 26 copies, ‘97.
c. First Paperback edition:
Unseen by compiler. An unknown number of copies published May 2005 @ $12.
A 49 FROM THE DARK FOREST
First Private Edition:
11 X 8 1/2"; approx 35 pages. Malpais Press.
Unseen by the compiler, "one-shot magazine daughter Julia put together for entrance to
William and Mary as evidence of literary acumen. My stuff, some Carl Thayler, Keith
Wilson, Ted Enslin, Jim Bertolino and various other poets I rounded up for her. Have no
idea where a copy is..."
A 50 BONE/HUESO
First Edition:
Unseen by the compiler, Poems in English/Poemas en Espanol by Howard McCord with
32 illustrations by Adrian Tio Diaz. 10 X 6”.
Colophon: This book was designed by Russell McKnight. Adrian Tio Diaz cut linoleum
block prints... printed from digitally set Joanna types off polymer plates on Rives paper at
the Hare of the Dog Press in Terre Haute, Indiana... [14 lines of text]. Of 80 copies this is
number......
54 signed and numbered copies at $150.00, and 26 deluxe copies lettered A to Z @
$250.00, published in 2002.
Contents: The Little Anathema of My Twin / La Anatemita De Mi Cuate - A Dream / Un
Sueno - Nichomachus - The Beach at Altata / La Playa de Altata - Elegy: The Poet At
Diss / El Poeta de Diss: Elogio a John Skelton - Lines for Unamuno / Estrofas Para Don
Miguel de Unamuno - Constant Miseries / Miserias Constantes - Moon Spider’s House /
La Arana Y La Luna - Truth Nine / La Verdad Nueve - Waiting Out the Night / El Gorigori
de la Noche - Reach / Alcance - Translation from the Persian / Traduccion del Persa -
Meditation / Meditacion - Men and Women / Hombres y Mujeres - Time / El Ganapierde -
Poet at War / El Poeta En Guerra -Equipment / Equipaje
A 51 THE POEMS [2002]
a. First Edition, in wraps:
Howard McCord I [rule] I The Poems I Bloody Twin Press I Blue Creek, Ohio
[Blank leaf; blank; frontis.; title-page; copyright page; dedication; blank; half-title; blank] 11
-439pp. [blank; blank leaf; Index - 13pp; blank; Bio Photo / bio; blank; colophon; blank;
two blank leaves]. 9 X 6”. Grey and red handprinted tan handmade paper wrappers;
perfect-bound, spine printed, The Complete Poems of Howard McCord Bloody Twin
Press.
Colophon (p.459): Published Summer, 2002 in an Edition of 200 Hardcover and 800
paperback copies in wrappers handprinted at the press... $25.
Contents: [lo-o-ong list of poems, 13 pages of titles...]
b. First Edition, cloth:
Buckskin-like Tibetan handmade paper printed as (a). Tan cloth; spine printed as (a).
Contents and format identical with (a). $40.
A 52 CHANGELESS CHANGES
First Private Edition:
CHANGELESS CHANGES
Single leaf broadside. 8 1/2 X 5 1/2". Black-printed off-white stock decorated through
perforation center top with short knotted red ribbon. "A poem for Eva and Chris on their
nuptial day, December 23, 2006."
An unknown number of copies as epithalamium, signed, for presentation at McCord's
daughter's marriage, 2006.
A 53 SWAMP SONGS & TALES [2007]
First Edition:
SWAMP I Songs & I Tales I Howard McCord I MISSISSINEWA PRESS
[Title-page; copyright page; Acknowledgements; blank; index; blank; dedication; text; text;
blank] 1 - 53pp. [blank]. 9 X 6". Swamp-water green card covers; perfect-bound, spine
printed downward Howard McCord SWAMP Songs & Tales MISSISSINEWA
PRESS; rear cover [blurbs by Angie Estes, Don Judson, Floyce Alexander, James
Bertolino; ISBN].
An unknown number of copies printed 2007.
Contents: Introduction - The Eighth Use of Poetry - Poems - Benediction - In the Flower
World - Susannah and the Complexities - Les Enfants Terribles - Horses I Rode Sixty
Years Ago - Rattlers - Genesis - Report from the Cosmological Frontier - High View -
Adumbrations in a Dusky Light - Changeless Changes - The One Left Behind - Swamp
Oaks - What the Day Wants - Elemental - Hunter - Millenial Dawn - Advice - Bog Spring -
The Figures - Old Age - Treasure on the Jornada - The Pearl Diver's Tale - Akimiski -
From The Book of Fragments - He - For Carl Thayler - Nigh Dead - Waiting for the Elf -
Holy Bible - Where We Are
A 54 WALKING TO EXTREMES [2008]
First Edition:
Walking to I Extremes I [device] I Howard I McCord I [publisher's logo] I
McPherson & Company I Kingston, New York
[Frontis. port. by Liela McLachlan; Other Books list; title-page; copyright page; dedication;
blank; Contents; blank] 9 -144pp. 8 X 5 1/4". Wraps bear cover-subtitle, "In Iceland and
New Mexico"; colour photograph of Icelandic road by Maxime Homand; perfect-bound,
spine printed down HOWARD MCCORD WALKING to EXTREMES [publisher's
logo]; rear cover, [upper left corner] $15 LITERATURE/ADVENTURE [ISBN, author
photograph, text, blurbs by Rudolfo Anaya and humbly your bibliographer, publisher's
address.] Ochre endpapers.
