1.
ALEXANDER, James.
The Jack Rabbit Poem.
San Francisco: White Rabbit-Open Space (1966).

First edition. [20 pp]. Faint fade along spine, else fine in stapled wrappers. Drawings by Paul Alexander. One of 750 copies. Johnston A35.
$15

2.
ALFAU, Felipe.
Chromos.
London: Viking (1991).

First UK edition. 348 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Alfau’s second novel, discovered and published decades after his 1936 wonder LOCOS.
$15

3.
ATIK, Anne.
Words in Hock: Poems.
London: Enitharmon Press (1974).

First edition. 36 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket. One of 500 numbered copies. This is Atik’s first collection, published to great acclaim. Her second full-length collection, also from Entiharmon, did not appear until 1992. Halliwell 42a.
$20

4.
AUSTER, Paul.
Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure.
NY: Henry Holt (1997).

First edition. 449 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Auster’s memoir, three plays, his game Action Baseball, and the entire text of his early pseudonymous detective novel SQUEEZE PLAY.
$20

5.
BARTHELME, Donald.
Amateurs.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1977).

First UK edition. 184 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Twenty-one short stories by postmodern master.
$20

6.
BERKSON, Bill.
Saturday Night: Poems 1960–1961.
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1975.

First printing of this new revised edition (originally published by Tibor De Nagy in 1961). [48 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Norman Bluhm. This edition contains some new poems, and some corrections and additions. Sand Dollar 18.
$20

7.
BERNHARD, Thomas.
Cutting Timber: An Irritation.
London: Quartet (1988).

First UK edition. 148 pp. Pages lightly toned, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Translated from the original German by Ewald Osers.
$35

8.
[BERRIGAN, Ted]. Fischer, Aaron.
Ted Berrigan: An Annotated Checklist.
NY: Granary Books, 1998.

First edition. 67 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Lewis Warsh. Features collaborative works by Berrigan and George Schneeman interspersed throughout the text. New, at publication price:
$32.95

9.
BERRY, Wendell.
Clearing.
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1977).

First edition. 52 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Seven poems collected.
$25

10.
BIALY, Harvey.
The Broken Pot.
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1975.

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke. One of 350 (of 376) copies. Sand Dollar 15.
$15

11.
BOWERING, George.
Baseball: A Poem in the Magic Number 9.
Toronto: Coach House Press (2003).

Second edition. [24 pp]. Fine in green-flocked, pennant-shaped wrappers. One of 1000 copies.
$15

12.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard.
The Tokyo-Montana Express.
NY: Delacorte (1980).

Advance reading copy. 296 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers.
$25

13.
BRODEY, Jim.
Identikit.
Angel Hair Books (1967).

First edition. 4to. 21 pp w/introductory notes. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover photograph by Bob Cato. One of 500 copies. Printed dedication to Clark Coolidge.
$45

14.
BROWN, Paul.
Venus in Ultraviolet Light.
Cardiff: second aeon publications [1973].

First edition. [16 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. A book of collages featuring an ironic mixture of astronomy and erotica. The second of two chapbooks Brown published in the second aeon series, a spin-off of the important and influential UK little magazine.
$20

15.
BRUCE, Lennart.
Observations: An Agenda.
(np): Kayak (1968).

First edition. 68 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated with prints throughout by George Hitchcock. One of 800 copies. Bruce’s second collection of poems.
$20

16.
BURROUGHS, William S.
Cities of the Red Night.
NY: Holt (1981).

First edition. 332 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.
$25

17.
CAREY, Peter.
Illywhacker.
London: Faber & Faber (1985).

First UK edition. 600 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Winner of The Age Book of the Year.
$35

18.
CAVELL, Stanley.
Themes out of School.
San Francisco: North Point, 1984.

First edition. xiv + 268 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cavell contributes a preface to this collection of twelve essays on various aspects of American media and culture.
$12.50

19.
CLARK, Tom.
Green.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971.

First trade paperback printing. 49 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Morrow & Cooney 102a.
$12.50

20.
COOVER, Robert.
In Bed One Night & Other Brief Encounters.
Providence: Burning Deck (1983).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 59 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Nine short fictions. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Coover.
$125

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