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41.
[GOULD, Glenn]. Bazzana, Kevin.
Glenn Gould: The Performer in the Work. A Study in Performance Practice.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

First edition. xxi + 297 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. CD present in envelope affixed inside rear cover, as issued.
$30

42.
HOUEDARD, Dom Sylvestre.
Ode to the Colonels.

Woodchester: Openings Press (1970).

First edition. 7 7 16 x 5 ½ inches. Very good plus. Openings card series 8.
$45

43.
HOWE, Susan.
118 Westerly Terrace.

Brooklyn: Belladonna Books (2005).

First edition. 13 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. A stand-alone work, issued as Belladonna #68.
$45

44.
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
The Berlin of Sally Bowles.

London: Hogarth Press, 1975.

First edition. 583 ppp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Isherwood provides a new introduction for this omnibus edition. Goodbye to Berlin, Sally Bowles, and Mr. Norris Changes Trains collected.
$75

45.
[JARMAN, Derek].
Derek Jarman’s THE GARDEN.

Tokyo: Uplink (1990).

First edition. 24 mo. [48 pp]. Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Issued on the occasion of the film’s Japanese release. Illustrated with twenty-two b&w and color photographs and stills. Text in Japanese.
$25

46.
JOYCE, James.
Tales Told of Shem and Shaun: Three Fragments from Work in Progress.

Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929.

First edition, numbered issue. 55 pp. One pale trivial spot to top edge, else fine in wrappers and printed dust jacket with original glassine. Near fine publisher’s slipcase, with light wear to extrems. Laid in is the original slip from Black Sun indicating that this is copy #17. Slocum & Cahoon A36.
$2500

47.
KEES, Weldon.
Fall Quarter: The Unpublished Novel.

Brownsville: Story Line Press (1990).

First edition, limited issue. 246 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine in publisher’s slipcase. Edited and with an introduction by James Reidel. According to the publisher, this issue was limited to 100 copies.
$50

48.
LAX, Robert.
“Two Fables” issued as Pax Number 14.

NY: Pax (1961).

First edition. Single long sheet folded three times to make a booklet (9 x 6 inches, closed). Near fine. “Questions” and “A Problem in Design” by Pax, with two drawings by Emil Antonucci. Hauff 10.
$75

49.
LEVINE, Philip.
A History of My Befuddlement.

Berkeley: Bancroft Library, University of California (2009).

First edition. Small 4to. 18 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 500 copies on Mohawk Superfine paper. Introductions to this lecture by Raymond Lifchez and Chana Bloch.
$20

50.
levy, d.a.
Poem for Julie.

cleveland: grass coin publishing company, 1967.

First edition. 4to. [8 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 260 copies. Cover photograph by M.J. Roach.
$125

51.
levy, d.a. ed.
465: An Anthology of Cleveland Poets.

Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966.

First edition. [62 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover silkscreen by Ralph & Diedra Poplar. One of 500 copies. levy’s first all-Cleveland anthology with appearances by Russell Atkins, Judith Hawthorne Albrecht, Grace Butcher, Geoffrey Cook, John & Susan Cornillon, Joel Marc Deutsch, Joel Friedman, Bennet Hassink, Walter Keller, T.L. Kryss, Jacob Leed, d.a. levy, Franklin W.W. Osinski, RJS, Thom Szuter, Kent Taylor, and Don Thomas. Dedicated to Martin & Adelaide Simon.
$350

52.
LINCOLN, Paul.
In Tribute to Madame de Pompadour and the Court of Louis XV.

Coracle Press, 1985.

First edition. 12mo. [40 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers. One of 500 copies. Text with b&w photographs.
$45

53.
MARÍAS, Javier.
Dark Back of Time.

NY: New Directions (1988).

First US edition. 336 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Spanish by Esther Allen.
$25

54.
McCLURE, Michael.
A Spirit of Mt. Tamalpais.

[Berkeley]: Book People (nd).

First edition. 10 x 7 ¼ inch broadside. Fine. Printed for Book People by Jim Mundy and Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press.
$55

55.
McCLURE, Michael.
Thirteen Mad Sonnets.

Milan: Serigrafia Pezzoli (1964).

First edition. 4to. [24 pp]. Fine in wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket. Two fold-out leaves reproducing photographs of McClure by Ettore Sottsass Jr. One of 299 (of 319) numbered copies.
$100

56.
MELTZER, David.
Bronx Lil [first line].

[Portland]: Yes! Perss, 1970.

First edition. 11 x 4 ¼ inch broadside. Two small spots on the verso, else fine. One of 125 copies.
$30

57.
MELTZER, David.
It’s Simple.

[San Francisco]: Mudra (nd).

First edition. 11 9 16 x 5 ¾ inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Printed at the Hermes Free Press.
$45

58.
METCALF, Paul.
Willie’s Throw.

Richmond: Mad River Press, 1989.

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 350 copies printed at the Five Trees Press. Cover image is of Mays’ back-to-the-plate catch of Bobby Brown’s long liner in 1951’s fourth World Series Game.
$25

59.
MEYER, Tom.
Legends.

Blue Tunnel, 1976.

First edition. Four 7 x 7 inch leaves housed in a printed paper folder. All elements fine. Designed and illustrated by Chloë Buck. INSCRIBED by Meyer on the front flap, “for Douglas from Tom at the end of 1977.”
$45

60.
[MILLER, Henry]. Crews, Judson.
Henry Miller and Big Sur Days: Vignettes from Memory.

El Paso: Vergin Press (1992).

First edition. 47 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction by Belinda Subraman. An exerpt from Crews’ 10,000 page memoir (this material edited from between pages 7,451 and 7,689).
$25

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