1.
[ALLEN PRESS]. Allen, Lewis M.
The Allen Press Bibliography mcmlxxxi produced by hand with art work, sample pages from previous editions.
San Francisco: Book Club of California (1985).

First printing of this edition (originally published in 1981). Folio. 114 pp w/index. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 750 copies. Additions to date, including a checklist of ephemera. Original prospectus accompanies.
$75

2.
AMMONS, A.R.
Tape for the Turn of the Year.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press (1965).

First edition, first issue. 205 pp. Tiny remainder stamp to bottom edge near spine, else fine in fine dust jacket. Ammons’ celebrated volume, a long poem composed originally on a long stretch of adding machine tape. Republished in 1993, this is the first issue of the first edition, without the Norton sticker on the spine.
$75

3.
[ASHENDENE PRESS]. Franklin, Colin.
The Ashendene Press.
Dallas: Bridwell Library/Southern Methodist Press, 1986.

First edition. 4to. xiv + 256 pp w/index. Very near fine in patterned paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 750 copies on Mohawk Superfine paper. Illustrated. Complete history and bibliography of St John Hornby’s press, active from 1895–1935.
$150

4.
BECKMANN, Petr.
A History of PI.
Boulder: Golem Press, 1971.

Second edition. 196 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. This second edition includes a new chapter on PI in the computer age. Also, reproduces on the endpapers the first 10,000 decimal places of PI from the 1961 IBM 704 print-out, as programmed by Shanks and Wrench.
$35

5.
BOLTANSKI, Christian.
Zeit.
MÙnchen: Gina Kehayoff (1996).

First edition. [64 pp]. Fine in printed cardstock covers with fabric spine tape. Black and white photographs of adult men and women opposite of photographs of their younger selves.
$40

6.
BOWLES, Paul.
The Spider’s House.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982.

First printing of this second edition (originally published in 1955), numbered & signed issue. 406 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. New preface by Bowles, not in the 1955 edition. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles. Miller A7e.
$100

7.
[BRANDT, Marianne]. Otto, Elizabeth.
Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt.
Berlin: Jovis Verlag (2006).

First edition. 4to. 175 pp. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Texts in German and English translation. Fully-illustrated.
$75

8.
BUCKLEY, Lord.
Hiparama of the Classics.
San Francisco: City Lights (1960).

First edition. 31 pp. Bookseller ticket (Foyle’s) inside front cover, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Printed endorsement by Henry Miller on the rear cover. The inimitable Buckley’s take on Jesus, Lincoln, Nero, De Sade, Ghandi, De Vaca, and Shakespeare. Uncommon. Cook 24.
$100

9.
BURROUGHS, William S.
White Subway.
London: Aloes Press [1973].

First edition. 73 pp. Light bump to base of spine, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 975 (of 1000) copies. Classic Burroughs. Concludes with works by Alan Ansen and Paul Bowles on WSB and his work. Maynard & Miles A24.
$75

10.
CREELEY, Robert.
Later: A Poem.
West Branch: Toothpaste Press (1978).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. A poem sequence with cover and title page drawing by Louis Picek. One of 100 numbered copies on Iyo Glazed paper SIGNED by Creeley and Picek.
$75

11.
DI PRIMA, Diane.
Loba Part II.
Pt. Reyes & Kathmandu: Eidolon Edtions, 1976.

First edition. [30 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Di Prima’s poem, with illustrations by Josie Grant. Printed for Eidolon editions by Dreamweapon in the Kingdom of Nepal. One of 500 (of 550) copies. Though not called for, SIGNED by Di Prima inside the front cover.
$75

12.
DODGE, Jim.
Piss-Fir Willie: A Suite of Voices in Praise of the Northcoast Vernacular.
[Berkeley]: Tangram (1998).

First edition. [24 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Fifteen poems by Dodge, with his introduction. One of 200 copies. An uncommon title from Tangram.
$75

13.
DOOLITTLE, Hilda writing as “H.D.”
The Poet & The Dancer.
San Francisco: Five Trees Press, 1975.

First edition. [40 pp]. Very near fine in full cloth-covered boards with pasted-on spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 100 copies. Illustrations by Jaime Robles. Two long poems. Boughn A32.
$50

14.
DUNCAN, Robert and Jess.
A Book of Resemblances. Poems: 1950–1953
New Haven: Henry Wenning (1966).

First edition. 4to. 91 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. Lacks unprinted tissue dust jacket. One of 200 copies SIGNED by Duncan and Jess. Entire text is reproduced from Duncan’s holograph, and ornamented with drawings by Jess. A gorgeous production containing poems not reprinted in any earlier collection. Bertholf A22.
$300

15.
ELIOT, T.S.
Tam Domov Más / East Coker.
London: English and Czechoslovak P.E.N. Clubs, 1941.

First edition. 22 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and very near fine dust jacket. Illustrated with a tipped-on illustration by John Piper. Translation by Libuse Pànkovà with comment by Bonamy Dobrée. One of 675 (of 750) copies. Eliot’s first separate appearance in Czech. Gallup D33.
$150

16.
ELMSLIE, Kenward and Joe Brainard.
Album.
NY: Kulchur Press (1969).

First trade paperback printing. Small 4to. 176 pp. Very faint tanning along spine, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems with cover art and internal drawings by Brainard. INSCRIBED by Elmslie on the half-title page, “white guy” Kenward Elmslie, and SIGNED by Brainard on the title page.
$250

17.
EVERSON, William.
Single Source: The Early Poems of William Everson [1934–1940].
Berkeley: Oyez (1966).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. xiii + 105 pp. Very near fine in paper-covered boards and leather spine in very near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Robert Duncan. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Everson. Additionally, this copy is SIGNED by the book’s printer, Graham Mackintosh. Two different prospectuses laid in.
$650

18.
EVERSON, William writing as “Brother Antoninus.”
The Last Crusade.
Berkeley: Oyez (1969).

First edition. 4to. 25 pp. Fine in full cloth with gilt-stamped leather spine. Fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. Designed and printed in two colors by Graham Mackintosh. One of 165 numbered copies on Arches paper SIGNED by Antoninus.
$200

19.
FINLAY, Ian Hamilton and Dave Paterson.
The Boy’s Alphabet Book.
Toronto: Coach House (1976).

First edition. [56 pp]. Very near fine in printed blue wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Photographs by Paterson of objects by Finlay, accompanied by Finlay’s text. Uncommon, despite the large limitation.
$150

20.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Who Be Kind To.
San Francisco: Cranium Press [1967].

First edition, second printing. 31 x 16 ¼ inch broadside. Fine. Designed by Wes Wilson. Photograph of Ginsberg by Larry Keenan. Printed on white paper instead of light yellow in a run of 3000 copies, but according to the publisher, many were discarded for being off register. Morgan AA8a.2.
$100

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