21.
GUEST, Barbara.
The Blue Stairs.
NY: Corinth Books, 1968.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 48 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Cover art by Helen Frankenthaler. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Guest. A collection of seventeen poems.
$75

22.
HART, Patrick.
Israel Journal: A Trappist Pilgrim in the Holy Land.
Monterey: Larkspur Press (2000).

First edition. 25 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. Title page and cover illustration by Jim Cantrell, map by Celia Gulick. One of 600 numbered copies on Mohawk Superfine paper. Printed dedication to Thomas Merton and Robert Lax.
$35

23.
HAWKINS, Spike.
The Lost Fire Brigade.
London: Fulcrum Press (1968).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 47 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Poems. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Hawkins.
$35

24.
[HEARTFIELD, John].
John Heartfield En La Collection Del IVAM.
Valencia: IVAM (2001).

First edition. 170 pp w/biography. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Fully-illustrated with color reproductions. Texts in Spanish, German, and English.
$75

25.
JOHNSON, B.S.
Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry.
NY: New Directions (1985).

First US edition. 180 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Promotional flyer laid in. Larry McMurtry’s copy, with his bookplate affixed inside the front board.
$50

26.
JOHNSON, Ronald.
A Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees.
Highlands: Nantahala Foundation, 1964.

First edition. [80 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers and fine unprinted actetate dust jacket. Johnson’s first book, one of 500 copies printed at the Auerhahn Press. Illustrated with drawings by Thomas George. Printed note from the publisher laid in (explaining that the dedication, to Charles Olson, had been inadvertently omitted). Jargon 42.
$125

27.
JONES, D.G. ed.
The Lines of the Poet.
Toronto & London: Monk Bretton Books, 1981.

First edition. Fourteen 20 ½ x 14 ½ inch lithographic portraits from life by Montreal artist Morton Rosengarten, each paired with a poem by the respective subject: Margaret Atwood, Earle Birney, Leonard Cohen, Ralph Gustafson, Irving Layton, John Newlove, Alden Nowlan, Michael Ondaatje, P.K. Page, Al Purdy, F.R. Scott, A.J. M. Smith, and Phyllis Webb. Each portrait sheet is numbered and SIGNED by Rosengarten, each broadside signed by the poet with the exception of Smith, who died during production. The whole housed, together with the title page, Jones’ introduction, the artist’s preface, and the colophon, in a black paper-lined buckram folding box, with the title silk screened to the upper cover. All elements fine. A sumptuous Canadian livre d’artiste. Original prospectus accompanies.
$3500

28.
KANDEL, Lenore.
The Love Book.
[San Francisco: Stolen Paper Editions, 1966].

First edition. [10 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Conforms to all the true first edition points but a variant issue with the cover printed in brown ink on white stock. The subject of one of the many major American censorship trials of its day.
$250

29.
KIPPENBERGER, Martin.
Vergessene Einrichtungsprobleme in der Villa Hügel (Villa Merkel) / Forgotten Interior Design Problems at Home.
Ostflidern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag (1996).

First edition. Oblong 12mo. [142 pp]. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Color and b&w photographs from the series “16 years of beds.”
$75

30.
KUENSTLER, Frank.
Lens.
NY: Film Culture (1964).

First edition. 4to. 91 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Kunstler published two books in 1964, LENS is widely-cited as being his first.
$200

31.
[LE CORBUSIER]. Wogenscky, André.
Le Corbusier’s Hands.
Cambridge: MIT Press (2006).

First US edition. 91 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket with a small corner-crease to the front flap. Translated by Martina Millà Bernad. Fifty short chapters on his friend and mentor. Illustrated with drawings.
$17.50

32.
LISTER, R.P. and Miriam Macgregor.
Allotments.
Andoversford: Whittington Press (1985).

First edition. Horiztonal 12mo. [38 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Fine publisher’s slipcase. Texts and poems on allotments by Lister, wood engravings by Macgregor. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Macgregor and Lister.
$300

33.
[MATTA-CLARK, Gordon]. Morris, Catherine.
FOOD: An exhibition by White Columns, New York.
Münster: Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, 2000.

First edition. 4to. 48 pp w/notes. Covers toned, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. A consideration of Matta-Clark’s FOOD, and related projects. Texts in German and English. Uncommon.
$150

34.
McALMON, Robert.
Explorations.
London: Egoist Press, 1921.

First edition. 79 pp. Bit of rubbing and wear to base and crown of spine, else near fine in full blue cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems and short prose meditations. First book by expat McAlmon, best known for his memoir BEING GENIUSES TOGETHER, and his efforts as the founder of the Contact Publishing Co.
$500

35.
MELTZER, David.
Poems.
[San Francisco: Donald and Alice Schenker, 1957].

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in side-stapled and taped wrappers. Cover art by Tina Meltzer. POEMS was issued originally together with work by Donald Schenker in a larger volume. This is one of approximately 25 copies of the Meltzer poems only, issued separately. The first printing of Meltzer’s first book, preceded only by a small broadside included in the first issue of Wallace Berman’s SEMINA. One poem here is dedicated to the Berman family, another titled, “For Wallace Berman, Poet-Maker.” SIGNED by Meltzer.
$750

36.
MERWIN, W.S.
Chinese Figures [Second Series]
Mount Horeb: Perishable Press, 1971.

First edition. Narrow 8vo. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine unprinted dust jacket but for a small stain on the rear panel. One of 120 (of which 75 were for public sale) copies on Shadwelll papers. Hamady 49.
$85

37.
MILLER, Henry.
What Are You Going to Do about Alf?
Berkeley: Bern Porter [1944].

First US edition (third edition overall). 12mo. 24 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Ten words blacked-out (by the publisher) as a condition of publication. Shifreen & Jackson A10c.
$100

38.
[MILLER, Henry]. Cross, Robert.
Henry Miller: The Paris Years.
Big Sur: Peeramid Press (1991).

First edition, limited issue. Oblong 8vo. viii + 87 pp. Fine in full leatherette with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. Fully-illustrated. SIGNED by Cross on the title page, with the addition of a holograph colophon on the front free endpaper, “Collector’s Limited Edition of 200. This is copy number 59. Robert Cross. Big Sur.”
$100

39.
[PLANTIN PRESS]. Marks, Lillian.
Saul Marks and the Plantin Press: The Life & Work of a Singular Man.
Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1980.

First edition. xxi +194 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Lillian Marks.
$150

40.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Bradbury, O.G.
10 Poets 10 Poems.
London: Graphix Press/Ealing School of Art (1971).

First edition. [56 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies on Glastonbury Antique Laid paper, designed by Christopher Belson and Christopher Wellington, and printed letterpress. The ten poets are W.H. Auden, Charles Causley, Laurence Durrell, Ted Hughes, Ted Jones, Christopher Logue, W.S. Merwin, Louis Simpson, J. Wain, and Eric W. White.
$35

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