21.
CAGE, John.
Notations.
West Glover: Something Else Press (1969).

First trade paperback printing. [318 pp]. Faint reading crease to spine, light foxing to top edge. In all, near fine in glossy printed wrappers. Reproduces 255 scores by composers, with their notes, assembled by Cage, with his notes. A bulky book, often read to pieces, not often found in comparable condition.
$350

22.
CAILLOIS, Roger.
The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader.
Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2003.

First US edition. 423 pp w/notes, bibliography, & index. Small publisher’s sticker inside front board, else fine in full black cloth with yellow stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Claudine Frank, with her introduction. Translated from the original French by Frank and Camille Naish.
$125

23.
[CITY LIGHTS BOOKS]. Oka, Francis Naohiko.
Poems.
San Francisco: City Lights Books (1970).

First edition. 31 pp. Light foxing to verso of the rear cover, else near fine in stapled wrappers. A memorial edition of Oka’s poems edited by Janice Mirikitani and Jane Tabata. An uncommon item from the press.
$150

24.
CONRAN, Anthony.
Claim Claim Claim: A Book 0f Poems.
London: Circle Press (1969).

First edition. Folio. Corners lightly tapped, else near fine in wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies. Illustrated with six vibrant prints by Ronald King.
$75

25.
CONZE, Edward.
The Buddha’s Law Among the Birds.
Oxford: Bruno Cassirer [c. 1955].

First edition. 65 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Preface by J. Bacot. Conze’s own translation from the original Tibetan, with his commentary. This is the first appearance of this text in English. Illustrated.
$45

26.
[COOLIDGE, Clark and Larry Fagin].
Tonto Lavoris.
[NY]: Adventures in Poetry (1973).

First edition. 4to. [32 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Coolidge on the title page. From the text, at random: Red Soapy, Peg Sluice, Miles Clout, Appian Snort, Lucky Lock, Buck Loop, Silas Moon, Pinball Foggy...
$150

27.
CORMAN, Cid.
The Descent from Daimonji.
Ashland: Origin Press, 1959.

First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in Japanese-style bound wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Twenty-one poems. An early production for both Corman and the press.
$150

28.
CREELEY, Robert.
Pieces.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 13 pp. Bit of rubbing to base and crown of spine, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with leather spine and printed cover and spine labels. Near fine acetate dust jacket. Poems with collages by Bobbie Creeley. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Robert and Bobbie Creeley, with an original signed work by Bobbie Creeley tipped onto the leaf opposite the title page. Morrow & Cooney 48c.
$650

29.
[DODGE, Jim].
de Vaca in a Vanishing Geography.
(np): [Mad River Press, 1973].

First edition. [24 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers with a spot of foxing to first and last leaf. Dodge’s first book, a collection of poems issued anonymously. OCLC locates a single copy.
$450

30.
FINLAY, Alex. ed.
Carmichael’s Book: Homage to Alexander Carmichael’s Carmina Gadelica.
Inverness & Edinburgh: Artbook/Morning Star Publications, 1997.

First edition. xv + 81 pp w/notes. Fine in full black cloth with silver lettering to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Introduction by Finlay. Thomas A. Clark, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Nuala Ní Dhomnhaill, Gael Turnbull, and many others contribute.
$35

31.
FISHER, M.F.K.
Spirits of the Valley.
NY: Targ Editions, 1985.

First edition. 4to. 21 pp. Fine in paste-paper covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine unprinted tissue dust jacket with a tear to one flap fold and light overall edgewear. Printed at the Grenfell Press. One of 250 copies on all-rag Fabriano paper SIGNED by Fisher.
$200

32.
FOUCAULT, Michel.
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972–1977.
NY: Pantheon Books (1980).

First US edition. x + 270 pp w/bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Colin Gordon. Translated from the original French by Gordon, Leo Marshall, John Mepham, and Kate Soper.
$35

33.
[GINSBERG, Allen]. Fields, Rick. ed.
Loka: A Journal from Naropa Institute.
Garden City: Anchor/Doubleday (1975).

First edition. 4to. 142 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributors include Bateson, Ginsberg, Cage, Ram Dass, Arguelles, Giorno, and may others. INSCRIBED by Ginsberg on the first leaf, “for Robert Duncan / in thanks for / his Person in Boulder / Allen Ginsberg.”
$150

34.
GINZBURG, Natalia.
The Little Virtues.
NY: Seaver Books (1986).

First US edition. 110 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Essays translated from the original Italian by Dick Davis.
$45

35.
GINZBURG, Natalia.
No Way: A Novel.
NY: Harcourt Brace (1974).

First US edition. 161 pp. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Italian by Sheila Cudahy. Review slip laid in.
$125

36.
[GRAY, Alasdair]. Moores, Phil. ed.
Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography.
Boston Spa & London: The British Library, 2002.

First edition. xii + 241 pp w/notes on contributors. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art and internal illustrations by Gray. Introduction by Will Self. In addition to Gray’s own CV, includes an interview by Kathy Acker, and contributions by Philip Hobsbaum, Jonathan Coe, Elspeth King, and several others.
$35

37.
HARPER, Michael S.
Songlines: Mosaics.
Providence: Brown/Ziggurat Press, 1991.

First edition. Small 4to. [24 pp]. Fine in wrappers with printed cover label. Very near fine publishers clamshell case, with one tiny split. Poems by Harper, seven illustrations by Walter Feldman. One of 50 (of 65) numbered copies printed letterpress on a variety of papers SIGNED by Harper and Feldman. The first book of the Press.
$250

38.
HARRISON, Jim.
Locations: Poems.
NY: Norton (1968).

First edition. 62 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Harrison on the half-title page. Harrison’s second full collection. Orr & Torrey A4a.
$200

39.
HENDRICKS, Geoff.
Ring Piece: The Journal of a Twelve Hour Silent Meditation.
West Glover: Something Else Press, 1973.

First trade edition. 16mo. 79 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with a small price sticker to rear cover. Front panel photograph of Hendricks by Fred W. McDarrah. Dick Higgins contributes a statement on the back cover. Beautifully printed in two colors.
$35

40.
HORNBY, Nick.
Contemporary American Fiction.
London & NY: Vision Press/St. Martin’s Press (1992).

First US edition. 168 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hornby’s first book. Chapters on Raymond Carver, Anne Tyler, Bobbie Ann Mason, Richard Ford, Jayne Anne Phillips and Joy Williams, Tobias Wolff, André Dubus, and The New Yorker Short Story.
$300

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