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In 1969, Samuel and Sims Amico founded Middle Earth Books (MEB), which was originally located at 1701 Spruce St., Philadelphia before it moved to 1134 Pine St. Once settled on Pine, the bookstore began hosting poetry readings, putting out publications (Lip, Contact, et.al.) and really delving into the poetry scene. Describing its purpose, Sam Amico states,
Several artists who went on to make names for themselves did readings or contributed to publications at Middle Earth. Patti Smith, one of the poets who participated in the bookstores' ongoing poetry readings, was just beginning her career as a punk rock musician. Smith's book Kodak, published by MEB, along with a few photographs of Smith performing a poetry reading at the bookstore is included. Victor Bockris, who published Brain with MEB in 1972, was a guest editor for the first issue of "Lip", and did interviews and wrote poetry for Red Room Books' publication "Contact." He was already a well known author and has since written many biographies, including Andy Warhol, Keith Richards, and William S. Burroughs. Bockris often collaborated with Andrew Wylie, now an internationally known literary agent, on "Contact." The filmmaker/poet, Tom Pickard, published Dancing Under Fire with MEB in 1973 and also contributed to "Contact." MEB published Choices by Ernest Robson, an established poet and author, in 1973. The collection also includes additional Robson publications. Poets Marty Watt and William Talen also have published material with MEB. Additionally, a pirated edition of an unpublished collection of short stories by J.D. Salinger is included. Salinger was quite unhappy with this unauthorized publication and Middle Earth Books was one of the few bookstores in Philadelphia to carry it. A copy of Tarantula by Robert Zimmerman (later known as Bob Dylan), is also included in the collection.
This collection materials relating to Middle Earth Books' poetry readings and advertising of well-known poets. It includes correspondence, posters, paste-ups and broadsides of many famous poets during the seventies.
The collection is arranged into 10 series as follows:
Series 1: Authors, 1967-1977, undated
Series 2: Publications, 1972-1977, undated
Series 3: Publications: Broadsides, 1970-1973
Series 4: Paste-ups, 1972-1977
Series 5: History and documentation, 1969-1973, undated
Series 6: Publications: Magazines, 1972-1973, undated
Series 7: Publications: Books, 1972-1979
Series 8: Publications: Non MEB Books, 1940-1979, undated
Series 9: Recordings, 1971-1976, undated
Series 10: Miscellaneous and oversized material, 1972-1976, undated
Series 2: Publications, 1972-1977, undated
Series 3: Publications: Broadsides, 1970-1973
Series 4: Paste-ups, 1972-1977
Series 5: History and documentation, 1969-1973, undated
Series 6: Publications: Magazines, 1972-1973, undated
Series 7: Publications: Books, 1972-1979
Series 8: Publications: Non MEB Books, 1940-1979, undated
Series 9: Recordings, 1971-1976, undated
Series 10: Miscellaneous and oversized material, 1972-1976, undated
Donated by Samuel Amico in January 2009.
Original audiovisual materials, as well as preservation and duplicating masters, may not be played. Researchers must consult use copies, or if none exist must pay for a use copy. Certain digital files may also be inaccessible. Please contact the Special Collections Research Center for more information.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared in August 2010 by Holly Beth Wilson. Two additional paste-up sheets for Lip #1 were added to the collection in May 2011 (via SA). Finding aid revised according to contemporary archival standards in June 2017.
People
- Di Amico, Sarant Pansamurs
- Smith, Patti
- Robson, Ernest M.
- Bockris, Victor, 1949-
- Pickard, Tom, 1946-
- Talen, William
Organization
Subject
- Publisher
- Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
- Finding Aid Author
- Machine-readable finding aid created by: Rajkumar Natarajan, Sky Global Services India (P) Ltd.
- Finding Aid Date
- April 2024
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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The Middle Earth Books Records are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.
Collection Inventory
Scope and Contents
Series 1 contains a collection of all the authors that were in some way related to the bookstore. It is primarily their correspondence with Sam and the bookstore along with some of their work. A copy of Patti Smith's Kodak is found in this series.
Bluford, Ken: Fugitive Pieces. Typescript. Dedication poem: "To Sam." 38 pages. Stapled, 1972.
