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1.
[ANDERSON, Lindsay]. Sussex, Elizabeth.
Lindsay Anderson.

NY: Praeger (1969).

First US edition. 96 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A general survey of life and work, illustrated with b&w stills and photographs.
$35 –SOLD–

2.
BARNES, Djuna.
Vagaries Malicieux: Two Stories.

NY: Frank Hallman, 1974.

First edition. 41 pp. Fine in full white cloth with gold stamping to spine. Fine clear acetate dust jacket. One of 500 numbered copies designed by Ronald Gordon and printed at The Stinehour Press. Stories orignally published in 1922 and 1936 in Caravel and The Double Dealer, respectively.
–SOLD– $45

3.
BERNER, Jeff and Francoise Forster-Hahn.
Aktual Art International.

Stanford: Department of Art & Architecture, 1967.

First edition. 23 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction by Lorenz Eitner. A 159 item exhibition catalogue assembled from Berner’s collection of movement works. Stanford Art Book 8, designed by Ann Rosener with fourteen photographs by Leo Holub.
$40 –SOLD–

4.
BERRIGAN, Ted with Joe Brainard.
Living With Chris.

[NY]: Boke Press [1968].

First edition. 4to. [38 pp]. Light toning to extems and a few wrinkles to rear panel, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Berrigan’s entire text penned and illustrated by Brainard.
–SOLD– $350

5.
BERRY, Wendell.
Clearing.

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1977).

First edition. 52 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Seven poems collected.
$25

6.
BISHOP, Elizabeth.
Geography III.

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1976).

First edition. 50 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to base and crown of spine. MacMahon A13.
–SOLD– $75

7.
BLACKBURN, Paul.
The Reardon Poems.

Madison: Perishable Press 1967.

First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies on Chauke Heavy paper. A sequence of ten poems. Hamady 9.
$250 –SOLD–

8.
BLANCHOT, Maurice.
When the Time Comes.

Barrytown: Station Hill (1985).

First edition. 74 pp. Very near fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated from the original French by Lydia Davis. A work of fiction.
$35

9.
BOWLES, Jane.
Plain Pleasures.

London: Peter Owen (1966).

First edition. 184 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A collection of seven short stories.
$85 –SOLD–

10.
BRAKHAGE, Stan.
Telling Time: Essays of a Visionary Filmmaker.

Kingston: McPherson & Company/Documentext, 2003.

First edition. 144 pp. Very near fine in full black cloth with gilt stamping to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Nineteen essays, with an introductory note by editor Bruce McPherson.
–SOLD– $35

11.
BRANCO, Aquiles.
Voo Das Cinco.

Cataguases: Joaquim Branco Ribeiro Filho (1977).

First edition. 54 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A collection of 53 concrete poems by this Brazilian practitioner of the form.
$50 –SOLD–

12.
BRINGHURST, Robert.
The Stonecutter’s Horses.

Vancouver: Standard Editions, 1979.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. 11 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 40 numbered copies SIGNED by Bringhurst. A single long poem.
$50

12a.
__. Another copy. Lettered & signed issue. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 10 lettered copies SIGNED by Bringhurst.
$125

13.
BURROUGHS, William S.
The Soft Machine.

Paris: Olympia Press (1961).

First edition. 151 pp. Fine in printed wrappers and very near fine illustrated dust jacket. Jacket art by Brion Gysin. The so-called later issue, with the “new price” stamp over the printed price on the rear cover. Maynard & Miles A5.
$500 –SOLD–

14.
CAREY, Henry.
Chrononhotonthologos: The Most Tragical Tragedy, That ever was Tragediz’d by any Company of Tragedians.

NY: Adventures in Poetry (1971).

First edition. 4to. [44 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 250 copies. Ron Padgett and Johnny Stanton introduce and present this 18th century work.
$50

15.
[CASSANDRE, A. Mouron].
Posters of Cassandre.

NY: Museum of Modern Art (1936).

First edition. [16 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with light wear along spine, and a bend to one upper corner. Light foxing to a few leaves. One of 1500 copies. Foreword by Ernestine M. Fantl. Illustrated with nine b&w reproductions. Cover an original lithograph.
$125 –SOLD–

16.
CENDRARS, Blaise.
Kodak.

NY: Adventures in Poetry (1976).

First edition. 4to. [54 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers with light edgewear. Translated from the original French by Ron Padgett. Dated (4 Aug 76) and INSCRIBED by Padgett, “Tom — see p 37! / Love, / Ron.”
$75

17.
CLARK, Tom.
The Mutabilities of the Englishe Lyrick.

Berekeleii: E Typographeo Poltroniano, 1978.

First edition, signed hardcover issue. [34 pp]. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems “selected and arranged” by Tom Clark, beginning with Sir Philp Sidney and concluding with Henry Austin Dobson. The printer recalls 100 or fewer in this binding (from an edition of 250). SIGNED by Clark. A wonderful parody perpetrated by Clark and Poltroon Press.
$50 –SOLD–

18.
COFFIELD, Glen.
Silence and Slowtime (a snowscape): A Poem for Christmas.

Eagle Creek: Glen Coffield (1953).

First edition. 8 pp. Near fine in stapled and taped wrappers with some light edgwear. A single poem, printed by mimeograph.
$150

19.
[COMPLETE RUN].
The Wivenhoe Park Review/The Park 1–4/5 (complete).

Clark, Thomas and Andrew Crozier. eds.
Colchester & North Staffordshire: Wivenhoe Park Review/The Park, 1965–1969.

Five numbers in four issues, all near fine or better in illustrated wrappers. Raworth, Blaser, Prynne, Spicer, Olson, Duncan, Sorrentino, Rakosi, Ceravolo, and many others contribute.
$200 –SOLD–

20.
[CONCRETE POETRY].
Cheetah 1: 5.

Dietz, Lawrence. ed.
NY: Twenty First Century Publishing (1968).

4to. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Eugene Wildman presents an essay on the form and a small anthology of “Concretism.” Works by Edwin Morgan, Timm Ulrichs, Hansjörg Mayer, and Seiichi Niikuni reproduced.
–SOLD– $30

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