21.
HUGHES, Ted.
Weasels at Work.
[Devon]: Morrigu Press (1983).

First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with printed cover label. Title page drawing (of weasels) by Hughes, colophon page drawing by Leonard Baskin. One of 75 numbered copies on Roma paper SIGNED by Hughes.
$450

22.
ISSA translated by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto.
The Duckweed Way: Haiku of Issa.
Derry: Rook Press (1977).

First edition. 17 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 250 (of 300) numbered copies SIGNED by Stryk. Sixty-two translated works by the master.
$40

23.
KINSELLA, W.P.
Scars: Stories.
[Ottawa]: Oberon (1978).

First edition. 154 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Kinsella on the front free endpaper, “Best Wishes / Bill Kinsella.” His second book, less common in nice condition.
$350

24.
LEVERTOV, Denise.
Nine Poems.
Berkeley: Quelquefois Press, 1996.

First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in wrappers. Printed letterpress in two colors by Mary Laird. One of 90 numbered copies on Rives Cream paper SIGNED by Levertov and Laird.
$250

25.
McCULLERS, Carson.
Clock without Hands.
London: Cresset Press, 1961.

First UK edition. 262 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a few stray marks, a short closed tear, and light toning to spine. McCuller’s last novel, published fifteen years after her third (THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING).
$35

26.
MELTZER, David.
Yesod.
London: Trigram (1969).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 61 pp. Fine in full decorated buckram. Near fine acetate dust jacket (rubbed). One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Meltzer.
$50

27.
MILLAR, Margaret.
Beast in View.
NY: Random House (1955).

First edition. 249 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Winner of the 1956 Edgar Award, and one of the Mystery Writers of America’s Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time.
$450

28.
MILLER, Henry and Michael Fraenkel.
The Michael Fraenkel - Henry Miller Correspondence called HAMLET Volume 1 & Volume II.
London: Carrefour (1962).

First combined English language edition. Small 4to. 409 pp. Covers lightly smudged, else near fine in string-bound wrappers. Shifreen & Jackson A135a.
$125

29.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
Arc 8.
Gillingham: Arc (1970).

First edition. [16 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 225 (of 250) copies. Poems by Charles Verey, Thomas A. Clarke, and John S. Sharkey.
$40

30.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
Seven Stray Cats Reading Their Poems.
[Pittsburg: Caliban Bookshop, 1995].

Second edition. 4to. [40 pp]. Very good plus in side-stapled wrappers with a few small spots to front cover. Cover art by Jack Gilbert and Joan Hartmann-McLean. Colophon slip laid in. One of 26 numbered copies. A reproduction of this collection, originally produced in 1957. Poems by Michael Grieg, Laura Uronovitz, Robert Stock, Jack Gilbert, Gerd Stern, Carol Christopher Drake, and Jean McLean.
$125

31.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Zengetsu Myoko. ed.
words have no meaning: poems and translations from the 2007 Montreal Zen Poetry Festival.
Montreal: Enpuku-ji Press (2009).

First edition. 55 pp. Fine in printed boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems by David Budbill, Joanne Kyger, and Steve Sanfield. Translations by Sonja Arntzen and Red Pine. Tributes by Jikan Leonard Cohen and Steve Sanfield. Nicely done.
$40

32.
PORTER, Bern.
Time.
[Isla Vista: Turkey Press, 1983].

First edition. 12 x 9 ¹ ⁄ 8 inch broadside. Fine. One of 97 numbered copies SIGNED by Porter.
$75

33.
PRYNNE, J.H.
Pearls That Were.
Cambridge: Equipage, 1999.

First edition. [26 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 600 copies.
$40

34.
PRYNNE, J.H.
Red D Gypsum.
Cambridge: Barque, 1998.

First edition. 19 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers with a few stray marks to front cover.
$45

35.
SCHWITTERS, Kurt.
Das literarische Werk Band 1–5.
Köln: M. DuMont Schauberg (1973–1981).

First editions. Five volumes, all fine in very near fine or better dust jackets with very good plus or better cardstock slipcases. Volume 5 has an embossed ownership stamp on the first (blank) leaf. Collects Lyrics, Prose 1918–1930, Prose 1931–1948, Plays and Scenes, and Manifestos and Critical Prose, all in German. A terrific presentation. For the set:
$250

36.
STANFORD, Frank.
Field Talk: Poems.
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975.

First edition. 28 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Standford’s third collection of poems, illustrated with two drawings by Ginny Crouch Stanford. Since the 2015 publication of Stanford’s collected poems, his early books have become much less common.
$750

37.
TZARA, Tristan.
Le coeur à gaz.
Paris: GLM (1946).

First edition. 4to. 39 pp. Very near fine in stiff printed wrappers. One of 380 numbered copies on vélin du Marais paper. A very short three act play, originally produced in 1921 as part of the “Dada Salon” at Galerie Montaigne.
$200

38.
WHALEN, Philip.
The Wind Chimes.
(np): Arif Press, 1980.

First edition. 11 ¾ x 9 inch broadside, printed in two colors on newsprint. Very near fine. A six line poem by Whalen, dated originally 13: VI: 77. Uncommon.
$50

39.
WHITEHEAD, Peter.
Wholly Communion: The Film by Peter Whitehead.
London: Lorrimer Films (1965).

First edition. 72 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers with light soiling to white rear cover. Images from the film accompanying poems by Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Corso, Fainlight, Mitchell, Horovitz, Jandl, Trocchi, Logue, and Voznesensky.
$30

40.
YEATS, William Butler.
A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded Upon the Writings of Giraldus and Upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka.
London: T. Werner Laurie, 1925.

First edition. xxiii + 256 pp. Bit of discoloration along top edge, light tanning to spine, in all, near fine in two-part paper-covered boards with printed spine label. One of 600 numbered copies SIGNED by Yeats. Stephen Vincent Benét’s copy, with his bookplate.
$1000

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