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21.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Jones, LeRoi and Hettie Cohen. eds.
Yugen 1–8.
NY: LeRoi Jones & Hettie Cohen (1958–1962).
Eight issues, all very near fine in stapled wrappers, but for the staples having been removed from the first issue. Ginsberg, Whalen, Di Prima, Corso, Snyder, Kupferberg, Burroughs, Bremser, O’Hara, Kerouac, Wieners, William Carlos Williams, McClure, Olson, Lamantia, Creeley, Koch, and many others appear. Flyer advertising Kulchur laid into #6. A cornerstone. Secret Location p. 73. For the run:
$2000
22.
DAHL, Roald.
Boy: Tales of Childhood.
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1984).
First US edition, numbered & signed issue. 160 pp. Fine in decorated full brown cloth in fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Dahl. Reflections on growing up in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, and the experiences that contributed to Dahl becoming a writer.
$2000
23.
DAWSON, Fielding.
Tiger Lilies: An American Childhood.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1984.
First edition. 213 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Dawson on the front free endpaper. Life in small town America, pre and post WWII.
$35
24.
DELEUZE, Gilles and Claire Parnet.
Dialogues.
NY: Columbia University Press, 1987.
First US edition. xiii + 157 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with sunning to blue spine lettering. Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Deleuze provides a preface to this English Language edition.
$50
25.
DI PRIMA, Diane.
Penelope’s Song.
[San Francisco]: Writers on the Theory and Practice 2007.
First edition. 11 x 7 ½ inch broadside. Fine. One of 125 copies printed by Lisa Rappoport at the Littoral Press as a gift from Di Prima’s workshop writers to Di Prima. A previously-unpublished Loba poem.
$40
26.
DORN, Edward.
From Gloucester Out.
London: Matrix Press (1964).
First edition. [12 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 350 copies designed and printed by Tom Raworth. Frontis illustration by Barry Hall. Laid into this copy is a holograph note, “Idaho Out / follows in a few days / Many thanks for the cheque which / just arrived / Deirdre Montgomery.”
$75
27.
DURRELL, Lawrence.
The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea.
London: Faber & Faber (1962).
First collected and revised edition, limited & signed issue. 884 pp. Just a hint of sunning to spine, else fine in full decorated cloth, and unprinted acetate dust jacket. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Durrell. A sharp copy of this edition.
$1250
28.
ELIOT, T.S.
Collected Plays.
London: Faber and Faber (1962).
First edition. 355 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with tanned spine. Gallup A72.
$100
29.
ELIOT, T.S.
George Herbert.
[London]: British Council and The National Book League. (1962).
First edition. 36 pp w/select bibliography. Fine in stapled wrappers. Gallup A73a.
$45
30.
ELIOT, T.S.
To Criticize the Critic and other writings.
London: Faber and Faber (1965).
First edition. 188 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Gallup A76a.
$75
31.
ELUARD, Paul.
Corps Mémorable.
Paris: Seghers (1957).
First edition. 35 pp. Fine in boards and near fine dust jacket with short closed tears near base and crown. Cover art by Picasso. Illustrated with twelve b&w photographs by Lucien Clergue.
$200
32.
EVERSON, William.
Eleven.
[San Francisco]: Greenwood Press, 2005.
First edition. 13 x 9 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Printed on the occasion of the exhibition, “Printing at Waldport: William Everson, Adrian Wilson and the Legacy of the Untide Press.” Designed, and hand-set by Jack W. Stauffacher. Though not called for, SIGNED by Stauffacher.
$50
33.
FINLAY, Ian Hamilton with Ron Costley.
Gourd.
[Dunsyre]: Wild Hawthorn Press [1975].
First edition. 11 x 8 ½ inch illustrated broadside, housed in a printed folder. Both elements very near fine. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Finlay. Murray 5.47.
$200
34.
GINSBERG, Allen
The Change: Poems.
London: Writers’ Forum, 1963.
First edition, second issue. [24 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Writers Forum Poets Five. The first issue of this title misspelled “Ginsburg” on the cover, here corrected. Morgan A7a.2.
$200
35.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Wales — A Visitation.
London: Cape Goliard, 1968.
First edition, hors commerce issue. One of 200 copies. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. “An offering for a peaceful summer from Allen Ginsberg & Cape Goliard Press.” Morgan A13a1.
$75
36.
GONCHAROV, Ivan.
The Frigate Pallada.
NY: St. Martin’s (1987).
First US edition. xx + 649 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Russian by Klaus Goetze, with his introduction. Goncharov details his 1852–1854 journey on the frigate Pallada on her voyage to open Japan to Russian trade. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate to the verso of the first leaf.
$45
37.
GRAHN, Judy.
Spider Webster’s Declaration: He is singing the end of the world again.
San Francisco: Interval Press, 1983.
First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine integral printed dust jacket. One of 250 copies printed by Cheryl Miller and Peggy O’Leary at The Urban School. Uncommon in trade, OCLC shows 21 holdings.
$125
38.
HAMILTON, Alfred Starr.
The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton.
Penland: Jaron Society, 1970.
First edition. [116 pp]. Near fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket with light tanning to spine. Introduction by Geof Hewitt. Illustrations by Philip Van Aver. Author photograph by Simpson Kalisher. Jargon 49.
$125
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HARWOOD, Lee.
.....title illegible...
London: Writers Forum Poets 1965.
First edition. [42 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Text printed by mimeograph. writers forum poets number thirteen.
$125
40.
HAYTER, Alethea.
Opium and the Romantic Imagination.
London: Faber and Faber (1968).
First edition. 388 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Opium and the 19th century writer.
$45