1.
BEUYS, Joseph.
Food for Thought.
[Düsseldorf]: Freie Internationale Universität [1977].

First edition. 34 ⁵ ⁄ 8 x 6 inch broadside. Very near fine with some pale uneven toning and trivial marks to verso. Applied butter stain and F.I.U. stamp, as issued. Heintz 57 food list, a telephone conversation, and an ancient Irish poem. SIGNED by Beuys. Produced to be sold at Documenta 6 to cover costs for those participating in F.I.U. 100 day workshops. Schellman & Klüser 164.
$2000

2.
BLAZEK, Douglas.
After Walking To And Fro and Walking Up And Down In It.
[Northampton]: Edition Muta (2018).

First edition. 116 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover collage by Blazek. Though not called for, SIGNED by Blazek. Muta 09.
$15

3.
BLAZEK, Douglas.
A Long Rope at the Edge of the Void.
[Easthampton]: Edition Muta (2018).

First edition. 97 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover collage by Blazek. Though not called for, SIGNED by Blazek. Muta 08.
$15

4.
BRADBURY, Ray.
The Stars.
Santa Ana: Gold Stein Press, 1993.

First edition. 12 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth with printed spine label. A miniature, measuring 3 x 2 ¼ inches. Letterpress and screen printed on variously trimmed pages with numerous abstract color images. Designed and produced for the press by Joseph D’Ambrosio. One of 95 numbered copies on Arches text wove paper SIGNED by Bradbury. Additionally dated “93” and SIGNED by D’Ambrosio inside the rear cover.
$500

5.
BRETON, André.
Free Rein (La Clé des champs).
Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press (1996).

First US edition. xii + 291 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Michael Parmentier and Jacqueline D’Amboise. Addresses, manifestos, prefaces, exhibition pamphlets, and essays written between 1936 and 1952.
$40

6.
BROUGHTON, James.
Tidings: Poems at the Land’s Edge.
San Francisco: Pearce & Bennett (1965).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 57 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket (as issued in this state). Printed and bound by the Pterodactyl Press. Printed dedication to fellow experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage. One of 35 copies SIGNED by Broughton beneath a full page holograph poem, as a frontis. Special printed bookmark specific to this title present.
$100

7.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 153 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski. Krumhansl 32b.
$1500

8.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1972.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 159 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski. Krumhansl 41c.
$1500

9.
BUKOWSKI, Charles and Neeli Cherry. eds.
Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns.
Los Angeles: Laugh Literary, 1969–1971.

Volume 1, number 1 – volume 1, number 3. Complete run of this little magazine, all very near fine in stapled wrappers with light sunning to spines. Contributions by Bukowski and Cherry, but also T.L. Kryss, Steve Richmond, Harold Norse, Willie, Jack Micheline, and many others. For the run:
$350

10.
BUTLER, Bill.
Byrne’s Atlas.
London: Wallrich Books (1970).

First edition. 51 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Typeography and design by Asa Benveniste of the Trigram Press. One of 50 (of 100) trade hardcover copies. A fifteen part long poem.
$75

11.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Greene, Jonathan and Bruce Marcus. eds.
Gnomon 1 & 2 (complete).
NY & Lexington: Gnomon Press (1965–1967).

Two issues, both near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems and translations by Paul Blackburn, Jonathan Greene, Guy Davenport, Robin Blaser, Charles Stein, Pound, Borges on Cabala, much more. For the run:
$50

12.
COOLIDGE, Clark.
Own Face.
Lennox: Angel Hair (1978).

First edition. [80 pp]. One upper corner lightly bumped, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 750 copies. SIGNED by Coolidge. Later reprinted by Sun & Moon Press, this is a pivotal collection.
$100

13.
CORMAN, Cid and Hidetaka Ohno.
All in All.
Kyoto: Origin Press (1964).

First edition. 4to. [58 pp]. Light bump to crown, else near fine in like dust jacket and very good plus publisher’s cardstock slipcase. Poems with six original collotype illustrations by Hidetaka Ohno, each with a tissue guard. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Corman and Ohno.
$100

14.
[DUNCAN, Robert]. Wagstaff, Christopher. ed.
Robert Duncan: Drawings and Decorated Books.
Berkeley: Rose Books, 1992.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 64 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Twenty-one reproductions in color and b&w. Essays by Virginia Admiral and Robin Blaser. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Admiral and Blaser.
$50

15.
[DWAN, Allan]. Bogdanovich, Peter.
Allan Dwan: The Last Pioneer.
NY: Praeger (1971).

First US edition. 200 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a small scuff to spine. The first issue, with Bogdanovich’s name misspelled on both the spine an jacket as “Bogdanovitch.”
$35

16.
EISENSTEIN, Sergei.
Film Essays and a Lecture.
NY & Washington: Praeger (1970).

first US edition. 220 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Grigori Kozintsev. Fifteen works with a thorough list of sources and notes, and a list of published writings.
$40

17.
[FUTURISM]. Clough, Rosa Trillo.
Futurism: The Story of a Modern Art Movement. A New Appraisal.
NY: Philosophical Library (1961).

First edition. ix + 297 pp w/notes, bibliography, & index. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated with sixteen b&w plates.
$35

18.
GARNETT, David.
Never be a Bookseller.
NY: Knopf, 1929.

First edition. 14 pp. Faint sunning along spine, else near fine in wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 2000 copies, though uncommon. Garnett’s (parents’) admonition, with a brief preface by Alfred A. Knopf.
$125

19.
GURNEY, Ivor.
Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney.
Oxford & NY: Oxford University Press, 1982.

First edition. xv + 277 pp w/notes, appendix, glossary, & index of first lines. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Chosen, edited, and with an introduction by P.J. Kavanagh.
$50

20.
[HOLMES, Sherlock]. Groves, Derham aka “Black Jack of Ballarat.”
You Bastard Moriarty: Being a consideration of the collectability of ephemera related to the greatest detective that never lived: Sherlock Holmes.
Melbourne: Littlewood Press, 1996.

First edition Small 4to. 55 pp. Fine in wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Fully-illustrated with tipped-on images. Secreted in a pocket inside the rear cover are a dozen pieces of ephemera, as issued. One of 90 (of 100) numbered copies SIGNED by Groves and Littlewood.
$50

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