-
$250.00NY: Knopf, 1974. First edition. 207 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Sparkling copy of Crews’ seventh novel. -
$40.00Taos: Este Es Press (1960). First edition. [50 pp]. Fine in printed comb-bound wrappers. Poems with drawings of nudes by Eric Gill. -
$75.00NY: Methuen (1979). First edition. vi + 183 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Crisp on the half-title page, “To Warren / and Kendall / who know all / about not dusting / Quentin Crisp.” -
$250.00Berkeley: Twowindows Press (1983). First edition. xxxv + 99 pp. Near fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Introduction by Sy M. Kahn. Two pasted-on photographs. One of 200 numbered copies on Lana Laid paper. -
$200.00London: Duckworth (1973). Second edition, corrected and reset. xv + 118 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with a closed tear and light crease to top edge of rear panel. Edited by John Symonds, with his introduction. One of 1000 numbered copies. Originally published in 1898 in an edition of 100 copies, most of which were destroyed by H.M. Customs. Young 869* (1898 ed). -
$75.00Cambridge: (np) (1968). First edition, lettered & signed issue. Small 4to. [30 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 26 lettered copies (from a total edition of 350) SIGNED by Crozier with an original holograph poem penned opposite the colophon page. -
$75.00Prahran: Hardie Grant Books (2009). First edition. 198 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers and near fine dust jacket. A trade paperback original. INSCRIBED by Cummings “Craig in Santa Monica / its all good / man! / Stephen Cummings.” Memoir by the Melbourne-based musician and novelist. -
$20.00Lancs: BB Books, 1966. First edition. Oblong 8vo. 32 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems. Mimeographed BB Bks flyer of available titles laid in. -
$35.00NY: 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.” -
$35.00Isla 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. -
$40.00San 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. -
$55.00London: 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. -
$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. -
$15.00[Clonmel] & NY: Coracle/Granary Books, 2007. First US edition. 74 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. -
$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.” -
$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). -
$45.00Berkeley: 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. -
$40.00Berkeley & 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. -
$25.00Boston: 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. -
$75.00NY: Scribners (1974). First edition. 261 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. 1500 copies printed. Crane A10. -
$3,000.00NY: 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. -
$25.00Monterey: 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. -
$20.00Toronto: 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. -
$35.00San 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. -
$125.00San 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. -
$125.00Los 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). -
$45.00Berkeley: 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. -
$40.00London: 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. -
$75.00London: 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. -
$350.00NY: Simon & Schuster (1955). First trade paperback printing. 98 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Photographs by De Carava, text by Hughes. -
$35.00San 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. -
$100.00San 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.”