41.
LICHTENSTEIN, Roy.
Lichtenstein’s Picassos: 1962–1964.
NY: Gagosian Gallery, 1988.

First edition. 4to. [24 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with pasted-on cover label. Introduction by Henry Geldzahler. Full-color reproductions of five works.
$75

42.
[LITERARY MAGAZINES]. Baum, Timothy. ed.
Nadada No. 2.
NY: Nadada, 1965.

4to. 76 pp. Small repaired snag to rear cover, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Appearances by John Perreault, David Omer Bearden, Ray Johnson, Gerard Malanga, Ted Berrigan, Charles Henri Ford, Tristan Tzara, Aram Saroyan, Piero Heliczer, and many others.
$100

43.
[LITERARY MAGAZINES]. Bryan, John and Jan Herman. eds.
Notes from Underground #3.
San Francisco: Notes from Underground, 1970.

First edition. 4to. 48 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributions by Rubin, Bukowski, Ginsberg, John Sinclair, Ferlinghetti, Norse, Kandel, William S. Burroughs, and many others.
$85

44.
[LITERARY MAGAZINES]. Hobson, Stretton. et al, eds.
Sad Traffic No. 2.
[Barnsley]: Sad Traffic [1970].

First edition. 20 x 15 inch poster, printed in two colors. Two old folds, else near fine. Advertising poster for this short-lived (five issues) mag.
$75

45.
[LITERARY MAGAZINES]. Jones, Leroi and Hettie Cohen, eds.
Yugen #1.
NY: Yugen (1958).

24 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by Whalen, Ed James, Judson Crews, Tom Postell, Allen Polite, Stephen Tropp, Bobb Hamilton, Jones, Di Prima, Ernest Kean, Micheline, and Ginsberg.
$250

46.
[MACLISE, Angus]. Kugelberg, Johan and Will Cameron.
Dreamweapon.
NY: Boo-Hooray (2011).

First edition. 120 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributions by Lou Reed, La Monte Young, Ira Cohen. A lavish collection of full color reproductions of largely ephemeral materials by and about Maclise. His (very brief) tenure as the Velvet Underground’s first drummer is the least of it. A memorial card for Ira Cohen issued by the publisher accompanies.
$125

47.
MALANGA, Gerard.
Tomboy & Other Tales.
Wallkill: Bottle of Smoke Press (2014).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 21 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Malanga. New, at publication price:
$60

48.
MARKOPOULOS, Gregory J.
Poems.
NY: (np) (1964).

First edition. 95 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 1000 numbered copies. Introduction by Gerard Malanga.
$50

49.
MATHEWS, Harry.
Selected Declarations of Dependence.
Calais: Z Press, 1977.

First edition. 178 pp. Near fine in printed green wrappers with some light rubbing along spine. One of 750 copies. Illustrations by Alex Katz.
$40

50.
McCLURE, Michael.
The Beard: A Play.
(np): Coyote, 1967.

Second & third editions. 82 pp w/afterword. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover by Wes Wilson. Book design by Dave Haselwood. Preface by Norman Mailer. Preceded by a “presentation edition” of 300 copies, this is the first trade edition. Together with the third edition published by Grove Press the same year. For the pair:
$50

51.
MELTZER, David.
Abulafia Song.
Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press (1969).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. Single sheet folded once, tipped into a tri-fold printed wrapper. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Meltzer.
$55

52.
MELTZER, David.
Hero/Lil.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 86 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine clear acetate dust jacket, fine publisher’s slipcase. Front cover art by Wallace Berman. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Meltzer, with an original drawing tipped-in after the title page.
$200

53.
MERTON, Thomas with John Howard Griffin and Monsignor Horrigan.
The Thomas Merton Studies Center.
Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1971.

First edition. 24 pp. Corners very lightly tapped, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. One of 500 copies. Collects Merton’s essay, “Concerning the Collection in the Bellarmine College Library,” “In Search of Thomas Merton” by Griffin, and Horrigan’s “Thomas Merton Studies Center.”
$45

54.
MEYER, Thomas.
At Dusk Iridescent: A Gathering of Poems 1972–1997.
Winston-Salem: Jargon Society, 1999.

First trade edition. 4to. 257 pp. Fine in plain wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Frontispiece photograph by Mark Steinmetz. One of 900 copies. SIGNED Meyer and Jonathan Williams (his publisher and partner), who is also the first of the book’s dedicatees. Jargon 102.
$75

55.
MILLER, Henry.
First Impressions of Greece.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1973.

First edition, first issue. 47 pp. Fine in full black cloth with inset illustration to front cover, which bears the blind-stamped outline of an eye (making this this first issue of this title). One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Miller. Shifreen & Jackson A185Aa.
$150

56.
MILLER, Henry.
Notes on AARON’S ROD and Other Notes on Lawrence from The Paris Notebooks.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 59 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with leather spine and paper label. Fine acetate dust jacket and publisher’s slipcase. Edited with an introduction and note by Seamus Cooney. One of 26 lettered copies on blue paper SIGNED by Miller on a blank leaf housed at the rear of the volume.
$200

57.
MILLER, Henry.
O Lake of Light.
[Santa Barbara]: Capra Press, 1981.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 10 x 4 ¼ inch broadside, printed in two colors on pale blue paper. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Noel Young, Miller’s last editor. While the colophon claims this is Miller’s only published poem, there was at least one other, and this poem appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Wake, and Third Rail, before this issue. Slocum & Cahoon A234a.
$125

58.
MILLER, Henry.
The Theatre & Other Pieces.
NY: Stroker (1979).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 32 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. This eleventh issue of Irving Stettner’s Stroker magazine given over to seven prose works by Miller. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Miller. Shifreen & Jackson A226a.
$125

59.
MILLER, Henry.
The World of Lawrence: A Passionate Appreciation.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1980.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 272 pp w/notes. Fine in full gilt-stamped leatherette binding. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Miller. An original photograph of Miller, signed by the photographer Pat Pence, housed in a pocket inside the front cover. Shifreen & Jackson A230a.
$500

60.
MOTHERWELL, Robert.
Collages 1958–1960.
Paris: Berggruen [1960].

First edition. Narrow 8vo. [24 pp]. Corner crease to last leaf, else near fine in printed wrappers with a pale stain to the unprinted rear cover. Dated (December 1961) and INSCRIBED by Motherwell, “For Bernard Karpel with affectionate greetings, R.M.” Karpel served for three decades as the chief librarian at MOMA, and together he and Motherwell co-authored a book on dada painters. Wonderfully illustrated with a number of pochoirs.
$750

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