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41.
LEVINE, Philip.
Pili’s Wall.
Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press (1971).
First trade edition. [22 pp]. Fine in stiff wrappers and fine integral illustrated dust jacket. One of 500 (of 750) copies. SIGNED by Levine on the title page.
$75
42.
LONGLEY, Michael.
Collected Poems.
Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press (2007).
First US edition, numbered & signed issue. 346 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in full decorated cloth and very near fine unprinted paper vellum dust jacket. One of 165 numbered copies SIGNED by Longley. Poems from 1969 to 2004, plus two new poems.
$125
43.
MANDELBAUM, Allen.
Ovid in Sicily.
NY: Sheep Meadow Press (1986).
First US edition. 76 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Near fine publisher’s stiff paper slipcase with a small droplet mark on one edge (pictured out of slipcase). Illustrated with fourteen tipped-on color plates by Marialuisa de Romans. A Convivio Book.
$75
44.
MASUMOTO, David Mas.
Four Seasons in Five Senses.
NY: Norton (2003).
First edition. ix + 273 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (April 2003) with a small tree stamp and INSCRIBED by Masumoto, “Honoring the / Seasons of Life / enjoy! / David Mas Masumoto.”
$45
45.
MASUMOTO, David Mas.
Letters to the Valley: A Harvest of Memories.
Berkeley: Great Valley Books/Heyday Books (2004).
First edition. xiv + 134 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrations by Doug Hansen. Dated (Sept 2004) and SIGNED by Masumoto with his Masumoto Family Farm stamp. Additionally dated (2004) and SIGNED by Hansen, who has additionally INSCRIBED this copy, “for Carole / my first editor / and publisher — / your friend, / Doug.”
$45
46.
MOORE, Abd al-Hayy aka Daniel Moore.
Atomic Dance.
Santa Barbara: Am Here Books (1988).
First edition. 4to. [52 pp]. Very near fine in strip-bound wrappers. A nine part long poem.
$25
47.
NOLAN, Pat.
Drastic Measures.
Guilford: Telephone Books (1981).
First edition. 4to. 26 pp. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Sherry Margolin. One of 300 copies. Poems.
$35
48.
ONDAATJE, Michael.
Claude Glass.
Toronto: Coach House, 1979.
First edition. 4to. [22 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of a number of “Manuscript Editions” designed to be run off and printed on demand to better connect the reader and writer during the process of composition.
$100
49.
OWEN, Maureen.
Country Rush.
NY: Adventures In Poetry (1973).
First edition. 4to. [56 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art and four internal drawings by Yvonne Jacquette.
$40
50.
OWEN, Maureen.
No-Travels Journal.
Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions (1975).
First edition. 4to. 48 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover and internal drawings by Hugh Kepets. INSCRIBED by Owen on the title page, “To Larry, / My favorite grouch, / love, / Maureen.”
$45
51.
PADGETT, Ron with Joe Brainard and Berry Kennedy. eds.
White Dove Review 5 aka Vol. 2, No. 5.
Tulsa: White Dove Press, 1960.
Summer. [22 pp]. Light bend to one upper corner, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Brainard, who also contributes three drawings and the design of an advertisement. Work also by Berrigan, Jack Anderson, David Omer Bearden, Richard Dokey, Richard Gallup, Carl Larsen, C. Cleburne Culin, LeRoi Jones, Dan Teis, Gilbert Sorrentino, Martin Edward Cochran, Robert Creeley, and Padgett.
$450
52.
PAGNOL, Marcel.
My Father’s Glory and My Mother’s Castle: Memories of Childhood.
San Francisco: North Point, 1986.
First edition. 341 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Rita Barisse. Foreword by Alice Waters. Published to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of Chez Panissse.
$125
53.
PAZ, Octavio.
The Siren and the Seashell and Other Essays on Poets and Poetry.
Austin & London: University of Texas Press (1976).
First edition. viii + 188 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear at the base of spine. Translated by Lysander Kemp and Margaret Sayers Peden. Illustrated by Barry Moser.
$75
54.
PICKARD, Tom.
Work Conchy.
Binley Woods: Beat Scene Press (2009).
First edition. [52 pp w/notes]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 125 numbered copies SIGNED by Pickard. A prose memoir by the poet. The Beat Scene Press Pocket Book Series Number 21.
$45
55.
PLYMELL, Charles.
Neon Poems.
Syracuse: Atom Mind (1970).
First edition. 31 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers with a small stain to lower corner of the rear cover. Introductory statement by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. INSCRIBED by Plymell, “Thanks Diane! / 300 Page St.. Humm / — I think I’ve lived / there before — or next door — / Lordy, Lordy, SF goes on / Charles Plymell.”
$45
56.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Green, Samuel. ed.
Hands, Joining: A Calligraphic Anthology.
Waldron Island: Brooding Heron Press, 1988.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. [30 pp]. Near fine in full blue cloth with pasted-on cover and spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. Art work by Michael Corr. Preface by Samuel Green. Contributions by Clifford Burke, Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder, Keith Abbott, Tim McNulty, David Romtvedt, Samuel Green, Paul Hansen, Robert Sund, and Lew Welch.
$200
57.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Lowenfels, Walter.
For Neruda, For Chile: An International Anthology.
Boston: Beacon (1975).
First edition. ix + 249 pp w/appendix. Fine in fine dust jacket. One hundred and forty poets representing 27 countries paying tribute to Neruda and the Popular Unity Government.
$40
58.
POUND, Ezra.
Selected Prose 1909–1965.
London: Faber and Faber (1973).
First edition. 444 pp w/index. Corners very gently tapped, else fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by William Cookson, with his introduction. Gallup A93a.
$75
59.
POUND, Ezra. trans.
Ta Hio: The Great Learning.
London: Stanley Nott (1936).
First UK edition. 32 pp. Faint foxing along top edges, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket. Small inked ownership name to the foot of the front endpaper. Ideogramic Series II (as edited by Pound). Gallup A29b. From the library of Black Sparrow publisher John Martin, with his small ownership ticket inside the rear cover.
$250
60.
POUND, Ezra and Wyndham Lewis.
Pound/Lewis: The Letters of Erzra Pound and Wyndham Lewis.
London: Faber and Faber (1985).
First UK edition. xxii + 346 pp w/afterword, selected bibliography, & index. Two lower corners lightly bumped, else very near fine in like dust jacket. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate inside the front cover.
$45