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  • Outrider for the Lady.
    FOSTER, Charles.
    $35.00
    Sacramento: Rainbow Resin (1974). First edition. 4to. [32 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art a “tipoglif” by Karl Kempton. Poems, issued as th uinta gargoyl #s 2, 3, 4.
  • My Recollections of Kafka.
    FOWLES, John.
    $450.00
    Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press [1970]. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. First edition; an offprint from MOSAIC III:4. INSCRIBED by Fowles inside the front cover, “Allen [McGuire] / One of a very limited / number - twenty-five if / I remember / John Fowles.”
  • Color Poems.
    FOX, Civ Cedering.
    $75.00
    Missoula: Calliopea Press, 1978. First trade edition. Twenty-seven 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inch sheets, housed in a printed paper portfolio with a ribbon tie. All elements fine. Twenty-three poems by Fox, each with a different illustrator. One of 500 sets, printed on Canson Mi-Teintes French mould-made paper.
  • Edge Paintings.
    FRANCIS, Sam.
    $200.00
    Santa Monica: James Corcoran Gallery, 1991. First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in full black cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Fully illustrated with eleven tipped-on plates and two photographs. Texts by Walter Hopps and Nicholas Wilder. INSCRIBED by Francis to his friend and Lapis Press editor Robert [Shapazian], “Robert Robert / Sam.”
  • Place: Twelve Poems.
    FREEMAN, Arthur.
    $40.00
    London: (np) 1980. First trade edition. [24 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 500 copies, from the original 26 copy limited edition. INSCRIBED by Freeman, “Nicholas from / Arthur Freeman / London Feb. ‘80” and then again, “this now to Peter Howard / London July 82 /Arthur Freeman.”
  • Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.
    FREYTAG-LORINGHOVEN, Elsa von.
    $200.00
    Cambridge & London: MIT Press (2011). First edition. xiv + 418 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo. The first major collection of “the first American Dada” Freytag-Loringhoven’s verse, accompanied by photographs and full-color facsimiles.
  • Work from the Same House: Photographs & Etchings.
    FRIEDLANDER, Lee and Jim Dine.
    $150.00
    London: Trigram Press (1969). First trade edition. [46 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Typography by Asa Benveniste. Introductory statement by Dine, reproduced from his holograph. Sixteen paired images.
  • Steambath: A Play.
    FRIEDMAN, Bruce Jay.
    $55.00
    NY: Knopf, 1971. First edition. 97 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with production stills. Friedman’s second play. Young 1332.
  • The Black Star Pilgrimage / The Escape Story.
    FRIEDMAN, Ed.
    $35.00
    NY: Frontward Books (1976). First edition. Horizontal 12mo. [60 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Front and back cover art by Ed Bowes. One of 350 copies, produced at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project. Two prose works.
  • The Lovely Shall Be Choosers.
    FROST, Robert.
    $45.00
    NY: Random House, 1929. First edition. [4 pp]. Tiny spot of foxing to two leaves, else fine in sewn wrappers. A single poem, issued as part of “The Poetry Quartos.” One of 475 copies.
  • Souvenirs, Vamp Till Ready, Home and Dry: Memoirs I-III.
    FULLER, Roy.
    $75.00
    London: London Magazine Editions, 1980-1984. First editions. 191 + 185 +165 pp. Three volumes, all fine in very near fine dust jackets. All three volumes INSCRIBED by Fuller to the same recipient. The poet-solicitor recalls his childhood and youth in Lancashire, through the end of his service in the Second World War. For the trio:
  • The Life and Opinions of a Ne'er-Do-Well.
    FUNDIBLE, Graham.
    $25.00
    San Francisco: Inferno Press (1960). First edition. 47 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers with integral printed dust jacket. First book by this “philosopher-poet” who “brings the current of continental traditions to our dying shores.”
  • will / just /drink / or / perhaps / do / something / or / not, in / museum...
    g.brecht d.higgins a.knowles c.moorman, n.j.paik. d.rot
    $75.00
    Philadelphia: College of Art, 1964. First edition. 1 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches, printed on recto only. Fine. Miniature card promoting this event.
  • Stepping Outside: Poems.
    GALLAGHER, Tess.
    $150.00
    Lisbon: Penumbra Press (1974). First edition. 33 pp. Faint sunning to spine and extrems, else near fine in printed wrappers. One of 100 (of 230) numbered copies printed in two colors on Wookey Hole Mill Creme Laid Book Paper SIGNED by Gallagher.
  • Plumbing the Depths of Folly: Poems Conundrums and Statements.
    GALLUP, Dick.
    $150.00
    Bolinas: Smithereens Press (1983). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. [52 pp]. Foxing to rear cover and along the page edges, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover drawing by Gallup. One of 10 numbered copies SIGNED by Gallup.
  • Sin Tactics.
    GANSZ, David C. D.
    $50.00
    Annandale-on-Hudson: Woodbine Press, 1988. First edition, hardcover & signed issue. 32mo. [56 pp]. Fine in full decorated cloth and very near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to bottom edge of the front cover. One of 50 copies SIGNED by Gansz.
  • In Search of Silvestre Revueltas: Essays 1978-1990.
    GARLAND, Peter.
