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$500.00NY: Dutton, 1969. Uncorrected proof. 145 pp. Crease to rear panel, else very good plus in comb-bound wrappers with light toning and edgewear to extrems and two creases to front cover. Evidence of review slip along front panel near spine. Larry McMurtry’s copy, with his bookplate inside the front cover.
$250.00NY: [Leandro Katz] (1971). First edition. 4to. [40 pp]. Fine in strip bound wrappers with unprinted clear plastic covers. Plastic pink glove, lettered in purple, laid in. Ashbery’s poem translated into Spanish by Leandro Katz, with a statement on his poetry by Ashbery. Kermani G43.
$75.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1999). First edition. 55 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Ashbery on the title page.
$250.00London: Faber & Faber (1941). First UK edition. 188 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a very shallow chip to crown. Published earlier in the same year in the US as THE DOUBLE MAN. Bloomfield & Mendelsohn A24b.
$200.00Ilkley: Janus Press 1973. First printing of this facsimile edition. 37 pp. Light bend to first leaf, else fine in printed wrappers. Housed in a near fine printed folder, together with a 4 pp booklet by B.C. Bloomfield, detailing the history of this rare book, Auden’s first.
$40.00Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, 1977. First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 150 numbered copies on Bodeleian paper SIGNED by Augustine. Five poems. Hamady 81.
$100.00Birmingham & NY: Delos Press/William Drenttel, 1992. First UK edition. 17 pp. Fine in marbled wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Illustration by Brian Cronin. One of 300 numbered copies on Zerkall mould-made paper.
$350.00Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press (1985). First edition. 203 pp. Fine in very near fine, second issue dust jacket. SIGNED by Auster on the title page. The first volume of The New York Trilogy, which remains a personal favorite. The New American Fiction Series: 4.
$450.00Brewster: Parenthèse (1977). First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and very near fine dust jacket. Cover art and internal drawings by Norman Bluhm. INSCRIBED by Auster to Jack [Shoemaker], his North Point Press publisher, “For Jack: / X-Mas ‘77) / Paul.” Laid in, a 47 word holograph note from Auster, in part presenting this copy.
$200.00NY: Henry Holt (1997). First edition. 97 pp. Some faint foxing to top edge, else fine in decorated boards with ribbon place maker. No dust jacket, as issued. Preface by Luc Sante. Photographs by Frieder Blickle. INSCRIBED by Auster on the half-title page, “For Jack - / in Chicago / of all places! / with love- / Paul.”
$350.00London: Menard Press, 1982. First edition. 95 pp. Light foxing along the top edge, else very near fine in printed wrappers. Auster’s third prose publication following WHITE SPACES and THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE. Later published in the US in 1991 in a much-expanded form. INSCRIBED by Auster on the title page, “For Jack / Paul.” Drenttel A8.
$50.00Willimantic: Curbstone Press (1982). First edition. 32 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Printed endorsement on the rear cover by Denise Levertov. Ten poems. Review slip laid in.
$75.00Hanover: Granite (1974). First edition. [28 pp]. Light wear along spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Banks’ second book, a long poem.
$600.00Las Vegas: Rainmaker Editions, 2002. First edition. 53 pp. Fine in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine publisher’s slipcase. Fiction by Banks illustrated with three engravings by Barry Moser. One of 399 numbered copies on Magnani paper SIGNED by Banks and Moser.
$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.
$75.00Newark: Jihad Productions (1972). First edition. 25 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems. A fresh bright copy.
$350.00London: David Archer/The Parton Press, 1933. First edition. 37 pp. Scattered foxing, else near fine in integral printed wrappers over boards. Lacks unprinted glassine. Dated (Oct 33) and SIGNED by Barker on the first leaf. Additionally dated (1933) and signed by poet John Pudney. Barker’s first collection of poems.
$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.
$35.00NY: Knopf, 1989. First US edition. 307 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Barnes on the title page. Opening with Noah’s Ark, ending with Heaven, a pleasing tour of our time on earth.
$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.
$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.
$100.00Paris: Mercure de France, 1968. First trade edition. 183 pp w/notes. Some faint toning to rear panel, else near fine in printed wrappers. Ink ownership stamp of M.L. Bataille on the first leaf. Preface by Bernard Noël.
$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?
$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.
$125.00Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1990. First edition. 88 pp. Fine in Coptic bound wrappers with printed clear plastic dust jacket. One of 125 copies on Frankfurt laid paper. Original Latin poems with Beck’s facing English translation. Poltroon Modern Poets #9.