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21.
GARON, Paul.
Black Swan Press and the Chicago Surrealist Group: A Checklist.
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing (2018).

First edition. 39 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Two hundred described items. A useful reference. New, at publication price:
$15

22.
GILBERT, Jack.
Collected Poems.
NY: Knopf, 2012.

First edition. xviii + 408 pp w/notes & indexes. Fine in fine dust jacket.
$75

23.
[GRAFFITI]. Cavero, Julius writing as “Terrible T-Kid 170.”
The Nasty: Terrible T-Kid 170.
Cologne: From Here to Fame (2005).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. 191 pp w/glossary. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 300 numbered copies. SIGNED by Cavero on the front free endpaper. The fully-illustrated autobiography of this early and notorious NY writer.
$350

24.
GREENE, Jonathan.
The Reckoning.
Annandale-On-Hudson: Matter Books, 1966.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [30 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Introduction by Robert Kelly. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Greene. His first book.
$75

25.
GREENE, Jonathan.
Watching Dewdrops Fall: Poems.
[Eugene]: Mountains & Rivers Press (2003).

First edition. 35 pp. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Greene.
$15

26.
GREGG, Linda and Jack Gilbert.
Love: A Diptych.
Asheville: The Captain’s Bookshelf, 1994.

First edition, hors commerce issue. [10 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. Tipped-on illustration by Janice La Motta as a frontis. One of 30 numbered copies issued hors commerce SIGNED by Gregg, Gilbert, and La Motta.
$350

27.
GROSSMAN, Vassili.
Stalingrad Hits Back.
Moscow: Foreign Language Publishing House (1942).

First edition. 16mo. 27 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Translated from the original Russian by A. Fineberg and D. Fromberg. Grossman’s first separate appearance in English translation. The original article appeared in the Russian Army newspaper Red Star earlier in 1942.
$350

28.
HENDERIKSE, Jan.
Broadway.
NY & Rotterdam: Jan Henderikse-Uitgeverij Bébert [1983].

First edition. Oblong 32 mo. Light offsetting to verso of last (unprinted) panel, else near fine in printed cardstock covers with string ties. Faint splash marks to the front panel. Original map in envelope inside rear cover present, with “Companion to Jan Henderikse’s BROADWAY” sticker, as issued. Eighty-one panels, each with three black and white photographs. One of 100 copies for distribution in the US, from a total edition of 200.
$1000

29.
HIGGINS, Dick.
The Ladder to the Moon.
Barton: Unpublished Editions, 1973.

First edition. ix + 113 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers with some light toning to a few of the last pages. A “lyric theater construction,” drawing from Happenings, Fluxus, time scores, films, and mixed media.
$25

30.
HUGHES, Ted.
Earth-Moon.
London: Rainbow Press (1976).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 16mo. 65 pp. Fine in full blue leather with silver stamping in near fine publisher’s slipcase. Poems with illustrations by the author. One of 200 (of 226) numbered copies SIGNED by Hughes. Sagar & Tabor A48.
$350

31.
KEROUAC, Jack.
Book of Dreams.
San Francisco: City Lights Books (1961).

First edition. 184 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph of Kerouac by Robert Frank. Charters A15. Cook 27.
$350

32.
KORTE, Mary Norbert.
A Breviary in Time of War.
San Francisco: Cranium Press (1970).

First edition, author’s copy. [26 pp]. Fine in full cloth with gilt-stamped leather spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 7 numbered copies SIGNED by Korte. Additionaly INSCRIBED by Korte on the colophon page to one of her publishers, “For Robert Hawley / with my affection / and esteem for / this gentleman / from that lady / Mary Norbert Körte / 12 May 1977.”
$125

33.
[KRAUTROCK]. Kotsopoulos, Nikolaos. ed.
Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and Its Legacy.
London: Black Dog Publishing (2009).

First edition. 4to. 191 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An introduction to the genre followed by band, record label, and producer profiles. Profusely illustrated with color and b&w images.
$75

34.
KUNDERA, Milan.
Immortality.
NY: Grove Weidenfeld (1991).

First US edition, numbered & signed issue. 345 pp. Fine in full cloth and very near fine unprinted tissue dust jacket with a little wear to base of spine. Fine publisher’s slipcase. Translated from the original Czech by Peter Kussi. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Kundera. The last in a trilogy, preceded by The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
$350

35.
LAMANTIA, Philip.
Voice.
[San Francisco: Arion Press, 1981].

First edition. 16 x 12 inch broadside, printed in three colors on handmade paper. Very near fine. Issued originally as part of the Shaped Poetry set of prints, here offered separately.
$200

36.
[LITTLE MAGAZINES]. Kenny, Robert. ed.
Rigmarole of the Hours 1.
Ivanhoe: Robert Kenny, 1974.

[56 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies. First issue of this long-running Melbourne mag. John Jenkins, John Anderson, Kris Hemensley, John Tranter, and others contribute.
$40

37.
MACHEN, Arthur.
Dreads and Drolls.
London: Martin Secker, 1926.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 220 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light chipping to tips of flap folds, and base and crown of spine. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Machen. Scarce in such a relatively nice jacket.
$350

38.
MELTZER, David.
From: The Clown, Book II Air & Interim.
New Haven: Penny Poems, 1959.

First edition. 10 x 7 inch broadside. Small pale droplet mark, else very near fine. While not called for, SIGNED by Meltzer. Penny Poems No. 69.
$125

39.
MELTZER, David.
The Prophet.
New Haven: Penny Poems, 1959.

First edition. 10 x 7 inch broadside. Tiny crease to one upper corner, else very near fine. Though not called for, SIGNED by Meltzer. Penny Poems No. 54.
$125

40.
NATIONS, Opal Louis.
Neo-Absurdities: A Collection of Textual Ideas by Opal Louis Nations 1987–88.
Oakland: Changed Species Press, 1988.

First edition. 4to. [100 pp]. Faint corner-crease to rear cover, else very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. Introductory text, “The Strange Case of Opal Nations” by George Myers Jr. Warmly INSCRIBED by Nations on the title page.
$40

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