e-catalog #032, also known as...
catalog #102

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1.
[ANDERSON, Lindsay]. Sussex, Elizabeth.
Lindsay Anderson.

London: Studio Vista (1969).

First edition. 96 pp w/filmography. Foxing along top edge, light stain to rear cover; in all, near fine in illustrated boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued.
$20

2.
ASHBERY, John and James Schuyler.
A Nest of Ninnies.

Hopewell: Ecco Press (1997).

First printing of this edition (originally published in 1969). 191 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A collaborative novel by these two New York School giants.
$15

3.
BADIOU, Alain.
Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy.

London & NY: Continuum [2003].

First edition in English. 196 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated and edited by Oliver Feltham and Justin Clemens, with their introduction. Nine essays and concluding interview.
$20

4.
BARNEY, Matthew.
Matthew Barney: New Work.

San Francisco: SFMOMA (1991).

First edition. Horizontal 8vo. [52 pp w/bibliography]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introductory essay by Robert R. Riley. First book devoted to Barney’s work
$200

5.
BARSAM, Richard Barsam.
Filmguide to TRIUMPH OF THE WILL.

Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press (1975).

First edition. x + 82 pp w/selected bibliography & notes. Fine in full green cloth. No dust jacket, as issued.
$45

6.
BAUMGARTEN, Ingo.
Ansichten über Tokio / Views of Tokyo.

Tokyo: (np) (1998).

First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and near fine dust jacket. Forty-eight photographs taken in Tokyo in 1997/8, with Baumgarten’s observations in English, German, and Japanese.
$25

7.
BIOY CASARES, Adolfo.
A Plan for Escape.

NY: Dutton, 1975.

First US edition. 115 pp. Faint stain to fore-edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine with her introductory note. A novel by Borges’ friend and collaborator.
$20

8.
BOWLT, John E. ed.
Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism 1902–1934.

NY: Viking (1976).

First edition. xl + 360 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Edited and translated by John E. Bowlt. Published statements by Russian artists and crtitics of the time.
$50

9.
[BROWN, Cecily]. Kennison, Donald. ed.
Cecily Brown.

NY & Los Angeles: Gagosian Gallery (2002).

First edition. 57 pp w/plate index. Fine in printed wrappers. Introductory essay, “The Paintings of Cecily Brown,” by Jan Tumlir. Twenty-six full color reproductions.
$35

10.
BROWNSTEIN, Michael.
Oracle Night: A Love Poem.

College Park: Sun & Moon (1982).

First edition. 84 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Sun & Moon Contemporary Literature Series No. 13. Printed endorsement by John Ashbery on the rear cover.
$20

11.
[BURROUGHS, William S.]. Miles, Barry.
Call Me Burroughs: A Life.

NY: Twelve (2014).

First edition. xviii + 718 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. At the time of publication, the first biography of WSB in twenty-five years, and the first to describe the last decade of Burroughs’ life.
$20

12.
CALVINO, Italo.
The Uses of Literature: Essays.

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1986).

First US edition. vi + 341 pp. Light toning to extrems, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Italian by Patrick Creagh.
$25

13.
CHAR, René.
Hypnos Waking: Poetry and Prose.

NY: Random House (1956).

First edition. 279 pp. Very near fine in very good plus dust jacket with a small sticker scar to the front flap and light overall edgewear. Texts in the original French, edited and translated by Jackson Matthews with William Carlos Williams, Richard Wilbur, William Jay Smith, Barbara Howes, W.S. Merwin, and James Wright.
$35

14.
DAVENPORT, Guy. trans.
The Mimes of Herondas.

San Francisco: Gray Fox Press (1981).

First edition. 57 pp w/notes. Fine in full cloth with gilt stamping to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 300 hardbound copies. Street theater of the Alexandrian period. Crane A16.a1.
$100

15.
DEEDMAN, Heather with Richard Tuttle and Zoë Irvine.
Cowboy Story.

Edinburgh: Morning Star/Baltic, 2002.

First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Drawings by Deedman, poems by Tuttle, music by Irvine. Mini cd inside back cover.
$25

16.
DOTY, Mark and Ruth writing as “M.R. Doty.”
An Introduction to the Geography of Iowa.

Fort Kent: Great Raven Press, 1979.

First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. The second collection of poems by the Dotys, following AN ALPHABET. They would write one more together.
$250

17.
[DREYER, Carl]. Nash, Mark.
Dreyer.

London: BFI, 1977.

First edition. 81 pp. “New York Zoetrop” stamp to rear cover, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.
$30

18.
[DUBUFFET, Jean]. Ragon, Michel.
Dubuffet.

NY: Grove (1959).

First US edition, numbered issue. 62 pp. Near fine in half-cloth without dust jacket, as issued. One of 50 numbered copies. Illustrated with twelve tipped-on color plates, and photographs by Luc Joubert. Text translated from the original French by Haakon Chevalier.
$75

19.
DÜRRENMATT, Friedrich.
Selected Writings, Volumes 1–3.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2006).

First editions. 313 + 362 + 201 pp. All three volumes fine in fine dust jacket. Collects his plays (vol. 1), fictions (vol. 2), and essays (vol. 3). Translated by Joel Agee. For the set:
$75

20.
DZAMA, Marcel.
More Famous Drawings.

Winnipeg & Santa Monica: Plug In Editions (199).

First edition. 4to. [68 pp]. Light bump to crown of spine, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Concluding essay by Wayne Baerwaldt. Full-color reproductions.
$150

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