61.
KYGER, Joanne.
Naropa approaches his teacher / Instruction Time Again.
[Berkeley]: Poltroon Press (1999).

First edition. 11 x 7 ½ inch broadside, printed in three colors. Fine. One of 175 copies printed on the occasion of Kyger’s reading at the San Francisco Center for the Book. Though not called for, SIGNED by Kyger.
$30

62.
LAKE, Carlton.
Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist.
NY: New Directions (1990).

First edition. ix + 190 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hunting for rare books and manuscripts in post-WWII Paris.
$25

63.
[LAUREL & HARDY]. Barr, Charles.
Laurel & Hardy.
Berkeley: University of California (1968).

First US edition. 143 pp w/index & filmography. Near fine in glossy illustrated boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued.
$45

64.
LEFEBVRE, Henri.
Critique of Everyday Life Volumes I, II, III (complete).
London & NY: Verso (1991–2005).

First printing of these editions 283 + 380 + 179 pp w/indexes. All three volumes very near fine in like dust jackets. Translated from the original French by John Moore, with a preface in each volume by Michael Trebitsch. The original volumes were published in 1947 (but here the 2nd ed of 1958 in used), 1961, and 1981). For the set:
$125

65.
LEVERTOV, Denise and Edward C. Dimock Jr. trans.
In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali.
London: Jonathan Cape (1968).

First UK edition. 91 pp w/notes. Touch of foxing to the fore-edge, else fine in fine dust jacket with price-increase sticker to front flap. Introdcution by Dimock, with his notes. Cape Editions 21.
$35

66.
[levy, d.a.]. RJS, ed.
D.A. Levy: A Tribute to the Man an Anthology of the Poetry aka ukanhavyrfuckincitibak.
Cleveland: Ghost Press [1968].

First edition. 4to. [278 pp]. Very near fine in stapled and taped wrappers. Laid into this copy is a typed slip stating in part, “this is one of several copies collated seperately because of poor printing for purposes ov xchange or review only.”
$350

67.
[LEWIS, Wyndham]. Kenner, Hugh.
Wyndham Lewis.
London: Methuen (1954).

First UK edition. 169 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Painter R.B. Kitaj’s copy, SIGNED by Kitaj on the front free endpaper. A volume in “The Makers of Modern Literature” series.
$125

68.
[LIVING THEATRE]. Malina, Judith and Julian Beck.
Paradise Now: Collective Creation of The Living Theatre.
NY: Random House (1971).

First edition. 154 pp w/chronology of performances. Some faint foxing to page edges, else fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Beck on the front free endpaper, “For Burton Weiss / no, one did not ‘see’ / Paradise Now / one experienced it, no? / with best wishes / Julian Beck / New York City May 1984.”
$200

69.
LOTRINGER, Sylvère. ed.
Semiotexte 8: Schizo-Culture: 1.
NY: Semiotexte (1978).

Volume III, No. 2. 221 pp. One light reading crease to spine, else near fine in toned wrappers. Appearances by Acker, Burroughs, Cage, Foucault, Giorno, Glass, Lyotard, Jack Smith, and many others.
$50

70.
LUCIE-SMITH, Edward.
Egyptian Ode.
Stoke Ferry: Daedalus Press, 1969.

First edition. [20 pp w/notes]. Fine in sewn wrappers and printed dust jacket. One of 200 (of 226) numbered copies SIGNED by Lucie-Smith. A single long poem in nine parts.
$20

71.
LUCK, Barbara.
Evolution, Big and Little: A Poem.
San Francisco: Interval Press (1981).

First edition. Two fold-out leaves sewn into printed wrappers. Very near fine. Luck’s poem with a six-color woodcut illustration by Cheryl Miller. One of 65 numbered copies SIGNED by Luck and Miller. Original prospectus accompanies. The first item from the Press.
$75

72.
MALAPARTE, Curzio.
The Bird That Swallowed Its Cage: Selected Works.
Berkeley: Counterpoint (2013).

First edition. vi + 159 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Adapted and translated by Walter Murch. Afterword by Lawrence Weschler. SIGNED by Murch on the half-title page.
$45

73.
McCLURE, Michael.
The Grabbing of the Fairy: A Masque.
St. Paul: Truck Press, 1978.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 41 pp w/appendix. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by McClure with an original drawing opposite the colophon page.
$200

74.
MERRILL, James.
Bronze.
NY: Nadja (1984).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. [22 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covere boards. Fine publisher’s slotted paper envelope. One of 26 lettered copies on Hayle paper SIGNED by Merrill. A single poem.
$300

75.
MICHAUX, Henri.
Saisir.
Montpellier: Fata Morgana (1979).

First edition. [106 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers. French text, heavily illustrated from Michaux’s original lithographs.
$55

76.
MOORE, Marianne and Wallace, David.
Letters from and to the Ford Motor Company.
NY: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958.

First edition. [30 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped cloth spine. Fine publisher’s slipcase. Wood engraving by Leonard Baskin. One of 550 copies. In 1955 Ford reached out to Moore for help naming a new automobile...
$125

77.
[NAUMAN, Bruce]. Brundage, Susan.
Bruce Nauman: 25 Years Leo Castelli.
NY: Leo Castelli Gallery (1994).

First edition. Folio. [64 pp]. Fine in wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. A sharp copy of this fragile retrospective. Illustrated. Two large fold-out color plates.
$100

78.
NICHOL, bp.
Scraptures 2nd Sequence: Alternate Takes.
Vancouver: British Columbia Monthly (1977).

First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers with pasted-on cover image. One of 215 numbered copies. This work serves as Volume III, Number 4 of the BC Monthly.
$45

79.
OLSON, Charles.
‘West.’
London: Goliard Press, 1966.

First edition. [22 pp]. Fine in stiff wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. One of 500 copies on Glastonbury antique laid paper. Terrific photograph of Red Cloud (1822–1909) printed opposite a clound-like sheet.
$40

80.
PADGETT, Ron with Joe Brainard and Betty Kennedy. eds.
The White Dove Review 1: 3.
Tulsa: White Dove Review, 1959.

[20 pp]. Faint toning along spine, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by Ginsberg, Meltzer, Judson Crews, Orlovsky, Clarence Major, Padgett, and several others.
$500

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