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$40.00Berkeley: Paperback Editions Limited [1957]. First edition. 136 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Features an excerpt from Kerouac’s VISIONS OF CODY titled, “Neal and the Three Stooges.” Charters B4.
$27.50Cardiff: Second Aeon Publications (1970). First edition. 24 pp. A few spots of foxing along page edges, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by John Idris Jones, Bob Leighton, George Dowden, Bob Cobbing, Peter Finch, William Wantling, Iain Sinclair, Franklin Osinski, and Kris Hemensley among others, as well as an excerpt from Kerouac’s MEXICO CITY BLUES.
$75.00NY: Gagosian (1989). First edition. Folio. 30 pp. Light rubbing to covers and extrems, else very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Robert Pincus-Witten. Two photographs of Klein, his “Chelsea Hotel Manifesto,” and four full-color reproductions.
$75.00Paris: Éditions Dilecta (2010). First edition. 440 pp w/selected literature. Fine in full decorated orange faux leather. a.e.g. Ribbon place marker bound-in. Essentially a Klein reader, presenting his texts, followed by Ottmann’s unpacking.
$35.00Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press (2010). First edition. 79 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. A thorough accounting of both works by, and published by, Richard Krech. One of 74 numbered copies SIGNED by Davis. Laid in is a small broadside poem SIGNED by Krech.
$50.00Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press (2010). First edition, lettered & signed issue. 79 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. A thorough going-over of works both by, and published by, Richard Krech. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Davis, Krech, and Briana Miller, who provided the cover art. Laid in is a small broadside poem SIGNED by Krech.
$35.00Bulleen: Museum of Modern Art at Heide (2006). First edition. 4to. 48 pp w/biography & bibliography. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Warwick Reeder, introductory essay, “Crowd Control” by Juliana Engberg, and Lynne Tillman’s text “21 TV Tales.” Illustrated with 34 color images and b&w stills.
$50.00Paris: Medium, 1955. Nouvelle Série - Janvier. 64 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with a small split at base of spine. Contributions by Benjamin Peret, André Breton, Eugene Ionesco, Marcel Duchamp, and many others appear.
$20.00Derby: Research Group for Artists Publications/Coracle Press (2001). First edition. 157 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Excellent primer for this most interesting small press publisher. Forty-eight pages of illustrations, and a useful bibliography.
$75.00Berkeley: George Leite [1945]. First edition. 30 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. Also known as “Activists,” this pamphlet is the result of “nine years of constant experimentation and working with poetry.” A Circle Pamphlet. Poems and statements.
$200.00London: Phaidon (2008). First edition. Two volumes, both fine in decorated boards. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase. A chronological tour of the life and work, via over 2000 photographs of the author, his buildings and plans, writings, and related documents.
$350.00San Francisco: Hermes Free Press (1971). First edition. [4 pp]. A bit rippled, but not discolored, else near fine in wrappers. “Model Statement in Defense of the Philosophers Personal Freedom Proposed by San Francisco Bay Area Prose Poets’ Phalanx.” Printed endorsements on the rear cover by Kesey, Ferlinghetti, McClure, Creeley, Ginsberg, Kandel, Nin, Watts, Lamantia, Berrigan, Krassner, Whalen, and a host of others. Uncommon.
$50.00San Francisco: Renaissance Press (1980). First edition. 299 + [48] pp. Light crease to rear cover, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. The distillation of Bryan’s attention to Leary during the 60s and 70s. The volume concludes with a suite of images, “one of the most interesting pictorial retrospectives yet put together on the sixties.” INSCRIBED by Bryan, “Luck not love, / John Bryan.” This book constitutes the 201st issue of Open City.
$125.00Cleveland: sevenflowerspress, (1967). First edition. Five leaves, side stapled. Fine. One of 250 copies printed by mimeograph. A letter originally published in the Poetry Newsletter. Taylor & Horvath P-144.
$50.00Kent: Kent State University Libraries, 1971. December. 36 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by levy, Mottram, Snyder, Atkins, Bergé, Blazek, Bukowski, Fox, Gildzen, Leed, Lowry, and Osterlund. Includes the first d.a. levy checklist, compiled by bookseller Jim Lowell (Asphodel Book Shop).
$75.00Cleveland: Free Lance Press, 1964. First edition. 26 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art and thirteen internal illustrations by d.a. levy. The Free Lance Press published levy's NORTH AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DEAD.
