e-catalog #128
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1.
ASHBERY, John.
Girls on the Run: A Poem.

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1999).
First edition. 55 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Ashbery on the title page. A long poem loosely based on the work of “outsider” artist Henry Darger.
$75
22239
2.
AUDEN, W.H.
Good-Bye to the Mezzogiorno.

Milan: All’Insegna del pesce d’oro, 1958.
First edition. 12mo. 15 pp w/note. Fine in printed wrappers. Original wrap-around band present and fine. Auden’s poem in English with facing Italian translation. Bloomfield & Mendelson A41.
$45
91328
3.
[BERMAN, Wallace]. Ring, Kevin.
Wallace Berman Verifax Man: An Investigation.

Binley Woods: Beat Scene Press, (2011).
First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies. Beat Scene Press Pocket Book Series Number 29.
$45
91185
4.
BERNER, Jeff. ed.
Astronauts of Inner-Space: An International Collection of Avant-Garde Activity.

San Francisco: Stolen Paper Review Editions (1966).
First edition. 65 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. 17 manifestos, articles, letters, 28 poems & 1 filmscript. Hausmann, Girodias, Ginsberg, Mon, McLuhan, Rot, W.S. Burroughs, Houedard, Bayer, and others appear.
$50
91187
5.
BERNER, Jeff and Francoise Forster-Hahn.
Aktual Art International.

Stanford: Department of Art & Architecture, 1967.
First edition. 23 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction by Lorenz Eitner. A 159 item exhibition catalogue assembled from Berner’s collection of movement works. Stanford Art Book 8, designed by Ann Rosener with fourteen photographs by Leo Holub.
$45
89275
6.
BLASER, Robin.
Bach’s Belief.

Canton: The Institute of Further Studies/Glover Publishing (1995).
First edition. 27 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. A Curriculum of the Soul #10.
$45
91350
7.
[BOOKSELLER MEMOIRS]. Magee, David.
Infinite Riches: The Adventures of a Rare Book Dealer.

NY: Paul S. Eriksson (1973).
First edition. xiii + 274 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Lawrence Clark Powell. INSCRIBED by Magee on the front free endpaper. The English expat recalls his bookselling life in San Francisco.
$50
83249
8.
[BOOKSELLER MEMOIRS]. Minet, Paul.
Late Booking: My First Twenty-five Years in the Secondhand Book Trade.

Knowle: Frantic Press (1989).
First edition 199 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. “Details of Richard Booth, Peter Eaton, Edward Martell, Covent Garden Bookshop, etc etc.” Dated (13.x.‘01) and INSCRIBED by Minet on the first leaf.
$35
85988
9.
BRETON, André.
Break of Day (Point du jour).

Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press (1999).
First printing of this edition (originally published in 1934). xvii + 146 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a short tear and two wrinkles along the top edge of the rear panel. Critical and polemical essays translated from the original French by Mark Polizzotti and Mary Ann Caws, with Polizzotti’s preface.
$35
91326
10.
[BURROUGHS, William S.]. Nuttall, Jeff. ed.
My Own Mag #15.

(np): Jeff Nuttall 1966.
First edition. Ten leaves stapled along the top edge. Three old horizontal folds, a few spots of foxing, and a pale stain, else very good plus. Prints Burroughs’ “Nut Note on the Column Cutup Thing” as part of Moving Times, a magazine edited by Burroughs that appears at the rear of this issue. Maynard & Miles C137.
$200
91339
11.
[BURROUGHS, William S.]. Mottram, Eric.
William Burroughs — The Algebra of Need.

Buffalo: Intrepid (1971).
First trade paperback printing. 108 pp. Corners lightly bumped, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Beau Fleuve Series #2. INSCRIBED by Mottram on the first leaf, “For Nathaniel — / with respect and affection — / Eric — September 1972.”
$45
69446
12.
CÉZANNE, Paul.
Conversations with Cézanne.

Berkeley: University of California (2001).
First US edition. xxxiv + 278 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Richard Schiff, concluding essay by Lawrence Gowing. Edited by Michael Doran. Texts by contemporary authors with selections from Cézanne’s own letters.
$75
91340
13.
CLARK, Tom.
Fan Poems.

Plainfield: North Atlantic Books (1976).
First edition. [62 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems and paintings. Dated (1.29.77) and INSCRIBED by Clark to a fellow poet. Clark has also made two small corrections to the text.
$40
91327
14.
COLE, Peter.
Rift.

NY: Grenfell Press, 1986.
First edition. [56 pp]. Fine in wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. Cover woodcut illustration by Joel Shapiro. Edition limited to 150 copies on hand-made Whatman paper. This copy is designated “review copy” on the colophon and SIGNED by Cole and Shapiro. Precedes the trade edition by three years. Original prospectus accompanies. Cole’s first book.
$250
91167
15.
COLEMAN, Wanda.
Greatest Hits 1966–2003.

Columbus: Pudding House Publications (2004).
First edition. 28 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Coleman adds a four page introduction to this collection of eleven poems. Briefly INSCRIBED by Coleman inside the front cover. Greatest Hits Series #13.
$75
91325
16.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Sandberg, David. ed.
Or #1 & 2.

Boulder Creek: Or 1966.
Two issues, the complete run. 85 + 127 pp. Both are very near fine in side-stapled wrappers, with some faint offsetting between two leaves in the 2nd issue. Stellar contributor list: Dusenberg, Eigner, Palmer, Korte, Sinclair, Whalen, Spicer, Coolidge, Brautigan, Nichol, Welch, Ben Vautier, and many others. The second issue is uncommon. For the pair:
$200
91349
17.
[CONNER, Bruce]. Aukeman, Anastasia.
Welcome to Painterland: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association.

Berkeley: University of California (2016).
First edition. ix + 337 pp w/index. Fine in decorated boards with two inset labels. No dust jacket, as issued. The artist gang lodged in the Fillmore district of San Francisco that included Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, Michael McClure, Manuel Neri, Bruce Conner, and others.
$75
88248
18.
COOLIDGE, Clark.
Counting On Planet Zero.

Wendell: Fewer & Further Press, 2007.
First trade edition. [36 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 450 (of 500) copies. Thirty poems.
$25
88255
19.
COOLIDGE, Clark and Bernadette Mayer.
The Cave.

[NY]: Adventures in Poetry (2009).
First edition. ix + 69 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Marcella Durand. Eleven poems created by Coolidge and Mayer between 1972 and 1978, inspired in part by Wittgenstein and Eldon’s Cave.
$20
14096
20.
CORMAN, Cid.
Stead.

New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press (1966).
First edition. Oblong 16mo. [40 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and very near fine dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 500 copies. A collection of 32 numbered short poems.
$20