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$125.00Paris: Centre Culturel Américain, 1959. First edition. 142 pp. Light overall wear to edges, else near fine in wrappers. A well-illustrated exhibition catalogue of works by, and photographs of, the American expatriot crowd. Text in French.
$20.00Brooklyn: Pressed Wafer [2015]. First edition. 215 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A festschrift with contributions from Ashbery, Brainard, Fagin, Guston, Kyger, Mayer, Padgett, Raworth, Ruscha, Waldman, and many others.
$125.00Los Angeles: Timothea Stewart Gallery. 1977. First edition. Single large sheet folded once (16 x 11 inches, closed). Fine. Long statement by George Herms, paired with a descriptive list of the 73 items in this exhibition, essentially a memorial for Berman, who died the previous year.
$20.00Sherman Oaks: Clayton Eshleman (1971). January. 160 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Wallace Berman. Contributions by Hirschman, Bromige, Brakhage, Ginsberg, Creeley, and reproductions of four Berman artworks.
$20.00NY: Granary Books, 1998. First edition. 67 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Lewis Warsh. Features collaborative works by Berrigan and George Schneeman interspersed throughout the text.
$50.00Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1991. First edition. Small 4to. x + 253 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. An excellent homage with fifty-six illustrations. Edited by Waldman, with her introduction.
$45.00London & NY: Routledge (1996). First edition. xiii + 234 pp w/index. Tiny bump on spine, else fine in decorated boards. A collection of twelve essays, plus a previously-unpublished letter by Blanchot addressing his political sympathies in the 1930s.
$30.00NY: Oxford University Press (2000). First US edition. xviii + 430 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with b&w images, and a central section of color reproductions.
$25.00NY: Holt (1996). First US edition. 160 pp w/select bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Foreword by Frances Partridge. Fully illustrated in b&w, with a few color reproductions.
$30.00Menlo Park: Occasional Works, 2004. First edition. 28 pp. Fine in wrappers with printed cover label. Printed letterpress from polymer plates by Eric Holub, hand-bound at the Foolscap Press. One of 100 copies. An essay on Leonard Woolf, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Ceylon, instigated by Stansky’s own travel. ‘Of Interest’ Chapbook IV. At publication price:
$150.00NY: Knopf, 1926. First printing of this edition. xxiii + 264 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a small mark on the front cover. Translated from the original Latin by Moncrieff. Introductory letter by George Moore, to whom this complete translation, the first into English from the original Latin, is dedicated.
$450.00San Francisco: [Ebbe Borregaard] 1960. First edition. [120 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 125 copies. Entire text reproduced from holograph. Illustrated with full page drawings by J. Alexander. Prose by the “San Francisco Renaissance” poet. Uncommon.
$950.00[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press 1983. First edition. Fifteen 14 x 9 inch broadsides, each printed in two colors on Rives paper and SIGNED by the poet: Howard Nemerov, W.S. Merwin, Howard Moss, James Merrill, Anthony Hecht, Donald Davie, John Ciardi, Philip Booth, Louis Simpson, Karl Shapiro, W.D. Snodgrass, Radcliffe Squires, William Stafford, Mark Strand, and John Updike. Fine publisher’s portfolio, with a colophon sheet designating this as one of 75 sets, of which 55 were for public sale.
$750.00[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press, 1980. First edition. Tall 4to. Ten broadsides printed in two colors, housed in a fine publisher’s chemise with printed cover label. Very near fine slipcase. One illustration, a woodcut of Warren by Ann Carter Pollard, numbered and signed by the artist, accompanies the poems. One of 75 numbered sets produced, 55 of which were for public sale. Each set is numbered and signed on the colophon sheet by the publisher, Stuart Wright. Each broadside is numbered and SIGNED by the respective poets: James Dickey, Reynolds Price, Richard Eberhart, Richard Wilbur, A.R. Ammons, Fred Chappell, William Meredith, John Hollander, George Garrett, and Rosanna Warren.
$250.00Derry: Rook Press (1976). First edition. Twelve 11 x 8 1/2 inch broadsides laid into a printed paper portfolio. All items very near fine. Rook Folio Series #1. Illustrations by William Lint. Each broadside one of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the contributing poet: William Heyen, Czeslaw Milosz, Paul Zimmer, Jon Anderson, Sandra McPherson, Daniel Halpern, Gerald Costanzo, Mark Halperin, Ed Ochester, James Tate, William Stafford, and Frederick Morgan.
$45.00NY: Putnam’s (1971). First US edition. 351 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light toning to spine. Very near fine publisher’s cardstock slipcase present. Thirty hand-tipped plates in full color, 175 monochrome illustrations.
