41.
HOGAN, Michael.
Letters for My Son.
Greensboro: Unicorn Press,. 1975.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 23 pp. Fine in full cloth and very near fine clear acetate dust jacket upon which is printed “signed edition” in red. One of 26 numbered copies SIGNED by Hogan. His first book, composed while incarcerated in the Arizona State Prison. Laid into this copy is a brief holograph note by Alan Brilliant, the book’s printer and publisher, and a copy of the original prospectus.
$125

42.
HORACE.
Odes.
San Francisco: Greenwood Press (1990 & 1992).

First edition. [88 pp] + [32 pp]. Two volumes, fine in wrappers and fine printed dust jacket, and fine in stapled wrappers, respectively, both housed in the very near fine publisher’s stiff unprinted paper slipcase (trivial soiling to bottom edge). Odes Book One translated by Michael Taylor. Beautifully handset and printed by Jack Werner Stauffacher in two colors. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Taylor and Stauffacher.
$350

43.
[JOYCE, James]. Senn, Fritz, and Clive Hart. eds.
A Wake Newslitter 1–18.
Unterengstringen & Hamilton: (np) (1962–1963).

First eighteen issues of this long-running periodical- March 1962 to December 1963. Most have light rust-marks near staples, else all are near fine or better. At the beginning of issue 18 is printed, “With this issue we wind up A Wake Newslitter, Old Style, and prepare for our emergence in print, early next year.”
$200

44.
KELLY, Robert.
The Book of Persephone.
New Paltz: Treacle Press, 1978.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. [44 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with photomontages by Carolee Schneeman. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Kelly and Schneeman, with an original six line poem inked to the front free endpaper by Kelly.
$125

45.
KEROUAC, Jack.
Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three.
NY: Grove Press (1959).

First edition. 245 pp. Pale foxing to endpapers and fore-edge, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly edgeworn. A difficult title to find in condition. Kerouac’s fifth novel in nine years. Charters A5a.
$2000

46.
[KEROUAC, Jack]. Montgomery, John.
Jack Kerouac: A Memoir In Which Is Revealed Secret Lives & West Coast Whispers, Being The Confessions of Henry Morley, Alex Fairbrother, & John Montgomery.
Fresno: The Giligia Press (1970).

First edition. 16 pp. Fine in gilt-stamped buckram. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 200 copies, the entire hardbound edition. A memoir in two “takes” by a correspondant and sometime friend of Kerouac’s whose letters and person inspired characters in several of Kerouac’s novels, including Henry Morley in DHARMA BUMS.
$85

47.
KINSELLA, Thomas.
Nightwalker.
Dublin: Dolmen Press (1967).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 18 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Very good plus unprinted tissue dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Kinsella. The New Dolmen Chapbooks 2.
$75

48.
KLOSSOWSKI, Pierre.
Sade My Neighbor.
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1991.

First US edition. xv + 144 pp w/appendixes & notes. Fine in printed full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated from the original French and with an introduction by Alphonso Lingis.
$45

49.
KUENSTLER, Frank.
Selected Poems.
NY: Eventorium Press (1964).

First edition. 70 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. A substantial collection.
$50

50.
LEVERTOV, Denise.
Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus.
Concord: William B. Ewert, 1981.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 16 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with printed cover label. One of 100 (of 136) numbered copies on Mohawk Superfine paper SIGNED by Levertov.
$75

51.
LEVERTOV, Denise.
Overland to the Islands.
Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1958.

First edition. [52 pp]. Fine in plain white wrappers in very near fine dust jacket with a small pale spot to lower corner of rear panel. One of 450 copies. Levertov’s third book. Jargon 19.
$75

52.
LEVINE, Philip.
5 Detroits.
[Santa Barbara]: Unicorn Press (1970).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [32 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Levine.
$300

53.
LEVINE, Philip.
The Language Problem.
Toledo: Aureole Press, 2008.

First edition. Tall 4to. [16 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 25 numbered copies, the entire hardcover edition, SIGNED by Levine. A collection of seven poems.
$250

54.
LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Old Gang and the New Gang.
London: Desmond Harmsworth, 1933.

First edition. 62 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with darkened spine. The first of two bindings. Morrow & Lafourcade A20.
$200

55.
LOGUE, Christopher.
The Girls.
London: Bernard Stone, 1969.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. 21 pp. Very near fine in cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine. One of 24 numbered copies SIGNED by Logue, from an entire edition of 50. Ramsden A28.
$350

56.
MACDONALD, Ross.
On Crime Writing.
Santa Barbara: Capra, 1973.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. vii + 45 pp. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Foreword by Noel Young. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Macdonald. Yes! Capra Chapbook Series #11.
$100

57.
MANDEL, John.
Ready To Go: Poems 1972–1977.
Ithaca: Ithaca House, 1981.

First trade edition. 69 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Cover by Mandel. One of 500 copies. Poems printed letterpress. His third book.
$15

58.
MANDELSTAM, Osip.
Tristia.
Barrytown: Station Hill, 1987.

First edition. xiii + 105 pp w/bibliography & index of first lines. Fine in near fine dust jacket that is slightly misfolded and has a short closed tear to the base of the rear panel. Original Russian poems with facing English translations by Bruce McClelland.
$35

59.
MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir.
Wi the Haill Voice: 25 Poems.
South Hinksey: Carcanet (1972).

First trade paperback printing. 93 pp w/glossary. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original Russian into Scots by Edwin Morgan.
$35

60.
McCLURE, Michael.
Love Lion Book.
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1966.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 21 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with gilt-stampled cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 40 numbered copies SIGNED by McClure. Writing 11.
$100

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