41.
FORD, Richard.
Communist.
Derry & Ridgewood: Babcock & Koontz (1987).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Title page wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec. Designed by Allan Kornblum and printed by Kent Aldrich of Coffee House Press. One of 200 numbered copies on Masa paper SIGNED by Ford. A short story.
$75

42.
[FRANK, Robert]. Burger-Utzer, Brigitta and Stefan Grissemann. eds.
Frank Films: The Film and Video Work of Robert Frank.
Zurich, Berlin, NY: Scalo (2003).

First edition. 299 pp w/list of film stills. Very near fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Texts in German and English. An examination of all 27 of Frank’s films, illustrated with new stills taken from videotapes at his request.
$75

43.
[FREUD, Lucian]. Dennis, Nigel.
Cards of Identity.
London: Weideneld and Nicholson (1955).

First edition. 369 pp. Offsetting to front and rear endpapers, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a toned spine. Jacket design by Lucian Freud. Dennis’ second novel, a take-down of psychology.
$150

44.
GRIFFITHS, Bill.
Cycles 8–16.
London: Private Press, Dalston & Writers Forum (nd).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. Horizontal 8vo. [16 pp]. Light toning to extrems, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Errata slip pasted-in. One of 15 numbered copies SIGNED by Griffiths. This copy has holograph annotations to the poems totalling over a hundred words and on the verso of the last leaf his additional note, “The title ‘cycle’ is taken from the music term ‘cyclic’ e.g. used in Cèsar Franck’s music. It denotes a structure that does not need a narrative or other directional drive: but in which the units are linked but equal as in the composition of a circle. No. 13 of 15 signed copies. Bill Griffiths.”
$125

45.
GRILLO, Paul.
Vibes of the Saints: Poems & Collages.
Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions (1977).

First edition. Small 4to. [56 pp]. Some faint foxing to covers, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction by Claude Pelieu-Washburn.
$35

45a.
__. Same title.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. Small 4to. [56 pp]. Some faint foxing to cover, else near fine in stapled wrappers One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Grillo with an original signed collaged postcard laid in.
$100

46.
GUNN, Thom.
Sunlight.
NY: Albondocani Press, 1969.

First edition. 15 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Gunn. Seven poems. Albondocani Press Publication No. 8. Hagstrom & Bixby A13a.
$75

47.
HAACKE, Hans.
Framing and Being Framed: 7 Works 1970–75.
Halifax & NY: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design/New York University Press (1975).

First edition. 153 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with some light soiling to the white rear cover. Essays by Jack Burnham and Howard S. Becker & John Walton. Illustrated with b&w photographs and reproductions.
$150

48.
HARRISON, Jim with Clemens Starck and Dan Gerber.
3 Blazes.
[Kingston]: Expedition Press (2014).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. Single large sheet folded twice (8 ¾ x 4 inches, closed). Fine in original printer’s packaging. A poem by each. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Harrison, Starck, and Gerber. New, at publication price:
$40

48a.
__. Same title.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. Fine in original printer’s packaging. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Harrison, Starck, and Gerber.
$150

49.
HAWKINS, Bobbie Louise and Robert Creeley.
2 Poems.
Berkeley: Arif Press (1973).

First edition. Folding card (7x 4 ¼ inches, closed). Near fine. One of 200 copies printed for a joint reading at Saint Mark’s Church on 4 April.
$25

50.
HEJINIAN, Lyn.
Lola.
Brooklyn: Belladonna Books (2005).

First edition. 12 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 135 (of 150) copies. Belladonna*70.
$35

51.
[HERMS, George]. Di Prima, Diane. ed.
The Floating Bear #29.
NY: Floating Bear, 1964.

