e-catalog #126
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1.
AIKEN, Conrad.
Thee: A Poem.
London: Inca Books (1973).
First UK edition, numbered & signed issue. [19 pp]. Touch of rubbing to crown, else fine in gilt-stamped paper-covered boards with leather spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Six illustrations by Gillian Ruff. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Aiken.
$75
2.
ANTIN, David.
Talking at the Boundaries.
NY: New Directions (1976).
First edition. 267 pp. Small spot on fore-edge, else near fine in very near fine dust jacket. Review slip and promotional flyer laid in
$35
3.
BERGER, John.
Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1969).
First edition. 191 pp. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light wear along the top edge and crown. Seventy-one illustrations and 24 plates add to Berger’s consideration of the Soviet sculptor.
$75
4.
[BERMAN, Wallace].
Support the Revolution.
Amsterdam: Institute of Contemporary Art (1992).
First edition. 183 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Many color reproductions of Berman’s work. Walter Hops, Charles Brittin, David Meltzer, Michael McClure, Tosh Berman, and others contribute.
$50
5.
BERRY, Wendell.
An Eastward Look.
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1974.
First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 350 (of 376) copies designed and printed by Clifford Burke. Poems, printed letterpress in two colors. Sand Dollar 11.
$50
6.
BERRYMAN, John.
His Thought Made Pockets & The Plane Buckt.
Pawlet: Claude Fredericks, 1958.
First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 500 numbered copies on Nideggen paper. Though not called for, SIGNED by Berryman on the title page. Original backing board and printed mailing envelope (unmailed) present and near fine. Stefanik A8.i.a.
$500
7.
BIALY, Harvey.
for Timotha.
[Berkeley]: Sand Dollar 1970.
First trade edition. 11 x 6 ⅛ inch broadside, printed in two colors. Very near fine with some light toning to one edge. One of 200 copies printed at the Cranium Press. Produced on the occasion of Bialy’s farewell reading. SIGNED by Bialy.
$125
8.
[BRAUTIGAN, Richard].
Richard Brautigan has been forced to cancel...
NY: The Poetry Center 1971.
First edition. 4 x 6 inch postcard. Fine. Addressed to Joseph Gold. “For extremely pressing reasons,” Brautigan cancels his reading and hopes to appear in the future.
$40
9.
[BUKOWSKI, Charles]. Malone, Marvin. ed.
Wormwood Review 11. Volume 3, Number 3.
Storrs: The Wormwood Review Press, 1963.
First trade edition. 36 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 numbered copies. Bukowski contributes two poems. Malone, who also did the cover art, edited this, and all subsequent issues after taking over the magazine from the founding editors.
$25
10.
CAREY, Steve.
20 Poems.
(np): Alice Notley/Unimproved Editions Press (1987).
First edition. 4to. [48 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Alice Notley.
$75
11.
[COHEN, Ira]. Meyrink, Gustav.
Petroleum Petroleum: A Prophecy.
NY: The Akashic Record (1991).
First printing of this separate edition. 7 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Translated by from the original German by George Scrivani. Meryink’s prophetic story, composed in 1903, of an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which goes on to poison all the world’s oceans. Preface and postscript by Ira Cohen. SIGNED by Cohen on the first leaf.
$50
12.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Lewis, Wyndham. ed.
The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature 1–3.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1994.
First trade paperback printings. xv + 214 & xl +158 & viii + 179 pp. Three volumes, each very near fine in illustrated wrappers. A facsimile reprint, edited here by David Peters Corbett. Originally published in 1927 and 1929. While there are contributions by T.S. Eliot, Roy Campbell, and Laura Riding, The Enemy was largely a vehicle for Lewis’ own writing. For the set:
$75
13.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Hartley, George. ed.
Listen: A Quarterly Magazine 1:1 – 4: 1.
Hessle: Listen/Marvell Press (1954–1962).
Twelve issues, all very near fine or fine in stapled wrappers, with the exception of a small snag to the cover and first three leaves of 2:2. A major venue for Philip Larkin (appears in all but two issues). Work also by Pound, Skelton, Amis, Davie, MacBeth, Merwin, Gunn, Rich, Stevie Smith, Henry Moore, and others. Laid into the last volume is a flyer for “Listen Records,” announcing releases by Thom Gunn and Kingsley Amis. For the run:
$450
14.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Russell, Peter. ed.
Nine: A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism 1 – 11 (complete).
London & Tunbridge Wells: Peter Russell, 1949–1956.
Eleven issues, all near fine or better in printed wrappers with most being fine. Pound, Eliot, Gascoyne, Santayana, Cummings, Bunting, Graves, Borges, Eluard, and many others contribute. A number of inserts included, among them an announcement that the Russell’s house (and Nine office) burnt down, causing a delay in issuing #7. Issues 2 and 4 of the Nine Bookmart, as well as “New and Recent Books we Recommend” all priced for sale, also. For the run:
$400
15.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Hejinian, Lyn and Barrett Watten. eds.
Poetics Journal 1–10 (complete).
Berkeley & Oakland: Poetics Journal (1982–1998).
Ten issues, growing larger from an initial 80 pp to a concluding 294 pp with the last volume including a series index. All issues near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers but for the top edge of #1 being foxed. A L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E vehicle, with each issue structured around broad topics: knowledge, the person, elsewhere, postmodern?, no/narrative, etc. For the run:
$450
16.
[CONCRETE POETRY]. Gumpel, Liselotte.
“Concrete” Poetry from East and West Germany: The Language of Exemplarism and Experimentalism.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press (1976).
First US edition. xvi + 268 pp w/notes, bibliography, & index. Chipping to spine lettering, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with wear to base and crown, and a short tear to the top edge of the rear panel. Gumple takes a close look at the difference in konkret between the two Germanys. Yale Germanic Studies 6.
$45
17.
[CONCRETE POETRY]. Sharkey, John. ed.
Mindplay: An Anthology of British Concrete Poetry.
London: Lorrimer (1971).
First edition. 96 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in near fine dust jacket with sunning to spine and upper portion of the rear cover. Contributors include Thomas A. Clark, Bob Cobbing, Kenelm Cox, John Furnival, Dom S. Houedard, Edwin Morgan, Tom Phillips, Nicholas Zurbrugg, and many others.
$125
18.
[CONCRETE POETRY]. Wildman, Eugene. ed.
Anthology of Concretism.
Chicago: Swallow Press (1970).
Second revised and enlarged edition, second printing. 165 pp. Bump to lower rear corner, else near fine in illustrated wrappers with light sunning to spine. Introduction by Peter Michelson. Afterword by Wildman. A major international gathering, published originally as an issue of the Chicago Review.
$50
19.
[COOLIDGE, Clark]. Silliman, Ron. ed.
Stations #5: A Symposium on Clark Coolidge.
Milwaukee: Membrane Press, 1978.
First edition. 30 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with some trivial soiling. Contributions by Ron Padgett, Aram Saroyan, Alan Davies, Robert Grenier, Larry Eigner, and many others.
$40
20.
CORBETT, William.
Columbus Square Journal.
Lenox & NY: Angel Hair Books (1976).
First edition. [64 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover illustration by Philip Guston. INSCRIBED by Corbett on the title page, “To Gilbert Sorrentino, gratefully, / Bill Corbett.”
$40