1.
ADAMOV, Arthur.
Two Plays: PROFESSOR TARANNE and PING PONG.
London: John Calder (1962).

First UK edition. 126 pp. Hard erasure to first leaf, else near fine in near fine dust jacket that is light rubbed on the rear panel. Translations by Peter Meyer and Derek Prouse from the original French. Adamov was one of the primary Theatre of the Absurd exponents.
$45

2.
BALDWIN, James.
James Baldwin Reading from ANOTHER COUNTY.
Boston: Calliope (1963).

First edition. 7” 33 ¹ ⁄ 3 rpm single. Record is fine, cover has some rubbing to front cover and a small tear to rear fold-over flap, else very good plus. Calliope CAL 18.
$50

3.
BALDWIN, James.
James Baldwin Reading from GIOVANNI’S ROOM.
Boston: Calliope (1963).

First edition. 7” 33 ¹ ⁄ 3 rpm single. Record is fine, cover has some rubbing to front cover and light bumps to two corners. Calliope CAL 11.
$50

4.
BALLARD, J.G.
The Day of Creation.
London: Gollancz, 1987.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 254 pp. Fine in full black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Ballard.
$200

5.
BALLARD, J.G.
The Disaster Area.
London: Cape (1967).

First edition. 206 pp. Book ticket residue inside front board with some offsetting, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light fading to spine and rear panel, and some areas of wear. First state jacket (21s. net on front flap). A collection of short stories.
$200

6.
BAUDRILLARD, Jean and Jean Nouvel.
The Singular Objects of Architecture.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota (2002).

First US edition. xv + 80 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Robert Bononno, with a foreword by K. Michael Hays. Two long interviews.
$45

7.
BAXTER, Glen.
The Collected Blurtings of Baxter and The Further Blurtings of Baxter.
London: Little, Brown (1993 & 1994).

First editions. [40 + 40 pp]. Both fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jackets, as issued. For the pair:
$25

8.
BENVENISTE, Asa.
Language: Enemy, Pursuit.
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1980.

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in wrappers and integral printed dust jacket with a touch of wear along the top edge. One of 100 copies. An essay concluded with three appendixes, the last of which is a useful Trigram Press Checklist (1965–1978).
$75

9.
BERKE, Roberta Elzey.
Sphere of Light.
London: Fire Books/Trigram (1972).

First edition. [158 pp]. Fine in full decorated cloth and very near fine dust jacket that is faintly sunned along the spine. SIGNED by Berke on the front free endpaper. Poems and illustrations, printed in seven colors. One of 1000 copies, issued as number 11–15 of FIRE.
$45

10.
BERSANI, Leo and Ulysse Dutoit.
Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity.
London: BFI (2004).

First edition. 185 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. CONTEMPT, ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER, and THE THIN RED LINE considered.
$45

11.
BLOCH, Ernst.
The Principle of Hope (Three Volume Set).
Cambridge: MIT Press (1986).

First US edition. 1420 pp w/glossary of foreign terms and name & title index. Three volumes, all fine in very near fine dust jackets in publisher’s very near fine slipcase. Translated from the original German by Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice, and Paul Knight.
$150

12.
BOWLES, Paul translates Mohammed Mrabet.
The Chest.
Bolinas: Tombouctou, 1983.

First edition. 98 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Ten stories by Mrabet, translated by Paul Bowles.
$45

12a.
__. Same title.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 98 pp. Fine in gilt-stamped blue cloth. One of 100 copies SIGNED by Bowles and Mrabet.
$125

13.
BOWLES, Paul translates Rodrigo Rey Rosa.
The Path Doubles Back.
NY: Red Ozier Press (1982).

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. A short story translated by Paul Bowles. Illustrations by David Craven. One of 185 numbered copies SIGNED by Rey Rosa, Bowles, and Craven.
$125

14.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard.
The San Francisco Weather Report.
[San Francisco: White Rabbit, 1968].

First edition. 13 x 8 inch broadside. Very near fine with one tiny closed tear to the top edge. Printed by Graham Mackintosh. Johnston B3.
$100

15.
BROSSARD, Chandler.
Who Walk in Darkness.
NY: New Directions (1952).

First edition. 192 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Taped to the front free endpaper is the text of a summary of the book, as from a promotional flyer. Dated (nyc 1953) and SIGNED by Brossard on the half-title page. His first book. The front flap proclaims, “This is a novel about ‘hipsters’ and their girls in New York’s Greenwich Village. Here for the first time the new generation of American bohemians are presented in fiction...”
$300

16.
BUNTING, Basil.
Collected Poems.
London: Fulcrum (1968).

First edition. 160 pp w/notes. Very near fine in full cloth and very good plus dust jacket with wear to base and crown of spine and overall rubbing. Dust jacket art by Barnett Newman. One of 150 numbered copies on grey glastonbury paper SIGNED by Bunting. Together with, as called for, a numbered silkscreen print of the cover design, housed in the original cellophane envelope with backing board (uneven toning to print).
$350

17.
[CAHUN, Claude].
Claude Cahun Photographe.
Paris: Paris Musèes/Jean Michel Place (1995).

First edition. 4to. 169 pp w/bibliography. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A well-illustrated exhibition catalogue with a catalogue raisonnè of the photographs.
$150

18.
CARRUTH, Hayden.
A Summer with Tu Fu: A Sequence of Poems.
Waldron Island: Brooding Heron Press, 1996.

First edition. 37 pp. Fine in full brown cloth with printed cover and spine labels. One of 274 (of 300) copies. Twenty-four poems.
$85

19.
CELAN, Paul.
Breath Crystal.
Victoria: Rigamarole of the Hours [c. 1977].

First edition. 21 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine dust jacket. Translations of Celan by Walter Billeter. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Billeter. Rigamarole of the Hours 3.
$25

20.
[CITY LIGHTS BOOKS]. Cook, Ralph T.
City Lights Books: A Descriptive Bibliography.
Metuchen & London: Scarecrow Press, 1992.

First edition. xxvii + 313 pp w/indexes. Boards very slightly bowed, else very near fine in decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. A comprehensive accounting of the press from 1955 to 1990, including the Pocket Poets series.
$45

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