1.
AICKMAN, Robert.
Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories.
London: Gollancz (1975).

First edition. 252 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a Gollancz price-increase sticker over the printed price on the front flap. The included story, “Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal” won the World Fantasy Award.
$125

2.
BALLARD, J.G.
The Day of Forever.
London: Gollancz, 1986.

First hardcover edition. 126 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A collection of ten short stories, published originally as a paperback in 1967.
$75

3.
BARNES, Djuna.
Smoke and Other Early Stories.
College Park: Sun & Moon, 1982.

First edition. 180 pp. Corners lightly bumped, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Edited, with an introduction by Douglas Messerli. First appearance of these fourteen stories in book form.
$25

4.
BECKER, Ernst.
The Denial of Death.
NY: Free Press (1973).

First edition. xiv + 314 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
$200

5.
[BENJAMIN, Walter]. Scholem, Gershom.
Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship.
London: Faber and Faber (1982).

First UK edition. xi + 242 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Scholem and Benjamin met in 1915 in Berlin and maintained a friendship until Benjamin’s untimely death.
$35

6.
BERNHARD, Thomas.
Beautiful View.
NY: William Drenttel, 1994.

First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 120 copies on Johannot paper, printed at the Aralia Press. Translated from the original German by Craig Kinosian. A brief story later collected in THE VOICE IMPERSONATOR.
$125

7.
BLACKBURN, Paul.
Halfway Down the Coast: Poems & Snapshots.
Amherst: Mulch Press (1975).

First edition. 56 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing along spine. Illustrated with photographs by Blackburn. Woodward A16.
$50

8.
BLAZEK, Douglas.
Open the Mirror Like a Window.
[Sacramento]: Prismatic Navigator (2019).

First edition. 88 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Catalogue for an exhibition held at the University Library Gallery, California State University, Sacramento from 7 February – 30 March 2019. Curated by James D. Fox with his introduction. Illustrated with 40 full-color reproductions of Blazek’s collage work. Blazek contributes his own introduction, an afterword, and the poem “Breakfast in Heaven.” While not called for, SIGNED by Blazek. New, at publication price:
$35

9.
BRAKHAGE, Stan.
Brakhage Scrapbook: Collected Writings.
NY: Documentex (1982).

First edition. Small 4to. x + 262 pp w/filmography & index. Fine in full cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Lacks unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. Edited by Robert A. Haller, with his introduction. Articles, notes, essays, and letters, with a few illustrations.
$125

10.
BULGAKOV, Mikhail.
Flight & Bliss.
NY: New Directions (1985).

First edition. xv + 158 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Two plays translated from the original Russian by Mirra Ginsburg, with her introduction.
$40

11.
BURKE, Clifford.
Heron / Light: Heron songs & poems.
[Anacortes]: Margaret’s Press (nd).

First edition. [20 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. INSCRIBED by Burke opposite the title page, “for Keith [Abbott] / & long friendship / love / Clifford” with crayon decorations inside and out. Original mailing envelope and prospectus accompanies.
$100

12.
CALDER, John. ed.
Edinburgh International Festival 1962.
Edinburgh: [John Calder] (1962).

First edition. Oblong 8vo. 128 pp. A few spots of foxing to fore-edge, else very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Elaborate program for publisher Calder’s landmark literary conference. Contributions by Compton Mackenzie, Malcolm Bradbury, Edwin Morgan, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Colin MacInnes, and many others.
$75

13.
[CAMUS, Albert]. Dellinger, Dave. ed.
“Neither Victims nor Executioners” in Liberation.
NY: Liberation, 1960.

February. 19 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Dwight Macdonald. First appearance in English of the eight short essays that make up the title work. The original issue of the magazine is less common than the offprint, published later in the year.
$45

14.
CARTER, Angela.
Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces.
London: Quartet (1974).

First edition. 121 pp. Corner crease to one leaf, else fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon. Several of these stories are based on her experience of living in Japan, which was a turning point in her writing, bringing feminism more to the fore.
$45

15.
CAVELL, Stanley.
This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein.
Albuquerque: Living Batch Press, 1989.

First edition. 128 pp w/works cited. Fine in full blue cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Wittgenstein via the launch pad of Emerson.
$85

16.
CAWTE, E.C.
Ritual Animal Disguise: A Historical and Geographical Study of Animal Disguise in the British Isles.
D.S. Brewer & Rowman Littlefield for the Folklore Society, 1978.

First edition. xv + 293 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. With a focus on the Hobby-Horse, Cawte covers the pageants and plays in which they appeared, as well as other animal disguises, and their geographical and temporal distribution.
$150

17.
COHEN, Leonard.
Beautiful Losers.
London: Jonathan Cape (1970).

First UK edition. 243 pp. Some light spots of foxing to fore-edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a bit of edgewear and a slender crease to front flap. Cohen’s second novel. Larry McMurtry’s copy, with his bookplate.
$200

18.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Wilson, John. ed.
Occurrence 1–8 (complete).
Mechanicsburg + Philadelphia: Occurrence (c. 1972–1978).

Eight issues, all very near fine but for #1, which has little damage along the spine, a band of tanning along the fore-edge (otherwise near fine). Bronk, Edson, Perlman, DiPalma, Taggart, Ronald Johnson, Corman, Hejinian, Enslin, Mary Oppen, and many others contribute to this well-designed mag. Issue #5 wholly devoted to the writings and drawings of Russell Edson, #8 devoted to the poems of Theodore Enslin. For the run:
$125

19.
[COMPLETE RUNS].
Softly Loudly Nos 1–3.
London: Softly Loudly Books (1971).

First editions. Three volumes, all fine in stapled wrappers. Each issue a complete collection of poems by Alan Fuchs, Anthony Howell, and Tom Lowenstein respectively, each one of 275 (of 300) copies. Cover art for all three by Andrew Eden. For the run:
$75

20.
CREELEY, Robert.
Mother’s Voice.
[Santa Barbara]: Am Here Books/Immediate Editions (1981).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 4to. [34 pp]. Toning to extrems, else very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art and four internal drawings by Tom Clark. One of 26 lettered copies with a hand-colored cover SIGNED by Creeley and Clark, with a short holograph poem by Creeley, “Death” penned to the last leaf.
$100

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