e-catalog #113
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1.
ABISH, Cecile.
Firsthand.
Dayton: Fine Arts Gallery (1978).
First edition. [40 p]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction by William Spurlock. Essay by Walter Abish. Artist’s book published on the occasion of her exhibition.
$75
2.
ALDAN, Daisy. ed.
A New Folder. Americans: Poems and Drawings.
NY: Folder Editions (1959).
First edition. 128 pp. Small bump to one upper corner, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover drawing by Nell Blaine. Frontis art by Jackson Pollock. Foreword by Wallace Fowlie. Ashbery, Koch, O’Hara, Rivers, Corso, Ginsberg, Guston, Whalen, Olson, Creeley, and many others contribute. Inked ownership signature of R.B. Kitaj on the first leaf.
$100
3.
ALVAREZ, Luis W.
Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist.
NY: Basic Books (1987).
First edition. xii + 292 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. SIGNED by Nobel winner Alvarez on the front free endpaper.
$450
4.
AUSTER, Paul.
City of Glass.
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press (1985).
First edition. 203 pp. Fine in very near fine, second issue dust jacket. SIGNED by Auster on the title page. The first volume of The New York Trilogy, which remains a personal favorite. The New American Fiction Series: 4.
$350
5.
BACHMANN, Ingeborg.
The Thirtieth Year.
London: Andre Deutsch (1964).
First UK edition. 187 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original German by Michael Bullock. Bachman’s first collection of short stories. A review copy, the verso of the jacket bearing the stamp, “For Publication / 17 Feb 1964 / Andre Deutsch Ltd.”
$250
6.
BENTLEY, Beth.
The Purely Visible.
Seattle: Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill, 1980.
First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in Suminagashi-covered boards with tape binding and printed cover label. Poems with drawings by Suzanne Ferris. Printed letterpress in two colors. One of 100 numbered copies on handmade paper SIGNED by Bentley.
$150
7.
BERRY, Wendell.
Sayings & Doings.
Lexington: Gnomon Press (1975).
First edition. [48 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated boards; no dust jacket, as issued. Poems, printed in two colors.
$45
8.
BRETON, André.
Manifestos of Surrealism.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (1969).
First edition. xi + 304 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane. Uncommon in condition.
$150
9.
BRINGHURST, Robert.
Bergschrund.
Delta: Sono Nis Press, 1975.
First edition. 103 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Dated (Vancouver 1975) and INSCRIBED by Bringhurst on the half-title page. Poems.
$45
10.
BRINGHURST, Robert.
Some Notes on Verse and Versification.
Vancouver: Robert Bringhurst, 1982.
First edition. 20 pp. Ten leaves, stapled in the upper left corner. Near fine. Printed for private circulation to members of the Literary Storefront Poetry Seminar. An earlier bookseller noted in pencil on the front cover that this is one of 50 copies.
$75
11.
BROODTHAERS, Marcel.
My Ogre Book, Shadow Theater, Midnight.
Los Angeles: Siglio (2016).
First edition. 158 pp. Fine in illustrated paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Translations by Elizabeth Zuba, with her note. Afterword for Maria Gilissen Broodthaers by Yola Minatchy. Two early collections of poetry, with an eighty-image projection work (Shadow Theater).
$100
12.
BROWN, Bob.
1450 – 1950.
NY: Jargon/Corinth (1959).
First printing of this reissue, expanded from the first edition of 1929. 66 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph of Brown by Jonathan Williams. Entire text reproduced from Brown’s holograph manuscript. Jargon 29.
$50
13.
BUNTING, Basil.
Briggflatts.
London: Fulcrum Press (1966).
First trade edition. Folio. [32 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Design by Stuart Montgomery. One of 374 (of 500) copies. Bunting’s major poem, printed in two colors. Guedalla A6.
$450
14.
BUNTING, Basil.
The Spoils.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Morden Tower Book Room [c. 1965].
First edition, numbered issue. [16 pp]. Light discoloration along bottom edge of front panel, else very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies. Guedalla A3b.
$55
15.
BURNS, Jim.
Beware of Men in Suits.
Oldham: Incline Press, 1996.
First edition. [18 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. Illustrations by Peter S. Carter.One of 200 numbered copies on handmade paper SIGNED by Burns and Carter. A beautifully-produced warning in verse.
$125
16.
BUTLER, Octavia.
Dawn: Xenogenesis.
NY: Warner (1987).
First edition. 264 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a short tear to crown. SIGNED by Butler on the title page. The first novel in the Xenogenesis series.
[SOLD]
17.
CARTER, Angela.
The Bloody Chamber and other adult tales.
NY: Harper & Row (1979).
First US edition. 164 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Ten stories.
$100
18.
CARVER, Raymond.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
NY: Knopf, 1981.
First edition. 159 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. His breakthrough collection. Business card of Gordon Lish, Carver’s editor, laid in.
$300
19.
CASSADY, Neal.
The First Third & Other Writings.
San Francisco: City Lights Books (1971).
First edition. 157 pp. Small wrinkles to crown of spine, else fine in illustrated wrappers. A bright fresh copy of this collection of Cassady’s actual writings (as opposed to transcribed tapes) including letters to Kerouac and Kesey. Cook 93a.
$125
20.
CHESTER, Alfred.
Looking for Genet: Literary Essays & Reviews.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1992.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 260 pp. Fine printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited by Edward Field, with his foreword. Book reviews (Nabokov, Burroughs, Rechy, Capote), literary essays, columns. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Field. This is copy “Z.”
$150