41.
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
A Time to Keep Silence.
London: John Murray (1957).

First trade edition. 95 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Fermor’s account of visits to abbeys and monastaries, and his contemplation of the monastic life. Illustrated with half tone and line illustrations.
$55

42.
[FILM BOOKS].
Film File: Gotham Book Mart’s Catalogue of Film Books 1–4.
NY: Gotham Book Mart (1938–1962).

Four issues, each 8vo in stapled wrappers. But for a small ink mark on the cover of #4, all are very near fine or better. The first four issues of Gotham’s long sequence of Film Books catalogues. For the quartet:
$75

43.
FINLAY, Ian Hamilton. ed.
Poor Old Tired Horse 21.
Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press (nd).

First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Entire contents by Brazilian physician/poet Edgard Braga. Introduction by Augusto de Campos, typography and layout by Nigel Sutton. Murray 2.21.
$50

44.
FITZGERALD, Penelope.
Offshore.
London: Collins, 1979.

First edition. 141 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fitzgerald’s third novel, 1979’s Booker Prize winner.
$100

45.
FOUR HORSEMEN.
Horse d’Oeuvres.
Don Mills: PaperJacks/General Publishing (1975).

First edition. 121 pp. Light bend along top edge of front cover, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Collaborative sound works by Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery, and bp Nichol.
$40

46.
GASCOYNE, David.
Collected Verse Translations.
London: Oxford University Press, 1970.

First edition. x + 128 pp w/appendix. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with one short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. Translations of Arp, Breton, Char, Dali, Eluard, Peret, Reverdy, and many others. Preface by Robin Skelton and Alan Clodd, who edited this collection.
$35

47.
GASCOYNE, David.
The Sun at Midnight: Notes on the Story of Civilization Seen as the History of the Great Experimenal Work of the Supreme Scientist.
London: Enitharmon Press, 1970.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 55 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with gilt-stampled leather spine. t.e.g. One of 75 (of 350) numbered copies on Grey Basingwerk Parchment SIGNED by Gascoyne. Halliwell 19a.
$200

48.
GOYEN, William.
Precious Door.
NY: Red Ozier Press (1981).

First edition. 12mo. 13 pp. Light foxing to page edges, else fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Goyen’s short story with wood engravings by John DePol. One of 115 numbered copies on dampened Holbrook handmade paper SIGNED by Goyen and DePol. Peich 30.
$100

49.
GREEN, Theo.
Running East.
Providence: Inkblot, 2016.

First edition. 50 pp. Fine in illustrated boards. Painter publisher poet bookseller Green’s musing on his Oakland upbringing, his gradual migration East, and the countercultural map on the way. SIGNED by Green.
$25

50.
HEJINIAN, Lyn writing as “C.H. Hejinian.”
Selections from The Winslow Poems.
Denver: Bowery Press, 1969.

First edition. 17 x 11 inch illustrated broadsheet. Folded once horizontally as issued, else fine. Poems by Hejinian, preceding her first book, a gRReat adventure, by three years. Bowery Press Broadsheet No. 4.
$125

51.
JESS.
Critical Dreams.
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1986.

First edition. 4to. [24 pp]. Fine in Fiji Unryu paper-covered boards and cloth spine with printed label. Eight “critical dreams ” by Jess, with his frontis illustration. One of 120 copies on Basingwerk Parchment paper SIGNED by Jess. Additionally INSCRIBED by Jess to R.B. Kitaj and his wife Sandra, “Dearest Sholto + Sand — / always with loving thoughts of you. / —don’t be too hard on these old / dreams dresst up so daintily / new — / Love / Jess.”
$300

52.
JOHNSON, B.S.
Albert Angelo.
London: Constable (1964).

First edition. 180 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Johnson’s second novel. Larry McMurtry’s copy, with his bookplate inside the front cover.
$250

53.
JONES, David.
Epoch and Artist: Selected Writings.
London: Faber and Faber (1959).

First edition. 320 pp w/index. Light scuff to fore-edge, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited by Harman Grisewood. Jones contributes an eight page preface.
$125

54.
JONES, David.
Inner Necessities: The Letters of David Jones to Desmond Chute.
Toronto: Anson-Cartwright Editions, 1984.

First edition. 101 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 1000 copies on Zephyr Antique Laid paper at the Coach House Press. Seventeen letters with three illustrations.
$75

55.
KELLY, Robert.
The Alchemist to Mercury.
Richmond: North Atlantic Books, 1981.

First edition. 230 pp. Fine in full maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket as issued. One of an unstated limitation of numbered copies SIGNED by Kelly on the front free endpaper. Collected and edited by Jed Rasula.
$35

56.
KOCH, Kenneth.
From the Air.
London: Taranman (1979).

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in full blue cloth with gilt stamping to front cover. Koch’s long poem with color leaf illustrations by Rory McEwen. One of 460 (of 500) numbered copies SIGNED by Koch and McEwen.
$75

57.
KRYSS, Tom.
Dogs Body I: poems & silkscreen by tom kryss.
Victoria: No Deposit No Return [1970].

First edition. [10 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers with foxing along page edges. A five part poem on winter with “The Sky is a Lot Like a Guillotine of Blue,” preceded by a three color silkscreen print on black paper. Uncommon.
$200

58.
KUCHAR, George and Mike.
Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool.
Berkeley: Zanja Press (1997).

First edition. Horizontal 8vo. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by John Waters. A front-row history of the underground scene.
$40

59.
LAMPEDUSA, Giuseppe Di.
Two Stories and a Memory.
London: Collins and Harville, 1962.

First UK edition. 128 pp. Ownership name penciled to the front free endpaper, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. Introduction by E.M. Forster.
$45

60.
levy, d.a.
Cleveland undercovers.
Cleveland: 7 flowers press, 1966.

First edition. [18 pp]. Light stains to front cover and a bit of the fore-edge, else near fine in printed wrappers. One of 500 copies. Cover art by Dagmar. Printed dedication to Jim Lowell, “this poem dedicated to / his majesty of poetry / in cleveland.. the most / honorable James Lowell / King of Small Flowers.” One of levy’s major poetic statements. The printed address of Lowell’s Asphodel Book Shop has been changed (in levy’s hand) to reflect the move from the Arcade to 306 W. Superior.
$250

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