Box 1
Folder 1
Bluford, Ken: Stream. 5 typed pages from the author with note on the order of poems, undated.
Box 1
Folder 2
Bockris, Victor: Correspondence: Sam Amico, from 110 E. 17th St., Apt. 2R NYC, NY, 10003: 3 typed letters, 1 typed letter, 1 holograph greeting card (November 14, 1974); Sam Amico, from N.Y.C.: 2 holograph, multi-page letters one of which with photo of Bockris-Wylie attached, 1 typed letter in reference to Dali book, 1 holograph letter on Museum of Modern Art note card (Undated); to Sam and Sims from Co. Durham, Northumberland, UK: 1 typed letter, 1 holograph letter (Undated), 1974, undated.
Box 1
Folder 3
Bockris, Victor/Wylie, Andrew: Assorted Newspaper clippings. "The Drummer", Philadelphia. Interviews, reviews, etc. from the chroniclers of The Electric Generation, 1972-1976.
Box 1
Folder 4
Brown, Otis (?): Gab Galloway, Typed 'memoir' probably by Otis Brown about the NYC Bockris-Wylie experience. 28 pages in manila folder, undated.
Box 1
Folder 5
Brown, Otis: Clippings/Posters: Newspaper clippings from "The Drummer" by and about Otis Brown. With 2 copies of Brown poster, 1973-1976.
Box 1
Folder 6
Bukowski, Charles: Correspondence: 1 typed letter with original drawing; with envelope from S. Oxford Ave., LA, CA 90004 (December 11, 1973); 1 typed letter (April 26, 1974), 1973, 1974.
Box 1
Folder 7
Codrescu, Andrei: Correspondence: 1 typed letter in relation to a possible reading: with envelope, from Monte Rio, CA 95462, December 1, 1973.
Box 1
Folder 8
Creeley, Robert: Correspondence: 1 holograph letter from 226 Linwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14209 (February 5, 1973); 1 typed letter with typed copy of "The Plan is the Body" – poem for broadside published by Middle Earth Book, with note initialed by Creeley (February 12, 1973), 1973.
Box 1
Folder 9
Darrah, Dennis: Correspondence: 1 holograph letter in reference to manuscript, August 22.
Box 1
Folder 10
Darrah, Dennis: Eyes Only. Manuscript in paste-up form lent to Middle Earth Books for pamphlet project [unpublished] with accompanying letter dated May 1, 1975, 1970-1971, 1975.
Box 1
Folder 11
Elmslie, Kenward: Correspondence: 1 typed letter in relation to Lip #1, undated.
Box 1
Folder 12
Giorno, John: Correspondence: 1 typed letter in relation to a projected reading, April 6, 1974.
Box 1
Folder 13
Graves, Jesse: Correspondence: 2 holograph letters with poem (July 29, 1977 & November 2, 1977); 4 holograph poems/documents (undated), 1977, undated.
Box 1
Folder 14
Grossinger, Richard: Correspondence: 1 typed letter in relation to projected pamphlet for excerpt from "The Book of Being Born Again Into the World", undated.
Box 1
Folder 15
Grossinger, Richard: "The Windy Passage from Nostalgia" (unpublished mss. For Lip #2 (never published)), undated.
Box 1
Folder 16
Jackson, Robert: Correspondence: 1 typed letter, 1 typed poem signed, undated.
Box 1
Folder 17
Malanga, Gerald: Correspondence: 1 typed letter from Box 564 Gt. Barrington, Mass. 01230 (July 8, 1973); 1 typed letter from 301 Cambridge St. Apt. 3 Boston, Mass. 02114 (June 1, 1974), 1973, 1974.
Box 1
Folder 18
Martin, John: Correspondence: From Black Sparrows Press: 1 typed letter in regard to general book business, February 7, 1973.
Box 1
Folder 19
McClure, Michael: Correspondence: 1 typed letter related to potential readings and to Patti Smith (November 30, 1973); 1 holograph postcard (March 21, 1975), 1973, 1975.
