1.
ARTSCHWAGER, Richard. et al.
Richard Artschwager, James Lee Byars, Joel Shapiro.
NY: Kent, 1988.

First editions. Three 16mo volumes housed in publisher’s black cardstock slipcase. All are fine in wrappers and printed dust jackets with sunned spines. Each about 36 pp, with reproductions and lists of previous exhibitions.
$45

2.
[BALLARD, J.G.]. Sladek, John and Pamela Zoline. eds.
Ronald Reagan: The Magazine of Poetry.
London: Ronald Reagan (1968).

Small 4to. 52 pp. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Features the work of Acconci, Padgett, Waldman, Warsh, Disch, Giorno, Schjeldahl, and the big deal, J.G. Ballard’s “Why I Want to @#%* Ronald Reagan,” which caused headaches for many.
$200

3.
BARKLEY, Glenn. ed.
Multiplicity: Prints and Multiples from the Collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art and the University of Woollongong.
Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art Limited (2007).

First edition. 44 pp. Fine in wrappers and near fine folded poster print dust jacket (by Marie Macmahon). Well-illustrated exhibition catalogue featuring work by Richard Hamilton, Raymond Pettibon, Warhol, Kitaj, Holder, and many others.
$25

4.
BENVENISTE, Asa.
The Atoz Formula.
London: Trigram (1969).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [66 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a short tear to lower front flap-fold. One of 50 numbered copies on Glastonbury white antique laid paper SIGNED by Benveniste.
$75

5.
BEVIS, John.
The Economies.
London: Coracle, 1982.

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in stiff wrappers with integral printed dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies. A collection of poems with two images by Martin Fidler.
$30

6.
BLACKBURN, Paul.
Early Selected Y Mas: Poems 1949–1966.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1972.

First edition, publisher’s copy. 129 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and cloth spine with printed paper spine label. Fine acetate dust jacket, and fine publisher’s slipcase. Edited by Robert Kelly. Designated “hors de série/Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Blackburn.
$200

7.
BONNEFOY, Yves.
L’enseignement et l’example de Leopardi.
Bordeaux: William Blake & Co. (2001).

First edition. 48 pp w/bibliographic note. Fine in printed wrappers. Dated (16 Juillet 2005) and INSCRIBED by Bonnefoy to an American poet. Bonnefoy’s consideration of Leopardi, in the original French.
$45

8.
BOYD, William.
Nat Tate an American Artist: 1928–1960.
Cambridge: 21 Publishing (1998).

First edition. 67 pp w/notes. Faint foxing and a bump to top edges, else fine in near fine dust jacket. Novelist Boyd’s spoof—with the help of 21 publisher David Bowie—biography of a non-existent American painter. A number of art journals fell for it, and reviewed the book as if Tate was a known entity.
$25

9.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Afternoons into Night.
Leesburg: Bottle of Smoke Press (2003).

First edition. 8 x 5 inch printed card, tipped-into an illustrated folder. Fine. One of 100 numbered copies. Single poem by Bukowski with a reproduction of a drawing and his signature on the front cover.
$20

10.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
There’s No Business.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1984.

First edition. 4to. 17 pp. Hint of sunning along top edges, else fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 550 copies (though the colophon states 400). A short story by Bukowski, with seven illustrations by R. Crumb. Krumhansl 87b.
$100

11.
BURCKHARDT, Rudy and Vincent Katz.
Boulevard Transportation.
NY: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1997.

First edition. 89 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Poems by Katz with b&w photographs by Burckhardt. “Compliments” from the gallery slip laid in.
$35

12.
CLOCK DVA.
Black Words on White Paper.
Firenze: Contempo International (1992).

First edition. 75 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Lyrics for all Clock DVA albums issued through 1989, together with 72 color and b&w illustrations and a cd of four unreleased 1978 recordings (taped inside the rear cover).
$40

13.
[CONCRETE & VISUAL POETRY]. Todd, Glenn. ed.
Shaped Poetry: A Suite of 30 Typographic Prints chronicling this literary form from 300BC to the present.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1981.

First edition. 35 pp book (fine in printed wrappers) together with thirty prints, each on handmade paper, all fine. The lot housed together in the publisher’s cloth-covered box (near fine—touch of sunning, a few light marks) and accompanied by the plexiglass frame and stand, as issued. One of 300 copies. Glenn Todd contributes an essay on shaped poetry, and Andrew Hoyem provides production notes on the broadsides. The thirty broadsides are 16 x 12 inches, with the exception of the Mallarmé, which is an accordion-fold with accompanying English translation. Simias, Mallarmé, John Hollander, Lewis Carroll, Apollinaire (2), Marinetti, Dieter Roth, Stein, Robert Angot, Porfyrius, George Herbert (2), Eustorg de Beaulieu, Theocritus, Gomringer, Herrick, Schottel, Panard, Morgenstern, Breton, Man Ray, Cummings, Dylan Thomas, May Swenson, Augusto de Campos, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Lamantia, Voznesensky, and Hoyem. Shipping at cost.
$1750

14.
CORNFORD, Frances.
Fifteen Poems from the French.
Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1976.

First edition. 39 pp. Fine in wrappers and integral marbled paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 125 numbered copies. Original French poems with Cornford’s facing translations. Apollinaire, Aragon, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Supervielle, and others.
$45

15.
DESNOS, Robert.
Mourning for Mourning.
London: Atlas Press (1992).

The Printed Head Volume II, Number 6. 61 pp w/notes. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Terry Hale. One of 250 (of 300) numbered copies.
$45

16.
DUNCAN, Robert and Jess.
Caesar’s Gate: Poems 1949–50.
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1972.

Second edition, first hardcover printing. 73 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover and internal illustrations throughout by Jess. One of 600 copies. Sand Dollar/8. Bertholf A8d.
$75

17.
DUNCAN, Robert.
The Years as Catches: First Poems (1939–1946).
Berkeley: Oyez, 1966.

First edition. xi + 93 pp w/bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 170 copies. Duncan contributes a lengthy introduction to this collection of his early work. Bertholf A20b.
$75

18.
EDSON, Russell.
Tick Tock: Short Stories and Woodcut.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press (1992).

First edition. Small 4to. [28 pp]. Fine in wrappers and integral dust jacket with printed cover label. Nineteen short stories. Woodcut print in two colors. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Edson.
$100

19.
FAGIN, Larry.
Stabs issued as A Hundred Posters #21.
Boston: Alan Davies, 1977.

First edition. 4to. [14 pp]. Very near fine, stapled upper left as issued. Early incarnation of this poem, later published by the Poltroon Press in Berkeley.
$35

20.
FALLON, Peter.
The Speaking Stones.
Dublin: Gallery Books (1978).

First edition. 58 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. One of 300 hardcover copies SIGNED by Fallon. Poems with drawings by Timothy Engelland.
$75

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