e-catalog #017, also known as...
catalog #87


11 x 8 ½
(Revisited)

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1.
ANDERSON, David.
The Spade in the Sensorium.

Bolinas: Big Sky Books (1974).

First edition. 4to. [40 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Philip Guston. One of 600 copies. Prose.
$40

2.
AROBATEAU, Red.
Theme from Killer Joe (Train from Overbrook): A Poem.

San Francisco: Red Arobateau, 1970.

First edition. 4to. [18 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. A single long poem with a cover photograph by Suzanne De Young and one internal drawing by Arobateau.
$45

3.
BAXTER, Glen.
Drawings.

NY: Adventures in Poetry (1974).

First edition. 4to. [70 pp]. Bumps and a crease to one upper corner, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. A collection of Baxter’s captioned drawings. “The brigadier was wearing the forbidden snood.” Cover title appears to be CRANIREONS OF BOTYA.
$50

4.
BECK, Regina.
Looking at the Sun.

Cherry Valley: Telephone Books (1974).

First edition. 4to. [26 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 300 copies. Poems that appeared previously in The World, The Harris Review, and Telephone.
$20

5.
BENNETT, John.
Like a Street Child Rushing to a Celebration.

Austin: Quixote, 1975.

First edition. 4to. [72 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. A collection of poems, stories, and “playstors” issued as Quixote Vol 9, No 4.
$45

6.
BENVENISTE, Asa.
Listen.

Bowling Green: Doones Press (1975).

First edition. 4to. [22 pp]. Some light toning and a small mark to rear cover, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Elisabeth Brandfass.
$35

7.
BERKSON, Bill.
Shining Leaves.

NY: Angel Hair (1969).

First edition, hors commerce issue. 4to. [66 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Alex Katz. One of 10 lettered copies SIGNED by Berkson (though not by Katz, as called for in the colophon) with a holograph poem by Berkson inked to the recto of the last leaf (the poem, “Mister Motion”). Additionally INSCRIBED by Berkson on the front free endpaper to Michael Brownstein, “for Michael, / ‘I wonder if they’ve really / caught the scent...’ / love and brotherhood, / Bill Berkson.”
$125

8.
BIGGS, Thazarbell.
We Are Integrated and Wonderfully Made.

NY: Adventures in Poetry (1976).

First edition. 4to. [48 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Bruce Erbacher. Poems.
$15

9.
bissett, bill.
th fifth sun.

Vancouver: blewointmentpress (1975).

First edition. 4to. [54 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled and taped wrappers. One of 500 copies. Concrete poems.
$20

10.
BLEVINS, Richard.
Clarel’s Motel: Travel and Poetry in the USA.

Santa Barbara: Am Here Books (1987).

First edition. 4to. [64 pp]. Fine in strip-bound wrappers. Poems.
$15

11.
BRAINARD, Joe and Waldman, Anne.
Self Portrait.

NY: Siamese Banana Press (1972).

First edition. 4to. [78 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers with a tiny bump to one upper corner and light toning to spine. Dual self-portrait statements by Brainard & Waldman, each based on a proposed single word or short phrase ie money, writing, optimistic.
$100

12.
BRIGGS, Harold.
Though Man Fly Angel High.

Torrance: Hors Commerce Press (1964).

First edition. 4to. [28 pp]. Fine in side-stapled and taped wrappers. One of 7 numbered copies “For friends + patrons of Wormwood” SIGNED by Briggs. His first book, issued as No.2H.C.P.-64 SERIES.
$75

13.
[BROUGHTON, James]. Gildzen, Alex. ed.
In the Wind of Wonder: an exhibition of selections from the papers of James Broughton.

Kent: Special Collections/Kent State University Libraries, 1982.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 4t0. [12 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Introduction by Alex Gildzen. A descriptive list of seventy-eight exhibited books, manuscripts, items from the film archives, and correspondence. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Broughton. Cover reproduces a great photograph of a very young Broughton, interrupted in his reading of MOTHER WILD GOOSE.
$50

14.
BROWN, Rebecca.
Mouse Works.

NY: Siamese Banana Press (1971).

First edition. 4to. [18 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art and two internal illustrations by Martha Diamond. A collection of five poems.
$27.50

15.
BROWNSTEIN, Michael.
Behind the Wheel: Poems.

[NY]: C Press (1967).

First edition. 4to. [52 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 184 (of 200) copies. Edited by Ted Berrigan, production by Ron Padgett, cover art by Alex Katz. The little-known 14th and concluding issue of “C” Magazine.
$200

16.
BROWNSTEIN, Michael.
When Nobody’s Looking.

Boulder: Rocky Ledge Cottage Editions (1981).

First edition, hors commerce issue. 4to. [20 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by George Schneeman. One of 10 numbered copies SIGNED by Brownstein and Schneeman.
$150

17.
BROWNSTEIN, Michael and Rod Padgett with Joe Brainard.
Kiss My Ass! / Sufferin’ Succotash.

NY: Adventures in Poetry (1971).

First edition. 4to. [26 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Covers and internal artwork by Joe Brainard. One fo 274 (of 300) copies. Back-to-back works by Brownstein and Padgett, both illustrated by Brainard.
$125

18.
CARTER, Charlotte.
Sheltered Life.

NY: Angel Hair Books (1975).

First edition. 4to. 63 pp. Last half dozen leaves pulled away from top staple, else very good plus in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art a painting of Carter by Raphael Soyer. One of 350 copies. The first book—an underground smash—by this African American writer, author of the Nanette Hayes Mystery Series.
$35

19.
CAUBLE, Don.
Early Morning Death Fragments.

(np): Cold Mountain Publishing Co., 1969.

First edition. 4to. [18 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers with silk-screened cover by t.l. kryss. One of 500 copies. Introduction by Douglas Blazek.
$35

20.
CLARK, Tom.
Car Wash.

(np): (np) [1970].

First edition. Horizontal 4to. [26 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Textless selection of b&w photographs of a car going through a car wash. Printed dedication to Jack Collom.
$25

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