61.
McGREGOR, Jon.
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things.
London: Bloomsbury (2002).

First edition. 275 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by McGregor on the title page. His first novel.
$100

62.
MICHAUX, Henri.
Henri Michaux: A Selection.
Embers Consigny, 1979.

First edition, numbered limited issue. 52 pp. Fine in stiff printed wrappers and fine dust jacket. Short prose works and poems translated from the original French by Michael Fineberg. One of 270 (of 300) numbered copies on Arches wove paper, printed letterpress.
$125

63.
MICHAUX, Henri.
The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones.
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1974).

First US edition. 170 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a narrow corner crease to front flap. Translated from the original French by Richard Howard. “Dazzling descriptions of the operations of the normal and abnormal mind, revealed in controlled drug experiments.”
$55

64.
[NADJA PRESS]. Ashbery, John.
Hotel Lautréamont.
NY: Nadja (1991).

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Cover art an image by Joseph Cornell. One of 125 numbered copies on BFK Rives paper SIGNED by Ashbery.
$250

65.
[NADJA PRESS]. Creeley, Robert.
Loops: Ten Poems.
Kripplebush: Nadja, 1995.

First edition. [22 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket with sunning to the spine. One of 75 (of 90) numbered copies SIGNED by Creeley.
$125

66.
[NADJA PRESS]. Gunn, Thom.
At the Barriers (Dore Alley Fair).
(np): Nadja (1989).

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. A poem in memory of Robert Duncan. One of 74 numbered copies on Whatman paper SIGNED by Gunn.
$100

67.
[NADJA PRESS]. Merrill, James.
Nine Lives.
NY & Kripplebush: Nadja, 1993.

First edition. 10 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Cover art by Dorothea Tanning. One of 100 (of 130) numbered copies on Arches and Stonehenge papers SIGNED by Merrill and Tanning.
$350

68.
[NADJA PRESS]. Merrill, James.
Overdue Pilgrimage to Nova Scotia.
[NY]: Nadja (1990).

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. A long poem, dedicated to Elizabeth Bishop, which appeared originally in The New Yorker. One of 75 (of 100) numbered copies on English Somerset paper SIGNED by Merrill.
$150

69.
[NADJA PRESS]. Merwin, W.S.
KOA.
NY: Nadja, 1988.

First edition. 20 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 74 numbered copies on Saunders paper SIGNED by Merwin. A single long poem.
$200

70.
[NADJA PRESS]. Merwin, W.S. translates Muso Soseki.
Sun at Midnight: 23 Poems by Muso Soseki.
NY: Nadja (1985).

First edition. 21 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Merwin and Soiku Shigematsu translate these poems. Woodcut illustrations by Antonio Frasconi. One of200 numbered copies on Arches paper SIGNED by Merwin and Frasconi.
$150

71.
[NADJA PRESS]. Purdy, James.
Lessons & Complaints.
NY: Nadja [1978].

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Pages uncut. A single poem by Purdy, with his cover art. One of 174 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy. The first book of the press.
$45

72.
[NADJA PRESS]. Simic, Charles.
Pyramids and Sphinxes.
NY: Nadja (1989).

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. A collection of ten poems printed in two colors. One of 74 numbered copies on Rives paper SIGNED by Simic.
$100

73.
[NADJA PRESS]. Simic, Charles.
They Forage at Night.
NY: Nadja, 1980.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Faint sunning to spine, else fine in sewn wrappers. One of 74 numbered copies on handmade Penhurst and Duchene papers SIGNED by Simic. Ten poems.
$75

74.
[PARKER, Charlie]. Russell, Ross.
Bird Lives! The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker.
NY: Charterhouse (1973).

First edition. x + 404 pp w/index. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a few light wrinkles. Illustrated.
$35

75.
PATCHEN, Kenneth.
They Keep Riding Down All the Time.
NY: Padell (1946).

First edition. 32 pp. Bump to lower corner of spine, else near fine in saddle-stitched wrappers and near fine dust jacket. Cover art by Patchen. A prose work by the poet. Morgan A14.
$55

76.
[PEYOTE]. Marriott, Alice and Carol K. Rachlin.
Peyote.
NY: Thomas Y. Crowell (1971).

First edition. x + 111 pp w/selected bibliography & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. “An account of the origins and growth of the peyote religion.”
$35

77.
PINGET, Robert.
Mahu or The Material: A Novel.
London: Calder and Boyars (1966).

First UK edition. 144 pp. Fine in very near fine clipped and re-priced dust jacket. Cover art by John Sewell. Translated from the original French by Alan Sheridan-Smith.
$40

78.
POUND, Ezra.
A Draft of XXX Cantos.
Paris: Hours Press, 1930.

First edition. 138 pp. Top edge dusty, spine toned, red lettering faded on both spine and front cover, else near fine in full coarse linen with some light soiling. Woodcut initials by Dorothy Shakespear. One of 200 numbered copies on Canson-Mongolfier Soleil velin M.R.V. paper. Stephen Vincent Benét’s copy, with his bookplate inside the front cover. Gallup A31a.
$1500

79.
RAKOSI, Carl.
Droles de Journal.
West Branch: Toothpaste Press, 1981.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [32 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed paper cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Rakosi.
$25

80.
ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain.
Topology of a Phantom City.
NY: Grove Press (1977).

First US edition. 142 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by J.A. Underwood. Increasingly difficult in fine condition.
$100

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