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$750.00Pasadena: Pasadena Art Museum, 1963. First edition. 4to. [56 pp]. Near fine in wrappers and very good printed clear acetate dust jacket that has four thumb-nail sized chips (none of which affect the printing on the front panel). Also known by the cover text, “by or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy.” Designed by Duchamp. -
$45.00Candia: LeBow, 1994. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers with printed cover label. Frontis illustration by Dina Knapp. One of 100 (of 126) numbered copies SIGNED by Dufresne. -
$75.00Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1972. Second edition, first hardcover printing. 73 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art and internal illustrations throughout by Jess. One of 600 copies. Sand Dollar/8. Bertholf A8d. Young 1099*. -
$20.00Buffalo: Poetry/Rare Books Collection (1997). First edition. 47 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Published jointly with Rodent Press and Erudite Fangs Editions. Interview by Anne Waldman, John Oughton, and Rob Fromme. Prints Duncan's poems, “A Letter” and “Sons of the Bard, Orpheus,” both previously unpublished. -
$75.00San Francisco: Joan and Bill Roth (1980). First edition. Folding card (5 x 7 inches, closed), printed in two colors. Fine. SIGNED by Duncan at the conclusion of his poem on the front cover, with the addition of his holograph limitation statement on the verso, “No. 32 of 70 copies presented to the poet.” Bertholf A54. -
$350.00San Francisco: White Rabbit Press (1958). First edition. 14 pp. Light toning to extrems, else near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 278 (of 300) copies. Cast for the original production included Jack Spicer, Larry Jordan, Michael McClure, Ida Hodes, Helen Adam, Jess, and others. Bertholf A7b. -
$20.00Storrs: Special Collections Department of the Wilbur Cross Library, The University of Connecticut. 1972. First edition. Single sheet folded once (10 x 7 inches, closed). Fine. One of 488 (of 500) copies issued to commemorate Duncan's reading at the Wallace Stevens Memorial Program. Prints “Structure of Rime XXVIII.” Bertholf A42. -
$20.00[San Francisco]: The Tenth Muse (1969). Second edition. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. This is an expanded version of the extremely limited first edition published by Poet's Press, here including two additional sections and an introduction by Duncan. Bertholf A33b. -
$200.00[Berkeley]: Berkeley Miscellany Editions [1949]. First edition, second state (expurgated). 84 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Duncan on the title page. Bertholf A2b. -
$400.00[Berkeley]: Berkeley Miscellany Editions [1949]. First edition, second state (expurgated). 84 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Dated (Stinson Beach, 1958) and SIGNED by Duncan on the title page. Additionally INSCRIBED, “with lines inscribed / Berkeley 1981 / for Burton, his / education / RD.” Duncan has added the 45 words excised from the second state. Bertholf A2b. -
$150.00[Berkeley]: Maya Quarto Eight (1970). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with printed paper cover label. One of 50 numbered copies on Tovil paper. SIGNED by Duncan. Printed by Clifford Burke. Maya Quarto Eight. Bertholf A34b. -
$75.00Brooklyn: Jordan Davies (1979). First edition. 12mo. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with printed paper label. One of 200 numbered copies on Fabriano SIGNED by Duncan. Erratum slip present. Bertholf A53. -
$2,000.00[Madison]: Perishable Press (1966). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in full cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to the front panel. One of 50 (of 70) copies on paper made by hand from linen and cotton rags. Though not called for, INITIALED by Duncan on the title page. A Perishable highspot. Bertholf A21a. Hamady 6. -
$40.00La Jolla: Friends of the UCSD Library, 1981. First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Printed letterpress on Mohawk Superfine by Patrick Reagh. Issued as a keepsake for Friends of the Library. Though not called for in this issue, SIGNED by Duncan. Accompanied a printed card with notes on the publication by Michael Davidson. Bertholf A55a. -
$75.00La Jolla: Friends of the UCSD Library, 1981. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Printed letterpress on Mohawk Superfine paper by Patrick Reagh. Issued as a keepsake for Friends of the library. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Duncan with a hand-colored title page. Bertholf A55b. -
$100.00NY: House of Books, 1968. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 78 pp. Fine in full cloth and very near fine unprinted glassine dust jacket. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Duncan. Sixteenth volume in the House of Books Crown Octavo Series. Bertholf A26. -
$450.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970. First edition, publisher’s copy. 24 pp. Very near fine in full gilt-stamped leather. Fine acetate dust jacket. Includes, as called for, the supplementary pamphlet printing a facsimile of the holograph notebook and final typescript of “The Feast: Passages 34” in an envelope mounted inside rear board. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Duncan. Additionally embellished and INSCRIBED by Duncan on the title page to the book’s publishers, “for Barbara and John / with Love.” -
$1,250.00Albuquerque: Sum Books (1964). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [60 pp]. Light sunning along spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Folded erratum and bonus poem sheet present and fine. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Duncan with an original dated (1964) and signed drawing pasted to the first leaf; in this instance, a terrific multicolored image of a snail with the accompanying text, “Turning into a Snail’s Pace.” Bertholf A13b. -
$75.00London: Fortune Press, [1940]. First edition. 135 pp. A few spots to top edge, three small inked initials to first leaf; in all, near fine in near fine, clipped and re-priced dust jacket. Collects “The Unburied Dead,” “Ora Pro Nobis,” and “Pimp, Skunk and Profiteer.” -
$75.00Madison: Ox Head Press, 1971. First edition. [20 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. Linoleum cut by D. Olsen. One of 350 copies printed. Ox Head 11. -
$125.00London: Turret Books (1968). First edition. 4to. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and near fine illustrated dust jacket. Cover painting by Durrell. Designed and printed at Trigram Press. Poem by Durrell, score by Southam. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Durrell and Southam. No. 4 in the series Contemporary Poetry set to Music. -
$45.00Ostfildern & NY: Hatje Cantz/David Zwirner (2013). First edition. 4to. 183 pp w/list of works & biography. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Introduction by Deborah Solomon, “Greetings from the Dzama Conclave.” A color illustrated survey of works on paper, sculptures, paintings, collages, and films. -
$125.00Tufts College Press (1941). First edition. Narrow 8vo. [8 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 200 copies. Eberhart’s first separate publication, issued as the “Tufts College Phi Beta Kappa Poem” of 1941. -
$35.00NY: Harcourt Brace (1995). First US edition. 10 1/2 x 6 3/4 inch puzzle. Fine in shrinkwrap. A promotional item featuring the cover art of Eco’s novel on the recto, and publication information on the verso. -
$35.00Melbourne: Pataphysics (2009). First edition. 4to. [76 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Contributions by Lotringer, Hakim Bey, Brian Aldiss, Chris Kraus, and others, including interviews with Harry Mathews and John Cage. -
$75.00[Stamford]: Russell Edson / Thing Press (1961). First edition. 32 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Nicely printed in two colors with illustrations throughout by Edson. -
$45.00Breakish: Prospice/Aquila (1975). First edition. 147 pp w/list of contributors. Fine in fine dust jacket. René Char, Yves Bonnefoy, Alain Delahaye, Philippe Jaccottet, Jacques Roubaud, Jacqueline Guéron, Michel Deguy, largely in English translation. This constitutes volume 3 of Prospice. -
$200.00London: Picador (1998). First UK edition. 410 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Egolf on the title page. Rejected by the US presses (over 50 of them), then translated and first published in France. This is the first edition in English. -
$100.00Rhinebeck: Station Hill (1978). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art and design by Joan Kelsey. One of 43 numbered copies SIGNED by Eigner. -
$20.00London: Big Venus (1969). First edition. 22 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers with pasted-on cover label. -
$50.00Baden: Verlag Lars Müller (1990). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1925). 48 pp. Tiny bump to one lower corner, else very near fine in illustrated boards. Texts in German, French, and English. Fully illustrated with b&w images of representative works. Separate large sheet, presenting an essay by Alois Martin Müller, as issued. -
$75.00Berlin: Gerhardt Verlag (1988). Second edition. 4to. [18 pp]. Small sticker on rare cover, else fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. German translation sheet laid in. This facsimile originally published by Gerhardt in 1969.