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$75.00San Francisco: Journal 31 (1972). 55 + 46 pp. Two creases to spine of #1 (production flaw) else both issues fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Pete Winslow on Bob Kaufman, Kicknosway, Barry Gifford, Paul Vangelisti, David Gitin, Blazek, Di Palma, Mariah, and many others contribute. Brief ALS from the editor laid into the first issue. For the pair:
$45.00San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1966. First edition. [52 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers with a touch of rust to the staples. Allen Ginsberg contributes a two page note, “Plymell's Qualities,” as an introduction. His first book. Haselwood 9.
$35.00London: Patroclus Press (1976). First edition. 48mo. 17 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Photos by Peter Cosgrove and Shellie Sterne. Four short works.
$35.00Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions (nd). First edition. 25 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 200 copies. Two short stories.
$100.00Paris: Olympia Press (1960). First edition. 282 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine dust jacket. Cover design by J.M. Favarger. A Korean war novel, focused on the prisoner of war experience. Traveller’s Companion Series. Kearney 5.81.
$200.00San Francisco: Gesture Press, 1961. First edition. 41 pp. A touch of foxing to top edge, else very near fine in full cloth with gilt stamping to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Printed at the Auerhahn Press. SIGNED by Pomeroy on the colophon page. The bibliography describes only an issue in wrappers.
$45.00Iowa City: Meadow Press, 1976. First edition. 27 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Handset and handprinted by Leigh McLellan in three colors. One of 200 numbered copies on Gutenberg Laid paper SIGNED by Pope.
$30.00NY: Knopf, 1988. First printing of this revised and enlarged edition. xiv + 44 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Merwin provides a new introduction to this revised and enlarged selection of his translations of these Spanish poems.
$40.00NY: Something Else Press, 1971. First edition. xv + 47 pp w/appendix. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dick Higgins contributes an introduction. One of 895 copies.
$1,000.00NY: Simon & Schuster (1968). Advance reading copy. 215 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Second book by Portis, published serially in The Saturday Evening Post, and widely considered an American classic.
$750.00Trenton: Phillips & Godshalk, 1940. First edition. 51 + 28 pp. Two volumes, each near fine in stapled wrappers with light sunning to spines, and a small spot to the front cover, and a bit of foxing to the fore-edge of volume II. “And Touch” is a collection of poems by Posner, “Clean Earth,” plant and animal stories by Flemer, both books with his linoleum cut illustrations. For the pair:
$450.00Rapallo: Scuola Tipografica Orfanotrofio Emiliani, 1942. First edition. 29 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Original Chinese with Italian translations by Pound and Luchini. The first issue, on watermarked paper. Gallup B46.
$200.00[Norfolk]: Pharos, 1947. First edition. 52 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. “With notes and commentary on the text and the ideograms, together with Ciu Hsi’s ‘Preface’ to the Chung Yung and Tseng’s commentary on the Testament.” The fourth and final issue of Pharos. Gallup A58a.
$2,500.00London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. First edition. 51 pp. Expected light scattered foxing, else fine in boards and in the original glassine that is a bit rumpled and edgeworn with a few short tears. Gallup A4a. One of Pound’s own copies, with the label, “From The Venice Library of Ezra Pound & Olga Rudge” inside the front cover. Housed in a custom clamshell case (two lower corners lightly bumped). From the collection of Black Sparrow publisher John Martin, with his label.
$450.00London: Peter Russell (1950-1951). Six volumes. Small corner crease to rear cover of #1, else all very near fine or better in stapled wrappers. A full set issued by Peter Russell, with the goal of making accessible to the English reader an introduction to the economic and political thought of Pound. This set belonged to Seamus Cooney, who has made bibliographical notes on the mailing envelope that housed this collection. Gallup A53b, A52b, A46 (note), A50c, A40b (note), A51b. For the set:
$850.00Rapallo: Tip. Moderne (Canessa), (1944). First edition. 22 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Entire text in Italian. From the library of Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin, with his book ticket inside the ear cover. Gallup A52a.
$1,000.00London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. First edition. 59 pp. Some foxing to fore-edge, else very near fine in paper-covered boards with gilt stamping to spine and front panel. An earlier copy off the press, with the five lines on the spine measuring 2cm. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. Gallup A3a.
$35.00Toledo: Friends of the University of Toledo Libraries, 1987. First edition. 37 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. Edited by Donald C. Gallup, with his introduction. One of 500 numbered copies. Collects four dramatic works.
$650.00London: The Egoist [1919]. First trade edition. 51 pp. Very near fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. One of 500 copies. As in most copies, Pound has corrected the misprinted “Wherefore” to “Wherefrom” on page 34. Gallup A17a. From the library of Black Sparrow publisher John Martin, with his ownership ticket.
$75.00London: Faber and Faber (1973). First edition. 444 pp w/index. Corners very gently tapped, else fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by William Cookson, with his introduction. Gallup A93a.
$75.00London: Faber and Faber (1960). First UK edition. 126 pp. Faint endemic offsetting to endpapers, else fine in very near fine dust jacket with two short closed tears. Gallup A77c.
$2,000.00NY: Farrar & Rinehart (1932). First edition. 282 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with some shallow chipping to base and crown of spine, and to tips of flap folds. Powell’s fifth novel, originally titled COME BACK TO SORRENTO, but changed by the publisher against Powell’s wishes on publication.
$20.00Berkeley: Peacock Press, 1965. First edition. 16mo. 15 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. An essay on the difficulties created by big books.
$35.00Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions (1974). Second edition. [15 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Edited by Charles Plymell with an introduction by Dave Haselwood. Originally published in 1963 in a 250 copy letterpress edition by Haselwood and Plymell.
$75.00Denton: Brynmill (1995). First edition. 213 pp w/afterword, notes, & sources. Fine in fine dust jacket. Stories selected and edited by Elaine and Barrie Mencher.
$100.00London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. First edition. 311 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Powys’ third novel. Custom bookplate of early Powys bibliographer and champion Lloyd Emerson Siberell inside the front board.
$45.00Gringly-on-the-Hill: Brynmill (1991). First trade edition. vii + 322 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited with notes by Ian Robinson, assisted by Elaine Mencher. Afterword by J. Lawrence Mitchell. Composed just before MR. WESTON’S GOOD WINE (1927), but unpublished until this edition.
$75.00London: Chatto & Windus (1930). First edition. 278 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear along the top edge and crown of spine.
$75.00Rocky Mount: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press (1989). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 45 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Price. Additionally dated (11 v 90) and warmly INSCRIBED by Price to a close friend.
$20.00[Rocky Mount]: Friends of the Library, North Carolina Wesleyan College (1981). First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. An essay with a short preface by Price. Produced on the occasion of his reading at the Library.
$750.00[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press (1979). First edition, lettered & signed issue. 29 pp. Fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 9 lettered copies SIGNED by Price with his original drawing on the title page.
$125.00[North Pomfret]: Elysium Press, 2002. First edition. 17 pp. Fine in stiff wrappers and fine pale green paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 50 numbered copies on Somerset paper, ten of which were for private use. Edited by Tom Sargant, with his introduction. Bookseller Burton Weiss wrote: travel pieces by a gay American writer born in 1858 who lived most of his adult life in Europe, where he published two groundbreaking books under the pseudonym “Xavier Mayne”: IMRE: A MEMORANDUM (Naples, 1906), the first sympathetic and explicitly gay novel by an American, and THE INTERSEXES (1908), the first separately published study of homosexuality by an American.