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  • Three Friendly Warnings.
    JOHN, Richard Johnny with Jerome Rothenberg and Ian Tyson.
    $100.00
    London: Tetrad Press (1973). First edition. Three 4 3/4 x 3 1/4 inch cards in a glassine envelope, which is then housed in a small folder within a large printed cover sheet (12 x 10 inches, closed). All elements fine. One of 100 (of 125) copies.
  • The Maps.
    JOHNS, Jasper.
    $125.00
    NY: Gagosian Gallery (1989). First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly sunned along the spine. Introductory essay by Roberta Bernstein. Color reproductions of twelve map paintings and prints, a poem by David Shapiro, and a frontis photo of Johns. “With Compliments of Gagosian Gallery” card laid in.
  • Film: Space, Time, Light, and Sound.
    JOHNSON, Lincoln F.
    $35.00
    NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1974). First edition. xi + 340 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Over 800 illustrations, many in color.
  • A Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees.
    JOHNSON, Ronald.
    $150.00
    Highlands: Nantahala Foundation, 1964. First edition. [80 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers and very near fine unprinted acetate dust jacket with tiny splits at base and crown. Johnson’s first book, one of 500 copies printed at the Auerhahn Press. Illustrated with drawings by Thomas George. Printed note from the publisher laid in (explaining that the dedication, to Charles Olson, had been inadvertently omitted).
  • Eyes & Objects (Catalogue for an Exhibition: 1970-72).
    JOHNSON, Ronald.
    $35.00
    Highlands: Jargon Society, 1976. First edition. [32 pp]. Faint sunning along spine, else fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 1000 copies, printed in two colors. Cover photo by Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Jargon 84.
  • Sports and Divertissements.
    JOHNSON, Ronald.
    $75.00
    Urbana: Finial Press (1969). First US edition. [40 pp]. Fine in bright yellow-gold boards with stamped and gilt designs on the front cover. Text illustrated with drawings by Tom Kovacs. One of 171 numbered copies on Shinsetsu paper SIGNED by Johnson and Kovacs. First published in Scotland by Finlay’s Wild Hawthorn Press, "Sports" is a series of found poems "made from Erik Satie’s notes, in French, to the piano pieces SPORTS AND DIVERTISSEMENTS." This is copy 171.
  • The New York Schools of Music and Visual Arts.
    JOHNSON, Steven. ed.
    $125.00
    NY & London: Routledge (2002). First edition. ix + 258 pp w/index. Price sticker/barcode on the rear cover, else fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Johnson gathers essays on John Cage, Willem de Kooning, Morton Feldman, Jasper Johns, Edgard Varese, Robert Rauschenberg, and others.
  • The Gingerbread Woman.
    JOHNSTON, Jennifer.
    $35.00
    London: Review/Headline (2000). First edition. 213 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Johnston on the title page.
  • This Is Not a Novel.
    JOHNSTON, Jennifer.
    $350.00
    London: Review/Headline (2002). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 214 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped goatskin spine with raised bands. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase with a small bump on one side panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Bound and issued by Kenney’s of Galway. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Johnston.
  • The Mantis Hand and Other Poems.
    JONES, Brian.
    $45.00
    Gillingham: ARC (1970). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 15 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Jones. A collection of nine poems.
  • White Rat: Short Stories.
    JONES, Gayl.
    $200.00
    NY: Random House (1977). Uncorrected proof. 176 pp. Spine lightly sunned, else very near fine in printed wrappers with publication information taped to the front cover. Her first collection of stories, following two novels. Promotional flyer laid in.
  • Pomes Penyeach.
    JOYCE, James.
    $350.00
    Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. First edition. [22 pp]. One by two inch sticker scar to rear cover, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards. Errata slip tipped-in after the colophon. Slocum & Cahoon A24.
  • Stephen Hero: Part of the first draft of ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.”
    JOYCE, James.
    $300.00
    London: Jonathan Cape (1944). First edition. 210 pp. Small round stamp inside rear cover, else fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to crown and faint toning to spine. Edited by Theodore Spencer, with his introduction. Slocum & Cahoon A51.
  • Let’s Panic Issue 01.
    KADEL, Greg. ed.
    $75.00
    NY: Passenger (2013). First edition. Folio. [180 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Still sealed in original packaging. Collaborative works featuring Harmony Korine, Sean Lennon, Dan Colen, John Waters, Dash Snow, selections from Tom Farber and Nacio Brown’s RAG THEATER, Yoko Ono, and much else.
  • Letters to Ottla & the Family.
    KAFKA, Franz.
    $75.00
    NY: Schocken (1982). First US edition. xi + 130 pp w/notes, chronology, & index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to base and crown of spine. Translated from the original German by Richard and Clara Winston. Edited by N.N. Glatzer. Letters from 1909 to 1924, illustrated. From the library of David Meltzer, with his annotation to the first leaf.
