e-catalog #122
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21.
CORMAN, Cid.
The Marches & Other Poems.
Ashland: Origin Press (1957).
First edition. 17 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Poems by Corman with designs by Edwina Curtis. One of 200 copies.
$100
22.
CORMAN, Cid.
Peerless Mirror: Twenty tanka from the Manyoshu.
Cambridge: Firefly Press (1981).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [32 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Cover by Wang Hui Ming. Corman provides a preface to his annotated translations. One of 50 numbered copies on Ragston paper SIGNED by Corman.
$125
23.
[CORNELL, Joseph]. Ashton, Dore.
A Joseph Cornell Album.
NY: Viking (1974).
First edition. xiv + 240 pp w/list of illustrations. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. In addition to reproductions of many works by Cornell, this collection features contributions by John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, Jonas Mekas, Octavio Paz, and several others.
$75
24.
CREELEY, Robert.
A Wall.
NY & Stuttgart: Bouwerie Editions/Edition Domberger (1969).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine blind-printed chemise. Poems by Creeley, preceded by a serigraph print by William Katz. One of 125 numbered copies SIGNED by Creeley & Katz.
$200
25.
CREELEY, Robert.
Words: Poems.
NY: Scribner’s (1967).
First edition. 143 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Novik 26.
$75
26.
[CREELEY, Robert]. Clark, Tom.
Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place.
NY: New Directions (1993).
First edition. vi + 150 pp w/notes & selected bibliography. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Dated (6/5/94) and INSCRIBED by Creeley to Gus [Blaisdell], “for Gus — / The old story! / with love. / Bob.” Blaisdell has made a few small pencil notes in the margins.
$45
27.
DAZAI, Osamu.
No Longer Human.
NY: New Directions (1958).
First US edition. 177 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine and a short surface scratch to the rear panel. Translated from the original Japanese by Donald Keene, with his introduction. Wormwood Review editor Marvin Malone’s copy, with his inked name and date (58) on the first leaf. A classic of postwar Japanese literature, which has been adapted for film, anime, manga, and musical theatre.
$350
28.
DINESEN, Isak.
Anecdotes of Destiny.
NY: Random House (1958).
First edition. 244 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Five stories including “Babette’s Feast,” the basis for the celebrated Danish film.
$100
29.
DISCH, Thomas M.
Fundamental Disch.
London: Gollancz, 1981.
First UK edition. 373 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. The best of Disch’s short fiction up to 1975. The first hardcover appearance of this collection, published as a paperback original in the US the year prior.
$85
30.
[ERNST, Max]. di San Lazzare, G. ed.
Homage to Max Ernest.
NY: Tudor (1971).
First US edition. 4to. 131 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Twenty-nine color plates, 130 b&w reproductions, and a original lithograph executed by Ernst for this volume. A special issue of the XXe Review.
$100
31.
[FINLAY, Ian Hamilton]. Abrioux, Yves.
Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer.
Cambridge: MIT Press (1992).
First US printing of the second revised and expanded edition. 4to. x + 318 pp w/notes and references, bibliography, & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introductory notes and commentary by Stephen Bann. Color and b&w reproductions.
$75
32.
FLETCHER, Jim and Harry Mathews.
Week One.
Los Angeles: semiotext(e) (2015).
First edition. 23 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. A conversation. Number 17 in a series of 22 publications produced on the occasion of the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
$35
33.
[FLUXUS]. Hendricks, John. ed.
Fluxus Etc. A Complete History of Fluxus.
Bloomfield Hills: Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, 1981.
First edition. 410 pp. Small pale stain on front cover and to fore-edge, else near fine in illustrated wrappers with light tanning to spine. The Gilbert and Lila Silverman collection. Heaps of illustrations.
$150
34.
[FLUXUS]. Baerwaldt, Wayne. ed.
Under the Influence of Fluxus.
Winnipeg: Plug In Inc. (1991).
First edition. 4to. 63 pp. Two small pale spots on front cover, else fine in printed wrappers. Catalogue for a touring exhibition, featuring color reproductions and essays by Dick Higgins, Geoffrey Hendricks, Emmett Williams, Wayne Baerwaldt, and Henry Martin.
$50
35.
GERVAIS, Paul.
Gar-an-guli.
[North Pomfret]: Elysium Press (1999).
First edition. 16 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine publisher’s clamshell case, with inset printed cover label. One of four copies on Somerset paper, each initialed for the recipient. This copy designated “B.W.” Accompanied by a card in holograph from the publisher, “N.B. / One of four copies initialed / for friends of the Press. / With gratitude to / Burton Weiss. David Deiss.” A short story by the novelist and gardener (Villa Massei) about growing up in New England backgrounded by its Indigenous history.
$250
36.
GOREY, Edward.
A Gorey Festival.
NY: Ivan Obolensky [1968].
First printing of this edition. Four volumes, each very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Near fine publisher’s slipcase, with a few trivial marks along bottom edge and rear panel. Collects THE CURIOUS SOFA, THE FATAL LOZENGE, THE HAPLESS CHILD, and THE SINKING SPELL. Each volume is SIGNED by Gorey. Uncommon thus. Toledano A28.
$450
37.
GOREY, Edward.
The Prune People.
NY: Albondocani Press, 1983.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [32 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 400 numbered copies SIGNED by Gorey. Original prospectus accompanies. Toledano A88b.
$350
38.
GOREY, Edward.
The Prune People II.
NY: Albondocani Press, 1985.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [32 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Gorey. Original prospectus accompanies. Toledano A91b.
$350
39.
GOREY, Edward illustrates Howard Moss.
Instant Lives.
NY: Saturday Review Press/E.P. Dutton (1974).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 84 pp. Fine in full black cloth with a gilt decoration to the front panel and lettering to spine. Fine in clear unprinted acetate dust jacket. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Gorey and Moss on the first leaf. The lives of writers and composers and painters compacted. Toledano B58a.
$150
40.
GOVER, Robert.
One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding.
London: Neville Spearman, 1961.
First UK edition. 192 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a small corner crease. Original wrap-around band present, and uncommon thus. Gover’s first book.
$100