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21.
COOLIDGE, Clark and Philip Guston.
Baffling Means: Writings/Drawings.
Stockbridge: Oblek Editions (1991).
First trade paperback printing. 118 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Coolidge provides a preface to these collaborative works from 1972 to 1976. Uncommon.
$100
22.
CORMAN, Cid.
Word for Word & At Their Word: Essays on the Arts of Language.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977 & 1978.
First editions, numbered & signed issue. 169 + 218 pp. Two volumes, each fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spines and printed labels. Fine acetate dust jackets. Each is one of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Corman. Morrow & Cooney 258c & 296c. For the pair:
$100
23.
CORTEZ, Jayne.
Poetic Magnetic: Poems from EVERYWHERE DRUMS & MAINTAIN CONTROL.
NY: Bola Press (1991).
First edition. 64 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Dated (4–22–92) and INSCRIBED by Cortez on the title page. Poems drawn from two recordings EVERYWHERE DRUMS and MAINTAIN CONTROL, with her brief preface, “Poetry Music Technology.”
$125
24.
CREELEY, Robert.
All that is Lovely in Men.
Ashville: Jonathan Williams, 1955.
First edition. [46 pp]. One lower corner slightly tapped, else fine in wrappers and very near fine dust jacket with a trivial blemish on the front cover. Poems with drawings by Dan Rice. One of 200 copies SIGNED by Creeley and Rice on the colophon page. Jargon 10. Novik 6.
$750
25.
CREELEY, Robert.
Thirty Things.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 71 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. Illustrated with monoprints by Bobbie Creeley. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Robert Creeley. Morrow & Cooney 185b.
$75
26.
CREWS, Harry.
The Gospel Singer.
NY: William Morrow, 1968.
First edition. 248 pp. Very light light discoloration to top edge, else fine in very near fine dust jacket with a small stain at base. Endpapers much less mottled than normally encountered. A bright copy of the first book by Crews.
$450
27.
CREWS, Judson.
The Anatomy of Proserpine.
(np): [Judson Crews, 1952].
First edition. [58 pp]. Fine in spiral-bound printed cardstock covers. Poems printed by mimeograph on a variety of paper stocks. An uncommon title by Crews, let alone in condition.
$75
28.
DEPEW, Wally.
L.
Livermore: PN Books [1975].
First edition. [112 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. The cover image, published on the rectos only, each image differing in the amount of space darkened. INSCRIBED by Depew, “For MM / with much admiration / + appreciation.” Laid into this copy is Depew’s “Postcard9” presenting this copy and offering publication information.
$125
29.
DIEBENKORN, Richard.
Figure Drawings.
NY: Acquavella Contemporary Art, 1996.
First edition. [72 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Sixty drawings reproduced.
$50
30.
DOYLE, Kirby.
After Olson.
Alexandria: Deep Forest (1984).
First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers that are lightly rubbed. One of 100 numbered copies. A line drawing and preface by Doyle precedes this long poem. Dated (8/27/84) and SIGNED by Doyle on the front free endpaper.
$45
31.
EKELÖF, Gunnar.
Selected Poems.
NY: Pantheon Books/Random House (1971).
First US edition. 141 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Göran Printz-Pählson. Translated from the original Swedish by W.H. Auden and Leif Sjöberg, with their foreword.
$35
32.
[FILM]. MacDonald, Scott.
Avant-Garde Film: Motion Studies.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1997).
Later printing. viii + 199 pp w/filmography & index. Fine in full black cloth with gold stamping to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. MacDonald considers work by Yoko Ono, Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, Yvonne Rainer, and others.
$35
33.
FINLAY, Ian Hamilton.
The Dancers Inherit the Party: Selected Poems.
Worcester & Ventura & Migrant, 1962.
Second edition. 35 pp. Some light surface abrasion to front cover, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems with two woodcuts by Zeljko Kujundzic. Accompanied by a two pp mimeographed essay, “A NOTE on Finlay’s ‘The Dancers Inherit the Party’” by Michael Shayer, which has a holograph addition in Finlay’s hand, “also at / Wild Hawthorn Press / 24 Fettes Row / Edinburgh.” From the collection of Nathaniel Tarn, with his embossed ownership stamp on the first leaf.
$500
34.
FRANK, Robert.
The Americans: Photographs by Robert Frank.
NY: Grove Press (1959).
First US edition. vi + [168 pp]. Light faint “x” penned to the lower portion of the fore-edge, else fine in near fine dust jacket with two short internally tape-mended tears (verso only), a corner crease to the rear flap, and light rubbing along spine. Introduction by Jack Kerouac, which does not appear in the French first edition. One of the most influential 20th century photography books.
$12,500
35.
GERBER, Dan.
Landscape at Eighty.
(np): (np) (2020).
First edition. 13 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. Poem with cover art and one internal illustration by Jack Smith. Printed at the Hound Dog Press. Design by Johathan Greene. One of 150 copies SIGNED by Gerber. Additionally INSCRIBED by Gerber on the front free endpaper.
$45
36.
HANDKE, Peter.
The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld.
NY: Continuum/Seabury Press (974).
First US trade paperback printing. 172 pp w/biographical note & bibliography. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Original German poems with facing English translations by Michael Roloff, who also provides a postscript. Review slip laid in.
$45
37.
KELMAN, James. et al.
Lean Tales.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1985.
First edition. 286 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Stories by Kelman, Agnes Owens, and Alasdair Gray who also designed the jacket and provided portraits of the contributors. SIGNED by Kelman opposite the title page.
$35
38.
KOOSER, Ted.
Shooting a Farmhouse & So This Is Nebraska.
Denver: Ally Press (1975).
First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 150 (of 200) numbered copies. An uncommon Kooser title, preceded by three earlier collections.
$250
39.
KRAUSS, Ruth.
This Breast Gothic.
Lenox: Bookstore Press, 1973.
First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems and drawings.
$50
40.
KYGER, Joanne.
Pátzcuaro: December 17, 1997 – January 26, 1998.
Bolinas: Blue Millennium, 1999.
First edition. 29 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. One of 700 copies printed. Kyger supplies a preface situating these poems.
$25