e-catalog #125
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1.
ALTA.
Theme & Variations: Longpoem by Alta.
Berkeley: Aldebaran Review/Galactic Approximation (1975).
First edition. [52 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Drawings by Mady Sklar. Dated (April, 1976) and SIGNED by Alta on the first leaf. Aldebaran Review 18.
$45
2.
ALTA.
True Story: Prose by Alta.
Oakland: Mama’s Press (1973).
First edition. 35 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Alta on the title page. Twelve true stories with drawings by “Pat.”
$35
3.
ANDERSON, Margaret. et al, eds.
The Little Review. Vol. 9, No. 2.
NY: Little Review (1922).
Winter. 63 pp. Sunning to spine, one leaf badly opened (two tears), else very good in printed wrappers. A “Miscellany Number” including work by W.C. G. Jitro, Anderson, Yvonne George, Stephen Hudson, Breton, Louis Gilmore, Guillaume Apollinaire, and others, including Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven on Duchamp.
$200
4.
[ANTI-CAPITALISM]. Carlsson, Chris with Caitlan Manning and Adam Cornford. eds.
Processed World #1.
San Francisco: Processed World, 1981.
Spring. 46 pp. Small scuff to spine near the staple, else fine in illustrated wrappers. First issue of this dynamic protest magazine, largely targeting office workers.
$125
5.
ASHBERY, John.
Selected Poems.
NY: Viking (1985).
First edition. 349 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Ashbery on the title page. Poems from ten previously published collections.
$125
6.
BARTH, John.
Chimera.
NY: Random House (1972).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 308 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth and unprinted clear acetate dust jacket, also fine but for two corner creases to the front flap. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase (not pictured here), with corresponding copy number inked to base of spine. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Barth. Co-winner of the National Book Award for fiction with John Williams’ AUGUSTUS.
$125
7.
BARTHELME, Donald.
Here in the Village.
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1978.
First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 52 pp. Very near fine in paste-paper covered boards with cloth spine. One of 50 numbered copies on Ingres paper SIGNED by Barthelme with a collage illustration by him as a frontis.
$150
8.
BECKETT, Samuel.
Watt.
Paris: Olympia Press (1958).
Second edition. 278 pp. Fine in near find dust jacket with some chipping to crown and tips of flap folds. Published 5 years after the first edition, and one year earlier than the first US edition. Federman & Fletcher 32.1.
$125
9.
BERKSON, Bill.
Expect Delays: Poems.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2014.
First edition. 136 pp w/notes. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems grouped under the titles “Lady Air,” “16 Acrostics in Love and Friendship,” “Songs for Bands,” and “Sister Cadence.”
$15
10.
BERKSON, Bill.
Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981–2006.
[Victoria]: Cuneiform Press, 2007.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 109 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art a drawing by Philip Guston. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Berkson. This is copy “B.”
$100
11.
BERNHEIMER, Alan translates Valery Larbaud.
The Hamlet of the Bees / Le Hameau des Abeilles.
Cambridge: Whale Cloth Press, 1981.
First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket. Larbaud’s original French text with Bernheimer’s facing English translation. Illustration by Thomas Mairs. One of 150 copies on Maidstone paper.
$50
12.
BIDART, Frank.
The Book of the Body.
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1977).
First edition. 44 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. His second book. INSCRIBED by Bidart on the half-title page, “For John and Bill, with immense affection, and admiration — / love, Frank / March 22, 1977.”
$125
13.
BIDART, Frank.
Golden State.
NY: Braziller, 1973.
First edition. ix + 50 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Richard Howard introduces this collection of poems, Bidart’s first. A volume in the Braziller Series of Poetry.
$200
14.
BOYLE, Kay.
Collected Poems of Kay Boyle.
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon (1991).
First edition. 172 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover photograph of Boyle by Man Ray. Collects all her previously published poems, much of it revised for publication here, together with new work. Dated (October 25, 1991) and INSCRIBED by Boyle to her friend, bookseller Burton [Weiss], in the form of an acrostic based on his first name.
$125
15.
BRECHT, George.
Chance-Imagery.
NY: Great Bear/Something Else Press (1966).
First edition. 15 pp w/references. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. A single essay on chance in the arts that appeared originally in Collage magazine. Three Great Bear pamphlet titles listed on the rear cover.
$45
16.
BRENNER, Summer.
Everyone Came Dressed as Water.
Albuquerque: Grasshopper Press (1973).
First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Dede La Vene. Eight poems. Brenner’s first book.
$125
17.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
The Last Generation.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [12 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. Fine unprinted dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski. A single poem, issued as a New Year Greeting. Krumhansl 72c. Pictured here without jacket.
$250
18.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1986.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 313 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 400 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski. Krumhansl 100c.
$500
19.
BURNSIDE, John.
The Good Neighbour.
London: Jonathan Cape (2005).
First edition. 82 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Burnside on the title page. His ninth collection of poems. Uncommon signed.
$75
20.
CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand.
Death on the Installment Plan.
NY: New Directions [1967].
Third US edition. xi + 592 pp w/glossary. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with just a small wrinkle at the base of the spine. Translated from the original French by Ralph Manheim, with his preface.
$150