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JENNINGS, Elizabeth.

Poetry To-day (1957-60).
$35.00
London: Longman's, Green & Co. [published for the British Council and the National Book Club] (1961). First edition. 71 pp. Two light creases to front cover, else very good plus in stapled wrappers. Center section on glossy paper, with photographs of eleven of the poets considered in Jennings' essay.
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JENNINGS, Elizabeth.

The Animals’ Arrival.
$20.00
London: Macmillan, 1969. First edition. 40 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket that is folded slightly off-center. Jennings' fourth collection of poems.
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JERUSALEM, Carol.

Poems for Godot.
$20.00
Frederiction: Fiddlehead Poetry Books (1973). First edition. 28 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies.
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JESS.

Gallowsongs / Galgenlieder by Christian Morgenstern.
$750.00
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970. First edition, publisher’s copy. 4to. [126 pp]. Fine in full leather with gilt stamping to front cover. Fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. “Versions” by Jess, fully illustrated with his drawings on almost every page. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Jess. Morrow & Cooney 92c (note).
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JESS.

Three Poems.
$450.00
Berkeley: Bancroft Library Press 2007. First edition. 4to. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with printed cover label. Linoleum cut title page illustration by Hayley Rose Rucker. Afterword by Normal Cole. One of 35 copies, the entire edition, on Arches Text paper printed on an Albion handpress.
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JESSEN, Carl Arthur.

Mignonette and Other Poems.
$25.00
(np): (np) (1952). First edition. 40 pp. Very good plus in printed wrappers. Author's "Complimentary Copy" slip laid in.
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JIAMBALVO, John.

Shadows Walking Among Questions.
$40.00
Chicago: Elephant Ear Press (1991). First edition. 174 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (6-1-91) and INSCRIBED by Jiambalvo to a fellow-poet.
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JIMENEZ, Juan Ramon.

Forty Poems.
$35.00
Madison: Sixties Press, 1967. First edition. 104 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with toning to spine and wear to crown. Original Spanish poems with facing English translations by Robert Bly, who also made this selection.
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JIMENEZ, Juan Ramon.

The Naked Book: A Poem.
$35.00
White Pine Press (1984). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 300 copies. Translated by Dennis Maloney and illustrated by Hide Oshiro. INSCRIBED by Maloney on the title page.
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JIN, Ha.

Wreckage.
$75.00
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press (2001). Uncorrected proof. 111 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Promotional flyer laid in.
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JIN, Ha.

Wreckage.
$45.00
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose (2001). First edition. 111 pp w/note. Fine in stamped cloth without dust jacket as issued. Jin's third collection of poems.
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JOERG, John.

The Kontakion.
$35.00
Madison: Quixote (nd). First edition. 16 pp. Band of tanning to front cover, else near fine in stapled wrappers. A long poem. INSCRIBED by Joerg on the front cover, “To Marvin Malone / John Joerg / and / Quixote.” Press promotional flyer laid-in.
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JOHN-ALLEN.

This Time in Time is Sometime in Sixty-Nine.
$12.50
(np): Aere Perennius Press (1969). First edition. 10 pp. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. Eleven poems.
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JOHN, Edmund.

The Acolyte.
$125.00
London: Timothy d’Arch Smith (1967). First edition, lettered issue. 12mo. [4 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers with a pasted-on cover label. First separate edition of this 1913 Uranian poem, issued as a Christmas greeting. One of 26 lettered copies.
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JOHN, Richard Johnny with Jerome Rothenberg and Ian Tyson.

Three Friendly Warnings.
$100.00
London: Tetrad Press (1973). First edition. Three 4 3/4 x 3 1/4 inch cards in a glassine envelope, which is then housed in a small folder within a large printed cover sheet (12 x 10 inches, closed). All elements fine. One of 100 (of 125) copies.
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JOHNSEN, Gretchen.

