Cheney, William M. — Pamphlet on the Four Basic Dialects of Pig Latin
Los Angeles’s legendary typesticker turns Pig Latin into a complete miniature mock-scholarly performance.
George Hugh Banning — Found in a Derelict
Born into one of Southern California’s defining maritime families, George Hugh Banning turned a youth spent before the mast, First World War aviation service, Pacific expeditions, and the history of the American West into poetry, pulp sea fiction, travel writing, and historical narrative. His 1919 collection Found in a Derelict joins sea ballads, poems of battle and flight, Californian landscapes, and an ambitious title narrative drawn from shipboard experience. This critical reading edition restores the complete book together with four poems from their 1916 periodical witnesses, preserves Loren Roberta Barton’s illustrations and the volume’s collaborative design history, and supplies a full account of Banning’s long, varied, and largely forgotten literary life.
Baker, Ernest Everhart — Collected Poems
A Salem lawyer’s frontier ballads and Los Angeles street lyrics, reunited across two handmade books.
Sydney King Russell — Collected Poems, 1923–1949
Sydney King Russell moved easily between kinds of writing that literary history often keeps apart: formal lyrics, satirical portraits, devotional poems, popular songs, film publicity, anthology making, and the privately printed books of his later decades. The seven substantial witnesses preserved here—beginning with The Changing Flame and ending with Selected Poems, 1919–1948—show a writer repeatedly reordering his own career. The 1949 selection is therefore printed as a separate historical construction rather than used to erase the earlier books.
Jake Zeitlin — Collected Poems
Before Jake Zeitlin became the legendary bookseller at the center of literary Los Angeles, he was a young Texas poet encouraged by Carl Sandburg. These two rare collections reveal the lyric imagination behind the shopkeeper who connected writers, printers, photographers, artists, scientists, collectors, and rebels.
Dion O’Donnol — Collected Poems
Poet, printer, editor, translator, and relentless small-press organizer, Dion O’Donnol made books that moved from Depression-era lyricism to radical collisions of verse, advertising, color, ornament, and found paper. This reset edition gathers the conventional collections, the complete numbered sequence from Listen, No Echo, recovered periodical poems, later work from Dion, and his Bashō translation. A separately titled facsimile preserves the complete material bookworks.
Charles Antone Cavalli — Collected Poems
A La Honda storekeeper and deputy sheriff turned California into a stark late-modernist landscape of redwoods, Pacific storms, war, death, and stubborn natural beauty. Cavalli’s sole book, printed in only three hundred copies after his death, returns here complete and newly restored from the original scan.