1.
ACKER, Kathy.
Empire of the Senseless.
NY: Grove (1988).

First edition. 227 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Acker, “Love, / Acker” on the front free endpaper. An apocalyptic vision from a Reagan-era springboard.
$125

2.
ARMANTROUT, Rae.
Necromance.
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press (1991).

First edition. 49 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Armantrout on the title page.
$50

3.
ARMANTROUT, Rae.
Precedence.
Providence: Burning Deck, 1985.

First trade edition. 44 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 950 copies. SIGNED by Armantrout on the title page.
$75

4.
ASHBERY, John.
Girls on the Run: A Poem.
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1999).

First edition. 55 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Ashbery on the title page.
$75

5.
ASHBERY, John.
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems.
NY: Viking (1975).

First edition. 83 pp. Usual toning to top edges, else very near fine in like dust jacket with a shallow diagonal crease to front flap. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
$150

6.
[ATLAS PRESS].
X: The First 10 Years of ATLAS PRESS & XI (year eleven): A bibliography and catalogue of publications from 1983 to 1994, and a prospectus for the Arkhive series.
London: Atlas Press (1994).

First edition. 63 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A useful scorecard.
$35

7.
BALL, Hugo.
Flight out of Time: A Dada Diary.
NY: Viking (1974).

First US edition. 254 pp w/bibliography & index. Two small spots of foxing to fore-edge, else fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited with notes and a bibliography by John Elderfield. Translated by Ann Raimes. A volume in the “Documents of 20th-Century Art” series.
$55

8.
BANVILLE, John.
The Untouchable.
London: Picador (1997).

First edition. 405 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Banville on the title page. Anthony Blunt and the Cambridge spies through Banville’s lens.
$50

9.
BARTHELME, Donald.
Presents.
Dallas: Pressworks (1980).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 22 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. A short story with four tipped-on collage illustrations by Barthelme. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Barthelme.
$50

10.
BECKETT, Samuel.
MOLLOY, MALONE DIES, THE UNNAMABLE: Three Novels by Samuel Beckett.
NY: Grove Press (1969).

First US edition. 577 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with only a touch of rubbing to extems. Uncommon in such condition. Beckett’s own translation of this trilogy, with the assistance of Patrick Bowles in the case of MOLLOY.
$125

11.
BERLIN, Lucia.
Home Sick: New & Selected Stories.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1990.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 280 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine with printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 125 numbered copies SIGNED by Berlin.
$250

12.
BERRY, Wendell.
Reverdure: A Poem.
[Colorado Springs]: The Press at Colorado College [1974].

First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies on Rives Heavyweight Paper SIGNED by Berry. A single poem with beautiful running abstract designs running along the bottom edge of each page, printed in several pale colors.
$250

13.
BISHOP, Elizabeth.
Geography III.
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1976).

First edition. 50 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Bishop’s last collection to appear in her lifetime. Includes her celebrated poems “In the Waiting Room,” “One Art,” and “The Moose” among others. MacMahon A13.
$75

14.
BLACKBURN, Paul.
The Dissolving Fabric.
Palma De Mallorca: Divers Press, 1955.

First edition. [24 pp]. A bit of light offsetting to first and last leaf, else fine in wrappers and printed dust jacket. Cover art by Dan Rice, printed as a three color silkscreen by Arthur Okamura.
$350

15.
BOLTANSKI, Christian.
Scratch.
Köln: Walther König, 2002.

First edition. Oblong 16mo. Fine in printed wrappers and original shrink-wrap. A collection of “forbidden” images, revealed only when a thin coat of silver pigment is scratched off.
$125

16.
BOLTANSKI, Christian and Jacques Roubaud.
Ensembles.
Paris: T.F. Artes Graficas (1997).

First edition. Fine in spiral-bound wrappers. Roubaud’s “listes: 99” followed by Bontanski’s “Multiplications.” The pages are bound in five different groupings, three of which enable the reader to create different faces via a sequence of horizantal bands.
$75

17.
BRETON, André with René Char and Paul Éluard.
Ralentir Travaux.
Cambridge: Exact Change, 1990.

First US edition. 52 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translations by Keith Waldrop. Poems written in collaboration while the three were in Avignon in 1930.
$45

18.
BRONK, William.
Six Duplicities.
Brooklyn: Jordan Davies [1980].

First edition, lettered & signed issue. [12 pp]. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies Hodgkinson Blue Laid paper SIGNED by Bronk.
$125

19.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
A Bukowski Sampler.
Madison: Druid Books (1971).

Second edition. 77 pp. Fine in printed purple wrappers. This edition adds “The Way the Dead Love,” an excerpt from a novel that originally appeared in “Congress,” and was inadventantly left out of the first edition of this collection. Krumhansl 30 (this revised edition not described).
$75

20.
BUKOWSKI, Charles and Sheri Martinelli.
Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski & Sheri Martinelli 1960–1967.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 2001.

First edition, numbered issue. 380 pp w/index. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 500 numbered copies with an original serigraph print by Bukowski.
$75

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