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41.
KEROUAC, Jack.
Big Sur.
NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1962).
First edition. 241 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. Sparkling copy of this key Kerouac title. Charters A17a.
$1000
42.
KINSELLA, Thomas.
Wormwood.
Dublin: Dolmen Editions (1966).
First edition 16 pp. Fine in veneered boards with lettering by Ruth Brandt. Very good plus original unprinted glassine dust jacket with several short tears along the edges. One of 350 copies SIGNED by Kinsella. Dolmen Editions I. Original prospectus card laid in.
$250
43.
LEVINE, David.
No Known Survivors: David Levine’s Political Plank.
Boston: Gambit, 1970.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 194 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped (as issued) dust jacket. Selected by John Kenneth Galbraith, with his introduction. One of 270 (of 300) numbered copies SIGNED by Levine and Galbraith.
$50
44.
LOEWINSOHN, Ron.
The Leaves.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 27 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and paper label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Loewinsohn. Original prospectus accompanies. Morrow & Cooney 140c. This is copy “A.”
$50
45.
LYON, Danny.
The Destruction of Lower Manhattan.
NY: Macmillan (1969).
First edition. Small 4to. [156 pp]. Two small pale stains to top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly rubbed and has some gentle wear to base and crown of spine.
$200
46.
MACDIARMID, Hugh.
In Memoriam James Joyce from A Vision of World Language.
Glasgow: William Maclellan (1956).
Second impression. Small 4to. 147 pp w/appendix. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to base of spine. Decorations by John Duncan Fergusson. Macdiarmid contributes an eight page introduction. Composed just after Joyce’s death, the death of what was to be the original publisher, Jack Kahane, and then the complications caused by the war, stalled the appearance of this text until 1955.
$75
47.
MACLAY, Sarah.
Weeding The Duchess: a cartoon.
San Francisco: Black Stone Press, 1979.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 31 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with three element printed cover label. Wood engraving by Dirk Lee. Design by Shelley Hoyt-Koch. One of 25 numbered copies on Mohawk Superfine paper SIGNED by Maclay. Poems.
$55
48.
McCLURE, Michael.
Hymns to St. Geryon and Other Poems.
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1959.
First edition. Small 4to. 54 pp. Small bump to fore-edge, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover image by McClure. Designed by Dave L. Haselwood. Includes “Peyote Poem Section 1” that appeared originally in Wallace Berman’s Semina 3. Clements A4.
$75
49.
MOORMAN, Charlotte and Nam June Paik.
Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik.
[Ithaca]: Cornell University, 1972.
First edition. Single large illustrated sheet, folded once to make a folder (11 x 8 ½ inches, closed) enclosing a performance schedule, and biography sheets for Moorman and Paik respectively. TOGETHER WITH a large version of the front cover as a poster (folded for mailing as issued), with a pasted-on address label to Allen Ginsberg and the return address in holograph, “C. Moorman / N.Y. Hospital / 535 E. 68, Room 1201-1 NYC 10021.” For the lot:
$250
50.
[MOORMAN, Charlotte. et al].
Exit Art: Oracle.
NY: Exit Art 1985.
First edition. 17 ¼ x 15 ½ inch poster, folded twice as issued. Very near fine. Papo Colo designed this poster for this event, which included appearances by Moorman, Lyn Tillman, Alison Knowles, John Giorno, and many others. TOGETHER WITH and 11 x 8 ½ inch flyer detailing the schedule of appearances from 6:00 to 10:45. For the pair:
$125
51.
OLSON, Charles.
Maximus, from Dogtown — I.
San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1961.
First edition. 4to. [14 pp]. Sunning along spine, else near fine in sewn wrappers. Foreword by Michael McClure. One of 500 copies handprinted and bound by Dave Haselwood and Andrew Hoyem. Butterick & Glover A16.
$75
52.
[ONDAATJE, Michael and Daphne Marlattl]. Thesen, Sharon. ed.
The Capilano Review Number 16/17.
North Vancouver: Capilano Review, 1979.
First edition, numbered & signed issue 100 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket that is sunned along the spine and extrems. One of 100 numbered copies on Mojave Matte paper SIGNED by Marlatt and Ondaatje. Prints a generous selection from Ondaatje’s “Running in the Family,” (which differs greatly from the eventually published text), together with Daphne Marlatt’s “In the Month of Hungry Ghosts.”
$150
53.
OPPEN, George.
New Collected Poems.
NY: New Directions (2002).
First edition. xlv + 433 pp w/notes & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. Edited, with an introduction by Michael Davidson. Preface by Eliot Weinberger. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate.
$50
54.
OPPEN, George.
The Selected Letters of George Oppen.
Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1990.
First edition. xxxiii + 425 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with small wrinkle to the front panel. Edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Effectively the largest prose collection by the poet.
$200
55.
PAZ, Octavio.
Essays on Mexican Art.
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1993).
First US edition. 303 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. Sixteen pages of full-color illustrations. Briefly INSCRIBED by Paz on the half-title page.
$125
56.
PETTIBON, Raymond.
Tripping Corpse Four.
Lawndale: SST Pubs (1984).
First edition. [24 pp]. Toning and foxing along spine and top edge, else near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 numbered copies (of which 400 were reportedly destroyed). Seventeen full page images (including the cover) with ten pages of LSD trip transcription. Ohrt 17.
$350
57.
POUND, Ezra.
Cantos LII–LXXI.
London: Faber & Faber (1940).
First edition. 185 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a light vertical crease to the spine. The second issue of the jacket, which has been clipped and repriced by the publisher. Gallup A47a. From the library of Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin, with his ownership label inside the rear cover.
$450
58.
POUND, Ezra.
The Translations of Ezra Pound.
London: Faber and Faber (1953).
First edition. 408 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light toning to spine. Introduction by Hugh Kenner. Review slip laid in, indicating a parcel that included this book, as well as “Essays” and “Cantos.” Gallup A66a.
$150
59.
PRYNNE, J.H.
Poems.
Newcastle Upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (1999).
First UK edition. 440 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Light bump to base of spine, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Prynne provides a short “author’s note,” offering thanks and detailing the publication history of the contents. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate inside the front cover.
$75
60.
REXROTH, Kenneth.
The Spark in the Tinder of Knowing.
Cambridge: Pym-Randell Press, 1968.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Rexroth. A single long poem.
$75