41.
HIGGINS, Dick.
George Herbert’s Pattern Poems: In Their Tradition.
West Glover & NY: Unpublished Editions, 1977.

First edition. 79 pp w/bibliography. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. An excellent treatment and small anthology (27 titles) of pattern poems by Herbert and others.
$25

42.
HIGGINS, Dick
Twelve Metadramas.
[Barrytown]: Dick Higgins, 1987.

First edition. 16 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Higgins introduces these twelve pieces, and contextualizes them in the tradition of Fluxus events.
$35

43.
HOLLANDER, John.
Philomel.
London: Turret Books (1968).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 11 pp. Very near fine in sewn wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Hollander.
$35

44.
INMAN, P.
Ocker.
Berkeley: Tuumba Press, 1982.

First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 450 numbered copies issued as Tuumba 37.
$35

45.
INMAN, P.
Platin.
College Park: Sun & Moon (1979).

First edition. [42 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Douglas Messerli. One of 350 numbered copies. A sequence of eighteen numbered poems, issued as No. 5 in the Sun & Moon Contemporary Literature Series.
$40

46.
[THE JAM]. Miles.
The Jam.
London: Omnibus Press, 1981.

First edition. 4to. 48 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. An early history of The Jam, published before the release of The Gift and their subsequent break-up. Great New Wave layout...
$25

47.
[JARRY, Alfred].
Réponses a des enquetes par Alfred Jarry.
Collége de ‘Patapysique, 1957.

First edition. 31 pp. Light wrinkle to first leaf, else near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 462 (of 888) copies on Mauve-Mercure paper. Texts entirely in French.
$50

48.
JOANS, Ted.
Wow: Poems.
Mukilteo: Quartermoon Press, 1999.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [60 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Poems with drawings by Laura Corsiglia. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Joans and Corsiglia.
$75

49.
KALLMAN, Chester.
The Sense of Occasion: Poems.
NY: Braziller (1971).

First edition. xiii + 65 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Kallman’s third collection of poems, with an introduction by Richard Howard.
$25

50.
KEMPTON, Karl.
Lost Alfabet Found.
Reno: WCPR, 1979.

First edition. 4to. [140 pp]. Tiny pale stain to crown of spine, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Kempton introduces each of four parts in this longer work.
$40

51.
KRAKAUER, Daniel.
Poems.
Frontward Books (1979).

First edition. 4to. [34 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Alice Notley. One of 350 copies published at the Poetry Project. Poems, some of which appeared in Locus Solus, Dodgems, and Out There.
$20

52.
KRYSS, Tom.
In the Season of Open Waters.
Cleveland Heights: Green Panda Press (2013).

First edition. [68 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A collection of new poems, illustrated with photographs. Though not called for, SIGNED by Kryss. One of his best collections yet.
$17.50

53.
LOGUE, Christopher.
Selections from a correspondence between an Irishman and a Rat.
London: Goliard Press (1966).

First edition. Horizontal 48mo. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket with a tiny chip at crown. One of 150 copies. Ramsden A16.
$50

54.
MAC LOW, Jackson.
From Pearl Harbor Day to FDR’s Birthday: 7 December 1981 – 30 January 1982: Poems.
College Park: Sun & Moon (1982).

First trade paperback printing. 68 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (rear cover rubbed). Sun & Moon Contemporary Literature Series Number Fourteen.
$20

55.
MAC LOW, Jackson.
phone: a poem & 10 variations (written 4 June 1977).
NY & Amsterdam: Printed Editions/Kontexts Publications, 1979.

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrations for this edition adapted from a drawing made by Ray Johnson. A long poem, printed in two colors.
$35

56.
[MAIL ART]. Collin Maillard.
Carte Postale Post Für Gute Freunde.
Frankfurt am Main: Fricke Verlag [c. 1983].

First edition. [84 pp]. Light sticker shadow to rear cover, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with a bump to one upper corner. Full-color reproductions of mail art by the Collin Maillard collective. Text in German.
$25

57.
[MAIL ART]. Ortiz, Diego and Pepe Murciego.
sin otro particular / yours faithfully.
Madrid: Blur Editiones (2008).

First edition. 142 pp w/list of participants. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Texts in Spanish and English translation. Subtitled, “A Mail Art call from La Más Bella magazine,” this volume presents color images of work by participating artists who were called upon to manipulate the card reproduced on the front cover of this book.
$35

58.
[MARIJUANA].
A Minor Crisis: Marijuana.
Goleta: Unicorn Book Shop (nd).

First edition. Single 8 ½ x 11 inch sheet folded once. Fine. Addresses the crisis of 20,000 Americans held on marijuana charges. Unicorn Pamphlet #one.
$20

59.
McCLURE, Michael and Jess.
The Boobus and the Bunnyduck.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2007.

First edition. Folio. 24 pp. Fine in cloth-covered boards with inset illustrated front and rear cover labels. Fine publisher’s two-part box. One of 100 copies. A facsimile of a unique collaborative book created in 1957 by McClure and Jess, here presented in a single large accordion-fold text, rather than spiralbound as in the original. Thirty-two panels total, richly illustrated with color crayon drawings.
$1000

60.
McPHERSON, Sandra.
Sensing.
San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1980.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [28 pp]. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. Typeset by Wesley B. Tanner and printed by Leigh McLellan in two colors. One of 100 numbered copies on Ingres Antique Laid paper SIGNED by McPherson and McLellan.
$45

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