61.
MOTTRAM, Eric.
Tunis.
Sheffield: Rivelin Press (1977).

First edition, signed issue. 15 pp. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover design by Peter Donnelly. One of 20 copies SIGNED by Mottram and Donnelly. A single long poem.
$40

62.
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Tony Takitani.
Los Angeles: Cloverfield Press (2006).

First edition. 16mo. [54 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 800 numbered copies. A short story by Murakami, translated from the original Japanese by Jay Rubin. One of the less common Murakami “A” items in English, despite the large limitation.
$125

63.
NICHOL, bp.
Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer.
Toronto: Weed Flower Press, 1973

First Canadian edition. 4to. 66 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers and near fine integral dust jacket. Bibliographical information slip accompanies. First published by Bob Cobbing in the Writers Forum series.
$35

64.
[NICHOL, bp].
bp Nichol (1944–88): A Tribute.
Toronto: Coach House (1989).

Cassette tape. Ninety minute recording of the tribute to Nichol at the Toronto Harbourfront in December, 1989. Contributors include Dennis Lee, Phyllis Webb, Michael Ondaatje, Daphne Marlatt, Christopher Dewdney, Diana Hartog, Fred Wah, Douglas Barbour, and Stephen Scobie. A Coach House “Talking Book.” Together with the four page program for the event, which reproduces work by Nichol, and an essay on Nichol by Paul Dutton.
$35

65.
NIEDECKER, Lorine.
Blue Chicory.
New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press (1976).

First edition. [88 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and publisher’s cardstock slipcase. One of 400 copies printed from Dante type on Magnani rag paper by Stamperia Valdonega. An elegant presentation of Niedecker’s lines.
$125

66.
NOLAN, Pat.
The Chinese Quartet: Poems.
San Francisco: Cranium Press (1973).

First edition. [26 pp]. Very near fine in paper-covered boards with printed cover label. Handset in Goudy types and printed on an Albion handpress. SIGNED by Nolan.
$45

67.
NOLAN, Pat.
Drastic Measures.
Guilford: Telephone Books (1981).

First edition. 4to. 26 pp. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Sherry Margolin. One of 300 copies. Poems.
$35

68.
NORSE, Harold.
Beat Hotel.
San Diego: Atticus Books (1983).

First trade edition. 76 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Foreword and text by William S. Burroughs. INSCRIBED by Norse to prolific author Daniel Curzon, “with friendship + admiration / + all good wishes / Harold Norse.”
$150

69.
NYHOLM, Janet.
From a Housewife’s Diary.
West Burke: Janus Press, 1978.

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in full cloth (a red and white dish towel) with paper spine label. Printed on Mohawk Superfine by Claire Van Vliet. Illustrated throughout with eraser stamps by Jerome Kaplan, which were “colored 31 times (eventually 37) by Victoria Fraser & anyone else she could con.” One of 250 numbered copies. INSCRIBED by Van Vliet on the colophon page.
$125

70.
O’BRIEN, Tim.
Speaking of Courage.
Santa Barbara: Neville, 1980.

First edition. 20 pp. Fine in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by O’Brien. A chapter intended for his novel GOING AFTER CACCIATO, but ending up having a life of its own as a separate story.
$150

71.
OLSON, Charles.
The chain of memory is resurrection.
Storrs: University of Connecticut Library (1985).

First edition. 4to. [12 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers and printed dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies on B.F. K. Rives Lightweight Buff paper. Designed and printed by Margery Cantor. Title and cover calligraphy by Glen Epstein. A single long poem by Olson.
$45

72.
OPPENHEIMER, Joel.
The Love Bit and other Poems.
NY: Totem/Corinth (1962).

First edition, first issue. [48 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Dan Rice, who was a student at Black Mountain College with Oppenheimer. SIGNED by Oppenheimer.
$75

73.
PARKER, Pat.
Jonestown & Other Madness: Poetry.
Ithaca: Firebrand Books (1985).

First edition. 75 pp. Fine in full black cloth with gilt-stamped spine and pasted-on front and rear cover labels. In part, Parker’s response to the self-posed question, “if 900 white people had gone to a country with a Black minister and ‘committed suicide,’ would we have accepted the answers we were given so easily?”
$75

74.
PARKER, Pat.
Movement in Black: The Collected Poetry of Pat Parker 1961–1978.
Oakland: Diana Press (1978).

First edition. 157 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing along the spine. Foreword by Audre Lorde, introduction by Judy Grahn.
$75

75.
[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Adams, Ansel.
Camera and Lens. The Creative Approach: Studio, Laboratory and Operation.
Hastings-on Hudson: Morgan & Morgan (1970).

First revised edition. 345 pp. Small ink name stamped to bottom edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light edgewear and a few tiny edge-tears. SIGNED by Adams on the front free endpaper.
$250

76.
[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Croland, David and Dagon James. eds.
Lid No. 3.
(np): Waverly Press (2006).

Small 4to. [114 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A music issue, featuring photographs of Iggy Pop, Richard Hell, Ramones, Bowie, Eno, Interpol, Debbie Harry, and many others.
$35

77.
[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Kurata, Seiji.
Japan.
Tokyo: Photo Musée (1998).

First edition. 8vo. [670 pp]. Near fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket. Obi present. Dated (Oct. 08) and INSCRIBED by Kurata on the front free endpaper. Photographs from some of the darker corners.
$350

78.
[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Leibovitz, Annie.
At Work.
NY: Random House (2008).

First edition. 237 pp. Light rubbing to fore-edge else fine in stamped boards with original wrap-around band (lightly sunned along spine). Dated (Chicago 2008) and SIGNED by Leibovitz on the half-title page.
$75

79.
PLATH, Sylvia.
Winter Trees.
London: Faber and Faber (1971).

First edition. 55 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Late poems by Plath, part of the group from which the ARIEL poems were selected. Laid into this copy is the Poetry Book Society Bulletin (folded once) No. 70: Autumn 1971, featuring this title.
$200

80.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Adlard, John and Alan Brownjohn. eds.
Departure Pamphlets I: Six Woman Poets.
Oxford: John Adlard and Alan Brownjohn [1950].

First edition. [8 pp]. Light bump to base of spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems by Elizabeth Jennings, Marion Smith, Lotte Zurndorfer, Jenny Joseph, Gillian Craig, and Adrienne Cecile Rich, a year before the appearance of her first adult title, A CHANGE OF WORLD.
$250

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