41.
JABÈS, Edmond.
A Share of Ink: A Selection from ‘Je Batis Ma Demeure.’
London: Menard Press, 1979.

First UK edition. 46 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Translated from the original French by Anthony Rudolf with his introduction.
$35

42.
JACOB, Max.
Omnia Vanitas.
Berkeley: Thyrsus Press, 2018.

First edition. [46 pp]. Fine in half-cloth and printed paper-covered boards. Translated from the original French by Alastair Johnston. Thirty-three selected poems with 32 original illustrations by Jinny Pearce. One of 135 numbered copies SIGNED by Johnston and Pearce. New, at publication price:
$250

43.
[JESS].
Lyn Brockway, Harry Jacobus, and Jess: The Romantic Paintings.
Palo Alto & Belmont: Palo Alto Cultural Center/Weigand Gallery (1990).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 46 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Exhibition catalog illustrated in color and black & white. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Brockway, Jess, and Jacobus.
$75

44.
JOHNSON, Ronald.
The Shrubberies.
Chicago: Flood Editions (2001).

First edition. 136 pp /index of titles & first lines. Fine in wrappers. Edited and with an afterword by Peter O’Leary. Johnson’s last work, published posthumously.
$35

45.
JOHNSTON, Alastair and Frances Butler.
Confracti Mundi Rudera.
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1975.

First edition. Folio. [32 pp]. Fine in full decorated cloth with sewn binding. Poltroon’s first, “serious experiment in the book arts.” One of 60 copies, though it has been reported that not that many were actually produced. Beginning with a portfolio of images by Butler, who then chose texts from Johnston’s notebooks to serve as “parallel sources of information and emotional allusion.” Uncommon.
$2500

46.
[JONES, David]. Hills, Paul.
David Jones.
London: Tate Gallery (1981).

First edition. 144 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Produced to accompany an exhibition of Jones’ paintings, drawings and inscriptions, together with a selection of engravings and boxwood carvings.
$45

47.
JONES, LeRoi.
The Dead Lecturer: Poems.
NY: Grove (1964).

First edition. 79 pp. Pages toned, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dated (11/98) and INSCRIBED by Jones, “For Douglas [Blazek] / Amiri Baraka / 11/98.” His second collection of poems.
$150

48.
[JOYCE, James]. O HEHIR, Brendan.
A Gaelic Lexicon for FINNEGANS WAKE and Glossary for Joyce’s Other Works.
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967.

First edition. xvi + 427 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon thus.
$75

49.
KEROUAC, Jack.
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935–46.
NY: Coward-McCann (1968).

First edition. 280 pp. Anticipated oxidizing to spine lettering, else fine in very near fine dust jacket with just a touch of wear to base and crown of spine. The last work published before Kerouac’s death in 1969. Charters A25a.
$400

50.
KERR, Philip.
A Quiet Flame.
London: Quercus. (2008).

First edition. 407 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Kerr. The fifth Bernie Gunther novel.
$75

51.
LE GUIN, Ursula.
The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction.
NY: Putnam’s (1979).

First edition. 270 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited and with introductions by Susan Wood. The volume concludes with a bibliographic checklist of the works of Le Guin by Jeff Levin. SIGNED by Le Guin.
$125

52.
LETHBRIDGE, T.C.
Witches.
NY: Citadel Press (1962).

First edition. x + 162 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
$75

53.
LI CHING-CHAO.
Complete Poems.
NY: New Directions (1979).

First edition. 118 pp w/notes to the poems. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and near fine clear unprinted acetate dust jacket with tiny chips to tips of flap folds and crown of spine. Translated from the original Chinese and edited by Kenneth Rexroth with Ling Chung.
$50

54.
MAC LOW, Jackson.
The Pronouns: A Collection of Forty Dances for the Dancers.
Barrytown: Station Hill, 1979.

First edition. 78 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (a bit rubbed). A suite of photographs by Peter Moore concludes the book.
$45

55.
[MAHLER, Gustav]. Adorno, Theodor W.
Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy.
Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press (1992).

First US edition. x + 178 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original German by Edmund Jephcott.
$35

56.
MAJOR, Clarence.
Private line.
London: Paul Breman, 1971.

First edition. 24 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems. A review copy for the US market, with a Broadside Press review slip laid in.
$35

57.
MALANGA, Gerard.
Photo-Portraits by Gerard Malanga.
Houston: Institute for the Arts, Rice University, 1972.

First edition. [8 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Lists the subjects of the 107 portraits, with descriptions. Together with a folding five panel announcement for the same show, with seven reproductions. For the pair:
$40

58.
MANNING, Hugo.
Madame Lola.
London: Enitharmon, 1974.

First edition. 47 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 300 (of 600) numbered copies. A long poem by Manning, with his cover drawing also tipped-on opposite the title page. Halliwell 43.
$25

59.
McEWAN, Ian.
Sweet Tooth.
London: Jonathan Cape (2012).

First edition. 320 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by McEwan on the title page. Spies and romance.
$35

60.
McPHERSON, Sandra.
Eve.
London & Vermont: Gefn Press, 1987.

First edition. McPherson’s poem printed on an accordion-fold sheet attached to the base of an elaborate paper construction, housed in the publisher’s box along with a sheet of semi-opaque black fabric. All elements fine. One of 50 copies SIGNED by McPherson. Printed and bound at the Janus Press, paper construction made at the Gefn Press.
$450

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