Finding aid for the American literature broadsides collection 6134

Sue Luftschein
USC Libraries Special Collections
2017 February
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu


Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: American literature broadsides collection
Creator: Abshear, Jeff
Creator: Bieler Press
Creator: Black Mesa Press
Creator: Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
Creator: Buckner Press
Creator: Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968
Creator: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Creator: Ciardi, John, 1916-1986
Creator: Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005
Creator: D'Ambrosio
Creator: Diebenkorn, Richard, 1922-1993
Creator: Dine, Jim, 1935-
Creator: Dobb, Edwin, 1950-
Creator: Dorn, Edward
Creator: Downing, Holly, 1948-
Creator: Duensing, Paul Hayden, 1929-
Creator: Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988
Creator: Eshleman, Clayton
Creator: Feldman, Walter, 1925-
Creator: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Creator: Forché, Carolyn
Creator: Garnett, Porter, 1871-1951
Creator: Gilgun, John
Creator: Gioia, Dana
Creator: Hassler, Jon
Creator: Hirshfield, Jane, 1953-
Creator: Hermetic Press
Creator: Jacquet, Alain
Creator: Keenan, Deborah
Creator: Meltzer, David
Creator: Menhart, Oldřich, 1897-1962
Creator: McCurdy, Michael
Creator: Midnight Paper Sales Press
Creator: Muir, John
Creator: Nawakum Press
Creator: Pomegranate Press
Creator: Sarton, May, 1912-1995
Creator: Snyder, Gary, 1930-
Creator: Takis, 1925-
Creator: Twombly, Cy, 1928-2011
Creator: Wagener, Richard
Creator: Washburn College
Creator: Welch, Lew
Creator: Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963
Creator: Wilson, John
Creator: Wright, C. D. (Carolyn Delores), 1949-2016
Identifier/Call Number: 6134
Physical Description: 2.33 Linear Feet 2 boxes and 1 oversize folder
Date (inclusive): 1923-2018
Abstract: This collection includes some of the broadsides and examples of fine press and letterpress printing collected by USC Libraries Special Collections for its American Literature Collection.
Language of Material: English .

Scope and Contents

This collection includes some of the broadsides and examples of fine press and letterpress printing collected by USC Libraries Special Collections for its American Literature Collection.

Conditions Governing Access

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Preferred Citation

[Box/folder no. or item name], American literature broadsidse collection, Collection no. 6134, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American literature -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Letterpress printing -- Archival resources
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Broadsides (notices)
Letterpress printing

Box 2

1st Annual Poetry Fesitval poster 1976

Scope and Contents

Signed by Jack Micheline.
Box 1

17 Things You Need to Know as a Poet

Scope and Contents

By John Gilgun. Signed on reverse.
Box 2

After the War 1994

Scope and Contents

By Mary Sarton. Number 22/40.
Box 1

Ambition

Scope and Contents

Tom Clark and Robert Creeley, #5 of 6.
Box 2

Andromache Speaks to Pyrrhus 1982

Scope and Contents

By Richard Wilbur. Signed
Box 2

[Benjamin Franklin broadside] undated

Scope and Contents

Printed by the Gehenna Press, Northampton, MA, for the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Yale University.
Box 1

Blizzard 1986

Scope and Contents

May Sarton. William B. Ewert, Publisher. Calligraphy and Illustration by R.P. Hale. #39 of 50. Signed by the author.
Box 2

[Botanical print] undated

Scope and Contents

Working proof.
Oversize-folder 1

Breathtaken 2011

Physical Description: [1] p. : ill. ; 56 x 28 cm.

General

Broadside prospectus for book of poetry, Breathtaken, by Carolyn D. Wright, illustrated with the linoleum relief cuts of Walter Feldman, published by the Brown Ziggurat Press, Brown University, Providence, R.I.
Book designed by Walter Feldman and Elias Roustam.
Broadside contains text from Breathtaken printed in red and linoleum cut by Feldman printed in black.
Wright is the recipient of several awards, including a National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2004. "The poem addresses the corruption, lawlessness and unchecked violence of the post-Katrina New Orleans. When asked why she chose to write about New Orleans, Wright discussed her personal connection to photographer Deborah Luster. Wright collaborated with Luster, who lost her mother as a result of the violence, on the poem 'One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana.'"--From the Brown Daily Herald, March 21, 2012.
Feldman inaugurated the Ziggurat Press in 1985 with a book of poems by James Schevill.
Box 2

