e-catalog #120
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1.
ABULAFIA, Abraham ben Samuel.
The Path of the Names.
Berkeley & London: Tree/Trigram, 1976.
First edition. 73 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine illustrated dust jacket. Translations and adaptations by Bruria Finkel, Jack Hirschman, David Meltzer, and Gershom Scholem. One of the least common books from the press. Tree Texts 4.
$125
2.
ASHBERY, John.
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
NY: Viking (1975).
First edition. 83 pp. Two miniscule spots of foxing to the fore-edge, else very near fine in like dust jacket with a tiny tear to the top edge of the front panel. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Michael McClure’s copy, signed by him on the first leaf.
$350
3.
BENVENISTE, Asa.
Language: Enemy, Pursuit.
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1980.
First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in wrappers and near fine integral printed dust jacket with a bit of sunning along the spine. One of 100 copies. An essay concluding with three appendixes, the last of which is a useful Trigram Press Checklist (1965–1978), the second a short memoir by David Meltzer.
$75
4.
BERKSON, Bill and Larry Fagin.
Two Serious Poems & One Other.
Bolinas: Big Sky Books (1971).
First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 200 copies. Cover art by Joe Brainard. Poems that appeared previously in The World.
$75
5.
BLAZEK, Douglas.
Broken Knuckle Poems.
Cleveland: Black Rabbit Press (1969).
First edition. 4to. [60 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover graphic by Aaron Pori. Introduction by Tom Kryss. One of 500 copies with a two-color silkscreen title page, and three single color silkscreen illustrations.
$45
6.
BLAZEK, Douglas.
Lethal Paper.
Norwich: Stone Press (1974).
First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Design and illustration by Stephen Homsy. An uncommon collection of poems. Stone Chapbook No. 3. DenBoer A28.
$45
7.
BOGAN, Louise.
A Poet’s Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation.
NY: McGraw-Hill (1970).
First edition. xvi + 474 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited by Robert Phelps and Ruth Limmer. Collects all of the 1955 collection, SELECTED CRITICISM, most of her articles, reviews, critical pieces published subsequently, and a few earlier pieces not previously reprinted.
$50
8.
BUBER, Martin translated by David Antin and Jerome Rothenberg.
Tales of Angels Spirits & Demons.
NY: Hawk’s Well Press, 1958.
First edition. 12mo. 61 pp. Fine in wrappers with integral printed dust jacket. First book of the press. Six tales. Early for Antin, his selected poems begins with work from 1963.
$75
9.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
In the Shadow of the Rose.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1991.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. Small 4to. 85 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine unprinted teal dust jacket. One of 750 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski, who has also added a small drawing below his signature. A collection of 33 poems.
$300
10.
BURKE, Clifford.
Heron Light: Poems.
Waldron Island: Brooding Heron Press, 1986.
First edition. [18 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Frontispiece illustration from a woodblock by Sara Hill. One of 274 (of 300) copies on Frankfurt Cream paper.
$40
11.
BURROUGHS, William S.
Time.
NY: ‘C’ Press, 1965.
First trade edition. Small 4to. [28 pp]. Light bump to crown of spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Burroughs. Four internal drawings by Brion Gysin. Maynard & Miles A11a.
$500
12.
[BURROUGHS, William S.]. Dienst, Rolf-Gunter
Rhinozeros 9.
Berlin 1964.
First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Features WSB’s Der Doktor auf der Bühne... translated into German by Anselm Hollo. This issue features also work by Brion Gysin, Lawrence Durrell, Allen Ginsberg, and many others, in German translation, texts reproduced from the hand of Klaus-Peter Dienst.
$75
13.
COHEN, Ira with Gerard Malanga and Angus Maclise.
Ratio 3: Media Shamans.
Brighton; Temple Press Limited, 1991.
First edition. 100 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited and introduced by Words. Poems and portrait photographs of each contributor. Dated (July 6, ‘92) and INSCRIBED by Cohen on the first leaf, employing ten different rubber stamps in two colors.
$125
14.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Ashbery, John. et al, eds.
Art and Literature: An International Review 1–12 (complete).
Lausanne: S.E.L.A. (1964–1967).
Twelve issues. All very near fine or better (most are fine) in printed wrappers with original glassines on the first six numbers, as issued. Jean Rhys, Genet, David Jones, Koch, Montale, O’Hara, Rhys, Coolidge, Brainard, Gombrowicz, Holub, Kaplan, Blanchot, and many others populate this wonderfully understated journal. Secret Location 170-171. For the run:
$650
15.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Eshleman, Clayton. ed.
Caterpillar 1–20 (complete).
NY & Sherman Oaks: Clayton Eshleman (1967–1973).
Twenty numbers in 17 issues, all very near fine or better in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Jess, Carole Schneemann, Michael McClure, Eleanor Antin, Wallace Berman, Robin Blaser, and others. Contributors include Robert Glück, John Wieners, Stan Brakhage, David Antin, Philip Lamantia, Charles Olson, Adrienne Rich, and Dick Higgins, to name but a few. Issue 12 devoted to Jack Spicer. For the run:
$500
16.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. ed (1–3), Mendes Monsanto (#4).
City Lights Journal 1–4 (complete).
San Francisco: City Lights Books (1963–1978).
Four volumes, all near fine or better in illustrated wrappers with some light reading creases to the spine of #2 and a bend to the corner of #3. A who’s-who of the Beats and after with contributions by Ginsberg, Snyder, Brautigan, Sanders, Kerouac, Burroughs, Norse, McClure, Hirschman, Ferlinghetti, Ted Joans, Bruce Connor, and that’s just the opener! For the run:
$450
17.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. James, J.G. with C.I. McNeill and N.R. Wayte. eds.
The Resuscitator and The New Resuscitator.
Paulton: Resuscitator Press (1963–1969).
Seven issues in the first run (1963–66) followed by three additional issues (1968–69). All very near fine in or better in printed or illustrated wrappers. After the first issue, the Americans appear in force: Corman, Olson, Zukofsky, Oppen, Eigner, Creeley, and Snyder, with the occasional Canadian (Coleman, Bowering, Kearns). Prynne, Longville, Crozier, James, Vickers, Hall, Raworth all appear in the second sequence and some earlier. For the run:
$350
18.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Hale, Terrel. ed.
Screens and Tasted Parallels 1 & 2 (all published).
Palo Alto: Terrel Hale (1989–1990).
200 + 239 pp. Two issues, both 4to, both fine in illustrated wrappers. All published. Ronald Johnson, Messerli, Bromige, Nathaniel Mackey, Lisa Jarnot, Gizzi, Perelman, Ganick, Scalapino, Johanna Drucker, and many others appear. For the pair:
$100
19.
CREELEY, Robert.
As Now It Would Be Snow.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970.
First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Creeley. Morrow & Cooney 96b.
$75
20.
CUNNINGHAM. J.V.
Doctor Drink.
Oakland: LRF (1983).
First printing of this edition (originally published in 1950). Six 10 ½ x 5 inch leaves (all fine) housed in a printed folder (near fine). One of only 21 copies printed in two colors on Roma paper.
$75