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1.
AICKMAN, Robert.
Night Voices: Strange Stories.

London: Gollancz, 1985.
First edition. 185 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some wrinkling along the top and bottom edge of rear panel. Foreword by Barry Humphries. Aickman’s last, posthumously-published collection.
$55
89441
2.
ASHBERY, John writing as “Joel Michael Symington.”
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Vol. lxvii, No. 11.

Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, 1945.
November. [60 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. In addition to three early poems by Kenneth Koch, this issue features the poems “Poem” and “Lost Cove” by Ashbery, submitted without his permission by friends, and to his displeasure.
$45
89458
3.
BERNARD, Sidney.
This Way to the Apocalypse.

NY: The Smith/Horizon, 1969.
First edition. 252 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing to the rear panel. Introduction by Seymour Krim. Dated (9/13/78) and INSCRIBED by Bernard to the editor of the Wormwood Review, “To Marvin Malone / All best / Sidney Bernard.” From a front row seat at the Sixties.
$100
89469
4.
BERRY, Wendell.
The Landscape of Harmony: Two Essays on Wildness & Community.

Hereford: Five Seasons Press, 1987.
First edition. 76 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Introduction by Michael Hamburger. Includes a checklist of Berry’s writings in both the US and UK.
$35
89448
5.
[BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE]. Duberman, Martin.
Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community.

NY: Dutton, 1972.
First edition. 527 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to the base of spine. A thorough examination of the twenty-three year history (1933–1956) of the College. Illustrated with photographs.
$75
89504
6.
BLACKBURN, Paul.
The Parallel Voyages.

Tucson: SUN gemini Press, 1987.
First edition. 123 pp. Fine in full yellow cloth with printed spine label and blind stamped illustration to front panel. Fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. Poems selected and introduced by Clayton Eshleman. Edited and annotated by Edith Jarolim. Illustrated with drawings by Ellen McMahon. One of 43 (of 77) numbered copies on Ingres Antique silver-grey paper. Sun Lizard Book Number Three. Errata sheet present.
$200
89472
7.
BLY, Robert.
Silence in the Snowy Fields: Poems.

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (1962).
First edition. 60 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Bly’s first full length collection, which set the course for American poetry for a stretch.
$350
89440
8.
BOWLES, Paul.
Collected Stories 1939–1976.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1979.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 417 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. Five page introduction by Gore Vidal. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles. Miller A35c.
$250
89444
9.
BOWLES, Paul.
In the Red Room.

Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1981.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 32 pp. Fine in full decorated red cloth with gilt and black stamping. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 300 numbered copies on Arches mouldmade paper SIGNED by Bowles. A short story. Miller A40a.
$75
58745
10.
BOWLES, Paul and Ned Rorem.
Dear Paul Dear Ned: The Correspondence of Paul Bowles and Ned Rorem.

[North Pomfret]: Elysium Press, 1997.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. x + 141 pp. Fine in full blue cloth with inset cover and spine labels. Fine publisher’s clamshell case in matching cloth. Introduction by Gavin Lambert. Illustrated with four tipped-in photographs. Upon the box endpapers are reproduced the first printings of original music by each of the two correspondents. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Bowles, Rorem, and Lambert. This is copy “A”. Original prospectus accompanies.
$750
89493
11.
BROUGHTON, James.
Tidings.

San Francisco: Pearce & Bennett (1965).
First trade edition. 57 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 500 copies printed at the Pterodactyl Press. Subtitled “Poems at the Land’s Edge.” SIGNED by Broughton on the half-title page and inscribed, “for Philip Whalen, / on Gentle Thursday 1966 / these messages from the sea / with the author’s affection.”
$200
89439
12.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Love is a Dog from Hell: Poems 1974–1977.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 307 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski. Review slip laid in. A cornerstone collection. Krumhansl 60c.
$1250
89447
13.
BUTLER, Octavia E.
Blood Child and Other Stories.

NY: Four Walls Eight Windows (1995).
First edition. 145 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a light fade to red spine lettering. Five stories, two essays, and a preface by Butler. Her only collection of short fiction. The title story was awarded both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
$75
89462
14.
CAPOTE, Truman.
Other Voices, Other Rooms.

Franklin Center: Franklin Library (1979).
First printing of this edition (originally published in 1948). 194 pp. Fine in full gilt-decorated leather. a.e.g. Ribbon place-maker bound in. Reprinted from the 20th anniversary publication, this edition includes illustrations by Bob Dacey and a “special message to subscribers” by Capote. One of an unstated limitation SIGNED by Capote. “Notes from the Editors” pamphlet accompanies.
$150
89473
15.
CARVER, Raymond.
If it Please You.

Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 19 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. One of 200 numbered copies on Mohawk Superfine paper SIGNED by Carver. A short story.
$200
89482
16.
CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand.
Guignol’s Band.

Norfolk: New Directions (1954).
First US edition. 287 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to crown and some light rubbing. Translated from the original French by Bernard Frechtman and Jack T. Nile.
$125
89492
17.
CHEEVER, John.
The Stories of John Cheever.

NY: Knopf, 1978.
First edition. 693 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. SIGNED by Cheever on the front free endpaper. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
$350
65358
18.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Mills, Stuart. ed.
Aggie Weston’s 1–21.

London & Belper: Coracle Press/Stuart Mills (1973–1984).
First editions. Twenty-one issues, all near fine or better in illustrated wrappers with the exception of a small corner crease to the cover of #13, and toning to the covers of #17. A splendid run, with significant contributions by Thomas Meyer, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Simon Cutts, John Blakemore, Thomas A. Clark, Stuart Mills, Trevor Winkfield, Mick Sharp, Andrew Crozier, Gael Turnbull, John A. Davies, Richard Long, Jonathan Williams, and Robert Lax. For the run:
$1250
89500
19.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Arens, Egmont. ed.
Playboy: A Portfolio of Art and Satire. Numbers 1–9, 1919–1924.

NY & London: Johnson Reprint Company (1967).
First edition. 4to. [280 pp]. Fine in full green cloth with gilt letting to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. A facsimile edition of this magazine, published from the Washington Square Bookshop. William Groper, Vachel Lindsay, Stuart Davis, Alfred Kreymborg, Marsden Hartley, D.H. Lawrence, Matisse, Gauguin, Rockwell Kent, R. M. McAlmon, Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy, Richard Aldington, Paul Strand, Georgia O’Keefe, and many others appear.
$150
88277
20.
COOLIDGE, Clark.
Selected Poems 1962–1985.

Barrytown: Station Hill (2017).
First edition. xxiii + 464 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Susan Coolidge. Edited by Larry Fagin and Clark Coolidge. Introduction by Bill Berkson.
$45