Box 1
Folder 20
Pickard, Tom: Correspondence: 2 holograph letters from McKenna's Bookshop, UK (May 13, 1973 & July 17, 1973); 1 typed letter from McKenna's (September 25, 1973); 1 typed letter from McKenna's (October 24, 1973); 1 typed letter from Eric Mottram in relation to Lip #1 and "Dancing Under Fire", 1 typed letter from Dick McBride in relation to Lip #1 (Undated), 1973, undated.
Box 1
Folder 21
Pickard, Tom & Connie: Photographs, undated.
Box 1
Folder 22
Robson, Ernest: Correspondence: 1 holograph letter accompanied with additional Robson papers, poems, articles, undated.
Box 1
Folder 23
Robson, Ernest & Marion: Mss.: I Only Work Here. Typewritten compositions rendered into orthographic print with introduction, research, tables, and appendix bound into black folio. A lifework spanning five decades with typewritten introduction by Bliem Kern, February 1, 1974.
Box 1
Folder 24
Robson, Ernest: Mss.: Notes on Poetry as a Two Way Performance Art. 9 page paper with illustrative poems, undated.
Box 1
Folder 25
Robson, Ernest: Text: "An Orthographic Way of Writing English Prosody." Typed paper with footnotes and bibliography. 25 pages. Unsigned, undated.
Box 1
Folder 26
Robson, Ernest: Texts and Ephemera: "Poetic Potential in Information of Astronomy" (photocopy from International Union of Amateur Astronomers. Proceedings of the First General Assembly, Bologna) (April 19-22, 1969); "An Orthographic Way of Writing English Prosody" offprint from: Visible Language IX, 4, MIT Press, pp. 356-372 (Autumn 1975), 1969, 1975.
Box 1
Folder 27
Smith, Patti: Correspondence: 2 typed letters in relation to Kodak [chapbook] and reading at Middle Earth; 1 holograph letter sometime after reading at Middle Earth; 1 typed letter with original drawing for "Skunk Dog" sometime after the release of Lip #1 (Middle Earth publication), undated.
Box 1
Folder 28
Smith, Patti: Mss.: Kodak. As designed by Patti Smith. 10 typed pages, each page signed by Patti Smith, 1972.
Box 1
Folder 29
Smith, Patti: Kodak: Paste-ups (#3 of the 1st series of pamphlets), undated.
Box 1
Folder 30
Smith, Patti: Kodak: unbound from overrun sheets (incomplete and unfinished copy) unsigned and unsewn, undated.
Box 1
Folder 31
Smith, Patti: Photographs (6"x9" and 8"x10") of Patti Smith reading at MEB, photographer unknown, c. 1972.
Box 1
Folder 32
Talen, William (a.k.a. Rev. Billy): Correspondence: 8-9 assorted holograph letters, some with poems; 2 typed letters, one of which contains 9 typed poems; 4 assorted post cards; post card for S.F. Performance of Apple Pie with George and Jane, 3 letters of Sam Amico to Tale, to Andrew and Gary, undated.
Box 2
Folder 1
Tate, Henry: Mss.: Typescripts/copies: Assorted typescripts and copies of poems. 17 pages. Holograph signature: Dublin, 1967-1968.
Box 2
Folder 2
Tate, Henry: Photographs. 2 photographs of Tate at table, undated.
Box 2
Folder 3
Voelcker, Hunce: Ephemera (Birth announcement for his nephew, untitled, signed, issued as "An Empty Elevator Shaft Broadside"), 1973.
Box 2
Folder 4
Watt, Marty: Mss.: Notebook. Holograph jottings, poems, autobiographical notes, and contacts bound in a composition journal. Red ink stain on lower corner of first 20 pages, undated.
Box 2
Folder 5
Watt, Marty: Mss.: "The Kids Have Gone to Bed" photocopied holograph mss. With new additional pencil markings, undated.
Box 2
Folder 6
Watt, Marty: Secondary: Miscellaneous: "The Drummer" articles on Watt, Bill, Talen, and et al, 1972-1975, undated.
Box 2
Folder 7
Weatherly, Tom: Mss.: Climate. 5 typed pages from the author with cover sheet; holograph citations on coversheet and verso of last page, undated.
