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$750.00San Francisco: RE/SEARCH (1990). First printing of this revised edition, signed issue. 127 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 400 copies SIGNED by Ballard. Preface by William S. Burroughs. This edition includes new annotations and commentary by Ballard, four additional stories, illustrations by Phoebe Gloeckner, and photographs by Ana Barrado.
$450.00London: Secker & Warburg (1993). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 244 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards and gilt-stamped leather spine with raised bands. No dust jacket, as issued. Bound and issued by Kenney’s of Galway. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Banville.
$75.00London: Heinemann (2007). First edition. 312 pp. Fine in illustrated boards with printed cover. No dust jacket, as issued. SIGNED by Barlow on the title page. A free verse novel about lycanthropes in Los Angeles.
$125.00Pasadena: The Coterie Des Epicuriens, 1954. First edition. [44 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with printed cover and spine labels. Introduction by A.D. Diercks. First book by the book collector, scholar, and President of the Bibliographical Society of America, as well as being the first book of his Nova Press. One of 50 numbered copies, the entire edition, SIGNED by Barlow and Diercks. A single amusing poem with all the supporting matter one could want.
$150.00London: Jonathan Cape (1982). First edition. 183. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a sticker shadow on the front flap. Barnes’ second novel.
$40.00London: Nothing Doing (formerly in London), 1973. First edition. 16 pp. Faint sunning to spine, else near fine in sewn wrappers. Presents work by Edmond Jabès, “Answer to a Letter,” J.H. Prynne’s “Es Lebe Der König,” and Paul Celan’s “Conversation in the Mountain.” Translations by Rosmarie Waldrop.
$200.00Llandogo: Old Stile Press (2001). First edition. Oblong 8vo. [52 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with fine publisher’s slipcase. A selection of Barnfield’s sonnets (1595) paired with two color linocut illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. One of 300 numbered copies on Somerset Printmaking paper SIGNED by Hicks-Jenkins.
$200.00Llandogo: Old Stile Press (1998). First edition. Folio. 57 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with publisher’s folding slip case. Barnfield’s 1594 poem illustrated by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Introductory essay by Dr. Peter Wakelin, “The Enigmatic Shepherd: the sweet and bitter love of Richard Barnfield.” One of 200 numbered copies on handmade paper SIGNED by Hicks-Jenkins.
$125.00NY: Random House (1972). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 308 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth and unprinted clear acetate dust jacket, also fine but for two corner creases to the front flap. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase, with corresponding copy number inked to base of spine. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Barth. Co-winner of the National Book Award for fiction with John Williams’ AUGUSTUS.
$20.00London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1977). First UK edition. 184 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with publisher’s price sticker on front flap. Twenty-one short stories by postmodern master.
$1,250.00Paris: Olympia Press, 1956. First printing of this edition (originally published in 1941). 45 pp. Near fine in wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. Preface by Georges Bataille, to this work by Georges Bataille, published under the Angélique pseudonym. Translated from the original French by Austryn Wainouse, as “Audiart.” A retitled MADAME EDWARDA, the change to avoid trouble with the French authorities connecting this English translation to the French original. An uncommon Olympia book.
$125.00[San Francisco]: David Sandberg (1967). First edition. [26 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover photograph by Judy Brown. Printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press. An “Or” book. One of an unstated limitation, numbered and SIGNED by Bathurst. This is copy #6. His first book.
$50.00NY: Stone Street Press (1982). First edition. 32mo. [16 pp]. Fine in wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Original French poems with facing English translations by Kevin McEneaney. Designed, calligraphed, illustrated, lino-cut, and bound by Malachi McCormick. OCLC locates 4 copies.
$45.00Minneapolis: University of Minnesota (2002). First US edition. xv + 80 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Robert Bononno, with a foreword by K. Michael Hays. Two long interviews.
$75.00NY: Gotham Book Mart (1974). First edition. 4to. [26 pp]. Toning to unprinted rear cover, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Portraits of a dozen amazing people presented with a summary of their singular achievements. How else would one know that Billiper Trosden can pronounce the word “miscreant” in eighteen languages?
