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1.
ALLEN, Donald M. ed.
The New American Poetry 1945–1960.
NY: Grove Press (1960).
First edition. xxiii + 454 pp w/biographical notes, bibliography, and index of authors. Near fine in very good only dust jacket with some long internally tape-mended tears, sunning to spine, and soiling to rear panel. The era defining anthology, bringing together Beat, Black Mountain, New York School, and San Francisco Renaissance poets: Ashbery, Corso, Creeley, Ginsberg, Jones, Kerouac, Lamantia, Levertov, O’Hara, Olson, Schuyler, Snyder, Spicer, Welch, Wieners, and many others. Copies were invariably read to death.
$350
2.
ANTIN, David.
Definitions.
(np): Caterpillar (1967).
First edition. 38 pp. Fine in spiral wire-bound printed cardstock covers. Designed by Eleanor Antin to resemble a notebook. His first book. Caterpillar VI.
$100
3.
ASHBERY, John.
Flow Chart: A Poem.
NY: Knopf, 1991.
First edition. 215 pp. Light soiling to endpapers, else fine in very near fine dust jacket with small wrinkles to base and crown. SIGNED by Ashbery on the title page. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his bookplate inside the front cover.
$100
4.
ASHBERY, John.
Homeschooled.
Hudson: Ashbery Home School of Hudson 2014.
First edition. 11 x 5 ⅛ inch broadside. Very near fine. One of 65 copies printed on the occasion of the opening of The Ashbery Home School of Hudson, New York. Uncommon.
$75
5.
BECKETT, Samuel.
The Unnamable.
London: Calder & Boyars (1975).
First UK edition. 132 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated by Beckett from his original French text. The first separate publication of this novel in the UK. SIGNED by Beckett on the title page.
$1500
6.
[BECKETT, Samuel]. Kenner, Hugh.
Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study.
London: John Calder (1962).
First UK edition. 208 pp. Light discoloration to top edge near spine, else fine in very near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by John Sewell. The first full-length study.
$75
7.
BERKSON, Bill.
Red Devil.
[Victoria]: Cuneiform Press (2015).
Second edition. 11 x 8 ½ inch broadside, printed in full color. Fine. One of 50 copies “printed for friends.” The 1987 edition was printed in two colors. Briefly INSCRIBED by Berkson, “For Les — ‘as men’ —Bill.”
$50
8.
BERRY, Wendell.
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front.
[Berkeley & Monterey]: Counterpoint/Larkspur Press, 2012.
First edition. 19 x 10 ½ inch illustrated broadside, printed in two colors. Very near fine. Wood engraving by Wesley Bates. Designed by Gray Zeitz. Produced on the occasion of Berry’s NEW COLLECTED POEMS. Though not called for, SIGNED by Berry.
$150
9.
BERRY, Wendell.
Sabbath Poem VI for 2003.
[Washington DC]: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005.
First edition. 14 x 11 inch illustrated broadside. Fine. Berry’s poem paired with Plate 79 (the Yellow-throated Warbler) from Audubon’s BIRDS OF AMERICA. Though not called for, SIGNED by Berry.
$75
10.
BERSSENBRUGGE, Mei-Mei.
Tan Tien.
[Tucson]: Chax Press 1988.
First printing of this edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Single poem here presented as a chapbook, the first printing of which was a broadside published four years earlier. Produced on the occasion of Berssenbrugge’s reading at the Tucson Poetry Festival.
$50
11.
[BROODING HERON PRESS].
Eleven Skagit Poets.
Waldron Island: Brooding Heron Press, 1987.
First edition. [36 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 250 copies on Curtis Utopian paper. Poems by Robert Sund, Peter Heffelfinger, Thelma Palmer, Michael Rust, Jean Marie Haight, Glen Turner, Bill Slater, Clifford Burke, James Bertolino, Samuel Green, and Paul Hansen. Laid into this copy is the Brooding Heron Press checklist for 1987–1988.
$45
12.
BROWNSTEIN, Michael.
30 Pictures.
Stinson Beach: Grape Press, 1972.
First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Rear cover photograph of Brownstein by Anne Waldman. One of 350 copies. Early book of poetry by this novelist and environmentalist, author of WORLD ON FIRE.
$35
13.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
At Terror Street and Agony Way.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.
First edition, second state. 89 pp. Fine in printed red wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 747 copies. The printed cover title suffered a typo, corrected by the application of a large printed label. Bukowski’s first collection of poems published by Black Sparrow. Krumhansl 27b.
$350
14.
[BUKOWSKI, Charles]. Dorbin, Sanford.
A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969.
First edition. 93 pp w/index. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Dorbin and Bukowski, with a facsimile of Bukowski’s “His Wife, The Painter” tipped-on opposite the title page. Morrow & Cooney 75a.
$350
15.
BUNTING, Basil.
The Spoils.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Morden Tower Book Room [c. 1965].
First edition. [16 pp w/notes]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. Single long poem that appeared originally in Poetry magazine in 1951. SIGNED by Bunting beneath his photograph on the first leaf. Guedalla A3a.
$125
16.
COOLIDGE, Clark.
A Book Beginning What and Ending Away.
Albany: Fence Books (2012).
First edition. 599 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Concluding essays by Tom Orange and Kit Robinson.
$45
17.
COOLIDGE, Clark.
Sound as Thought: Poems 1982–1984.
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon (1990).
First edition. 185 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, dated (92) and signed by him on the title page. New American Poetry Series 5.
$75
18.
[CORSO, Gregory]. Selerie, Gavin. ed.
The Riverside Interveiws 3: Gregory Corso.
London: Binnacle Press, 1982.
First edition. 74 pp w/bibliography. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Long interview by Serlie, essays by Jim Burns and Michael Horovitz. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his embossed stamp and light pencil marginalia. Dated (Sept 1985) and INSCRIBED by Selerie, “For Nathaniel Tarn / with best wishes / Gavin Selerie.”
$75
19.
CREELEY, Robert.
The Whip.
Worcester: Migrant Books, 1957.
First paperback edition. [52 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by René Laubiès. Handset in Mercedes and Furtura types and printed by Mossen Alcover in Palma de Mallorca. One of 500 copies. Migrant Ventura stamp on copyright page. Thirty-eight poems with Creeley’s preface. Novik A8. Jargon 26.
$200
20.
CREELEY, Robert. ed.
The Black Mountain Review 5.
Black Mountain: Black Mountain Review, 1955.
Summer. 224 pp. Light bumps to upper corners, faint rubbing to covers, reading crease to spine. A solid near fine copy in wrappers. Cover art by John Altoon. Contributions by Duncan, Zukofsky, Siskind, Olson, Levertov, Bronk, Creeley, and many others. Legend.
$450