1.
ABBOTT, Keith.
What You Know With No Name For It.
San Francisco: Cranium Press, 1976.

First edition. [20 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. Great Michael Myers linocut illustration on cover and title page. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Abbott.
$45

2.
APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume.
Alcools.
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California, 1965.

First edition. xxx + 289 pp w/notes & bibliography. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to crown of spine and a few short closed edge-tears. Original French with facing English translations by Anne Hyde Greet. Foreword by Warren Ramsey. “Compliments of the Press” slip laid in.
$75

3.
ARTAUD, Antonin.
Heliogabalus or, The Anarchist Crowned.
London: Creation Books (2003).

First UK edition. 125 pp w/appendix. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Alexis Lykiard. Introduction by Stephen Barber. Artaud’s novelised biography of the third-century Roman Emperor. The first appearance of this text in English.
$35

4.
ASHBERY, John.
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
NY: Viking (1975).

First edition. 83 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Dated (New York / July 18, 1994) and INSCRIBED by Ashbery. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
$300

5.
BALLARD, J.G.
Crash.
London: Jonathan Cape (1973).

First edition. 224 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with just a touch of edgewear. Source for the 1996 David Cronenberg film of the same title.
$950

6.
BALLARD, J.G.
The Unlimited Dream Company.
London: Jonathan Cape (1979).

First edition. 223 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket that is price-clipped. SIGNED by Ballard on the title page. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award.
$225

7.
BERGÉ, Carol.
Lumina (for the artisan, Eugene Hines).
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1965.

First edition. [8 pp]. Covers a bit toned, else near fine in printed wrappers. One of 178 copies printed letterpress by d.a. levy. Taylor & Horvath P-71.
$150

8.
BERMAN, Wallace.
Photograph of John Wieners.
1959.

Original linen weave line screen photograph used on the back of the second edition of Wiener’s first book THE HOTEL WENTLEY POEMS. The 7 x 5 inch print is very near fine, professionally matted and framed. The photograph is titled in the lower left corner in Berman’s hand, “John W. 1959.” On the verso, likely in publisher Dave Haselwood’s hand, “Photograph 1959 Wallace Berman.”
$4500

9.
BERRIGAN, Ted.
In a Blue River.
NY: Little Light Books (1981).

First edition. [52 pp]. A few light spots to covers, and one on the fore-edge, else very good plus in wrappers. SIGNED by Berrigan on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED, “Dear Keith— / I’ve been just poor enough / to embarass myself by not re- / paying special favors, out of / stupid simple distractions. / Sorry. Here’s some / Vigorish. Will send / $ upon receipt of first / paycheck from CCNY / Circa 28 Feb. — Love, Professor Ted.” Also SIGNED by Berrigan on the colophon page and designating, “this is # ½ (hors commerce).” And if that weren’t enough, “This copy is for Keith Abbot” penned by Berrigan at the base of the page. As in the twenty-six numbered copies, this one has an original poem, “A Christmas Carol” inked by Berrigan opposite the colophon page.
$1000

10.
BERRY, Wendell.
Three Memorial Poems.
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1977.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [36 pp]. Fine in full cloth with pasted-on cover and spine labels. Near fine unprinted dust jacket with a small closed tear and small chip to the bottom edge. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Berry. Collects “Elegy,” “Requiem,” and “Rising.”
$150

11.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard.
The Galilee Hitch-Hiker.
San Francisco: or (1966).

Second edition. [16 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. Cover art by Kenn Davis. One of 700 copies printed at the Cranium Press. Originally published in 1958 by Joe Dunn at the White Rabbit Press. A nine part poem sequence.
$200

12.
BRONK, William.
Light and Dark.
Ashland: Origin Press (1956).

First edition. [32 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Cover design by Eugène G. Canadé. Bronk’s first book, a collection of poems.
$125

13.
BROWN, George Mackay.
In the Margins of a Shakespeare.
Catchmays Court: Old Stile Press (1991).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. 49 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and fine publisher’s decorated slipcase. Poems with wood-engravings by Llewellyn Thomas. One of 220 numbered copies on Zerkall mould-made paper SIGNED by Brown and Thomas. Published on the occasion of Brown’s 70th birthday.
$200

14.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Gold in Your Eye.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1986.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and fine unprinted white dust jacket (pictured without jacket). One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Bukowski. Krumhansl 98c. This is copy “A.”
$250

15.
BUNIN, Ivan.
Memories and Portraits.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1951.

First US edition. 217 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a light fade to spine. Translated from the original Russian by Vera Traill and Robin Chancellor. Bunin on Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorki, and many others.
$35

16.
BURROUGHS, William S. and Brion Gysin.
The Exterminator.
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1960.

First edition. 51 pp. Light bump to one lower corner, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Designed and printed by Dave L. Haselwood and James F. McIlroy. Maynard & Miles A4.
$100

17.
CAMUS, Albert.
Le Malentendu and Caligula.
Paris: Gallimard (1947).

First edition. 211 pp. Corners lightly bumped, else near fine in illustrated paper-covered boards. Original unprinted glassine present, but has several chips and tears. One of 2000 numbered copies.
$125

18.
CAVELL, Stanley.
This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein.
Albuquerque: Living Batch Press, 1989.

First trade paperback printing. 128 pp w/works cited. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with a small bump to the crown.
$15

19.
CHESTER, Alfred.
Looking for Genet: Literary Essays & Reviews.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1992.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 260 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited, and with a foreword by Edward Field. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Field.
$100

19a.
__ Another copy.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 260 pp. Fine printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Field.
$200

20.
COLLOM, Jack.
WET for Traudl.
(np): (np) 1967.

First edition. 4to. [62 pp]. Covers unevenly toned, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Nathaniel Collom. Collom’s uncommon fourth book.
$75

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