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$20.00Upper Galilee: Regional Council/Tel Hai College (1980). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Listed participants include Giancarlo Politi, Germano Celant, Alice Aycock, Laurie Anderson, Allan Kaprow, Vito Accconci, and several others. Text entirely in Hebrew.
$40.00Sewanee: University Art Gallery (2006). First edition. 63 pp. Some light soiling to unprinted front cover, else very near fine in wrappers. One of 500 copies. A profusely color illustrated exhibition catalogue.
$500.00San Francisco: Artspace Books (1992-2006). First editions. Fifteen volumes, all fine in illustrated boards (exceptions noted below). A vibrant series of prose works paired with art in a (mostly) uniform format. The contributors : David Wojnarowicz, Dennis Cooper & Nayland Blake (bump to lower corners), Jim Lewis & Jack Pierson (light band of sunning to rear cover), Klaus Kertess & Nan Goldin, Carlo McCormick & Tony Labat, A.M. Homes, Guillermo Gómez-Pena & Enrique Chagoya, Zoe Leonard & Cheryl Dunye, Moody, Steinke, Oates, Morrow & Gregory Crewdson (lower corners tapped), Dave Hickey & John Defazio, Ben Marcus & Matthew Ritchie (price sticker on rear cover), Heidi Julavits & Jenny Gage, Jonathan Raymond & Justine Kurland, Rebecca Solnit & Stefan Kürten, and the volume ARTSPACE WAS, ARTSPACE IS. For the collection:
$45.00San Francisco: Gray Fox Press (1981). First edition. 120 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with two short tears. Transcriptions of eight conversations dated from the late 1940s and early 1950s when Auden was living on Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village.
$45.00NY & Washington DC: Thames and Hudson/Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1989). First edition. 4to. 187 pp w/select bibliography. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Forward by James T. Demetrion. Ninety-six illustrations, including 83 color plates and 10 fold-outs. Published on the occasion of Bacon’s 80th birthday, and a major retrospective in the US.
$35.00Hayes: Bran’s Head Books (1976). First trade paperback printing. 76 + [24 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Illustrated by Carol Gregory. Contributions by Aldiss, Pringle, Moorcock, Watson, and Peter Linnett. The volume concludes with a bibliography by John Carnell, with an introduction by Ballard.
$350.00San Francisco: Re/Search Publishing (1984). First edition. 4to. 171 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Collects interviews, fiction, non-fiction, bibliography, and more. SIGNED by Ballard opposite the contents page. Uncommon thus.
$75.00London: Martin Brian & O’Keeffe (1973). First edition. 93 pp w/bibliography. Fine in full cloth and matching publisher’s slipcase. One of 250 (of 275) numbered copies. Contributions by Gascoyne, Ginsberg, Liddy, Geoffrey Hill, Peter Levi, C.H. Sisson, and many others.
$150.00Cambridge: MIT Press (1990). First US edition. 4to. 362 pp w/appendixes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Over 400 images drawn from the Bauhaus-Archiv, a wealth of essays, and documentary biographies of every Bauhaus photographer.
$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.