e-catalog #127
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21.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton.
Mistress Spirit: Poems.

Los Angeles: Arundel Press, 1989.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 41 pp. Fine in full cloth with printed paper cover and spine labels. No dust jacket, as issued. Composed and printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh. One of 50 numbered copies on Gutenberg paper SIGNED by Eshleman. Thirteen poems with a preface.
$100
90967
22.
[EVANS, Donald]. Eisenhart, Willy.
The World of Donald Evans.

NY: Harlin Quist (1981).
First trade paperback printing. Small 4to. 173 pp w/chronology & list of exhibitions. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Full color reproductions of Evans’ invented postage stamps for imaginary countries.
$50
60040
23.
EVERSON, William.
The Engendering Flood: Book One of Dust Shall Be the Serpent’s Food (Cantos I–IV).

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1990.
First edition, publisher’s copy. 69 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and cloth spine with printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Everson. As in the deluxe issue of this title, there is broadside with a linocut illustration by Tom Killion, SIGNED by Everson, tipped-in before the title page.
$200
91078
24.
[FACTORY RECORDS].
A Certain Ratio.

[San Francisco: Rough Trade/Factory, 1981].
First edition. 26 x 20 inch poster on heavy stock. Two short tears, some edgewear, and wrinkles from being rolled. Very good only. Promotional poster for the US release of this eponymous 12-inch ep. FAC US4.
$150
91049
25.
[FILM]. Bartel, Paul and Kim Deitch.
Eating Raoul.

(np): Mercury Film Distribution (1982).
First edition. [32 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Deitch’s comic adaptation of Paul Bartel and Dick Blackburn’s outrageous film. SIGNED by Bartel inside the front cover.
$50
91069
26.
[FILM]. Conner, Bruce.
Bruce Conner Films II.

San Francisco: Canyon Cinema (1985).
First edition. Fine VHS tape in the original clamshell case. One of 100 numbered copies (number on the case and tape match). Presents four classic Conner titles: Breakaway, Vivian, The White Rose, and Marilyn Times Five.
$200
90958
27.
[FILM]. Kuchar, George and Mike.
Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool.

Berkeley: Zanja Press (1997).
First edition. Horizontal 8vo. iii + 182 pp w/filmography & index. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by John Waters. A front-row memoir of the underground film scene.
$40
54535
28.
GENET, Jean.
The Complete Poems of Jean Genet.

South San Francisco: Manroot (1981).
First edition. 127 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Original French poems with facing translations by David Fisher, Chet Roaman, Paul Mariah, Nanos Valaoritis, Frank O’Hara, and Guy Wernham. Issued as the 12th and concluding issue of ManRoot magazine.
$45
91062
29.
HAAS, Robert. trans.
Sparrow Singing: Twelve Haiku by Basho, Buson, & Issa.

St. Paul: Cedar Fence Press (2003).
First edition, deluxe issue. [32 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Hass’s translations, illustrated by Regula Russelle. One of 40 (of 80) numbered copies on Hahnemüle Ingres paper. This is of the first 40 copies, the later forty being “simpler versions.”
$75
62795
30.
HALSEY, Alan.
Dante’s Barber Shop (De Vulgari Eloquentia).

Sheffield: West House Books, 2001.
First edition. 4to. [78 pp]. Light edgewear, else near fine in wire spiral-bound wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Halsey. Originally issued as a series of printed cards, this is the first collected edition.
$40
90969
31.
HERR, Michael.
Dispatches.

NY: Knopf, 1977.
First edition. 260 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Six Vietnam War narratives by Herr, who was on the ground with several combat units. John le Carré called it, “the best book I have ever read on men and war in out time.”
$150
24037
32.
HIRSCHMAN, Jack.
Interchange: For John Cage.

Los Angeles: Zora Gallery (1964).
First edition. Fourteen 7 x 7 inch two-sided cards, two of which are double-folds, laid into a printed clamshell case. All elements fine. Design and typography by John Brandi and Harold Schwarm. One of 278 (of 300) copies.
$75
90912
33.
JOHNSON, Ronald.
Sun Flowers.

Woodchester: Opening (1966).
First edition. Single large sheet folded four times, ends to center (4 ½ x 9 inches, closed). Light tanning along one fold and bottom edge, else near fine. One of 500 numbered copies. Johnson’s poem with art by Paul Sinodhinos. Opening 7.
$125
90911
34.
JOHNSON, Ronald and Guy Davenport.
The Spirit Walks, The Rocks Will Talk.

NY & Penland: Jargon Society, 1969.
First edition. [10 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Original printed mailing envelope accompanies (very good plus). Johnson’s translations illustrated with vignettes by Davenport. Printed in two colors. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Johnson and Davenport. Jargon 72.
$150
73589
35.
JONES, David.
Inner Necessities: The Letters of David Jones to Desmond Chute.

Toronto: Anson-Cartwright Editions, 1984.
First edition. 101 pp. Light bump to crown of spine, else near fine in like dust jacket. Introduction by Thomas Dilworth. Printed on Zephyr Antique Laid paper at the Coach House Press. Seventeen letters with three illustrations.
$75
90951
36.
[JOYCE, James]. Jolas, Eugene. ed.
Transition 22.

The Hague: The Servire Press, 1933.
First edition. 179 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Prints work by Hugo Ball, Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp, and many others in addition to a section of Joyce’s “Continuation of a Work in Progress.” Slocum & Cahoon C70.
$200
91017
37.
KESEY, Ken.
from SAILOR SONG.

Berkeley: Black Oak Books, 1992.
First edition. 12 ¾ x 6 ¾ decorated broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Designed and printed at Okeanos Press. An excerpt from the novel, produced on the occasion of Kesey’s reading at the shop. Thought not called for, SIGNED by Kesey.
$100
77360
38.
KITAZONO, Katsue translated by Sam Grolmes.
1 2 Kitazonos.

Sacramento: Runcible Spoon/PN (1969).
First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. “Some of the poetry of Kitazono Katsue translated from the Japanese by Grolmes.” Cover drawing by Linda Bandt, redrawn from one of Kitazono’s plastic poems. Twelve works.
$20
91065
39.
levy, d.a.
Barking Rabbit.

(np): Falling Down Press, 1976.
First edition. 4to. [26 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss, internal illustration by M. Schaefer. One of 200 copies.
$75
91064
40.
levy, d.a.
The Tibetan Stroboscope.

Madison: Quixote [c. 1969].
First printing of this edition. [28 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. An early reprint of levy’s newsprint swan song.
$125