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$35.00San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1963. First edition. 29 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine integral printed dust jacket. One of 750 copies on Curtis Rag paper. Hoyem's first book, a collection of poems. Auerhahn 22.
$15.00Santa Barbara: Christpher’s Books, 1972. First edition. 16mo. 24 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 650 copies. Poems “Written while in the custody of the state of California, 1971-2.”
$350.00London: Rainbow Press (1976). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 16mo. 65 pp. Fine in full blue leather with silver stamping in near fine publisher’s slipcase. Poems with illustrations by the author. One of 200 (of 226) numbered copies SIGNED by Hughes. Sagar & Tabor A48.
$450.00[North Tawton]: Morrigu Press (1983). First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Printed on an Albion hand-press in two colors. One of 75 numbered copies on Roma paper SIGNED by Hughes.
$450.00[North Tawton]: Morrigu Press (1983). First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 75 numbered copies on Roma paper SIGNED by Hughes. A late item from the press of Nicholas Hughes.
$350.00Crediton: Richard Gilbertson [1970]. First edition, withdrawn issue. [8 pp]. Fine in printed marbled-paper wrappers with rivit binding. Withdrawn due to a transposition of two lines in the poem, and Hughes' disapproval of the wrappers. Although 100 numbered, signed and dated copies were projected, almost all of them - the bibliographers noting only one exception - were left unnumbered, unsigned, and undated, and never officially released. Sagar & Tabor A21a.1.
$100.00London: Words Press (nd). First edition, numbered & signed issue. Single sheet folded twice (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches, closed). Poems by Lyman Andrews, Edwin Morgan, Ted Hughes and Jeremy Reed. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by all contributors.
$200.00NY: Norton (1979). First edition. 109 pp. Light foxing along top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to spine. INSCRIBED by Hugo to a fellow poet, “For Kenneth / now, if you will just / follow instructions / Love, / Dick.”
$150.00Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company (1970). First edition. xix + 180 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with three short edge-tears and a small bookseller label on the front flap. Foreword by Lee Rainwater. Sociologist Humphrey’s “imaginative” research method, “passing as a deviant” to observe and interview, was roundly criticized and stands as an example of questionable research ethics.
$35.00Waukesha: Trevor Huskey (2017). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 40 numbered copies SIGNED by Huskey. Seven poems and an equal number of color and black and white photo works.
$200.00Detroit: Artists’ Workshop Press, 1967. First edition. vii + 108 pp. Light sunning, wrinkles, and several short splits to spine, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers with a small stain to rear panel. Front cover design by John Sinclair. Despite the large limitation (1000 copies), uncommon. Later reprinted by the Coach House Press. WB/12.
$100.00NY: Dutton (1930). First US edition. 305 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Spanish by Arthur Livingston. A fresh bright copy of this novel that “captured the essence of the whole Spanish Conquest, and the aging half-crazy Columbus has never been more truly and terribly presented.”
$25.00Berkeley, London, Melbourne: Episodic Press, 2016. First edition. Square 12mo. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and cardstock sleeve. Eight full-color watercolor illustrations with Imazu’s introduction. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Kyoko. The first, and so far only, book from our press, but we’ve been talking...
$150.00NY: Random House (1962). First edition. xi + 299 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Review slip laid in. Young 1950*.
$25.00London: Eyre Methuen (1980). First edition. 338 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Front and rear cover portraits by Don Bachardy. Beginning with his 1939 arrival in the US to Prabhavananda’s death in 1976, Isherwood details their long friendship, and his own spiritual struggles.
$200.00NY: Knopf, 2005. First US edition. 288 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Ishiguro on the title page. His sixth novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, source for the eponymous film.
$25.00Berkeley: Tree, 1973. First edition. 89 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers from flaps, else fine in wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Introduction by Rosmarie Waldrop, who also translated this volume from the original French.
$45.00[Brooklyn]: Cuneiform Press (2008). First edition. Single sheet folded twice to make a booklet (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches, closed). Fine. Jacob’s poem in French, Fagin’s version in English. SIGNED by Fagin on the rear cover.
