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21.
CORSO, Gregory.
Elegiac Feelings American.

NY: New Directions (1970).
First edition. 120 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Not issued in hardcover. SIGNED by Gerard Malanga on the first leaf.
$40
83640
22.
CROWLEY, Aleister.
Eight Lectures on Yoga by Mahatma Guru Sri Paramahansa Shivaji.

Dallas: Sangreal Foundation (1972).
Second printing of this edition. 80 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly rubbed and has one short edge tear. Preface by Israel Reardie. Pairs two sets of lectures, “Yoga for Yahoos” and “Yoga for Yellowbellies.”
$75
80383
23.
DAWSON, Fielding.
On Duberman’s Black Mountain & B.H. Friedman’s Biography of Jackson Pollock.

Toronto: Coach House (1973).
First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Dawson on the front free endpaper. A detailed review of booth books, by a Black Mountain alum.
$45
37698
24.
DAWSON, Fielding.
The Sun Rises into the Sky and Other Stories 1952–1966.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974.
First edition, presentation copy. 134 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered board and fine acetate dust jacket. One of only two “presentation copies,” so designated on the colophon page and SIGNED by Dawson. As in the lettered issue, tipped-in after the title page is an original drawing dated (‘73) and initialed by Dawson. Morrow & Cooney 170c (note).
$125
83635
25.
DEBORD, Guy.
A Sick Planet.

Oxford, NY, Calcutta: Seagull Books (2008).
First edition in English. 94 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with integral wrap-around band. Translated from the original French by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Three essays including the title work, which was to appear in the 13th issue of Internationale Situationniste, which was never published.
$45
80795
26.
[DESNOS, Robert]. Caws, Mary Ann.
The Surrealist Voice of Robert Desnos.

[Amherst]: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977.
First edition. 222 pp w/notes, bibliography, & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Includes a selection of unpublished documents (several of them pictured), and a generous offering of translated texts.
$85
53516
27.
[DINE, Jim]. Hoyem, Andrew.
What If. Poems: 1969–1987.

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987.
First edition, deluxe limited issue. 91 pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 120 copies on Rives paper. Tipped-on opposite the title page is an original portrait etching of Hoyem by Jim Dine, SIGNED by Dine in pencil beneath the image. Additionally, this copy is SIGNED by Hoyem on the half-title page.
$250
83644
28.
DORN, Edward.
The Denver Landing 11 Aug 1993.

Buffalo: Uprising Press (1993).
First edition, lettered & signed issue. [10 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Five poems, printed on the occasion of Dorn’s return to Buffalo. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Dorn.
$125
83648
29.
DUNCAN, Robert.
Poetic Disturbances.

[Berkeley]: Maya Quarto Eight (1970).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with printed paper cover label. One of 50 numbered copies on Tovil paper. SIGNED by Duncan. Printed by Clifford Burke. Maya Quarto Eight. Bertholf A34b.
$150
83623
30.
DUPIN, Jacques translated by Paul Auster.
Fits and Starts: Selected Poems of Jacques Dupin.

Weston: Living Hand (1973).
First trade edition. 71 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Entire issue devoted to Auster’s translations of these poems. The colophon calls for 1000 copies; this copy is not numbered (I’ve never encountered a numbered trade copy). Living Hand 2. Drenttel C3b.
$40
83625
31.
ECO, Umberto.
The Island of the Day Before.

NY: Harcourt Brace (1995).
First US edition. 10 ½ x 6 ¾ inch puzzle. Fine in shrinkwrap. A promotional item featuring the cover art of Eco’s novel on the recto, and publication information on the verso.
$35
83674
32.
EDWARDS, Michael. ed.
French Poetry Now.

Breakish: Prospice/Aquila (1975).
First edition. 147 pp w/list of contributors. Fine in fine dust jacket. René Char, Yves Bonnefoy, Alain Delahaye, Philippe Jaccottet, Jacques Roubaud, Jacqueline Guéron, Michel Deguy, largely in English translation. This constitutes volume 3 of Prospice. Uncommon in hardcover.
$75
83675
33.
EIGNER, Larry.
Country Harbor Quiet Act Around: Selected Prose.

(np): This Press (1978).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 159 pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Introduction by Douglas Woolf. Edited by Barrett Watten. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Eigner.
$150
83678
34.
[EVERSON, William]. Campbell, Lee G.
William Everson: A Collection of Books & Manuscripts.

Santa Barbara: Joseph the Provider/Books (1987).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 52 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. Foreword by Ralph B. Sipper. Preface by William Everson. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Everson. Two hundred and twenty-two described and priced items. Original prospectus laid in.
$75
83631
35.
[THE FALL]. Pringle, Steve.
You Must Get Them ALL: The Fall on Record.

(np): Route (2022).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 656 pp w/appendixes, bibliography, & notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Foreword by Paul Hanley. One of 950 numbered copies SIGNED by Pringle. “Covers every single release— album, EP, single, compilation, live album — every line-up change, every setback and every triumph.”
$75
83681
36.
FINLAY, Alec. ed.
A Morning Star Folio: First Series.

Perthshire: Morning Star Publications (1990–1991).
First editions. The first four issues, each fine in wrappers, housed in their original printed envelopes (near fine). I:1. Cid Corman. A Haiku Calendar, designed and illustrated by Walter Miller. I:2. Thomas Meyer. Simple E, illustrated by Inger Lawrence. 1:3. Thomas A. Clark. About Nothing in Particular, illustrated by Laurie Clark. 1:4. Thoedore Enslin. Little Wandering Flake of Snow, illustrated by Edna Whyte. SIGNED by Miller, Lawrence, Clark, and Whyte in their respective issues, each numbered between 200 to 300 copies. For the quartet:
$150
83658
37.
[FINLAY, Ian Hamilton]. Corman, Cid. ed.
Origin Second Series 6: featuring Ian Hamilton Finlay.

Kyoto: Origin (1962).
July. 64 pp. Bump to one lower corner, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Twenty-one pages of work by Finlay including a letter, poems, and translation. Also work by Creeley, Niedecker, Eigner, McClure, and several others.
$125
83663
38.
FORSTER, E.M.
Howards End.

London: Edward Arnold (1973).
First printing of this edition (originally published in 1910). xix + 364 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Oliver Stallybrass, with his introduction. This edition includes Forster’s earliest surviving literary composition, “a detailed account, written mainly at the age of fifteen, of Rooksnest, his childhood home... the model in every detail for Howards End.”
$125
83592
39.
GASKIN, Stephen.
Volume One: Sunday Morning Services at the Farm.

Summertown: Book Publishing Company (1977).
First edition. 158 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Gaskin’s teachings with b&w photographs from The Farm. On the last leaf, next to a photograph of a guy standing by an ambulance, is inked, “Have Fun / Gary / (Red Rhino).” “Gary” is quoted in the text on the same page.
$45
83523
40.
GIFFORD, Barry.
Port Tropique: A Novel.

Berkeley: Black Lizard/Creative Arts, 1980.
First edition. 185 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of Gifford’s best, and one of the least common Black Lizard titles.
$125