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41.
[CORACLE PRESS]. Van Horn, Erica.
Bus.

Clonmel: Coracle, 2014.

First edition. 12mo. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. Short essays on riding busses. Living Locally No. 29.
$20

42.
[CORACLE PRESS]. Van Horn, Erica.
Gumigas Zimogs: A World Guide to Rubber Stamps.

Docking: Coracle, 1996.

First edition. 16mo. [64 pp]. Fine in wire-bound wrappers. One of 200 numbered copies. The words “Rubber Stamp” in many different languages.
$40

43.
[CORACLE PRESS]. Van Horn, Erica.
The Life of St. Anthony of Padua.

Clonmel: Coracle, 2013.

First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in full orange cloth with light blue stamping to spine and front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 200 numbered copies. Thirteen altered postcards from paintings by Johnson Sabattini. Texts in Italian and English translation.
$25

44.
[CORACLE PRESS]. Van Horn, Erica.
the only function of the envelope interior is to hide the contents of the envelope.

Clonmel: Coracle (2007).

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers, laid into printed covers with pasted-on cover label. Simon Cutts contributes a note to these reproductions of artworks made up of envelope interiors. Little Critic No. 19.
$15

45.
[CORACLE PRESS]. Van Horn, Erica.
Some Words for Living Locally.

Clonmel: Coracle (2002).

First edition. 16mo. 9 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies. Stamps, passport photo, and SIGNED by Van Horn inside the front cover.
$25

46.
[CORACLE PRESS]. Van Horn, Erica.
with or without.

[Clonmel]: Coracle (2010).

First edition. Stiff folding card bound in full decorated blue cloth. Fine. Two internal illustrations with text.
$25

47.
CORSO, Gregory.
The Doubt of Truth.

California: the unspeakable visions of the individual (1979).

First edition. 6 x 4 3 8 inch poemcard. Fine.
$25

48.
CORSO, Gregory.
Lieber Villon und andere Gedichte.

Altaquito Sondesblätter, 1983.

First edition. [18 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers with pasted-on cover label. An excerpt from Corso’s 1981 collection HERALD OF THE AUTOCHTHONIC SPIRIT, in German translation by Reinhard Harbaum. SIGNED by Corso on the title page.
$85

49.
DE LOACH, Allen.
Third Part Unordered.

Brighton: Unicorn Bookshop (1970).

First edition. Horizontal 24mo. [72 pp]. Fine in stapled oblong wrappers. Poetry, the first part of a longer work. Biographical statement by Eric Mottram printed inside the front and rear covers.
$20

50.
DEWDNEY, Christopher.
Concordat Proviso Ascendant: A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario Book III.

Great Barrington: The Figures, 1991.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 40 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. One of 10 numbered copies with an original drawing SIGNED by Dewdney, in this instance a simple drawingon the half-title page, and two tipped-on colored illustrations on two late blank leaves.
$45

51.
DIENST, Rolf Gunter.
52 Poems.

Nottingham: Tarasque Press (1965).

First edition. [20 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems translated from the German and with an introduction by Anselm Hollo.
$25

52.
DOOLITTLE, Hilda writing as “H.D.”
The Gift.

NY: New Directions (1982).

First edition. xv + 142 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by H.D.’s daughter, Perdita Schaffner. A “novelistic memoir” of childhood. Boughn A35ai.
$25

53.
DOUGLAS, Helen.
Last Day in Kas.

Atlanta & Yarrow: Nexus Press/Weproductions, 2001.

First edition. Square 32mo. [76 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. The recipient of the first biennial Atlanta Book Prize. Full color photographs of floral and architectural details.
$25

54.
ELUARD, Paul.
Le dur désir de durer.

London: Grey Falcon Press (1950).

First edition, UK issue. 4to. 92 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers with original glassine dust jacket, toned along the spine. One of 750 numbered copies. Eluard’s original French poems, followed by English translations by Stephen Spender and Frances Cornford. Black and white drawings by Marc Chagall throughout, with a five color reproduction, the creation of which was supervised by Chagall, as a frontis.
$300

55.
FISHER, M.F.K.
A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd and Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man & Beast.

San Francisco: North Point, 1981.

First printing of this reissue (originally published in 1961). 142 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine. Contains a new preface by Fisher. Dated (5.17.81) and INSCRIBED by North Point publisher William Turnbull to his wife, the gallerist Paule Anglim, “For Paule / from zee publishaire. / Cordially, of course, & with love / Wm.”
$75

56.
FRUMKIN, Gene. ed.
New Mexico Quarter.

[Albuquerque]: (np) 1969.

4to. [16 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. All of the work not allowed to appear in the final issue of the Winter-Spring 1969 double issue of the New Mexico Quarterly. Texts by Michael McClure, James Joyce, David Benedetti, Leonore Kandel, Stephen Rodefer, and Robert Creeley. Together with a near fine copy of the censored issue. For the pair:
$150

57.
GIBBS, Michael. ed.
Kontextsound.

Amsterdam: Kontexts (1977).

First edition. Folio. 26 pp. Very good only in stapled wrappers with a hard bump to one corner. Published on the occasion of the “text in sound” festival at the Stedelijk Museum. Contributors include Houédard, Chopin, Rühm, Fencott, Hodell, Heidsieck, and many others.
$40

58.
[HANLEY, James]. Gibbs, Linnea.
James Hanley: A Bibliography.

Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1980.

First trade edition. x + 230 pp w/index. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 500 copies. Illustrated.
$20

59.
HARVEY, Nick. ed.
Mark in Time: Potraits & Poetry / San Francisco.

San Francisco: Glide Publications (1971).

First edition. 189 pp w/autobiographical notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. A who’s-who of SF Bay Area poetics at the dawn of the seventies. Over seventy portraits and poems. SIGNED by David Meltzer, Gary Snyder, and Michael McClure at their contributions.
$125

60.
HELMES, Scott.
Untitled Print.

(np): (np) 1978.

First edition. 11 ½ x 9 inch print. Very near fine. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Helmes.
$55

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