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41.
GROOM, Winston.
Forrest Gump.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1986.
First edition. 228 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Source for the Tom Hanks film, which won six Academy Awards.
$250
42.
HAINES, John.
Winter News: Poems.
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (1966).
First edition. 69 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket that is rubbed along the spine. First book of poems by Haines.
$100
43.
HAINES, John.
The Writer as Alaskan.
Tempe: Porch Publications (1979).
First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. An essay by the poet, issued as Inland Boat Volume 10. Uncommon.
$45
44.
HALL, Donald.
Great Day in the Cows’ House.
Mt. Carmbel: Ives Street Press, 1984.
First edition. 6 pp. Fine in full red cloth with a printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. A long poem, in part printed on an accordion-fold leaf, with two duotone photographs by T.S. Bronson. One of 130 numbered copies on Mohawk Superfine paper SIGNED by Hall.
$200
45.
HIGGINS, Dick.
George Herbert’s Pattern Poems: In Their Tradition.
West Glover & NY: Unpublished Editions, 1977.
First trade paperback printing. 79 pp w/bibliography. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Many pattern poems reproduced.
$50
46.
HIGGINS, Dick.
Towards the 1970’s.
Dunkirk: Abyss (1969).
First edition. 6 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Higgins makes the call for changes in the arts and art world going forward.
$50
47.
HOLLO, Anselm.
History.
(np): Matrix Press (1963).
First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and very near fine illustrated wrappers. Poems with drawings by Ken Lansdowne and Gregory Corso. Designed and printed by Tom Raworth. One of 30 numbered copies SIGNED by Hollo with a short holograph poem.
$150
48.
JESS.
Gallowsongs after Christian Morgenstern.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970.
First edition. 4to. [126 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers, bound with three aluminum screws. Cover art and drawings throughout by Jess. One of 600 copies. Jess’ versions of these works by Morgenstern, who first started publishing these works in German in 1905. Review slip and original prospectus accompanies.
$75
49.
JOYCE, James.
Finnegans Wake.
NY: Viking (1958).
Eighth US printing. 628 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light toning and a few small spots to spine. This edition incorporates Joyce’s corrections to the text. Much less common than the 1939 first US edition.
$500
50.
JUSTICE, Donald.
Tremayne: Four Poems.
[Iowa City]: Windhover Press (1984).
First edition. [10 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Cover drawing by Laurence Donovan. One of 210 copies on Iyo Glazed paper. Berger 84.
$50
51.
[KELLEY, Mike]. Fischer, Jocelyn. ed.
Magazine. Vol. 14, No. 2.
Venice: Beyond Baroque Foundation (1984).
Vol. 14, No. 2. 27 pp. Two small notes in red ink along the spine, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributions by Gerald Locklin, Czeslaw Milosz, Tom Clark, Elaine Equi, and others. Cover art by Mike Kelley.
$75
52.
KEOGH, Theodora.
The Tattooed Heart.
NY: Farrar, Straus & Young (1953).
First edition. 261 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some rubbing to extrems and a tiny tear to the top edge of the rear flap fold. Cover art by Tom Keogh. SIGNED by both, with a drawing by Tom on the front free endpaper. Fourth book by Keogh, granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt, debutante, and professional dancer who later associated with Paris Review circle in Paris.
$100
53.
[KRUGER, Barbara]. Engberg, Juliana.
Barbara Kruger.
Bulleen: Museum of Modern Art at Heide (2006).
First edition. 4to. 48 pp w/biography & bibliography. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Warwick Reeder, introductory essay, “Crowd Control” by Juliana Engberg, and Lynne Tillman’s text “21 TV Tales.” Illustrated with 34 color images and b&w stills.
$35
54.
[levy, d.a.]. Jordan, Casper LeRoy. ed.
The Free Lance: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose. Volume Seven, Number 1.
Cleveland: Free Lance Poets and Prose Workshop (1963).
24 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by d.a. levy (uncredited). Includes work by Adelaide Simon, Allan Kaplan, Judson Crews, and two works by Russell Atkins, “Editorial Poem of an Incident of Effects Far-Reaching” and “Of.”
$35
55.
LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Wild Body: A Soldier of Humour and Other Stories.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1927.
First trade edition. 294 pp. Faint offsetting to front free endpaper, previous owner’s bookplate inside front board (entirely covered by the jacket). In all, near fine in the first binding variant. Jacket is near fine with light wear to crown and light rubbing to spine. Morrow & Lafourcade A9b.
$200
56.
[LITTLE MAGAZINES]. Sheets, Kermit and Kemper Nomland, Jr. eds.
The Illiterati Number 4.
Waldport: The Illiterati, 1945.
First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers Contributions by Kenneth Patchen, Glen Coffield, Henry Miller, William Everson, and others.
$100
57.
[LOST GENERATION]. Knoll, Robert E. ed.
McAlmon and the Lost Generation: A Self Portrait.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1962.
First edition. viii + 396 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited, with a commentary by Robert E. Knoll.
$50
58.
LUDLOW, Fitz Hugh.
The Hasheesh Eater.
San Francisco: Level Press, 1975.
First trade paperback printing of this edition. 4to. 223 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by David Singer and Sätty. Edited by Michael Horowitz, with his introduction. Illustrated by Sätty. A Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library Edition of this first full-length work of drug literature published in the US (1857).
$75
59.
MacDIARMID, Hugh.
Direadh I, II and III.
Frenich: Kulgin Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1974.
First edition. 4to. 51 pp w/notes. Fine in paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine. Fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 200 numbered copies on Magnani paper SIGNED by MacDiarmid. Designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed in Dante type at the Stamperia Valdonega.
$150
60.
McEWAN, Ian.
Black Dogs.
London: London Limited Editions (1992).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 174 pp w/note. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped cloth spine. Near fine unprinted glassine dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by McEwan.
$100