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Kenneth Patchen Book Collection 1939-1969

Books by Kenneth Patchen 1939-1969

First Will & Testament. Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, [signed] 1939

The Journal of Albion Moonlight. Mount Vernon, N.Y., Walpole Off Print [signed copy no.54] 1941

The Dark Kingdom. New York, Harris & Givens [signed copy no.73] 1942

The Teeth of the Lion. Norfolk, Ct., New directions 1942

Cloth of the Tempest. New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers [signed] 1943

An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air. Waldport, Or., Untide Press [signed] 1946

Outlaw of the Lowest Planet. London, The Grey Walls Press 1946

Pictures of Life and of Death. New York, Padell [signed] 1947

They Keep Riding Down All the Time. New York, Padell [2 copies] 1947

Cloth of the Tempest. New York, Padell [signed] 1948

The Dark Kingdom. New York, Gains and Harris 1948

First Will & Testament. New York, Padell [signed] 1948

Orchards, Thrones & Caravans. San Francisco, Print Workshop [copy no.112] 1952

Fables and Other Little Tales. Karlsruhe, Baden, J. Williams 1953

The Famous Boating Party, and Other Poems in Prose. New Directions 1954

When We Were Here Together. New Directions 1957

The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer; an amusement. San Francisco, City Light Books 1958

Poem-scapes. Highlands, N.C., J. Williams 1958

Because it is. Norfolk, Laughlin 1960

Kenneth Patchen: painter of poems. Baltimore, Printed by Garamond/Pridemark Press 1969

Silk Screen Prints 1955

Glory Never Guesses, & other pages. [unbound portfolio of 18 leaves, copy no.199] 1955

A Surprise for the Bagpipe Player. [unbound portfolio of 18 leaves] 1955

Painted Books 1946-1958

Panels for the Walls of Heaven. Bern Porter, Berkeley, CA [copy no.120] 1946

Sleepers Awake. New York, J. Felsberg, Inc. [copy no.43] 1946

To Say if You Love Someone, and other selected love. Prairie City, Ill., Decker Press 1948

Red Wine & Yellow Hair. New Directions, NY [copy no. 60] 1949

Hurrah for Anything. Jonathan Williams, Highlands, NC 1957

Poem-scapes . Highlands, N.C., J. Williams; San Francisco Paper Editions Corp. [copy no.75] 1958

Books about Kenneth Patchen 1942 1948

Hayes, Albert M. A wreath of Christmas poems. Norfolk, Conn., New Directions 1942

Miller, Henry. Patchen: man of anger & light. New York: Padell 1948

Printed Ephemera 1948-1969

Patchen Picture-Poem Cards n.d 1962

Series R_150PC, letter style, 5x7 [complete set] n.d.

Series RS_150P, letter style, 5x7 [complete set] n.d.

Letter style cards, 5x7 (27) 1962

Postcards (15); color prints n.d.

Prospectus 1946-158

"The famous Painted Edition Patchen books"(2) [1958]

"Glory Never Guesses" 1955

"Announcing a special limited edition, Sleepers Awake" (3) [1946]

"The Journal of Albion Moonlight", Gotham Book Mart n.d.

Other promotional material 1947-1969

Invitation to Pathenc exhibit at The Corcoran Gallery of Art [1969]

Brochure "16 Books" on sale by Argus Book Inc. [features "Cloth of Tempest"] [1948]

Gotham Book Mart flyer of books on print by Patchen, Nin, & Fraenkel 1948

Brochure of books on print by Kenneth Pathcen [1947]

Gotham Order Card for "The Journal of Albion Moonlight" (2) [1940's]

Newspaper clippings 1942 1945

Book Review, "Memoir of a Shy Pornographer" New Yorker Oct 27, 1945

A poem by Patchen, "I have Lighted the Candles, Mary", Herald Tribune Dec 20, 1942

An interview with William Golding, Herald Tribune May 20, 1962

Kenneth Patchen 1941-1961

ALS, "Stealing my act, eh? I'll beat you getting out anything!" [1 pg] Oct 10, 1961

ALS, "So sorry to hear of your" [1 pg] Jul 10, 1960

ALS, "Strange that you should write to me about a possible patron" [3 pp] Mar 11, 1960

TLS, "I'm very happy that you want to do the jacket"[1 pg] Jul 10, 1948

ALS, "Dear Alan, Things are a bit more under control, though today is a real scorcher, debilitating." July 29, 1948

