e-catalog #115
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41.
[HORN, Roni]. Hendeles, Ydessa.
The Wedding (The Walker Evans Polaroid Project) with Roni Horn.

NY: Andrea Rosen Gallery, 2012.
First edition. 70 pp w/index of artworks. Fine in full cloth with black lettering to spine and front panel. Curated by Ydessa Hendeles, with her introductory text. Color reproductions of work by Evans, Horn, and Stickley.
$50
87873
42.
JONES, David.
The Sleeping Lord and other fragments.

London: Faber & Faber (1974).
First edition. 111 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light rubbing along spine.
$50
87857
43.
JOYCE, James.
The Critical Writings of James Joyce.

London: Faber and Faber (1959).
First edition. 288 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann. A collection of fity-seven essays, book reviews, programme notes, letters to editors, and poems, written between ages 14 and 55.
$100
87855
44.
JOYCE, James.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

London: Jonathan Cape (1952).
First printing of this new edition. 258 pp w/a note on the text. Fine in fine dust jacket. The Definitive Text corrected from the Dublin Holograph by Chester G. Anderson and edited by Richard Ellmann. Illustrated with drawings by Robin Jacques.
$100
87828
45.
[KEROUAC, Jack]. Ronan, Stephen.
Jack Kerouac, Recording Artist.

Berkeley: Ammunition Press (1997).
First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Three essays on Kerouac’s recorded output. Midnight Ghost Chapbook Series Number 5.
$40
87833
46.
KYGER, Joanne.
Year of the Ram.

San Francisco: Omerta Publications (2016).
First edition. 16 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Donald Guravich. Sixteen poems.
$20
87871
47.
[LAM, Wilfredo]. Schuster, Jean. ed.
Medium: Communication Surréaliste 4.

Paris: Medium, 1955.
Nouvelle Série — Janvier. 64 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with a small split at base of spine. Benjamin Peret, André Breton, Eugene Ionesco, Marcel Duchamp, and many others appear.
$50
33842
48.
LEVERTOV, Denise.
A Tree Telling of Orpheus.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 4to. 9 pp. Very near fine in two-part cloth binding with printed paper spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Levertov. A long poem, illustrated with her own drawings. Morrow & Cooney 20b.
$150
87864
49.
levy, d.a.
The Beginning of Sunny Dawn: A Short Story.

Cleveland: GhostFlower Press, 1968.
First edition. 7 pp. One old horizontal fold, else fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover by Sandy Webb. One of 236 copies. One of two published short stories by levy.
$250
87430
50.
[levy, d.a.]. Gildzen, Alex. et al, eds.
The Serif. vol. VIII, No. 4.

Kent: Kent State University Libraries, 1971.
December. 36 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by levy, Mottram, Snyder, Atkins, Bergé, Blazek, Bukowski, Fox, Gildzen, Leed, Lowry, and Osterlund. Includes the first d.a. levy checklist, compiled by bookseller Jim Lowell (Asphodel Book Shop).
$50
87854
51.
LOEWINSOHN, Ron.
The Step.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow (1968).
First edition, author’s copy. 59 pp w/notes. Very near fine in full leather with pasted-on cover and spine label. Designated “Author’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Loewinsohn. One of only two copies bound in full leather, the other being the publisher’s copy. Morrow & Cooney 42b (note).
$200
87872
52.
MANDELSTAM, Osip Emilevich.
Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam.

Albany: State University of New York Press, 1973.
First edition. x + 353 pp w/notes & appendixes. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated by Burton Raffel and Alla Burago. Notes by Sidney Monas, with his introduction.
$75
70704
53.
McCLURE, Michael.
The Grabbing of the Fairy: A Masque.

Saint Paul: Truck Press (1978).
First trade edition. 41 pp w/appendix. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Three fold-out plates, illustrated with production photographs by Stewart Brand. INSCRIBED by McClure on the front free endpaper to gallerist Paule Anglim, “For Paule / A / WINK / OF MAL — / LARME / LOVE, / Michael.”
$35
87868
54.
MEATYARD, Ralph Eugene.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard.

NY & Göttingen: International Center of Photography/Steidl (2004).
First edition. 299 pp. Touch of soiling to spine, else very near fine in full cloth with inset cover image. No dust jacket, as issued. Introductory essay by Guy Davenport, interview with Davenport by Cynthia Young, and the statement “My Aims” by Meatyard.
$75
60306
55.
[MOORMAN, Charlotte].
ars electronica.

Linz: Linzer Veranstaltungsgesellschaft (1982).
First edition. 48 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated program of events for the Ars Electronica festival, featuring the “Sky Art Conference.” Texts in German and English. Charlotte Moorman performed “Sky Kiss.” B&w photograph of Moorman in performance, and additionally with Jerome Wiesner, Otto Piene, and Nam June Paik.
$40
87860
56.
[MOSER, Barry]. Multatuli.
The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli.

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
First edition. 122 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated, edited, and annotated by E.M. Beekman, with his introduction. Cover art, also used as a frontis, by Barry Moser. SIGNED by Moser on the front free endpaper. Short works by the 19th century Dutch author Eduard Douwes Dekker.
$40
87850
57.
MOSLEY, Walter.
Devil in a Blue Dress.

NY: Norton (1990).
First edition. 219 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Mosley on the title page. The first Easy Rawlins novel.
$45
87861
58.
NIEDECKER, Lorine.
Homemade Poems.

NY: Center for the Humanities, 2012.
First edition. 73 pp w/biographical note. Fine in stapled wrappers. Facsimile of a handmade book Niedecker mailed to Cid Corman in 1964. Laid in is a separate stapled afterword by editor John Harkey. Lost and Found Series 3, Number 2.
SOLD
87843
59.
OLIVER, Mary.
White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems.

NY: Harcourt Brace (1994).
First edition. viii + 55 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Forty poems, eighteen of which appear here first.
$125
87851
60.
PALMER, Michael.
C’s Songs.

[Berkeley]: Sand Dollar, 1973.
First trade edition. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Poems, printed in two colors at the Arif Press. One of 350 copies. Sand Dollar/10. Palmer’s third separate publication, preceded by a chapbook in 1971 and BLAKE’S NEWTON in 1972.
$75