City Psalm 1964

Scope and Contents

By Denise Levertov. Oyez 7. Gift of Mr. Hyman J. Sobiloff.
Box 1

The Colonel 1981

Scope and Contents

By Carolyn Forche, Printed by the Bieler Press. Signed by the author. #186 of 250.
Box 2

Consulting I Ching Smoking Pot Listening to the Fugs Sing Blake 1967

Scope and Contents

By Allen Ginsberg, June '66. Number 79/100.
Box 2

The Cypher 1965

Scope and Contents

By William Bronk. Oyez 10. Gift of Mr. Hyman J. Sobiloff.
Box 1

D'Ambrosio 1983

Scope and Contents

Two broadsides by D'Ambrosio: The Book as an Art Form, Gual (#83 of 100). Both signed and dated by the artist.
Oversize-folder 1

The Eagle's Mile for William Douglas

General

By James Dickey; published by Bruccoli Clark Books. Signed by the author. #104 of 250.
Box 2

Earth Poetry 1971

Scope and Contents

By William Everson.
Box 1

Exoticum 2017

Scope and Contents

Prospectus broadside for Exoticum: Twenty five Desert Plants from the Huntington Gardens, wood engravings by Richard Wagener, essay by Edwin Dobb, Mixolydian Editions, 2017. Includes two photographs of the book.
Box 2

From Hello, La Jolla 1976

Scope and Contents

By Ed Dorn. Signed and numbered 46. No Mountains Poetry Project Broadside no. 7.
Box 1

for Cheryl Lynn Wallach 1978

Scope and Contents

By Clayton Eshleman. Designed and printed by Herb Yellin for the celebration of Merv and Marlene Wallach. Signed by the poet, "for USC Library 1981". #140 of 200.
Box 1

Holy Bible: The Washburn College Bible 1979

Scope and Contents

Portfolio.
Box 1

The Household on the Hill 1923

Scope and Contents

By Witter Bynner. Printed by Porter Garnett, Laboratory Press, Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Box 1

Jacquet 1964

Scope and Contents

Exhibition broadside for Alexander Iolas gallery, New York.
Box 2

[Japanese poem] 1978

Scope and Contents

Translated by Kenneth Rexroth.
Box 2

July Dawn 1957

Scope and Contents

By Louise Bogan. Signed and numbered #90.
Box 1

A Kerosene Beauty 2017

Scope and Contents

One poem, Today, ANother Universe, from A Kerosene Beauty: Twelve Environmental Elegies, poetry by Jane Hirshfield, mezzotints by Holly Dowling, published by Nawakum Press. #12 of 30, signed by poet and artist. Also includes publication broadside.
Box 2

Kral Majales 1965 May 7

Scope and Contents

By Allen Ginsberg.
Box 1

[Lew Welch poem] 1964 June 12

Scope and Contents

Signed by the poet.
Box 1

The Love Hunters 1981

Scope and Contents

By Jon Hassler, Hermetic Press. #? of 300.
Box 1

Maxiumum Ostentation 1984

Scope and Contents

By Edward Dorn. Printed by Black Mesa Press for Woodland Pattern Book Center. Signed by the author.
Box 2

Mediterranean 1986

Scope and Contents

By Thomas McGrath. Signed.
Box 1

Money

Scope and Contents

By Dana Gioia. Printed by Norman Clayton in Ojai. Signed by the poet. Unnumbered of 100 copies.
Box 2

More! The Poster 1995-1996

Scope and Contents

By Craig Peter Standish. Signed, #37 of 40.
Box 2

Murder in the Printshop 1996

Scope and Contents

By Gerald Lange. Printed at the Bieler Press.
Box 1

My First Summer in the Sierra 1988

Scope and Contents

Publication broadside for JOhn Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra with wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Also includes 1 engraving and one leaf from Chapter 1; letter from publisher, Yolla Bolly Press, and a photograph of the book.
Box 1

Nanoa Knows 1964 March 25

Scope and Contents

Handwritten poem by Gary Snyder.
Box 1

Oldrich Menhart Manuscript 1949 1987

Scope and Contents

Printed by Robin Price in honor of the 50th anniversary of The Private Press & Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing.
Box 1

O My Love is Like a Rose 1997

Scope and Contents

By Robert Burns. Designed and printed by Gerald Lange at the Bieler Press. For Mary. #27 of 120.
Box 1

One for Rexroth circa 1965

Scope and Contents

By John Ciardi. Portrait of Kenneth Rexroth by Richard Diebenkorn.
Box 1

Open Eye 1973

Scope and Contents

By Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Printed by The Pomegranate Press. Edition of 250 copies; this is unnumbered.
Box 2

Orpheus 1981

Scope and Contents

By Stephen Rodefer. Signed. Edition of 75.
Box 1

Pastoral 2018

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Larry Rafferty, October 8, 2018.

