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41.
[JARGON SOCIETY]. Bell, Millicent.
The Jargon Idea.

Providence: Brown University, 1963.

First edition. 12 pp. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. An offprint from Books at Brown, Volume XIX, May, 1963, in specially produced covers. To the printed title Williams has added, “ —Jonathan Williams / still has it, / 1964.”
$50

42.
JONES, David.
The Fatigue c. A.V.C. DCCLXXXIV Tantus Labor Non Sit Cassus.

(np): Friends & Admirers of David Jones, 1965.

First edition. 20 pp. Fine in wrappers and near fine integral dust jacket that is lightly sunned along the spine. One of 241 (of 298) numbered copies published on the occasion of Jones’ 70th birthday. A full list of subscribers, Jones’ title poem with his introduction, and notes. Erratum slip affixed to the verso of the last printed leaf.
$125

43.
JONES, David.
The Kensington Mass.

London: Agenda Editions, 1975.

First edition. 19 pp w/14 facsimile plates. Very near fine in glossy printed wrappers. The unfinished draft of Jones’ last poem.
$20

44.
JONES, David.
The Tribune’s Visitation.

London: Fulcrum, 1969.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [52 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover and title page lettering by Jones. A long poem, with his introduction and notes. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Jones who has additionally made two corrections to the text.
$300

45.
JONES, David.
Use & Sign: An Essay.

Ipswich: Golgonooza Press (1975).

First edition. 10 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 350 numbered copies.
$25

46.
[JONES, David]. Cookson, William. ed.
Agenda. Vol. 5, Nos. 1–3: David Jones Special Issue.

London: Agenda (1967).

Spring-Summer 1967. 176 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Two fold-out plates. A considerable collection by and about Jones.
$35

47.
[JONES, David]. Stephens, Meic. ed.
Poetry Wales. Volume 8, Number 3: David Jones Number.

Llandybie: Christopher Davies, 1972

Winter. 114 pp. Top edge dusty, else near fine in flexible boards. A letter from David Jones, followed by eight articles about him and his work.
$45

48.
KAHNWEILER, Daniel-Henry with Francis Crémieux.
My Galleries and Painters.

London: Thames & Hudson (1971).

First UK edition. 160 pp w/index. Previous owner’s inked name and note to the verso of the first leaf, else fine in very near fine dust jacket with a faint fade to spine. Introduction by John Russell. Twenty-seven illustrations. Picasso’s lifelong dealer (also of Braque, Derain, Vlaminck, Gris, Leger) and publisher of Apollinaire, Max Jacob, and André Masson, remembers, via a series of interviews. A volume in the “Documents of 20th-Century Art” series.
$35

49.
KANEKO, Ryuichi.
Innovation in Japanese Photography in the 1960s.

Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 1991.

First edition. 4to. 166 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. One hundred and thirty-seven reproductions, a few in color, on glossy paper throughout. A useful survey.
$75

50.
KATZ, Vincent and Rudy Burckhardt.
New York Hello!

[Chicago]: Ommation Press, 1990.

First edition. 4to. 53 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Poems by Katz with b&w photographs by Burckhardt. Introduction by Eileen Myles.
$35

51.
KEYS, John.
Hammersmith Poems.

London: Trigram Press (1972).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 45 pp. Fine in two-part cloth binding in near fine clear acetate dust jacket with some shallow chipping at fold tips. Poems printed letterpress onto heavy gray stock. Preface by Anselm Hollo. Keys’ first full collection, preceded by several chapbooks, one of which was published by d.a. levy. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Keys.
$50

52.
KIRKPATRICK, Patricia.
Learning to Read: Three Poems.

San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1982.

First edition. [12 pp]. Square 16mo. Fine in printed paste paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Printing, binding, paste paper, and illustrations by Leigh McLellan. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Kirkpatrick and McLellan.
$45

53.
KOETHE, John.
Blue Vents.

Buffalo: Audit/Poetry, 1968.

Vol. V, No. 2. [56 pp]. Light toning to page edges, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. This entire issue of Audit/Poetry devoted to this collection of poems by Koethe. His first book.
$40

54.
KRECH, Richard.
Mythology for the People’s Liberation: Poems..

Berkeley: Undermine Press (1968).

First edition. [12 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Inked ownership signature of John Oliver Simon who, together with Krech, printed this book. Davis A5.
$50

55.
[KRUGER, Barbara]. Engberg, Juliana.
Barbara Kruger.

Bulleen: Museum of Modern Art at Heide (2006).

First edition. 4to. 48 pp w/biography & bibliography. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Warwick Reeder, introductory essay, “Crowd Control” by Juliana Engberg, and Lynne Tillman’s text “21 TV Tales.” Illustrated with 34 color images and b&w stills.
$35

56.
LAX, Robert.
Black & White.

NY: Journeyman Press (1971).

First edition. 4to. [20 pp]. Staples a bit rusty, else near fine in illustrated wrappers with some light toning and trivial soiling to covers. Designed and with drawings by Emil Antonucci.
$100

57.
[LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES]. Laughlin, James. ed.
New Directions in Prose and Poetry 10.

[NY]: New Directions (1948).

First edition. 512 pp w/notes. Very near fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover art by Lee Mullican. “An Annual Exhibition Gallery of New & Divergent Trends in Modern Letters.” A blockbuster: Waugh, Duncan, Agee, Bowles, Montale, Char, Eluart, Prevert, McCullers, and many others collected.
$100

58.
LOWRY, Robert.
Trip to the Bloomin Moon.

Cincinnati: Little Man Press [nd, c. 1939].

First edition. 24mo. [12 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. A short story by Lowry, illustrated by Hugo Valerio. The Little Man, second part, first issue.
$75

59.
MAC LOW, Jackson.
21 Matched Asymmetries.

London: Aloes Books (1978).

First edition. [38 pp]. Pages toned (cheap paper) else near fine in stapled wrappers that are lightly soiled. One of 250 copies. Ten Bluebird Asymmetries, six Asymmetries for Dr. Howard Levy, and the five Young Turtle Asymmetries.
$45

60.
MacLISE, Angus.
The Map of Dusk.

NY: SZ/Press, 1984.

First edition. ix + 50 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Ira Cohen. A long poem left by MacLise to Frank Kuenstler nearly twenty years before this publication, and well after MacLise’s untimely death at age 41 in 1979.
$75

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