21.
CAREY, Peter.
Wrong About Japan: A Father’s Journey with his Son.
London: Faber and Faber (2005).

First UK edition. 158 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Carey.
$40

22.
CAREY, Steve.
The Windmill Poems of Steven Harry Carey.
(np): Primitive Press, 1965.

First edition. [24 pp]. Very good plus in side-stapled wrappers that are toned at the extrems and have a a few short edge-tears. Staples likely replaced, one duplicate leaf. Steve Carey’s rare first book, a collection of ten poems. Not found in OCLC.
$250

23.
CARRUTH, Hayden.
The Clay Hill Anthology.
Iowa City: Prairie Press (1970).

First edition. 155 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with one short closed tear. Carruth’s eighth collection of poems, prompted by the reading of thousands of poems during the compilation of an anthology, and taking the haiku form.
$50

24.
CARVER, Raymond.
All of Us: The Collected Poems.
London: Harvill (1996).

First edition. xxx + 386 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Edited by William L. Stull. Introduction by Tess Gallagher. Precedes the US edition by two years.
$50

25.
CARVER, Raymond.
No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings.
London: Harvill (1991).

First edition. 239 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket with a tiny wrinkle to the crown. Edited by William Stull with an introduction by Tess Gallagher. Stories, a novel fragment, poems, occasions, introductions, book reviews, an essay, and a meditation. The only hardcover edition of this collection, which preceded the US trade paperback original by a year.
$40

26.
CAVE, Nick.
And the Ass Saw the Angel.
NY: HarperCollins (1990).

First US edition. 248 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Cave’s first novel.
$125

27.
CENDRARS, Blaise.
Dan Yack.
NY: Daniel Kesend (1987).

First US edition. 144 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Nina Rootes. A novel.
$20

28.
CENDRARS, Blaise.
Modernities and Other Writings.
Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska (1992).

First edition. 133 pp w/notes & bibliography. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Esther Allen with Monique Chefdor. Edited and introduced by Chefdor.
$35

29.
COCTEAU, Jean.
Five Plays.
NY: Hill and Wang (1961).

First edition. 310 pp. Hard erasure to first leaf, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear to the rear panel. Collects ORPHEÉ, ANTIGONE, INTIMATE RELATIONS, HOLY TERRORS, and THE EAGLE WITH TWO HEADS.
$35

30.
CROWLEY, Aleister.
The Stratagem and Other Stories.
Brighton: Temple Press, 1990.

First edition. xiii + 108 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Collects the previously published “The Strategem,” “The Testament of Magdalen Blair,” and “His Secret Sin,” with the first publication of the very early short story, “Which Things are an Allegory.”
$75

31.
CUTTS, Simon.
Nymphaes.
Clonmel: Coracle (2015).

First edition. Horizontal 48mo. [14 pp]. Fine in full cloth. One of 120 numbered copies. Colored vertical bars printed on variously cut and folded sheets. Short text on Monet’s Water Lilies and Monet’s application of false seams in order to disguise the real seams...
$40

32.
[DANCE].
Choreography by George Balanchine: A Catalogue of Works.
NY: Viking (1984).

First trade edition. 423 pp w/indexes. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Preface by Lincoln Kirstein. A thorough catalogue of all aspects of Balanchine’s work from 1920–1982. A terrific reference work, updated from the limited edition published in 1982.
$35

33.
[DAWSON, Fielding]. Raworth, Tom. ed.
Outburst 1.
London: Tom Raworth (1961).

First edition. [52 pp]. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. Contributor Fielding Dawson’s copy (his inked name to the first leaf), with eight holograph changes to his story. Work also by Heliczer, Turnbull, Levertov, Snyder, Olson, Dorn, Logue, and many others.
$125

34.
DENBY, Edwin and Rudolph Burckhardt.
Mediterranean Cities: Sonnets.
NY: George Wittenborn (1956).

First edition. 34 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. Twenty-nine sonnets with fourteen b&w photographs.
$250

35.
DESNOS, Robert.
The Selected Poems of Robert Desnos.
NY: Ecco Press (1991).

First edition. xxvi + 181 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with one short closed tear. Translations by Carolyn Forché and William Kulik.
$35

36.
DICK, Philp K.
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.
London: Gollancz, 1982.

First UK edition. 255 pp w/bibliography. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Dick’s final novel.
$50

37.
DUNN, Katherine.
The Slice: Information with an Attitude.
Portland: WW Press (1990).

First edition. iv + 122 pp w/index. Very near fine in wrappers; a trade paperback original. Selections from Dunn’s “The Slice,” a question-and-answer column that appeared in the Willamete Week. SIGNED by Dunn on the title page.
$35

38.
EGGLESTON, William.
William Eggleston’s Guide.
NY: Museum of Modern Art (1976).

First edition. 110 pp. Near fine in full leatherette with inset cover illustration. No dust jacket, as issued. Introductory essay by John Szarkowski. Forty-eight color reproductions. Roth 101.
$150

39.
ELUARD, Paul.
Liberté.
Greensboro: Unicorn Press (1977).

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Translated from the original French by Teo Savory. One of 300 copies for Friends of the Unicorn Press. A 1942 poem, composed while Eluard was working in the French Resistance.
$35

40.
EVERSON, William.
Tendril in the Mesh.
Aromas: Cayucos Books, 1973.

First edition. 4to. [40 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with leather spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press, San Francisco. One of 250 numbered copies on Wookey Hole Mill paper SIGNED by Everson.
$55

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