21.
CASSADY, Neal.
“O Fatal Practicality!” The Surviving Portion of “The Joan Anderson letter” Written by Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac.
Louisville: Contre Coup Press, 2014.

First edition. 22 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine clear acetate dust jacket. Illustrated with two mounted photographs. One of nineteen copies, the entire edition. The letter credited as being the inspiration for Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD writing style.
$200

22.
CHATWIN, Bruce.
The Songlines.
London: Jonathan Cape/London Limited Editions (1987).

First edition, limited & signed issue. 293 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Very near fine glassine dust jacket (pictured here without the jacket). One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Chatwin. His controversial best-selling attempt to understand the Australian Aboriginal culture.
$500

23.
CLAMPITT, Amy.
Manhattan: An Elegy, and Other Poems
Iowa City: Univeristy of Iowa Center for the Book, 1990.

First edition. Folio. [60 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. Clampitt’s poems illustrated with multi-colored woodcuts by Margaret Sunday. One of 130 numbered copies SIGNED by Clampitt and Sunday. The second in a series of livres d’artistes published by The Center for the Book.
$500

24.
COCTEAU, Jean.
Faire-part.
Le Pont de l’Epée (1983).

First edition, deluxe numbered issue. 104 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 30 numbered copies on vergé gris paper with an original drawing by Bernard Leijs (dated and SIGNED by Leijs) laid in. Poems, originally published in 1968.
$450

25.
COCTEAU, Jean.
La Salle des mariages, Hotel de Ville de Menton.
Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1958.

First edition. Small 4to. Near fine in wrappers and very good plus dust jacket with light tanning along spine. A review copy (perforated “S.P.” to the upper corner of last leaf and rear cover). Dated (1958) and INSCRIBED by Cocteau on the title page “a Monsieur Hauser.” Twenty-three b&w reproductions and photographs of Cocteau’s murals.
$350

26.
CONANT, Jeff.
Broken Monkeys.
Riverdale: Pyramid Atlantic (1994).

First edition. [10 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 65 numbered copies SIGNED by Conant.
$35

27.
CORNER, Philip.
The Identical Lunch.
Barton: Nova Broadcast Press, 1973.

First edition. 46 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers that have some pale foxing. Philip Corner performs of a score by Alison Knowles. Cover photos and introduction by Knowles. The repeated experience of eating lunch at Riss Food in NYC.
$75

28.
CORNER, Philip.
Popular Entertainments.
NY: Something Else Press, 1967.

First edition. [14 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. A Great Bear Pamphlet.
$20

29.
CREELEY, Robert.
The Charm: Early and Uncollected Poems.
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1969.

First edition. xii + 97 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. One of 100 numbered copies on laid paper SIGNED by Creeley. Writing 23.
$100

30.
CREELEY, Robert.
Le Fou.
Columbus: Golden Goose Press, 1952.

First edition. [32 pp]. Very near fine in decorated wrappers, lacking publisher’s unprinted dust jacket. A very nice copy of Creeley’s first book. SIGNED by Creeley.
$500

31.
CREELEY, Robert.
Listen.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1972.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 42 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Illustrations by Bobbie Creeley. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Robert Creeley. Morrow & Cooney 150b.
$75

32.
DELAUNAY, Sonia.
Worte Werden Bilder
Köln: Kust-und Museums-Bibliothek in Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, 1972.

First edition. A single long sheet folded once lengthwise, then again accordion-style to make thirty numbered panels. Prints visual works by Schwitters, Peeters, Kriwet, Marinetti, Soffici, Doesburg, El Lissitzky, and Duchamp, with supporting essays. The whole design of this item is really in service to the Sonia Delaunay and Blaise Cendrars 1913 collaboration, La Prose du Transsiberien et de la petit Jehanne de France, which is reproduced in color along the 62 inch length of the opened and unfolded sheet. INSCRIBED by Delaunay to her friend and publisher Jacques Damase, “a Jacques de Sonia Delaunay.”
$500

33.
DORN, Edward.
The Collected Poems 1956–1974.
Bolinas: Four Seasons Foundation (1975).

First edition. x + 277 pp w/index of titles and first lines. Fine in full cloth with gilt stamping to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Preface by Dorn. Writing 34.
$100

34.
DORN, Edward.
Two Interviews.
Emersons Green: Shearsman Books (2012).

First edition. 101 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Preface by Justin Kato. In addition to the interviews, there are also a number of poems and both a bibliography of Edward Dorn interviews, and bibliographic notes.
$25

35.
[DUNCAN, Robert]. Wagstaff, Christopher. ed.
Robert Duncan: Drawings and Decorated Books.
Berkeley: Rose Books, 1992.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 64 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Reproductions in color and b&w. Essays by Virginia Admiral and Robin Blaser. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Admiral and Blaser.
$75

36.
FANTE, John.
The Road to Los Angeles.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1985.

First edition. 164 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and cloth spine with printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies. One of four novels by Fante concerning Arturo Bandini. Written in 1936, but unpublished until this edition.
$200

37.
FIRBANK, Ronald.
The Wind & The Roses: A Poem.
(np): Alan Clodd, 1965.

First edition. [12 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Miriam J. Benkovitz. An early work by Firbank, here first published in an edition of 50 numbered copies. Benkovitz A21.
$75

38.
[FIRBANK, Ronald]. Cunard, Nancy.
Thoughts About Ronald Firbank.
NY: Albondocani Press, 1971.

First edition. 17 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and very near fine marbled-paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 200 (of 226) numbered copies on Fabriano Text paper. Foreword by Miriam J. Benkowitz, whose request of Cunard’s thoughts on Firbank generated this text. Original prospectus accompanies.
$45

39.
GAUTIER, Théophile and Charles Baudelaire.
Hashish Wine Opium.
London: Calder & Boyars (1972).

First UK trade paperback printing. 92 pp. Near fine in glossy printed wrappers with a small sticker-scar to the rear cover. Translated from the original French by Maurice Stang with an introduction by Derek Stanford. “The four pieces in this volume are unique in that they are among the earliest artistic records of the hallucinogenic experience to be found in European literature.”
$35

40.
GINSBERG, Allen.
New Year Blues.
NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1972.

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Ginsberg. Number 14 in the Phoenix “Oblong Octavo Series.” Morgan A24.
$200

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