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41.
HAGEDORN, Jessica.
The Woman Who Thought She Was More than a Samba.

San Francisco: Momo’s Press (1978).

First edition. Single fine sheet folded once and laid into a near fine printed cover. Cover art by Michael Myers of Zephyrus Image. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Hagedorn.
$75

42.
[HAIGHT-ASHBURY]. Perry, Charles.
The Haight-Ashbury: A History.

NY: Random House (1984).

First edition. xii + 306 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrated.
$35

43.
HEANEY, Seamus.
Slack.

[Newcastle]: Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (2009).

First edition. Single long stiff sheet accordion-folded (6 x 8 ¼ inches, closed). Fine. A single poem by Heaney, accompanied by a statement by Sean O’Brien and a b&w photograph. Uncommon.
$45

44.
HIGGINS, Dick.
Classic Plays.

NY: Unpublished Editions, 1976.

First trade paperback printing. [62 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Visual poems.
$75

45.
HIGGINS, Dick.
The Ladder to the Moon.

Barton: Unpublished Editions, 1973.

First edition. ix + 113 pp. Small bump to base of spine, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
$45

46.
HIGGINS, Dick.
Modular Poems.

Barton: Unpublished Editions, 1974.

First trade paperback printing. 4to. 158 pp. Near fine in printed cream wrappers. Higgins’ poems with photographic illustrations by Eugene Williams. Dated (Feb. 16, ‘76) and INSCRIBED by Higgins on the front free endpaper.
$100

47.
HORN, Roni.
Bluff Life (Ísland: To Place 1).

NY: Peter Blum, 1990.

First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in full black cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 1000 copies. SIGNED by Horn on the colophon page. The first volume in Horn’s “To Place” series. Open Book, The Photobook: A History, Volume II.
$850

48.
JARRY, Alfred.
Days and Nights: Novel of a Deserter.

London: Atlas (1989).

First printing of this edition (originally published in 1897). 143 pp w/notes. Small bump to base of spine, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Alexis Lykiard, with additional verse translations by Stanley Chapman. Introduction by Alastair Brotchie.
$25

49.
JARRY, Alfred.
Visits of Love.

London: Atlas (1993).

First printing of this edition (originally published in 1898). 112 pp w/translator’s notes & sources/bibliography. Spine sunned, else very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Iain White. Introduction by Alastair Brotchie. Jarry’s second novel.
$25

50.
JOYCE, James.
Finnegans Wake.

London: Faber & Faber (1964).

Third edition, first printing. 628 pp. Faint offsetting to endpapers, else very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a small scuff to the front panel. The preferred corrected edition.
$75

51.
KAEL, Pauline.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown [1968].

Uncorrected proof. 411 pp. Fine in comb-bound wrappers. Kael’s second book.
$125

52.
KAZAN, Max. et al, eds.
Labris 3–4.

Lier: Labris (1966).

217 pp. 4to. A few trivial bumps, else very near fine in printed wrappers. A terrific issue, pulling from the Beats to the concretists. Contributors include Houedard, Kolar, Finlay, Jandl, Furnival, levy, Blazek, Snyder, Chopin, Sanders, Nichol, McClure, Bukowski, and many others.
$225

53.
KEROUAC, Jack together with Albert Saijo and Lew Welch.
Trip Trap: Haiku along the Road from San Francisco to New York 1959.

Bolinas: Grey Fox Press, 1973.

First edition. 57 pp. Light toning along spine, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Additional recollections by Albert Saijo and Lew Welch.
$50

54.
KHLEBNIKOV, Velimir.
Dragon Train: An Escap(ad)e.

Edinburgh: Morning Star Publications (1995).

First edition. Single long sheet accordion-folded (7 x 4 ¾ inches, closed), housed in a printed sleeve. One of 300 numbered copies. Translated by Edwin Morgan with an illustration by Stephen Duncalf. Under the Moon Series 2/2.
$25

55.
KRAUSS, Ruth.
This Breast Gothic.

Lenox: Bookstore Press, 1973.

First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems and drawings.
$35

56.
KUENZLI, Rudolf E. ed.
New York Dada.

NY: Willis Locker & Owens (1986).

First edition. 195 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Nine essays on various figures in and around New York Dada, followed by a selections of articles on NY Dada from period newspapers, a reprint of the elusive NY Dada magazine TNT, and concluding with a thorough bibliography.
$55

57.
[LASSUS, Bernard].
Lejardin des Tuileries de Bernard Lassus.

London: Coracle, 1991.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 67 pp. Fine in full cloth with inset printed spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Lassus. Contributions by Stephen Bann, Chrisophe Bayle, Philippe Boudon, Lucius Burckhardt, Michel Conan, Simon Cutts, John Dixon Hunt, Peter Jacobs, Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidee, Robert B. Riley, and Alain Roger.
$100

58.
LEVERTOV, Denise.
The Depths.

Berkeley: Black Oak Books (nd).

First edition. Folding card (9 x 4 inches, closed). Fine. A single poem by Levertov, printed in two colors by Peter Koch. Issued as a gift for the new year by Black Oak.
$20

59.
LOEWINSOHN, Ron.
Watermelons.

NY: Totem (1959).

First edition. 29 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg, with the text of an encouraging and complimentary letter from William Carlos Williams. Loewinsohn’s first book, a collection of poems.
$45

60.
LORCA, Federico Garciá.
The Unknown Lorca: Dialogues, Dramatic Projects, Unfinished Plays & a Filmscript.

London: Atlas (1996).

First trade edition. 127 pp w/notes. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Edited and translated from the original Spanish by John London. Published originally in an edition of 300 copies in the Atlas “Printed Head” series.
$20

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