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$50.00[NY]: Laurence Hellenberg, 1959. First edition. 40 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers with lightly sunned spine. Cover art by Dan Rice. Foreword by Gilbert Sorrentino. Printed by the Orion Press, distributed by the Totem Press. Hellenberg’s only publishing venture.
$45.00Carrboro: Truck Books (1976). First edition. 100 pp w/notes. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 500 copies. Full title as it appears on the title page, “Place: typescript drafted 22.4.73 comprising most of book 1, place one to thirty-seven, First Movement.”
$150.00Covelo: Yolla Bolly Press (1990). First edition. 104 pp. Fine in printed wrappers and fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 190 numbered copies. Fisher contributes an afterword to this story, the third in the “Storytellers Series” the press.
$15.00San Francisco: North Point, 1988. First edition. 212 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fisher’s introductions to both her own books, and works by others.
$200.00NY: Targ Editions, 1985. First edition. 4to. 21 pp. Fine in paste-paper covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine unprinted tissue dust jacket with a tear to one flap fold and light overall edgewear. Printed at the Grenfell Press. One of 250 copies on all-rag Fabriano paper SIGNED by Fisher.
$45.00Madley: Five Seasons Press, 1988. First edition. [8 pp]. Light sunning to spine, else fine in sewn wrappers. Fisher’s poem with two drawings by Caroline Hands. One of 275 numbered copies on Rives mould made paper SIGNED by Fisher and Hands. Hereford Poem Number Ten.
$100.00London: Hamish Hamilton (2002). First UK edition. 276 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Foer on the title page.
$15.00NY: Norton (1980). First edition. 288 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Introduction and afterword by Jay Neugeboren.
$30.00NY: Sperone Westwater (2000). First edition. 4to. [38 pp]. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Richard Tuttle. Selections from a conversation with Fontana recorded by Tommaso Trini. Twelve color reproductions, one a fold-out plate, plus a b&w portrait photograph of Fontana.
$200.00Göttingen: European Photography (1988). First trade edition. 83 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Photographs and descriptions of previously unknown animals, as described in the long-lost archives of German zoologist Dr. Peter Ameisenhaufen (b. 1895, disappeared 1955). An elaborate fiction. A Roth 101 book.
$75.00NY: View Editions, 1945. First trade edition. 4to. [16 pp]. A few small splash marks to front cover, else very good plus in illustrated wrappers with light edgewear. Five poems by Ford, one of which appears here for the first time, with b&w reproductions of works by the artists in the title. Typography by Parker Tyler.
$75.00London: Agneau 2/Allardyce, Barnett (1990). First edition. 286 pp w/index of titles. Faint foxing to page edges, else fine in fine dust jacket. “Supplementary Loose Leaf” laid in. Her book POETIC ARTIFICE (1978) was reissued in 2016 to acclaim. Sadly, both editions were posthumous, Forrest-Thomson dying at age 27, “one of the most galling and tragic losses to Modern British poetry.” - David Wheatley.
$35.00Verona: Sandy Campbell, 1975. First edition. 46 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 300 copies. Letters from 1948 to 1965, with Windham’s introduction and note. Young 1295.
$75.00(np): Harvard Press for Harvey Taylor [1932]. First edition. 16mo. [4 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies. SIGNED by Taylor. Forster celebrates Lewis’ evocation of the American landscape. Kirkpatrick A15.
$35.00Glasgow: Jackson, Son & Company, 1945. First edition. 23 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. The fifth W.P. Ker Memorial Lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow 27th April 1944. First appearance of this essay, later collected in Forster’s TWO CHEERS FOR DEMOCRACY in 1951. Kirkpatrick A25.
$150.00NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1942). First US edition. 40 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with light toning to extrems. Printed dedication to Leonard Woolf. The Rede Lecture, delivered in Cambridge on 29 May 1941. Kirkpatrick A24b.
$35.00Sacramento: 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.
$450.00Manitoba: 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.”
$75.00Missoula: 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.
$200.00Santa 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.”
$40.00London: (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.”
$200.00Cambridge & 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.
$150.00London: 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.
$55.00NY: Knopf, 1971. First edition. 97 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with production stills. Friedman’s second play. Young 1332.
$35.00NY: 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.
$45.00NY: 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.
$75.00London: 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:
$25.00San 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.”
$45.00NY: Misty Terrace Press (1981). First edition. 4to. 33 pp. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by George Schneeman. One of 300 copies produced at the Poetry Project. Poems and prose works.
$75.00Philadelphia: College of Art, 1964. First edition. 1 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches, printed on recto only. Fine. Miniature card promoting this event.
$500.00NY: Knopf, 1975. Uncorrected proof. 725 pp. “10” penned to spine, else near fine in printed red wrappers. Publication information taped to front cover, promotional flyer stapled to verso, with a bit of a rust stain from the staple. Laid-in is a holograph note, “Geoff Wolff / 1,500 words / Deadline: Sept. 1” and a printed slip providing essentially the same information, but spelling out “Geoffrey Wolff.” An uncommon proof. Gaddis’ second novel, winner of the 1976 National Book Award.
$150.00Lisbon: 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.