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41.
LORCA, Federico García.
How A City Sings from November to November.
San Francisco: Cadmus Editions (1984).
First trade edition. [72 pp w/notes]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 600 copies. Original Spanish with facing English translations by Christopher Maurer, who also edited this volume. Two leaves of songs laid in, as issued.
$45
42.
[MAIL ART]. Stainer, Margaret. ed.
Nuclear Trash: National Postal Art Show.
Fremont: Ohlone College Art Gallery (1990).
First edition. 33 pp. Fine in comb-bound wrappers. Cover art and catalog design by Joe Dea. One of 350 copies. B&w reproductions of international mail art responding to the nuclear reality.
$100
43.
[MALANGA, Gerard].
Poetry at Intersection: Gerard Malanga.
San Francisco: Intersection for the Arts, 1973.
First edition. 11 x 8 ½ inch illustrated flyer, printed in two colors. Two old horizontal folds, crease along top edge. In all, very good plus.
$45
44.
MASON, Mason Jordan.
The Blue-Green Whale.
[Taos: Motive Press, 1952].
First edition. [56 pp]. Fine in comb-bound printed cardstock covers. The last of a series of three chapbooks which includes all of Mason’s extant earlier poetry not included in NOTEBOOK #23. Poems and pasted-in found images from magazines. Almost all signs point to MJM actually being the poet/publisher/bookseller Judson Crews, and not a young African-American poet, as was often thought.
$75
45.
MAYER, Bernadette.
The Helens of Troy, N.Y.
NY: New Directions (2013).
First edition. 55 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems and photographs of Helens. New Directions Poetry Pamphlet #3.
$35
46.
[McCLURE, Michael]. Clemente, Francesco.
Testa Coda.
NY: Gagosian Gallery/Rizzoli (1991).
First edition. Small 4to. 111 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Dieter Koepplin. Interview with Clemente by Michael McClure. Briefly INSCRIBED by McClure on the title page.
$100
47.
[McCLURE, Michael]. Graham, Robert.
Eight Statues.
NY: Gagosian Gallery (1994).
First edition. [36 pp]. Very near fine in wrappers. Essay by McClure, “Places” and his trio of poems, “Presences,” as well as the transcription of his interview with Graham. Color reproductions. Warmly INSCRIBED by McClure with two original poems on the title page.
$150
48.
[MEDIA].
How to Manipulate the Media.
San Francisco: Neighborhood Arts Program [c. early 1970s].
First edition. 11 x 8 ½ inch illustrated flyer, printed in two colors. Fine. A project of the San Francisco Art Commission.
$35
49.
MERTON, Thomas.
The Ascent to Truth.
NY: Harcourt Brace (1951).
First edition. x + 342 pp w/sources. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dell’Isola A15.
$75
50.
MEYER, Thomas.
Staves Calends Legends.
[Highlands]: Jargon Society (1979).
First edition, lettered & signed issue. [182 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Frontispiece drawing by John Furnival. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Meyer. Jargon 88. Young 2688.
$200
51.
MIKUL, Chris.
Bizarrism: Strange Lives, Cults, Celebrated Lunacy.
London: Critical Vision/Headpress (1999).
First UK edition. viii + 157 pp w/notes, sources, & index. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. “Beacons of shining if erratic brilliance in a world of sensible conformity.” Brief biographies and essays on the odd and extreme, originally published by Australian Mikul as a zine for friends.
$35
52.
[MILLER, Henry]. Cross, Robert.
Henry Miller: The Paris Years.
Big Sur: Peeramid Press (1991).
First edition, limited issue. Oblong 8vo. viii + 87 pp. Fine in full leatherette with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. Fully-illustrated. SIGNED by Cross on the title page in addition to a holograph colophon on the front free endpaper, “Collector’s Limited Edition of 200. This is copy number 59. Robert Cross. Big Sur.”
$100
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MORRIS, Wright.
War Games.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1972.
First edition, publisher’s copy. 113 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Morris. Additionally dated (Princeton / Feb. 7, 1972) and INSCRIBED by Morris on the half-title page to John and Barbara Martin, “For John + Barbara — / This tale of odd couples — / (salvaged from the archives) sig- /nify change for better or worse. / Wright.” Morrow & Cooney 116c (note).
$250
54.
NERUDA, Pablo.
Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition.
[NY]: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence (1972).
First US edition. v + 509 pp w/index of first lines in English & Spanish. Small spot on fore-edge, else fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited by Nathaniel Tarn, with his foreword. Original Spanish poems with facing translations by Anthony Kerrigan, W.S. Merwin, Alastair Reid, and Tarn. Nice copy of a book that does not wear well. SIGNED by Tarn on the first leaf, “Tarn / ‘72 / New York City.”
$350
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NORRIS, Kathleen.
Falling Off.
Chicago: Big Table (1971).
First edition. 64 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover photograph by Emanuel Brasil. Introduction by Paul Carroll. Norris’ first book. Volume Four in the Big Tale Series of Younger Poets.
$75
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NORSE, Harold. ed.
Bastard Angel No. 3.
San Francisco: Harold Norse 1974.
First edition. 4to. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributions by Ginsberg, Burroughs, Bowles, Bukowski, Hamri, Malanga, Cohen, and many others. SIGNED by Le Blanc, David Meltzer, and Michael McClure.
$75
57.
PANTER, Gary.
The Land Unknown.
[Paris: United Dead Artists, 2011].
First edition. [126 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Color and monochrome reproductions of Panter’s paintings, illustrations, sketchbooks, and comics. Published on the occasion of Panter’s exhibition at the Galerie Martel in Paris.
$75
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PASTAN, Linda.
Original Self-Portrait.
(np): (np) (nd).
11 x 8 ½ inch sheet. Light toning to edges, else fine. Pastan’s self-portrait, created by manual typewriter, with her holograph title beneath the image, “The poet as poem!” and SIGNED by her below that. Created for Burt Britton of the Strand Book Store for his collection of author self-portraits.
$50
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[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Adams, Ansel.
Ansel Adams.
Hanstings-on-Hudson: Morgan & Morgan (1972).
First edition. [160 pp] w/list of plates & bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Liliane De Cock. Introduction by Minor White. SIGNED by Adams on the half-title page. One hundred and seventeen reproductions, many of them classics.
$100
60.
[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Kurata, Seiji.
Japan.
Tokyo: Photo Musée (1998).
First edition. 8vo. [670 pp]. Near fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket. Obi present. Dated (Oct. 08) and INSCRIBED by Kurata on the front free endpaper. Three hundred and ninety-nine street photographs. Winner of the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award.
$250