Box 2
Folder 8
Wieners, John: Correspondence: 1 holograph note in relation to his reading in Philadelphia with holograph poem, signed, for broadside use in celebration of Lip #1; 1 typed letter from Alan Davies (from Box 1076, So. Lancaster, Mass. 01561) in relation to John Weiner's reading in Philadelphia, undated.
Box 2
Folder 9
Williams, Jonathon: Correspondence: 1 typed letter in relation to projected reading by Jim Broughton, November 19, 1976.
Box 2
Folder 10
Wright, Franz: Correspondence: 1 typed letter from Oberlin, Ohio. The initial contact letter for MEB's pamphlet "Life of Mary" (April 28, 1976); 1 typed letter continued discussion on "Life of Mary" with enclosed original text: "Das Marien-Lieben" (May 14, 1976); 1 holograph postcard contact address in Oakland, CA (May 26, 1976); 1 typed letter minor corrections to "Life of Mary" (June 5, 1976); 1 envelope from Oberlin, letter missing (August 18, 1976); 1 typed postcard, progress inquiry on "Life of Mary" (December 6, 1976); typed note, dedication request (April 23, 1977); typed postcard, contact update (June 18, 1977); 1 typed letter, response to MEB letter (March 20, 1979); 1 holograph letter from Stuart Friebert, editor of Field Journal to verify initial contact for "Life of Mary" (Undated), 1976-1979, undated.
Box 2
Folder 11
Scope and Contents
Series 2 contains published poetry by several poets/authors such as Victor Bockris, Aaron Poller, Patti Smith, Tom Pickard, and William Talen. This includes Middle Earth's Pam Series publications.
Bockris, Victor: Brain (Pam Series #1) No. 1 (Copy 1 of 100 – signed by author), 1972.
Box 2
Folder 12
Poller, Aaron & David Federman. Seeing Double (Pam Series #1) No. 2 (Copy 1 of 100 – signed by both authors), 1972.
Box 2
Folder 13
Smith, Patti. Kodak (Pam Series #1) No. 3 (No copy in this collection-but see "Author" section for Mss., trial sheets, etc. Temple has a separate copy of Kodak.) Additional note: though all of MEB's other publications were published under the name Middle Earth Books, Kodak is published under Middle Earth Bookshop, undated.
Box 2
Folder 14
Weatherly, To & Ken Bluford: Climate/Strem (Pam Series #1) No. 4 (Copy 1 of 100 – signed by both authors), 1972.
Box 2
Folder 15
Pickard, Tom. Dancing Under Fire (Pam Series #1) No. 5 (Copy 67 of 150 – signed by author.) A series of four portrait photos by Bockris, 1973.
Box 2
Folder 16
Pickard, Tom. Dancing Under Fire (Pam Series #1) No. 5 (Trial copy wrapper: 1/5 copies – rejected.) Unused demo 1st trial edition, produced to make a timeline deadline for the Creeley/Pickard poetry reading "High Noon" sponsored by MEB. Cover design rejected and later reprinted. This is 1 of 5 copies in existence., 1973.
Box 2
Folder 17
Talen, William & Robert Jackson. Roots & Cuttings (Pam Series #2) No. 1 (Copy 1 or 100 – signed by both authors) Photographs of authors tipped in, 1974.
Box 2
Folder 18
Rilke,Rainer Maria: Life of Mary (Das Marien-Leben) (Pam Series #2) No. 2 Translation by Frank Wright. Bilingual with German and English translation on facing pages. Edition of 300, marbled paper cover, hand sewn. Illustration by Giacomo Munzu frontispiece tipped in. Unnumbered trade copy, 1977.
Box 2
Folder 19
Scope and Contents
Series 3 contains Middle Earth's broadsides, or advertisements meant for mass distribution.
Wieners, John: From a Reading in Celebration of Lip (Edition of 300 copies – "Broadside #1) Unsigned, mostly complete with typographic element missing, 1973.
Box 3
Folder 1
Creeley, Robert: The Plan is the Body (Edition of 300) signed copy/inscribed, framed in glass, 1973.
Box 3
Folder 2
Creeley, Robert: The Plan is the Body (Edition of 300) 2 copies – 1 signed "To Sam, with All Best, Bob", 1973.