  • The Love Book.
    KANDEL, Lenore.
    $250.00
    [San Francisco: Stolen Paper Editions, 1966]. First edition. [10 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Conforms to all the true first edition points but a variant issue with the cover printed in brown ink on white stock. The subject of one of the many major American censorship trials of its day.
  • Like One of Us.
    KAPLAN, Allan.
    $25.00
    Beacon: Untitled, 2007. First edition. 110 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards and fine printed dust jacket. Kaplan’s first full-length collection of poems since 1971. Beautifully printed in Naples, Italy.
  • Four Seasons & Two Shoes.
    KAPLAN, Dori.
    $45.00
    NY: Nadada Editions, 1972. First edition. Square 48mo. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Five photographs by Kaplan with text by Gardien Angelico. One of 550 (of 600 copies). A possible Ruscha homage/parody candidate. OCLC locates 3 copies.
  • The Making of Americans: An Opera and a Play.
    KATZ, Leon.
    $15.00
    Barton: Something Else Press, 1973. First trade paperback printing. 186 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Work based on Gertrude Stein's novel THE MAKING OF AMERICANS.
  • The Commanche Cantos.
    KATZMAN, Allen.
    $40.00
    NY: Sign of the Gun (1966). First edition. 28 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Ten page preface by Leon Cyans. Early collection of poems by one of the co-founders of the East Village Other.
  • Breakwater.
    KAWIN, Bruce F.
    $40.00
    NY: Columbia Review (1964). First edition. 4to. 49 pp. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Poems and prose with illustrations by Marilyn Rivchin. One of 300 numbered copies.
  • That Distance Apart: Poems.
    KAY, Jackie.
    $45.00
    London: Turret Books (1991). First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in wrappers and very near fine dust jacket. Frontispiece illustration by Paul Emsley. One of 400 (of 500) copies. Her first book, published the same year as THE ADOPTION PAPERS. Turret Booklet New Series No. 7.
  • Oz and the Damaged Architecture.
    KEARNEY, Larry.
    $100.00
    Bolinas: Smithereens Press (1986). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. [38 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Terry Bell. One of ten copies SIGNED by Kearney and Bell.
  • Westward: A Magazine of Verse.
    KEENE, Florence R. ed.
    $200.00
    San Francisco: Florence R. Keene, 1927-1930. The first twelve issues of this poetry magazine. The first two issues are near fine in sewn wrappers with a bit of edgewear, the rest fine in stapled wrappers. Contributors include Lawrence Hart, Ina Coolbrith, Arthur Price, Gelett Burgess, Don Blanding, Yone Noguchi, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joaquin Miller, Rosalie Moore, and many others. For the first volume:
  • Dear Anyone: Poems.
    KEENS, William.
    $125.00
    Lisbon: Penumbra Press (1976). First edition. 28 pp. Fine in cloth-covered boards with printed spine label. One of 100 numbered copies on Hosho SIGNED by Keens.
  • Contributor’s Note.
    KEES, Weldon.
    $45.00
    Aralia Press, 1999. First edition. [8 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 150 copies on Zerkall paper. A formerly unpublished poem by Kees, with an introduction by Dana Gioia.
  • Fall Quarter: The Unpublished Novel.
    KEES, Weldon.
    $50.00
    Brownsville: Story Line Press (1990). First edition, limited issue. 246 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine in publisher’s slipcase. Edited and with an introduction by James Reidel. According to the publisher, this issue was limited to 100 copies.
  • Two Prose Sketches.
    KEES, Weldon.
    $35.00
    [West Chester]: Aralia Press, 1984. First edition. [26 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 240 (of 280) numbered copies on Mohawk Letterpress Text paper. Introduction by Dana Gioia. Portrait engraving of Kees by Michael McCurdy. Collects “Public Library” and “Midwestern University: Evening.”
  • Lutch Love.
    KELLY, Bernard J.
    $40.00
    (np): Prison Clothes Press, 1974. First edition. 4to. [14 pp]. Very good plus in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Ulli McCarthy. “Poems for Nava.” PrisOn ClotheEs PrEss nUmBer fiVe.
  • Song XXIV.
    KELLY, Robert.
    $50.00
    Cambridge: Pym-Randall Press (1967). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 (of 126) numbered copies SIGNED by Kelly.
  • Night Walk.
    KENNA, Michael.
    $125.00
    San Francisco: Friends of Photography (1988). First edition. 59 pp. Bump to lower outside corner, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Jerome Tarshis. Illustrated with forty b&w plates. SIGNED by Kenna on the title page.
  • Hangover Mass.
    KENNEDY, X.J.
    $250.00
    Cleveland: Bits Press (1984). First edition, numbered & signed issue [24 pp]. Fine in patterned paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. One of 33 numbered copies SIGNED by Kennedy. A collection of fourteen poems.