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$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.
$150.00NY: Kent/Westreich (1989). First edition. 4to. [88 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. An artist’s book by Prince, juxtaposing works by Artschwanger, Brauntuch, Picabia, Polke, Man Ray, Richter, Sherman, Warhol, and Prince.
$25.00(np): Wm. Meek Ltd., 1968. First edition. 16mo. 19 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. A poetic condemnation of sequential wars from 1914-1968.
$150.00NY: Dutton, 1971. First US edition. 222 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine. Puig’s first novel.
$125.00[Vancouver]: Colophon Books, 1990. First edition, numbered & signed issue. Folio. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Printed at the Pie Tree Press. Pairs “Blood Pressure Blues” with “Concerning Ms. Atwood.” One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy.
$45.00NY: Nadja [1978]. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Pages uncut. A single poem by Purdy, with his cover art. One of 174 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy. The first book of the press.
$75.00NY: Nadja (1979). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies on handmade Umbria paper SIGNED by Purdy. A prose work with a drawing by Purdy as a frontis.
$55.00NY: Nadja, 1985. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Purdy’s short story with an illustration by Ed Colker. One of 200 numbered copies on Arches paper SIGNED by Purdy and Colker.
$125.00Dallas: Cameron Northouse (1977). First edition, manuscript edition. 4to. 109 pp. Tiny spot to fore-edge of front cover, else fine in illustrated wrappers in near fine publisher’s slipcase with foxing along part of the top edge. One of 67 copies with a page of corrected typescript SIGNED by Purdy, housed in a folder with pasted-on label. The entire play, “A Day After the Fair” appears in the magazine complete. Young 3146 (Note of Hand edition).
$75.00Village Station: Metapoetics Press (1975). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [24 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Cut marbled paper cover design by Susan Quasha. One of 137 numbered copies SIGNED by Quasha. Dated (26 October 75) and INSCRIBED by Quasha, “For Clayton + Caryl, with love, George / Rokeby Farm / Berrytown.” Quasha has penned a eight page poem on the title page.
$50.00NY: Harper & Brothers (1960). First US edition. 198 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with sunning to title lettering on spine. Translated from the original French by Barbara Wright, the original French title being ZAZIE DANS LE MÉTRO.
$750.00London: John and Edward Bumpus, 1908. First edition. xi + 113 pp. Very near fine in full red cloth with gilt decoration. Her third collection of poems, preceding her first novel for many years. THE WELL OF LONELINESS, her best known book, was published in 1928.
$25.00[London]: Privately Printed, 1978. First edition. [22 pp]. Fine in wrappers and integral blue paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. Printed at the Tragara Press. One of 145 numbered copies on Conqueror Vellum laid paper. Published on the occasion of Raine’s 70th birthday. Halliwell A7.
$25.00West Branch: Toothpaste Press, 1981. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [32 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed paper cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Rakosi.
$12.50West Branch: Toothpaste Press, 1981. First trade edition. [32 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 1500 copies on Curtis Tweedweave paper. Twenty numbered poems, printed in two colors.
$25.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1977. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Rakosi on the front cover. Sparrow 53. Morrow & Cooney 257.