    $75.00
    Santa Fe: Soundings Press, 1991. First edition. 211 pp w/postscripts & footnotes. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. In addition to examinations of regional and indigenous music, Garland writes on Cage, Harrison, Tenney, Nancarrow, and others.
  • On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry.
    GASS, William H.
    $25.00
    Manchester: Carcanet New Press (1979). First UK edition. 91 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original in the UK. A tour de force, Gass considers all aspects of the color.
  • L’Enfant Criminel & ‘Adame Miroir.
    GENET, Jean.
    $350.00
    Paris: Paul Morihien (1949). First edition, limited issue. 50 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers with original printed wrap-around band. One of 50 numbered copies on Marais Crève-Coeur paper.
  • Yellow 16.
    GEORGE-MURRAY, Richard.
    $125.00
    (np): (np) [1975]. First edition. Oblong 8vo. [16 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Pages unopened. A less common collection of poems by the prolific poet-publisher.
  • Poems.
    GEORGE, Stefan.
    $200.00
    NY: Pantheon (1943). First US edition. 253 pp. Light bump to one upper corner, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a short tear at the base of the front flap fold. Original German poems with facing English translations by Carol North Valhope and Ernst Morwitz. Young 1395*.
  • Imaginary Interviews.
    GIDE, André.
    $85.00
    NY: Knopf, 1944. First US edition. xvii + 172 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a tiny closed tear to spine. Translated from the original French by Malcolm Cowley. Writings by Gide after June 1940, crafted in such a way that they could be safely printed in newspapers during Occupation.
  • Marshlands & Prometheus Misbound: Two Satires.
    GIDE, André.
    $45.00
    NY: New Directions (1953). First edition. 192 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by George D. Painter.
  • Port Tropique: A Novel.
    GIFFORD, Barry.
    $125.00
    Berkeley: Black Lizard/Creative Arts, 1980. First edition. 185 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of Gifford’s best, one of the least common Black Lizard titles.
  • The Land Surveyor’s Daughter: Poems.
    GILCHRIST, Ellen.
    $450.00
    Fayetteville: Lost Roads, 1979. First edition. 46 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers; a trade paperback original. SIGNED by Gilchrist on the title page. Her first book, a collection of poems. Lost Roads 14.
  • At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguay.
    GIMLETTE, John.
    $45.00
    London: Hutchinson (2003). First edition. xx + 363 pp w/chronology & list for further reading. Slight lean to spine, else fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Gimlette on the title page. The first of his highly-regarded travel books.
  • Kaddish et Autres Poèmes 1958-1960.
    GINSBERG, Allen.
    $125.00
    [Paris]: Christian Bourgois (1967). First French edition. 221 pp w/notes. Very good plus in printed wrappers, with a small snag to the lower portion of the front cover, and small spot on the title page and opposite leaf. Bookseller Burton Weiss’ copy, with his inked name and date inside the front cover. Translated from the original English by Claude Pélieu. SIGNED by Ginsberg on the front free endpaper.
  • Returning to the Country for a Brief Visit.
    GINSBERG, Allen.
    $45.00
    Oakland: Stone Press (1975). First editions. 4 x 6 inch postcard. Very near fine. Prints this poem, reproduced from Ginsberg's holograph. Stone Press Weekly No. 65. TOGETHER WITH the smaller later (1976) 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch version, published by the unspeakable visions of the individual. For the pair:
  • To Eberhart from Ginsberg: A Letter about HOWL 1956.
    GINSBERG, Allen.
    $200.00
    Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1976. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 45 pp. Very near fine in two-part cloth binding. No dust jacket, as issued. Relief etchings by Jerome Kaplan. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Ginsberg and Eberhart. Morgan A34a2.1a.
  • Who Be Kind To.
    GINSBERG, Allen.
    $100.00
    San Francisco: Cranium Press [1967]. First edition, second printing. 31 x 16 1/4 inch broadside. Fine. Designed by Wes Wilson. Photograph of Ginsberg by Larry Keenan. Printed on white paper instead of light yellow in a run of 3000 copies, but according to the publisher, many were discarded for being off register. Morgan AA8a.2.
  • Daily Horoscope.
    GIOIA, Dana.
    $125.00
    [Iowa City]: Windhover Press (1982). First edition. [20 pp]. Very near fine in wrappers with printed spine. Linoleum cut frontis by Thomas Kovacs. One of 225 copies on Windhover paper. Gioia’s second book. Acknowledgment slip present. Hagstrom & Morgan A2. Berger 78.
  • Formal Introductions: An Investigative Anthology.
    GIOIA, Dana. ed.
    $150.00
    West Chester: Aralia Press, 1994. First edition. 40 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 180 (of 210) copies on dampened Johannot paper. Poems by Dick Allen, R.L. Barth, Bruce Bawer, Jack Butler, Tom Disch, Frederick Feirstein, Gioia, Melissa Green, Emily Grosholz, R.S. Gwynn, Rachel Hadas, Paul Lake, Brad Leithauser, Charles Martin, Molly Peacock, Wyatt Prunty, Vikram Seth, Robert B. Shaw, Timothy Steele, Michael B. Stillman, and Frederick Turner.