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41.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986–1992.

NY: HarperCollins (1994).
First edition. xviii + 118 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Ginsberg on the half-title page with his customary circled “AH.”
$75
66198
42.
GRACQ, Julien.
A Dark Stranger.

London: Peter Owen (1951).
Second UK edition. 187 pp. Very near fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from the original French by W.J. Strachan. Title page a cancel. Issued originally in the UK by Lindsay Drummond Limited. Young 1549.
$250
83637
43.
GUNN, Bill.
Rhinestone Sharecropping: A Novel.

NY & Berkeley: I. Reed Books (1981).
First edition. 193 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Second novel by the dramatist, actor, and filmmaker (Ganja & Hess).
$75
46123
44.
HALSEY, Alan.
Wittgenstein’s Devil: Selected Writing 1978–98.

Exeter: Stride (2000).
First edition. 146 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. SIGNED by Halsey on the title page.
$40
76748
45.
HEANEY, Seamus translates Leos Janacek and Ozef Kalda.
Diary of One Who Vanished.

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (2000).
First US edition. ix + [36 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A song cycle by Leos Janacek of poems by Ozef Kalda, here in a new version by Seamus Heaney, with his five page introduction. SIGNED by Heaney on the title page. Brandes & Durkan A73b.
$200
83639
46.
[HEARTFIELD, John]. Evans, David.
AIZ/VI: Arbeiter-Illustriere Zeitung Volks Illustrierte 1930–38.

NY: Kent (1992).
First edition. 4to. 523 p w/select bibliography. Fine in near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to unprinted rear cover. Edited by Anna Lundgren. Illustrated with 247 color plates. The first comprehensive catalogue of all 237 photomontages published by Heartfield in AIZ and VI.
$125
83641
47.
HIGGINS, Dick.
Thirteen Serious Considerations.

NY: Richard C. Higgins (1978).
First edition. Twelve 5 ½ x 3 ¼ inch pale green cards (all very near fine) housed in a small printed envelope, that has been through the mail (addressed to printer/designer A. Doyle Moore).
$200
68076
48.
HORN, Roni.
Making Being Here Enough: Installations from 1980 to 1995.

Basel & Hannover: Kestner-Gesellschaft (1995).
First edition. 103 pp w/list of installations and select bibliography. Fine in glossy printed boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Illustrated with color images. Texts in German and English. Still in original shrinkwrap.
$45
83560
49.
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brave New World: A Novel.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1932.
First US edition, numbered & signed issue. 311 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. t.e.g. No dust jacket, as issued. Lacks publisher’s slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Huxley. A fixture on most “best novels in English lists” as well as being frequently banned.
$4500
57401
50.
JARMAN, Derek.
Dancing Ledge.

London: Quartet (1991).
First UK hardcover edition. 249 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Originally published by Quartet in 1984 as a paperback original.
$45
75931
51.
[JOHNSON, Ray]. De Salvo, Donna and Catherine Gudis. eds.
Correspondences.

Columbus & NY: Wexner Center for the Arts/Flammarion (1999).
First edition. Small 4to. 224 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. Profusely illustrated with color reproductions.
$75
74589
52.
KHLEBNIKOV, Velimir.
Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov Volume I: Letters and Theoretical Writings.

Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press, 1987.
First edition. 452 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Russian by Paul Schmidt. Edited by Charlotte Douglas. One hundred and seventeen letters by the Russian Futurist appear here in English translation for the first time. Illustrated.
$125
83662
53.
KRASZNAHORKAI, Lázló.
Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming.

NY: New Directions (2019).
First US edition. 558 pp. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet. Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
$75
71014
54.
LARKIN, Philip.
Fantasy Poets Number Twenty One: Philip Larkin.

Oxford: Fantasy Press (1954).
First edition. [4 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Five poems. According to the bibliographer, one of about 300 copies. From the library of Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin, with his ownership label inside the rear cover. Bloomfield A5.
$450
71430
55.
LAUGHLIN IV, James. ed.
New Directions 1938.

Norfolk: New Directions (1938).
First edition. [352 pp]. Bottom board edges rubbed, else near fine in fine dust jacket. John Berryman, Kenneth Patchen, Eleanor Clark, Charles Henri Ford, Louis Zukofsky, Delmore Schwartz, a special section on design, and another on the modern poets of Japan.
$100
70861
56.
LAX, Robert.
New Poems.

Brooklyn: Journeyman Books, 1962.
First edition. [48 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. An excellent presentation of Lax’s minimal poems from Antonucci’s press. Hauff 13.
$200
83629
57.
LEOPARDI, Giacomo.
A Se Stesso / To Himself after Canto xxviii.

Enitharmon Press (1985).
First edition. Single large sheet folded twice (8 x 6 inches, closed). Fine. One of 120 numbered copies printed at the Tragara Press, of which 50 were reserved for the translator (this is copy #46). The original Italian poem with Gascoyne’s facing English translation. Halliwell A21.
$45
81446
58.
LEVINE, Philip.
On the Edge.

Iowa City: Second Press 1964.
Second edition. 62 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Levine on the title page. The first edition of this book was published by the Stone Wall Press, on Levine’s condition that a trade issue be published as well. Printer K.K. Merker created this imprint for this title. Berger 12(note).
$200
40358
59.
LEVINE, Philip.
Red Dust: Poems.

Santa Cruz: Kayak (1971).
First edition. 55 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Levine. Poems, illustrated with prints by Marcia Maris.
$200
83661
60.
LOGUE, Christopher.
War Music: An Account of Books 16 to 19 of Homer’s ILIAD.

London: Jonathan Cape (1981).
First edition. 83 pp w/guide to pronunciation. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Rear cover photograph of Logue by Jonathan Williams.
$35