San Francisco: Watchword, 2001. First edition - First issue of this "nearly quarterly" journal specializing in East European translations and emerging American authors. Includes poetry and short fiction by Nina Schuyler, Jana Rotescu, Saviana Stanescu, Rebekah Eppley, Randy Lyman, Sam Tsitrin and others. Notes on contributors. 58 pp. Cover art by Helene Poulshock

Pasadena, CA: California Institute of Technology. 1980. First edition - The first issue of this literary journal. Includes an unpublished excerpt from Ezra Pound's Canto, correspondence in 'The Early Years (1936-1948)' between Charles Olson and Edward Dahlberg (their ), and contributions from John Ashbery, Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Kelly, Paul Blackburn, Gustaf Sobin, Gerrit Lansing, Jonathan Williams, Bruce McClelland, James Hillman, Thomas Meyer, Lyn Hejinian, Eliot Weinberger, Aime Cesaire, Michael Palmer, Jed Rasula, Charles Stein, Diane Wakoski, Michael Davidson, Hayden Carruth, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, and Eshleman and more. Book reviews. 254 pp plus ads. Square format. Cover by the Cuban artist Ana Mendieta,

Sacramento, CA: Flatmancrooked Publishing, [2008]. First edition - The premiere issue of this anthology. Contributors include Jorge Luis Borges (a story not currently in print in English), Ha Jin, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Bessie Nadine Sweet, James Bartels, David Dumitru, Jim O'Loughlin, Crystal Anne Cheney, James Kaelan, Christopher Robinson, Thomas McCafferty and Emma Straub. Notes on contributors. One of only 1500 copies. 163 pp. Square format. ISBN: 0-9820348-06.

San Francisco: ZYZZYVA, Inc. 1985. First edition - The first issue of this consistently interesting magazine - Features contributions from Lucia Berlin, Eknath Easwaran, M. F. K. Fisher, Deborah Major, Judy Grahn, John Krich, Jeremy Larner, David Rains Wallace, Tom Clark, Czelow Milosz, Barry Gifford and many others. Includes an article on Harold Berliner, fine printer, based in Nevada City, California. Illustrated with art and photography. 154 pp plus ads.

Santa Cruz, CA: Alcatraz Editions, 1979. First edition - The first issue of this literary journal featuring poetry, literature and art. Contributions from Jack Hirschman, Kate Braverman, Richard Grossman, Dennis Cooper, Nathaniel Mackey, Wanda Coleman, Robin Holcomb, Peter Wild, Douglas Blazek, F. A. Nettelbeck, Gregory Hall, Peter Wild, Illustrated. Pablo Neruda and others. Notes on contributors. 246 pp.

Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 2008. First edition - The first issue of a new literary journal dedicated to those who enjoy birds - includes poetry, short stories and creative non-fiction - as well as two sections of full-color paintings of birds by Barry Kent MacKay (who also provided the cover art) and book reviews. Notes on contributors. 152 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 1942-4485.

New York: Ballantine, 1958. SIGNED first edition - First and only issue of this science fiction digest magazine, SIGNED by the editor Frederik Pohl on the title page. Includes the novelettes "It Walks in Beauty" by Chan Davis, "Mark X" by John A. Sentry (Algis Budrys) and "The Apprentice Wobbler" by Poul Anderson, as well as short stories by Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, Brian Aldiss and Gavin Hyde. 120 pp. Cover by Richard Powers, the art director. An uncommon digest and especially so signed.

Los Angeles: Otis College of Art & Design, (2008). First edition - Uncommon first issue of this tabloid sized semiannual literary journal. Among the contributors are Jorge Amado, Amiri Baraka, Art Beck, Neeli Cherkovski, Gillian Connolly, Ray di Palma, Peter Gadol, Laura Moriarty, Domenic Stansberry, and many others. 36 pp.