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Title: Fifteen volumes of poetry and literature from Auerhahn Press, plus a small group of ephemeral items Author: ** Place: San Francisco Publisher: Auerhahn Press Date: Various dates Description: Includes: Racine, Jean. Britannicus: Tragedy. Cloth. 1962. * Davis, William. Janus. Wrappers. One of 750 copies. 1965. * 2 copies of: Marshall, Edward. Hellan, Hellan. Wrappers. 1960. * Whalen, Philip. Memoirs of an Interglacial Age. Wrappers. 1960. * Reps, [Paul]. Gold/Fish Signatures. Japon paper wrappers. 1962. * Spicer, Jack. The Heads of the Town up to the Aether. Wrappers. 1962. * 2 copies of. The Auerhahn Press Catalog 1962. Wrappers. * 4 copies of: Whalen, Philip. Self-Portrait, From Another Direction. Wrappers. N.d. * Hoyem, Andrew. The Wake. Wrappers. 1963. * Meltzer, David. We All Have Something To Say To Each Other. Wrappers. 1962. * Plus the following ephemera from the Auerhahn Press, mostly invitations and advertisements for readings: 2 copies of: Mad Monster Mammoth Poets' Reading. An advertising card. * A card advertising that "A Book of Resemblances" by Mr. Robert Duncan has been cancelled. * Invitation card to the Auerhahn Bash! With post-marked envelope. * Hand-colored broadside advertising a poets' reading in 1963. Poets included Ginsberg, Whalen, McClure and Meltzer. * Broadside advertising Six Auerhahn Poets Reading New Work in 1963. Including Ginsberg, Whalen, McClure, Hoyem, Meltzer and Welch. * 3 page prospectus for Human Universe and Other Essays, by Charles Olson. 1965. * Broadside for Books in Print January, 1964. Some offsetting. Together 15 volumes and 8 items of ephemera, including some duplicates. The Auerhahn Press was "named after the secretive German bird of the forests...rare, extremely elusive, and when cooked, tastes of turpentine." -Auerhahn Catalog 1962. Lot Amendments Condition: Some soiling to a few volumes; else very good or near fine. Item number: 215963