61.
MAJOR, Clarence.
Symptoms & Madness: Poems.
NY: Corinth, 1971.

First edition. 76 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. One of 950 (of 1000) hardcover copies.
$20

62.
MAMET, David.
The Water Engine and Mr. Happiness.
NY: Grove Press (1978).

First edition. 87 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
$75

63.
MANDEL, John.
Ready To Go: Poems 1972–1977.
Ithaca: Ithaca House, 1981.

First trade edition. 69 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Cover by Mandel. One of 500 copies. Poems printed letterpress. His third book.
$15

64.
MARLATT, Daphne.
Zócalo.
Toronto: Coach House, 1977

First edition. [94 pp]. Near fine in wrappers; a paperback original. One of 1000 copies.
$20

65.
McCANN, Colum.
This Side of Brightness.
London: Phoenix House (1998).

First edition. 248 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by McCann.
$25

66.
McPHERSON, Sandra.
At the Grave of Hazel Hall.
Sweden: Ives Street Press, 1988.

First edition. [18 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 140 numbered copies on Frankfurt White paper SIGNED by McPherson. McPherson’s poem paired with a calligraphic design, printed in five colors. Original prospectus laid-in.
$25

67.
MELTZER, David. ed.
Golden Gate: Interviews with 5 San Francisco Poets.
(np): Wingbow (1976).

First printing of this revised edition. 256 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Interviews with Everson, Ferlinghetti, McClure, Rexroth, and Welch. Originally published under the title THE SAN FRANCISCO POETS.
$15

68.
MERRILL, James.
The Fire Screen.
London: Chatto & Windus/ Hogarth Press, 1970.

First UK edition. 52 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. The first hardcover edition, as the US edition of a year earlier was a paperback original.
$20

69.
MERWIN, W.S. trans.
The Satires of Persius.
London: Anvil Press Poetry (1981).

First UK edition. 109 pp w/notes. Very near fine in glossy printed wrappers. Introduction by William S. Anderson.
$20

70.
MONTAGUE, John.
A Slow Dance.
Dublin/London/Winston-Salem: Dolmen, Oxford, and Wake Forest University Press (1975).

First US edition, with printed US$ price on rear cover. 63 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover drawing by Jack Coughlin.
$25

71.
MORGAN, Edwin.
Essays.
Cheadle: Carcanet New Press (1974).

First edition. 299 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket.
$45

72.
NICHOL, bp with Howard Gerhard.
Ad Sanctos: The Martyrology, Book 9.
Toronto: Coach House (1993).

First edition. 299 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original.
$25

73.
OFFUTT, Chris.
Two-Eleven All Around.
St. Paul: Danger! Books (1998).

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in wrappers and fine unprinted tissue dust jacket. One of 300 (of 326) numbered copies on Sommerset Book SIGNED by Offutt. First book of the press, and Offutt’s first signed limited edition.
$45

74.
OLSON, Charles.
Spearmint & Rosemary.
Berkeley: Turtle Island, 1975.

First edition. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Printed at the Five Trees Press.
$15

75.
ONDAATJE, Michael.
We die containing a richness...
[Palo Alto]: Kepler’s Books and Magazines (1993).

First edition. 6 x 9 inch illustrated broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Designed and printed at the Okeanos Press. An excerpt from THE ENGLISH PATIENT, issued as a gift for the New Year.
$20

76.
OPPEN, George.
Discrete Series.
Cleveland: Mother/Asphodel (1966).

First printing of this reissue (originally published in 1934). [38 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers with integral dust jacket. Cover art by Magdalene Arndt Sinclair. Oppen’s first book.
$20

77.
[OYEZ PRESS]. Bohn, Dave.
Oyez: The Authorized Checklist.
Berkeley: (np) 1997.

First trade edition. 31 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 450 (of 500) copies. Designed by Graham Mackintosh and Dave Bohn. A useful reference, especially for print runs.
$25

78.
PERKINS, Michael.
The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature.
NY: Morrow (1976).

First edition. 227 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. A comprehensive treatment.
$25

79.
PLATH, Sylvia.
Three Women.
[Oakland: (np) c. 1975].

First US edition. Oblong 16mo. 27 pp. Fine in oblong, side-stapled wrappers. A piracy of this dramatic work for three voices.
$45

80.
PORCHIA, Antonio translated by W.S. Merwin.
Voices.
Chicago: Big Table (1969).

First US edition. 64 pp. Fine in very near fine, clipped and repriced (by the publisher) dust jacket. An uncirculated copy. Translated from the original Spanish by Merwin, with his introduction.
$25

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