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$75.00Edinburgh: Tragara Press 1974. First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with printed cover label. Introduction by Donald Weeks. One of 95 numbered copies. Nine letters by Rolfe, two by Richards.
$40.00Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1977. First edition. [26 pp]. Fine in wrappers and near fine integral dust jacket. One of 175 numbered copies on Glastonbury antique laid paper. Donald Weeks contributes an introduction to these letters by Rolfe, mailed to The Times after the death of Queen Victoria.
$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:
$100.00NY: Stein and Day (1965). First edition. 248 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine. INSCRIBED by Roskolenko on the dedication page, “To Tom: / Who will I hope edit / another volume of mine about / another time... / Cordially, / Harry Roskolenko / New York City / May 13, 1968.”
$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.
$75.00Paris: Gallimard (1972). First edition. 85 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. “SP” perforated on the rear cover, one of 300 numbered hors commerce copies thus. Dated (1 11 72) and INSCRIBED by Royet-Journoud to Louis Zukofsky on the half title page.
$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:
$1,250.00Münster: Westfälischer Kunstverein (1986). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [72 pp]. Fine in full blue cloth with silver stamping to spine and front panel. Essay by Marianne Stockebrand in German and English translation. Twenty-four full color reproductions. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Ruscha.
$250.00NY: Gagosian (2002). First edition. [52 pp]. Fine in full royal blue cloth with inset cover image. No dust jacket as issued. Introductory essay by Adam Gopnik, “Bones in the Ice Cream.” Seventeen color reproductions of mountain and book paintings, three of which are fold-outs.
$100.00NY: Christie’s, 2014. First edition. 99 pp. Fine in full cloth and fine semi-opaque printed dust jacket. One fold-out plate. Essays by Mark Rozzo and Max Carter. A lavishly-illustrated auction catalogue.
$750.00Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery 1978. First edition. 144 pp. A few light vertical wrinkles to covers, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Preface by Henry Geldzahler. Introduction by Andrew Bogle. Color and b&w reproductions. SIGNED by Ruscha on the first leaf.
$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.