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$45.00NY: Random House (1974). First edition. 112 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. First book of poems by Chase-Riboud, at the time of publication known internationally as a sculptor.
$75.00London: Colophon Press, 1993. First edition, numbered issue. 17 pp. Near fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 175 numbered copies on Vélin Arches mould-made paper. A short story, found amongst Chatwin’s papers after his death.
$125.00Francestown: Typographeum, 1993. First edition. 26 pp. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 175 copies on Mohawk Superfine, printed and bound by R.T. Risk. Foreword by John Wyse Jackson, frontispiece portrait of Chatwin by Jocelynn Hallen. A talk Chatwin delivered at an art auction in support of the British Red Cross.
$75.00London: Picador (1999). First printing of this edition. x + 515 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Reissue of this classic evocation of life in Calcutta and Chaudhuri’s ancestral village in East Bengal. Originally published in 1951.
$250.00London: Andre Deutsch (1956). Uncorrected proof. 254 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Designated “file copy” on the front cover, along with the publication date. Author’s name and title inked to spine. Chester’s second novel (first under his own name), detailing the life of a Brooklyn undertaker and his interest in the deceased young man of the title. Young 650.
$150.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1992. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 260 pp. Fine printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited by Edward Field, with his foreword. Book reviews (Nabokov, Burroughs, Rechy, Capote), literary essays, columns. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Field. This is copy “Z.”
$100.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1992. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 260 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited, and with a foreword by Edward Field. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Field. This is copy #1.
$200.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1992. First edition, publisher’s copy. 260 pp. Fine printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited with a foreword by Edward Field. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Field. Laid into this copy is a holograph postcard from Field, “Dear John, / I’m completely bowled over / by the book!!!! I keep looking / at it, and it (with all those / eyes) keeps looking back at me. / What a great publisher you are! / xxxooo / Edward.”
$45.00(np): Mark Childress, 1992. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 75 copies for family and friends. Hand-decorated and colored. INSCRIBED by Childress at the conclusion of the essay.
$400.00Passim Editions (2004). First edition. Folio. [52 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of thirty copies, the entire edition, printed and bound by Wesley B. Tanner on Vit Bloma handmade paper. Title lettering by Susan Skarsgard. Woodcut illustrations throughout by Tanner. SIGNED by Christopher and Tanner.
$125.00North Bennington: White Creek Press, 1983. First edition. Single large sheet folded twice to make a booklet (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, closed). Fine. One of 220 copies published on the occasion of Clampitt’s reading at Bennington College. Though not called for, SIGNED by Clampitt.
$150.00NY: Sarabande Press (1984). First edition, numbered & signed issue. Folio. 34 pp w/note. Fine in wrappers with gilt stamping to front cover and spine. Fine publisher’s cloth-covered slipcase. Printed letterpress in two colors. One of 250 copies on dampened Johannot paper SIGNED by Clampitt.
$75.00London: Faber and Faber (1984). First UK edition. 92 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A trade paperback original. SIGNED by Clampitt on the title page.
$50.00London: Ferry Press (1966). First edition. [28 pp]. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Joe Brainard. One of 500 copies. Clark's first book. He would later publish exclusively under “Tom Clark,” to distinguish himself from the Scottish poet Thomas A. Clark, per their agreement.
$75.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 80 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Clark. Poems with seven of Clark’s own drawings. Morrow & Cooney 184b.
$12.50Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971. First trade paperback printing. 49 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Morrow & Cooney 102a.
$35.00Santa Barbara: Am Here Books/ Immediate Editions (1981). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. [54 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Clark.
$100.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 151 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Clark with an original drawing tipped-in after the title page.
$75.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1978. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 179 pp. Two small spots on top edge, else fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Clark with an original drawing. Morrow & Cooney 310c.
$75.00Richmond: Alma Books (2010). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 435 pp w/author’s note. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Clarke.
$50.00NY: Random House (1970). First edition. 175 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to front panel and sunning to spine lettering. “A Mitchell Tobin Story.” Young 712*.
$75.00Salt Lake City: Elik Press, 2004. First edition. 43 pp Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems and a few artworks. INSCRIBED by Cohen on the title page, “For Leslie Scalapino / from Ira Cohen / w/a big Thank you.” Elik Poetry Series #3. Accompanying this copy is a signed note of presentation from Lyn Hejinian.
$850.00Tangier: Ira Cohen 1964. First edition. 103 pp. Light sunning to spine and upper portion of front and rear covers, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. The expat of expat journals, presenting the work of Burroughs, Gysin, Norse, Ginsberg, McClure, Jack Smith (five photographs on glossy paper), and others.
$75.00Llandogo: Old Stile Press, 1996. First printing of this edition. 25 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Introduction by the printer and co-illustrator, Nicolas McDowall. One of “up to” 75 numbered copies. Burton Weiss writes, “A classic Uranian erotic poem, celebrating the joys of whipping schoolboys, which has usually (but erroneously) been attributed to George Colman the Younger, although Richard Monckton Milnes has also been suggested (by Jean Overton Fuller, in SWINBURNE: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY, London, 1968). The correct first edition was published in London by John Camden Hotten in 1871, under the fictitious imprint ‘Cadell & Murray, 1810’ (250 copies). There was a reissue in 1898, probably published by Charles Carrington, under the same fictitious imprint, but with the date changed to 1820 (200 copies). Finally, Cayme Press brought out an attractive edition in 1927, limited to 450 copies, with a Preface by Yvon Nicolas.
$75.00London: Ulysses Press (1931). First edition. 33 pp. Very near fine in printed paper-covered boards and cloth spine. Printed label tipped onto the title page, modifying the publisher’s address. One of 185 numbered copies SIGNED by Collier. Work that appeared in part in The Dial and This Quarter.
$750.00Fayetteville & London: University of Arkansas Press, 1988. First edition. 61 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Press promotional material laid in, along with a 41 word holograph letter from Collins to Marvin Malone, editor of the Wormwood Review, who featured Collins’ work in issue 108.
$25.00[Boulder]: (np), 1977. First edition. 4to. [68 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Poems. SIGNED by Collom on the title page. A “the” book.
$75.00NY: Traveller’s Companion/Olympia Press (1971). First edition. 169 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Shocking headline in a small town, “Librarian Arrested as Homosexual.” Young 747*.
$25.00San Francisco: North Point Press, 1980. First edition. [4 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Connell’s story “The Yellow Raft” issued in advance of this collection.
$200.00Minneapolis: Walker Art Center (2000). First edition. 4to. 267 pp. Pale foxing to green cloth on the rear panel, else near fine in full two-part cloth binding with inset cover illustration and label. No dust jacket, as issued. SIGNED by Conner on page 252 below a reproduction of his work, “Portrait of the Artist.”
$17,500.00[San Francisco: Bruce Conner] (1970). First edition. Fifteen 11 x 7 1/4 inch lithographs with original tissue guards, housed in a portfolio with gilt stamping to the front panel. All elements fine. One of 80 (of 90) copies. The lithographs were printed at Kaiser Graphics in Oakland on Rives BFK paper. Portfolio hand made by Schuberth Bindery. Typography (title and colophon cards) by Grabhorn-Hoyem. Each of the fifteen prints is numbered, dated, and SIGNED by Conner in the lower margin. A beautiful production.
$750.00[San Francisco: Bruce Conner 1981]. First edition. 3 1/4 x 6 inch card. Fine. Stamped “For Deposit Only / to the account of / Bruce Conner” on the verso. Conner’s public frustration with his former gallery (Braunstein/Quay), distributed by his assistant at the gallery’s twentieth anniversary party.