41.
GREENE, Tinker.
The Thirteen Curves.
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 2012.

First edition. 20 ½ x 17 inch illustrated broadside, printed in four colors. Fine. Poem by Greeene with an accompanying illustration by Jinny Pearce. One of 45 copies on Awagami Kitakata SIGNED by Greene and Pearce. New, at publication price:
$75

42.
GUNN, Thom.
At the Barriers (Dore Alley Fair).
(np) Nadja (1989).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in full cloth with inset printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies on Whatman paper SIGNED by Gunn. A single long poem, written in memory of Robert Duncan.
$150

43.
HELL, Richard.
Chapter 28: from I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp the autobiography of Richard Hell.
Minneapolis: Rain Taxi (2010).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 20 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Richard Hell and Christopher Wool. Prose by the musician. Accompanied, as issued, by a 13 x 6 inch broadside, printed letterpress in three colors. Both the book and the broadside are lettered and SIGNED by Hell.
$200

44.
[HOPPER, Dennis]. Leider, Philip. ed.
Artforum Volume III, No. 3.
San Francisco: Artforum, 1964.

56 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art credited, “COVER: Andy Warhol, Photo, Dennis Hopper.” This issue features a collection of nine photographs by Hopper (Kienholz, Johns, Geldzahler, Hopps, Bengston, Foulkes, Oldenburg, Herms, and Berman).
$200

45.
HOYEM, Andrew.
What If. Poems: 1969-1987.
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 beneathe the image. Additionally, this copy is SIGNED by Hoyem on the half-title page (though not called for to be).
$350

46.
JESS.
Three Poems.
Berkeley: The Bancroft Library Press 2007.

First edition. 4to. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. Title page linocut by Hayley Rose Rucker of a “tardy Turtle,” probably inspired by Jess’ poem, “The Turn Turn Turtle.” Afterword by Normal Cole. One of 35 copies printed on an Albion handpress, under the direction of Les Ferriss, by Marcelo Aranda, Katherine Krotz, Mary Murrell, Timothy Price, Sarah Rainer, Emilio Salazar, and Ms. Rucker.
$250

47.
[JESS].
Exhibition and Publication announcements.
[Various Places: Various Publishers] (1964-2008).

Collection of 33 solo and group show announcements, prospectuses, and memorial items for Jess [Collins] (1923-2004). Galleries and presses include: Black Sparrow, The Press in the Tuscany Alley, The Whitney, Gallery Paula Anglim, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Wiegand Gallery, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Tibor de Nagy, Arion Press, University Art Museum, Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Albright-Knox, John Berggruen Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, Auerhahn Press, Rolf Nelson Gallery, Odyssia, and others. Details on request, some duplicates available. For the collection:
$500

48.
JOHNSON, Philip.
Writings.
NY: Oxford University Press, 1979.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 291 pp w/index. Fine in full white cloth in very near fine matching publisher’s slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Johnson. Foreword by Vincent Scully, introduction by Peter Eisenman, and with commentary by Robert A.M. Stern. Illustrated.
$1000

49.
JOHNSON, Ronald.
A Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees.
Highlands: Nantahala Foundation/Jonathan Williams, 1964.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [80 pp]. A bit of toning along top edge, else fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems illustrated with drawings by Thomas George. Printed note from the publisher laid in (explaining that the dedication, to Charles Olson, had been inadvertantly omitted). One of 50 copies comprising the “Author’s Edition.” Printed at the Auerhahn Press. Jargon 42. This copy is numbered (12) and SIGNED by Johnson and George on the colophon page and INSCRIBED by Johnson on the second leaf to publisher Dave Haselwood, “For Dave (Had-elves-a- / wood) Haselwood / who perched / all the does, voles, / wolves, owls / etc. / in the trees. / love- / Ron / S.F. / 1965 / -.”
$950

50.
KEEN, Jeff.
ZippZapp: in praise of true love comics monster fanzines and the B feature.
Brighton: future city (nd).

First edition. Square 8vo. [18 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Poems and collage images by Keen, design by Richard Doust, printed by Roy Davies and Ned Hoskins. Terrific three color pop-art screen-printed cover. Laid in is a holograph note from Keen presenting this copy for review.
$75

51.
KRECH, Richard.
Shelf Life.
Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2012.

First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 copies. Eighteen poems.
$5

52.
KRECH, Richard.
Shelf Life.
Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2012.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. [32 pp]. Fine in illustrated paper-covered boards. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Krech.
$30

53.
KUSANO, Shimpei.
Selected Frogs.
Koyoto: Origin Press (1963).

First edition. [42 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Poems translated from the original Japanese by Susumu Kamaike and Cid Corman. Brushwork illustrations by Hidetaka Ohno.
$100

54.
KUSANO, Shimpei.
Selected Frogs.
Koyoto: Origin Press (1963).

First edition. [42 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Poems translated from the original Japanese by Susumu Kamaike and Cid Corman. Brushwork illustrations by Hidetaka Ohno. SIGNED by Corman on the verso of the last leaf.
$125

55.
LAMANTIA, Philip.
Voice.
[San Francisco: Arion Press, 1981].

First edition. 16 x 12 inch broadside, printed in three colors on handmade paper. Very near fine. Issued originally as part of the Shaped Poetry set of prints, but here offered separately.
$200

56.
LAUGHLIN, James.
Three Coaster Poems: Haiku (slightly overlength), Your Love, A Suggestion.
[Santa Barbara: Turkey Press, nd].

First editions. Three letterpressed poems, each with an illustration on the verso. All fine. For the set:
$35

57.
LÉGER, Fernand.
Functions of Painting.
NY: Viking (1973).

First US edition. xxxiv + 221 pp w/bibliographic guide to Léger & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Alexandra Anderson, edited and introduced by Edward F. Fry, preface by George L.K. Morris.
$50

58.
levy, d.a.
The Praps I Series.
[Cleveland]: mostly broken scabs press, 1977.

First edition. 4to. [28 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers with two short tears at crown of spine. First separate appearance of this poem sequence, which appeared originally in d.a levy: A TRIBUTE TO THE MAN, AN ANTHOLOGY OF HIS POETRY. One of 125 copies.
$75

59.
[LITERARY CENSORSHIP]. Bryan, Frederick van Pelt.
Grove Press, Inc. and Readers’ Subscription, Inc., Plaintiffs against Robert K. Christenberry, individually and as Postmaster of the City of New York, Defendant: Opinon.
NY: 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.
$35

60.
MAGOWAN, Robin.
Voyage Noir: Journal of a trip to Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, June 21 - August 1, 1958.
Seattle: [Robin Magowan] 1963.

First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Cover drawing by Hervé Télémaque. Printed for the author at the Auerhahn Press.
$35

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