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21.
CORMAN, Cid.
Hearth.

Kyoto: Origin Press (1968).
First edition. [54 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label. Near fine dust jacket, with foxing along the flap folds and top edge of the rear jacket flap. Thirty-nine poems by Corman with three original etchings by Ryohei Tanaka. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Corman on the title page, and by Ryohei below each of the three beautiful etchings.
$450
87836
22.
CRAWFORD, Stanley.
Some Instructions to My Wife Concerning the Upkeep of the House and Marriage, and to My Son and Daughter Concerning the Conduct of Their Childhood.

NY: Knopf, 1978.
First edition. 177 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Crawford’s fourth novel. It’s all in the title.
$35
87832
23.
DI PRIMA, Diane.
Out-Takes.

San Francisco: Omerta Publications (2016).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 27 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art a watercolor by Di Prima. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Di Prima. Fifteen poems.
$40
87831
24.
DI PRIMA, Diane.
Poems Are Angels.

San Francisco: Omerta Publications (2013).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 19 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 73 numbered copies SIGNED by Di Prima. Eighteen poems drawn from The Black Notebook.
$45
71103
25.
[DUNCAN, Robert]. Wagstaff, Christopher. ed.
Robert Duncan: Drawings and Decorated Books.

Berkeley: Rose Books, 1992.
First trade edition. 64 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 425 (of 500) copies. Exhibition catalogue illustrated with color and black & white reproductions. Includes Robin Blaser’s essay, “The ‘Elf’ of It.”
$25
87856
26.
ELIOT, T.S.
Poems Written in Early Youth.

London: Faber & Faber (1967).
Second edition, first printing. 43 pp w/notes. Faint offsetting to endpapers, else fine in fine dust jacket. Originally published privately in Stockholm in 1950 in an edition of 12 copies. Gallup A56b.
$50
87821
27.
EVERSON, William.
On Hand Printing: 2 Letters from William Everson.

Berkeley: Anacapa Books, 1980.
First edition. [12 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 300 numbered copies on Strathmore Charcoal paper printed by Alastair Johnston. INSCRIBED by Everson to his Lord John Press publisher, “for Herb Yellin / every good wish / William Everson.” Anacapa Books compliments slip accompanies.
$75
87817
28.
EVERSON, William.
San Joaquin.

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1939.
First edition. xiv + 38 pp. Very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Previous owner’s inked name, place, and date on the first leaf. No dust jacket, as issued. Title page decoration by Hubert Buel. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. One of 100 copies. Everson’s second collection of poems, published four years after his first. Bartlett & Campo A2.
$850
87870
29.
[GALLERIA SCHWARZ].
Arakawa.

Milan: Galleria Schwarz, 1969.
First edition. [8 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Essay by Tommaso Trini, “Towards a Science of Imagination,” in Italian, French, and English. Nine reproductions, including cover images.
$45
87869
30.
[GALLERIA SCHWARZ].
George Brecht.

Milan: Galleria Schwarz, 1969.
First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Six reproductions, including front and rear cover images. Text by Brecht, “Chapter XIII of the Book of the Tumbler on Fire” in Italian, French, and English.
$45
87839
31.
GOREY, Edward.
L’Heure Bleue.

(np): Fantod Press (1975).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [32 pp]. A few spots of foxing to fore-edge and faintly to endpapers, else near fine in illustrated wrapper. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Gorey. Illustrations in black, white, and blue, with Gorey’s short texts.
$350
87834
32.
GOREY, Edward.
Le Mélange funeste.

NY: Gotham Book Mart (1981).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. Three 32 pp signatures sewn into illustrated wrappers. A small spot on top edge, else very near fine. Pages can be turned to mix and match heads, bodies, legs. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Gorey.
$350
57381
33.
GUILLEVIC.
Euclidians.

Greensboro: Unicorn Press, 1975.
First edition. 63 pp. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. Poems translated from the original French by Teo Savory. One of 300 copies.
$50
63047
34.
GUNN, Thom.
Unsought Intimacies: Poems from 1991.

Berkeley: Peter Koch, 1993.
First edition. 4to. [32 pp]. Fine in stiff wrappers with two part pasted-on cover label. Fine publisher’s slipcase. Poems illustrated with three etchings by Theophilus Brown. One of 130 numbered copies SIGNED by Gunn and Brown. Original prospectus and an invitation to the publication party accompanies. Hagstrom & Bixby A55.
$350
87858
35.
GURNEY, Ivor.
Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney.

Oxford & NY: Oxford University Press, 1982.
First edition. xv + 277 pp w/notes, appendix, glossary, & index of first lines. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Chosen, edited, and with an introduction by P.J. Kavanagh.
$75
87853
36.
HADLEY, Drummond.
Strands of Rawhide: Hilos de Cuero.

Santa Fe: Goliard/Santa Fe (1972).
First trade edition. [92 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs by Diana Hadley. A less common hardcover by the poet, who actually was a cowboy.
$75
23850
37.
HAINES, John.
Leaves and Ashes: Poems.

Santa Cruz: Kayak (1974).
First edition. 51 pp. Fine in green wrappers printed in black and dark green. One of 1200 copies. Thirty-three poems.
$25
87852
38.
HAN-SHAN, translated by Burton Watson.
Cold Mountain: 100 Poems by the T’ang poet Han-shan.

NY: Grove Press (1962).
First edition. 122 pp w/finding list. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a short tear and some rubbing to extrems. Translated by Watson, with his introduction and note.
$125
87844
39.
HEJINIAN, Lyn.
The Cell.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon (1992).
First edition. 217 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A Sun & Moon Classic: 21.
$50
87826
40.
HERLIHY, James Leo.
The Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories.

NY: Dutton, 1959.
First edition. 190 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Cover art and internal illustrations by Tom Keogh. The first of two short story collections by the author of MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Dated (27 July 1976) and INSCRIBED by Herlihy, “For Burt Britton / James Leo Herlihy.” Young 1772*.
$75