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PHILIP WHALEN BIOGRAPHY

MARK OTHER PLACE: A CHAPBOOK BY PHILIP WHALEN





PHILIP WHALEN BIBILIOGRAPHY





THREE SATIRES. Portland, OR: Privately published, 1951.
     Wrappers. 13 copies.

SONG. Portland, OR: Privately published, 1951.

SELF-PORTRAIT FROM ANOTHER DIRECTION. San Francisco:
     Auerhahn Press, 1959.

THE END, OF A MONTH OF SUNDAYS. San Francisco:
     Auerhahn Press, 1959.
     Wrappers.
          NOTE: 1). Cover title of only "Auerhahn Press"
                      for this folded broadside, which is also
                      encountered with wrappers.
                      2). John Wieners, Philip Lamantia and Michael
                      McClure.
                      3). Commonly referred to by Weiners' title, "Bag
                      Dad By the Bay".


MEMOIRS OF AN INTERGLACIAL AGE. San Francisco:
      Auerhahn Press, 1960. 51 pp.
      Two issues, no priority:
                      1). Hardcover, no priority:
                      a). 60 copies.
                      b). 25 copies, with an original drawing and
                      holograph poem by the author.
                      c). 15 copies, signed by the author.

FROM MEMOIRS OF AN INTERGLACIAL AGE.
     Cambridge, MA. : Paterson, ca. 1960.
     Mimeographed sheet.

LIKE I SAY. New York: Totem Press/Corinth Books, 1960. 47pp.
     Grey wrappers.
     Publishers' names on copyright page.

HYMNUS AD PATREM SINENSIS. San Francisco:
     San Francisco Arts Festival Commission, 1963.
     Broadside.
     300 copies, most of which were signed by the author.
           NOTE: Laid in portfolio entitled San Francisco Arts
          Festival: A Poetry Folio: 1963.


THREE MORNINGS. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1964.
     Broadside.

MONDAY IN THE EVENING, 21:VII:61. Milan: Privately
     published, 1964.
     Wrappers, no priority:
          1). 291 copies, numbered.
          2). 18 copies, hors commerce.

GODDESS. San Francisco: Don Carpenter, 1964.
     Broadside, no priority:
          1). 100 copies.
          2). 25 copies without colophon, for the use of the author.

DEAR MR. PRESIDENT. San Francisco: Impressions
     Production, 1965.
     Broadside.
     500 copies.

EVERY DAY. Eugene, OR : Coyote's Journal, 1965.
     Wrappers.
     Coyote Book #1.

NOBODY LISTENING TO YOU? San Francisco:
     Philip Whalen, 1965.
     Broadside.
          NOTE: Issued to celebrate "Gentle Thursday" and often
                   listed by that title.

HIGHGRADE: Doodles, Poems. San Francisco:
     Coyote's Journal, 1966.
     Wrappers.

YOU DIDN'T EVEN TRY. San Francisco: Coyote, 1967.
     Wrappers.

THE INVENTION OF THE LETTER: A Beastly Morality Being
     Illuminated Moral History, for the Edification of Younger
     Readers. New York: Irving Rosenthal, 1967.
     Hardcover, ring-bound.

INTRANSIT: The Education Continues Along Including Voyages,
     A TransPacific Journal. Eugene, OR: Toad Press, 1967. 61pp.

T/O. San Francisco: David Haselwood, 1967.
     Wrappers.
     80 copies.

ON BEAR'S HEAD. New York: Harcourt, Brace
     & World/Coyote 1969.
     Two issues, no priority:
          1). Hardcover, dustwrapper. 406 pp.
          2). Wrappers.
     "First edition."

SEVERANCE PAY. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1970.
     Two issues, no priority:
          1)Hardcover, no priority:
               a). Trade edition. 51pp.
               b). 50 copies, signed by the author. 51 pp.
          2). Wrappers.
     Writing 24.

SCENES OF LIFE AT THE CAPITAL. San Francisco: Maya, 1970.
     Wrappers, no priority:
          1). 250 copies. 74 pp.
          2). 50 copies, numbered, signed by the author.
     Maya Quarto Ten.
          Also: Bolinas, Calif. : Grey Fox Press, 1971.
          Wrappers.
          "First edition."
               NOTE: Expanded edition.