Box 3
Folder 3
Snyder, Gary: Four Changes. Specific title: Changes Changes 4 Changes Change." Oversize framed broadside has been physically removed from this collection and placed in framed broadside storage. This folder contains the letter from Sam Amico regarding this broadside. The broadside is signed by Snyder (or "Chofu", his Zen name) in Chinese characters in the kitchen broadside printings. 5,000 copies printed by Noel Young in Santa Barbara for the Plowshare Bookstore and Whole Earth Truck Store, January 1970.
Box 3
Folder 4
Scope and Contents
Series 4 contains paste-ups, or as Amico defined them "artworks prepared for camera ready copy that were reproduced by Middle Earth Books, Philadelphia".
Bockris, Victor: Brain (#1 in 1st series of pamphlets), Accompanied by the author's own typed manuscript for general design purposes, 1972.
Box 3
Folder 5
Middle Earth Books Presents…: Paste-up for ticket for "High Noon" Reading at the Manning Street Theater, February 25, 1973.
Box 3
Folder 6
Pickard, Tom: Dancing Under Fire (#5 in the 1st series of pamphlets) Accompanied by unscreened photos of Tom Pickard, 1973.
Box 3
Folder 7
Poller, Aaron: Seeing Double (#2 in the 1st series of pamphlets), 1972.
Box 3
Folder 8
Lip#1. Original paste-ups for camera ready copy*, 1972.
Box 3
Folder 9
Rilke, Raines Maria: Life of Mary (#2 in the 2nd series of pamphlets), 1977.
Box 3
Folder 10
Robson, Ernest. Includes partial paste-up of a poster for a reading at MEB entitled, "The Role of Information in Poetry", undated.
Box 3
Folder 11
Talen, William: Roots & Cuttings (#1 in the 2nd series of pamphlets), 1974.
Box 3
Folder 12
Vita d'Fumatica. Paste-ups for pipe tobacco labels for insert into blended pipe tobacco packages sold exclusively at Middle Earth Books, undated.
Box 3
Folder 13
Weatherly, Tom & Ken Bluford: Climate/Stream (#4 in the 1st series of pamphlets), 1972.
Box 3
Folder 14
From a reading in Celebration of Lip, 1973.
Box 3
Folder 15
Scope and Contents
Series 5 contains news releases, newspaper clippings, ephemera and photographs.
Photography and Clippings, 1969-1977, undated.
Box 3
Folder 16
Ephemera, news releases. Includes: 1 poster for "A Reading In Celebration of Lip" Tom Weatherly and Ken Bluford. 2 posters for "High Noon. A Reading with Robert Creeley and Tom Pickard", November 19, 1972 & February 25, 1973.
Box 3
Folder 17
Scope and Contents
Series 6 contains "Contact," a publication of Red Room Books and is missing Issue 5.
"Contact": Issue 1. Philadelphia, Red Room Books. Edited by Jeff Goldberg. Cover photo of Marty Watt. Contents include Victor Bockris, Andrew Wylie, Marty Watt, Jeff Goldberg and Ken Bluford, undated.
Box 4
Folder 1
"Contact": Issue 2. Philadelphia, Red Room Books, Bockris-Wylie cover photo. Interview with Ken Bluford. Other contributors as in Contact #1, December 12, 1972.
Box 4
Folder 2
"Contact": Issue 3. Philadelphia, Red Room Books. Edited by Jeff Goldberg. Interview with Jeff Goldberg by Victor Bockris; other contributors include Marty Watt, Andrew Wylie. 300 copies in edition, December 14, 1972.
Box 4
Folder 3
"Contact": Issue 4. Philadelphia, Red Room Books. Edited by Jeff Goldberg. Larry Fagin Special Issue. Contributions by Michael Brownstein, Ted Berrigan, Ron Pagett, John Wieners, Ann Waldman, Tom Pickard and others; interview of Larry Fagin by Bockris-Wylie. 300 copies published, January 8, 1973.