4to. [20 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by George Herms. Contributions by Robert Grosseteste, Julian Beck, John Thomas, Frank O’Hara, Gilbert Sorrentino, and several others.
$85

52.
HIGGINS, Dick.
Futura 21: January Fish.
Stuttgart: edition hansjörg mayer, 1967.

First edition. Single large sheet folded four times to make a booklet (9 ½ x 6 ½ inches, closed). Near fine.
$45

53.
HOLLO, Anselm.
Spring Cleaning Greens: from notebooks 1967–1973.
Bowling Green: Doones Press (1973).

First edition. 4to. [32 pp]. Stray mark to front cover, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Elisabeth Brandfass.
$25

54.
HOLMAN, Bob and Bob Rosenthal.
Bicentennial Suicide: A Novel to Be Performed.
NY: Frontward Books (1976).

First edition. Horizontal 8vo. [32 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art and graphics by Rochelle Kraut. Kraut, Simon Schuchat, Karen Cutler, Ted Berrigan, and Alice Notley.
$100

55.
[JESS]. Cole, Norma.
Mars.
Berkeley: Listening Chamber, 1994.

First edition, limited issue. 114 pp. Faint sunning to spine, else fine in glossy wrappers. Poems by Cole, cover art by Jess, a paste-up created for this title. One of 12 numbered copies SIGNED by Cole and Jess.
$350

55a.
__. Same title.
10 x 13 inch glossy sheet. Fine. An untrimmed cover sheet for this book by Norma Cole.
$35

56.
[JOHNSON, Ray]. Di Prima, Diane. ed.
Floating Bear #36.
NY: Floating Bear, 1969.

4to. [22 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Ray Johnson. Bill Berkson guest-edited this issue, presenting work by Warsh, Ashbery, Padgett, Koch, Coolidge, and several others.
$50

57.
KAFKA, Franz.
Letters to Ottla & the Family.
NY: Schocken (1982).

First US edition. xi + 130 pp w/notes, chronology, & index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to extrems and one short tear. Translated from the original German by Richard and Clara Winston. Edited by N.N. Glatzer. Letters from 1909 to 1924, illustrated.
$85

58.
KOZINTSEV, Grigori.
King Lear: The Space of Tragedy. The Diary of a Film Director.
Berkeley: University of California (1977).

First US edition. xii + 260 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Small ink name to front free endpaper (“H. Horner” = Harry Horner). Translated from the original Russian by Mary Mackintosh, with a foreword by Peter Brook.
$75

59.
KRECH, Richard. ed.
Avalanche 4.
Berkeley: Undermine Press (1968).

[72 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers with a bit of foxing to page edges and a stray pen mark to last leaf. Cover by Martha Krech. The long poem issue, featuring work by Kryss, Blazek, John Sinclair, Krech, and d.a. levy’s “The North American Book of the Dead.”
$50

60.
KRYSS, T.L. ed.
A Tribute to Jim Lowell.
Cleveland: Ghost Press, 1967.

First edition, later issue (“two dollars” price sticker on front cover). [108 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover and internal silkscreen prints by Kryss. Terrific anthology published to raise money for the Lowell defense fund. Contributions by bp nichol, T.L. Kryss, R. Wolter, Jonathan Williams, Mitchell Goodman & Denise Levertov, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ralph A. Locher & Paul S. Briggs & Francis Cardinal Spellman, Charles Olson, Russell Atkins, Marvin Malone, William Wantling, Jacob Leed, T.L. Kryss, Dwight Macdonald, Paul Carroll, Carl Woideck, d.a. levy, Douglas Casement, George Dowden, Hubert Selby Jr., Mike Murphy, Franklin W.W. Osinski, Geoffrey Cook, Kent Taylor, D.R. Wagner, Charles Bukowski, Donald Cauble, J.M. Edelstein, James Laughlin, Robert Lowell, Douglas Blazek, Philip Kaplan, Gilbert Sorrentino, Guy Davenport, Felix Pollak, Michael McClure, RJS, Dave Cunliffe, Ron Caplan, Carl Weissner, David W. Harris, Walter Lowenfells, John Cornillion, Allen De Loach, Jasper Wood, Walter R. Keller.
$250

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