IMAGINARY SPEECHES FOR A BRAZEN HEAD. Los Angeles:
     Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
     Two issues, no priority:
          1). Hardcover, acetate dustwrapper; no priority:
               a). 200 copies, numbered, signed by the author.
                  156 pp.
               b). 26 copies, lettered, signed by the author.
          2). Wrappers.
          1500 copies.

LOOKING FOR HELP. San Francisco : Panjandrum Press, 1972.
     Broadside.

IN THE NIGHT. :Privately published, ca. 1972.
     Broadside.
     100 signed copies.

ON BREAD & POETRY: A Panel Discussion With Gary Snyder,
     Lew Welch & Philip Whalen. Berkeley, CA: Gray Fox Press,
     1973. 48pp.


THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS: Poems 1969-1974. Bolinas, CA:
     Four Seasons Foundation, 1976. (Listed as New Departures
     in Four Seasons Paperback book list at back of this edition.)
     Wrappers. Writing 33. 59 pp.

PROLEGOMENA TO A STUDY OF THE UNIVERSE. Berkeley:
     Poltroon Press, 1976. Introduction by Kevin Powers.
     290 copies.

DECOMPRESSIONS. Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1978.
     Wrappers. 86 pp.

OFF THE WALL, Interviews with Philip Whalen. Bolinas, CA:
     Grey Fox Press, 1978.
     Wrappers.

THE DIAMOND NOODLE. Berkeley, CA: Poltroon Press, 1980.
     Two issues.
          1). 100 copies, signed and sealed by the author.
          2). Wrappers.

ENOUGH SAID: Fluctuat Nec Mergitur: Poems 1974 - 1979.
     San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1980.
     Two issues.
          1). 56 hardcover copies, numbered, signed by the author.
             75 pp.
          2). Wrappers.

TARA. San Francisco: Black Stone Press, 1981.
     Broadside.
     100 copies.

IN TAKAGAMINE, from Scenes of Life at the Capital.
     San Francisco: Black Stone Press, 1981.
     Broadside.
     99 copies.

HEAVY BREATHING. San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1983. 207pp.
     Wrappers.

TWO VARIATIONS: ALL ABOUT LOVE. San Francisco:
     Arif Press, 1983. Wesley Tanner.
     Broadside.
     19 copies.

A VISION OF THE BODHISATTVAS. Living Batch Bookstore:
     Albuquerque, NM, 1984. Illustration by Jeff Bryan.
     Broadside.
     100 copies.

FOR C. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1984.
     First appeared in Like I Say, then again in Temple of Flora
     With illustrations by Jim Dine.

THE ELIZABETHAN PHRASE. Santa Barbara, CA, 1985. Designed
     & printed by David Dahl for Table-Talk Press.
     Broadside.

TWO NOVELS. Somerville, MA: Zephyr Press, 1985. 250 pp.
     Two editions.
          1). Hardcover, dustwrapper.
               a). Trade edition. 300 copies.
               b). 50 copies signed and numbered by the author.
          2) Wrappers. 1200 copies.

WINDOW PEAK. Santa Fe, NM: Casa Sin Nombre, 1986.
     Broadside. Photographs by Annie Liebowitz.
     500 Copies.

DRIVING IMMEDIATELY PASSED. Berkeley, CA:
     Poltroon Press, 1989. First appeared in A Bibliography of the
     Auerhahn Press & its Successor Dave Haselwood
Books,
     compiled by a printer,
     Poltroon Press, 1976.
     Broadside.

CANOEING UP CABARGA CREEK: Buddhist Poems 1955-1986.
     Introduction by Richard Baker. Foreword by Allen Ginsberg.
     Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press,
     1996. 68 pp.

MARK OTHER PLACE Pacifica, CA: Big Bridge Press, 1997.
     First apeared in Big Bridge chapbook issue January 1997      
     Big Bridge Press scheduled for 1998 in two editions.
          1). 100 copies numbered.
          2). 26 copies lettered and signed by the author.

OVERTIME, Selected Poems by Philip Whalen. Edited by Michael
     Rothenberg. Introduction by Leslie Scalapino.
     New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1999. 311 pp.

GOOFBOOK FOR JACK KEROUAC. Poem by Philip Whalen.
     Edited by Michael Rothenberg.
     Pacifica, CA: Big Bridge Press, 2001. 32pp.




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