$50.00Holyoke: The Brother in Elysium (2020). First edition, regular issue. [32 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with printed cover label. One of 400 copies. Reproductions of 22 collages by Beacham, with his preface. New, at publication price:
$125.00Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles, 1984. First edition. [44 pp]. Fine in two-part cloth binding with printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of only 35 hardcover copies.
$45.00London: Heni (2015). First edition. 156 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Agent Provocateur, one of 100 thus. A full color documentation of the individually designed covers for the 2014 edition of STREET ART, FINE ART by fifteen different artists.
$200.00Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit (1980). First edition, deluxe numbered issue. 87 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Near fine unprinted glassine dust jacket with two small spots on rear cover. One of 99 numbered copies with the publisher’s corresponding limitation slip present.
$200.00Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit (1981). First edition. 76 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers and near fine unprinted glassine. One of 99 numbered copies on Alfa mousse paper, with the publisher’s numbered limitation slip.
$3,000.00NY: Grove Press [1957]. First US edition, numbered & signed issue. 72 pp. Light sunning to spine, and to the top of the cloth on the rear panel, else fine in brown quarter cloth with gold stamping. Very near fine clear acetate dust jacket with one tiny chip. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Beckett. His second book, originally published in the UK in 1931. Federman & Fletcher 7.12.
$45.00Holyoke: The Brother in Elysium, 2022. First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Poems by Beckman with reproductions of four artworks by Jon Beacham. One of 225 copies. New, at publication price:
$100.00NY: [Red Ozier Press] 1984. First edition. [22 pp]. Fine in string-bound wrappers. Covers and endpapers of handmade paper by Susan Anderson Dieu Donne Press. Cover illustration by Leslie Wayne, interior drawing by Les Kanturek. One of 100 copies SIGNED by Beining at the colophon. Produced by students of a class given by the Red Ozier Press at New School, no copies were for sale. Peich 61.
$75.00Saint Paul & NY: Unarmed/Granary, 2021. First edition. Twenty fascicles and a title card housed in the publisher’s box with printed cover label. All elements fine. One of 80 copies in the trade edition published by Unarmed. New, at publication price:
$35.00Woodside: Occasional Works, 1987. First edition. 21 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 200 numbered copies on Rives Heavy paper. Hand set in Monotype Bembo, printed letterpress. Introduction by Peter Stansky and William Abrahams. Eight poems. Julian Bell, son of Vanessa Bell, and the only Bloomsbury poet, was killed while driving an ambulance in the Spanish Civil War.
$75.00London: Enitharmon Press, 1975. First edition, deluxe issue. 62 pp. Fine marbled paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine. Fine clear acetate dust jacket. t.e.g. One of 30 numbered copies on Basingwerk Parchment paper. Halliwelll 51b.
$75.00Mendrisio: Museo d’arte Mendrisio, 1999. First edition. 4to. 135 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 1000 copies. INSCRIBED by Franco’s son, Giona [Beltrametti] on page 101, and again on the half title page, “For Joanne [Kyger] and Donald [Guravich].” Illustrated with many b&w photographs and color reproductions. Text in Italian.
$75.00London: Anthony Blond (1962). First edition. 208 pp w/glossary of Etonian terms. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art by Richard Chopping, best known for his work on the Fleming’s Bond titles. Young 243*.
$35.00London: Profile/Faber and Faber (2011). First edition. 12mo. 180 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Bennett on the title page. Presents “The Greening of Mrs Donaldson” and “The Shielding of Mrs Forbes.”
$35.00Columbus: Fireweed Press, 1977. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 24 pp. Small crease to one upper corner, else fine in stapled wrappers. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Bennett. Seventeen poems with three visual works.
$20.00[San Francisco]: David Belch, et al. (1994). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1810). 7 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. Introduction by David Belch. Beresford’s poetic introduction to his rebuttal of Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin’s work, BIBLIOMANIA. Published on the occasion of a joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs.
$200.00Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1965. First edition. Horizontal 32mo. [8 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Text printed letterpress. One of 178 copies. Horvath & Taylor #71. A single poem by Bergé, her second separate publication after THE VANCOUVER REPORT (1964).