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  • Nine: A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism 1 - 11 (complete).
    [COMPLETE RUNS]. Russell, Peter. ed.
    $400.00
    London & Tunbridge Wells: Peter Russell, 1949-1956. Eleven issues, all near fine or better in printed wrappers with most being fine. Pound, Eliot, Gascoyne, Santayana, Cummings, Bunting, Graves, Borges, Eluard, and many others contribute. A number of inserts included, among them an announcement that the Russell’s house (and Nine office) burnt down, causing a delay in issuing #7. Issues 2 and 4 of the Nine Bookmart, as well as “New and Recent Books we Recommend” all priced for sale, also. For the run:
  • My Landlord Must Be Really Upset. Vol. 1, 1 & 1, 2 (all published).
    [COMPLETE RUNS]. Wagner, D.r. ed.
    $75.00
    Sacramento: Runcible Spoon [1970]. Two issues, each 4to, each fine in side-stapled wrappers. The first issue features Blazek, Nichol, Finch, Kryss, Spicer, and others, with cover art by T.L. Kryss. Blazek, Locklin, Wagner, Arthur Knight, Swanberg, Von Tersch, Zurbrugg, Thomas A. Clark, Depew, and others appear in the second issue. Stapled to this issue, inside a printed paper bag, is the chapbook NEED A DOZEN TOW BOYS? by Jim Stewart (as issued). For the pair:
  • Greenhouse Review 1-4 (complete)
    [COMPLETE RUNS]. Young, Gary. ed.
    $125.00
    Santa Cruz: Greenhouse Review Press (1975-1979). Four issues, all near fine or better in printed wrappers. Work by Wakoski, Edson, Neruda, Soto, Charles Wright, Gary Young, and many others. For the run:
  • Brazilian Poetry 1950-1980.
    [CONCRETE POETRY]. Brasil, Emanuel and William Jay Smith. eds.
    $40.00
    Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (1983). First edition. 187 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with one short tear to the top edge. Work by Jorge Mautner, Ferreira Gullar, Haroldo De Campos, Mário Faustino, Augusto De Campos, Décio Pigntari, and Lindolf Bell, largely concrete in form.
  • Totaal.
    [CONCRETE POETRY]. Clavin, Hans. et al. eds.
    $125.00
    Amsterdam: Bert Bakker (1976). First edition. 132 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. A terrific collection of Dutch concrete and visual poetry by Hans Clavin, Herman Damen, Robert Joseph, and G.J. de Rock.
  • Stanford Short Stories: Nineteen Forty-Nine.
    [CONNELL, Evan S.]. Stegner, Wallace.
    $150.00
    Stanford: Stanford University Press (1949). First edition. x + 165 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly toned. Preface by Stegner. Lead story, “I’ll Take You to Tennessee” by Connell, his first appearance in a book. SIGNED by Connell on the front free endpaper.
  • Six Exhibition Announcements.
    [CONNER, Bruce].
    $125.00
    Various (1990-2001). Six exhibition announcements, the largest being 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 inches, for exhibitions at Michael Kohn, Curt Marcus, Susan Inglett, and Smith Anderson. Two have been through the mail, else all are near fine or better. For the group:
  • The Music Room.
    [CONNER, Bruce]. Hoyem, Andrew.
    $850.00
    San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1965. First edition. Horizontal 48mo. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Poem by Hoyem, pasted-on cover image, a “hallucinogram” by Bruce Conner. One of 100 copies printed letterpress. Haselwood 2.
  • The Ballad of Lemon and Crow.
    [CONNER, Bruce]. Todd, Glen.
    $750.00
    San Francisco: Arion Press, 2002. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 51 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth with printed spine label. Fine publisher’s slipcase. Text by Todd with illustrations by Conner. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Todd and Conner. Original prospectus booklet and invitation to the publication party accompany.
  • Tonto Lavoris.
    [COOLIDGE, Clark and Larry Fagin].
