41.
GINSBERG, Allen.
“The Fall of America” Wins a Prize.
NY: Gotham Book Mart (1974).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. Single large sheet folded twice to make a booklet. Fine in original unmailed envelope. Text of Ginsberg’s acceptance speech for the National Book Award in Poetry. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Ginsberg. Morgan A29a1.
$200

41a.
__. Another copy.
First trade edition. Fine.
$20

42.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Photographs.
Santa Fe: Twelvetrees Press, 1990.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. Folio. [106 pp]. Fine in full gray cloth in fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Ginsberg with his customary circled “AH.” Reproductions of 91 photographs, with notes on the subjects photos and transcriptions of Ginsberg’s annotations. A “Roth 101” title.
$1250

43.
GOETHE.
The Sorrows of Young Werther and Novella.
NY: Random House (1971).

First edition. xvi + 201 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the German by Elizabeth Mayer and Louise Bogan. W.H. Auden translated the poems, and contributed a foreword.
$75

44.
[GRAFFITI]. Chastanet, Francois.
Cholo Writing: Latino Gang Graffiti in Los Angeles.
Arsta: Dokument Press (2009).

First edition. 135 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A detailed photo documentation of various text styles in the Los Angeles area. Most of the photographs are in color, a few in b&w.
$85

45.
[GRAFFITI]. Kurlansky, Mervyn with Jon Naar and Norman Mailer.
The Faith of Graffiti.
NY: Alskog/Praeger (1974).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. Tall 4to. [100 pp]. Fine in full brown leatherette with gold stamping to spine and front cover. Fine publisher’s slipcase (no dust jacket, as issued). Documentation by Kurlansky and Naar, text by Mailer. Fully-illustrated with color photographs. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Kurlansky, Mailer, and Naar.
$225

46.
HENRI, Adrian and Wallace Southam.
Adrian Henri’s Talking after Christmas Blues.
London: Turret Books (1969).

First edition. 4to. [12 pp]. Very near fine in decorated wrappers and very good clear unprinted acetate dust jacket with a closed tear to the front panel. Henri’s poem followed by Southam’s score. Designed and printed at the Trigram Press. One of an unstated limitation numbered and SIGNED by Henri and Southam. No. 6 in the series Contemporary Poetry set to Music.
$75

47.
HESSE, Hermann.
Pictor’s Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies.
London: Jonathan Cape (1982).

First UK edition. xxiv + 213 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with one light abrasion. Translated from the original German by Rika Lesser. Edited, and with an introduction by Theodore Ziolkowski. Nineteen fantasies and fairytales from 1900 to 1951.
$35

48.
[HOGARTH PRESS]. Woolmer, J. Howard.
A Checklist of the Hogarth Press 1917–1946.
Revere: Woolmer/Brotherson, 1986.

First edition. xxxiv + 250 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with sunned spine. Includes a Short History of the Press by Mary E. Gaither. Illustrated. Indispensable for anyone interested in the Press.
$45

49.
HOLLINGHURST, Alan.
Confidential Chats with Boys.
Oxford: Sycamore Press (1982).

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. A single five-part long poem. Hollinghurst’s first chapbook, preceded by the small 1965 broadsheet, “Isherwood is at Santa Monica.”
$250

50.
HORWITZ, Channa.
And Then There Were None.
(np): Channa Horwitz, 1978.

First edition. 64mo. [226 pp]. A few spots of foxing to page edges, else very near fine in printed wrappers. Printed by Grafix Artist Press. A flip book in which black squares fill, empty, and move within a grid system. Recognized late in life, Horwitz had work in the 2013 Venice Biennale and the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
$200

51.
[IRISH LITERATURE]. Boland, Eavan.
The Journey.
Deerfield & Dublin: Deerfield Press/Gallery Press (1983).

First edition. [14 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Two poems by Boland with a handcolored illustration by Timothy Engelland. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Boland.
$125

52.
[IRISH LITERATURE]. Montague, John.
Collected Poems.
Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press (1995).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 376 pp w/editor’s note & indexes. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 60 numbered copies SIGNED by Montague.
$200

53.
[IRISH LITERATURE]. Trevor, William.
The Last Lunch of the Season.
London: Covent Garden Press, 1973.

First edition. 11 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Trevor. Covent Garden Stories Number Six.
$200

54.
[JACOBUS, Harry]. Wagstaff, Christopher with Don Asbill.
Harry Jacobus: An Interview (1985).
Berkeley: Rose Books (2009).

First edition. 18 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. First separate appearance of this interview, which originally appeared in the journal “Northern Lights.” Illustrated with six photographs. Second in the Rose Books “Painters of the San Francisco Renaissance” series.
$10

55.
JESS.
The Artists’s View Issue 8: Jess.
Tiburon: Artist’s View (1954).

First edition. Single large sheet folded once to make a booklet (12 ¹ ⁄ 8 x 9 ½ inches, closed). Two old folds, else fine. Entire issue made up of collage work by Jess. Boldly SIGNED “Jess Collins” on the rear cover. Uncommon, doubly so signed, even more so signed using his last name.
$850

56.
JOANS, Ted.
The Hipsters.
NY: Corinth (1961).

First edition. [94 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A surrealist collage novel. Very difficult to find in such condition. “IS eternity still searching for a wrist watch?”
$75

57.
JOHNSON, Ronald.
Eyes & Objects (Catalogue for an Exhibition: 1970–72).
Highlands: Jargon Society, 1976.

First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 1000 copies, printed in two colors. Cover photo by Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Jargon 84.
$35

58.
JOHNSON, Ronald.
Miss Dorothy’s Mashed Potatoes.
San Francisco: Xero Ox Books [c. 1977].

First edition. 4to. Fifteen leaves, stapled upper left as issued. Toning to rear cover and pages edges, else near fine. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Johnson. Eleven recipes with two short essays. An uncommon item from the poet Johnson’s other life as a chef and cookbook author.
$350

59.
KOSUGI, Takehisa.
Music Expanded.
NY: Town Hall, 1967.

First edition. 9 ½ x 6 ¼ inch illustrated flyer. Fine. Takehisa Kosugi, Charlotte Moorman, and Nam June Paik perform. Terrific photograph of Kosugi by Peter Moore. Accompanied by the program for the event, a single glossy sheet folded once to make a booklet, which details the compositions to be performed, and presents a biography of Kosugi. For the pair:
$50

60.
KYGER, Joanne.
Descheo Notebook.
Berkeley: Arif Press, 1971.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 16mo. [40 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Near fine clear acetate dust jacket. Designed and printed by Wesley Tanner from type set at the Cranium Press. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Kyger.
$200

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