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41.
[LAWRENCE HART GROUP].
Ideas of Order in Experimental Poetry.

Berkeley: George Leite [1945].
First edition. 30 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. Also known as “Activists,” this pamphlet is the result of “nine years of constant experimentation and working with poetry.” A Circle Pamphlet. Poems and statements.
$75
89070
42.
[LEARY, Timothy].
Anonym Quarterly. Fall 68.

Buffalo: Anonym Press (1968).
First edition. 70 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Leary contributes a nine page essay, “Declaration of Evolution” which includes “The Constitution of Life.” Work also by James Kaplan, Edward Kissam, Allen DeLoach, E.R. Baxter, and many others.
$50
89051
43.
[LEARY, Timothy].
Declaration of Independence for Dr. Timothy Leary July 4, 1971.

San Francisco: Hermes Free Press (1971).
First edition. [4 pp]. A bit rippled, but not discolored, else near fine in wrappers. “Model Statement in Defense of the Philosophers Personal Freedom Proposed by San Francisco Bay Area Prose Poets’ Phalanx.” Printed endorsements on the rear cover by Kesey, Ferlinghetti, McClure, Creeley, Ginsberg, Kandel, Nin, Watts, Lamantia, Berrigan, Krassner, Whalen, and a host of others. Uncommon.
$350
89085
44.
[LITERARY ANTHOLOGY]. Valdez, Luis. and Stan Steiner. eds.
Aztlan: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature.

NY: Random House, 1972.
First edition. xxxiv + 410 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Laid into this copy is a holograph note from Nan A. Talese on her letterhead, “Dearest Tarn / thought you would / like this. / Love, / Nan.”
$45
89083
45.
LOGUE, Christopher.
Patrocleia: Book 16 of Homers ILIAD.

(np): Scorpion Press (1962).
First trade edition. 35 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing to spine and two short tears. Logue runs with an original translation by Donald Carne Ross and Peter Levi, S.J. SIGNED by Logue on the first leaf. Ramsden A12.a.
$125
89094
46.
MAC LOW, Jackson.
August Light Poems.

NY: Caterpillar, 1967.
First edition. 4to. [42 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled and taped wrappers. One of 300 copies. Cover art by Iris Lezak. Caterpillar IX.
$75
89058
47.
MacLISE, Angus.
The Map of Dusk.

NY: SZ/Press, 1984.
First edition. ix + 50 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Ira Cohen. A long poem left by MacLise to Frank Kuenstler nearly twenty years before this publication, and well after MacLise’s untimely death at age 41 in 1979.
$75
89055
48.
MERWIN, W.S. and Soiku Shigematsu translate Muso Soseki.
for Ko, Who Has Come Back from China.

[Port Townsend]: Copper Canyon Press, 1998.
First edition. 11 x 9 inch illustrated broadside, printed in three colors. Fine. One deckle edge. One of 200 copies.
$55
89101
49.
NOTLEY, Alice.
Grave of Light New and Selected Poems 1970–2005.

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (2006).
First edition. xi + 364 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Notley contributes an introductory note on her “awkward and untidy” publishing history.
$75
89089
50.
NOTLEY, Alice.
Margaret & Dusty.

St. Paul: Coffee House Press, 1985.
First edition. 75 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. From the collection of Nathaniel Tarn, with his signature and date (90) on the title page.
$45
89077
51.
[PEYOTE]. Myerhoff, Barbara G.
Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians.

Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press (1974).
First edition. 285 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. From the collection of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate and light pencil marginalia. Illustrated.
$150
89056
52.
[PLATH, Sylvia]. Levenson, Christopher. ed.
Poetry from Cambridge 1958.

London: Fortune Press (1958).
First edition. 63 pp w/notes on contributors. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to front panel, toning to spine, and light wear along the top edge. In addition to work by David Wevill and Ted Hughes, this volume features four poems by Plath: All the Dead Dears, Black Rook in Rainy Weather, Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper, and Epitaph for Fire and Flower.
$100
89093
53.
[PLATH, Sylvia]. Alvarez, A. ed.
Cambridge Review.

Cambridge: Cambridge Review, 1969.
Vol. 90, No. 2187. [20 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Four early (1957 or earlier) unpublished poems by Plath featured: Street Song, Natural History, resolve, and Aerialist. Essays on these poems and Plath by Alvarez, George Steiner, David Holbrook, Eric Homberger, and M.W.C.
$85
89061
54.
[POCKET POETS]. Cornford, Adam.
Animations.

San Francisco: City Lights Books (1988).
First edition. 99 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Dated (1/8/89) and INSCRIBED by Cornford to a fellow poet. Pocket Poets #45.
$75
89082
55.
[POCKET POETS]. Di Prima, Diane.
Revolutionary Letters Etc.

San Francisco: City Lights Books (1971).
First edition. 80 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. A poem sequence that grew with time and saw print in several different editions. INSCRIBED by Di Prima, “For Nathaniel / a pleasure to meet you! / Diane di Prima.” Pocket Poets #27.
$250
89081
56.
[POCKET POETS]. Ginsberg, Allen.
Planet News 1961–1967.

San Francisco: City Lights Books (1968).
First trade edition. 144 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Pocket Poets #23.
$100
89049
57.
[POCKET POETS]. Nichols, Robert.
Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train.

San Francisco: City Lights Books (1962).
First edition. 36 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. A five part long poem. Pocket Poets Series #15.
$125
89080
58.
[POCKET POETS]. Pommy-Vega, Janine.
Poems to Fernando.

San Francisco: City Lights Books (1968).
First edition. 60 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover drawing a self-portrait by Fernando Vega. Rear cover photograph of Pommy-Vega by Kenneth Pate. Pocket Poets #22.
$100
89086
59.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Márquez, Robert. ed.
Latin American Revolutionary Poetry / Poesia Revolucionaria Latinoamericana.

NY & London: Monthly Review Press (1974).
First US edition. 505 pp. Lower corners tapped, two small stains to fore-edge. In all, near fine in near fine dust jacket with some light war to base and crown of spine. Edited by Márquez, with his introduction. Poems in the original Spanish with facing English translations, arranged by country. Review slip accompanies.
$85
89098
60.
POUND, Ezra.
Confucian Analects.

London: Peter Owen [1956].
First UK edition. 135 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light tanning to spine and extrems, and a short tear and scuff to bottom edge of the rear panel. Introduction and translations by Pound. Gallup A65b.
$75