ALS, "Dear Alan, I'm sure you will understand my delay in acknowledging your splendid color drawings. " July 26, 1948

TLS, "I wonder if you'd like to try your hand at doing a jacket"[1 pg] + 2 pp typescript for "Red Wine and Yellow Hair" Jun 28, 1948

ALS, "Dear Alan, I sure am a low-down bum not to have told you before . . ." March 1, 1948

Poem Card "What is the Beautiful?", [4 1/2 x 7 folio; reprint from "Cloth of the Tempest", The Ahab Press, 1947] Feb 14, 1947

ALS, "Miriam's father's condition (stroke aftermath demands" [1 pg] Apr 9, 1944

APCS, "Thirty arrived this morning - in splendid season" Aug 16, 1943

ALS, "How damn good of you to be so fast and descent!" [1 pg ] Aug 10, 1943

ALS, "I feel guilty about you somehow - I have your wonderful pictures" [1 pg] Apr 3, 1943

ALS, "Miriam has told you the stuff I've had with my back" [1 pg; contains a poem "So in the green sky white queens think of Fate"] Mar 17, 1943

APCS, "Such a fine present! And your fine letters!" Jul 7, 1942

APCS, "One Dial Press, 432 Fourth Avenue, New York City, is conducting a poll of readers on America's 100 best writers" Jun 7, 1942

ALS, "I'm helpless in bed with a bad back trouble; can't even write letters" [1 pg] May 16 1942

Note, "Hope you get this in time - listen to Columbia Workshop (CBS) this Sunday, May 32 play of mine on" [1 pg] May 2, 1942

ALS, "Just a note to tell you that I have been pretty much out of commission with an illness" [1 pg] Nov 18, 1941

ALS, "There's nothing I can say. From the bottom of my heart" [1 pg] Sep 20, 1941

Miriam Patchen 1941-1965

1960-1965:

ALS, "Unbelievable: your sweetness. Your immediate response" [2 pp; decorated letter, and hand made blue envelope] Aug 28, 1965

Prose Xmas Card "A Parable At The Year's End" + signed note Dec 1964

Poem Xmas Card "A Poem for Christmas 1963: Peace on Earth" [+ note] Dec 18, 1963

APCS, "Thanks for books (Your new Address is somewhere" Jul 18, 1963

ALS, "It's been so long. So many things bring you sharply" [1 pg; decorated letter, hand made multi color env.] Mar [19, 1963]

ALS, "Looking at your letter, it seems impossible that"[2 pp] Apr 23, 1963

ALS, "We don't believe it yet. We're a little glazed" [2 pp; decorated letter, envelope with red and yellow labels] Nov 1, 1962

ALS, "Oh, honestly! What're trying to do? Books" [3 pp] Sep 22, 1962

ALS, "I've tried several times to write since your" [3 pp] Sep 5, 1962

ALS, "So long since your letter. I've been [poised], mentally (?)" [2 pp; decorated letter, envelope with yellow label] Jul 28, [1962]

TLS, "A long-time friend by correspondence is quoted" [2 pp; decorated letter, envelope with yellow labels] Apr 1962

ALS, "The long silence has been because things have been" [2 pp; + attached with 13 pp carbon copy of Miriam's letter to Judith describing in detail Kenneth's health problems and medical events] Mar 31, 1962

APCS, "You've no right! Darn you - !! We love you crazies" Dec 30, 1961

ALS, "So silly of me, just looked up the number of box"[1 pg] Oct 19, 1961

ALS, "Also, 'in haste'. The printer-publisher of the card" [1 pg; decorated letter and envelope] Oct 10, 1961

TLS, "I have a nasty suspicion that you are" [2 pp; decorated letter and envelope] Jul 2, 1961

ALS, "How wonderful that all sounds. But even if your place" [3 pp; decorated letter and envelope] May 10, 1961

ALS, "Your visit balm to our 'souls' - and your too letter" [2 pp; decorated letter and envelope] Apr 8, 1961

ALS, "O boy - to quote bee- the school year is almost over!" [2 pp; decorated letter and envelope] Mar 29, 1961

ALS, "We can't; we can't do it. Your money isn't dirty enough" [1 pg; decorated letter and envelope] Mar 13, 1961