Journal: August 1978 – August 1981.
$10.00
Harrisburg: Cumberland Journal (1981). First edition. 15 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. This entire issue of The Cumberland Journal (#15) devoted to this collection by Johnsen.
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JOHNSEN, Hank.

Shit from Musturd.
$10.00
Vancouver: blewointment press (1974). First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies.
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JOHNSON, B.S.

House Mother Normal.
$350.00
London: Trigram, 1971. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 204 pp. Light dampstain to lower portion of rear cover, else near fine in very good plus unprinted clear acetate dust jacket with a few chips. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Johnson. Larry McMurtry’s copy, with his bookplate.
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JOHNSON, Brad.

Your 2PM Beer and My Head Full of Nothing.
$10.00
Chicago: No Press (1987). First edition. 28 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. I think the only book of poems with epigraphs by James Joyce, Primo Levi, and The Psychedelic Furs.
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JOHNSON, Brian.

Marzipan Lies.
$10.00
Erin: The Porcupine’s Quill (1975). First edition. 62 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Poems illustrated by Colette Malo.
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JOHNSON, Curt.

SONG FOR THREE VOICES: A Novel.
$20.00
Pomeroy: Carpenter Press, 1984. . First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by Johnson. Near fine.
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JOHNSON, DAN, editor.

Window One.
$15.00
Bethesda, MD:The Window Press, 1976. First edition. Near fine in wraps. Contributors: Henry Taylor, Joseph Bruchac, Harrison Fisher, etc.
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JOHNSON, Geoffrey.

The Mountain and Other Poems.
$25.00
London & NY: Williams and Norgate/Fine Editions Press (1946). First edition. 56 pp. Very good plus in like dust jacket that has faded from original green to light brown for the most part. SIGNED by Johnson on the title page, and INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper.
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JOHNSON, Halvard.

Eclipse.
$25.00
Cathedral Station: New Rivers Press (1974). First edition. 107 pp. Fine in very good plus dust jacket with a short tear to rear panel.
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JOHNSON, Halvard.

The Dance of the Red Swan.
$20.00
NY: New Rivers Press, 1971. First edition. 88 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Poems illustrated with etchings by Kathy von Ertfelda.
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JOHNSON, Halvard.

The Dance of the Red Swan.
$15.00
NY: New Rivers Press, 1971. First trade paperback printing. 88 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems with etchings by Kathy von Ertfelda.
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JOHNSON, Halvard.

The Dance of the Red Swan.
$17.50
NY: New Rivers Press, 1971. First trade paperback printing. 88 pp. Very good in illustrated wrappers with foxing inside both covers and endpapers. INSCRIBED by Johnson in the year of publication to publisher E.V. Griffith.
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JOHNSON, Halvard.

The Dance of the Red Swan.
$12.50
NY: New Rivers Press (1971). First edition. 88 pp. Trivial tanning to spine, and rubbing to front upper corner, else near fine in wrappers. One of 450 copies. Etchings by Kathy von Ertfelda. The author's second collection. A. Poulin Jr.'s ownership signature on the front end paper.
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JOHNSON, Halvard.

Transparencies & Projections.
$25.00
Cathedral Station: New Rivers Press (1969). First edition. 62 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Poems illustrated with artwork by Leonel Gongora. One of 500 copies. Johnson's first book of poems.
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JOHNSON, Halvard.

Winter Journey.
$10.00
St. Paul: New Rivers Press, 1979. First edition. 107 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems with drawings by Basil King.
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JOHNSON, Harold Leland.

A Ballad of Half Moon Bay and Other California Poems.
$25.00
Broderick: Hearthstone Press, 1976. First edition. 34 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Foreword by Stella Worley.
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JOHNSON, Harold Leland.

Cities of the Blue Distance.
$10.00
Broderick: Hearthstone Press (1980). First trade paperback printing. 94 pp. Fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket. Jacket endorsements by Robert Phillips and Harold Witt.
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