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21.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Ford, Ford Madox. ed
The Transatlantic Review 1: 1– 2: 6 (complete).

Paris: Transatlantic Review 1924–1925.

Twelve issues bound into two cloth volumes with gilt stamping on spine. Front and rear wrappers for each issue bound-in. Complete run of this landmark magazine. The first issue featured Cummings, Pound, McAlmon, Soupault, Eliot, Wells, Conrad, and then continued from strength to strength. For the set:
$1000

22.
[CONNER, Bruce].
Grand Street 52: “Games.”

NY: Grand Street Press (1995).

Vol. 13, No. 4. 248 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Conner contributes an essay on his friend Jay DeFeo, illustrated with eight reproductions. SIGNED by Conner.
$55

23.
[CORACLE PRESS].
4 Years at Coracle Press 1976–1980.

London: Coracle Press [1981].

First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Exhibition selected by David Brown, with his introduction. Simon Cutts contributes an afterword. In between, lists of publications (1975–1980), “Exhibitions and Occasions” (1976–80), and exhibits.
$20

24.
CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, Kevin.
Eleanor’s Advent.

Catchmays Court: Old Stile Press (1992).

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and publisher’s decorated slipcase. Engravings by Alyson MacNeill. One of 225 numbered copies on Zerkall mould-made paper SIGNED by Crossley-Holland and MacNeill. A poem sequence, illustrated with MacNeill’s engravings.
$50

25.
CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, Kevin.
Oenone in January.

Catchmays Court: Old Stile Press (1988).

First edition. 21 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. Fine publisher’s decorated slipcase. Poem with illustrations by John Lawrence. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Crossley-Holland and Lawrence.
$50

26.
DAUMAL, René.
Mount Analogue: A Tale of Non-Euclidian and Symbolically Authentic Mountaineering Adventures.

Woodstock & NY: Tusk Ivories/Overlook (2004).

First printing of this edition. 119 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Kathleen Ferrick Rosenblatt. Afterword by Véra Daumal.
$20

27.
DESNOS, Robert; Leiris, Michel; Limbour, Georges; Peret, Benjamin.
The Automatic Muse: Surrealist Novels.

London: Atlas (1994).

First edition. 169 pp w/notes. Near fine in illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Introduction by Terry Hale, with translations by Hale and Iain White. Collects MOURNING FOR MOURNING, THE CARDINAL POINTS, THE POLAR CHILD, and THE ELEGANT EWE.
$35

28.
[DESNOS, Robert]. Conley, Katherine.
Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life.

Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press (2003).

First edition. xiii +270 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
$30

29.
DICK, Philip K.
Counter-Clock World.

Boston: Gregg Press/G.K. Hall, 1979.

First hardcover edition. x + 160 pp. Light unobtrusive smudge to second leaf, else very near fine in full decorated cloth. Published originally in 1967 as a mass-market paperback original. This edition adds an introduction by David. G. Hartwell.
$250

30.
DORN, Edward.
What I see in the Maximus Poems.

Ventura & Worcster: Migrant, 1960.

First edition. 17 pp. Light toning to extrems, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Dorn’s first book.
$350

31.
DOUGLAS, Norman.
Some Limericks.

NY: Grove (1967).

First edition. 94 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Subtitled: Collected for the use of Students, & ensplendour’d with Introduction, Geographical Index, and with Notes Explanatory and Critical. Review slip laid in.
$45

32.
DUNCALF, Stephen.
Ducts & Tracts: Notebooks 1974–86.

Docking: Coracle (1991).

First edition. [114 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Duncalf.
$35

33.
EBENSTEN, Hanns.
Pierced Hearts and True Love: An Illustrated History of the Origin and Development of European Tattooing and a Survey of its Present State.

London: Derek Verschoyle (1953).

First edition. 94 pp w/bibliography. Very near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with a chip to the front panel and a smaller one to the rear. According to the front flap, “This is the first book in English to tell the history and describe the intricacies of Modern Tattooing.”
$200

34.
[FINLAY, Ian Hamilton].
Single Words for Ian Hamilton Finlay.

Docking: Coracle, 1996.

First edition. [84 pp]. A few tiny specks to top edge, and light tapping to upper corners, else near fine in full yellow cloth with blue lettering to spine. One of 196 copies. Contributions by Thomas A. Clark, Cobbing, Jonathan Williams, Jandl, Sackett, Cutts, Turnbull, Corman, Bann, Winkfield, and many others.
$60

35.
GARNIER, Pierre.
Le Jardin Japonais.

Paris: Éditions André Silvaire (1978).

First edition. 72 + [50 pp]. Two volumes, both near fine in printed wrappers. Dated (21 November 1980) and INSCRIBED by Garnier on the half-title page of the first volume.
$125

36.
GILDZEN, Alex. ed.
6 Poems & 7 Prints.

Kent: Kent State University Libraries, 1971.

First edition, signed issue. Thirteen 12 x 10 inch broadsides and a title sheet housed in a printed paper folder. All broadsides fine, folder very near fine with a tiny nick to the bottom edge. SIGNED broadsides by John Ashbery, James Bertolino, Gwendolyn Brooks, Denise Levertov, Steven Osterlund, Gary Snyder. SIGNED and numbered prints by Robert Smithson, M. Begland Sacco, Harvey Quaytman, Fairfield Porter, and Otto Piene. There are prints also by Grace Hartigan and Alex Katz, but these are not signed, as issued.
$4000

37.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Empty Mirror: Early Poems.

NY: Totem/corinth (1961).

First edition. 47 pp. Pages toned, else near fine in stapled wrappers that are darkened at the extrems. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. SIGNED by Ginsberg on the front cover.
$150

38.
GODFREY, John.
Where the Weather Suits My Clothes.

Calais: Z Press, 1984.

First edition. 32 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. One of 750 numbered copies. Dated (11–20–85) and INSCRIBED by Godfrey to a fellow poet.
$45

39.
GREEN, Mark.
“A Kind of Beatness” Photographs of a North Beach Era 1950–1965.

San Francisco: Focus Gallery, 1975.

First edition. [12 pp]. Near fine in oblong stapled wrappers. LaVigne, Ginsberg, Rexroth, Kaufman, Berman, Hedrick, Duncan, Jess, Conner, Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo, and many others pictured. Brown and DeFeo photographed by Wallace Berman.
$50

40.
GUNN, Thom.
Death’s Door.

[Tuscaloosa]: Red Hydra Press, 1989.

First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in paste paper covered boards with slim leather spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 20 numbered copies (from an edition of 80) on Twinrocker “18th Century” handmade paper SIGNED by Gunn. Ten new poems. Hagstrom & Bixby A41.
$250

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