41.
[FLUXUS]. Anderson, Simon.
Fluxus Necessarius: The Ellsworth Snyder Collection of Fluxus Multiples and Ephemera.
Los Angeles: Roth Horowitz Anderson (2002).

First edition. 38 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine dust jacket. Fully-illustrated exhibition catalogue, with descriptions of 179 items.
$45

42.
[GILL, Eric]. Skelton, Christopher.
The Engraved Bookplates of Eric Gill 1908–1940.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1986.

First edition. 79 pp w/index of names. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 600 copies printed for the Book Club. Introduction by Michael Renton, afterword by Albert Sperisen. A collection of full-size reproductions of the fifty-three bookplates engraved by Eric Gill from 1908–1940.
$50

43.
[GOULD, Glenn]. Cott, Jonathan.
Coversations with Glenn Gould.
Boston: Little, Brown (1984).

First edition. 159 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in cloth. Useful beyond the conversations themselves, with the inclusion of an examination of the “George Szell Caper,” and a number of appendices treating discography, radio programs, a filmography, and more.
$75

44.
GRIFFITHS, Bill.
Cycles 1–7.
London: Pirate Press/Writers Forum [1975].

First edition. Oblong 4to. [20 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover text silkscreened in two colors. The first part of a continuing sequence of poems.
$35

45.
GUNN, Thom.
Site Specific.
Menlo Park: Occasional Works, 2000.

First edition. 33 pp. Fine in wrappers and photo-illustrated dust jacket. Reproductions of three photos by Leo Holub— two on the covers and one tipped in. One of 100 numbered copies on Arches text. Seventeen San Francisco “neighbourhood” poems, here presented as a group for the first time. At publication price:
$25

46.
[HEIDEGGER, Martin]. Steiner, George.
Martin Heidegger.
NY: Viking (1978).

First edition. 173 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. A description of Heidegger’s thought, without explicitly taking a side on the politics.
$35

47.
HENDERSON, Hamish. trans.
The Obscure Voice: Translations from Italian Poetry.
Edinburgh: Morning Star Publication (1994).

First edition. Small accordion-fold sheet (7 x 4 ¾ inches, closed) in a printed folder. Both elements near fine. One of 300 numbered copies. English translations of poems by Montale, Dino Campana, Ungaretti, Quasimodo, and Vincenzo Cardarelli. Under the Moon Series 1/3.
$25

48.
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Moksha: Writings and Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience 1931–1963.
London: Chatto & Windus (1980).

First UK edition. xxii + 280 pp w/notes & index. Light taps to corners, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Edited by Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer, introductions by Albert Hoffmann and Alexander Shulgin. Uncommon.
$150

49.
[INFERNO PRESS]. Daniels, Guy.
Poems & Translations.
San Francisco: Inferno Press Editions, 1959.

First edition. 38 pp. Fine in stiff wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Daniels’ first book. Includes his translations of Lermontov, Paul Fort, Nekrasov, and Francis Jammes, as well as his own poems.
$35

50.
[INFERNO PRESS]. Fundible, Graham.
The Life and Opinions of a Ne’er-Do-Well.
San Francisco: Inferno Press (1960).

First edition. 47 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers with integral printed dust jacket. First book by this “philosopher-poet” who “brings the current of continental traditions to our dying shores.”
$25

51.
[INFERNO PRESS]. Guenther, Charles (translates).
Modern Italian Poets.
San Francisco: Inferno Press [1961].

First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Translations of poems by Betocchi, Carrieri, De Libero, Fassolo, Fiorentino, Parranchi, Fisi, Sharbaro, Solmi, Valeri, and Quasimodo. The work of each poet is preceded by a short biography.
$50

52.
[INFERNO PRESS]. Hedley, Leslie Woolf.
Death of a World.
San Francisco: Inferno Press (1951).

First edition. [36 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. Twenty-eight poems printed letterpress. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Hedley.
$125

53.
[INFERNO PRESS]. Hedley, Leslie Woolf.
Zero Hour.
Inferno Press (1957).

First edition. 38 pp. Near fine in illustrated boards with clear acetate dust jacket (taped to inside boards, as issued). Hedley’s fifth book, a collection of poems.
$85

54.
[INFERNO PRESS]. Margolis, William.
The Anteroom of Hell.
San Francisco: Inferno Press (1957).

First edition. 32 pp. Near fine in red paper-covered boards with printed cover and spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. Nineteen poems.
$25

55.
[INFERNO PRESS]. Margolis, William J.
The Eye.
[San Francisco]: Inferno Press [c. 1958].

First edition. Single printed sheet glued into a near fine red construction paper folder with a printed label. SIGNED by Margolis on the cover label, with his holograph title. A fragile, delicate item from the press, in the same format at Brautigan’s RETURN OF THE RIVERS. OCLC locates three copies.
$85

56.
[INFERNO PRESS]. Orlovitz, Gil.
The Diary of Alexander Patience.
San Francisco: Inferno Press, 1958.

First trade paperback printing. 26 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Orlovitz’s fifth book, a collection of poems.
$50

57.
[INFERNO PRESS]. Orlovitz, Gil.
Selected Poems.
San Francisco: Inferno Press, 1960.

First edition. 50 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine integral dust jacket. “Orlovitz still remains unrecognized by the Power Elite controlling American culture” — from the jacket flap.
$27.50

58.
[INFERNO PRESS]. Pillin, William.
Passage After Midnight.
San Francisco: Inferno Press Editions, 1958.

First edition. 34 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Eighteen poems. Pillin’s fourth book. Accompanied by a two color promotional postcard.
$35

59.
JARRY, Alfred.
Caesar Antichrist.
London: Atlas Press (1992).

First UK edition. 140 pp w/bibliography. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Antony Melville. Introduced and annotated by Alastair Brotchie.
$40

60.
JOSEPHSON, Kenneth.
The Bread Book.
[Chicago]: Kenneth Josephson (1973).

First edition. Oblong 16mo. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Slices from a loaf of bread, the heels depicted on the front and rear covers. SIGNED by Josephson in blue ink across his printed name on the front cover.
$150

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