Box 4
Folder 4
"Contact": Issue 6. Philadelphia, Red Room Books. Edited by Jeff Goldberg. Tom Pickard Special Issue. Contributions by Robert Bly, Ronald Faux, Pete Mortimer, Otis Brown, John Wieners, Ann Waldman, Robert Creeley, Gerard Malanga and others. Interview of Tom Pickard by Bockris-Wylie. 300 copies published, February 24, 1973.
Box 4
Folder 5
"Contact": Issue 7. Philadelphia, Red Room Books. Edited by Jeff Goldberg. John Wieners Special Issue. Contributions by Eric Mottram, Gerard Malanga, Tom Weatherly, Aram Saroyan, Tom Pickard, Otis Brown, and others. Interview of John Wieners by Bockris-Wylie. 300 copies published, April 18, 1973.
Box 4
Folder 6
Scope and Contents
Series 7 contains a book that Sam Amico wrote under the name Sarant Pansamurs Di Amico.
Lip #1. Guest edited by Victor Bockris. Publisher's personal copy, signed on illustration page 84, contributors include Gerard Malanga, Patti Smith, Tom Pickard, Aram Saroyan, Tom Clark, Andrew Wylie, Tom Raworth and others. Designed by Samuel Amico, perfect bound with foil cover, 1972.
Box 4
Folder 7
Di Amico, Sarant Pansamurs[1] (a.k.a. Samuel Amico). Epoch-Elipse (Copy "S"). Edition of 300 copies, 25 signed and lettered, encased in a see-through coverlet with contributing photos by G.M. Cloud; fold-out collage tipped on back endpaper, 1979.
Box 4
Folder 8
Talen, William. Here it is the One and Only Evening Sky (Dwarf Descending Series) (Copy 1 of 1000 – signed by author) 50 numbered and signed by author, perfect bound, color cover, painting by Frederick Hodler, 1974.
Box 4
Folder 9
Watt, Marty. Slices "A Book of Stickers" (an edition of 200 unsigned), 1976.
Box 4
Folder 10
Scope and Contents
Series 8 contains a few books that are in the collection that were not published by Middle Earth Books, but are by authors who have other publications by MEB. The pirated work of J.D. Salinger is in Folder 15 and Robert Zimmerman's (a.k.a. Bob Dylan) Tarantula is in Folder 17.
Famulary, John: Making It Alive/Poems. Cambridge, Mass. Connections Press. First edition, signed with inscription: "To Sam – remember the future", 1979.
Box 4
Folder 11
Poller, Aaron: Ghost Notes. Published at 3705 Powelton St. Philadelphia in an edition of 25 copies. Staple bound with 1 cent stamp on cover, September 18, 1972.
Box 4
Folder 12
Poller, Aaron: Tamborine (sic) & Other Poems (Tambourine & Other Poems), 8 pages stapled, with red construction paper cover [No imprint/colophon information], undated.
Box 4
Folder 13
Robson, Ernest: Poetry as a Performance Art On and Off the Page With comments by N.Y. and Philadelphia poets, including Sam Amico, Bliem Kern, Richard Kostelanetz and others. Primary Press, disturbed by Dufour Editions. With a Christmas card enclosed from Ernie and Marion Robson, 1976.
Box 4
Folder 14
Salinger, J.D.: Featuring the Complete Uncollected Short Stories: March 1940 Vol. 1 Pirated Edition. Photocopy of Philadelphia Evening Bulletin (November 11, 1974) enclosed, which tells the story of the book in relation to MEB, March 1940; November 11, 1974.
Box 4
Folder 15
Watt, Marty: Four You. Private Edition, undated.
Box 4
Folder 16
Physical Description
(Copy 8 of 10 – signed by the author) Stapled with Photos
Zimmerman, Robert (a.k.a. Bob Dylan): Tarantula. Including an interview with Bob Dylan by Jan Wenner from publication in Rolling Stone, 1969. Stapled, publisher unknown (probably bootleg), cover, rubber stamped, 1969, undated.
Box 4
Folder 17
Miscellaneous: Sam Amico's miscellaneous notes and a very detailed description of the collection, undated.
Box 4
Folder 18
Scope and Contents
Series 9 contains cassette tapes of MEB poetry readings and performances. In the flat box is a 16mm film.
