1.
ANDREWS, Bruce.
Factura.
Madison: Xexoxial Editions, 1987.

First edition. 4to. [46 pp]. Very good plus in printed wrappers with wear to outside upper and lower corners. Cover art by Bruce Pavlow. Briefly INSCRIBED by Andrews on the title page, “For David - / - Bruce.” Reprinted in 2008, this first edition is uncommon.
$75

2.
[ANTIN, David]. Hornick, Lita.
David Antin/Debunker of the “real.”
Putnam Valley: Swollen Magpie Press (1979).

First edition. 25 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover photograph by Carrie Rickie. An essay on the poet by the publisher of Kulchur, who brought out Antin’s book TALKING.
$40

3.
[BACON, Francis]. Deleuze, Gilles.
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2004).

First US edition. xxxiii + 183 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French, and with an introduction by Daniel W. Smith. Afterword by Tom Conley. Deleuze illuminates Bacon illuminates Deleuze.
$45

4.
BALLARD, J.G.
The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard.
NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1978).

First edition. ix + 302 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Anthony Burgess introduces this collection of nineteen stories.
$75

5.
BARNEY, Natalie Clifford.
The One Who Is Legion or A.D.’s Afterlife.
London: Eric Partridge 1930.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 160 pp. Faint offsetting to endpapers, light foxing to page edges; in all, near fine in full green buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Near fine printed dust jacket. Illustrated with two plates reproducing paintings by Romaine Brooks. The only novel by this American expat. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Barney. From the library of Black Sparrow publisher John Martin, with his small label inside the rear cover.
$1250

6.
BARRETT, Francis.
The Magus.
New Hyde Park: University Books (1967).

First edition. Small 4to. xviii + 175 + 178 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a tiny closed tear. Two volumes bound as one. Introduction by Timothy d’Arch Smith. Uncommon in such condition. Illustrated. Barrett’s only publication, issued originally in 1801.
$200

7.
BATAILLE, Georges.
The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture.
NY: Zone Books, 2005.

First US edition. 210 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Stuart Kendall. Translated from the original French by Michelle and Stuart Kendall. Essays and lectures drawn from Bataille’s study of anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy.
$35

8.
BECKETT, Samuel.
Stories & Texts for Nothing
NY: Grove Press (1967).

First US edition. 140 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Collects “The Expelled,” “The Calmative,” and “The End” with the thirteen “Texts for Nothing.” Illustrations by Avigdor Arikha. Federman & Fletcher 386.
$45

9.
BORGES, Jorge Luis.
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings.
NY: New Directions (1964).

First printing of this expanded edition. xxiii + 260 pp w/chronology & bibliography. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light edgewear. Edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby. Preface by André Maurois.
$150

10.
BORGES, Jorge Luis with María Esther Vázquerez.
An Introduction to English Literature.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky (1974).

First US edition. 77 pp w/bibliography & notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Spanish and edited by L. Clark Keating and Robert O. Evans. Borges offers a thorough and concise view of England’s literature from afar.
$100

11.
CAMUS, Albert.
Lyrical and Critical Essays.
NY: Knopf, 1968.

First US edition. x + 365 pp. Light bump to one upper corner, else fine in very near fine dust jacket with a tiny chip to the base of the front panel. Edited with notes by Philip Thody. Translated from the original French by Ellen Conroy Kennedy.
$40

12.
CONNER, Bruce and Michael McClure.
Lobe Key Stilled Lionman Laced Winged April Raphael Dance Wiry.
[San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1966].

First edition. Collection of twenty-five 2 x 2 inch cards, each with a mandala drawing by Conner on the rectos, and four words per card selected by McClure on the versos. While the cards are all fine, the printed envelope has taken the brunt of the years, evidenced by overall soiling and a few dampstains. Uncommon in any condition. Haselwood 10.
$750

13.
CREWS, Judson.
You, Mark Antony: Navigator Upon the Nile.
[Taos: Este Es Press 1966].

First edition. [62 pp]. Near fine in comb-bound card covers. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Crews. Poems with beef/cheesecake photographs.
$35

14.
CUTTS, Simon.
Affinity.
Clonmel & Eindhoven: Coracle/Peter Foolen Editions, 2011.

First edition. [38 pp]. Fine in decorated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 300 numbered copies. Twenty-eight b&w photographs of ships, each with the addition of the small red & white image from the cover. Text by Ian Hamilton Finlay printed beneath the images.
$40

15.
CUTTS, Simon.
Thirteen Preludes.
(np): Tarasque Press [1967].

First edition. Square 4to. Single printed sheet laid into a printed folder. Near fine. One of 250 numbered copies. Thirteen short titled poems.
$40

16.
DOOLITTLE, Hilda writing as “H.D.”
Within the Walls.
Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1993.

First edition. Small 4to. 58 pp. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. A prose work with 37 wood engravings by Dellas Henke. One of 300 numbered copies on Johannot paper. Berger 102.
$125

17.
DUNCALF, Stephen.
The ‘X’ Mas Files: Cards, Folding Cards & Notes from Stephen Duncalf 1994–1999.
Clonmel: Coracle, 2016.

First edition. 16mo. 39 pp. Fine in decorated boards with printed cover label. Illustrated with twelve color reproductions. Concluding statement by Simon Cutts.
$20

18.
DURAS, Marguerite.
The Sailor from Gibralter.
NY: Grove Press (1967).

First US edition. 318 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Barbara Bray. Basis for the 1967 UK film starring, among others, Vanessa Redgrave, Orson Welles, and Jeanne Moreau.
$45

19.
[EICHER, Manfred].
mono.kultur #26: Manfred Eicher - Recording ECM.
Berlin: mono.kultur (2010/2011).

Winter. Oblong 16mo. 36 p. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Kai von Rabenau. Interview with ECM Records founder Eicher, conducted by Bernd Kuchenbeiser.
$20

20.
ELIOT, T.S.
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.
London: Faber and Faber (1939).

First edition. 45 pp. Neat inked name and date (1939) of editor William Abrahams on the front free endpaper, along with a Groiler Book shop ticket, else near fine in decorated yellow cloth. Very good plus illustrated dust jacket with a professionally-reinforced spine (a bit tanned, shallow chipping to base and crown). Nice copy of Eliot’s famous book. Gallup A34a.
$1500

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