e-catalog #116
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61.
POUND, Ezra translates Remy de Gourmont.
The Natural Philosophy of Love.
London: Neville Spearman (1957).
First printing of this edition. xvii + 156 pp w/bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated by Pound, with his introduction.
$50
62.
POWYS, John Cowper.
Wolf Solent.
London: Jonathan Cape (1929).
First UK edition. 643 pp. Some faint offsetting to endpapers, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket that is a bit dusty. Powys’ fourth novel, but his first great success. The first of his four Wessex novels.
$200
63.
PRYNNE, J.H.
Kitchen Poems.
London: Cape Goliard, 1968.
First trade edition. [30 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 650 trade hardcover copies.
$200
64.
PYNCHON, Thomas.
The Crying of Lot 49.
Philadelphia & NY: Lippincott (1966).
First edition. 183 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Pynchon’s second novel.
$1250
65.
REYNOLDS, Tim.
Tlatelolco: A Sequence From QUE.
NY: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1970.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral marbled-paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Reynolds. No. 11 in the Phoenix Book Shop Oblong Octavo Series.
$45
66.
ROBINSON, Kit.
Tunes & Tens.
NY: Roof Books (2025).
First edition. 127 pp w/notes. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Ericka McConnell. Introduction by Tim Shaner. SIGNED by Robinson. His latest collection of poems.
$20
67.
RODNEY, Janet and Nathaniel Tarn.
The Forest, in part from a much larger work entitled Alashka.
Minor Confluence: Perishable Press, 1978.
First edition. 11 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Illustrated with four collage-illustrations by John Digby. One of 190 numbered copies. Hamady 89.
$200
68.
ROSENBERG, Isaac.
The Collected Works of Isaac Rosenberg: Poetry, Prose, Letters, Paintings, and Drawings.
NY: Oxford University Press, 1979.
First US edition. xxxii + 320 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Poetry, prose, letters, paintings and drawings. Foreword by Siegfried Sassoon. Edited by Ian Parsons, with his introduction and notes. From the collection of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate inside the front cover.
$85
69.
[RUSCHA HOMAGE]. Arceneau, Edgar.
107th Street Watts.
Frankfurt am Main: Revolver Archiv Für Aktuelle Kunst (2003).
First edition. Two volumes, 20 and 18 panels respectively, both designed to fold-out completely. The first volume is an essay, the second photographs. Both are near fine, housed in the publisher’s slipcase, which is also near fine. Various Small Books p. 74–75.
$100
70.
[RUSCHA HOMAGE]. Monk, Jonathan.
Coloured People in Black and White.
Berlin: argobooks (2008).
First edition. [34 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 500 copies. Various Small Books p. 160–161.
$75
71.
SCOTT, Claudia.
Lesbian Writer: Collected Work of Claudia Scott. Edited by Frances Hanckel and Susan Windle.
Tallahassee: Naiad Press, 1981.
First edition. ix + 114 pp w/chronological index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited by Frances Hanckel and Susan Windle. Introduction by Hanckel. Poems from her two published collections, with previously unpublished work.
$40
72.
SEGALEN, Victor.
Stelae.
Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press (1969).
First edition. 95 pp w/note. Very near fine in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels. No dust jacket, as issued. Two photographic illustrations. Nathaniel Tarn contributes an introduction to his English translations, which are followed by the original French poems. Unicorn French Series Volume Nine.
$100
73.
SIGMUND, Robert J. writing as “r.j.s.”
The Result is Always Circular: Poems from the Cleveland House of Correction.
Cleveland: Ghost Press, 1967.
First edition. [18 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Covers by t.l. kryss. One of 250 copies. “another one of a series of unpatronized booklets designed to drag cleveland by its ass screaming out of its paleolithic swamp; also haralding the return of r.j.s. to the land of the dead.”
$100
74.
[SVEVO, Italo]. Svevo, Livia Veneziani.
Memoir of Italo Svevo.
London: Libris (1989).
First UK edition. xiv + 178 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Preface by P.N. Furbank. Translated by Isabel Quigly. In part chronicles Svevo’s friendship with James Joyce. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with is bookplate.
$35
75.
THOMAS, Dylan.
Adventures in the Skin Trade.
London: Putnam (1955).
First edition. 115 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. First appearance in book form of the beginning of this unfinished novel.
$75
76.
TURNBULL, Gael.
Briefly.
Nottingham: Tarasque Press [1967].
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Fifteen short poems. One of 25 numbered copies dated (October 1967) and SIGNED by Turnbull with an original poem in holograph penned inside the rear cover (From A Gypsy Song).
$75
77.
UPDIKE, John.
Sixteen Sonnets.
Cambridge: Halty Ferguson, 1979.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 27 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 250 numbered copies on Antique Laid paper SIGNED by Updike. Original publication announcement laid in.
$75
78.
UPDIKE, John.
Warm Wine: An Idyll.
NY: Albondocani Press, 1973.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [18 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine integral dust jacket with printed cover label. One of 250 numbered copies on Hayle paper SIGNED by Updike. A short story.
$75
79.
URQUHART, Jane.
False Shuffles.
Victoria: Press Porcépic (1982).
First edition. 115 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems, illustrated with drawings by Tony Urquhart. SIGNED by Jane Urquhart on the title page. Second collection of poems by the well-known novelist.
$35
80.
[YEATS, W.B]. Harper, George Mills.
Yeats’s Golden Dawn.
London: Macmillan (1974).
First edition. x + 322 pp. Fine in very near fine, clipped and re-priced dust jacket. An outline of Yeats’ involvement in the two quarrels in the Second Order of the Golden Dawn, quoting at length from unpublished documents.
$100