1.
[ASHBERY, John]. Byrne, Edward.
Along the Dark Shore: Poems.
Brockport: BOA Editions, 1977.

First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 53 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Foreword by John Ashbery. One of 10 numbered copies SIGNED by Byrne and Ashbery, with the title poem written out in holograph by Byrne.
$175

2.
ATKINS, Russell.
Here in the.
Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1976.

First edition. 52 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Cleveland Poets Series #13. A substantial collection of poems from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s.
$35

3.
BAIN, Willard S.
Informed Sources (Day East Received).
London: Faber & Faber (1970).

First UK edition. 144 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. The first UK edition of this title, preceded by the original Communications Company edition of 1967 and then the 1969 trade edition from Doubleday. A novel in the form of telex transmissions, morphing occasionally into concrete poetry.
$75

4.
bissett, bill.
Drifting into War.
Vancouver: Talonbooks (1971).

First edition. [56 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with some wear along spine. Concrete poems, printed in three colors.
$40

5.
bissett, bill.
image being.
Vancouver: blewointment press (1975).

First edition. 16 mo. [32 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover lettering and illustration on second leaf in holograph. One of 300 copies. A concrete poem.
$25

6.
bissett, bill.
pass th food release th spirit book.
Vancouver: Talonbooks (1973).

First edition. 4to. [160 pp]. Covers lightly rubbed, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Concrete and visual poetry.
$25

7.
BOWERING, George.
Baseball: A Poem in the Magic Number 9.
Toronto: Coach House Press (2003).

Second edition. [24 pp]. Fine in green-flocked, pennant-shaped wrappers. One of 1000 copies.
$15

8.
BROUDY, Hart.
Language in Space: a book of a.
Vancouver: blewointment press (1974).

First edition. [42 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Concrete poems based around a small “a” in various locations and states of fracture. One of 500 copies.
$25

9.
BUCK, Paul. ed.
Velvet Curtains.
[Hebden Bridge/Maidstone: Paul Buck] (1974).

First edition. [66 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Illustrated with drawings by Jeff Nuttall. Cover art prepared by Colette Deblé. Presents, in English translations by Jack Hirschman and Lydia Davis among others, works by and about Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, and Bernard Noël. The tenth issue of Curtains.
$100

10.
[BUKOWSKI, Charles]. Malone, Marvin. ed.
Wormwood Review 16: Grip the Walls.
Storrs: Wormwood Review Press (1964).

Volume four, number four. [38 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 600 numbered copies. Center section, titled “Grip the Walls,” devoted to Bukowski’s poems. Though not called for, SIGNED by Bukowski. Krumhansl 13.
$200

11.
BUNTING, Basil.
A Note on Briggflatts.
Durham: Basil Bunting Poetry Archive, 1989.

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and very near fine illustrated dust jacket. Concluding note by Richard Caddell. Bunting’s only written statement on his best-known poem. One of 700 numbered copies from an edition of 1000 (300 were distributed as gifts to friends of the Archive).
$30

12.
[BUNTING, Basil].
Basil Bunting: April 15–19, 1976 St. Andrews College.
Laurinburg: (np) (1976).

First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Brochure for Bunting’s visit to the college. Photo of Bunting, excerpts from several of his poems, a brief essay by Jonathan Williams on Bunting, and bibliography. SIGNED by Bunting, Williams, and Tom Meyer.
$75

13.
BURROUGHS, William S.
The Streets of Chance.
NY: Red Ozier Press (1981).

First edition. 20 pp. Fine in decorated full buckram. Cover serigraph artwork and internal drawings by Howard Buchwald. One of 160 numbered copies on Frankfurt paper SIGNED by Burroughs and Buchwald. A complete story found in the 1968 version of THE SOFT MACHINE and here presented separately.
$500

14.
[BURROUGHS, William S.]. Beach, Mary.
Electric Banana.
Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions (1975).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 36 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Burroughs contributes an introduction to this prose work by Beach. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Burroughs and Beach.
$250

15.
[COHEN, Ira and Angus MacLise].
Bookshop Broadsheet July 1975: Notes, News.
Kathmandu: Spirit Catcher Bookshop, 1975.

First edition. 17 ½ x 13 inch illustrated broadside. One old horizontal fold, one corner chip, else near fine. In addition to store location, hours, exhibition announcements, and items for sale, prints poems by Carey Linn, Angus MacLise, Roberto Valenza, Ira Cohen, John Fungi, and Jigme Limpa.
$450

16.
CREELEY, Robert translated by Ernst Jandl.
Die Insel.
Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag (1965).

First German edition. 200 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with die-cut cover. Creeley’s first novel, translated from the original English by Jandl.
$35

17.
DENBY, Edwin.
Edwin’s Tao: A Translation of Lao Tze’s TAO TEH CHING.
NY: Crumbling Empire Press (1993).

First edition. 13 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. William C. MacKay provides a preface to this work of translation. One of 750 copies issued on what would have been Denby’s 90th birthday, 4 February 1993.
$25

18.
DRUCKER, Johanna.
The Surprise Party or: on not going not ongoing.
[Berkeley]: Chased Press (1977).

First edition. [18 pp]. Fine in staple and ribbon-bound printed wrappers. Text and illustrations on commercial and tissue papers. An early Drucker title, one of [120] copies produced
$200

19.
DUNCAN, Robert.
The Venice Poem.
Sydney: Prism (1975).

First Australian edition. 27 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover photographs of Duncan by Jane McClure. One of 500 copies. Bertholf A49.
$50

20.
EIGNER, Larry.
The Music, The Rooms.
Albuquerque: Desert Review Press [1965].

First edition. Single long sheet folded once as issued for mailing (6 ½ x 8 ½ inches, closed). A single poem. One of approximately 300 copies. Leif A10.
$20

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