e-catalog #114
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1.
BANKS, Iain M.
Consider Phlebas.
London: Macmillan (1987).
First edition. 471 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. “Iain Banks” wrote “regular” fiction, “Iain M. Banks,” science-fiction. His first science-fiction novel. Banks was named one of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists by Granta Magazine in 1993.
$350
2.
BARAKA, Imamu Amiri (Leroi Jones).
Spirit Reach.
Newark: Jihad Productions (1972).
First edition. 25 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems. A fresh bright copy.
$75
3.
BARFIELD, Owen.
Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning.
NY: McGraw-Hill (1964).
First US edition. 216 pp w/index. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Howard Nemerov.
$75
4.
BATAILLE, Georges.
L’archangélique et autres poèmes.
Paris: Mercure de France, 1968.
First trade edition. 183 pp w/notes. Some faint toning to rear panel, else near fine in printed wrappers. Ink ownership stamp of M.L. Bataille on the first leaf. Preface by Bernard Noël.
$100
5.
BENVENISTE, Asa.
Count Three: Poems.
[Berkeley]: Maya Quarto (1969).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [10 pp]. Light toning along spine, else fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Tile page drawing by David Meltzer. One of 50 numbered copies on Tovil paper SIGNED by Benveniste. Maya Quarto Two.
$45
6.
BERRIGAN, Ted and Harris Schiff.
Yo-Yo’s with Money.
Henniker: United Artists (1979).
First edition. 4to. [80 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Rosina Kuhn. Rear cover photographs of Berrigan and Schiff by Rochelle Kraut. Yankees v. Red Sox, Yankee Stadium 14 September 1977. Transcription of Berrigan and Schiff’s call of the game.
$150
7.
BEY, Hakim.
T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism.
Brooklyn: Autonomedia (1991).
First edition. viii + 141 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Bey on the first leaf. Reprinted many times, embraced by Rave culture, uncommon signed.
$200
8.
BLACKBURN, Paul.
Three Dreams and An Old Poem.
Buffalo: University Press of Buffalo (1970).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Blackburn. Beau Fleuve Series Number One.
$45
9.
[BOLINAS]. MacAdams, Lewis.
Tilth.
Bolinas: Bolinas Future Studies Center (1972).
First edition. [76 pp]. Light toning to spine, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Printed at the Mesa Press. Photographs by Phoebe MacAdams and Jeff Johnston. Interviews with Bolinas residents. Uncommon.
$125
10.
BRATHWAITE, Edward Kamau.
Black + Blues.
Havana: Casa de las Americas (1976).
First edition. 91 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine dust jacket.
$75
11.
[BUKOWSKI, Charles]. Fante, John.
Ask the Dust.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980.
Second edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 165 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Preface by Charles Bukowski. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Fante and Bukowski. Original prospectus laid in. First published in 1939, this new edition prompted by Bukowski’s enthusiasm for Fante’s work.
$850
12.
BURKE, Clifford and Virginia Mudd.
Desert Songs.
Galisteo: Desert Rose Press [1994].
First edition. Single sheet accordion-folded and bound between two boards with printed cover label. Fine. One of [75] copies. Four collaborative poems printed letterpress in a horizontal row beneath a multi-colored horizon.
$150
13.
CARSON, Anne.
Nox.
NY: New Directions (2010).
First edition. Fine in fine publisher’s clamshell case. An innovative text well-presented in accordion form, by a cooperative publisher. “When my brother died I made an epitaph for him in the form of a book. This is a replica of it, as close as we could get.”
$125
14.
COLLINS, Billy.
The Apple that Astonished Paris: Poems.
Fayetteville & London: University of Arkansas Press, 1988.
First edition. 61 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Press promotional material laid in, along with a 41 word holograph letter from Collins to Marvin Malone, editor of the Wormwood Review, who featured Collins’ work in issue 108.
$750
15.
COLLINS, Billy.
Video Poems.
Long Beach: Applezaba Press (1980).
First edition. [56 pp]. Small hole through last few leaves, but not through the cover, so perhaps some kind of production flaw, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers with a gentle bump to one lower corner. Collins’ uncommon second book. Short TLS from the publisher d.h. Lloyd presenting this copy.
$750
16.
[CONCRETE POETRY].
Concrete Poetry — a great phonetico/poetic evening...
London: ICA [1965].
First edition. 9 ¼ x 6 ½ inch flyer. A few light wrinkles, else near fine. Heidsieck, Dufrene, Gysin, and Chopin appeared.
$55
17.
[CONCRETE POETRY]. Brasil, Emanuel and William Jay Smith. eds.
Brazilian Poetry 1950–1980.
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (1983).
First edition. 187 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with one short tear to the top edge. Work by Jorge Mautner, Ferreira Gullar, Haroldo De Campos, Mário Faustino, Augusto De Campos, Décio Pigntari, and Lindolf Bell, largely concrete in form.
$40
18.
[CONCRETE POETRY]. Clavin, Hans. et al. eds.
Totaal.
Amsterdam: Bert Bakker (1976).
First edition. 132 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. A terrific collection of Dutch concrete and visual poetry by Hans Clavin, Herman Damen, Robert Joseph, and G.J. de Rock.
$125
19.
CROSBY, Theo. ed.
Uppercase 2.
London: Whitefriars, [1959].
First edition. [80 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Contributions by Edward White, Richard Hamilton, “Towards a Typographical Rendering of the Green Box,” and Richard Matthews on Kurt Schwitters. Laid into this copy is an exhibition announcement for a show of works by White at the Mayor Gallery.
$200
20.
EDELSTEIN, Leo and Judith Elliston. eds.
Pataphysics System Access.
Melbourne: Pataphysics (2009).
First edition. 4to. [76 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Contributions by Lotringer, Hakim Bey, Brian Aldiss, Chris Kraus, and others, including interviews with Harry Mathews and John Cage.
$35