41.
HOWE, Susan.
Bedhangings II.
Clonmel: Coracle Press, 2002.

First edition. 16mo. [45 pp]. Fine in full cloth with inset cover illustration. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 300 numbered copies.
$40

42.
HOWE, Susan.
Kidnapped.
Clonmel: Coracle Press, 2002.

First edition. [100 pp]. Fine in full green cloth and fine dust jacket. Photographs by Peter Hare and Susan Howe. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Howe. Beautifully printed and produced with 5 small tipped-on plates.
$75

43.
HOWE, Susan.
Poems found in a Pioneer Museum.
Ballybag: Coracle, 2009.

First edition. Thirty-four letterpress printed cards housed in a two-part cloth-covered box. All elements fine. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Howe. Found poems.
$40

44.
HOYEM, Andrew.
The Wake.
San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1963.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 29 pp. Faint sunning to spine, else fine in quarter-bound leather and paper-covered boards. One of 30 copies on Curtis Rag paper SIGNED by Hoyem. His first book. Auerhahn 22.
$200

45.
HUGHES, Ted.
The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales.
London: Faber & Faber (1995).

First edition. 150 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Hughes on the title page.
$200

46.
HUSKEY, Trevor.
SPOME.
Waukesha: Tevor Huskey (2011).

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in spiral-bound wrappers. One of 20 numbered copies (the entire edition) SIGNED by Huskey. Four word sequences printed in a variety of fonts and colors.
$40

47.
JACOB, Max and Larry Fagin.
Two Poems.
[Brooklyn]: Cuneiform Press (2008).

First edition. Single sheet folded twice to make a booklet (7 ½ x 4 ½ inches, closed). Jacob’s poem in French, Fagin’s version in English. One of an unstated number of copies SIGNED by Fagin on the rear cover.
$45

48.
JESS and Robert Duncan.
Original ink drawing.

12 x 9 ¾ inch drawing. Text lightly faded, else fine. An original ink drawing by Jess, with Duncan’s text. A portion of THE BOOK OF RESEMBLANCES, “Friedl”, stanza 2, as noted in Duncan’s holograph at the base of the sheet. Dated (‘63) and SIGNED by Jess and Duncan.
$8500

49.
JESS.
Original drawing.
1966.

6 ¼ x 5 ¼ inch ink drawing. Several tiny holes in the paper, else fine. A portion of the original replaced matt preserved and visible on the verso which reads in Jess’ pencil holograph, “Decoration from A Book of Resemblances by Robert Duncan, 1966” and separately, Jess’ signature.
$6500

50.
[JESS]. Adam, Helen.
Ballads.
NY: Acadia Press (1964).

First edition. [52 pp]. Light sticker shadow at spine, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover and internal illustrations by Jess, introduction by Robert Duncan. Colophon statement pasted to last leaf, “The Author’s Edition, restoring cover design and two drawings from the illustrator’s original book-plan, is limited to fifty signed copies.” This copy is numbered and SIGNED by Adam, Jess, and Duncan. The cover is additionally hand-decorated with watercolors.
$350

51.
JOHN, Grace Spaulding.
The Knotless Thread: Drawings and Verses.
NY: Pantile Press (1970).

First edition. 48 pp. Near fine in wrappers and near fine illustrated dust jacket and fine clear acetate dust jacket. Dated (February 10 19 71) and pleasantly INSCRIBED by John on the front free endpaper. Laid into this copy are a number of promotional items, including an invitation to an exibition of “originals” from this collection.
$75

52.
JOHN, Grace Spaulding.
The Living Line: Drawings and Verses.
Houston: Wall Press, 1962.

First edition. 49 pp. Near fine in wrappers and near fine illustrated dust jacket and fine clear acetate dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by John. Laid into this copy is a rough draft typescript of a clock-shaped poem on time dated (March 4 1960) and signed by John.
$75

53.
JOHN, Grace Spaulding.
Memo: Verses with Drawings by the Author.
(np): [Grace Spaulding John] (1949).

First edition. 4to. [52 pp]. Very near fine in boards and like illustrated dust jacket and near fine original unprinted acetate that has two short tears. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by John, the entire edition, printed at the Golden Eagle Press. Dated (1961) and warmly INSCRIBED by John on the front free endpaper with two small drawings. Additionally there is laid-into this copy a 1970 tls from John to the same recipient.
$100

54.
JOHNSON, Ronald.
RadiOs.
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1977.

First edition. [114 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Afterword by Guy Davenport.
$55

55.
KAGE.
Only the Ashes.
Santa Fe: Tooth of Time, 1981.

First edition. 31 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. English translation of these poems by Steve Stanfield, illustrated with drawings by John Brandi. One of 200 copies on Frankfurt paper. SIGNED by Sanfield and Brandi, who has hand-colored all of his drawings.
$40

56.
KELDER, Cralan.
French Pastry.
Clonmel: Coracle Press (2007).

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Single letterpress poem about what happens after the narrator spots his first “boycott France” bumpersticker. One of 300 numbered copies. Croissant drawing by Erica Van Horn.
$45

57.
KUPFERBERG, Tuli.
The Book of the Body.
NY: Birth Press [1966].

First edition. Horizontal 32mo. [64 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Kupferberg’s riff on the bod, with illustrations.
$25

58.
LAX, Robert.
New Poems 1962/1985.
London & Aachen: Coracle Press/Ottenhausen Verlag (1986).

First edition. [114 pp]. Light toning to covers, else very near fine in printed wrappers.
$35

59.
[LAX, Robert].
Robert Lax and Concrete Poetry.
Buffalo & Amherst: Burchfield Art Center/Poetry/Rare Books Collection, University of Buffalo, 1991.

First edition. 25 x 25 inch exhibition poster. Fine.
$75

60.
LIGETI, György.
Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds.
Boydell Press (2011).

First edition. xx + 298 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Louise Duchesneau and Wolfgang Marx.
$50

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