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21.
HUNCKE, Herbert.
The Evening Sun Turned Crimson.

Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions (1980).

First edition. 224 pp. Light wrinkle to front cover, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Allen Ginsberg introduces this collection of prose works, concluded with a selection of photographs by Louis Cartwright.
$75

22.
JABÈS, Edmond.
Elya.

Berkeley: Tree, 1973.

First edition. 89 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers from flaps, else fine in wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Introduction by Rosemarie Waldrop, who also translated this volume from the original French.
$45

23.
KIVIAT, Erik.
Museum of Memnon.

Mexico City: El Corno Emplumado (1966).

First edition. 38 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. poems in English with illustrations. Colección la llave vol. III.
$15

24.
LAMANTIA, Philip.
Erotic Poems.

Berkeley: Bern Porter, 1946.

First edition. 42 pp. Small stain to front panel, light rubbing at crown of spine, and lower tips. In all, near fine in printed paper-covered boards. His first book, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper to friends, “For Eleanor + Dick, / In friendship / from Philip.”
$1250

25.
[LANE, Brian]. Rogers, Martin and Cutts, Simon. eds.
The Printed Performance: Brian Lane Works 1966–99.

Derby: Research Group for Artists Publications/Coracle Press (2001).

First edition. 157 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Excellent primer for this most interesting small press publisher. Forty-eight pages of illustrations, and a useful bibliography.
$20

26.
LONGLEY, Michael.
Broken Dishes.

Craigavad: Abbey Press, 1998.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 29 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Longley. Fifteen new poems by the Belfast native.
$125

27.
LOWENFELS, Walter.
Land of Roseberries.

Mexico City: el corno emplumado, 1965.

First edition. 139 pp w/notes. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Cover designed by Arnold Belkin. Poems with drawings by David Alfaro Siqueiros. INSCRIBED by Lowenfels and dated 1965. Text in English, followed by the same in Spanish translation by Margaret Randall and Segio Mondragón. Colección acuari, vol. IV.
$27.50

28.
MAIRENA, Ana.
Majakuagy-Moukeia.

Mexico City: El Corno Emplumado, 1964.

First edition. 178 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. The original Spanish text followed by the English translation by Elinor Randall. An uncommon work by this Mexican novelist. Colección Acuario, vol. 1.
$75

29.
[McGINNIS, Robert]. Scott, Art and Dr. Wallace Maynard.
The Paperback Covers of Robert McGinnis.

Boston: Pond Press (2001).

First US edition. 143 pp w/index of titles. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (12/8/01) and SIGNED by McGinnis on the title page. A complete listing of the 1068 titles, and 1432 editions of the paperback cover illustrations by McGinnis.
$125

30.
MONDRAGÓN, Sergio.
yo soy el otro / i am the other.

Mexico City: el corno emplumado (1965).

First edition. 48 pp. Bend to upper corner, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Original Spanish poems with English translations by Margaret Randall. Illustrated with drawings by Arnold Belkin. Colección acuario, vol. v.
$20

31.
NICHOL, bp.
The Captain Poetry Poems.

Vancouver: Blewointmentpress (1971).

First edition. 4to. [42 pp]. Near fine in stapled and taped wrappers. One of 500 copies.
$35

32.
ORI, Luciano.
Estremamente Variabile.

Firenze: Téchne (1970).

First edition. [128 pp]. Bumps to lower corners, else near fine in illustrated wrappers with original wrap-around band (two short tears). The self-proclaimed “first visual novel in the history of Italian and European Literature.”
$450

33.
PARAEJA, Miguel Donoso.
Primera Canción del Exilado / The Exile’s First Song.

Mexico City: El Corno Emplumado, 1966.

First edition. 65 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Illustrated with drawings by Pedro Alcántara. Original Spanish text with an English translation by Elinor Randall. Colección acuario, vol. IIX.
$20

34.
PINE, Red. trans.
The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain.

Port Townsend: Copper Canyon (1983).

First edition. [200 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Original Chinese poems with facing translations by Red Pine. Introduction by John Blofeld. Uncommon in hardcover, more so in jacket.
$125

35.
POPA, Vasko.
Collected Poems.

London: Anvil Press Poetry (1997).

First US edition. xxxi + 429 pp w/index of titles. Fine in fine dust jacket with unobtrusive US distribution stickers on title page and front flap. English translations by Anne Pennington, revised and expanded by Francis R. Jones. Introduction by Ted Hughes. Best collection to date by the Serbian poet-publisher.
$45

36.
POUND, Ezra.
Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX–CXVII.

London: Faber and Faber (1970).

First UK edition. 32 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Gallup A91b.
$35

37.
POUND, Ezra and Louis Zukofsky.
Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky.

NY: New Directions (1987).

First edition. xxiv + 255 pp w/selected bibliography & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Before the first of what would be only three meetings, Pound and Zukofsky exchanged over 300 letters, over half their total correspondence.
$35

38.
[PUNK ROCK]. Caffein, Jean. ed.
New Dezezes.

San Francisco: Jean Caffein [1977].

4to. [30 pp, including covers]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Uncirculated copy of this super-early and super great punk zine. Dils, Crime, Avengers, record reviews, The Screamers, Nuns and more. Photographs by James Stark. The first of only two issues.
$200

39.
[PUNK ROCK].
Eastern Front.

Berkeley, 1981 + 1982.

17 1 8 x 9 ½ & 16 x 9 ½ inches respectively, both fine. Pepe Moreno and Randy Tuten produced equally striking posters for this short-lived annual event. The first year stage was a flatbed truck, which was pretty punk. Tuten was very active in the late 60s (he did work for the Fillmore); this is one of the few punk posters he produced Moreno continues to make art. For the pair:
$150

40.
REISSNER, Larissa.
Hamburg at the Barricades and Other Writings on Weimar Germany.

London: Pluto Press (1977).

First UK edition. 209 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated and edited from the original Russian by Richard Campbell. Active as a journalist and propagandist in the events leading up to the Russian Revolution, Reissner would later fight with the Volga Flotilla during the Civil War, was a member of the Soviet diplomatic mission in Afghanistan, and spent her last years in Germany and the Urals.
$40

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