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catalog #118

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21.
CREELEY, Robert and Arthur Okamura.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0.

Berkeley & San Francisco: Shambala/Mudra, 1971.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. [94 pp]. Light endemic offsetting to endpapers, taps to two lower corners, else fine in fine dust jacket. Creeley’s poem with cover art and internal drawings by Okamura. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Creeley and Okamura. Uncommon in this issue.
$200

22.
DAVID, Elizabeth.
French Country Cooking.

NY: Horizon Press (1952).

First US edition. x + 247 pp. Smudge on front free endpaper and fore-edge, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with shallow chipping to base and crown of spine, and a one inch tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel. Cover art and title page drawings by John Minton. David’s second book, a game-changer for British kitchens.
$200

23.
DERRIDA, Jacques.
Of Grammatology.

Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press (1976).

First US edition. xc + 354 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket that is crimped at base and crown of spine. Translated from the original French by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The foundational deconstructionist text.
$350

24.
DOOLITTLE, Hilda writing as “H.D.”
Red Roses for Bronze.

Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1931.

First US edition. viii + 147 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with faint toning to spine, and light edgewear. One of 500 (of 520) copies. Sheets from the first edition (published in England) with reset preliminaries. Boughn A13.a.ii.
$150

25.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton.
Mexico & North.

Tokyo: (np) (1962).

First edition. [54 pp]. Fine in Japanese-style sewn wrappers. Frontispiece by William Paden, cover design by Will Peterson. Boldy SIGNED by Eshleman on the first leaf. His first book.
$75

26.
EVERSON, William.
River-Root: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States.

Berkeley: Oyez, 1976.

First trade edition. 45 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Foreword by Everson. Illustrations by Patrick Kennedy. INSCRIBED by Everson to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “To Lawrence / light of the city / Bill.”
$150

27.
FANTE, John.
Dreams from Bunker Hill.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 146 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine clear acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Fante.
$350

28.
FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence.
Coney Island of the Mind.

San Francisco: Arion Press, 2005.

First Arion Press edition, lettered & signed issue. Folio. 29 pp. Fine in illustrated paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine publisher’s decorated slipcase. Ferlinghtti’s famous collection with portrait drawings by R.B. Kitaj. One of 26 lettered copies on mouldmade Hahnemühle Bugra paper SIGNED by Ferlinghetti and Kitaj.
$750

29.
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece.

London: John Murray (1966).

First edition. 248 pp w/appendixes & index. Page edges lightly soiled, else near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Cover art by John Craxton.
$150

30.
FORSTER, E.M.
Anonymity: An Enquiry.

London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925.

First edition. 23 pp. Faint soiling to covers, else fine in stiff printed wrappers. A variant binding, not described by Kirkpatrick. Woolmer comments, “The Phoenix Bookshop in New York catalogued in 1977 a copy in cream paper boards that lacked the Vanessa Bell drawing; it is assumed that this was a proof copy.” Kirkpatrick A11. Woolmer 61.
$200

31.
FORSTER, E.M.
Virginia Woolf.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1942.

First edition. 27 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. The 1941 Rede Lecture. Kirkpatrick A24a.
$125

32.
[FOUCAULT, Michel]. Martin, Luther H. et al. eds.
Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault.

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.

First edition. 166 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. A record of Foucault’s 1982 faculty seminar at the University of Vermont. “A nearly firsthand view of Foucault at work.”
$45

33.
FULLER, R. Buckminster.
Tetrascroll. Goldilocks and the Three Bears: A Cosmic Fairy Tale.

NY: ULAE, Inc./St. Martin’s (1982).

First edition. 4to. xxvii + 129 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Prologue by Fuller, introduction by Amei Wallach, epilever by Edwin Schlossberg. “Goldilocks explains Bucky’s ideas to the three bears.” Illustrated.
$50

34.
GARLAND, Peter. ed.
Soundings Nos. 3/4.

Saugas: Soundings (1972).

July-October. 4to. [144 pp]. Vertical bend to front cover, bumps to corners. In all, very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers. Scores and articles by Fulkerson, Klucevsek, Byron, Tenney, Corner, Harrison, and others. INSCRIBED by Harrison to Robert [Duncan], “MUCHLOVETOROBERTFROMLOU&BILL” in four colors of ink. Harrison also added color to the Harold Budd drawing on the front cover.
$125

35.
GARLAND, Peter. ed.
Soundings: Ives, Ruggles, Varèse.

[Saugas]: Soundings (1974).

Spring. 4to. [206 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Alison Knowles. Contributions by Lou Harrison, Malcolm Goldstein, Philip Corner, James Tenney, and Peter Garland. A special issue of the magazine, not part of the numbered sequence.
$75

36.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg, 1894–1956.

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992.

First Arion Press edition. 4to. 62 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Illustrated with two lithographed portraits by R.B. Kitaj. Introduction by Helen Vendler. Ginsberg’s great poem together with “White Shroud” and “Black Shroud.” One of 200 numbered copies on T.H. Saunders mould-made paper. SIGNED by Ginsberg and Kitaj.
$1250

37.
GINSBERG, Allen.
T.V. Baby Poems.

London: Cape Goliard (1967).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [34 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards and near fine dust jacket with a few light specks to covers. Poems by Ginsberg, illustrations by Victorien Sardon, Ginsberg, and “The Great Crystal.” One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Ginsberg. Morgan A10.a1.
$250

38.
GOGARTY, Paul.
Snap Box.

London: Trigram Press (1972).

First edition, limited issue. 12mo. [64 pp]. Fine in decorated boards and clear acetate dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Gogarty. Short poems, printed in dark blue on medium blue paper. Printed dedication to Chelsea F.C.
$50

39.
GRIEVE, C.M. aka Hugh MacDiarmid.
Annals of the Five Senses.

Montrose: C.M. Grieve (1923).

First edition. 194 pp. Small spot to spine with the gilt lettering dull, else near fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper, “To Alex Scott / with warmest / regards / from / C.M. Grieve.” His first book.
$450

40.
HAN-SHAN translated by Burton Watson.
Cold Mountain: 100 poems by the T’ang poet Han-shan.

NY: Grove Press (1962).

First edition. 122 pp w/finding list. Fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. Translations by Watson, with his introduction.
$35

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