e-catalog #115
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1.
ALFAU, Felipe.
Locos: A Comedy of Gestures.
London: Viking (1990).
First UK edition. xii + 206 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Afterword by Mary McCarthy. Originally published in a limited edition in 1936, rediscovered by Steven Moore and published by Dalkey Archive Press in 1988. In many ways, anticipates the work of the post-war metafiction writers.
$75
2.
AUDEN, W.H. and Christopher Isherwood.
The Dog Beneath the Skin or Where Is Francis? a play in three acts.
London: Faber and Faber (1935).
First edition. 180 pp. Light foxing to endpapers, else very good plus in dust jacket with two small tears and a chip to crown. Laid into this copy is a two color flyer for the first production of this play by The Group Theatre. Bloomfield & Mendelson A9a.
$85
3.
AUSTER, Paul.
The Book of Illusions: A Novel.
NY: Henry Holt (2002).
First edition. 321 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Auster on the title page.
$45
4.
AUSTER, Paul.
Ghosts.
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon (1986).
First edition. 96 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Second volume of Auster’s “New York Trilogy.” A private detective named Blue is hired to watch a man named Black...
$100
5.
BECKETT, Samuel.
The Lost Ones.
London: Calder & Boyars (1972).
First UK trade edition. 62 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket that is folded slightly off-center. A prose work, translated from the original French by Beckett.
$100
6.
BECKETT, Samuel.
Worstward Ho.
London: John Calder (1983).
First UK trade edition. 47 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a small wrinkle on the rear panel. “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
$100
7.
[BERRY, Wendell]. Allen, James Lane.
I. Mountain Passes of the Cumberland. II. Civilizing the Cumberlands: A Commentary.
Lexington: King Library Press (1972).
First edition. 26 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with printed spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 100 numbered copies. Frontis a map by Joseph Bernard Hoeing, printed in two colors. Allen’s text, followed by Berry’s.
$350
8.
[BERRY, Wendell]. Allen, James Lane.
The Cumberlands: excerpts from articles on the region by James Lane Allen with commentary by Wendell Berry.
Monterey: Larkspur Press (2006).
First printing of this edition. 36 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A reprint of the King Library Press edition, with a few slight changes. One of 500 copies, printed in two colors. Allen’s text, followed by Berry’s “Civilizing the Cumberlands.”
$45
9.
BLY, Robert.
Visiting Emily Dickinson’s Grave & Other Poems.
Madison: Red Ozier Press [1979].
First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket with faint sunning along the spine. Poems by Bly with illustrations by Marta Anderson. One of 200 copies SIGNED by Bly. Erratum slip present. Peich 16.
$100
10.
BORGES, Jorge Luis.
Irish Strategies.
Dublin: Dolmen Editions. (1975).
First edition. 87 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with leather spine and near fine publisher’s slipcase with printed label (lightly toned). Two stories by Borges adapted into English by Anthony Kerrigan and into Irish by Diarmaid Ó Súlleabháin, two poems in Spanish on Joyce by Borges with English translations by Kerrigan, statements by Borges and Robert Graves, an essay in Irish and in English by Ó Súlleabháin, a mnemonic note, two essays and a poem on Borges by Kerrigan, and eight drawings by Bernard Childs. Edited by Liam Miller. One of 350 numbered copies on German mould-made rag paper SIGNED by Kerrigan, Ó Súlleabháin, and Childs. Dolmen Editions XXI.
$200
11.
BOWLES, Paul.
Scenes.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 10 pp. Light sunning to extrems, else very near fine in sewn wrappers. Title page woodcut by Henry Shire. Designed and printed by Saul and Lillan Marks. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles. Nine poems, dated 1934–1940. Miller 18a. Morrow & Cooney 29a.
$200
12.
BOWLES, Paul translates Rodrigo Rey Rosa.
The Path Doubles Back.
NY: Red Ozier Press (1982).
First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. A short story translated by Paul Bowles. Illustrations by David Craven. One of 185 numbered copies SIGNED by Rey Rosa, Bowles, and Craven. Miller A42.
$150
13.
BRADBURY, Ray.
Zen and the Art of Writing and The Joy of Writing: Two Essays.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1973.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 34 pp. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Bradbury.
$200
14.
BROMIGE, David.
The Gathering: Poems.
Buffalo: Sumbooks (1965).
First edition. 41 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 330 (of 350) copies. SIGNED by Bromige, with a half-dozen small holograph corrections. His first book.
$50
15.
BUCHANAN, George.
Green Seacoast.
London: Gaberbochus (1959).
First edition. 124 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Childhood in the Ulster countryside during the early 20th century.
$45
16.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Three Poems aka Three by Bukowski.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1992.
First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 84 (of 103) copies. Published for friends of the Press on the occasion of the American Booksellers Convention in Anaheim. Krumhansl 131b.
$150
17.
CALVINO, Italo.
The Watcher & Other Stories.
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1971).
First US edition. 181 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with two paperback imprints the front panel, and light wear to base and crown. Translated from the original Italian by William Weaver and Archibald Colquhoun. Review slip accompanies.
$50
18.
CAREY, Peter.
Wrong About Japan: A Father’s Journey with his Son.
NY: Knopf, 2005.
First US edition. 158 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover by Chip Kidd. Illustrated. SIGNED by Carey on an early leaf.
$25
19.
CARSON, Anne.
From THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED.
[NY]: Knopf [1998].
First edition. 4 x 6 inch poemcard. Fine. An excerpt from Carson’s book, issued as a “Poem to Go!”
$35
20.
COPLEY, Bill. ed.
S.M.S. Issue No. 3.
NY: The Letter Edged in Black Press, 1968.
First edition. Third issue of this assemblage magazine, containing multiples by John Battan (cover), Aftograf, Enrico Baj, William Bryant, Dick Higgins, Joseph Kosuth, Ronnie Landfield, Roland Penrose, Man Ray, H.C. Westerman, and Hannah Wiener. As in most copies, does not include the Terry Riley reel-to-reel tape.
$500