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Books,
Pamphlets and Broadsides
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A1 PRECISE FRAGMENTS 1963
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". Off-white wraps printed in burgundy,
perfect-bound; burgundy 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 Readeršs Manual - Jade
Ideogram - Excuses for the Fall of China - Chapters from the Life of a
Dragon - Sze Chuan:1929 - Dora - Inscription.
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A2 12 BONES [1964]
First Edition:
Cover/title-page: [facsimile autograph] Howard McCord | [print] 12
Bones | NPP:23, 30c
Unpaginated. [12]pp. 4 1/4 X 6 7/8". White self-covers in black
text, as above, draped by arm of skeleton extending to rear cover,
saddle-stitched.
[100] copies published 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
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A3 THE SPANISH DARK 1965
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".
White-printed wraps with hard-edge abstract design, perfect-bound,
spine printed downward, THE SPANISH DARK / McCORD WSU PRESS; rear
cover, on white, [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 - Tzjrašs
Letter - Shaman Song - Shaman Song II - Quasi-Stellar Radio Sources -
Notes to the Poems
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A4 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].
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A 5 FABLES
& TRANSFIGURATIONS 1965, [1967]
a. First Private Edition:
Unseen by the compiler, this booklet reportedly is comprised of the
eponymous poem alone, an earlier version of A5b's title poem, from
McCord's own Tribal Press imprint.
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 wraps, 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 Hallow's Eve
- A Letter of Saint Andrew the Dancer - Dora
c. First Trade Edition, Second Printing:
Printer's bullets which preceded and followed the word *FABLES* and
*&* on the cover of the first edition have been removed from the
ampersand on the second printing. The price, $1.50, 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, 6 and 47, were
switched; in this second printing each number has simply been removed.
The statement of limitation has been dropped from p.52. At least some
copies have variant endpapers. Otherwise contents and format remain
identical with (a).
[1000 copies] at $1.50.
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A6 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].
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A7 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.
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A8 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 gray, author in red,
below another [14th] print of Namašs in gray, red, yellow &
ochre; on the 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.
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A9 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 gray stock.
"THE
SOLO PRESS | 1613 VALENCIA N.E. | ALBUQUERQUE 87110 NM", printed with
ornament lower left corner.
An unknown number of copies published in [1969].
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A10 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 the title-page
top billing.
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A11 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
bears "A note on the poem: ..." and, 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].
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A12 LATRODECTUS MACTANS 1970?
First Edition:
Unseen by the compiler, this single leaf broadside was reportedly
published c.1970 by Lillabulero Press of Northwood Narrows, NH, in an
edition of 1 (one) copy.
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A13 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 paper
endpapers, and on plain stock; unsigned; saddle-stitched; otherwise
contents and format identical with (a).
950 copies, 1970.
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A14 OVENS 1970
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 gray,
silk-screen illustrated, side-stapled. Underfit printed title-page on
hot pink stock, acknowledgements verso. 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
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A 15 SOME NOTES TO GARY
SNYDER'S MYTHS & TEXTS 1968, 1971
a. First Private Edition:
some notes / to / Gary Snyder's / MYTHS
/ & / TEXTS
[foreword], 4pp. 11 X 8 1/2". Mimeographed, corner stapled.
[50 copies published for private distribution], The Tribal Press, July
1968.
b. First Trade Edition:
SOME NOTES TO GARY SNYDERšS 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 listing 3 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."
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A16 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. ..."
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A17 ROBERT STERLING ... THE INVITED ADDRESS 1971
First Edition:
University Invited Address | Robert Sterling | Professor of Fine Arts
| The Invited Address as a Painting Exhibition | Wednesday, April 28,
1971 | 7:30 p.m. | Art Gallery | Fine Arts Building | Exhibition:
April 28 - May 28, 1971
Unpaginated. [6]pp. 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."
An unknown number of copies published 1971.
Contents: In addition to 3 Ho photos of Sterling and his wife in and
around his studio, and 4 of his paintings reproduced in b/w, with a
biographical note, the following 4 poems by Howard McCord: Sequential
Considerations - Paraje Colorado - The Painting - Nobodaddy's Daddy
Did It
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A18 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.
