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21.
[CAPE GOLIARD]. White, Ivan.
Crow’s Fall.
London: Cape Goliard, 1969.
First trade hardcover edition. [44 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Title page illustration by Heinke Jenkins. White’s poem “Mahler,” won second prize in the Guinness Poetry Competition (Cheltenham Festival, 1964).
$35
22.
CARVER, Raymond.
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water.
NY: Random House (1985).
First edition 130 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to the bottom edge of the front panel. Warmly INSCRIBED by Carver on the front free endpaper, “For Jim Hall, and for __ Hall — / with all love and affection — / Ray / May 24, 1986 / Iowa City.”
$450
23.
[CONCRETE POETRY]. Solt, Mary Ellen. ed.
Concrete Poetry: A World View.
Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press (1970).
First trade paperback printing. 311 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers with a small pencil price on the first leaf. A sparkling copy of one of the best anthologies of the form, with many of the pieces printed in color.
$150
24.
CONQUEST, Robert. ed.
New Lines: An Anthology & New Lines II: An Anthology.
London: Macmillan, 1956 + (1963).
First editions., xviii + 91 pp w/bibliography & xxix + 135 pp. Two volumes, both near fine in like dust jackets, with the first volume jacket being price-clipped and having some light foxing to the endpapers. Accused of “arousing violent controversy” the first volume presented work by Elizabeth Jennings, John Holloway, Philip Larkin, Thom Gunn, Kingsley Amis, D.J. Enright, Donald David, Robert Conquest, and John Wain. The second volume collects work by most of these poets, and adds John Fuller, Ted Hughes, George Macbeth, and several others. For the pair:
$100
25.
COOLIDGE, Clark.
The Human Bond (Some New Bond Sonnets).
New Orleans: Fell Swoop, 2011.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 4to. [50 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Coolidge. Fell Swoop #115.
$75
26.
CREELEY, Robert.
A Calendar: Twelve Poems.
West Branch: [Toothpaste Press] 1984.
First edition. Oblong 8vo. [34 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 600 numbered copies on Simpson’s Gainsborough Text paper SIGNED by Creeley.
$45
27.
[DIDION, Joan].
Joan Didion at the ICA.
London: ICA [1978].
First edition. 11 ¾ x 8 ¼ inch illustrated flyer. One old horizontal fold, else very near fine. An uncommon flyer for an uncommon event-- Didion talking about her work and taking questions in London.
$75
28.
DUNCAN, Robert.
Derivations: Selected Poems 1950–1956.
London: Fulcrum Press (1968).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 144 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies on fawn glastonbury antique laid paper SIGNED by Duncan. Bertholf A31b. Young 1100.
$200
29.
DUNCAN, Robert.
The First Decade: Selected Poems 1940–1950.
London: Fulcrum Press (1968).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 136 pp. Fine in fine, price-clipped (as issued) dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies on fawn glastonbury antique laid paper SIGNED by Duncan, though according to the bibliographer, only 125 copies were published. Bertholf A30b. Young 1101.
$150
30.
DURRELL, Lawrence and Henry Miller.
Lawrence Durrell & Henry Miller: A Private Correspondence.
London: Faber & Faber (1963).
First UK edition. xv + 400 pp w/index & chronologies. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by George Wickes, with his introduction. Letters from 1935 – 1959.
$100
31.
EIGNER, Larry and Ian Tyson.
A Line That May Be Cut: Poems from 1965.
London: Circle Press (1968).
First edition. 4to. [30 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Endpapers and five internal prints by Ian Tyson. Introduction by Stuart Montgomery. Designated A/P on the colophon and SIGNED by Tyson and additionally INSCRIBED, “To Nathaniel Tarn / December 1968.”
$75
32.
ELIOT, T.S.
The Waste Land: a facsimile & transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound.
London: Faber and Faber (1971).
First trade edition. 4to. xxx +149 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Valerie Eliot. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his bookplate inside the front cover.
$125
33.
[FILM].
San Francisco Reel. Volume 1, Number 1.
San Francisco: San Francisco Publishing Company (1970).
November/December. 23 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Review of THX-1138, work by Jeff Berner, Carlo Federicci’s “Glorious Manifesto,” “Thick Foam Padding” by Penelope Wong-Berner, and Dali’s “Surrealism in Hollywood.”
$35
34.
FINLAY, Ian Hamilton.
Honey by the Water.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.
First trade paperback printing. Small 4to. 57 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Concrete poems and sundials with an afterword by Stephen Bann. Morrow & Cooney 134a.
$75
35.
FOUCAULT, Michel.
The Care of the Self: Volume 3 of The History of Sexuality.
NY: Pantheon (1986).
First US edition. vi + 279 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Robert Hurley.
$35
36.
GINSBERG, Allen.
T.V. Baby Poems.
London: Cape Goliard (1967).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [34 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards and fine dust jacket. Poems by Ginsberg, illustrations by Victorien Sardon, Ginsberg, and “The Great Crystal.” One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Ginsberg. Morgan A10.a1.
$250
37.
[GINSBERG, Allen]. et al.
A Benefit for The Living Theatre who are busted & behind bars in Brazil.
[Berkeley]: ASUC [1971].
First edition. 14 x 8 ½ inch illustrated flyer, printed in lavender on white paper. Fine. “ASUC Presents a Benefit for The Living Theatre who are busted & behind bars in Brazil.” Readers are Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima. Also, The Cockettes, Magic Theater, and filmmaker Saul Landau.
$25
38.
GOLDIN, Nan.
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
NY: Aperture (1986).
First edition. 143 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of wear to base of spine. Edited by Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn, and Suzanne Fletcher. Goldin contributes an introduction to this collection of color photographs of friends and family. From the collection of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate inside the front cover.
$200
39.
GOREY, Edward.
The Improvable Landscape: A Piermont Book.
NY: Albondocani Press, 1986.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [32 pp]. A few tiny light spots to fore-edge, else fine in sewn wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Gorey. Toledano A92b.
$350
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GOREY, Edward writing as “Eduard Blutig.”
The Stupid Joke.
(np): The Fantod Press (1990).
First edition. [32 pp]. A few tiny light spots to fore-edge, else fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies SIGNED by Gorey as “Mrs. Regera Dowdy.” Toledano A100.
$200