1.
ADAIR, Gilbert.
Signs of Life Book One: A Documentary.
Swansea: Galloping Dog Press, 1982.

First edition. 4to [62 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover design and illustration in text by Patricia Farrell. One of 140 (of 150) copies. Adair’s first book.
$125

2.
BENVENISTE, Asa.
Invisible Ink.
Philadelphia: Singing Horse Press / Branch Redd Books (1989).

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine dust jacket. A collection of eight poems.
$15

3.
BERGER, René. et al.
Theoretical Analysis of the Intermedia Art Form.
Buenos Aires: CAYC [1980].

First edition. [22 pp]. A small patch of rubbing to the lower rear cover, else near fine in glossy printed wrappers. Short essays (in English) by Berger, Gillo Dorfles, Jorge Glusberg, Abraham Moles, and Udo Kultermann.
$35

4.
BERRIGAN, Ted and Ed Sanders.
Reading.
[NY: Fuck You Press, c. 1964].

11 x 8 ½ inch flyer. Two old horizontal folds and one short closed tear, else very near fine. Le Metro was an important, though short-lived, mid-sixties showcase for the NYC avant-garde. A 1964 reading there by Jackson Mac Low sparked a permit battle that amended the New York Coffee House Law of 1962. These handbills seldom surface on the market, and are among the least common items from Sanders’ notorious press.
$450

5.
BEYE, Charles Rowan.
Homer in the XXth Century: Simone Weil & Rachel Bespaloff.
Menlo Park: Occasional Works, 2006.

First edition. 18 pp. Fine in wrappers with printed cover label. Pictorial endpapers, title page printed letterpress. One of 100 copies on Mohawk Superfine paper, hand-bound at the Foolscap Press. In this short essay classicist Charles Rowan Beye pays critical homage to Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff, two legendary European intellectuals whose interpretations of Homer’s Iliad are a lasting reading of the poem’s significance in the context of the horrors of the Second World War.
$17.50

6.
bissett, bill.
Venus.
Vancouver: blewointmentpress, 1975.

First edition. [60 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. Concrete poetry and illustrations.
$22.50

7.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
“The Cage” in “A Collection of Poetry Postcards from the Limberlost Press.”
Boise: Limberlost Press, 1988.

First edition. Single 6 x 4 ¹ ⁄ 8 inch card, printed in two colors on coated white stock. Fine. Housed in a printed folder with nineteen other poetry cards, which includes the likes of Allen Ginsberg, William Stafford, and John Clellon Holmes. Though not called for, SIGNED by Bukowski. Krumhansl 107.
$250

8.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Ham on Rye.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982.

First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 283 pp. Light corner bumps, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski with an original painting tipped in after the title page. Bukowski’s thinly-veiled account of growing up in Los Angeles. Krumhansl 74f.
$3000

9.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Hot Water Music.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1983.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 221 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Bukowski with an original painting tipped-in after the title page. Krumhansl 80f.
$3500

10.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
This.
Andernach: Burn Again Press, 1990.

First edition. [10 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with pasted-on cover label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski. A single poem. Despite the imprint, produced by Black Sparrow publisher John Martin in Santa Rosa, California. Krumhansl 116.
$1250

11.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
What They Want.
Santa Barbara: Maurice F. Neville, 1977.

First edition. Single stiff sheet, folded once (8 x 5 ½ inches when closed). Fine. Printed letterpress in three colors. The trade edition of this card, published to celebrate the opening of Maurice F. Neville Rare Books. Krumhansl 59.
$25

12.
[BUKOWSKI, Charles]. Malone, Marvin. ed.
Wormwood Review 16: Grip the Walls.
Storrs: Wormwood Review Press (1964).

Volume four, number four. [38 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Center section, titled “Grip the Walls,” devoted to Bukowski’s poems. Dated (1-11-65), numbered, “#21/24,” and SIGNED by Bukowski on page 19. This issue is described by Krumhansl, but does not have a drawing. Krumhansl 13 (note).
$450

13.
BURKE, Clifford.
Whulj: Poems.
[Berkeley]: Tangram, 1991.

First edition. [20 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers with a pasted-on cover label. One of 165 copies. Illustration and title lettering by Burke.
$25

14.
BURKE, Herbert.
Cantatas.
London: Writers Forum (1983).

First edition. 4to. [24 pp]. Very near fine in side stapled wrappers.
$25

15.
CAREY, Peter with Gregory Rogers.
American Dreams.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson (1997).

First edition. 64 pp. Small mark on top edge, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. A short story that appeared originally in THE FAT MAN IN HISTORY, here with artwork by Rogers.
$25

16.
CLAIRE, Paula.
Leonardo’s Lists: Found Poems.
[London]: Writers Forum, 1985.

First edition. 4to. Ten leaves housed in a clear plastic envelope. Fine. Lists discovered while studying the writings and drawings of da Vinci.
$35

17.
[CLARE, John]. McPherson, Sandra. ed.
Journey From Essex. Poems for John Clare.
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1981.

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. One of “approximately” 300 copies on Nideggen paper. Two poems by Clare, with work by Mark Halperin, Sandra McPherson, Theodore Roethke, John Ashbery, Jon Anderson, and William Logan in between.
$35

18.
COCTEAU, Jean.
Opera: Oeuvres Poétiques 1925–1927.
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1927.

First edition. 89 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 150 copies. Cover art by Christian Bérard. Dated (Juliet 1927) and warmly INSCRIBED by Cocteau. From the collection of Burton Weiss.
$750

19.
CONNER, Bruce.
Mabuhay Gardens 1978.
Palo Alto: Smith Anderson Gallery, 1986.

First edition. 23 x 6 ¹ ⁄ 8 inches, folded once, as issued. Fine. An uncommon promotional poster for this exhibition.
$150

20.
CONNER, Bruce.
Mabuhay Gardens.
Dusseldorf: NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft (2006).

First edition. 84 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Conner’s 1978 “punk” photographs taken in and around the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco, ground zero for the SF scene. Introductory essay by Greil Marcus, in English and German translation.
$100

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