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  • Choreographer Merce Cunningham and Avant-Garde Composer John Cage to Discuss Modern Music and Dance on “Gateway,” October 21.
    CUNNINGHAM, Merce and John Cage.
    $35.00
    NY: WCBS-TV, 1967. First edition. Two 11 x 8 1/2 inch sheets, stapled upper left. Fine. Press release for this television event, debuting a new composition by Cage, “T-Gateway-V,” under his direction. Cunningham, with his partner Carolyn Brown, will perform three dances from one of Cage’s compositions, “Suite for Five.”
  • The Man in Place.
    CURTIS, Jack.
    $35.00
    Isla Vista: Turkey Press, 1982. First edition. 27 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with just a touch of wear to crown of spine. One of 175 copies on Rives heavyweight paper. Poems.
  • From Violent Men.
    CURZON, Daniel.
    $40.00
    San Francisco: IGNA, 1983. First edition. 248 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A novel loosely based on the assassination in San Francisco of Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. But then, according to the dust-jacket blurb, "a small group of men...devised a plot to murder the assassin while he was still in prison...and one horrendous crime led to another, and then another, and..." According to bookseller Burton Weiss, one of only 100 hardcover copies printed.
  • Leafmould.
    CUTTS, Simon and Karl Torok.
    $55.00
    London: Coracle, 1975. First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. Text by Cutts with nineteen tipped-on illustrations by Torok. One of 200 (of 250) numbered copies.
  • A History of the Airfields of Lincolnshire II.
    CUTTS, Simon.
    $40.00
    [Glasgow]: Wax 366 (2000). First edition. [32 pp]. Very near fine in textured printed blue wrappers. Bottom page edges uncut, green concrete flax poem printed along the top edges, flanked by green endpapers.
  • as if it is at all. Some Poems 1995-2006.
    CUTTS, Simon.
    $15.00
    [Clonmel] & NY: Coracle/Granary Books, 2007. First US edition. 74 pp. Fine in printed wrappers.
  • The Small Garden of Gloria Stuart.
    D’AMBROSIO, Joseph J.
    $1,000.00
    [Sherman Oaks]: D’Ambrosio, 1986. First edition. 57 pp. Fine in elaborate binding and publisher’s clamshell box with printed spine label. One of 50 numbered copies largely on Mouette handmade paper SIGNED by D’Ambrosio. Additionally INSCRIBED by Stuart, “for David / with appreciation / Gloria Stuart” and by D’Ambrosio,. “To David - with best wishes - / Joe D’Ambrosio / ‘88.”
  • The Quorum. A Magazine of Friendship.
    d’ARCH SMITH, Timothy.
    $200.00
    [North Pomfret]: Asphodel Editions, 2001. First facsimile edition. 14 + 38 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 150 numbered copies. d’Arch Smith introduces this facsimile edition of the rare 1920 magazine. Tipped-in at the rear of the volume is a facsimile of the prospectus which, at the time of this publication, was shot from the only known surviving copy. The second British gay periodical, following The Chameleon (1894). Contributors included Kenneth Ingram, E.E. Bradford, Leonard Green, John Gambril Nicholson, Arthur Lee Gardner, and Dorothy Sayers (two poems).
  • Buzz: New York in the 50’s.
    DARLINGTON, Sandy.
    $45.00
    Berkeley: Arrowhead Books (1981). First edition. 138 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Briefly INSCRIBED by Darlington on the title page. New York to Cambridge to Europe.
  • Fragmenta Nova.
    DAVENPORT, Guy.
    $40.00
    Berkeley & Brookston: Arif Press/Twinrocker Papermill [1981]. First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. The prospectus for this elaborate presentation of text by Sappho, which includes the whole of Davenport’s “A Note on the Text.” Crane D93.
  • Fragments from a Correspondence.
    DAVENPORT, Guy.
    $25.00
    Boston: Arion/Boston University (2006). Third Series 13.3 Winter. [38 pp w/notes]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Letters by Guy Davenport to Nicholas Kilmer from 1978-1983, with Kilmer’s introduction and commentary. An Arion Offprint.
  • Tatlin!
    DAVENPORT, Guy.
    $75.00
    NY: Scribners (1974). First edition. 261 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. 1500 copies printed. Crane A10.
  • The Bowmen of Shu.
    DAVENPORT, Guy.
    $3,000.00
    NY: Grenfell Press (1983). First edition, lettered & signed issue. 4to. [34 pp]. Fine in full limp vellum with gilt lettering to spine. Bound by Claudia Cohen. Illustrated with reproductions of five pen-and inks by Henry Gaudier-Brzeska and twelve illustrations by Davenport. One of 10 numbered copies on J. Barcham Greene’s Chatham Vellum paper dated (22 October 1983) and SIGNED by Davenport. Original prospectus accompanies. An assemblage on the life of Gaudier-Brzeska, centered on his time in the trenches during WWI.
  • The Medusa.
    DAVENPORT, Guy.
    $25.00
    Monterey: Weng & Associates, 1984. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 600 numbered copies (there were 55 in boards) on Ragston paper, printed at the Larkspur Press. A single poem. Crane A24.