$125.00Storrs: Wormwood Review Press, 1962. First trade edition. 28 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and integral illustrated dust jacket. Cover by “A. Sypher” a pseudonym used by Malone. One of 500 numbered copies. In addition to work by Judson Crews, Michael C. Ford, Carl Larsen, and Robert Sward, this issue is the first to include a poem by Bukowski, cementing a life-long relationship.
$650.00Stockton: The Wormwood Review Press 1974. Volume 14, Number 1. 40 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 40 numbered copies SIGNED by Malone at the colophon, and SIGNED by Bukowski on the front cover with a drawing of a man on the toilet, and his caption, “Toilet paper is / nicer than / rain.”
$35.00Orono: National Poetry Foundation [1980]. First edition. 427 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some light foxing to rear flap fold. Contributions by Kenner, Enslin, Mottram, Davie, Corman, and many others. Useful also for the concluding bibliography of works both by and about Bunting.
$25.00Highlands: Jargon Society (1977). First edition. [124 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with some rubbing to front cover. One of 1250 copies for private distribution. Bob Cobbing, Robert Creeley, Simon Cutts, Guy Davenport, Allen Ginsberg, dom sylvester houédard, Ronald Johnson, Tom Phillips, and many more contribute. Jargon 66.
$75.00Santa Barbara: Am Here Books (1981). First edition. 4to. 146 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. 2102 item rare books catalogue featuring post-modern poetry books, manuscripts, & letters. Several writers were called upon to comment on their contemporaries. Tom Clark, Dennis Cooper, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Amy Gerstler, Charles Plymell, and others contribute. There is also printed the text of a William S. Burroughs piece, “The Last Words of Hassan-i-Sabbah.” As if that were not enough, a 7 inch 45 rpm recording of Burroughs reading the piece accompanies in an envelope at the rear of the volume. Both the catalogue and record fine. An excellent reference and read.
$35.00Stockton: The Wormwood Review, 1969. First trade edition. 39 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 700 numbered copies. This issue features Burroughs’ “Academy 23” along with five poems by William Wantling. Prints also, at the request of Sue Finlay, her letter excoriating the Fulcrum Press and its treatment of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s work.
$35.00NY: Paris Review (1965). First edition. 147 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Issue features William S. Burroughs as the subject of The Art of Fiction XXXVI. Includes photographs of pages from WSB’s journals.
$100.00Tokyo: Taro Kaneda (1991). First edition. 4to. [128 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with light edgewear. Catalogue for an exhibition that showed in Tokyo & Los Angeles. Introductory text, “Eternal Farewells!” by William S. Burroughs.
$150.00London: Wallrich Books, 1970. First edition. 111 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Poem print insert by Asa Benveniste and Paul Vaughan present. One of 500 copies. Other contributors include Elaine Feinstein, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Muriel Rukeyser and many others. Issued to raise legal defense funds for Bill Butler, a UK publisher and bookseller arrested on obscenity charges. INSCRIBED by Butler to Carolyn [Kizer], “for Carolyn / for some shit / ripped hers off. / Bill Butler / 7 VI 71 / Brighton.”
$100.00NY: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery (2007). First edition. Small 4to. [48 pp]. Fine in wrappers and near fine illustrated dust jacket. Forty color reproductions, plus photographs. Best known for her association with Wallace Berman, her photograph appeared on the cover of Semina 1, and a reproduction of one of her drawings sparked the closure of a show at the Ferus Gallery by police.
$45.00Paris: lettres modernes, 1971. Second (revised and enlarged) edition. viii + [50 pp] + [xviii]. Fine in printed wrappers. Texts in English.
$35.00San Francisco: Momo’s Press, 1977. First trade paperback printing. [140 pp]. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Keith Abbott, Alta, Lyn Hejinian, Tom Mandel, Tom Raworth, Ron Silliman, Michael Myers, and several others contribute. Dated (1/1/78) and INSCRIBED by Vincent, “for Michael McClure / the bird / who was not / there! / Best / Stephen Vincent.” Bookmark Errata laid in.
$125.00Salt Lake City: Department of English/Western Humanities Review, 1963. Winter. 103 pp. Bump to crown of spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. Presents Carver’s “Pastoral, a story.” One of Carver’s first published short fictions, one of six published in 1963, and preceded by only one other earlier, in 1961.
$20.00Santa Barbara: Am Here Books/Immediate Editions (1982). First edition. Oblong 8vo. [58 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover illustration by Tom Clark. Dead cattle, UFOs. Yes, this is still a thing.
$35.00Berkeley: Poets Commune Publications, 1970. First edition. Horizontal 16mo. [36 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems and photos documenting the folks hanging in front of Cody’s, from the Yogi Beadmaker to the Sadistic Painter. Everything is great until the cops show up in Section Five.
$25.00[New Haven]: Anti-Mass Collective (1970). First edition. 56 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. A ten point outline of methods and organization.