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21.
DI PRIMA, Diane.
Revolutionary Letters.

[NY: Privately Published] (1968).

Second edition. Tall 4to. [16 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Three corrections to the text to Letter No. 9 in blue ballpoint. This edition collects Revolutionary Letters 1–34. Printed dedication to Bob Dylan. The first edition to present this sequence. The earlier editions (letters 1–15) were published simultaneously by the Communication Company and Artists Workshop Press early in 1968. See Lepper p. 151.
$125

22.
FAULKNER, William.
A Green Bough.

NY: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1933.

First edition. 67 pp. Spine toned, light foxing to extrems, light discoloration along top edge; in all, very good plus in decorated full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Illustrated with woodcuts by Lyn Ward. One of 250 (of 360) numbered copies on Milano paper SIGNED by Faulkner. His second collection of verse.
$1000

23.
FORSTER, E.M.
England’s Pleasant Land: A Pageant Play.

London: Hogarth Press, 1940.

First edition. 79 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine and price-increase sticker to front flap. Kirkpatrick A22.
$100

24.
FORSTER, E.M.
The Eternal Moment and Other Stories.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1928.

First edition. 187 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with shallow wear to base and crown of spine. Kirkpatrick A13a.
$250

25.
GAINES, Ernest J.
Catherine Carmier.

NY: Atheneum, 1964.

First edition. 248 pp. A few light spots on the top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Review slip accompanies. Gaines’ first book.
$125

26.
GINSBERG, Allen. et al.
Blake’s Greatest Hits.

Kansas City: Blue Moon Records (nd).

7 inch single. Fine (unplayed) in near fine, unprinted white paper sleeve. Side “A” has a recording by Tom Nichols and by Evan Tonsing and Gwen Powell. Side “B” features “Nurses’s Song” with vocals by Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, and guitar and vocals by Steve Taylor.
$25

27.
GIZZI, Peter with George Herms.
Fin Amor.

[San Diego]: Tougher Disguises, 2002.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. [28 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Poems with a frontispiece designed for this volume by George Herms. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Gizzi and Herms.
$125

28.
GUNN, Thom.
The Menace.

South San Francisco: Manroot (1982).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Illustrated with drawings by J.J. Hazard. One of 250 numbered copies on Strathmore SIGNED by Gunn and Hazard. A long poem. Hagstrom & Bixby A32.
$45

29.
GUNN, Thom.
Unsought Intimacies: Poems from 1991.

Berkeley: Peter Koch, 1993.

First edition. 4to. [32 pp]. Fine in stiff wrappers with two part pasted-on cover label. Fine publisher’s slipcase. Poems illustrated with three etchings by Theophilus Brown. One of 130 numbered copies SIGNED by Gunn and Brown. Hagstrom & Bixby A55.
$300

30.
HAGEDORN, Jessica.
Two Stories: Carnal/Los Gabrieles.

Minneapolis: Demitasse/Coffee House Press (1992).

First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket. Two short stories, illustrated with five wood engraving by Charles Henrikson. SIGNED by Hagedorn and Henrikson.
$45

31.
HANLEY, James.
Ebb and Flood.

London: John Lane the Bodley Head (1932).

First trade edition. 275 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with just a bit of edgewear. Jacket art by Alan Odle. A novel of working-class life, centered around “three docker boys of Liverpool, and the relations between the elder of the three boys and his deaf and dumb widowed mother.” Gibbs A9b.
$150

32.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
The Old Man and the Sea.

NY: Scribner’s, 1952.

First edition. 140 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some light wear to crown of spine, and tips of flap folds. The photograph on the rear panel has a blue cast, indicating the first state. Hanneman 24a.
$1500

33.
JACOBS, Jane.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

NY: Random House (1961).

First edition. 458 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with lightly tanned spine. Jacob’s most successful book, a critique of 1950s urban planning.
$250

34.
[JESS].
Jess aka Tricky Cad.

NY & San Francisco: Odyssia Gallery/John Berggruen Gallery, 1989.

First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Seventeen color reproductions, along with the covers. Essay by Madeleine Burnside.
$45

35.
JOHNSON, B.S. ed.
All Bull: The National Servicemen.

London: Alison & Busby (1973).

First edition. 293 ppw /notes on contributors, bibliography, and appendix. Fine in fine dust jacket. Tales of National Service by John Furnival, David Hockney, Edward Lucie-Smith, Jeff Nuttal, and lesser-known Servicemen.
$75

36.
[JOY DIVISION]. Heylin, Clinton and Craig Wood.
Form (and substance).

Cambridge: Sound Publishing, 1988.

First edition. 4to. [64 pp]. Very near fine in embossed wrappers. One of 1000 copies published on the 8th anniversary of the death of Ian Curtis. Illustrated with b&w photographs, including a few of Ian and Debbie’s wedding. Reprinted at least three times.
$100

37.
[JOY DIVISION].
Joy Division — New Order: A History in Cuttings (1977–1983).

(np): (np) [c. 1985].

Presumed third edition, light gray cover with green and black printing (no priority established). 4to. [128 pp]. Small corner crease to rear cover, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Thought to originate in the Netherlands, this is one of a number of ever-growing collections of previously-published articles and interviews. Also includes lyrics, discographies, and gig guides.
$100

38.
KAVAN, Anna.
A Bright Green Field and Other Stories.

London: Peter Owen (1958).

First edition. 192 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a US price sticker to front flap.
$125

39.
KAVAN, Anna.
Ice: A Novel.

London: Peter Owen (1967).

First edition. 157 pp. Faint foxing to endpapers else very near fine in near fine clipped and re-priced dust jacket with light rubbing to extrems. Kavan’s late triumph, and best-known novel.
$150

40.
[KEES, Weldon]. Rajan, B. ed.
T.S. Eliot: A Study of His Writings by Several Hands.

London: Dennis Dobson (1947).

First edition. 153 pp w/checklist. Near fine in full cloth. Lacks dust jacket. Weldon Kees’ copy, with his inked signature and note (New York / 1947) on the front free endpaper. Three clipped articles on Eliot laid in.
$150

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