APCS, "Operation over, Kenneth reasonably comfortable" Jan [23], 1961

ALS, "That Parker hand writing has always made me happy", [2 pp; decorated letter and envelope] Dec 13, 1960

ALS, "Things here are still hell-so-someday etc", [1 pg] [1960's]

ALS, "Lordy we're looking forward to seeing you" [1 pg], [1960's]

APCS, "At last got back Alan Parker's Horrors of War" [1960's]

1941-1947, n.d.:

Gift card, "This was meant to reach you in time" [enclosed with a book They Keep Riding Down All the Time] Dec 1947

ALS, "What wonderful news! And, as I said before" [3 pp] Mar 6, 1947

ALS, "In haste so that Kenneth may go right into town" [3 pp] Dec 28, 1946

ALS, "A thousand pardons. We're been on the verge of moving" [2 pp] Nov 30, 1946

ALS, "How very wonderful for you- at last!" [9 pp] Oct 11, 1946

ALS, "Well, for heavens' sakes! We were certain" [2 pp] Feb 1946

Xmas card signed Dec 1944

ALS, "Alan's note was delivered to us the other day" [2 pp] Nov 13, 1944

ALS, "Heavens, you have been having a time of it!" [3 pp] Jul 20, 1944

APCS, "All is in confusion here. My father died" May 15, 1944

APCS, "Just a notice of our change of address to 336 West 12 St, NYC, 14" Mar 24, 1944

ALS, "It's been just one thing after another so that I just" [4 pp] Mar 18, 1944

TLS, "Have been having a rather hectic time" [1 pg], [1944]

ALS, "It's winter-ish and horrible in New York" [2 pp] Oct 27, 1943

ALS, "Just a hasty note to tell you we're leaving" [1 pg] Oct 8, 1943

ALS, "Where are you? Shall you be in Jacksonville long?" [2 pp] Sep 25, 1943

ALS, "Again, in haste. Can you and Alan lend us $ 50"[1 pg; + copy of Parker's reply, 2 pp] Aug 5, 1943

APCS, "Just a card (hope you're still were it can reach you!)" Aug 2, 1943

ALS, "What a wonderful thing: Alan's appointment"[3 pp] Jul 15, 1943

ALS, "Are you really coming? Here? Soon?" [1 pg] Apr 15, 1943

ALS, "We're mailing Horizon to you: you'll find an interesting" [3 pp] Mar 16, 1943

ALS, "Both of us were immensely excited by the thought" [2 pp] Mar 1943

ALS, "Kenneth will write you tomorrow. This is just a little note" [1 pg] Feb 19, 1943

ALS, "Of course Kenneth will write to Alan right away" [2 pp] Feb 19, 1943

ALS, "We talk about you and think about you" [2 pp] Feb 5, 1943

ALS, "You know, it wasn't until the other day that I realized" [2 pp] Jan 23, 1943

ALS, "How long shall you be in Chicago" [1 pg] Jan 5, 1943

ALS, "Never in the whole world was there anything as sweet" [4 pp] Dec 16, 1942

ALS, "It was like Christmas! Opening the package" [2 pp] Dec 3, 1942

ALS, "Just a hasty note: What's going to happen to your press?" [1 pg] Nov 18, 1942

ALS, "We're very happy that things are working out for you" [2 pp] Nov 1942

ALS, "Although your way of trying to save yourself" [2 pp] Oct 29, 1942

ALS, "Just a note: have you heard anything from a John Slocum" [1 pg] Oct 21, 1942

ALS, "You poor babies! You darling thing" [1 pg] Sep 27, 1942

ALS, "Day after day passes with each day bringing" [3 pp] Sep 7, 1942

APCS, "Just a note: have received books" Aug 10, 1942

APCS, "Do you know the painting of George Rouault well?" Jul 22, 1942

ALS, "Enclosed are two letters from the only people I knew of" [2 pp] Jul 21, 1942

ALS, "I worship Celine; I knew you would too" [2 pp] Jul 13, 1942

APCS, "Am sending the Celine and one Michael Fra[e]nkel" Jun 29, 1942

ALS, "It's a queer, dark and rainy-ish morning. Thunder" [3 pp] Jun 22, 1942

ALS, "Just a note: was at the Concord Bookshop yesterday" [2 pp] Jun 1942

Xmas card signed Dec 22, 1941

Gift card, "Just a frivolous gift for your birthday" [1 card] Dec, 1941

Telegram, "Your paintings are magnificent. Miriam and Kenneth Patchen" Sep 26, 1941

Xmas card signed n.d.