    $150.00
    [NY]: Adventures in Poetry (1973). First edition. 4to. [32 pp]. Very fine in side-stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Coolidge on the title page. From the text, at random: Red Soapy, Peg Sluice, Miles Clout, Appian Snort, Lucky Lock, Buck Loop, Silas Moon, Pinball Foggy...
  • Joseph Cornell and the Ballet.
    [CORNELL, Joseph]. Starr, Sandra Leonard.
    $200.00
    NY: Castelli Feigen Cocoran (1983). First edition. Oblong 8vo. viii + 87 pp w/notes. Near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly toned at the extrems. Uncommon in hardcover. Exhibition catalogue documenting Cornell’s long fascination with dance.
  • The Autobiography of William Henry Donner 1864-1953.
    [CRANIUM PRESS]. Donner, William Henry.
    $200.00
    San Francisco: [privately printed] 1973. First edition. xv + 125 pp w/addenda. Fine in full brick red cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. One of 100 copies on hand made Tovil paper printed by Clifford Burke. Eight tipped-in photographs.
  • Unused cover for ZANY TYPHOONS.
    [CRUMB, R.]. Blazek, Douglas.
    $50.00
    [Sacramento: Open Skull, 1970]. First edition. 11 x 17 1/2 inch sheet. Fine. Unused cover for Blazek’s collection of poems featuring artwork by Robert Crumb.
  • Works on Paper.
    [DeFEO, Jay]. Stitch, Sidra.
    $35.00
    Berkeley: University Art Museum (1989). First edition. 4to. 89 pp w/checklist & bibliography. Near fine in printed wrappers. Illustrated.
  • Land of My Daughters Poems: 1995-2005.
    [DI PRIMA LIBRARY]. X, Marvin (El Muhajir).
    $45.00
    Cherokee: Black Bird Press (2005). First edition. 112 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Dated (3-4-05) and INSCRIBED by Marvin X, “For Diane / With Love.”
  • Poems of W.B. Yeats.
    [DIEBENKORN, Richard]. Yeats, W.B.
    $3,500.00
    San Francisco: Arion Press 1990. First edition, lettered & signed issue. xxv + 171 pp. Fine in cloth-covered boards with leather spine. Fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems selected by Helen Vendler, with her introduction. Illustrated with six etchings by Richard Diebenkorn. One of 26 lettered copies for use of the participants in the publication SIGNED by Diebenkorn.
  • What If. Poems: 1969-1987.
    [DINE, Jim]. Hoyem, Andrew.
    $250.00
    San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987. First edition, deluxe limited issue. 91 pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 120 copies on Rives paper. Tipped-on opposite the title page is an original portrait etching of Hoyem by Jim Dine, SIGNED by Dine in pencil beneath the image. Additionally, this copy is SIGNED by Hoyem on the half-title page.
  • The Heat Death of the Universe and other stories.
    [DISCH, Tom]. Zoline, Pamela.
    $45.00
    Kingston: McPherson & Company (1988). First trade paperback printing. 204 pp. Very near fine in wrappers and like dust jacket. Introduction by Thomas M. Disch. SIGNED by Disch at his introduction.
  • Images of H.D. and from THE MYSTERY.
    [DOOLITTLE, Hilda]. White, Eric W.
    $125.00
    London: Enitharmon Press, 1976. First edition. 58 pp. Fine in full green buckram and near fine, unprinted plastic dust jacket. t.e.g. Illustrated. One of 50 numbered copies on Glastonbury Ivory Antique laid paper SIGNED by White. White’s essay followed by previously-unpublished material from H.D.’s THE MYSTERY. Boughn B19.
  • First Papers of Surrealism.
    [DUCHAMP, Marcel].
    $1,250.00
    NY: Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies (1942). First edition. [48 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Catalogue designed by Duchamp. Foreword by Sidney Janis. Rife with b&w reproductions.
  • Why Duchamp: An Essay on Aesthetic Impact.
    [DUCHAMP, Marcel]. Baruchello, Gianfranco and Henry Martin.
