21.
COX, Ed.
Waking.
San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1977.

First edition. 48 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Dated (August 1, 1977) and INSCRIBED by Cox, “For George Oppen — / your poems / + what I’ve learned / from them / best to you — / Ed Cox.” Young 837*.
$45

22.
CROWLEY, Mart.
The Boys in the Band.
NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1968).

Uncorrected proof. Narrow 4to. 124 pp. Near fine in comb-bound wrappers. Promotional materials stapled inside front cover. An uncommon state of this landmark title. Young 872*.
$450

23.
DOLINER, Roy.
Young Man Willing.
NY: Scribner’s (1960).

First edition. 186 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A novel of the New York theater world, Broadway, and hipster societies. Doliner’s first book. Young 1028.
$75

24.
DUBERMAN, Martin.
Visions of Kerouac: A Play.
Boston: Little, Brown (1977).

First edition. 142 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a small corner crease to the rear flap. A dramatic meditation on Kerouac’s life. Young 1086.
$45

25.
EVANS, John.
Shadows Flying.
NY: Knopf, 1936.

First edition. 262 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with some light edge wear. Cover art by George Salter. Evans’ uncommon second novel that “explores that realm of violent aberration already made familiar by the poetry of Robinson Jeffers.” Later reprinted as LOVE IN THE SHADOWS. Young 1185.
$200

26.
FABIAN, Gerald.
Odissea Finita: An Elegy For A Lost Shipmate.
Walnut Creek: Very Stone House Press (1969).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [34 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with a bit on toning on the edges. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Fabian. Young 1193*.
$45

27.
FIELDING, Gabriel pseudonym for Alan Gabriel Barnsley.
In the Time of Greenbloom.
London: Hutchinson (1956).

First edition. 447 pp. Toning to endpapers, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light foxing to flap folds. One of three novels chronicling the life of John Blayton. Young 1243.
$75

28.
FORSTER, E.M.
E.M. Forster’s Letters to Donald Windham.
Verona: Sandy Campbell, 1975.

First edition. 46 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 300 copies. Letters from 1948 to 1965, with Windham’s introduction and note. Young 1295.
$35

29.
FRIEDMAN, Bruce Jay.
Steambath: A Play.
NY: Knopf, 1971.

First edition. 97 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with production stills. Friedman’s second play. Young 1332.
$55

30.
GEORGE, Stefan.
Poems.
NY: Pantheon (1943).

First US edition. 253 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with some wear to lower edge of the base of spine (with a bit of loss). Original German poems with facing English translations by Carol North Valhope and Ernst Morwitz. Young 1395*.
$200

31.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Empty Mirror: Early Poems.
NY: Totem/Corinth (1961).

First edition. 47 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Cover art by Jessie Sorrentino. Morgan A5.a1.1. Young 1448.
$75

32.
GLÜCK, Robert.
Andy.
San Francisco: Panjandrum (1973).

First edition. [44 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems with illustrations by Edward Aulerich. Young 1481.
$75

33.
GOFF, Martyn.
The Plaster Fabric: A Novel.
London: Putnam (1957).

First edition. 255 pp. Light foxing along top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly edge worn. Goff’s first novel. Cover designed by John Minton, Goff’s “friend of many years,” to whose memory the book is dedicated. INSCRIBED by Goff to A.R.C. Stiby in the year of publication. Young 1489*.
$350

34.
GOLDMAN, William.
Your Turn to Curtsy My Turn to Bow.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1958.

First edition. 154 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Goldman’s less common second book. Young 1502.
$450

35.
GOVER, Robert.
Poorboy at the Party.
NY: Trident Press, 1966.

First edition. 231 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with one short tear to the rear panel. Cover art by J.W. McDaniel. An out-of-control party at a seaside estate, as described by Diogenes, a cat. Young 1546.
$45

36.
GOYEN, William.
The House of Breath.
NY: Random House (1950).

First edition. 181 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with just a bit of rubbing to extrems. Review slip laid in. Winner of the MacMurray Award for best first novel by a Texan, and nominated for the first National Book Award for fiction. Young 1547.
$150

37.
GRUMBACH, Doris.
The Short Throat, The Tender Mouth.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1964.

First edition. 184 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Grumbach on the front free endpaper. Her second book, set amongst the students of the Washington Square campus of NYU shortly before the outbreak of WWII. Young 1630.
$350

38.
GUNN, Thom.
Jack Straw’s Castle.
London: Faber & Faber (1976).

First UK edition. 78 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Revised and enlarged from the Hallman edition of 1975. Hagstrom & Bixby A24. Young 1637.
$35

39.
HANLEY, James.
A Passion Before Death.
London: Privately Printed, 1930.

First edition. 50 pp. A fine full gilt-stamped white cloth in the original glassine jacket with paper flaps. Although still in one piece, and with both flaps present, the jacket here is missing over a quarter of its glassine —— still, it is a rare survival in any condition. One of 185 (of 200) numbered copies SIGNED by Hanley. Gibbs A3a, who did not see or mention a dust jacket. Young 1695*.
$350

40.
HARNES, Peter and Alan James.
The Arms of Arum (short stories).
San Rafael: Frenchy’s Gay Line (1970).

First edition. 187 pp. Small ink stamp to bottom edge, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Young 1708*.
$25

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