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catalog #97

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61.
[LAMANTIA, Philip. et al].
The New American Poetry Circuit.

San Francisco: New American Poetry Circuit (1971).

First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in glossy printed wrappers. A listing of poets available for public appearances, with a photo and personal statement by each: Alexander, Antin, Bialy, Blackburn, Coleman, Dorn, Enslin, Eshleman, Goodell, Hirschman, Hollo, Irby, Kelly, Lamantia, Mac Low, McClure, Marlatt, Meltzer, Rothenberg, Schwerner, Stein, and Wakoski.
$35

62.
LAX, Robert.
Another Red Red Blue Poem.

NY: Journeyman Press, 1971.

First edition. Single sheet folded once (11 x 8 ½ inches, closed). Tiny chip from one edge, else very near fine.
$150

63.
LEVERTOV, Denise.
The Token.

Waldron Island: Brooding Heron Press, 1991.

First edition. [10 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket. Produced in an edition of twenty-six to accompany copies of Brooding Heron’s edition of THE DOUBLE IMAGE. This is one of “a certain number” produced for Levertov and the publishers. A single poem from 1944, left out of her debut collection. INSCRIBED on the colophon page by the publishers, “...friends of the press & the heart...”
$350

64.
levy, d.a.
One Death in the Life of Julie.

Wallkill: Bottle of Smoke Press (2014).

First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Cover from a linocut by Alex Nielsen. One of 26 (of 30) hardcover copies.
$35

65.
LOWRY, Malcolm.
Lunar Caustic.

London: Jonathan Cape (1968).

First edition. 78 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Earle Birney and Margerie Lowry. Foreword by Conrad Knickerbocker. A short story. Cape Editions 13.
$35

66.
MALANGA, Gerard.
Hints and Clues Along the Way.

NY: Bellevue Press, 1975.

First edition. 12 x 9 ¼ inch broadside, printed in black on olive green paper. One of 65 numbered copies, of which 15 were reserved for the author, SIGNED by Malanga. Printed on the occasion of Malanga’s reading at the Robertson Center.
$75

67.
MEATYARD, Ralph Eugene.
The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater.

[Highland]: Jargon Society (1974).

First edition. Small 4to. 84 pp. Light bump to base of spine, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Jonathan Greene, Ronald Johnson, Guy Mendes, Thomas Meyer, Jonathan Williams, and Meatyard himself contribute text to this collection of seventy b&w photographs. Jargon 76.
$250

68.
MERTON, Thomas.
One of the great tragedies of our time...

Berkeley: Black Oak Books, 1991.

First edition. 15 ½ x 8 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. One of 500 copies printed at the Okeanos Press to benefit the American Friends Services Committee Fund for civilian victims of the war in the Middle East.
$45

69.
MILLS, Stuart.
Poems for my Shorthand Typist.

Clonmel: Coracle, 2002.

First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. The minimalist of minimal poems, printed by Colin Sackett. Here is the sailor’s poem: &.
$30

70.
MOORMAN, Charlotte and Nam June Paik.
First Intermedia Art Festival.

NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1980.

Flyer and two page press-realease for this event at the Guggenheim. Both 11 x 8 ½ inches, both fine. Moorman and Paik to perform works by Paik (including Concerto for TV Cello), Kosugi, Christiansen, Ono, and Beuys. For the pair:
$100

71.
NEUHAUS, Max with Philip Corner and James Tenny.
An Evening of the Music of the Avant-Garde.

Chicago: Susan L. Popkin/University of Chicago/Max Neuhaus [1965].

First edition. Folding card (5 ½ x 8 ½ inches, closed). Very near fine. Neuhaus, Corner, and Tenny perform works by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel, and John Cage.
$25

72.
NITSCH, Hermann.
Orgies Mysteries Theatre.

NY: Mercer Arts Center, 1972.

First edition. 22 x 17 inch illustrated poster. Folded twice for mailing, else fine.
$125

73.
O’HARA, Frank.
The General’s Return from One Place to Another.

(np): (np) [1962].

First edition. 4to. 29 pp, stapled upper left, as issued. Light toning to verso of last leaf, else very near fine. A play in twenty-one scenes. Smith D2b.
$125

74.
[ONO, Yoko].
This Is Not Here.

Syracuse: Everson Museum of Art [1971].

11 x 8 ½ inch press release, printed in two colors. Fine. Concludes with the wonderfully understated, “Assisting guest artist will be Miss Ono’s husband, John Lennon and other invited artists.” A ten-year retrospective of Ono’s work.
$75

75.
OSSMAN, David.
The Sullen Art.

NY: Corinth, 1963.

First edition. 95 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Interviews with Rexroth, Blackburn, Rothenberg, Bly, Sorrentino, Creeley, Merwin, Levertov, Dorn, Ginsberg, and others.
$125

76.
PADGETT, Ron and George Schneeman.
Poem aka “The baby Jesus.”

[Bolinas: Yanagi, 1973].

First edition. 17 x 11 inch illustrated broadside, printed in three colors on stiff white stock. Fine. Artwork by George Schneeman.
$125

77.
PAIK, Nam June.
Robot Opera.

NY: (np) [1964].

First edition. 11 x 8 ½ inch flyer. Tri-folded for mailing, else fine. Illustrated with a Peter Moore photograph of Robot K-456. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, rubber-stamped., “Kill the Pop-Art!” and “Robot Opera / Everywhere in New York.”
$100

78.
PHILLIPS, Tom.
Tom Phillips.

[London]: AIA, 1966.

First edition. Single long sheet, folded three times (9 1 8 x 5 inches, closed). Very near fine. All panels covered with texts by Phillips and excerpts from his visual art. Issued on the occasion of an exhibition of 15 works (listed). Phillips’ first one-man show was the previous year. “with the compliments of tom phillips” slip accompanies.
$75

79.
PIOMBO, Akbar del and Norman Rubington.
The Boiler Maker, The Hero Maker, Is that You Simon?: A Cosmic Drama, and Fuzz Against Junk: The Saga of the Narcotics Brigaide.

NY & Paris: Citadel Press/Olympia Press (1961).

First editions. Four volumes, all near fine or better with some occasional rubbing to covers. Rubington’s collages drive these surreal narratives. For the quartet:
$200

80.
PRYNNE, J.H.
Aristeas.

London: Ferry Press, 1968.

First edition. 19 pp. Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers. One of 476 (of 500 copies). An uncommon Prynne title, by most counts his fourth collection of poems.
$200

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