    $20.00
    New Paltz: Documentext/McPherson & Company (1985). First trade paperback printing. 158 pp w/index. Fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket. Illustrated with a number of photographs of Duchamp and his work. One of 500 copies.
  • La Vie Illustrée de Marcel Duchamp.
    [DUCHAMP, Marcel]. Gough-Cooper, Jennifer and Jacques Caumont.
    $75.00
    [Paris]: Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (1977). First edition. 28 pp. Near fine in illustrated boards with light rubbing to extrems. No dust jacket, as issued. Images by d’André Raffray. Text in French. An illustrated life of Duchamp.
  • The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even: A Typographic Version by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp’s Green Box.
    [DUCHAMP, Marcel]. Hamilton, Richard.
    $1,250.00
    NY: George Wittenborn [1960]. First US edition. [122 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacket with two short closed tears. One fold-out plate. Translated by George Heard Hamilton. The Documents of Modern Art No. 14.
  • Duchamp’s TRANS/formers.
    [DUCHAMP, Marcel]. Lyotard, Jean-Francois.
    $100.00
    Venice: Lapis Press (1990). First US edition. 199 pp. Fine in green velvet over boards and near fine wrap-around band. Translated from the original French by Ian McLeod. Essays on Duchamp written between 1974 and 1977. Illustrated.
  • Marcel Duchamp, Notes.
    [DUCHAMP, Marcel]. Matisse, Paul.
    $500.00
    Paris: Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (1980). First edition. Folio. xvii + [221 pp]. Fine in full cloth and matching publisher’s slipcase. Preface by Pontus Hulten. One of 1000 numbered copies. Full-color reproductions of Duchamp’s notes, grouped into “Infrathin,” ‘The Large Glass,” “Projects,” and “Word Plays.” Texts in French and English translation.
  • Marcel Duchamp: 66 Creative Years from the First Painting to the Last Drawing.
    [DUCHAMP, Marcel]. Schwarz, Arturo.
    $125.00
    Paris: Eric Losfeld [1972]. First edition. 4to. 103 pp. Light bump to one lower corner, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Over 260 items described.
  • Étant donnés.
    [DUCHAMP, Marcel]. Taylor, Michael R.
    $100.00
    Philadelphia & New Haven: Philadelphia Museum of Art/Yale University Press (2009). First edition. 447 pp w/select bibliography & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. A thorough consideration of Duchamp’s provocative work, published on the 40th anniversary of its initial installation. Profusely illustrated.
  • Young Robert Duncan: Portrait of the Poet as a Young Homosexual in Society.
    [DUNCAN, Robert]. Faas, Ekbert.
    $75.00
    Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1983. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 361 pp w/index. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 125 numbered copies SIGNED by Faas and Duncan.
  • Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM.
    [ECM RECORDS]. Lake, Steve and Paul Griffiths.
    $250.00
    London: Granta Books (2007). First edition. 4to. 439 pp w/discography & index. Fine in fine dust jacket and very near fine publisher’s slipcase. Profusely illustrated.
  • A Visit with William Everson.
    [EVERSON, William]. Lehman, Anthony L.
    $200.00
    Los Angeles: George Houle, 1987. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 21 pp w/notes. Light wear to corners, else very near fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Introduction by Everson. Photograph of the poet by Leigh Wiener. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Everson, Wiener, and Lehman. Original prospectus laid in.
  • Bitterweeds: Life with William Faulkner at Rowan Oak.
    [FAULKNER, William]. Franklin, Malcom A.
    $125.00
    Irving: Society for the Study of Traditional Culture, 1977. First edition. 129 pp w/appendix. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Estelle Oldham Faulkner. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Franklin.
  • Flowers for Brian Sherman.
    [FERGUSON, Steve] and Mara.
    $75.00
    Cleveland: Ayizan Press, 1968. First edition. [24 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Two-color cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. One of 150 copies. Nine drawings. Uncommon. One of three books published toward the end of d.a. levy’s life, the others being his TIBETAN STROBOSCOPE and Tom Kryss’ BOOK OF RABBITS.