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The Elizabeth Press (1963–1981)

  1. Carroll Arnett, South Line (1979)

    Dante type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 250 copies.

  2. Martin Booth, The Cnot Dialogues (1981)

    Baskerville type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 250 copies.

  3. William Bronk, The Empty Hands (1969)

    Printed by Villiers Publications, Ltd., London.

  4. William Bronk, My Father Photographed with Friends and Other Pictures (1976)

    Garamond type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. A first edition (printed years later) of Bronk’s first book of poems. 400 copies.

  5. William Bronk, The Force Of Desire (1979)

    Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. Seven etchings by Eugene G. Canadé.

  6. William Bronk, Life Supports: New and Collected Poems (1981)

    Monotype Imprint type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. Woodcuts by Eugene G. Canadé. Number 17 of 50 copies from a total edition of 80 copies. Winner of a National Book Award for Poetry.

  7. Spencer Brown, Child’s Game, On A Journey And Other Poems (1979)

    Centaur type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 400 copies.

  8. Cid Corman, Nonce (1965)

    Printed by Genichido, Japan. 500 copies.

  9. Cid Corman, Plight (1968)

    Printed by Villiers Publications, Ltd., London.

  10. Cid Corman, Out & Out (1972)

    Dante type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy.

  11. Cid Corman, Once & For All, Poems for William Bronk (1975)

    Centaur type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 400 copies.

  12. R. R. Cuscaden, Poem for a Ten Pound Sailfish and Other Sonnets (1963)

    Bodoni Book type. 250 copies.

  13. Larry Eigner, Anything On Its Side (1974)

    Imprint type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 400 copies.

  14. Larry Eigner, Now There’s a Morning Hulk of the Sky (1981)

    Bembo type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 250 copies.

  15. Theodore Enslin, The Place Where I Am Standing (1964)
  16. Theodore Enslin, To Come To Have Become, Poems: 1961–66 (1966)

    Printed by Genichido, Japan. 500 copies.

  17. Theodore Enslin, Agreement And Back: Sequences (1969)

    Printed by Villiers Publications, Ltd., London.

  18. Gena Ford, Homesickness For Big Men (1972)

    Bembo type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 400 copies.

  19. David Jaffin, The Half of a Circle (1977)

    Centaur type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 400 copies.

  20. Christine Labelle, Our Own Green Confusion (2005)

    Bembo type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 300 copies.

  21. John Levy, Among the Consonants (1980)

    Garamond type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. Signed. 250 copies.

  22. Barriss Mills, The Soldier and the Lady, Translations of Poems of Archilochos and Sappho (1975)

    Bembo type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 400 copies.

  23. Barriss Mills, Roughened Roundness (1976)

    Dante type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 250 copies.

  24. Lorine Niedecker, Blue Chicory (1976)

    Dante type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 400 copies.

  25. Simon Perchik, Hands You Are Secretly Wearing (1972)

    Times type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. Signed. 400 copies.

  26. Simon Perchik, Both Hands Screaming (1975)

    Imprint type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 250 copies.

  27. John Perlman, Dinner 650 Warburton Avenue Yonkers (1974)

    Printed by Genichido, Japan. 300 copies.

  28. John Perlman, Self Portrait (1976)

    Baskerville type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. Signed. 250 copies.

  29. Felix Pollak, Ginkgo (1973)

    Baskerville type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 500 copies.

  30. Aleksis Rannit, Donum Estonicum, Poems in Translation (1976)

    Baskerville type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. (The publishers thanked H. W. Tjalsma and Cid Corman for their collaboration with the author in rendering the poems. 900 copies.

  31. Aleksis Rannit, Cantus Firmus (1978)

    Monotype Bembo type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. Poems Translated from the Estonian by Henry Lyman, Prints by Eduard Wiiralt , 1978. (Includes copy of handwritten tribute to Wiiralt from Rannit). Signed by Mardersteig, Lyman, and Rannit. Number 80 of 100 hand-numbered copies from a total edition of 750 copies.

  32. Aleksis Rannit, Signum Et Verbum (1981)

    Centaur type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. Translations from the Estonian by Henry Lyman, Woodcuts by Jacques Hnizdovsky. Signed by Mardersteig, Hnizdovsky, Lyman, Rannit, and Weil. One of 32 copies.

  33. Frank Samperi, The Fourth (1973)

    Printed by Genichido, Japan. 250 copies.

  34. Frank Samperi, Infinitesimals (1974)

    Centaur type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 400 copies.

  35. Felix Stefanile, East River Nocturne (1976)

    Centaur type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 300 copies.

  36. Felix Stefanile, The Blue Moustache: Translations of Some Futurist Poets (1980)

    Imprint type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 250 copies.

  37. John Taggart, To Construct A Clock (1971)

    Garamond type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 400 copies.

  38. James L. Weil, Of Poem, An Anthology (1966)

    Printed by Villiers Publications, Ltd., London. Includes many of the poets that would be published by the Elizabeth Press in subsequent years.

  39. James L. Weil, My Music Bent (1973)

    Dante type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. A later anthology including many Elizabeth Press poets. 400 copies.

  40. James L. Weil, Your Father (1973)

    Dante type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 400 copies.

  41. James L. Weil, Quarrel With The Rose (1978)

    Monotype Dante type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. Etching by Eugene G. Canadé. 226 copies. Winner of an American Weave Chapbook Award.

  42. J. D. Whitney, The Nabisco Warehouse (1971)

    Baskerville type. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Italy. 400 copies.

  43. J. D. Whitney, sd (1973)

    Spectrum type.Printed by David R. Godine, Boston. 250 copies.

  44. Elizabeth Press Miniature Books

    • Cid Corman, For Granted (1967)

      Printed in Japan. 500 copies.

    • Cid Corman, No Less (1968)

      Printed in Japan. 500 copies.

    • Cid Corman, No More (1969)

      Printed in Japan. 1000 copies.

    • Cid Corman, Nigh (1970)

      Printed in Japan. 500 copies.

    • James L. Weil, Un Easy (1969)

      Printed by Genichido, Japan. 500 copies.

    • James L. Weil, There Was (1969)

      Printed by Genichido, Japan. 500 copies.

  45. Elizabeth Press Catalogs

    Two catalogues, for 1972 and 1978/9. The 1972 catalogue includes an interesting essay by Weil, “The Amenities of Book-Buying,” that closes with the statement that the ultimate amenity of book-buying lay in the belief that “only after a book has been read is it complete and completely one’s own.”

  46. Elizabeth Magazine

    Two issues of a small literary magazine edited and published by Weil in the 1960s, Elizabeth V (March 1963) and Elizabeth VII (March 1964). They contain poems by many of the poets that were published by the Elizabeth Press, including Theodore Enslin, Gena Ford, Barriss Mills, John Judson, Frederick Eckman, Felix Stefanile, and R.R. Cuscaden. Note the subtitle on the cover of Elizabeth: “a magazine of Elizabethan and Metaphysical poetry.”