41.
GIORNO, John.
Johnny Guitar.
NY: The Poetry Project (1969).

First edition. Tall 4to. [14 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover photograph by Les Levine. One of 500 copies.
$150 –SOLD–

42.
GOREY, Edward.
The Lavender Leotard or: Going a Lot to the New York City Ballet.
NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1973.

First trade edition. Horizontal 32mo. [32 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Each tutu on the front cover of this issue was individually handpainted by Gorey. Toledano A53c.
–SOLD– $150

43.
[GREENWOOD PRESS]. Valéry, Paul.
Inscriptions for the Palais de Chaillot 1937.
San Francisco: Greenwood Press (1978).

First edition. Single large sheet, folded twice to make a booklet (5 x 7 inches, closed). Very near fine. One of 125 copies printed and handset by Jack W. Stauffacher. A keepsake printed for Dr. Robert L. Leslie.
$25 –SOLD–

44.
HANLEY, James.
Lost.
Vancouver: Standard Editions, 1979.

First edition. 4to. 15 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 300 copies. Frontis illustration by J. Thomas Osborne. The first separate appearance of this short story, which was originally published in The London Aphrodite in 1956.
$35

44a.
__. Another copy. Numbered & signed issue. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 60 numbered copies SIGNED by Hanley and Osborne.
$75

45.
HIGGINS, Dick.
Happytime the Medicine Man.
Madrid & Geneva: Estampa Ediciones & Juan J. Agius Publications, 1992.

First edition. 58 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Written and designed by Higgins. One of 200 (of 300) numbered copies. Set in type to approximate the original holograph manuscript created by Higgins for his five year old younger brother.
$75 –SOLD–

46.
HODELL, Ake.
igevär.
Stockholm: Kerberos Förlag (1963).

First edition. Horizontal 48mo. [52 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers. One of 500 copies. The title letters repeated (pages of i and a, with just a relative few of the others) to form dense fields.
–SOLD– $75

47.
HOOD, Walter.
Blues & Jazz: Landscape Improvisations.
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1993.

First trade paperback printing. 39 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Fully-illustrated with photographs by Lew Watts. Garrett Eckbo introduces this collection of space designs for, in turn, a thief, a musician, an anarchist, an addict, a cook, a bureaucrat, and many others.
$40 –SOLD–

48.
[HUXLEY, Aldous].
They Still Draw Pictures! A collection of 60 drawings made by Spanish children during the war.
NY: Spanish Child Welfare Association of America, 1938.

First edition. 71 pp. Small price stamp on rear cover, else very near fine in spiral-bound illustrated wrappers. Aldous Huxley provides an introduction to this collection of captioned drawings.
–SOLD– $75

49.
JESS.
1994 holograph postcard.

6 x ¼ inch illustrated postcard. Near fine. A Hanging Loose postcard of a Helen Adam collage. Jess writes in part, “My future shall be colord pistachio!...I’ve begun a new paste-up— Scissors are a problem but I’ll make out—” Card is dated 12–26–94.
$125 –SOLD–

50.
JOHNSON, Ronald.
Sports and Divertissements.
Urbana: Finial Press (1969).

First US edition. [40 pp]. Fine in bright yellow-gold boards with stamped and gilt designs on the front cover. Text illustrated with drawings by Tom Kovacs. One of 171 numbered copies SIGNED by Johnson and Kovacs. Johnson’s second book, first published in Scotland by Finlay’s Wild Hawthorn Press. “Sports” is a series of found poems “made from Erik Satie’s notes, in French, to the piano pieces SPORTS AND DIVERTISSEMENTS.”
$75

51.
JOHNSON, Ronald.
To Do As Adam Did: Selected Poems of Ronald Johnson.
Jersey City: Talisman House (2000).

First edition. xiii + 151 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Edited, with an introduction by Peter O’Leary.
$20 –SOLD–

52.
KITASONO, Katue.
Black Rain: Poems & Drawings.
(np): Divers Press, 1954.

First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Poems with prints in four colors by Kitasono. An absolutely as-new copy of this terrific book.
$500

53.
[KRYSS, T.L.]. Hall, Malcolm. ed.
UP: Jut.
Seattle: UP: Jut, 1969.

First edition. 4to. [12 pp]. A light spot to last two leaves, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 150 copies. Cover art by Tom Kryss, an unique potato print. Blazek, Janet Brown, Cauble, Geoffrey Cook, Kryss, and Kent Taylor contribute. To all appearances, a one-shot.
$75

54.
LANGE, Dorothea and Pirkle Jones.
Death of a Valley.
NY: Aperture (1960).

Volume 8, Number 3. [40 pp]. Small spot on rear cover, else very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An entire issue of Aperture devoted to this work documenting the last year of the Berryessa Valley before being flooded upon the completion of the Monticello Dam.
$350

55.
LEAVITT, David.
Crossing St. Gotthard.
[North Pomfret]: Elysium Press (2000).

First edition, numbered issue. 19 pp. Fine in full grey wool flannel with three buttons sewn onto the spine and a printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 75 (of 185) numbered copies. A short story.
$150

56.
levy, d.a. and Sam Seiffer. eds.
Congress/3.
NY: Samuel Seiffer, 1967.

4to. 44 pp. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover photograph by Martin Szutter of the BE-IN in front of the Cleveland Art Museum. Contributions by Gildzen, J.R.S., Kryss, levy, Cook, Taylor, rjs, and many others. levy edited the Cleveland section.
$45

57.
[levy, d.a.]. Valoch, Jiri.
an interrupted poem / in memoriam da levy /.
[Toronto]: Ganglia, 1969.

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers (2 ¾ x 4 ¼ inches). A concrete tribute to levy, #24 in the Ganglia 5cent series.
$25 –SOLD–

58.
[LITERARY ANTHOLOGY]. Barnett, A. ed.
The Literary Supplement, Writings, 1.
London: The Literary Supplement Nothing doing (formally in London), 1973.

First edition. 16 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 200 copies. Collects Edmund Jabes’ “Answer to a Letter,” translated by Rosmarie Waldrop; J.H. Prynne’s poem for Paul Celan, “Es Lebe Der König;” and Paul Celan’s “Conversation in the Mountains,” also translated by Waldrop.
–SOLD– $45

59.
[LITTLE MAGAZINES].
Kontexts: an occasional review of visual poetries and language arts — issue no. 8.
Gibbs, Michael. ed.
Amsterdam: Kontexts Publications, 1976.

Folio. [18 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. A fine issue of this periodical, with contributions by Mac Low, Chopin, Lora-Totino, and a four page illustrated feature on Burroughs and Gysin.
$75

60.
[LITTLE MAGAZINES].
Sunshine.
Bernheimer, Alan. ed.
NY: Alan Bernheimer, 1971.

First edition. 4to. [66 pp]. Some light toning to edges, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Merrill Gilfillan. Rebecca Wright, Michael Waltuch, Alex Smith, Arlene Ladden, Kit Robinson, Alan Bernheimer, Bill Zavatsky, Steve Benson, Roger Kamenetz, Pat Bizzell, Merrill Gilfillan, and Paul Violi contribute to this one-shot.
$45

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