An unknown number of copies published August 2008 @ $15.
Contents: Preface -The Arctic Desert [reprinting A 29 and that part A 36] -The Apache
Kid [reprinting part A 47] -Jornada del Muerto [ibid.] -On Top Again
ADDENDA:
Contributions to Books
-Robert Sterling ... The Invited Address
University Invited Address I Robert Sterling I Professor of Fine Arts I The Invited
Address as a Painting Exhibition I Wednesday, April 28, 1971 I 7:30 p.m. I Art Gallery
I Fine Arts Building I Exhibition: April 28 - May 28, 1971
Unpaginated. [6pp.] 6 1/4 X 6”. Cover, red/black printed close-up photo portrait of Sterling
by Francis Ho; saddle-stitched; rear cover, Department of Fine Arts, Washington State
University, Pullman, Washington 99163. Note inside front cover states, “... one of a series
of invited addresses sponsored by Washington State University to honor its outstanding
scholars ... designed for an all-university audience rather than for those interested in any
one specific academic area.”
Unknown number of copies published 1971.
Contents: [In addition to three Ho photos of Sterling and his wife in and around his studio,
and four of his paintings reproduced in b/w, with a biographical note, the following four
poems by Howard McCord:] Sequential Considerations - Paraje Colorado - The Painting -
Nobodaddy’s Daddy Did It
-D. Clinton, The Conquistador Dog Texts (NY: New Rivers Press, 1976) (afterword,
McCord)
-Martin Jack Rosenblum, The Holy Ranger Poems (Milwaukee: Ranger International
Productions, Lion Publishing / Roar Recording, 1989) (introduction, McCord)
Books in Translation
-L'homme qui marchait sur la Lune (Paris: Gallmeister, 2008, and Quebec City: Alto,
2008) Jacques Mailhos, trans.
Ghost publications (of which there is no trace)
-Tongues for Samuel Palmer - single leaf broadside from Writers in Residence, Bowling
Green OH, 1975
-Unidentified broadsides from Raspberry Press, Armchair Press, Salt-Works Press as
listed in “Acknowledgements”, Great Toad Hunt, but lacking any other record, neither
copy nor memory.
Check-list of publications of THE TRIBAL PRESS, Howard McCord, Editor &
Publisher
1965 Gus Blaisdell, Poems 1965 [25 copies]
‘65-’66 Malay Roy Choudhury, Stark Electric Jesus [10 leaves; 3 ptgs]
‘65 McCord, Fables & Transfigurations [Bib. A 5a]
‘66 Gordon Curtis, Fire Prayers [19pp.]
‘66 McCord, Being Men & Women Together [Bib. A 4]
‘67 McCord (ed.), Drum Book : McCord, Young, Blaisdell et al
‘68 McCord, Some Notes to Gary Snyder’s Myths & Texts [Bib. A 15a]
‘69 The Only Journal of the Tibetan Kite Society - McCord, Lowenfels, Snyder
‘71 McCord, America as Desolation [Bib. A 16]
‘72 Randall Ackley, Troll Songs [31pp.]
‘72 MEASURE #1, McCord & Donald H. Ross (eds., WSU, Pullman):
featuring Carol Bergé, "READING THE POEMS OF CAROL BERGÉ"
by McCord, with Enslin, Meltzer, Liddy, Gifford et al
‘72 MEASURE #2 (BGSU) [96pp] - fiction
‘72 McCord, Universal Dictionary & Key... [Bib. A 21]
‘72
MEASURE #3: Young Poets of India [92pp]
‘72
Laura Chester & Geoff Young, The All Night Salt Lick -“Supplement to
Measure”
‘72
Baltasar de Alcazar, Some Versions of “Tres Cosas Me Tienen Preso” [20
pp.: saddle-stitched, 8.5 X 5.5”, mimeo, 100 copies]: translations and
versions by McCord grad students: Rich Behm, Dick Fillion, Susan
Jacobsen, Scott Mason, Jeff Olma, Anne Rogers, Phil Smith, Kerry
Thomas, R.S. Utterbuck, Dara Wier
‘73?
McCord, [glyph] [Bib. A 23]
‘73
Marie Harris, Herbal (MEASURE #4)
[nd]
MEASURE #5, McCord & Donald H. Ross, eds., (Bowling Green)[87pp]:
fiction: Fielding Dawson, Brandi, Lowenfels et al
‘74
MEASURE #6/7 [160pp]: Blaisdell, Young, Chester et al; "BOOKS" by
McCord, pp. 155-160
‘74
Laura Chester, Nightlatch (MEASURE #8)
‘74
Fielding Dawson, A Slow Roll Over Haystacks; The one-page novel for
July 1974. Note re. one-page novels: “I did a series... 20+?... started them
when I was at WSU - I think - and continued into around 1974... I used to
do them in editions of 100, and charge 25 cents for them, and sent authors
15%. A couple went to second printings...”
‘75
John Brandi, In a December Storm: Poems, Nov - Jan 74/75 (MEASURE
#9)
‘75
McCord, The Arctic Desert [“... a combined issue of Stooge and Measure.”]
(MEASURE #10?) [Bib. A 29]
‘76
Gus Blaisdell, Dented Fenders; Poems 1960-1975 (MEASURE#11)
1991
Carol Bergé, Zebras (Tribal/Center, Bowling Green/Santa Fe).
[This item produced by Tribal Press “on loan” to Bergé.]
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