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"It's difficult to fully describe the range and impact of Steve Clay's Granary Books. Beginning in 1985 he has concocted a mix of poets, artists, printers, and craftspeople whose work defines an era and fundamentally shapes our understanding of the artists' book." Mark Dimunation, Chief of Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

The Granary Books Collection

The prospectus offering the collection may be found here

For nearly thirty years, Granary Books has investigated verbal/visual relations in the time-honored spirit of independent publishing. Granary's mission—to produce, promote, document, and theorize new works exploring the intersection of word, image, and page—has earned the press a reputation as one of the most unique and significant small publishers operating today.

We are offering for sale a complete collection of all 157 works published by Granary Books 1985–2012.

Such a collection would be all but impossible to assemble from scratch and provides a unique opportunity for an institution or private collector to acquire an extraordinary resource abundant in content for research by scholars, curators, poets, and artists—for anyone interested in the present and future of the book.

Superb Granary Books collections are held by many of the most important libraries in North America including the Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Getty Research Institute, and Special Collection Libraries at Brown, Buffalo, Columbia, Emory, Stanford, Smith, Yale, and York, to name a few.

The collection includes artists’ books, writer/artist collaborations, poetry, books about books and more, in limited editions, trade editions, broadsides, and ephemera, by a formidable roster of participants including:

David Antin, John Ashbery, Susan Bee, Charles Bernstein, Ted Berrigan, Jen Bervin, bill bissett, William Blake, Joe Brainard, John Cage, Paul Celan, Emilie Clark, Francesco Clemente, Norma Cole, Clark Coolidge, Robert Creeley, Simon Cutts, Tennessee Rice Dixon, Henrik Drescher, Johanna Drucker, Kenward Elmslie, Timothy C. Ely, Larry Fagin, Barbara Fahrner, Hermine Ford, Kathleen Fraser, Max Gimblett, Kenneth Goldsmith, Mimi Gross, Duncan Hannah, Julie Harrison, Lyn Hejinian, J. Hoberman, Susan Howe, Edmond Jabès, , Yvonne Jacquette, Pierre Joris, Franz Kamin, Alex Katz, Vincent Katz, R.B. Kitaj, Alison Knowles, Gerrit Lansing, Ligorano/Reese, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Jackson Mac Low, Steve McCaffery, Terence McKenna, Emily McVarish, Bernadette Mayer, Paul Metcalf, Alice Notley, Maureen Owen, Ron Padgett, Simon Pettet, Archie Rand, Harry Reese, Jerome Rothenberg, Susan Rothenberg, Leslie Scalapino, George Schneeman, Carolee Schneemann, Kurt Schwitters, James Siena, Jack Smith, Kiki Smith, Buzz Spector, Jack Spicer, Ian Tyson, Erica Van Horn, Cecilia Vicuña, Anne Waldman, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Lewis Warsh, Marjorie Welish, Trevor Winkfield, Jonathan Williams, John Yau, and John Zorn to name a few.