e-catalog #123
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1.
[AMERICAN POETS PROJECT].
American Poets Project 1 – 32.

NY: Library of America (2003–2013).
First editions. Thirty-two volumes, all fine in very near fine or better dust jackets. The series published to date. Each volume is introduced by the respective editor. The Samuel Menashe volume is one of 1203 signed copies with a certificate, issued to charter subscribers to the series. Full author/editor list on request. For the collection:
$450
89757
2.
AMIS, Martin.
Time’s Arrow or The Nature of the Offence.

London: Limited Editions (1991).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 176 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Very near fine unprinted tissue dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Amis. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
$100
89628
3.
ASHBERY, John.
Three Plays.

Calais: Z Press, 1978.
First trade paperback printing. 160 pp. Light creases to two corners, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Joe Brainard. Collects “The Heroes,” “The Compromise,” and “The Philosopher.” Dated (May 10, 1978) and INSCRIBED by Ashbery, “for Michael McClure / in New York / John Ashbery.”
$125
89750
4.
ASHBERY, John.
A Wave: Poems.

NY: Viking (1973).
First edition. vi + 89 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Ashbery’s tenth collection.
$45
64341
5.
BAXTER, Glen.
Drawings.

NY: Adventures in Poetry (1974).
First edition. 4to. [70 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. A collection of Baxter’s drawings and cartoons. “The brigadier was wearing the forbidden snood.”
$50
33289
6.
BAXTER, Glen.
The Khaki.

NY: Adventures in Poetry (1973).
First edition. 4to. [46 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Stories, poems, and drawings by Baxter, who would eventually appear in The New Yorker with some frequency.
$75
89795
7.
[BAYER, Herbert]. Cohen, Arthur A.
Bayer: The Complete Work.

Cambridge & London: MIT Press (1984).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. xvii + 429 pp w/notes, bibliography, photo credits, & index. Fine in fine dust jacket and fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Cohen, with an original b&w photograph numbered and SIGNED by Bayer.
$750
89759
8.
BEACH, Sylvia.
Shakespeare and Company.

NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1959).
First edition. xvi + 199 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs, and line cuts. A better copy than more commonly found.
$100
89787
9.
[BEAT LITERATURE]. Knight, Arthur and Kit. eds.
the unspeakable visions of the individual. Volume 10.

California: unspeakable visions of the individual (1980).
First edition. 173 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. The tenth anniversary issue, featuring work by Kerouac, Ginsberg, Cassady, Holmes, Baraka, Huncke, Joanna McClure, Corso, Bonnie Bremser, and Whalen.
$35
89748
10.
[BEAT LITERATURE]. Wilentz, Elias. ed.
The Beat Scene.

NY: Corinth, 1960.
First edition. 185 pp. Small corner crease to front cover, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Wilentz contributes an introduction to this representative anthology. Terrific photographs throughout by Fred McDarrah.
$45
89766
11.
[BENN, Gottfried]. Beeson, William. et al, eds.
Metamorphosis 3.

Haverford: Metamorphosis (1962).
First edition. 91 pp w/notes. Near fine in glossy printed wrappers. This issue features 43 poems by Gottfried Benn translated by Michael Lebeck, with Lebeck’s introduction. Includes work also by Frederic Jameson and poems by John Tagliabue.
$40
22320
12.
BERKSON, Bill.
Saturday Night: Poems 1960–1961.

Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1975.
Second edition. [48 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Norman Bluhm. Berkson’s first book, published originally by Tibor de Nagy in 1961. This second edition contains some new poems, corrections, and additions. Sand Dollar 18.
$20
89783
13.
[BERRIGAN, Ted]. Warsh, Lewis and Anne Waldman. eds.
Angel Hair Catalogue #2.

NY: Angel Hair, 1969.
First edition. 4to. [10 pp]. Toning to extrems, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by George Schneeman. In addition to offering Angel Hair books for sale, prints a poem by Tom Clark “The Top of the World” and Ted Berrigan, “Things to do in New York (city).” SIGNED by Berrigan in green ink, with his addition in blue ink, “my first good / ‘open field’ / poem.”
$200
89786
14.
[BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE]. Harris, Mary Emma.
The Arts at Black Mountain College.

Cambridge & London: MIT Press (1987).
First trade paperback printing. 4to. 315 pp w/index. Fine in wrappers and very near fine illustrated dust jacket. A well-illustrated survey of the College, with an interesting and useful faculty and student roster. SIGNED by Harris on the first leaf. Accompanying this copy is both a checklist of the exhibition, and illustrated exhibition booklet.
$125
89761
15.
BOWLES, Paul.
Call at Corazón and Other Stories.

London: Peter Owen (1988).
First edition. 223 pp. Pages lightly toned, else fine in fine dust jacket. Bowles contributes a preface to this collection of seventeen stories, written over fifty years.
$35
89760
16.
BOWLES, Paul.
Midnight Mass and Other Stories.

London: Peter Owen (1985).
First British Commonwealth edition. 190 pp w/glossary. Fine in fine dust jacket. First British Commonwealth appearance of these twenty stories. A less common Bowles title from Peter Owen. See Miller A46c.
$75
89773
17.
BOWLES, Paul.
Pages from Cold Point and Other Stories.

London: Peter Owen (1968).
First British Commonwealth edition. 156 pp. Fine in very near fine clipped and re-priced dust jacket. Nine short stories. Miller A17.
$50
89765
18.
BOWLES, Paul.
A Thousand Days for Mokhtar and Other Stories.

London: Peter Owen (1989).
First edition. vi + 176 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Bowles contributes a preface to this collection of fourteen stories
$50
89768
19.
BUKOWSKI, Charles and Sheri Martinelli.
Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski & Sheri Martinelli 1960–1967.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 2001.
First edition, numbered issue. 380 pp w/index. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label (faint sunning to spine label). Fine acetate dust jacket. Introduction by Steven Moore. One of 500 numbered copies with an original serigraph print by Bukowski.
$75
89781
20.
[CADMUS, Paul]. Kirstein, Lincoln.
Paul Cadmus.

NY: Imago (1984).
First edition. 144 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated. Includes a complete catalog of paintings, 1931–1983. Errata slip present.
$75