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A19 GNOMONOLOGY 1971
a. Trial Issue:
Approximately 12 copies, 4 1/4 X 5 1/2", the title hand-lettered on
textured card, top-stapled; plates identical to First Edition.
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.
[Reportedly, and unseen by compiler, an earlier version, about half
the length of the final piece, was published by Lillabulero entitled,
"A Preface to Certain Poetry." Date unknown; number of copies
unknown.]
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A20 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,
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A21 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 with 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
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A22 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. 1972
First Edition:
Unseen by the compiler. The Tribal Press, Bowling Green Ohio.
"100 copies made for The Pilgrim of Thoth and Friends of the
Obscure."
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A23 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, front cover replicated by title-page, saddle-stitched; rear
cover, upper left corner, $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
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A24 [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
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A25 FRIEND [1974]
First Edition:
F | R | I | E | N | D | howard mc cord
[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.]
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A26 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 cover, upper left
corner, $4.95, photo of the author, 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.
An unknown number of copies published 1975 @ $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:
Unseen by the compiler, 500 copies.
c. First Edition, limited:
Unseen by the compiler, 35 copies numbered & signed, cloth-bound
in box.
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A27 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
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A28 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.]
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A29 THE OLD BEAST 1975
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 copies.
c. First Edition, quarter goatskin:
Unseen by the compiler, 12 copies.
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A30 TONGUES FOR SAMUEL PALMER [1975]
First Edition:
Unseen by the compiler, this single leaf broadside was published by
Writers in Residence, Bowling Green OH, 1975.
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A31 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..."
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A32 AMERICAN FAMILY MOTTOES 1975
First Edition:
AMERICAN FAMILY MOTTOES | Collected by Howard Mc Cord | Special
Bicentennial Edition of one hundred | Black Rabbit Press, Cleveland,
Ohio 1975 | AMERICAN.
Unpaginated. [16]pp. 2 7/8 X 9˛. Gold lame front cover, pale green
rear, side-stapled; alternating pink and yellow pages, typewritten,
mimeo recto only.
100 copies, 1975.
Contents: [An accumulated list of over 100 slogans, ironic, anarchist,
wise...]
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A33 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 poetšs name in blue.
[150] copies published as [Copperhead 3, 16 broadsides by 16 poets,
boxed, from Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, 1976].
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A34 THE HONEY BEE AND THE MUSTANG 1976
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.]
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A35 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 illus. 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.]
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A36 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.
Prose-poem in 41 unnumbered sections with CODA. "Even the maker of
the casket does not understand all that he has done."
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A37 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] | [publisheršs 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 [publisheršs 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 - Midrah 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, cloth:
Unseen by the compiler, an unknown number of copies published 1980 @
$8.95.
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A38 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.
An unknown number of copies published 1982 @ $5.95.
Prose; As well as the prefatory note and the 2 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 32] - In That Act.
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A39 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 entitled JENNIFER,.
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A40 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.
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A41 THE SORROWS OF LORUHAMAH 1987
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
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A42 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 evidemment 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
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A43 THE ARMED FREEHOLDER 1990
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.
Prose; an essay, "The armed citizen is the best social defense against sporadic violence a free society can
have."
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A44 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
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A45 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 - Hunteršs Stew - Mountain Diet
- Hymn - Divination in Mose Hollow - Identities
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A46 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.
Prose; "It takes no genius to recognize that the single most
important element involved in the destruction of the biosphere is
excessive human population."
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A47 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.
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A48 "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 the illustrator, Adrian Tio.
75 copies, [1992].
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A49 THE WISDOM OF SILENUS 1996
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
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A50
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.
On verso of 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.
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A51 BONE/HUESO 2002
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
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Bibliography compiled by Guy Birchard, April, 2002
AFTERWORD
I am neither a trained nor an experienced bibliographer, and it must
show. But I read. And Howard McCord is surely a Hidden Master whose
prolific work, once ubiquitous, is now rarefied, sharp and vital as
air at altitude, aptly, as at altitude in fact is an atmosphere in
which Mr. McCord has thrived.
So I undertook this bibliography in the first place simply as a
means to discover for myself exactly what he has written and in what
sequence it appeared.
Now I have re-read, and
continue to read with confirmed admiration, all of Howard's work that
I can find. I hear, I heed, and I bow to him.
---G.B.
Moose Jaw, Sask.
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