e-catalog #103
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1.
BABEL, Isaac.
You Must Know Everything: Stories 1915–1937.
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1969).
First edition. xv + 283 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Russian by Max Hayward. Edited by Nathalie Babel, with her preface and notes.
$35
2.
BAKHTIN, Mikhail.
Rabelais and His World.
Cambridge & London: MIT Press (1968).
First US edition. x + 484 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a short tear and crease to the top edge of the rear panel, and light wear to base and crown of spine. Translated from the original Russian by Helene Iswolsky. Foreword by Krystyna Pomorska.
$75
3.
BERGER, John.
Keeping a Rendezvous.
NY: Pantheon Books (1991).
First US edition. 242 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Essays on images and their evocation of place. Review slip laid in.
$40
4.
BERKSON, Bill.
100 Women.
Chicago: Simon & Schuchat (1974).
First edition. [24 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 274 (of 300) copies. INSCRIBED by Berkson on the title page. Dedicated to Larry Fagin.
$75
5.
BERKSON, Bill.
Missing: Collages by PAVE Art Students New Rochelle High School.
New Rochelle: Missing Edition, 2009.
First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 75 copies. Thirty-two full color reproductions, each with Berkson’s text.
$25
6.
BLASER, Robin.
Never Let the World Go By: Last and Uncollected Poems.
Vancouver: Keefer Street Press, 2012.
First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of fifty copies, of which 20 were for sale. Handset and printed letterpress by Peter Quartermain. “Compliments of the Press” slip laid in.
$75
7.
BOYLE, Kay.
This is not a letter and Other Poems.
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press (1985).
First trade edition. 66 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Boyle on the title page with a correction in her hand on one page. Accompanying this copy is Boyle’s own erratum slip, indicating trouble on six additional pages.
$75
8.
[BUKOWSKI, Charles]. Malone, Marvin and Alexander Taylor. eds.
The Wormwood Review 7.
Storrs: Wormwood Review Press, 1962.
Vol. 2, No. 3. 28 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and integral illustrated dust jacket. Cover by “A. Sypher” a pseudonym used by Malone. One of 500 numbered copies. In addition to work by Judson Crews, Michael C. Ford, Carl Larsen, and Robert Sward, this issue is the first to include a poem by Bukowski, cementing a life-long relationship.
$125
9.
[BUKOWSKI, Charles]. Malone, Marvin. ed.
Wormwood Review 53: Charles Bukowski’s “55 Beds in the Same Direction.”
Stockton: The Wormwood Review Press 1974.
Volume 14, Number 1. 40 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 40 numbered copies SIGNED by Malone at the colophon, and SIGNED by Bukowski on the front cover with a drawing of a man on the toilet, and his caption, “Toilet paper is / nicer than / rain.”
$650
10.
CARRINGTON, Leonora.
Down Below.
Chicago: Black Swan, 1983.
First edition. 52 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with a hard erasure to the first leaf. Collages by Debra Taub. Carrington’s adventures in Spain, “on the other side of the mirror.” Published originally in the American surrealist journal VVV in 1944.
$75
11.
CELAN, Paul.
Breathturn.
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1995.
First US trade paperback printing. 261 pp w/notes. Poet’s inked surname inside the front cover, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original German by Pierre Joris with his introduction.
$40
12.
[CITY LIGHTS BOOKS].
Names of Twelve San Francisco Streets Changed to Honor Authors & Artists.
San Francisco: City Lights, 1989.
First edition. [32 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Photographs and notes on twelve streets renamed for Bierce, Bufano, Dana, Isadora Duncan, Hammett, Kaufman, Kerouac, London, Norris, Rexroth, Saroyan, and Twain. Each author pictured, with a brief biography and details of the renamed street. Cook 223.
$25
13.
[COLLECTIVES].
The Anti-Mass: Methods of Organization for Collectives.
[New Haven]: Anti-Mass Collective (1970).
First edition. 56 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. A ten point outline of methods and organization.
$25
14.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Connell, Dan. ed.
Presence: A Magazine of Revolution 1–4 (complete).
Buffalo: Presence Press 1967–(1969).
Four issues, all near fine or better in stapled wrappers. Contributions by Ferlinghetti, MacAdams, John Wieners, Ed Kissam, Kathy Acker (four poems in issue #3, three poems in #4), George Montgomery, Robert Creeley, and many others. For the run:
$250
15.
[CONNER, Bruce]. Hoyem, Andrew.
The Music Room.
San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1965.
First edition. Horizontal 48mo. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Poem by Hoyem, pasted-on cover image, a “hallucinogram” by Bruce Conner. One of 100 copies printed letterpress. Haselwood 2.
$850
16.
CREELEY, Robert.
The Finger.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. Small 4to. [24 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. A poem with an original collage by Bobbie Creeley as a frontis. One of 50 numbered hand bound copies SIGNED by Robert and Bobbie Creeley. Morrow & Cooney 21c.
$500
17.
CROSBY, Harry.
Transit of Venus: Poems.
Paris: Black Sun Press 1929.
Second edition. 62 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket and unprinted glassine, with a few sort tears and chips to crown. Near fine gold-sided publisher’s slipcase present, often lacking. One of 200 numbered copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen. Minkoff A17b.
$750
18.
DAHL, Roald.
Two Fables.
Harmondsworth: Viking (1986).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 61 pp. Fine in gilt-stamped black cloth with red leather spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Illustrations by Graham Dean. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Dahl. Published by Viking on the occasion of Dahl’s seventieth birthday.
$750
19.
DI PRIMA, Diane.
The New Handbook of Heaven.
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1963.
First trade edition. [44 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Poems with a printed dedication to LeRoi Jones. Auerhahn 23.
$100
20.
DI PRIMA, Diane.
The Ones I Used to Laugh With: A Haibun Journal April – May 1992.
San Francisco: Habenicht Press (2003).
First trade edition. 12 pp. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 450 (of 500) copies. Poems and short prose works.
$45