Cassette Tapes: Side 1: Aaron Poller reading at MEB May 1972 Side 2: Hatten: "Voice Print" 60 minutes, undated.
Box 5
Folder 1
Cassette Tapes: Robert Jackson at Drexel: Me – "ME/Remember", Fall 1975.
Box 5
Folder 2
Cassette Tapes: Marty Watt reading "Take Time" series of poems probably at MEB sponsored event, undated.
Box 5
Folder 3
Physical Description
Low volume
Cassette Tapes: Side 1: Ken Bluford: Reading at Middle Earth Books; Side 2: Tom Weatherly: Reading at Middle Earth Books, 60 minutes, November 1972.
Box 5
Folder 4
Cassette Tapes: Side A: Robert Jackson/Robert Younger: Reading "The List" WXPN; Side B: Dexter Yagor Rally Cont., October 23, 1976 & July 24, 1971.
Box 5
Folder 5
Cassette Tapes: Robson, Ernest: Composition Performance. Spoken by Ernest and Marion Robson, undated.
Box 5
Folder 6
Into Another Ones Skull. 16 mm silent film by Sam Amico and Hatten, 1974.
Box 6
Folder 1
Scope and Contents
This series contains all oversized/miscellaneous material, including materials from series: Broadsides, Paste-ups, Posters/Programs/PR, and Recordings.
Publications: Broadsides: Bockris, Victor: Lychee Nuts. An edition of 25 sets signed and sealed August 2, 1972. Manila envelope cover probably made by Victor Bockris. This is set #3, each broadside signed and numbered., 1972.
Box 7
Folder 1
Publications: Broadsides: Darrah, Dennis: Meet the Press & Face the Nation. An edition of 300m 25 of which are signed (2 copies, both signed by the author), 1975.
Box 7
Folder 2
Publications: Broadsides: Robson, Ernest: Choices (a promotional item for an edition of 200 sets of 9 broadsides, 100 sets numbers, signed and cased in a portfolio) This copy is not numbered, signed, or cased, 1973.
Box 7
Folder 3
Publications: Broadsides: Robson, Ernest: Collection of 8 of the 9 broadsides in Choices unsigned, 1973.
Box 7
Folder 4
Paste-ups: Darrah, Dennis: Meet the Press, 1975.
Box 7
Folder 5
Pate-ups: Robson, Ernest: Choices. Informational planning sheet with mock up drawing by publisher; paste up labels of Choices portfolio, masked out negatives and offset metal plate for cover graphics of portfolio, 1973.
Box 7
Folder 6
Paste-ups: Watt, Marty: Slices. Paste-up boards for book of stickers of poems, undated.
Box 7
Folder 7
Paste-ups: Miscellaneous, 1976.
Box 7
Folder 8
Posters/Programs/PR: Into Another One's Skull, Includes: 2 copies of film poster [diptych] for Into Another One's Skull; 2 copies of program for film event, one copy of statement by Hatten, Amico & X; 2 announcements for: Audio Into Art by Hatten & X, aired on WUHY 90.9 FM; signed manuscript of Voice Print [text]; #1 of 3 copies, Middle Earth Books 1974; Paste-up & Plates for poster for Into Another One's Skull; Announcement of Release of "Voice Print", undated.
Box 7
Folder 9
Posters/Programs/PR: Watt, Marty. Middle Earth Books Presents "Marty Watt and Otis Brown at the Mask & Wig" 2 copies. Also various posters and handbills that promote related readings in the local Philadelphia area,, 1970's Sunday, February 9.
Box 7
Folder 10
Recordings: LP: Hatten, T.: "Voice Print" LP recording with cover photographs by X in an edition of 300 copies. This copy still in shrink wrapping, 1974.
Box 7
Folder 11
Publications: Broadsides: Robson, Ernest: Choices. A portfolio of 9 broadsides rendered into Prosodynic print by Ernest & Marion Robson; original poem/music by Ernest Robson; calligraphy by Marion Robson; printed on various colored papers with colored inks. Middle Earth Books, in an edition of 200 sets, 100 sets signed and numbered on each of the 9 different broadsides, all encased in boards with marbled paper wrappers, 1973.
Box 7
Folder 12