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$100.00London: Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1974. First trade edition. 80 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Cecil Woolf. Rolfe’s notorious letters to Masson Fox detailing his desperate times and sexual life in Venice from 1909-1910. Young 3344*.
$50.00London: Bertram Rota, 1972. First trade edition. 58 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Introduction and notes by Donald Weeks. One of 500 numbered copies. Edited by James Weeks, with his thorough notes. Rolfe’s correspondence with Walsh follows the typical unhappy arc.![Frederick William Rolfe ‘Baron Corvo.’ Born in London, July 1860 Died in Venice, October 1913 [Cover title].](https://www.detritus.com/wp-content/uploads/81340.jpg)
$125.00(np): Privately Printed for A.T.B. (1926). First edition. Small folding card (5 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches, closed). Fine. One of 50 copies. On the verso of the cover are four lines by William Blake, opposite a photographic portrait of Rolfe, dated c. 1890. Together with a similar memorial for the 50th anniversary of his death, with the caption title, “Reprinted from The Times / October 25, 1963 / in Memoriam,” with a six line tribute to Rolfe. One the verso is printed, “One of fifty-three copies printed / for friends of Corvo in February 1964.” For the pair:
$150.00San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press (1980). First edition, lettered & signed issue. 96 pp. Fine in full red cloth with gold stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Ronan with a holograph poem, “Prayer” penned to the front free endpaper. Young 3346*.
$75.00NY: Viking (1974). First edition. xiv + 178 pp. Lower corners tapped, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrations by R.C. Gorman and Aaron Yavva. Contributions by Leslie Silko, Simon J. Ortiz, Anna Lee Walters, Joseph Little, R.C. Gorman, Joseph Little, Opal Lee Popkes, and Larry Littlebird and the members of Circle Film.
$150.00NY: Angel Hair Books (1974). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. [88 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrapper with a small patch of white-out on the verso of the unprinted rear panel. Cover art by George Schneeman. One of 26 numbered copies SIGNED by Rosenberg and Schneeman.
$125.00NY: Angel Hair Books (1973). First edition. 4to. [28 pp]. Light toning to front panel, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Hannah Wilke. One of 100 copies.
$350.00Chicago: Big Table (1959-1960). Five issues, all near fine in or better in illustrated wrappers. Created from the furor over suppression of portions of William S. Burroughs’ NAKED LUNCH, Big Table went on be a major forum for “Beat” writers including Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Corso, and Bowles, but would embrace the Black Mountain and NY schools quickly and thoroughly. For the run:
$75.00NY: Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2009). First US edition. 393 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with publisher’s small promotional sticker on the front cover. SIGNED by Roslund and Hellström on the title page. This successful duo’s second book.
$25.00Mexico City: El Corno Emplumado (1966). First edition. 21 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Cover design by Sylvia de Swann. Translated into English from the original Finnish by Anselm Hollo. colección la llave vol. I.
$150.00Perry: Perishable Press, 1975. First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with a paper construction by Jody Shields bound into the center fold. One of 76 copies. SIGNED by Rothenberg. Hamady 71.
$100.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [24 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Pages unopened. Near fine unprinted dust jacket. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Rothenberg. Morrow & Cooney 26b.
$55.00Greensboro: Unicorn Press (1974). First trade edition. [56 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Eleanor Antin. Dated (12/3/85) and INSCRIBED by Rothenberg. Poems illustrated with photographs by Laurence Fink. The pictured cast includes Kathy Acker, Cyrelle Foreman, Leonard Neufeld, and Rothenberg.
$75.00Brighton: Unicorn, 1967. First edition. Small 4to. [16 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover by Tony Bennett. One of 324 (of 400) copies. Rothenberg’s translation from the original Aztec via Bernardino de Sahagún’s initial translation and then Angel Maria Garibay’s Spanish prose.
$40.00Mexico: Ediociones El Corno Emplumado, 1966. First edition. 61 pp w/contents. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Rothenberg’s original English poems with facing Spanish translations by Sergio Mondragón. colección acuario vol. ix.
$125.00NY: McGraw-Hill (1972). First printing of this edition. 215 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Originally published in 1969 by Routsong herself under the title A PLACE FOR US. Young 2707.
$35.00[NY]: Friendly Local Press [1968]. First edition. 4to. [50 pp]. Fine in side-stapled and taped wrappers. Designed by Douglas Keith.
$45.00Cambridge: South End Press (2001). First edition. vi + 132 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. An early non-fiction title by THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS.
$75.00Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, 1978. First edition. [18 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 125 copies printed letterpress on seven different handmade papers for friends of Rubovits and the Press. Hamady 85.
$75.00NY: Harper & Brothers (1961). First edition. Small 4to. [32 pp]. Very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Very good plus clipped, but not price-clipped, dust jacket with wear to crown and tips of flap folds, and a small chip to top edge of rear panel. Text by Rukeyser with illustrations by Kessler. Uncommon. The second of her five books for children.
$125.00Bolinas: Grey Fox Press (1979). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 81 pp. Fine in full blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Rumaker. Young 3387*.
$75.00Rocky Mount: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press (1991). Second edition, numbered & signed issue. xi + 286 pp. Very near fine in full green cloth with copper lettering to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Design by Jonathan Greene. Introduction by Russell Banks, afterword by Robert Creeley. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Rumaker. Originally published by Grove Press in 1966.
$75.00NY: Christine Burgin (2014). First editions. 112 + 128 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket, and fine in illustrated wrappers, respectively. DRAWINGS includes an essay by Leslie Jones, AND WRITING, an introduction by Bill Berkson. For the pair:
$250.00Beverly Hills & NY: Gagosian Gallery (1998). First edition. [18 + 9 pp]. Fine in debossed boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Introductory essay by Dave Hickey. An elaborately-designed exhibition catalogue, reproducing 20 paintings and drawings.
$1,250.00[Los Angeles]: Ed Ruscha, 1967. First edition. [44 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers with light sunning to spine. Droplet mark to front cover, else near fine in unprinted glassine dust jacket with a few short tears, tanning, and wrinkles along top edge. Aerial photographs by Art Alanis.
$500.00Los Angeles: Mason Williams and Edward Ruscha (1971). Third edition. [48 pp]. Faint dampstains inside front cover and to first blank leaf, else near fine in spiral-bound wrappers. A photo-documentary, captioned, of the destruction of a Royal Typewriter via being thrown from the window of a Buick at 90 mph.
$20.00(np): Granta (1990). First US edition. 22 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of two essays by Rushdie, published by Granta shortly after the fatwah against him was issued.
$350.00NY: St. Martin’s (1984). First edition. 160 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket that is slightly mis-folded. Dated (3/22/86) and SIGNED by Russ on the title page. Includes her work “Souls,” which won the 1983 Hugo Award for best novella. Uncommon signed.
$75.00NY: Grove Press (2015). First edition. 64 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Ryan. Her first post-Pulitzer collection.
$125.00London: Rapp & Carroll (1967). First UK edition, numbered & signed issue. 48 pp. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a few small pressure dents to the front panel. Translations from the original Finnish by Anselm Hollo. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Saarikoski and Hollo.
$125.00Santa Fe: SITE Santa Fe (1999). First edition. [34 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers and very near fine printed semi-opaque dust jacket with a small pale stain on the front cover. Essay by David Clemmer. Many color images and quotations from Sachs.
$450.00Beverly Hills: Gagosian Gallery, 2007. First edition. 4to. 278 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Exhaustive documentation of Sachs’ own space program. Hundreds of photographs, an essay by Arthur C. Danto, a conversation with Buzz Aldrin, Sachs, and Louise Neri, and more.