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41.
HENRI, Adrian.
Poems for Wales and Six Landscapes for Susan.
Gillingham: ARC (19700.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Cover and internal illustration by Margaret Mitchell. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Henri. Arc 10.
$45
42.
[HERMS, George]. Di Prima, Diane. ed.
The Floating Bear #29.
NY: Floating Bear, 1964.
4to. [20 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by George Herms. Contributions by Robert Grosseteste, Julian Beck, John Thomas, Frank O’Hara, Gilbert Sorrentino, and several others.
$75
43.
JESS.
Translations.
NY: Odyssia Gallery, 1971.
First edition. xiii + [33 pp]. Spine sunned, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction, “Iconographical Extensions,” by Robert Duncan. One of 1000 copies produced for the Odyssia Gallery by Black Sparrow Press. INSCRIBED to Peter Howard of Serendipity Books, “For Peter — / This day of delving, / and with much / gratitude / Jess / ‘71” and “and Robert / at home / RD / ‘71.”
$150
44.
JESS.
Translations Salvages Paste-Ups by Jess.
Dallas: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1977.
First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction by Robert M. Murdock. Essay, “An Art of Wondering,” by Robert Duncan. Twenty-two reproductions, three of which are in color. Jess contributes his own concluding biography.
$40
45.
JOHNSON, Ronald.
Ark.
Chicago: Flood Editions (2013).
First hardcover edition. vii + 318 pp. Fine in full white cloth with black lettering to spine and front panel. Printed wrap-around band on the rear cover, presenting an endorsement by Guy Davenport. Edited by Peter O’Leary, with his short note on the text. This edition based on the Living Batch edition of 1996. From the collection of Nathaniel Tarn, with his note on the contents page, “Tarn / from O’Leary.”
$100
46.
[JOYCE, James]. Freund, Gisèle.
Three Days with Joyce.
NY: Persea Books (1985).
First US edition. 67 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Preface by Richard Ellmann. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his bookplate inside the front cover.
$45
47.
KAUFMAN, Bob.
Golden Sardine.
San Francisco: City Lights Books (1967).
First edition. 81 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Selection edited by Mary Beach. Pocket Poets #21. Cook 62.
$125
48.
KNOWLES, Alison.
Beans and Fish.
[St. Paul]: Bookslinger, 1980.
First edition. 12 ¾ x 11 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Printed at The Toothpaste Press on the occasion of Knowles’ reading at the Walker Art Center. One of 125 numbered copies SIGNED by Knowles.
$50
49.
[LITTLE MAGAZINES].
Gallows: Second Hanging.
Eureka: Gallows (nd).
2: 1. [16 pp]. Small bump to lower corner, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Mason Jordan Mason, Gil Orlovitz, Sue Abbott Boyd, Judson Crews, Joanne de Longchamps, and others contribute. On the verso of the last leaf is a full page ad for Bukowski’s RUN WITH THE HUNTED.
$75
50.
LOGUE, Christopher.
Wand and Quadrant.
Paris: Collection Merlin, 1953.
First edition, numbered issue. 62 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket with a light fade to upper portion. One of 300 (of 600) numbered copies on Arches paper. SIGNED by Logue. His first book. Ramsden A1b.
$150
51.
MAC LOW, Jackson.
four trains ...4–5 December 1964.
Providence: Burning Deck (1974).
First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 300 numbered copies designed and printed by Rosmarie Waldrop.
$50
52.
MAYER, Bernadette.
Memory.
Plainfield: North Atlantic Books (1975).
First edition. 195 pp. Bump-crack to spine, else near fine in illustrated wrappers that are a little rubbed. “A new kind of autobiography.” Introduction by David Rubinfine, M.D. Her fifth book.
$125
53.
MERRILL, James.
Souvenirs.
NY: Nadja (1984).
First edition, lettered & signed issue. Tall narrow 8vo. [16 pp]. Fine in full red cloth with inset printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies (the entire hardcover edition) on HMP and Rives papers SIGNED by Merrill. Eight poems, printed in two colors.
$200
54.
METCALF, Paul.
Patagoni.
Penland: Jargon Society, 1971.
First edition. Small 4to. 140 pp w/bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Jargon 58.
$75
55.
NATIONS, Opal L.
The Marvels of Professor Pettingruel: A feuilleton.
Missoula: Black Stone Press (1978).
First edition, hardcover issue. 38 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. Binding by Shelley Hoyt-Koch. Prose by Nations with illustrations by Peter Koch. One of 26 copies, the entire hardcover edition.
$125
56.
NEWMAN, Charles. ed.
TriQuarterly 32: Anti-Object Art.
Evanston: TriQuarterly/Northwestern University, 1975.
Winter. [180 pp]. Fine in cardboard wrappers with pasted-on printed cover envelope. A sharp copy of this terrific issue, with all five small photographs present in the printed sleeve on the front cover. Presents work by Weiner, Beuys, Christo, Baldessari, Gilbert and George, Acconci, Serra, Piper, LeWitt, Smithson, Long, Eleanor Antin, and many others.
$150
57.
O’BRIEN, John. ed.
Interviews with Black Writers.
NY: Liveright (1973).
First edition. xiii + 274 pp w/bibliography. Fine in near fine dust jacket with two short wrinkles to the front panel. Ralph Ellison, Ernest J. Gaines, Clarence Major, Ann Petry, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, John A. Williams, and many others interviewed.
$45
58.
OLSON, Charles.
Projective Verse.
NY: Totem Press (1959).
First edition. 14 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers that are lightly toned. Cover art by Matsumi Kanemitsu. Lacks erratum slip. Olson’s landmark essay, and one of the most attractive books from the press. Butterick & Glover A13.
$200
59.
PADGETT, Ron.
Sky.
London: Goliard Press (1966).
First trade edition. Folding card (9 x 4 ⅛ inches, closed). Very near fine. One of 300 (of 325) copies. A single poem, with a pasted-on blue color chip. Printed dedication to Joe Brainard.
$75
60.
PALMER, Michael.
Plan of the City of O.
Boston: Barn Dream Press (1971).
First edition. [12 pp]. Light tanning along spine, else near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 400 (of 500) copies. Poems. INSCRIBED by Palmer on the first leaf, “For Ron and Joan Love / Michael.” His first book.
$50