Scope and Contents

A broadside printed by hit & run press featuring the poem "Pastoral" by Natasha Trethewey.
Box 2

Poem Describing a Perfect School undated

Scope and Contents

Poem by Walt Whitman. Number 74 of 100. Gift of Lewis Kenneth Wilson.
Box 1

A Poem for My Wife

Scope and Contents

By David Meltzer. Maya Broadside Two.
Box 2

The Power of Music 1997

Scope and Contents

By Pepe Romero. Signed and number 17/150.
Box 2

Portfolio III 1946

Scope and Contents

Designed by Caresse Crosby, printed by the Black Sun Press.
Box 1

Rabbits Do No Know What They Are 1986

Scope and Contents

Aphorism by Jack Spicer. Bieler Press, edition of 3000 copies.
Box 2

The River 1986

Scope and Contents

By Raymond Carver. Illustration by John Jagel. Signed and numbered 39.
Box 1

Rough Country 2003

Scope and Contents

By Dana Gioia. Printed by Limberlost Press.
Box 1

Sappho 1957

Scope and Contents

Translation by William Carlos Williams. Printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco.
Box 2

Sappho 1957

Scope and Contents

Translation by William Carlos Williams.
Oversize-folder 1

Snowmelt from Yesteryears 1974

General

By John Montgomery; Printed by Fels %amp; Firn press.
Box 1

The Song of the Border-Guard

Scope and Contents

Poem by Robert Duncan; Design by Cy Twombly. Nicola Cernovich, Publisher, Black Mountain Graphics Workshop, Black Mountain College. Signed by Robert Duncan.
Box 2

Still Life, with Grapes and Pears undated

Scope and Contents

By Clayton Eshleman. Signed and numbered 40/100.
Box 2

Still Life, with Fraternity 1976

Scope and Contents

By Claytom Eshleman. Signed and inscribed to USC Library by Eshleman, 1981.
Box 1

Stringing the Last Circuit Under the House 1993

Scope and Contents

By John Wilson, lithogeraph by Jeff Abshear. Buckner Press, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Box 1

Takis 1963

Scope and Contents

Exhibition broadside, Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York.
Box 1

The Temple of Flora

Scope and Contents

Publication broadside of The Temple of Flora: Twenty-eight drypoint-engravings by Jim Dine. Arion Press.
Box 1

Three Twin Cities Literary Printer-Publishers: The Hermetic Press, Midnight Paper Sales Press, The Bieler Press circa 1981

Scope and Contents

"This suite of broadsides is intended to be an introduction to three local publishers of literature who practice the time-honored craft of letterpress printing." 13 broadsides and other examples of letterpress printing, some signed by the authors.
Box 2

Thoughts after Visiting the Library at Lenox 1970

Scope and Contents

By Teo Savory.
Box 2

To Alexander Meiklejohn 1956

Scope and Contents

By John Beecher.
Box 2

Two for Bruce Conner 1964

Scope and Contents

Oyez #1. By Michael McClure. Gift of Mr. Hyman J. Sobiloff.
Box 2

Two Poems 1964

Scope and Contents

By Robert Creeley. Oyez 5. Gift of Mr. Hyman J. Sobiloff.
Box 2

Typothetae 1986

Scope and Contents

Broadside of the Hampshire Hypothetae.
Box 2

The Virginians are Coming 1928

Scope and Contents

From the American Mercury, July 1928, by Vachel Lindsay. Signed by Lindsay
Box 2

The Wand 1981

Scope and Contents

By Clayton Eshleman. Signed and inscribed "for USC Library". 1 of 50 signed copies.
Box 1

Why Men Are Not Enough 1981

Scope and Contents

By Deborah Keenan. Hand-printed at Midnight Paper Sales Press in an edition of 300 copies; unnumbered.
Box 2

Wine 1964

Scope and Contents

By Robert Duncan. Oyez 4. Gift of Mr. Hyman J. Sobiloff.
Box 1

Words, Words, Words 2017

Scope and Contents

By Dana Gioia and JoKa Press.
Box 1

Yvor Winters & Janet Lewis: A Centenary Tribute to the Poets 2000 November

Scope and Contents

Four broadsides