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41.
HOWE, Susan.
Singularities.
Hanover & London: Wesleyan University Press (1990).
First edition. 70 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his bookplate inside the front cover.
$75
42.
JOYCE, James.
Finnegans Wake: Centennial Edition.
NY: Penguin/Viking (1982).
First printing of this edition. 628 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. The uncommon hardcover, printed simultaneously in paperback.
$250
43.
JOYCE, James.
James Joyce’s Letters to Sylvia Beach 1921–1940.
Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (1987).
First edition. xvi + 221 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Melissa Banta and Oscar A. Silverman. From the collection of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate inside the front cover.
$40
44.
KENT, Rockwell.
After Long Years: Being a story of which the author, for a change, is not the hero.
Ausable Forks: Asgaard Press, 1968.
First edition. 21 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 250 numbered copies on handmade paper SIGNED by Kent.
$350
45.
KEROUAC, Jack.
Lonesome Traveler.
NY: McGraw-Hill (1960).
First edition. 183 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to spine, two short tears, and some light wear to top edge. Cover art and internal drawings by Larry Rivers. Charters A13a.
$350
46.
KEROUAC, Jack together with Albert Saijo and Lew Welch.
Trip Trap: Haiku along the Road from San Francisco to New York 1959.
Bolinas: Grey Fox Press, 1973.
First edition. 57 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Additional recollections by Albert Saijo and Lew Welch. Charters A33.
$125
47.
LAMANTIA, Philip.
Destroyed Works: Hypodermic Light Mantic Notebook Still Poems Spansule.
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962.
First trade edition. [44 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 1250 copies. Cover from a photograph of a collage by Bruce Conner, “Superhuman Devotion,” which was no longer extant at the dated of publication.
$75
48.
LEVERTOV, Denise writing as “Denise Levertoff.”
The Double Image.
London: Cresset Press, 1946.
First edition. 45 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with two small spots of foxing to lower front panel and one to the spine. Her first book. Wilson A1.
$200
49.
levy, d.a. ed.
The Silver Cesspool Vol. 2.
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964.
First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by David Jeffery, Russell Atkins, Loring Williams, Jau Billera, levy, Kent Taylor, Irene Schramm, Stephen Massaro, Adelaide Simon, and Russell Salamon. SIGNED by Jeffery, levy, Taylor, and Salamon. T&H P-34.
$750
50.
[levy, d.a. — publisher]. Fowler, Gene.
Gene Fowler Writes....
Cleveland: sevenflowerspress, (1967).
First edition. Five leaves, side stapled. Fine. One of 250 copies printed by mimeograph. A letter originally published in the Poetry Newsletter. Taylor & Horvath P-144.
$125
51.
LEWIS, Wyndham.
Doom of Youth.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.
First edition. xxix + 266 pp. Very near fine in full cloth with black printing to spine. Lacks dust jacket. Early reader Alex Waugh took exception to how he was portrayed and initiated legal proceedings for libel. The edition was pulped after the sale of only 550 copies. Morrrow & Lafourcade A15b.
$1500
52.
LOGUE, Christopher.
Patrocleia of Homer: A New Verison.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (1963).
First US edition. 63 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Foreword and postscript by D.S. Carne-Ross. Ramsden A12d.
$45
53.
LOY, Mina.
The Last Lunar Baedeker.
Highlands: Jargon Society, 1982.
First edition. lxxix + 334 pp. Lower corners very lightly tapped, else fine in fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Roger L. Conover with a Note by Jonathan Williams. The complete poetry (much not before published) together with tracts on feminism, manifestos, and other significant documents.
$200
54.
MAC LOW, Jackson.
Asymmetries 1–260: The First Section of a Series of 501 Performance Poems.
NY: Printed Editions, 1960.
First trade paperback printing. xxv + 257 pp w/list of titles. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
$75
55.
MAC LOW, Jackson.
The Twin Plays: Port-au-Prince & Adams County Illinois.
NY: Something Else Press (1966).
First edition. 14 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. 1000 copies printed. Great Bear Pamphlet #10. SIGNED by Mac Low inside the front cover.
$45
56.
MacBETH, George.
Lusus: A Verse Lecture.
London: Fuller d’Arch Smith (1972).
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 30 pp. Fine in full brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by MacBeth.
$50
57.
MAYER, Bernadette.
Ceremony Latin (1964).
[NY: Angel Hair, 1975].
First edition. [46 pp]. Tiny snag to top edge, else very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Does not have the Angel Hair stamp inside the rear cover. By various counts, either her third or fourth book.
$250
58.
MELTZER, David.
Bolinas Descarges for Peter Warshall.
San Francisco: Bird & Beckett Books, 2014.
First edition. 7 x 9 inch illustrated broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. One of 200 numbered copies printed at Impart Ink to benefit the poet. SIGNED by Meltzer.
$50
59.
MELTZER, David.
Stunt Man.
San Francisco: Omerta Publications (2013).
First edition. 25 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art and design by Julie Rogers. Nine poems.
$20
60.
[NIEDECKER, Lorine]. Wilk, David. ed.
Truck 16: Lorine Niedecker.
Carrboro: Truck Press (1975).
Spring. 176 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. In addition to poems and letters by Niedecker, prints a host of tributes by the likes of Kenneth Cox, Daphne Marlatt, Thomas A. Clark, Carl Rakosi, and many others.
$50