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1.
ALEXANDER, Elizabeth.
Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration January 20, 2009.
[St. Paul]: Graywolf Press (2009).
First edition. [24 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Alexander on the half-title page.
$200
2.
ANDERSON, Margaret.
Tents.
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1976.
First edition. 48mo. 19 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 250 copies designed and printed by Wesley Tanner for friends of the press. An excerpt from Anderson’s MY THIRTY YEARS’ WAR.
$20
3.
BACA, Jimmy Santiago.
What’s Happening.
Willimantic: Curbstone Press (1982).
First edition. 32 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Printed endorsement on the rear cover by Denise Levertov. Ten poems. Review slip laid in.
$50
4.
BALLARD, J.G.
The Day of Forever.
London: Gollancz, 1986.
First hardcover edition. 126 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a light wrinkle to crown. A collection of ten short stories, published originally as a paperback in 1967.
$50
5.
BALLARD, J.G.
The Venus Hunters.
London: Gollancz, 1986.
First hardcover edition. 142 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. First appearance in hardcover of these ten stories. Originally published in 1980 by Panther in paperback.
$50
6.
BERRY, Wendell.
Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work.
NY & San Francisco: Pantheon (1990).
First edition. x + 108 pp w/notes. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with color and b&w images. SIGNED by Berry on the title page.
$55
7.
BERRY, Wendell and Ben Shahn.
November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three.
NY: George Braziller (1964).
First edition, signed issue. [32 pp]. Very near fine in full decorated cloth and near fine publisher’s slipcase with inset printed cover label. Poem by Berry, introduction and drawings by Shahn. One tipped-on color plate. One of an unstated limitation SIGNED by Berry and Shahn.
$75
8.
BIALY, Harvey.
Babalon 156.
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1970.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 65 pp. Fine in decorated paper-covered boards with gilt lettered cloth spine. Fine clear unprinted acetate dust jacket. Designed and printed on Curtis Rag paper by Clifford Burke. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Bialy. Sand Dollar 1.
$250
9.
BLACKBURN, Paul.
Proensa.
Palma de Mallorca: Divers Press, 1953.
First edition. Small 4to. [52 pp]. Light toning along spine, else near fine in wrappers and near fine illustrated dust jacket with very light wear to base and crown of spine. Original Provencal poems with Blackburn’s facing translations.
$200
10.
BLACKBURN, Paul.
The Selection of Heaven.
Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, 1980.
First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in wrappers and fine dust jacket. Title page spread illustrated by Walter Hamady. One of 170 copies on Shadwell hand made paper. Hamady 95.
$150
11.
BLASER, Robin.
The Moth Poem.
San Francisco: Open Space (1964).
First trade edition. [32 pp]. Fine in wrappers and fine integral printed dust jacket. One of 288 (of 300) copies. Blaser’s first book. Johnston A21. Young 328.
$50
12.
BORGES, Jorge Luis.
The Congress.
London: Enitharmon 1974.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 17 pp. Fine in full cloth and fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket with one tiny tear. Translated from the original Spanish by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. Tipped-on frontis portrait of Borges by Hugo Manning. One of 50 numbered copies on Glastonbury Coloured Antique Laid paper SIGNED by Borges, di Giovani, and Manning. Halliwell 45a.
$2000
13.
BRAINARD, Joe.
New Work.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.
First trade paperback printing. 67 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Prose by the artist: stories, poems, journal entries. Morrow & Cooney 151a.
$75
14.
BRODSKY, Joseph.
To Urania.
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1988).
First edition. 173 pp w/notes. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dated (Jan 15th 1992 / New York) and INSCRIBED by Brodsky.
$250
15.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Chilled Green.
[Detroit]: Alternative Press [1970].
First edition. 6 ⅜ x 4 inch postcard. Fine. Text printed in black with the bottom edge hand-marbled. Krumhansl 36.
$45
16.
CASSAVETES, John.
Minnie & Moskowitz.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.
First trade paperback printing. 116 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. The screenplay for the film, a brief introduction by Cassavetes, and a twelve page center section of stills. Morrow & Cooney 147a.
$50
17.
COCTEAU, Jean.
The Cape of Good Hope.
(np): Quarter Horse (1965).
First printing of this edition, “pirated” from the Autumn 1921 Little Review. 4to. 54 pp. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover photograph by Karl Bissinger. Cocteau’s long poem here in English translation by Jean Hugo. Printed dedication to the Living Theatre of New York in exile.
$125
18.
COOLIDGE, Clark.
The Act of Providence.
Cumberland: Combo Books (2010).
First edition. 237 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Photographs by Susan Coolidge.
$45
19.
COOLIDGE, Clark.
To the Cold Heart: After Han Shan.
[Ridgewood]: Fenrick Books, 2020.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [98 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Cover art by Maya Strauss. Coolidge riffs on Han Shan. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Coolidge and Strauss. At publication price:
$50
20.
[COOLIDGE, Clark]. Foster, Edward. ed.
Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Number 3 / Coolidge Issue.
Hoboken: Talisman (1989).
First edition. 128 pp. Fine in printed wrappers with a few small marginal notes. This issue features work by and about Coolidge, with a concluding selected bibliography . Work also by Berkson, Palmer, Silliman, Killian, Meltzer, and many others.
$40