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21. COATES, Robert M. The Eater of Darkness. NY: Macaulay (1929).
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First US edition. 238 pp. Some small loss to cloth along each gutter, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light overall edgewear and a closed tear to the front panel. Wrap-around band present, brandishing an endorsement by Ford Madox Ford. First book by Coates, awarded “best dada novel” by Ford. $450
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22. COATES, Robert M. The View from Here. NY: Harcourt, Brace (1960).
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First edition. 215 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Compelling memoir by a member of the “Lost Generation,” novelist, and New Yorker art critic. $50
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23. COLEMAN, Wanda. Native in a Strange Land: Trials & Tremors. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1996.
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First edition, lettered & signed issue. 292 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 20 lettered copies SIGNED by Coleman. Essays and prose works. $75
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24. COOPER, Dennis. My Mark. Los Angeles: Sherwood Press, 1982.
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First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Sheree Levin. One of 474 (of 500) copies. A short story. $125
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25. CORT ÁZAR, Julio. Hopscotch. London: Collins and Harvill Press (1967).
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First UK edition. 564 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with internal tape reinforcement to base and crown of spine. Translated from the original Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. A “counter-novel” that can be read according to two different chapter sequences. $75
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26. DAHL, Roald. George’s Marvelous Medicine. London: Jonathan Cape (1981).
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First edition. 96 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art and internal illustrations by Quentin Blake. Boldly SIGNED by Dahl on the front free endpaper. $500
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27. DANT, Adam. An A to Z for the Effective Use of Your City. London: Atlas Press (1999).
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First edition, numbered & signed issue. [64 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Dant. The Printed Head Volume IV, number 3. Excerpts from five years of Dant’s Donald Parsnips Daily Journal. $125
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28. DAVENPORT, Guy. Anakreon: The Extant Fragments. Parallel Editions (1991).
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First edition. [44 pp w/notes]. Fine in wrappers with pasted-on cover element. One of 75 (of 90) numbered copies on Mohawk Superfine paper SIGNED by Davenport. “These fragments are all that survive of a poet whose fame and stature arise from a collection of poems he did not write.” Crane A37. $200
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29. DODGE, Jim. Aweigh. [Berkeley]: Tangram (1989).
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First edition. Single large sheet folded twice to make a booklet, printed on four sides. 9 x 6 inches (closed). A short story by Dodge, printed on the occasion of the Winter Solstice. $40
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30. FABER, Michael. The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps. Edinburgh: Canongate (2001).
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First edition. 122 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Faber on the front free endpaper. A “turn of the screw-like” novella. $45
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31. [FERMOR, Patrick Leigh]. Cooper, Artemis. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure. London: John Murray (2012).
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First edition. xiii + 448 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Cooper on the title page. $50
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32. [FORTUNE PRESS]. Smith, Timothy D’Arch. R.A. Caton and the Fortune Press: A Memoir and a Hand-List. North Pomfret: Asphodel Editions, 2004.
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Second edition, revised and enlarged. 115 pp w/index of names & titles. Fine in full red cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. $35
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33. GIMLETTE, John. At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguay. London: Hutchinson (2003).
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First edition. xx + 363 pp w/chronology & list for further reading. Slight lean to spine, else fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Gimlette on the title page. The first of his highly-regarded travel books. $45
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34. GLÜCK, Robert. Marsha Poems. San Francisco: Hoddypoll Press, 1973.
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First edition. 4to. [12 pp]. Fine in string-bound wrappers. One of 300 copies. One of two first books of poetry published by Glück in 1973. $125
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35. GREEN, Julian. The Green Paradise, The War at Sixteen, Love in America, Restless Youth: Autobiography I–IV 1900–1929. NY & London: Marion Boyars (1993–1996).
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First editions. Four volumes, all very near fine or better in like dust jackets. For the quartet: $150
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36. HANLEY, James. Half an Eye: Sea Stories. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head (1937).
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First edition. 483 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Fifteen tales. Gibbs A19a. $100
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37. [HAUSMANN, Raoul]. Benson, Timothy O. Raoul Hausmann and Berlin Dada. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press (1987).
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First US edition. xvi + 280 pp w/notes & index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Ninety-five illustrations. A closer look at this integral figure. $75
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38. HEANEY, Seamus. From the Republic of Conscience. Dublin: Amnesty International (1985).
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First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. A single poem with an illustration by John Behan. One of 2000 copies published for Human Rights Day. Brandes & Durkan A39. $35
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39. HUXLEY, Aldous. Adonis & the Alphabet and Other Essays. London: Chatto & Windus, 1956.
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First edition. 285 pp w/appendix. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. From censorship to canned fish to “Doodles in the Dictionary.” $40
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40. JARRY, Alfred. Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Fausteroll, Pataphysician: A Neo-Scientific Novel. Boston: Exact Change, 1996.
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First separate US edition. xviii + 139 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Roger Shattuck. Translated from the original French and with notes by Simon Watson Taylor, bibliography by Alastair Brotchie. $20
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