$125.00Ostfildern & NY: Hatje Cantz/Morgan Library & Museum (2011). First edition. 4to. 207 pp w/list of works cited. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Essays by Graham Bader, Clare Bell, Thomas Crow, and Margaret Holben Ellis and Lindsey Tyne. The first exhibition devoted to a group of about 50 large drawings created between 1961 and 1968.
$45.00Anchorage: Alaska Pacific University Press, 1980. First edition. 150 pp w/notes on authors & index. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Introduction by Gary H. Holthaus. Contributions by John Haines, Thomas LeDuc, Monroe Price, Walker Parker, Robert Durr, Margaret Murie, Joseph Meeker, William Kloefkorn, and Gary Snyder.
$250.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. First edition, signed issue. [192 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacket (rubbed). Bound collection of individual Sparrow issues, all SIGNED by the respective authors or translators: Larry Eigner, Robert Creeley, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Michael McClure, Tom Clark, Clayton Eshleman, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Kelly, Diane Wakoski, Gerard Malanga, Clayton Eshleman (as translator of Artaud), and Jerome Rothenberg. One of 50 copies.
$20.00New York: New Directions (1973). First edition. 184 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Bienek, Busch, Corman, Duncan, Edson, Rexroth, Roditi, Snyder, and others presented.
$25.00NY: New Directions (1971). First edition. 216 pp w/notes on contributors. Fine in fine dust jacket. Abish, Bly, Bronk, Duncan, Edson, Ferlinghetti, Charles Henri Ford, Levertov, Richard Meyers (Richard Hell), Rakoski, Snyder, and many others collected.
$150.00San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press (1982). First edition, signed hardcover issue. 193 pp. Fine in gilt lettered full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of an unstated limitation, thought to be 100, SIGNED by Leyland. Contributions by Robert Glück, Joseph Torchia, Ned Rorem, Allen Ginsberg, Will Inman, Oswell Blakeston, Jeffrey Beam, Joe Brainard, and many others.
$35.00NY: Reader’s Subscription (1959). First printing of this edition. 30 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Bryan’s ruling in favor of literary freedom via the case of D.H. Lawrence’s LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER.
$100.00NY: Nadada, 1965. First edition. 4to. 76 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Appearances by John Perreault, David Omer Bearden, Ray Johnson, Gerard Malanga, Ted Berrigan, Charles Henri Ford, Tristan Tzara, Aram Saroyan, Piero Heliczer, and many others.
$40.00Ivanhoe: Robert Kenny, 1974. [56 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies. First issue of this long-running Melbourne mag. John Jenkins, John Anderson, Kris Hemensley, John Tranter, and others contribute.
$45.00Woodstock: Shivastan Publishing, 2007. Guru Purnima. 22 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 333 numbered copies. Contributions by Gerard Malanga, Hetty Maclise, Taylor Mead, Thurston Moore, Billy Name, and many others. SIGNED by Mirabito on the colophon page.
$45.00NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Thames and Hudson (1986). First US edition. 237 pp w/index of works. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Two hundred and forty-four illustrations, 29 in color and 215 in duotone.
$25.00Stockton: Wormwood Books and Magazines, 1999. First trade edition. 47 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 565 (of 600) numbered copies. The Marvin Malone Festschrift, featuring a special section of his own poems, and an essay on the history of Wormwood. Three page essay on Malone by Peter Howard (Serendipity Books). Contributions by Bukowski, David Barker, Ron Koertge, Lyn Lifshin, Steve Richmond, and many other frequent contributors.
$125.00Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou/Seuil (1998). First edition. 4to. 257 pp w/biography & list of illustrations. Fine in fine dust jacket.
$35.00Seattle: McKettner Publishing (1985). 4to. 20 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One-time issue dealing with marijuana literature, culture, and history through poetry, songs, newspaper clippings, posters, ads, and graphics. Work by Kupferberg, Wanda Coleman, Ron Androla, and many others.
$1,750.00Los Angeles & Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow (1973-1978). First editions. Six volumes, all fine in full cloth with printed cover labels and fine unprinted acetate dust jackets. Each one of the 72 issues of Sparrow here in the first printing, and SIGNED by each author if alive at the original publication date. Signing contributors include Bukowski, Creeley, Antin, Oates, Eigner, McClure, Hawkins, Malanga, Bowles, Mrabet, Sorrentino, Corman, Coleman, Rakosi, Everson, Roditi, and many others from the Black Sparrow stable. For the set:
$35.00NY & Boston: Mariner Books (2026). First edition. x + 447 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. An excellent and entertaining life of a friend. The novels, the prizes, the movies are all here, connected by McMurtry’s love of books. SIGNED by Streitfeld. New, at publication price: