e-catalog #124
TO ORDER: please email or phone.
JEFF MASER, bookseller—abaa
911 CAMELIA STREET
BERKELEY, CA 94710
(510) 524-8830
maser@detritus.com
21.
[DEAD LANGUAGE PRESS]. Maclise, Angus.
Year.
NY: Dead Language [1962].
First edition. Several sheets attached and accordion-folded (9 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches, closed). Near fine, with a small pale blemish to the front panel. Maclise’s poetic renaming of the days of the year. A nice copy of this rarity.
$1250
22.
DEFEO, Jay.
Jay DeFeo: Selected Works, Past and Present.
San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 1984.
First edition. 4to. 32 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Preface by Thomas Albright, poem by Michael McClure, essay by David S. Rubin. Seventeen photos and reproductions, including the cover image. INSCRIBED by De Feo on the title page, “For Marvin Malone / — best to you / J. De Feo.”
$100
23.
DI PRIMA, Diane.
Loba, Part I.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1973.
First trade edition. 30 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems with drawings by Josie Grant. Warmly INSCRIBED by Di Prima on the title page. Yes! Capra Chapbook Series Number Ten.
$50
24.
DI PRIMA, Diane.
Wyoming Series.
San Francisco: Eidolon Editions, 1988.
First trade edition. [24 pp]. Corner wrinkle to two leaves, else very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 250 (of 300) copies. Design by Julia Connor, with di Prima’s illustrations. INSCRIBED by Di Prima on the title page, “for Marvin Malone / in appreciation / Diane di Prima.” Di Prima has also made a correction to the colophon page. Accompanying this copy is the original mailing envelope and a TLS from Di Prima to Malone, in part presenting this book, and thanking him for bibliographical research.
$85
25.
EDSON, Russell.
A Stone is Nobody’s: Fables & Drawings.
NY: Russell Edson/Thing Press, 1961.
First edition. 46 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrations throughout by the author. His second book.
$75
26.
ERICKSON, Steve.
Tours of the Black Clock.
NY: Poseidon Press (1989).
First edition. 320 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket that is lightly toned. SIGNED by Erickson on the title page. His third novel.
$45
27.
EVERSON, William.
The Masks of Drought.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 92 pp w/author’s note. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Everson. Nineteen poems.
$45
28.
[FIELD, Tom]. Wagstaff, Christopher. ed.
Tom Field: On Painting at Black Mountain and in San Francisco.
Berkeley: Rose Books (2006).
First edition. 13 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover reproduction of Fields’ canvas “Kerouac Painting, 1960.” An interview conducted and transcribed by Wagstaff. One of 200 copies.
$35
29.
FLANAGAN, Bob
The Kid is the Man.
Hermosa Beach: Bombshelter Press (1978).
First edition. 40 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. First book by the then 26 year old Flanagan, later known as the “supermasochist” and performance artist. A collection of poems.
$75
30.
GASS, William H.
Eyes: Novellas & Stories.
NY: Knopf, 2015.
First edition. 238 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Gass on the title page. Uncommon signed.
$200
31.
GASS, William H.
On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry.
Boston: David R. Godine [1975].
First trade edition. 91 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a faint fade to spine. SIGNED by Gass on the title page. A tour de force, Gass considers all aspects of the color.
$150
32.
GENET, Jean.
The Thief’s Journal.
NY: Grove Press (1964).
First US edition. 268 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the original French by Bernard Frechtman.
$75
33.
[GOREY, Edward].
Bahhum Bug.
[Middle Falls: The Toy Works] (2000).
First edition. Produced to accompany both the lettered and numbered issues of Gorey’s THE HEADLESS BUST, but also sold separately. This Bahhum Bug has the Toy Works label clipped, as in most examples. Fine.
$200
34.
GUNN, Thom.
The Explorers.
Crediton: Richard Gilbertson (1969).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 17 pp. Light bumps to corners, else near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 63 (of 100) numbered copies SIGNED by Gunn. Fifteen poems, including “Touch,” “Positives,” and “My Sad Captains.” Hagstrom A10d.
$100
35.
HAMILTON, William.
Husbands, Wives and Live-Togethers.
NY: Putnam’s (1976).
First edition. Oblong 8vo. [192 pp]. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light toning to spine. Cartoons by the frequent New Yorker contributor. INSCRIBED by Hamilton on the front free endaper to Evan S. Connell, “For Evan / with great and / growing admiration / Bill.”
$150
36.
HAMILTON, William.
The Love of Rich Women.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981.
First edition. 216 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to the crown. First novel by the cartoonist. INSCRIBED by Hamilton to Evan [S. Connell Jr.] on the half-title page, “Dear Evan, / What a precious and / elegant pleasure it is / to write a note to / you, who are one of / those grand few who / keep a reader in the / company of art, on / the page* of my first / novel. / Bill / *I don’t know / what page this / is called. I hope / its not the / book’s fly.”
$250
37.
HARPER, Michael S.
Photographs: Negatives: History as Apple Tree. A Poem.
San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1972.
First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. One of 500 numbered copies on Curtis mill paper SIGNED by Harper. His third book.
$50
38.
HARRYMAN, Carla.
there never was a rose without a thorn.
San Francisco: City Lights Books (1995).
First edition. 153 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Warmly INSCRIBED by Harryman on the title page.
$45
39.
HOBAN, Russell and Jan Pienkowski.
M.O.L.E.: Much Overworked Little Earthmover.
London: Jonathan Cape (1993).
First edition. 4to. [32 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Dated (23.10.93) and SIGNED by Hoban and Pienkowski on the dedication page.
$100
40.
KOCH, Peter. ed.
Deadstart.
San Francisco: Black Stone Press, 1980.
First edition. 42 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Contributions by Hitchcock, Bigus, Walkup, Ratch, Johnston, and several others. The magazine is subtitled, “A journal of letters, design and typographic printmaking.” Slip laid in stating edition size is 250 instead of 500 copies.
$50