Other Correspondents 1960, n.d.

APCS from [Taylor], "Spent Holy Week Easter in Athens..." Apr 15, [ ]

Forwarded carbon letter from Virginia Shaw to Harold Winkler in regards to KP,[see Box 1:3 for mentioned letter] Mar 28, 1960

Kenneth Patchen reads with jazz in Canada. Folkways Records FL 9718 1959

Selected poems of Kenneth Patchen, Folkways Records FL 9717 1959

Kenneth Patchen reads his love poems. New York City : Folkways Records 1961

LP covers (3): Kenneth Patchen reads with jazz in Canada, Selected poems of Kenneth Patchen, and Kenneth Patchen reads his love poems 1959, 1961

Program notes for Kenneth Patchen reads with jazz in Canada, and Selected poems of Kenneth Patchen 1959

Books by James Joyce 1922-1966

Ulysses. Paris, Shakespeare and Company [copy no.114] 1922

Pomes Penyeach. Paris, Shakespeare and Co. 1927

Anna Livia Plurabelle. New York, Crosby Gaige [copy no.302] 1928

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York, The Modern library 1928

Tales Told of Shem and Shaun. Paris, The Black Sun Press [copy no.311] 1929

Haveth Childers Everywhere. New York, Fountain Press 1930

Ulysses. Paris, Shakespeare and Company 1930

The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies. The Hague, Servire Press 1934

Ulysses; an introduction by Stuart Gilbert. New York, Limited Editions Club [copy no.823] 1935

Collected poems of James Joyce. New York, The Black Sun Press [copy no.480] 1936

Exiles; a play in three acts. London, J. Cape 1936

Storiella as She is Syung. Londong, Corvinus Press [copy no. 99] 1937

Finnegans Wake. London, Faber and Faber 1939

Finnegans Wake. New York, The Viking Press 1939

Pastimes of James Joyce. New York, Joyce Memorial Fund Committee 1941

Dedalus: portrait de l'artiste jeune. Paris, Gallimard 1943

Stephen Hero: part of the first draft. London, J. Cape 1944

Stephen Hero: a part of the first draft. New York, New Directions 1944

Corrections of Misprints in Finnegans Wake. New York, Viking Press 1945

Ulysses. Paris, Gallimard 1948

Dubliners. New York, Modern Library 1950

A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake. London, Faber and Faber 1963

Letters; edited by Stuart Gilbert. New York, Viking Press 1966

Books about James Joyce 1929-1968

Beckett, Samuel. Our exagmination round his factification for incamination . London, Faber and Faber 1929

Cixous, Hélène. L'Exil de James Joyce ou l'Art du remplacement. Paris, B. Grasset 1968

Colum, Mary. Our friend James Joyce. New York, Doubleday & Company 1958

Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. New York, Oxford University Press 1959

Freund, Gisèle. James Joyce in Paris; his final years. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World 1965

Gheerbrant, Bernard. James Joyce; sa vie, son oeuvre, son rayonnement. Paris, La Hune 1949

Joyce, Stanislaus. Recollections of James Joyce. New York, James Joyce Society 1950

Joyce, Stanislaus. Le Gardien de mon frère. Paris, Gallimard 1966

Levin, Harry. James Joyce, a critical introduction. Norfolk, Conn., New Directions 1941

Mason, Ellsworth. James Joyce's Ulysses & Vico's cycle. [Mimeograph copy] 1948

Parker, Alan. James Joyce: a bibliography of his writings. Boston, F.W. Faxon Co. 1948

Pound, Ezra. Pound Joyce; the letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce. New York, New Directions Pub. Corp. 1967

Spoerri, James Fuller. Catalog of a collection of the works of James Joyce. Chicago 1948

Spoerri, James Fuller. Finnegans wake by James Joyce. Evanston,Ill., Northwestern University Library 1953

Journals 1927-1980

Gogarty, Oliver St. John. "They think they know Joyce". Saturday Review, Vol 33:1 p. 8-9, 35-37 Mar 18, 1950

Kenner, Hugh. "The computerized Ulysses". Harpers, Vol 260:1559, p. 89-95 Apr 1980

Texas Quarterly Summer 1960

Transition Apr 1927 Jun 1930 Mar 1932 Feb 1935 Spring 1938