  • An Introduction to the Twenty-first Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair.
    DAVIES, Robertson.
    $20.00
    Toronto: Letters/Coach House (1993). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. “... but the bookseller is in his shirtsleeves, struggling with a large and heavy box.” A keepsake distributed at the book fair.
  • Janus.
    DAVIS, William.
    $35.00
    San Francisco: Auerhahn Society, 1965. First edition. [64 pp]. Near fine in wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. One of 750 copies. Forty-two poems with an unsigned foreword. Auerhahn 38.
  • Krazy Kat and one more.
    DAWSON, Fielding.
    $125.00
    San Francisco: Print Workshop, 1955. First edition. [20 pp]. Tiny mark on one unprinted leaf, else fine in stapled wrappers and fine illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Dawson. One of 150 copies produced at The Print Workshop in San Francisco. Designed by Jonathan Williams.
  • The Sun Rises into the Sky and Other Stories 1952-1966.
    DAWSON, Fielding.
    $125.00
    Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. First edition, presentation copy. 134 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered board and fine acetate dust jacket. One of only two “presentation copies,” so designated on the colophon page and SIGNED by Dawson. As in the lettered issue, tipped-in after the title page is an original drawing dated (’73) and initialed by Dawson. Morrow & Cooney 170c (note).
  • How the World Was Made.
    DE ANGULO, Jaime.
    $45.00
    Berkeley: Turtle Island, 1976. First edition. 101 pp w/notes. Very near fine in full cloth with black lettering to spine and front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Bob Callahan, with his notes. Old Time Stories, Volume 2.
  • Stuff and Nonsense.
    DE LA MARE, Walter.
    $40.00
    London: Constable, 1927. First edition. xi + 109 pp. Quarter-sized stain to last leaf, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. T.E.G. Cover art and thirty internal woodcuts by “Bold.” Limericks, delicate satire, and nonsense rhymes.
  • The Society of the Spectacle.
    DEBORD, Guy.
    $75.00
    London: Practical Paradise Publications (1977). First printing of this revised translation. [56 pp]. Light bend to one lower corner, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Errata slip present. Ford p.91.
  • Poems.
    DEEMER, Bill.
    $35.00
    San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1964. First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers. One of 500 copies printed. Andrew Hoyem contributes an introduction to this first collection of poems by the nineteen-year-old Deemer. Auerhahn Pamphlet Series Number Three. Auerhahn 37.
  • Jay DeFeo: Selected Works, Past and Present.
    DeFEO, Jay.
    $100.00
    San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 1984. First edition. Small 4to. 32 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Preface by Thomas Albright. Poem by Michael McClure, “SONG for Jay.” Essay by Davis S. Rubin. Color and b&w reproductions. INSCRIBED by DeFeo on the first leaf, “For Carla - / - fondly, Jay DeFeo.”
  • S.
    DELAY, Florence. et al.
    $45.00
    Cambridge & Paris: Lumen Editions & Alyscamps Press, 1997. First English language edition. 97 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. A collaborative novel, penned by Florence Delay, Patrick Deville, Jean Echenoz, Harry Mathews, Mak Polizzotti, Sonja Greenlee, and Oliver Rolin.
  • End Zone.
    DeLILLO, Don.
    $250.00
    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972. First edition. 242 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket a tiny closed tear to the rear gutter. DeLillo’s second novel.
  • Underworld.
    DeLILLO, Don.
    $25.00
    NY: Scribner (1997). Advance reading copy. 827 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
  • Bounce Poem.
    DEPEW, Wally.
    $20.00
    Sacramento: Runcible Spoon (1970). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. A strictly visual work, #1 in the Runcible Spoon CRETIN concrete poetry series.
  • Positions.
    DERRIDA, Jacques.
    $125.00
    Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1981). First US edition. vii + 114 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Alan Bass, with his notes. Three lengthy interviews with Derrida.
  • Space - Heaters.
    DEUTSCH, Joel.
    $50.00
    San Francisco: Open Skull (1969). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Dorothy Stewart. INSCRIBED by Deutsch, “Going fat / but not / silly - / Joel Deutsch / 1-69.” Early poems, from Douglas Blazek’s press.
  • A Sound of Feathers.
    DIGBY, Joan.
    $75.00
    NY: Red Ozier, 1982. First edition. [30 pp]. Fine in plain wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. Illustrations by John Digby. One of 130 numbered copies on Franfurt Cream paper SIGNED by Joan and John Digby. Poems, printed in two colors. Peich 33.
  • Preparations for the Birth of the Sun: Poems and Illustrations.
    DIGBY, John.
    $45.00
    Hounslow: Caligula Books (1975). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Caligula Books No. 5.
  • Diary of a Non-Deflector: Selected Poems.
    DINE, Jim.
    $350.00
    San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987. First edition, deluxe limited issue. 78 pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 120 copies on Rives paper. Tipped-on opposite the title page is an original self-portrait etching by Dine, SIGNED by Dine in pencil below the image.