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21.
COATES, Robert M.
The Eater of Darkness.

NY: Macaulay (1929).

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

22.
COATES, Robert M.
The View from Here.

NY: Harcourt, Brace (1960).

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

23.
COLEMAN, Wanda.
Native in a Strange Land: Trials & Tremors.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1996.

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

24.
COOPER, Dennis.
My Mark.

Los Angeles: Sherwood Press, 1982.

First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Sheree Levin. One of 474 (of 500) copies. A short story.
$125

25.
CORT ÁZAR, Julio.
Hopscotch.

London: Collins and Harvill Press (1967).

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

26.
DAHL, Roald.
George’s Marvelous Medicine.

London: Jonathan Cape (1981).

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

27.
DANT, Adam.
An A to Z for the Effective Use of Your City.

London: Atlas Press (1999).

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

28.
DAVENPORT, Guy.
Anakreon: The Extant Fragments.

Parallel Editions (1991).

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

29.
DODGE, Jim.
Aweigh.

[Berkeley]: Tangram (1989).

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

30.
FABER, Michael.
The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps.

Edinburgh: Canongate (2001).

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

31.
[FERMOR, Patrick Leigh]. Cooper, Artemis.
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure.

London: John Murray (2012).

First edition. xiii + 448 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Cooper on the title page.
$50

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.

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

33.
GIMLETTE, John.
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguay.

London: Hutchinson (2003).

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

34.
GLÜCK, Robert.
Marsha Poems.

San Francisco: Hoddypoll Press, 1973.

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

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).

First editions. Four volumes, all very near fine or better in like dust jackets. For the quartet:
$150

36.
HANLEY, James.
Half an Eye: Sea Stories.

London: John Lane at the Bodley Head (1937).

First edition. 483 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Fifteen tales. Gibbs A19a.
$100

37.
[HAUSMANN, Raoul]. Benson, Timothy O.
Raoul Hausmann and Berlin Dada.

Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press (1987).

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

38.
HEANEY, Seamus.
From the Republic of Conscience.

Dublin: Amnesty International (1985).

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

39.
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Adonis & the Alphabet and Other Essays.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1956.

First edition. 285 pp w/appendix. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. From censorship to canned fish to “Doodles in the Dictionary.”
$40

40.
JARRY, Alfred.
Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Fausteroll, Pataphysician: A Neo-Scientific Novel.

Boston: Exact Change, 1996.

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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