Poltroon Press "Auerhahn Bibliography" (1976)

Berkeley, California, US: Poltroon Press (Book, Bibliography), 1976.
9.5. x 5.5" x 0.5", 89 pages, blue and cream silk-screened cloth-covered hardcover. No ISBN.

A Bibliography of the Auerhahn Press & Its Successor Dave Haselwood Books, Compiled by a Printer as published by the Poltroon Press (Berkeley, California, US) in 1976. As noted at the colophon:  “Somewhat less than 50 copies printed on a variety of presses’ supplementary composition by Jolbrook Teter at Spring Creek Typesetting; photo-etching by Frank Rebuttl & Oak.National; binding by The Schuberth Book Binderk of San Francisco. 26 copies have been granger-ized w/ an Auerhahn ephemeron, in addition to a broadside of Brion Gysin Lord I am not Wirthy & of Prose Take, April 13, 1959 by Phillp Whalen, signed, &cetera; along with fascimiles of a collage by Wallace Berman, a letter from Dave Haselwood & a special edition of the <Lettre de Paris> by Joanne Kyger & Lawrence A. Fagin.”

This contains a number of reproduced letters from William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin to Dave Haselwood on the topic of The Exterminator. A calligraphic artwork by Gysin is reproduced on page 29, and a cut-up work by Burroughs is on page 31.

This copy contains a folded broadsheet poem by John Wieners, "A Poem for Benzedrine", and an errata sheet.

Shoaf II.114.

Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• A Brief History of the Auerhahn Press
• Some Auerhahn Ephemera
• Auerhahn Press Publications
• Commissioned Publications
• Dave Haselwood Books
• Broadsides
• Oyez Broadsides [first series]
• Batman Gallery Announcements