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$50.00NY: Avalon Books (1965). First edition. 192 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a small corner crease to the front flap. Explorer Dan Williams, after being lost for forty years, returns to a post nuclear war America, ruled by a class of eugenics-friendly scientists, who are also running machines by removed and reanimated brains.
$75.00San Francisco: Momo’s Press, 1979. First edition. [96 pp]. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Title page drawings by Basil King. Foreword by George Economou. Original Spanish poems with facing English translations by Blackburn, who made this selection.
$150.00NY: Caterpillar (1966). First edition. 4to. [10 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 100 mimeographed copies. Much less common than the later multilithed issue. Caterpillar IV. Woodward A7.
$45.00Buffalo: University Press of Buffalo (1970). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Blackburn. Beau Fleuve Series Number One.
$75.00Berkeley: University of California (2006). First printing of this revised and expanded edition. xxv + 519 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Miriam Nichols, foreword by Robert Creeley, new afterword by Charles Bernstein.
$45.00Providence: Blue Moon Press, 1973. First edition. 4to. [60 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 100 copies. First of several books by Blasing, who is now the primary American translator, together with his wife Mutlu Konuk, of the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet.
$15.00[Easthampton]: Edition Muta (2018). First edition. 97 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover collage by Blazek. Though not called for, SIGNED by Blazek. Muta 08.
$15.00[Northampton]: Edition Muta (2018). First edition. 116 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover collage by Blazek. Muta 09.
$45.00Cleveland: Black Rabbit Press (1969). First edition. 4to. [60 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover graphic by Aaron Pori. Introduction by Tom Kryss. One of 500 copies with a two-color silkscreen title page, and three single color silkscreen illustrations.
$45.00Norwich: Stone Press (1974). First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Design and illustration by Stephen Homsy. An uncommon collection of poems. Stone Chapbook No. 3. DenBoer A28.
$35.00Madison: Quixote, 1968. First edition, second issue. [72 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Letters from Blazek to Don Cauble, Pete Larouche, Willie, and Brown Miller. A small number of copies were spiral-bound, but was quickly deemed too expensive and abandoned in favor of staples. DenBoer A4.
$35.00[Sacramento]: Prismatic Navigator (2019). First edition. 88 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Catalogue for an exhibition held at the University Library Gallery, California State University, Sacramento from 7 February - 30 March 2019. Curated by James D. Fox with his introduction. Illustrated with 40 full-color reproductions of Blazek’s collage work. Blazek contributes his own introduction, an afterword, and the poem “Breakfast in Heaven.” While not called for, SIGNED by Blazek. New, at publication price:
$25.00London: Chatto & Windus (2003). First UK edition. 152 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Blensdorf on the title page. First novel by this Australian expat.
$350.00Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (1962). First edition. 60 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Bly’s first full length collection which set the course for American poetry for a stretch.
$125.00NY: Norton (2007). First edition. 79 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Boland on the title page. Her tenth collection.
$450.00Omaha: Cummington Press, 1989. First edition. 40 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. Printed by Harry Duncan from Bembo and Perpetua types. One of 215 numbered copies on Ingres d’Arches paper. Dated (27 October 1989) and INSCRIBED by Duncan on the colophon page.
$40.00London: MPT Books, 2000. First UK edition. 218 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Original French poems preceded by Rudolf’s English translations. INSCRIBED by Rudolf to R.B. Kitaj, “K. / love / A /Oct. 2000 / (letter follows).
$2,000.00London: Enitharmon 1974. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 17 pp. Fine in full cloth and fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket with one tiny tear. Translated from the original Spanish by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. Tipped-on frontis portrait of Borges by Hugo Manning. One of 50 numbered copies on Glastonbury Coloured Antique Laid paper SIGNED by Borges, di Giovani, and Manning. Halliwell 45a.
$250.00(np): Contexts & Editions Gallery Number Ten (1967). First edition [110 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. “avec les compliments de J.F. Bory” slip accompanies, along with a clipped return address from the original parcel in which this copy was mailed.
$125.00London: Idea Books, 1971. First edition. [36 pp]. Oblong 8vo. Near fine in white glossy boards with the title embossed on the front panel. Sixteen b&w photographs of the same two paired objects in different, well, situations.
$15.00Toronto: Coach House Press (2003). Second edition. [24 pp]. Fine in green-flocked, pennant-shaped wrappers. One of 1000 copies.
$50.00Toronto: Coach House, 1971. First edition. [46 pp]. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. One of 250 copies. A serial poem based on the daily dealing of a card from the Tarot, thirty-eight in all. Miki A14a.
$75.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1985. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 319 pp w/index of names. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and paper label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited, with an introduction by Millicent Dillon. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Dillon.
$750.00[North Pomfret]: Elysium Press, 1997. First edition, lettered & signed issue. x + 141 pp. Fine in full blue cloth with inset cover and spine labels. Fine publisher’s clamshell case in matching cloth. Introduction by Gavin Lambert. Illustrated with four tipped-in photographs. Upon the box endpapers are reproduced the first printings of original music by each of the two correspondents. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Bowles, Rorem, and Lambert. This is copy “A.” Original prospectus accompanies.
$150.00NY: Red Ozier Press (1982). First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. A short story translated by Paul Bowles. Illustrations by David Craven. One of 185 numbered copies SIGNED by Rey Rosa, Bowles, and Craven. Miller A42.
$75.00Tiburon: Cadmus Editions (1997). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 117 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. Rey Rosa’s original Spanish novella with a facing English translation by Paul Bowles (to whom the book is dedicated). One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Rey Rosa and Bowles.
$350.00London: John Lehmann (1950). First edition. 222 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Cover art by Keith Vaughan. Bowles’ third book, following THE SHELTERING SKY and 1933’s TWO POEMS. Miller A3.
$75.00London: Peter Owen (1985). First British Commonwealth edition. 190 pp w/glossary. Fine in fine dust jacket. First British Commonwealth appearance of these twenty stories. A less common Bowles title from Peter Owen. See Miller A46c.
$300.00NY: League of Composers 1939-1944. Nine issues, all near fine in stapled wrappers. In addition to sitting on the “Composers’ Committee,” Bowles was a frequent translator and contributor from 1931 to 1946. Out of thirty or so citations, this batch includes Miller C95, C100-1, C107-8, C109, C110, C111, C134-5, C279, and C350. For the lot:
$350.00Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions (1981). First edition, numbered & signed issue. Two LPs, both fine, in fine linen sleeve. Cover illustration by Brion Gysin. Colophon sheet and Erratum slip present. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles.
$200.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 10 pp. Light sunning to extrems, else very near fine in sewn wrappers. Title page woodcut by Henry Shire. Designed and printed by Saul and Lillan Marks. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles. Nine poems, dated 1934-1940. Miller 18a. Morrow & Cooney 29a.
$75.00Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press (1985). First trade edition. 66 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Boyle on the title page with a correction in her hand on one page. Accompanying this copy is Boyle’s own erratum slip, indicating trouble on six additional pages.