21.
CREELEY, Robert and Arthur Okamura.
For the Graduation: Bolinas School, June 15, 1972.
1972.

First edition. Folding card, 8 ½ x 5 ½ inch broadside, tipped into a decorated folder. Fine. A single poem with cover art by Okamura. SIGNED by Creely and Okamura.
$100

22.
CROMBIE, John & Sheila Bourne.
lickety-split, splickety-lick, clickety-click: A Breezy Send-Off for Pomfret.
Paris: Kickshaws (1980).

First edition. Horizontal 12mo. [28 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 425 (of 475) copies. Crombie’s short story fully illustrated with Bourne’s colorful linocut pictures.
$75

23.
DOOLITTLE, Hilda writing as “H.D.”
Kora & Ka.
Berkeley: BIOS (1978).

First US printing of this edition (originally published in France in 1934). 43 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 100 copies in cloth. Boughn A15b.
$75

24.
DOVE, Rita.
The Darker Face of the Earth: A Verse Play in Fourteen Scenes.
Brownsville: Story Line Press, 1994.

First edition, limited & signed issue. 140 pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 224 (of 300) numbered copies SIGNED by Dove.
$75

25.
DOWDEN, George.
Renew Jerusalem.
NY: Smyrna Press (1969).

First edition. [48 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Dowden on the recto of the last leaf. Among others, a statement by d.a. levy printed inside the front cover, “It is a strange docuointment- i hate poetry but i liked yr poem almost as much as howl by ginsyap & maybe it isnt a poem becauz i like it?”
$35

26.
DRAKE, William Daniel Jr.
The International Cultivator’s Handbook.
Berkeley: Wingbow Press, 1974.

First edition. 139 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Designed by Clifford Burke. Chapters on Hashish, Coca, Opium, and Cannabis Concoctions, and “New Immigrants and Stoned Global Villagers.”
$35

27.
[DUCHAMP, Marcel]. Lebel, Robert.
Marcel Duchamp.
NY: Grove Press (1959).

First US edition. 4to. 191 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Near fine publisher’s cardstock slipcase (not pictured). Translations by George Heard Hamilton. Chapters by André Breton, H.P. Roché, and Duchamp himself.
$450

28.
GASS, William.
On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquity.
Boston: Godine (nd).

First edition, limited & signed issue. 91 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket and fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 225 numbered copies on Ticonderoga Text Laid Finish paper SIGNED by Gass.
$150

29.
GENET, Jean.
The Balcony (Le Balcon): A Play in Nine Scenes.
NY: Grove Press (1958).

First US edition, lettered & signed issue. 118 pp. Light erasure to first leaf, else very near fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Genet.
$1250

30.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Howl and Other Poems.
San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop (1956).

First edition. 44 pp. Faint toning along spine, else very near fine in printed wrappers. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Ginsberg’s first “regularly” published book, a highspot of postwar American poetry. Pocket Poets #4. Morgan A3a1.1.
$4500

31.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Planet News 1961–1967.
San Francisco: City Lights Books [1969].

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 144 pp. Fine in full black cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. Fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Ginsberg. Morgan A15a3.
$300

32.
GRAZIANO, Frank and Jean Follain.
Follain: A Biographical Poem and Initiation: A Selection from the Prose of Jean Follain.
[Madison]: Bieler Press (1979).

First edition. [28 pp]. Very near fine in wrappers with printed cover label. Follain’s original French with a facing English translation by Mary Feeney. One of 160 numbered copies SIGNED by Graziano, Feeney, and the Publisher.
$35

33.
GUNN, Thom.
Old Stories.
NY: Sea Cliff Press, 1992.

First edition. 21 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers with printed cover label. Designed by Harry Ford. One of 100 copies SIGNED by Gunn. Twenty poems. Original prospectus card accompanies.
$125

34.
HAINES, John.
A Guide to the Four-Chambered Heart.
Monterey: Larkspur Press, 1996.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 36 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Poems with illustrations by Joy Haines. One of 50 numbered copies on dampened Johannot paper and handbound by Carolyn Whitesel. SIGNED by John and Joy Haines.
$150

35.
HIGGINS, Dick.
A Book About Love & War & Death.
Barton: Something Else Press, 1972.

First edition. 239 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
$30

36.
HIRSCHMAN, Jack.
Lyripol.
San Francisco: City Lights (1976).

First edition. 98 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Pocket Poets #34.
$35

37.
HOWARD, Richard.
Hellenistics.
[NY]: Red Ozier Press, 1984.

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with printed cover label. One of 130 numbered copies SIGNED by Howard. Poems. Peich 57.
$100

38.
HOWE, Susan.
Secret History of the Dividing Line.
NY: Telephone Books (1978).

First edition. 40 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 750 copies. A nice example of this early work.
$125

39.
KUPFERBERG, Tuli.
Kill for Peace Again.
NY: Strolling Dog Press (1987).

First edition. 4to. [28 pp]. Light tanning along spine, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cartoons, songs, and cuttings.
$45

40.
levy, d.a.
Beginning of Sunny Dawn.
Cleveland: GHOSTflower Press, 1968.

First edition. 4to. 7 pp. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Sandy Webb. One of 236 copies. The first separate edition of this short story, which would be published in two additional editions in 1969.
$150

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