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$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.
$100.00London: Gollancz, 1980. First UK edition. 219 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a bit of rubbing to edge of spine. His first book, a collection of short stories.
$200.00[Glendale: Roy A. Squires] (1976). First edition, signed subscriber’s issue. 16 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine unprinted dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies for subscribers SIGNED by Bradbury. “Excerpts from a play-in-progress based on the MOBY DICK mythology and dedicated to Herman Melville.” Accompanied by the original printed envelope (toned overall), and the stiff mailing envelope from the publisher.
$200.00[Glendale]: Roy A. Squires, 1974. First edition, signed subscriber’s issue. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Accompanied by the dust jacket (fine) and both the original printed envelopes. One of 85 numbered copies on Japanese Nideggen mouldmade paper SIGNED by Bradbury.
$350.00Berkeley: Turtle Island (1977). First edition. 289 pp. Fine in full black cloth with silver lettering to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Essays by Brakhage with individual introductions by Robert Creeley (Melies, Griffith, Dreyer, Eisenstein), Edward Dorn (Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Keaton, Vigo), and Guy Davenport (Dr. Caligari, Lang, Murnau, Dovzhenko).
$150.00NY: Film Culture (1963). First edition. 4to. [84 pp]. Fine in unprinted corrugated covers with a small circular cutout in the front panel. Lacks the partial printed dust jacket. Entire issue devoted to work by Brakhage. Design by George Maciunas.
$500.00San Francisco: Zephyrus Image (1975). First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Lacks the printed mailing envelope. Cover art by Michael Meyers (uncredited). Printed dedication, “for Robert Duncan and Jess.” Remarks following a screening of “The Text of Light” at the San Francisco Art Institute 18 November 1974.
$40.00Carlsbad: Carlsbad Caverns Natural History Association (1978). First edition. Three illustrated leaves laid into a folder. All elements fine. “A spotlight of writings by John Brandi, writer in residence.”
$45.00Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions (1975). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Gioia Brandi. One of 500 copies. INSCRIBED by Brandi, “to Doug Blazek / John Brandi.”
$25.00Corrales: Tooth of Time Books (1990). First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 222 numbered copies SIGNED by Brandi.
$50.00NY: Abbeville Press (1984). First US edition. 272 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. A profusely illustrated survey of prolific and varied works by this group.
$125.00NY: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence (1980). Advance reading copy. 295 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Laid into this copy is a TLS from Samuel Lawrence presenting this copy to Steve Martin via his agent at Putnam’s.
$25.00NY: Delacorte (1980). Advance reading copy. 296 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers.
$125.00Albuquerque: Grasshopper Press (1973). First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Dede La Vene. Eight poems. Brenner’s first book.
$20.00Vancouver: Bibliographical Society of Canada/Alcuin Society (1987). First edition. 7 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Printed by Benwell-Atkins Limited. Afterthoughts by Bringhurst on his Ocean, Paper, Stone exhibition and catalogue.
$75.00Vancouver: Robert Bringhurst, 1982. First edition. 20 pp. Ten leaves, stapled in the upper left corner. Near fine. Printed for private circulation to members of the Literary Storefront Poetry Seminar. An earlier bookseller noted in pencil on the front cover that this is one of 50 copies.
$50.00Vancouver: Standard Editions, 1979. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. 11 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 40 numbered copies SIGNED by Bringhurst. A single long poem.
$125.00Lantzville: Oolichan Books, 1982. First edition. 4to. 37 pp w/notes. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 224 (of 250) numbered copies SIGNED by Bringhurst.
$40.00NY: Counterpoint (2003). First US edition. xiv + 210 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited and translated by John Hargraves, with his introduction. Six essays, all previously unpublished. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate.