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41.
GRAY, Alasdair.
Old Negatives.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1989.

First trade paperback printing. 67 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Gray on the half-title.
$25

42.
GREENE, Graham.
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party.

London: Bodley Head (1980).

First edition, first issue. 139 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. The first issue, with “leave alone” page nine, line four.
$22.50

43.
GRENNAN, Eamon.
What Light There Is & Other Poems.

San Francisco: North Point, 1989.

First US edition. 119 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Grennan’s first trade edition to appear in the US.
$45

44.
GUNN, Thom.
Site Specific.

Menlo Park: Occasional Works, 2000.

First edition. 33 pp. Fine in wrappers and photo-illustrated dust jacket. Reproductions of three photos by Leo Holub—two on the covers and one tipped in. One of 100 numbered copies on Arches text. Seventeen San Francisco “neighbourhood” poems, here presented as a group for the first time. At publication price:
$25

45.
[HANLEY, James]. Gibbs, Linnea.
James Hanley: A Bibliography.

Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1980.

First trade edition. x + 230 pp w/index. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 500 copies. Illustrated.
$20

46.
HARPER, Michael S.
Photographs: Negatives: History as Apple Tree: A Poem.

San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1972.

First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. One of 500 numbered copies on Curtis mill paper SIGNED by Harper. His third book.
$75

47.
HILL, Rosemary.
Bigger Peaches: Benjamin Robert Haydon’s ‘Immortal Dinner.’

Menlo Park: Occasional Works, 2002.

First edition. 22 pp. Fine in wrappers with printed label. Illustrated. One of 100 copies on Velin Arches paper, printed letterpress. Number 2 in the Occasional Works “Of Interest” series. First separate appearance of this essay, printed originally in The London Review of Books. At publication price:
$20

48.
[HILLERMAN, Tony]. Hieb, Louis A.
Tony Hillerman: From THE BLESSING WAY to TALKING GOD. A Bibliography.

Tucson: Press of the Gigantic Hound, 1990.

First edition. 88 pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 1000 copies. SIGNED by Hillerman and Hieb.
$50

49.
HOYEM, Andrew.
The Wake.

San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1963.

First edition. 29 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine integral printed dust jacket. One of 750 copies on Curtis Rag paper. Hoyem’s first book, a collection of poems. Auerhahn 22.
$35

50.
JAMMES, Francis.
Poems.

Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1967.

First edition. 39 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Poems in English translation by Teo Savory, followed by the original French versions.
$20

51.
JOHNSON, Ronald.
Sports and Divertissements.

Urbana: Finial Press (1969).

First US edition. [40 pp]. Fine in bright yellow-gold boards with stamped and gilt designs on the front cover. Text illustrated with drawings by Tom Kovacs. One of 171 numbered copies SIGNED by Johnson and Kovacs. Johnson’s second book, first published in Scotland by Finlay’s Wild Hawthorn Press. “Sports” is a series of found poems “made from Erik Satie’s notes, in French, to the piano pieces SPORTS AND DIVERTISSEMENTS.”
$75

52.
KATZ, Leon.
The Making of Americans: An Opera and a Play.

Barton: Something Else Press, 1973.

First trade paperback printing. 186 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Work based on Gertrude Stein’s novel THE MAKING OF AMERICANS.
$15

53.
KEES, Weldon.
Fall Quarter: The Unpublished Novel.

Brownsville: Story Line Press (1990).

First edition, limited issue. 246 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine in publisher’s slipcase. Edited and with an introduction by James Reidel. According to the publisher, this issue was limited to 100 copies.
$50

54.
KELMAN, James.
You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free.

NY: Harcourt (2004).

First US edition. 410 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Kelman.
$25

55.
KINSELLA, W.P.
Five Stories.

Vancouver: William Hoffer/Tanks (1986).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. 57 pp. Very near fine in full blue linen over boards with printed paper cover and spine labels. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Kinsella. Tanks 1.2.
$75

56.
KRECH, Richard.
How Easily Your Mind Can Slip Off!: A Poem.

Carmichael: Runcible Spoon (1967).

First edition. [16 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover by Martha Krech. One of 500 copies.
$20

57.
[KRECH, Richard]. Davis, Jason.
A Bibliography of Works by Richard Krech 1965–2009.

Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press (2010).

First edition. 79 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. A thorough accounting of both works by, and published by, Richard Krech. One of 74 numbered copies SIGNED by Davis. Laid in is a small broadside poem SIGNED by Krech.
$35

58.
KRYSS, Tom.
The Search for the Reason Why.

Huron: Bottom Dog Press (2006).

First edition. 191 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Hillary Krzywkowski. One of an unstated limitation of numbered copies SIGNED by Kryss with an original hand-colored print tipped-in. At publication price:
$35

59.
LIDDY, James.
A Life of Stephen Dedalus.

San Francisco: White Rabbit, 1969

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 500 copies. Johnston A49.
$20

60.
MacDIARMID, Hugh.
A Clyack-Sheaf.

London: MacGibbon & Kee (1969).

First edition. 57 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
$20

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