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21.
DARRAGH, Tina.
Striking Resemblance: Work 1980–1986.
Providence: Burning Deck (1989).
First trade edition. 62 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover by Keith Waldrop. One of 950 copies printed letterpress on Mohawk Vellum by Rosmarie Waldrop. Review slip laid in.
$45
22.
DONHAUSER, Michael.
Of Things.
Providence: Burning Deck/Anyart (2015).
First US edition. 125 pp w/biographical notes. Light bend to first few leaves of one upper corner, else very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Poems translated by Nick Hoff and Andrew Joron. Dichten No. 16.
$45
23.
DORN, Edward.
Seven Love Songs.
Tucson: Chax Press, 2012.
First edition. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 60 numbered copies, the entire edition, printed letterpress in two colors.
$50
24.
DUNCAN, Robert.
An Epithalamium.
San Francisco: Joan and Bill Roth (1980).
First edition. Folding card (5 x 7 inches, closed), printed in two colors. Fine. SIGNED by Duncan at the conclusion of his poem on the front cover, with the addition of his holograph limitation statement on the verso, “No. 35 of 70 copies presented to the poet.” Bertholf A54.
$75
25.
ELMSLIE, Kenward.
Circus Nerves.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 49 pp. Some light toning to the top edge of the unprinted rear panel, else fine in printed paper-covered boards and cloth spine with printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Cover drawing by Joe Brainard. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Elmslie. Morrow & Cooney 109b.
$75
26.
ERB, Elke.
Mountains in Berlin.
Providence: Burning Deck, 1995.
First edition. 94 pp w/notes. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems selected and translated from the original German by Rosmarie Waldrop. Dichten No. 2.
$35
27.
FRUMKIN, Gene.
The Hawk and the Lizard.
Denver: Allen Swallow (1963).
First edition. 44 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Cover design by Lowell Naeve. First book of poems by the editor of Coastlines magazine.
$35
28.
GILBERT-LECOMTE, Roger.
Black Mirror: The Selected Poems.
Barrytown: Station Hill, (1991).
First trade paperback printing. xiv + 111 pp w/indexes. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Antonin Artaud. Original French poems with facing English translations by David Rattray. The first appearance in English of works by a founder of Le Grand Jeu. From the collection of Nathaniel Tarn, dated (1992) and signed by him on the title page.
$55
29.
[GOREY, Edward]. Lear, Edward.
The Dong with a Luminous Nose.
NY: Young Scott Books (1969).
First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art and internal drawings by Edward Gory. SIGNED by Gorey on the title page. Toledano B42a.
$100
30.
[GOREY, Edward]. Lear, Edward.
The Jumblies.
NY: Young Scott Books (1968).
First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art and internal drawings by Edward Gorey. SIGNED by Gorey on the title page. Toledano B38a.
$100
31.
GREGG, Linda.
All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems.
Saint Paul: Graywolf Press (2008).
First edition. 213 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Gregg. Poems from six previously published collections, with twenty-two new poems.
$75
32.
GYSIN, Brion.
Brion Gysin Let the Mice In.
West Glover: Something Else Press (1973).
First trade paperback printing. 64 + [12 pp]. Sunning to spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. Edited by Jan Herman, with additional texts by William S. Burroughs and Ian Sommerville. Illustrated with reproductions of calligraphic work, and photographs.
$150
33.
INMAN, P.
Per Se.
Providence: Burning Deck/Anyart (2012).
First edition. 83 pp w/notes. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover collage by Keith Waldrop. Eleven poems.
$40
34.
JENSEN, Laura.
A Sky Empty of Orion: Poems.
San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1985.
First edition. 20 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems with a frontis drawing, printed in three colors, by Janice Mae Schopfer. One of 130 copies on Lana Laid paper SIGNED by Jensen and Schopfer.
$150
35.
KEROUAC, Jack.
On the Road.
NY: Viking 1957.
First edition. 310 pp. Small light erasure on first leaf, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with some minor rubbing to extrems, a short closed tear to bottom rear flap fold, a few tiny tears and rubbing to crown of spine, which also has a small patch of rippling. In all, a solid copy of this legend. Charters A2a.
$4500
36.
KORTE, Mary Norbert.
A Breviary in Time of War.
San Francisco: Cranium Press (1970).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [26 pp]. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Frontis photograph by Jess Vllalva. Hand set and printed by Clifford Burke. One of 30 numbered copies SIGNED by Korte.
$75
37.
KUSANO, Shimpei.
Selected Frogs.
Koyoto: Origin Press (1963).
First edition. Oblong 16mo. [42 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Poems translated from the original Japanese by Susumu Kamaike and Cid Corman. Brushwork illustrations by Hidetaka Ohno.
$125
38.
LANSING, Gerrit.
Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth.
Berkeley: North Atlantic Books (2009).
First edition. 274 pp w/appendix. Very near fine in like dust jacket. The most substantial collection of work by Lansing.
$35
39.
LARKIN, Philip.
‘A Lifted Study-Storehouse.’ The Brynmore Jones Library 1929–1979.
Hull: Hull University Library Press, 1987.
Second edition, first printing. 50 p w/appendixes, select bibliography, & index. Fine in stapled wrappers. This new edition is corrected, with additional material by Maeve Brennan. Original prospectus accompanies. Philip Larkin Memorial Series No. 1. Bloomfield A12b.
$35
40.
LAUGHLIN, James.
Kollemata.
Luneenburg: Stinehour Press, 1988.
First edition. [62 pp]. Fine in wrappers and fine integral printed dust jacket. One of 150 copies. Poems, published anonymously for friends. INSCRIBED by Laughlin to Kay Boyle, “for Kay / from JL / remembering how exciting / it was to publish/ A GLAD DAY.” Founded in 1936, Boyle’s book of poems was published by New Directions in 1938.
$150