1.
ANDREWS, Wayne writing as “Montague O’Reilly.”
Who Has Been Tampering with These Pianos?
NY: New Directions (1948).

First edition. 53 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Cover art by Lustig. Surrealist fiction, issued as number four of Direction, a quarterly magazine.
$75

2.
BARNES, Julian writing as “Dan Kavanagh.”
Duffy.
London: Jonathan Cape (1980).

First edition. 180 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. The first of four “Duffy” mysteries, this novel was published the same year as METROLAND, Barnes’ first under his real name.
$85

3.
BARNES, Julian writing as “Dan Kavanagh.”
Putting the Boot In.
London: Jonathan Cape (1985).

First edition. 192 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. The third of the four “Duffy” mysteries.
$50

4.
BARTRAM, Colin.
Publishing in Wartime: The Survival & Success of the Book 1939-1945.
Oxford: Oxford Polytechnic, 1973.

First edition. vii + 34 pp w/bibliography. Fine in full red cloth with gilt stamping to front cover. Illustrated. The situation in London and the UK.
$35

5.
BERKSON, Bill and Greg Irons.
Ants.
Berkeley: Arif Press, 1974.

First edition. Horizontal 48mo. [12 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. A short poem by Berkson, with cover art and four internal drawings by Irons. One of 324 (of 350) copies.
$75

6.
BEVIS, John.
The Economies.
London: Coracle Press, 1982.

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in stiff wrappers with integral printed dust jacket. A collection of poems with two images by Martin Fidler. One of 200 numbered copies.
$30

7.
BIRMINGHAM, Jed and Kyle Schlesinger. eds.
Mimeo Mimeo 6: The Poetry Issue.
Victoria: Cuniform Press (2012).

4to. 87 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributions from Berkson, Godfrey, Greenwald, Kyger, Kit Robinson, Rosemarie Waldrop, Warsh, and Geoffrey Young.
$10

8.
[BLACKBURN, Paul].
Sixpack 7/8: Paul Blackburn Issue.
London & Lake Toxaway: Sixpack (1974).

First edition. 260 pp. Issued originally in illustrated wrappers, this copy has been beautifully rebound in full brown cloth over boards with the cover panels and spine pasted-on. A major retrospective of Blackburn’s poems and translations along with a festschrift of over 42 contributors.
$50

9.
BOYD, William.
Nat Tate an American Artist: 1928-1960.
Cambridge: 21 Publishing (1998).

First edition. 67 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Novelist Boyd’s spoof—with the help of 21 publisher David Bowie—biography of a non-existent American painter. A number of art journals gave this straight serious reviews and then had to beat a hasty retreat as the hoax was revealed.
$25

10.
BRAINARD, Joe.
More I Remember More.
NY: Angel Hair (1973).

First edition. [30 pp]. Small bump to one lower corner, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover photograph of Brainard by Bill Katz. One of 700 copies. The third installment in this sequence, as published by Angel Hair.
$75

11.
CAREY, Peter.
Bliss.
St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press (1981).

First edition. 296 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Carey’s first novel, winner of the Miles Franklin award.
$200

12.
CARTER, Angela.
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories.
London: Gollancz, 1979.

First edition. 157 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A collection of ten short stories.
$75

13.
CARTER, Angela.
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman: A Novel.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis (1972).

First edition. 285 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Carter on the title page. Her sixth novel.
$250

14.
CARTER, Angela.
Love: A Novel.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis (1971).

First edition. 124 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Carter’s fifth novel.
$45

15.
CELAN, Paul.
Todesfuge.
NY: Limited Editions Club, 2001.

First edition. Folio. [30 pp]. Fine in full cloth with inset printed cover label. Very near fine publisher’s sude-lined clamshell case (corner tips lightly tapped). The original German poem followed by John Felstiner’s English translation and with his afterword. Frontispiece etching by Gisele Celan-Lestrange. One of 300 numbered copies on handmade paper SIGNED by Felsteiner. Includes a recording of Celan reading the poem, present here in a cd slotted into the verso of the front cover. Laid-in is the Club newsletter specific to this volume.
$500

16.
CLAIR, Jean and Harald Szeemann. eds.
Le Macchine Celibi / The Bachelor Machines.
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1977.

First edition. 4to. 236 pp w/bibliographical notes & index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Texts in Italian and English. An illustrated treatment of Duchamp’s “Large Glass” and associated “machines” in art and literature.
$100

17.
CREWS, Harry.
Car: A Novel.
NY: Morrow, 1972.

First edition. 152 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Crews’ fifth novel, about a man who vows to eat a car “bumper to bumper.”
$300

18.
CREWS, Harry.
Karate is a Thing of the Spirit.
NY: Morrow, 1971.

First edition. 218 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Crews’ fourth novel.
$300

19.
[CRIME]. Blok, Anton.
The Mafia of a Sicilian Village (1860-1960): An Anthropological Study of Political Middlemen.
Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, 1972.

First edition. 4to. xv + 267 pp w/bibliography. Very good plus in printed wrappers. Text in English. A close examination of the how the mafia actually works.
$25

20.
CUTTS, Simon.
Washday Regatta.
Nottingham: Tarasque Press (nd).

First edition. Stiff printed folding card. Fine in the original mailing envelope. A small six line poem against a field of white.
$35