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21.
[CUMMINGTON PRESS]. Winters, Yvor.
Three Poems.
[Cummington]: Cummington Press, 1950.
First edition. [8 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 300 copies printed by Harry Duncan.
$45
22.
[DEAD LANGUAGE PRESS]. Hollo, Anselm.
Lover Man.
NY: Dead Language (nd).
First edition. Multi-panel accordion-fold book (9 x 6 ¾ inches, closed), with cover and colophon on the recto, and the entire text running along twelve consecutive panels. Cover art from a work by Rene Magritte.
$125
23.
DODGE, Jim.
Palms to the Moon.
[Berkeley]: Tangram, 1987.
First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 100 copies. Twelve poems. The first of over sixty Tangram chapbooks. SIGNED by Dodge on the first leaf.
$200
24.
DODGE, Jim.
Wisdom and Happiness.
[Berkeley]: Tangram, 2000.
First edition Single sheet folded once (7 x 5 inches, closed). Fine. Single poem printed in two colors for the Winter Solstice. One of 160 copies.
$40
25.
DORN, Edward.
Chemo Sábe.
Boise: Limberlost Press, 2001.
First trade edition. [52 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Cover by Ray Obermayr. Introduction by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn. Poems, printed letterpress in two colors. One of 650 copies on Mohawk Superfine paper with Thai Unryu endsheets. From the collection of Nathaniel Tarn, signed by him “Tarn” in pencil on the half-title page.
$100
26.
DORN, Edward.
Idaho Out.
London: Fulcrum (1965).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. A single long poem, with Dorn’s preface. Cover art by Fielding Dawson. Design by Stuart Montgomery. One of 224 (of 250) numbered copies.
$125
27.
ELIOT, T.S.
Notes towards the Definition of Culture.
London: Faber and Faber (1948).
First edition. 124 pp w/appendix. Light offsetting to endpapers, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with toning to the extrems. Gallup A51a. From the collection of Nathaniel Tarn, with the original 1948 sales receipt from Bowes & Bowes, Cambridge laid in.
$150
28.
ELIOT, T.S. trans.
Anabasis: A Poems by St.-John Perse.
London: Faber and Faber (1959).
First UK printing of the third edition, revised and corrected. 96 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light tanning to spine. Includes Eliot’s preface, and his notes to the revised and third editions. In addition to Eliot’s translation, this edition adds a bibliography, notes and references, prefaces by Larbaud, Hofmannsthal, and Ungaretti, and a concluding note by Lucien Fabre. Gallup A16f.
$75
29.
FINLAY, Ian Hamilton.
Glasgow Beasts, an a Burd.
London: Fulcrum (1965).
Fifth edition. [28 pp]. Fine in wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket. Printed offset from the first edition. Finlay’s poems illustrated with papercut images by John Pickering and Pete McGinn. “ a wee buik / fir big weans.” Murray 3.3.
$150
30.
[FINLAY, Ian Hamilton]. Bann, Stephen.
Ian Hamilton Finlay: an Illustrated Essay.
Scottish National Gallery of Art, 1972.
First edition. 36 + [16 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. A well-illustrated exhibition catalogue. Includes a bibliography and list of works in the exhibition.
$50
31.
FITZGERALD, F. Scot.
The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
London: Bodley Head (1964).
First UK edition. xviii + 615 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Andrew Turnbull, with his introduction.
$50
32.
FULLER, R. Buckminster.
Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization.
Highlands: Nantahala Foundation, 1962.
First edition. xii + 227 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers and near fine printed clear acetate dust jacket with a small chip and tear to the base of the rear panel. Introduction by Russell Davenport. Jargon 44. From the collection of Nathaniel Tarn. Laid into this copy is a small holograph card from Ed Victor (UK literary agent) with his note, “NT — Sorry, but the situation didn’t allow for signings. E.”
$150
33.
GASS, William H.
On Place.
[Minneapolis]: Walker Art Center, 1985.
First edition. 10 ¼ x 13 ¼ inch broadside, printed in two colors. Very near fine. Printed by the Coffee House Press. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Gass. Issued on the occasion of his 28 October appearance.
$75
34.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Chicago Trial Testimony.
San Francisco: City Lights Books (1975).
First edition. 74 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Ginsberg’s complete testimony at the so-called “Chicago Seven” trial in 1969. Cook 108.
$50
35.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Journals: Early Fifties Early Sixties.
NY: Grove Press (1978).
First edition. xxx + 313 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Gordon Ball, with his introductory “Reader’s Guide.” Morgan A35a1.1. Young 1456.
$50
36.
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.
The Sorrows of Young Werther and Novella.
NY: Random House (1971).
First edition. xvi + 201 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a short closed tear to the front panel. Translated from the original German by Elizabeth Mayer and Louise Bogan. English translation of the poems by W.H. Auden, who also contributes a foreword.
$75
37.
[GREENWOOD PRESS]. Taylor, Michael.
Three Fish.
San Francisco: Greenwood Press (1970).
First edition. 4to. [20 pp]. Very good plus in sewn wrappers with some rumpling to the front panel. One of 100 (of 115) copies handset by Michael Taylor and printed by Jack Werner Stauffacher. Uncommon, OCLC locates only five copies.
$75
38.
GUNN, Thom.
Selected Poems 1950–1975.
London: Faber & Faber (1979).
First edition. ix + 131 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Gunn on the half-title page, “for Burton Weiss / Thom Gunn.” Hagstrom & Odell A29a.
$125
39.
HALSEY, Alan.
Spells Against Green Field Development.
[Sheffield]: West House Press, 1994.
First edition. [16 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Halsey. Five drawings with facing poems.
$35
40.
HAMILL, Sam.
Night Traveling: Poems from the Chinese.
[Isla Vista]: Turkey Press, 1985.
First edition. 53 pp. Faint sunning to spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. One of 400 copies on Mohawk superfine paper. A generous selection of poems from the second to the fourteenth centuries.
$45