21.
[CARVER, Raymond]. Jackson, Jon A.
Ridin’ With Ray and The Old Game.
Santa Barbara: Neville Books., 1995.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 40 pp. Fine in full blue cloth with silver stamping to spine and front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. Illustrations by Barnaby Conrad. One of 300 numbered copies on Mohawk Superfine paper SIGNED by Jackson. A memoir of his friendship with Carver, paired with a short story, “The Old Game,” which was helped into publication by Carver.
$35

22.
CLARK, Tom.
The Last Gas Station and Other Stories.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 151 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Clark with an original drawing tipped-in after the title page.
$100

23.
CLARK, Tom.
Willie Stargell.
Bolinas: Tom Clark (1974).

16 x 12 inch painting by Clark of the Pirate’s Hall of Famer. Acrylic on canvas board. SIGNED by Clark at lower right and again on the verso, along with noting the date, subject, and place of composition.
$250

24.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Myles, Eileen.
Dodgems 1 & 2.
NY: “a subsidary of fido productions” [1977].

98 + 74 pp. Two volumes, each near fine in comb-bound wrappers with gentle bends to corners. A thorough round-up of talent: Notley, Guest, Myles, Brodey, Yau, Piombino, Padgett, Greenwald, Towle, Schiff, Brownstein, Di Palma, Berrigan, Vetich, and many others. For the run:
$350

25.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Hartley, George. ed.
Listen: A Quarterly Magazine 1:1 – 4: 1.
Hessle: Listen/Marvell Press (1954–1962).

Twelve issues, all very near fine or fine in stapled wrappers, with the exception of a small snag to the cover and first few leaves of 2:2. A major vehicle for Philip Larkin (appears in all but two issues). Work also by Pound, Skelton, Amis, Davie, MacBeth, Merwin, Gunn, Rich, Stevie Smith, Henry Moore,and others. Laid into the last volume is a flyer for “Listen Records,” announcing releases by Thom Gunn and Kingsley Amis. For the run:
$450

26.
COOVER, Robert.
Dos Cuentos De Roberto Coover.
Guatemala City: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 1965.

First edition. [8 pp]. Very near fine in printed green wrappers. First edition of Coover’s first separate publication, an offprint with specially printed covers from the journal Universidad de San Carlos No. LXV. Brief note of introduction by Guillermo Putzeys Alvarez. All texts in Spanish. SIGNED by Coover, and SIGNED by his wife, Pilar Sanz de Coover, who translated one of the stories. Precedes THE ORIGIN OF THE BRUNISTS by a year.
$750

27.
[CORNELL, Joseph]. Foer, Jonathan Safran. ed.
A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Works of Joseph Cornell.
NY: D.A.P. (2001).

First trade edition. xvi + 238 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Each work preceded by a tipped-on reproduction of the work by Cornell that informed the writing. A terrific production, with contributions from Lydia Davis, Siri Hustvedt, Barry Lopez, Rick Moody, Robert Pinsky, Jon Yau, Robert Coover, and many others.
$45

28.
CURZON, Daniel.
From Violent Men.
San Francisco: IGNA, 1983.

First edition. 248 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A novel loosely based on the assassination in San Francisco of Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. But then, according to the dust-jacket blurb, “a small group of men...devised a plot to murder the assassin while he was still in prison...and one horrendous crime led to another, and then another, and...” According to bookseller Burton Weiss, one of only 100 hardcover copies printed.
$40

29.
CUTTS, Simon.
Some Forms of Availability: Critical Passages on The Book and Publciation.
NY & Cromford: Granary Books/RGAP, 2007.

First US edition. 173 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Speculative essays, reviews, interviews, and collected statements by Coracle Press publisher Cutts. Includes a section on “some Coracle ephemera,” with color reproductions.
$25

30.
DAUMAL, René.
The Lie of the Truth and Other Parables from The Way of Liberation.
Madras & NY: Hanuman Books, 1989.

First edition. 16 mo. 44 pp. Fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Phil Powrie. Number 28 in the Hanuman series.
$75

31.
DI PRIMA, Diane.
Like.
NY: American Theatre for Poets, 1960.

First edition. 4to. 5 pp. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Di Prima on the front cover. Lepper dates actual publication of this script to c. 1964.
$250

32.
les disques du CRÉPUSCULE.

Brussels: les disques du crépuscule [c. 1985].

19 ½ x 11 ¾ inch promotional poster. One horizontal crease, backed to cardstock. Belgian label founded in 1980 by Michel Duval and Annik Honoré, with close connections to Manchester’s Factory Records.
$50

33.
ELMSLIE, Kenward.
The Champ.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. 66 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth with printed cover and spine labels. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Elmslie and Brainard. A long poem by Elmslie, profusely illustrated with terrific drawings by Brainard. Morrow & Cooney 31b.
$150

34.
[FACTORY RECORDS]. Robertson, Matthew.
Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books (2007).

First US edition. 223 pp w/index of designers. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Tony Wilson. A complete survey of one of the most influential labels. Fully illustrated with color reproductions. A necessary reference. Fac 461.
$40

35.
[FESTIVAL GROUPPO ‘70].
3rd Festival Gruppo ‘70: Pittura.
Firenze: Galleria La Vigna Nuova, 1965.

First edition. 13 ³ ⁄ 8 x 9 ½ inch poster, printed in black on magenta. Two old folds, tiny pinhole to center. In all, near fine.
$75

36.
FREEMAN, Arthur.
Place: Twelve Poems.
London: (np) 1980.

First trade edition. [24 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 500 copies, from the original 26 copy limited edition. INSCRIBED by Freeman, “Nicholas from / Arthur Freeman / London Feb. ‘80” and then again, “this now to Peter Howard / London July 82 /Arthur Freeman.”
$40

37.
[FRIEDMAN, Tom]. Platt, Ron. ed.
Tom Friedman.
Winston-Salem: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. (2000).

First edition. 88 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Fully-illustrated catalogue of works, 1989–2000. Friedman generates objects of surprising and shocking meticulousness.
$40

38.
[FUTURISM]. Apollionio, Umbro. ed.
Futurist Manifestos.
NY: Viking (1973).

First edition. 232 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a touch of edgewear. From Marinetti’s 1909 “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” to Giacomo Balla’s 1918 “The Futurist Universe.” Introduction by Apollonio.
$40

39.
GAUTIER, Théophile.
Gentle Enchanter: Thirty-Four Poems.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960.

First UK edition. 79 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Original French poems with facing English translations by Brian Hill, with his introduction.
$35

40.
[GIACOMETTI, Alberto]. Bonnefoy, Yves.
Giacometti: A Biography of His Work.
Paris: Flammarion (1991).

First edition. Folio. 575 pp w/bibliography & indexes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Texts translated from the French by Jean Stewart. Illustrated with reproductions of nearly 600 works and documents.
$250

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