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$50.00NY: Pantheon Books (1987). First US edition. 192 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. The middle title in Berger’s “Into Their Labours” trilogy. Review slip laid in.
$20.00San Francisco: Gallery 16 Editions, 2008. First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Texts by Berkson, drawings by Jacobsen, concluding with statements on the project by each.
$50.00San Francisco: Gallery 16 Editions, 2008. First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Texts by Berkson, drawings by Jacobsen. SIGNED by Berkson and Jacobsen on the title page, and uncommon thus.
$20.00San Francisco: Auguste Press (nd). First edition. Folding card (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, closed). Fine in the original printed envelope. A poem each by Berkson and Meltzer.
$20.00Woodacre: Owl Press, 2001. First edition. 85 pp w/notes. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Alex Katz. Adds a selection of miscellaneous writings, The Letters of Angelicus & Fidelio Fobb, and Marcia: An Unfinished Novel (with Patsy Southgate), to the title piece. Errata slip, created by Berkson, laid in.
$75.00Chicago: Simon & Schuchat (1974). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 274 (of 300) copies. Ten lists of ten women printed on ten pages.
$100.00San Francisco: Colophleur Press, 2002. First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 100 copies SIGNED by Berkson. Undated notebook entries with Berkson’s short afterword. The product of Marie C. Dern’s letterpress class at the San Francisco Center for the Book.
$125.00Kensington: L Publications, 1976. First edition, lettered & signed issue. Small 4to. 124 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Berkson.
$350.00Bolinas: Big Sky (1975). First edition. [46 pp]. Small stain and two small chips to bottom edge of font cover, else very good plus in printed wrappers. Poems with cover art and illustrations by Philip Guston. INSCRIBED by Berskon to Virgil [Thomson], “For Virgil / with much love, / as ever, / Bill.” Laid into this copy is a thirty-seven word ALS from Berkson to Thomson, in part presenting this book.
$15.00Buffalo: Blaz/Vox (2010). First edition. 285 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
$150.00NY: Angel Hair Books (1973). First edition, numbered & signed issue. Small 4to. [50 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art and internal illustrations by George Schneeman. One of 26 numbered copies SIGNED by Berkson and Schneeman.
$35.00Grindstone City: Alternative Press (1987). First edition. 11 x 7 3/4 inch illustrated broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Originally included in Alternative Press double issue 14/15, but also available separately.
$75.00Bolinas: Smithereens Press (1982). Second printing. 4to. [36 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers with a few trivial marks. Cover art by Lynn O’Hare. INSCRIBED by Berkson on the title page to San Francisco gallerist Paule Anglim, “For Paule - / A Classic: / Merry Christmas 1989 / with our love, - Bill” afterwhich O’Hare has signed “Lynn.”
$45.00[San Francisco]: Bill Berkson, 2006. First edition. 4to. [40 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover photograph by Constance Lewallen. One of 12 copies produced by Berkson.
$20.00Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1975. First printing of this new revised edition (originally published by Tibor De Nagy in 1961). [48 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Norman Bluhm. This edition contains some new poems, and some corrections and additions. Sand Dollar 18.
$25.00[Victoria]: Cuneiform Press, 2007. First edition. 109 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art a drawing by Philip Guston. One of 500 copies. The text of seven lectures with Berkson’s introduction.
$3,500.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1993. First edition number & signed issue. 214 pp. Faint foxing to the top edges, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Berlin. Additionally INSCRIBED by Berlin, “Aug. 1993 / for Bob / with thanks, + love, / always / Lucia.” Laid into this copy is a thirty-two word ALS from Berlin dated August 19, 1993 in part presenting this book, and apologizing for the oversight. The recipient is Robert Callahan of the Turtle Island Foundation, who published Berlin’s second book, ANGELS LAUNDROMAT in 1977.
$850.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1999. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 240 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Berlin. Her third collection of stories, and the last published during her lifetime.
$75.00NY: Simon & Schuster (1978). First edition. 288 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A psychological thriller. Review slip laid in. Young 265*.
$450.00[NY]: Sea Cliff Press, 1983. First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn rose-colored printed wrappers. Original etching by Sultan as a frontispiece. One of 90 numbered copies SIGNED by Bernard and INSCRIBED by Sultan, “Black Tulip Oct 1983 D.S.” Original printed mailing envelope (near fine) accompanies.
$350.00Montcalm: Cygnet Press (2000). First printing of this reissue. vii + 99 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by John Byrne, with his introduction. One of 500 (of 750) copies. Originally published in 1935 in a small edition under the pen name “Adela Quebec.”
$45.00London: Harvill Secker (2008). First edition. 212 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by De Bernières on the title page.
$150.00Washington DC: Counterpoint (1996). First edition. 342 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine. INSCRIBED by Berriault on the half-title page to her publisher Jack Shoemaker and his wife Jane Vandenburgh, “For Jack and Jane / Gratefully / Gina Berriault.”
$250.00Henniker: United Artists (1979). First edition. 4to. [80 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Rosen Kuhn. Rear cover photographs of Berrigan and Schiff by Rochelle Kraut. Yankees v. Red Sox, Yankee Stadium 14 September 1977. Transcription of Berrigan and Schiff’s call of the game.
$250.00NY: Kulchur Press (1967). First trade paperback printing. Small 4to. 202 pp w/notes & credits. Bend to one lower corner, else very good plus in illustrated wrappers with light wear along spine edges. Collaborative poems with cover art and internal drawings by Joe Brainard.
$450.00London: Cape Goliard Press, 1970. First edition. Small 4to. [104 pp]. Hard bumps to bottom edges, else near fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Berrigan, who added “for Michael Brownstein” on the copyright page, and “+ Mike” to the dedication page. Finally, Berrigan has added two words to the poem “Heroin.”
$250.00Chicago: Yellow Press (1975). First edition. 73 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a tiny chip to the base of the front flap fold. INSCRIBED by Berrigan on the front free endpaper, “Dear Ron [Kitaj] / if you don’t have this, / please have it with my / regards and much / affection, / Ted.”
$1,500.00NY: Lorenz & Ellen Gude, 1964. First edition. 4to. [134 pp]. Covers lightly toned, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Joe Brainard. One of 300 numbered copies. The first separate incarnation of Berrigan’s major poetic statement, dedicated to his friend Joe Brainard, and edited by his friend Ron Padgett. This copy has the unprinted rear cover, and is scarce thus.
$45.00Berkeley: Counterpoint (2016). First edition. 159 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 together with “The Presence of Nature in the Natural World: A Long Conversation.”
$35.00NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1977). First edition. 52 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Seven poems collected.
$125.00New Hyde Park: University Books (1965). First edition. xxvii + 183 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket with some shallow edgewear. Introduction by Eve Juster. Besterman considers the history of “seeing beyond the immediate” via transparent or reflective objects.
$100.00(np): Maya Quarto, 1970. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [12 pp]. Light sunning along the fore-edge of the covers, else near fine in sewn wrappers with printed paper cover label. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press. One of 50 numbered copies on Tovil paper SIGNED by Bialy. Maya Quarto 7.