1.
ADAMS, Richard.
A Nature Diary.
NY & London: Viking (1985).

First edition. 158 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated by John Lawrence. SIGNED by Adams and Lawrence on the title page. Day-to-day observations at home (Isle of Man) and abroad (Denmark, Australia) over the course of a year.
$125

2.
ALTSHULER, Bruce.
The Avant-Garde in Exhibition: New Art in the 20th Century.
NY: Abrams (1994).

First edition. Small 4to. 288 pp w/bibliography & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with sunning to the small bit of red printed on the spine. The phenom of the “Avant-Garde” traced through a sequence of exhibitions.
$50

3.
BECKETT, Samuel.
Poems 1930–1989.
London: Calder (2002).

First edition. xi + 226 pp w/notes. Very near fine in marbled paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped goatskin spine. T.e.g. Fine publisher’s matching slipcase. Lithograph by Louis Le Brocquy, “Images of Samuel Beckett.” One of 90 (of 100) numbered copies SIGNED by Le Brocquy.
$2000

4.
BERKSON, Bill and Colter Jacobsen.
Bill.
San Francisco: Gallery 16 Editions, 2008.

First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Texts by Berkson, drawings by Jacobsen, concluding with statements on the project by each.
$20

5.
[BEUYS, Joseph]. Schade, Werner.
Joseph Beuys: Early Watercolors and Drawings.
Munich: Schirmer Art Books (2004).

First edition. 151 pp w/biography & selected bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Texts in English. Eighty-two plates in color and duotone.
$50

6.
[BLUE JADE LIBRARY]. D’Aurevilly, Jules Barbey.
The Diaboliques.
NY: Knopf, 1925.

First printing of this edition. xxiv + 275 pp. Offsetting to the half-title page and facing leaf, else very near fine in like dust jacket with one short tear and light toning to spine. Translated from the original French by Ernst Boyd, with his introduction. Biographical essay on D’Aurevilly by Sir Edmund Gosse. A collection of short stories, by one of Baudelaire’s favorite writers.
$125

7.
[BLUE JADE LIBRARY]. Moncrieff, C.K. Scott. trans.
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise.
NY: Knopf, 1926.

First printing of this edition. xxiii + 264 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a small mark on the front cover. Translated from the original Latin by Moncrieff. Introductory letter by George Moore, to whom this complete translation, the first into English from the original Latin, is dedicated.
$150

8.
[BLUE JADE LIBRARY]. Morier, James.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan.
NY: Knopf, 1926.

First printing of this edition. xxii + 443 pp. Offsetting to half-title page and opposite leaf, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with two small chips along the bottom edge, and a small closed tear. Introduction by E.G. Browne.
$125

9.
[BURROUGHS, William S.]. Neish, Alex. ed.
Jabberwock 1959.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Renaissance Society (1959).

79 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Presents Burroughs’ “and start west” with work by MacDiarmid, Ginsberg, Snyder, Corso, McClure, Creeley, Kerouac, Whalen, Olson, and others. The Burroughs contribution is actually the opening of NAKED LUNCH, submitted to the magazine by Ginsberg, without WSB’s permission. M&M C9.
$200

10.
CARSON, Anne translates Euripides.
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides.
NY: New York Review of Books (2006).

First edition. 312 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Collects HERAKLES, HEKABE, HIPPOLYTOS, and ALKESTIS, as well as Carson’s “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra” and “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form.”
$35

11.
CARVER, Raymond.
Fires.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press (1983).

First edition. 189 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with gilt stamping. No dust jacket, as issued. One of a small number of copies designated primarily for libraries. Selects poems from his first three collections, as well as new work, together with revisions of stories from FURIOUS SEASONS and two essays, including “On Writing.”
$200

12.
[CATTLE MUTILATION]. Perkins, David with Lewis MacAdams and Tom Clark.
Altered Steaks: A Colloquium on the Cattle Mutilation Question.
Santa Barbara: Am Here Books/Immediate Editions (1982).

First edition. Oblong 8vo. [58 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover illustration by Tom Clark. Dead cattle, UFOs. Yes, this is still a thing.
$20

13.
CHEVALIER, Tracy.
Girl with a Pearl Earring.
NY: Dutton (2000).

First US edition. 233 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Chevalier on the title page. Her second novel
$50

14.
[CHUBB, Ralph]. Reid, Anthony.
Ralph Chubb the Unknown. A Checklist and extensively expurgated Biography.
[London]: The Private Library, 1970.

First edition. [72 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 200 copies offprinted from The Private Library. Illustrated.
$75

15.
[COLLECTED POEMS]. Bottrall, Ronald.
The Collected Poems of Ronald Bottrall.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson (1961).

First edition. xi + 244 pp w/contents & index of first lines. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Charles Tomlinson. Dated (22.ii.62) and warmly INSCRIBED by Bottrall to a friend.
$75

16.
[COLLECTED POEMS]. Brownjohn, Alan.
Collected Poems 1952–2006.
London: Enitharmon Press (2006).

First edition. 479 pp Fine in fine dust jacket. Brownjohn’s own selection from his twelve previous collections, plus new work.
$40

17.
[COLLECTED POEMS]. Fearing, Kenneth.
Complete Poems.
Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 1994.

First edition. lxiii + 310 pp w/notes and index of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Robert M. Ryley. Color frontis a reproduction of a portrait of Fearing by Alice Neel. All the poems by the novelist.
$125

18.
[COLLECTED POEMS]. Fuller, Roy.
New and Collected Poems 1934–84.
London: Secker & Warburg/London Magazine Editions (1985).

First edition. xiii + 556 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. All the poems published in book form since 1939, with sixty new poems.
$35

19.
[COLLECTED POEMS]. Howes, Barbara.
Collected Poems 1945–1990.
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1995.

First edition. xi + 134 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. The best of seven previously-published collections.
$35

20.
[COLLECTED POEMS]. McClure, Joanna.
Catching Light: Collected Poems of Joanna McClure.
Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, (2013).

First edition. 329 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Christopher Wagstaff, with his introduction. Foreword by Michael McClure. All the early chapbooks with a wealth of new work.
$25

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