$250.00Berkeley: Thyrsus Press, 2018. First edition. [46 pp]. Fine in half-cloth and printed paper-covered boards. Translated from the original French by Alastair Johnston. Thirty-three selected poems with 32 original illustrations by Jinny Pearce. Printed letterpress and hand bound. One of 135 numbered copies SIGNED by Johnston and Pearce. New, at publication price:
$35.00Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1977). First edition. 24 pp w/glossary. Near fine in illustrated wrappers that are lightly rubbed. Two short stories, with questions, in “simplified text” for educational purposes. An uncommon appearance by South African novelist Jacobson.
$20.00Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1967. First edition. 39 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Poems in English translation by Teo Savory, followed by the original French versions.
$40.00Wien: Das Fröhliche Wohn-Zimmer-Edition (2002). First edition. 16mo. [66 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers. Dated (Wien, 10,6,2002) and INSCRIBED by Jaschke to Anne and Jackson Mac Low, “für / Anne & Jackson / herzlichst / vom / Gerhard.”
$35.00Wien: Edition Freibord (1988). First edition. [24 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Paired images of human silhouettes created by removing the image from a text field and placing it next to the negative space.
$250.00San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthal, 1926. First edition. Single sheet folded once to make four pages. Very near fine, with a tiny chip to a lower corner. Issued as Vol 1, No. 7 of “Lights and Shadows from The Lantern.” A short prose statement by Jeffers, one of only a few published prose works by him. INSCRIBED by Jeffers along the bottom edge of the front cover, “For Samuel Heiman. /Cordially, Robinson Jeffers.”
$200.00[Covelo]: Yolla Bolly Press (1983). First edition. Folio. 127 pp w/notes. Fine in cloth-covered boards with leather spine. Near fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. Jeffers’ poem illustrated with woodblock prints by Mark Livingston. Afterword by James D. Houston. One of 225 (of 240) numbered copies SIGNED by Livingston and Houston. Press compliments slip laid in.
$250.00Los Angeles: Arundel Press, 1988. First edition, deluxe issue. 4to. 33 pp w/notes. Fine in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Robert J. Brophy, with his introduction. One of 50 (from an edition of 250) numbered copies on Gutenberg paper. Printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh. A selection of over twenty previously unpublished poems by Jeffers, dating from his earliest writings.
$750.00Pasadena: Flame Press, 1930. Second edition, first printing. 3 pp. Covers lightly rumpled, else very good plus in sewn wrappers. One of 110 numbered copies printed by Harry Ward Ritchie. The first edition but for 15 copies was destroyed due to typographic errors. Alberts 63. Broomfield A11b.
$450.00San Mateo: Quercus Press, 1940. First edition. 4to. [12 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Printed by hand at the Quercus Press on the Albion proof press used by William Morris at his Kelmscott Press. One of 250 copies on Kelmscott hand-made paper of which 200 were for sale. Two poems by Jeffers, with an excerpt from Una Jeffers’ English journal. Original publication announcement laid in.
$20.00Cardiff: Second Aeon Press, 1971. First edition. 20 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Jenkins' second collection, largely of concrete poems. One of 400 copies.
$750.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970. First edition, publisher’s copy. 4to. [126 pp]. Fine in full leather with gilt stamping to front cover. Fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. “Versions” by Jess, fully illustrated with his drawings on almost every page. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Jess. Morrow & Cooney 92c (note).
$450.00Berkeley: Bancroft Library Press 2007. First edition. 4to. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with printed cover label. Linoleum cut title page illustration by Hayley Rose Rucker. Afterword by Normal Cole. One of 35 copies, the entire edition, on Arches Text paper printed on an Albion handpress.
$250.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. xiii + [33 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels. Fine clear acetate dust jacket. Introduction by Robert Duncan. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Jess and Duncan. Original illustrated prospectus accompanies. Morrow & Cooney 105a.