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$40.00London: Enitharmon Press, 1970. First edition. 20 pp. Fine in full green cloth with gilt stamping to spine. One of 50 numbered copies “for the use of the author, the publisher, and the Revd. Hugh Sargent” SIGNED by Abbott. Halliwell 15a.
$50.00London: Ian McKelvie, 1972. First edition. 29 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Francis King provides a four page introduction to this collection of five poems. Tipped-on frontis portrait of Ackerley by Don Bachardy. One of 350 numbered copies.
$200.00[San Francisco]: Oannes [1963]. First edition. 12 x 5 inch flyer. Fine. Unfolded advertisement for the first, and it turns out only, screening of this film by Adam and McNeill at Robin Blaser’s Peacock Gallery. Illustrated with four stills, two on each side. A rare bit of ephemera from this experimental space, that existed for all of a month.
$20.00San Francisco: Aleph Press (1982). First edition. 4to. 51 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover image a collage by Adam Music transcribed by Carl Grundberg, with his introduction. Twelve songs.
$125.00NY & London: Viking (1985). First edition. 158 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated by John Lawrence. SIGNED by Adams and Lawrence on the title page. Day-to-day observations at home (Isle of Man) and abroad (Denmark, Australia) over the course of a year.
$125.00(np): (np) 2005. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with printed cover label. Three poems and two tipped-on photographs. One of 50 copies printed letterpress on Fabriano Umbria paper for private circulation. Uncommon, OCLC does not locate a copy.
$450.00Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1916. First edition. 127 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with just a bit of wear to the foot and crown of spine. Cover art by Dorothy Pulis Lathrop. Dated (1934) and INSCRIBED by Aiken on the front free endpaper. A novel of adventure... in verse! From the collection of John Martin (Black Sparrow Press) with his ownership ticket.
$75.00Ann Arbor: Ardis (1985). First US edition. 195 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited and translated from the original Russian by Joel Wilkinson and Slava Yastremski, with their introduction. Five stories written between 1969 and 1978, all in English translation for the first time.
$150.00NY: Mushinsha/Grossman (1970). First US edition. 131 pp. Two leaves corner-creased (production flaw) else very near fine in like dust jacket. Near fine publisher’s cardstock slipcase (one small stain). Translated from the original Japanese by Will Petersen. Illustrated color reproductions of twelve etchings by Tanaka Ryoheim, that are tipped-on.
$85.00Cambridge & London: MIT Press (1999). First edition. lii + 569 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Historical documents, recent memoirs by participants, and critical histories, together with previously unpublished essays and interviews.
$15.00San Francisco: White Rabbit-Open Space (1966). First edition. [20 pp]. Faint fade along spine, else fine in stapled wrappers. Drawings by Paul Alexander. One of 750 copies. Johnston A35.
$250.00Berkeley: Thorp Springs Press (1974). First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Allen’s first book, a collection of poems.![“Times were very hard in the south” [first line].](https://www.detritus.com/wp-content/uploads/58659.jpg)
$40.00Berkeley & Menlo Park: Cody’s & Kepler’s Books, 1991. First edition. 14 x 8 1/2 inch illustrated broadside, printed in two colors. Very near fine. An excerpt from THE STORIES OF EVA LUNA, translated from the original Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Though not called for, SIGNED by Allende.
$200.00Brooklyn: Long Haul Press, 1983. First edition. 58 pp. Small spot on title page, else near fine in printed wrappers with lightly sunned spine. Illustrated by Laurie McLaughlin. SIGNED by Allison. First book by the author of BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA.
$75.00NY: Times Change Press (1971). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems illustrated with photographs by Ellen Shumsky. One of several early poetry collections by Alta published in 1971, preceded by her early editorial efforts via her Shameless Hussy Press.
$50.00NY: Abrams (1994). First edition. Small 4to. 288 pp w/bibliography & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with sunning to the small bit of red printed on the spine. The phenom of the “Avant-Garde” traced through a sequence of exhibitions.
$450.00NY: Basic Books (1987). First edition. xii + 292 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. SIGNED by Nobel winner Alvarez on the front free endpaper.
$35.00NY: Norton (1971). First edition. 105 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Award for poetry.
$35.00NY: Siamese Banana Press (1970). First edition. [76 pp]. Very good plus in side-stapled wrappers. A long prose work, entirely reproduced from holograph.
$45.00San Francisco: Gilbert and DeLue (1958). First edition. 47 pp. Small scuff to unprinted rear cover, else fine in stapled and taped wrappers. A single prose poem by this long-time San Franciscan. One of 500 copies. Young 70.
$200.00Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications (1996). First edition, numbered & signed issue. xi + 522 pp. Fine in quarter morocco and fine illustrated dust jacket. Fine publisher’s slipcase. Foreword by James Crumley. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Anderson and Crumley. His second novel.
$75.00Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1953. First edition. 93 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a short tear and wrinkle to the bottom of the rear flap fold. Fourth collection by this Canadian poet. Indian File: 6. Young 77.
$75.00Madison: Xexoxial Editions, 1987. First edition. 4to. [46 pp]. Very good plus in printed wrappers with wear to outside upper and lower corners. Cover art by Bruce Pavlow. Briefly INSCRIBED by Andrews on the title page, “For David - / - Bruce.” Reprinted in 2008, this first edition is uncommon.
$75.00Iowa: Windhover Press, 1987. First edition. Oblong 16mo. [52 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with printed cover label. One of 250 copies. Original title page calligraphy in each copy by Glen Epstein. Poems translated from the original Italian by Felix Stefanile. Berger 89.
$250.00Berkeley: University of California (2010). First trade paperback printing. 4to. 351 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A well-illustrated and comprehensive treatment.
$75.00[Kentfield: Brother Antoninus, 1969]. First edition. 4to. 7 pp. Bump to lower left corner, else fine in printed red wrappers, stapled upper left, as issued. Biographical material distributed in advance of readings by Antoninus. Cover text provides a handy guide to the pronunciation of Antoninus (rhymes with minus) and Everson (rhymes with weaver’s son).
$200.00[Berkeley]: Oyez, 1968. Uncorrected proof. 273 pp w/list of cited works and index of names. A few light stray marks to front cover, else very near fine in unprinted red wrappers. This copy differs from the three states described on the Oyez checklist in that the red cover paper is unprinted, and the pages are not newsprint.
$45.00NY: Schocken (2005). First edition. xxxv + 218 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Jerome Kohn, with his introduction.
$35.00Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (2018). First edition. 128 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Promotional flyer laid in.
$25.00Brooklyn: George McKibbin & Son, 1949. First edition. 30 pp. Near fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Illustrated. Armitage indicates the character of pictured books from an exhibition of his work.
$100.00London: Gollancz, 1929. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 283 pp. Near fine in quarter vellum. One of 150 numbered copies on handmade paper SIGNED by Armstrong.
$75.00London: Atlas Press (1992). First UK edition. 62 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original German by Derk Wynand. One of 149 (of 300) numbered copies. Artmann was a founding member of “The Vienna Group.” The Printed Head Volume II, number 2.