21.
COOPER, Dennis. ed.
Little Caesar #4.
Los Angeles: Little Caesar (1977).

57 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph of Keith Richards by Malanga, whose poems, along with an interview, fill the middle 33 pages of this issue. Work also by Brainard, Jim Carroll, Steve Richmond, and many others. Early issues of this mag are decidely uncommon.
$250

22.
CORSO, Gregory.
Wings, Wands, Windows.
Englewood: Howling Dog Press (1982).

First edition. 34 pp. Tiny bump to one upper corner, else fine in stapled wrappers. Poems, an interview, and seven drawings by Corso, as well as four photographs. Ashes Chapbook 2.
$40

23.
[CORSO, Gregory]. Selerie, Gavin. ed.
The Riverside Interviews: 3.
Binnacle Press, 1982.

First edition. 74 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Essays by Jim Burns and Michael Horovitz.
$45

24.
CROMBIE, John.
Curtains.
[Paris]: Kickshaws Press (1985).

First edition. 16mo. [22 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 120 numbered copies. A prose work, the background to the text getting progressively darker until the words are obliterated.
$100

25.
CROMBIE, John.
Fall.
[Paris]: Kickshaws Press (1984).

First edition. 16mo. [24 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 135 numbered copies hand set and printed by Crombie in at least six colors. A short story, printed so that colored leaves fall through the text.
$100

26.
CUTTS, Simon.
An English Dictionary of French Place Names.
Clonmel: Coracle, 2004.

First edition. [140 pp]. Very near fine in green boards with stamping to spine and front cover. Ribbon place marker bound-in. One of 300 numbered copies. A series of place names, separated by thumb tabs, with corresponding map index numbers.
$55

27.
DAUMAL, Rene.
Rasa or Knowledge of the Self: Essays on Indian Aesthetics and Selected Sanskrit Studies.
NY: New Directions (1982).

First trade paperback prining 107 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Louise Landes Levi, with her introduction. An increasingly uncommon title.
$35

28.
DAVIS, Lydia.
Story and Other Stories.
Great Barrington: The Figures (1983).

First edition. 87 pp. Spine sunned, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. The third collection of stories. Dated (April 1984) and warmly INSCRIBED by Davis to a fellow writer.
$200

29.
DELANEY, Shelagh.
A Taste of Honey: A Play.
NY: Grove Press (1959).

First US trade paperback printing. 87 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Eighteen year old Delaney’s first play. Morrissey used this cover photograph for The Smith’s 1987 “Girlfriend in a Coma” single.
$20

30.
DILLARD, Annie.
The Weasel.
Claremont: Rara Avis Press (1974).

First edition. 12mo. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket with a short tear to crown of spine. Dillard’s essay on the creature with an illustration by Ellen Lanyon. One of 190 copies on Fabriano Ingres paper SIGNED by Dillard.
$250

31.
DUNCAN, Robert.
Faust Foutu: An Entertainment by Robert Duncan in Four Parts with Decorations by the Author.
Stinson Beach: Enkidu Surrogate (1960).

Third edition, numbered & signed issue. 71 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Duncan (RD) with a two color ink drawing.
$650

32.
DYLAN, Bob.
Tarantula.
[Taiwan]: (np) [C. 1971].

viii + 137 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a closed tear and corresponding crease, and shallow chipping to crown of spine. A nice copy of this less common piracy.
$75

33.
FINLAY, Ian Hamilton.
Wave/rock.
[NY]: Aspen [1970].

First edition. Single large sheet folded once (9 ½ inches square, closed). Near fine with a few light wrinkles. Issued originally as section 13 of Aspen No. 7, but here offered separately.
$125

34.
FISHER, M.F.K.
Answer in the Affirmative & The Oldest Man.
Vineberg: Engdahl Typography, 1989.

First edition. 63 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrations by Roger Barr. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Fisher. Two stories on aging, both of which appeared in The New Yorker, and then her book SISTER AGE.
$100

35.
FLANAGAN, Bob.
Slave Sonnets.
Los Angeles: Cold Calm Press, 1986.

First edition. [32 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Mike Kelley. One of 674 (of 700) copies. SIGNED by Flanagan on the title page.
$125

36.
FLANAGAN, Bob and David Trinidad.
A Taste of Honey.
Los Angeles: Cold Calm Press, 1990.

First edition. [32 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Jim Shaw. One of 724 (of 750) copies. Collaborative poems.
$40

37.
FORD, Kenneth H.
Poetry for Jazz.
Carmel: Zócalo Press, 1959.

First edition. 50 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Erica Barton. Third book by Ford, a collection of poems and prose poems dedicated to Lester Young and Billie Holiday.
$45

38.
[FRIEDMANN, Ken].
Friedmanswerk: Edition Hundertmark.
Berlin: Edition Hundertmark (nd).

First edition. 16 ¹ ⁄ 8 x 11 ⁷ ⁄ 8 inch poster. Four folds from mailing, else near fine. Description and photographs of the forty-five items in the Friedmanswerk box.
$55

39.
GASS, William H.
On Place.
[Minneapolis]: Walker Art Center, 1985.

First edition. 10 ¼ x 13 ¼ inch broadside, printed in two colors. Tiny bend to on upper corner, else fine. Printed by the Coffee house Press at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Gass. Issued on the occasion of his lecture on 28 October 1985.
$75

40.
GIBB, Nina.
Best-Loved Degenerate Writers to Colour & Keep.
[Melbourne: Nina Gibb, 2015].

First edition. 4to. [28 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Spend time with all your favorites: Miller, Bukowski, Carrington, Huxley, Duras, Plath, Highsmith, Brautigan, Bainbridge, Mishima, Trocchi, and William S. Burroughs.
$15

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