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21.
DAVENPORT, Guy. trans.
Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Late Greek Bronze Age.

Berkeley: University of California (1980).

First edition. 176 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine. Translated by Davenport, with his introduction. Crane A13a1.
$40

22.
DIDION, Joan.
Telling Stories.

Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1978.

First edition. 51 pp. Light sunning along spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. Three short stories by Didion, with her introductory essay. Her only collection of short fiction.
$75

23.
[DUCHAMP, Marcel]. Baruchello, Gianfranco and Henry Martin.
Why Duchamp: An Essay on Aesthetic Impact.

Documentext/McPherson & Company (1985).

First edition. 158 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with a number of photographs of Duchamp and his work. One of 500 copies.
$55

24.
[DUNCAN, Isadora]. Genthe, Arnold.
Original silver print portrait.

[NY: Arnold Genthe, 1916].

5 ¾ x 8 ¾ inch photograph of dancer Isadora Duncan. Genthe’s stamped credit and copyright notice on verso, along with the stamp, “Isadora Duncan / Management / Fredrick H. Toye.” Slight rubbing along edges, else a fine image of one of Genthe’s most famous subjects. Genthe’s collection ISADORA DUNCAN: TWENTY-FOUR STUDIES was published in 1929.
$450

25.
EDSON, Russell.
The Wounded Breakfast.

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (1985).

First edition. 69 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A great collection of Edson’s prose poems.
$45

26.
EIGNER, Larry and Ian Tyson.
A Line That May Be Cut: Poems from 1965 by Larry Eigner with Five Prints and End Papers by Ian Tyson.

London: Circle Press (1968).

First edition. 4to. [30 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Tyson. Original prospectus accompanies.
$55

27.
FALLON, Peter.
A Flowering: A Poem.

[Easthampton]: Warwick Press, 2000.

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. A single poem, designed, printed, decorated, and hand sewn by Carol J. Blinn. One of 125 copies on Hahnemühle’s Heine papers SIGNED by Fallon and Blinn.
$45

28.
FANTE, John.
West of Rome: Two Novellas.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1986.

First edition, numbered issue. 188 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies. Presents “My Dog Stupid” and “The Orgy.”
$125

29.
[FELDMAN, Morton]. Villars, Chris. ed.
Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964–1987.

London: Hyphen Press (2006).

First edition. 303 pp w/bibliography, notes, & index. Fine in printed wrappers and near fine illustrated dust jacket with a small wrinkle at the crown of spine.
$125

30.
[FINLAY, Ian Hamilton ]. Murray, Graeme.
Ian Hamilton Finlay & The Wild Hawthorn Press: A Catalogue Raisonné 1958–1990.

Edinburgh: Graeme Murray (1990).

First edition. 32 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. A useful reference for the prolific Finlay.
$50

31.
FIRBANK, Ronald.
The New Rythum and Other Pieces.

London: Duckworth 1962.

First edition. 134 pp w/appendix. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket Introduction by Alan Harris. Material discovered soon after the publication of THE COMPLETE RONALD FIRBANK in 1961.
$35

32.
FRIEDMAN, B.H.
School of New York: Some Younger Artists.

NY & London: Grove Press/Evergreen Books (1959).

First trade paperback printing. 83 pp. Gentle reading crease to spine, else very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited and introduced by B.H. Friedman. Illustrated with ten color plates and twenty-three b&w reproductions. Guest on Goodnough, Schuyler on Leslie, O’Hara on Rivers, Porter on Stankiewicz, and more.
$35

33.
FULTON, Hamish.
Ajawaan.

Toronto: Art Metropol (1987).

First edition. Horizontal 8vo. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 750 copies. Features a five panel fold-out b&w landscape photograph boldly overprinted with red and white text.
$45

34.
FULTON, Hamish.
A Record of Past Walks in Existing Landscapes.

Kerguehennec & Paris: Centre d’Art Contemporain/Galerie Laage Salomon (1988).

First edition. Horizontal 8vo. [16 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Color and b&w photos, a map, prose verging on concrete poetry.
$45

35.
HAMILL, Sam. trans.
The Lotus Lovers: Tzu Yeh, Li Ch’ing-Chao.

Saint Paul: Coffee House Press, 1985.

First edition. [44 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Poems and songs translated by Sam Hamill, with his introduction.
$40

36.
HAMSUN, Knut.
Hunger.

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1967).

First printing of this edition. xxii + 231 pp. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket that is slightly mis-folded. Translated from the original Norwegian by Robert Bly. Introduction by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Originally published in the US in 1920, the same year Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize.
$75

37.
HARNER, Michael J. ed.
Hallucinogens and Shamanism.

NY: Oxford University Press, 1973.

First US edition. xv + 200 pp w/bibliography & index. Very near fine in like dust jacket with some light wear to crown of spine. Ten essays that largely go beyond objective observation.
$75

38.
[HEARTFIELD, John].
John Heartfield.

Berlin: Deutsche Akademie der Künste zu Berlin (1971).

First edition. 72 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Exhibition catalogue. Fifty-seven reproductions and photographs. Text in German.
$45

39.
[HÖCH, Hannah]. Lavin, Maud.
cut with the kitchen knife: the weimer photomontages of hannah höch.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press (1993).

First edition. xvii + 260 pp w/appendix & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. One hundred and fifty-eight reproductions, a number of them in color.
$50

40.
HURSTON, Zora Neale.
The Sanctified Church.

Berkeley: Turtle Island, 1981.

First edition. 107 pp. Fine in full blue cloth over boards with pasted on cover and spine labels. No dust jacket, as issued. Foreword by Toni Cade Bambara. Essay on various aspects of African-American folklore, myth, legend, and spirituality. Uncommon in cloth.
$125

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