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$75.00Austin: The Texas Observer, 1965. First edition. 16 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover story by McMurtry, “Love, Death, and the Astrodome.”$20.00[Santa Barbara]: Carol & Ralph Sipper (1983). First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Printed by Graham Mackintosh.$15.00Santa Barbara: Joseph the Provider (nd). First edition. [126 pp]. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Rare book catalogue. Useful reference.
$100.00Big 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, with the addition of a holograph colophon on the front free endpaper, “Collector’s Limited Edition of 200. This is copy number 59. Robert Cross. Big Sur.”$40.00Ann Arbor: Roger Jackson (1998). First edition. 38 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 150 copies. Letters, excerpts from letters, and excerpts from published works. Published on the occasion at the Tenth Biennial Conference of the Interanational Lawrence Durrell Society.$20.00London: Enitharmon Press, 1972. First edition. 30 pp. Hard bump to upper corners, light foxing to endpapers; in all, very good plus in near fine dust jacket.$15.00London: Enitharmon Press, 1972. First trade paperback printing. 30 pp. Fine in glossy printed wrappers. One of 500 copies.$20.00Minneapolis: Henry Miller Literary Society, 1961. First edition. 32 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 1000 numbered copies. “Addendum” sheet present.$25.00Hollywood: 9th House Publishing Company, 1960. First edition. 108 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers, else fine in near fine dust jacket with two pale stains to front panel. Foreword by Henry Miller. Preface by James Boyer May.$55.00[Berkeley]: Bern Porter (1945). First edition, numbered issue. 4to. 157 pp. Very good only in decorated boards with overall edgewear. Lacks dust jacket. Poet and publisher Douglas Blazek’s copy, with his ownership signature and signed bookplate. Two additional inked ownership names to front free endpaper. One of 750 numbered copies. Shifreen & Jackson B29a.$15.00Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1991. First edition. 4to. 94 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Contributions by Gretel Ehrlich, Jonathan Williams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and many others close to Miller.
$125.00NY: Walton H. Rawls, 1967. First edition. 128 pp w/glossary & index. Small pale stain on bottom edge, else near fine in two-part cloth with pasted-on cover label. Lacks unprinted glassine dust jacket. Illustrated. Moore contributes a brief foreword to this book by the curator of the Park. SIGNED by Lancaster and Moore on the title page. Abbott B41.$35.00London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1973). First edition. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Contributions by Quennell, Alfred Appel Jr., Martin Amis, Robert Alter, Dmitri Nabokov, and others.$35.00London: Eyer & Spottiswode (1967). First UK edition. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some light wear to crown of spine. Stegner’s first book.$20.00NY: Amistad (1993). First edition. 322 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket with one short closed tear. Review slip laid in.
$650.00Norfolk: New Directions, 1936. First edition. 16mo. [16 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. The first book of the press, issued as “New Directions Pamphlets, Number One.” In his introductory note the publisher, James Laughlin, names the author, “the first American surrealist writer.” More than half a century later, in his afterword to Andrews' posthumous THE SURREALIST PARADE (New Directions, 1990), Laughlin recalled that “Wayne became my friend at Harvard...about 1935” and “the original 'Pianos' was...printed in an edition of 300 copies by the Vermont country printer who did the Harvard Advocate. But its unusual aroma quickly pervaded Harvard Square, and it was necessary to rush out a second printing.” WITH: the second printing of this work, bound in red wrappers as issued, adding the subtitle, “A Surrealist Shortstory,” and with the rear cover entirely reset with different text. Near fine. For the pair:$75.00NY: Norton (1994). Uncorrected proof. 160 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Promotional flyer laid in. Collects two pieces by O'Brian, 'Black, Choleric and Married?' and 'Samphire' as well as essays by eight others.$45.00NY: Dutton (1999). First edition. 264 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with one 1/8 in. tear. SIGNED by Oates on the title page. Promotional flyer laid in.
$35.00[Lisbon]: Penumbra Press (1983). First edition. [6 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 175 numbered copies on Frankfurt White paper. Carlile’s prose vision with two drawings by Schwartzman. A new year’s greeting from the Press.$25.00London: Macmillan (1969). First edition. 279 pp. Top edge dusty, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket. First book appearance of Plath's short story, “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams.” Stories also by Margaret Laurence, Bernard Malamud, Alan Sillitoe, and others.$20.00Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia (1986). First edition. xiv +122 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to spine.$12.50Boston: G.K. Hall (1991). First edition. 162 pp w/index. Fine in boards without dust jacket, as issued.$20.00Vol 19, Number 1 Spring. (1973). 135 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Contains 'Pynchon's THE CRYING OF LOT 49: The Novel as Subversive Experience' by Kolodny and Peters. Also essays on Bellow, O'Connor, Kesey, Vonnegut, Barth, Hawkes, Gass, Brautigan.$50.00NY: Turtle Bay/Random House, 1992. Advance reading copy. 286 pp w/notes. One corner lightly bent, else fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Thomas Pynchon contributes an seven page introduction. Promotional flyer laid in.
$40.00Edinburgh: Tragara Press (1982). First edition. 19 pp. Near fine in wrappers. One of 110 copies.
$35.00(np): The Literary Review, 1985. Summer. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Interview with Sanford by Smith. SIGNED by Sanford along the top edge of the front cover, “John Sanford/Julian Shapiro.”
$75.00London: Fleetway Publications [c late 1950s]. Export editions. Six issues, all very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Thrilling tales, conveyed in b&w drawings. For the lot:
$55.00Clonmel: Coracle, 2001. First edition. 73 pp w/notes. Fine in full red cloth with black stamping to spine and front cover. Pictorial endpapers. No dust jacket, as issued. A collage by Stadtmüller, built on texts by Schwitters. One of 500 copies.
$35.00NY: Unmuzzled Ox (1977). Vol. IV, No. 3. 135 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributions by John Cage, John Ashbery, Djuna Barnes, Philip Glass, and others. Jack Boozer and Bob Yaeger interview Gary Snyder. SIGNED by Snyder.
$100.00Berkeley: Counterpoint (2016). First edition. Oblong 8vo. 117 pp w/list of names. Fine in fine dust jacket. Photographs by Goin with field notes by Snyder. SIGNED by Snyder on the title page.$200.00Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1956. First edition. xii + 511 pp w/index. A bit musty, else very good plus in full decorated red cloth. Lacks dust jacket. A few ink notes to verso of last leaf and rear fixed endpaper. Bookplate of Albert Sperisen, former librarian of the Book Club of California, inside the front board. Dated (ix.15.56) and INSCRIBED by Stacton, “to John from David: how typical that my only / scholarly work should be / anonymous - considering its / errors it is perhaps just as / well / David.” Stacton ghost-wrote this book for Spiegelberg.$45.00San Francisco: San Francisco Opera (c 1976). First edition. [24 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers with mailing label (to Dutton editor William Abrahams) on rear cover and light sunning along spine. Prints a three page statement on this production by Stegner. Also by librettist Oakley Hall, and Andrew Imbrie, the composer. Uncommon.