1.
ACKER, Kathy writing as “The Black Tarantula.”
I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac: Imagining.
NY: Traveler’s Digest Editions (1980).

Second edition. 114 pp. Covers lightly rubbed, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Artwork, both cover and internal images, by Michael McClard.
$45

2.
ADAM, Helen.
Ballads.
NY: Acadia Press (1964).

First edition. [52 pp]. Wear along spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art and interior drawings by Jess. Preface by Robert Duncan. INSCRIBED by Adam on the front free endpaper to Donald Allen, “For Don / with love / from Helen.”
$45

3.
ALLBRITAIN, Mike.
“Non-Specific Blues.”
(np): fucked-over press, 1977.

First edition. 4to. [34 pp]. Two tiny edge tears, else near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 50 copies. “A Marsh Production.” Prose and poems. Published by Alan Horvath.
$35

4.
[AMERICANS IN PARIS].
Petit Bottin des Escrivains Americains A Paris dans les annees 20.
Paris: Centre Culturel Americain [1959].

Ten mimeographed leaves, stapled upper left. Fine. Produced for distribution at this 1959 exhibition. Text in French. Catalogue of American writers from Margaret Anderson to Thomas Wolfe who parked in Paris during the 20s.
$35

5.
ANNWN, David.
The Saint John’s Fragment Against the Odds.
Santa Cruz: Foolscap Press, 2015.

First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Poem by Annwn, calligraphy by Thomas Ingmire. One of 116 numbered copies on Frankfurt Cream paper SIGNED by Annwn and Ingmire. New, at publication price:
$275

6.
ANTIN, David.
Definitions.
(np). Caterpillar (1967).

First edition. 38 pp. Near fine in spiral wire-bound printed cardstock covers. Designed by Eleanor Antin to resemble a notebook. Blank pre-printed name and address portion on the front cover filled out by Andrei Codrescu. Caterpillar VI.
$75

7.
BARAKA, Imamu Amiri (Leroi Jones).
It’s Nation Time.
Chicago: Third World Press (1970).

First edition. 24 pp. Small bookstore stamp to title page (Nkiru Books, Brooklyn), else near fine in stapled wrappers. Dated (96) and SIGNED by Baraka.
$75

8.
BARAKA, Imamu Amiri (Leroi Jones).
Jello.
Chicago: Third World Press (1970).

First edition. 38 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. A play featuring Jack Benny and Rochester. Dated (11/98) and SIGNED by Baraka.
$75

9.
BARAKA, Imamu Amiri (Leroi Jones).
Spirit Reach.
Newark: Jihad Productions (1972).

First edition. 25 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Dated (11/98) and SIGNED by Baraka inside the front cover. Poems.
$75

10.
BARTEL, Paul and Kim Deitch.
Eating Raoul.
(np): Mercury Film Distribution (1982).

First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Deitch’s comic adaptation of Paul Bartel and Dick Blackburn’s screenplay. SIGNED by Bartel inside the front cover.
$25

11.
[BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel].
King for a Decade.
Tokyo: Korinsha Press (1997).

First edition. 168 pp. Covers and page edges lightly toned, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Texts in English and Japanese. Fully-illustrated with color reproductions and photographs.
$40

12.
[BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel]. O’Brien, Glenn.
New York Beat: Jean-Michel Basquiat Downtown 81.
Tokyo: Petit Grand Publishing (2001).

First edition. 111 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Lacks the publisher’s wrap-around band. Texts in English and Japanese. Fully-illustrated with color and b&w photographs by Edo and Maripol.
$125

13.
[THE BEATLES]. Wilk, Max.
Yellow Submarine.
NY: Signet/New American Library (1968).

First US paperback printing. 128 pp w/footnotes. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A full-color rendition of the film in print.
$50

14.
BECKETT, Samuel.
Proust.
NY: Grove Press [1957].

First US edition, numbered & signed issue. 72 pp. Hint of sunning to spine, else fine in brown quarter cloth with gold stamping. Very near fine clear acetate dust jacket with one tiny chip. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Beckett. Federman & Fletcher 7.12.
$3500

15.
BECKETT, Samuel.
Watt.
Paris: Olympia Press (1953).

First edition. 254 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 1100 (of 1125) numbered copies. Accompanying this copy is the original prospectus, listing this title for sale, in addition to works by Henry Miller, De Sade, Apollinaire, Pierre Angelique, and John Cleland.
$1250

16.
BERRY, Wendell and Gary Snyder.
Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters.
Berkeley: Counterpoint (2014).

First edition. xxv + 288 pp w/notes & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Berry and Snyder on the title page.
$75

17.
BRETON, André.
Break of Day (Point du jour).
Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press (1999).

First printing of this edition (originally published in 1934). xvii + 146 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Essays translated from the original French by Mark Polizzotti and Mary Ann Caws, with Polizzotti’s preface.
$35

18.
[BROODTHAERS, Marcel].
Marcel Broodthaers.
London: Tate Gallery (1980).

First edition. Small 4to. 126 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Alan Bowness, preface by Pontus Hulten and Maria Gilissen Broodthaers. Texts and reproductions of work by Marcel Broodthaers, along with a list of his films and books.
$45

19.
[BROWNE, Tom]. Van Horn, Erica.
Small Houses: The Buildings of Tom Browne.
Clonmel: Coracle, 2007.

First edition. 16mo. [44 pp]. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 500 copies. Issued as Living Locally No. 12.
$20

20.
BURROUGHS, William S.
Paper Cloud Thick Pages.
Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin International (1992).

First edition. 4to. [48 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Foreword by Steve Lowe, brief introductory text by Burroughs. Texts in English and Japanese, all works reproduced in full color. A volume in the “ArT RANDOM” series.
$50

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