41.
[JESS]. Harryman, Carla.
The Words after Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre: A Novel.
Oakland: O Books, 1999.

First edition. 106 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover features a “Translation” painting by Jess. Laid into this copy is a brief TLS from O Books publisher Leslie Scalapino presenting this copy to Jess.
$45

42.
KACHUR, Lewis.
Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Surrealist Exhibition Installations.
Cambridge & London: MIT Press (2001).

First edition. xx +259 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fully illustrated with b&w photographs. Errata slip laid in.
$35

43.
KAFKA, Franz.
Description of a Struggle.
NY: Schocken Books (1958).

First US edition. 240 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with two short edge tears and some light rubbing and sunning to the spine. Translated from the original German by Tania and James Stern.
$50

44.
KAFKA, Franz.
Letter to His Father / Brief an den Vater: Bilingual Edition.
NY: Schocken Books (1966).

First US edition. 127 pp w/publisher’s note. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Original German text with facing English translation by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins.
$45

45.
KIEFER, Anselm.
Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom.
London: Anthony d’Offay, 2000.

First edition. Small 4to. 27 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. A prose work by Kiefer, with the cover being a full-color reproduction of a single painting.
$40

46.
[KLEE, Paul].
In Paul Klee’s Enchanted Garden.
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz (2008).

First edition. 205 pp w/bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. One hundred and sixty-six illustrations, of which 146 are in color. Nature and Klee.
$150

47.
LARKIN, Philip.
Letters Home 1936–1977.
London: Faber & Faber (2018).

First edition. lxvii + 612 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by James Booth, with his introduction. Letters to Mum, Dad, and sister Kitty.
$75

48.
LAX, Robert.
A Poem for Thomas Merton.
NY: Journeyman Books [1969].

First edition. [4 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Lax’s poem incorporated into drawings by Emil Antonucci. Hauff 27.
$75

49.
LOWENFELS, Walter. ed.
In a Time of Revolution: Poems from Our Third World.
NY: Random House (1969).

First edition. 151 pp w/biographical notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. A big reach: Paul Blackburn, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Diane di Prima, David Henderson, Lenore Kandel, Bob Kaufman, Tuli Kupferberg, d.a. levy, Clarence Major, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, William Wantling, and many others.
$100

50.
MAC LOW, Jackson.
Stanzas for Iris Lezak.
Barton: Something Else Press, 1971.

First edition. 424 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with wrap-around band (also fine), printing a note on Mac Low by John Cage. “In STANZAS FOR IRIS LEZAK, Mac Low has created a sort of cinema of words and word sequences, far more interesting than its obvious originality would suggest.” — from the jacket flap.
$45

51.
[MARIJUANA]. Kettner, M. ed
Catalyst #15 aka Mary Jane: A Journal of Modern Cannibinology.
Seattle: McKettner Publishing (1985).

4to. 20 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One-time issue dealing with marijuana literature, culture, and history through poetry, songs, newspaper clippings, posters, ads, and graphics. Work by Kupferberg, Wanda Coleman, Ron Androla, and many others.
$35

52.
MARTIN, Marianne W.
Futurist Art and Theory 1909–1915.
NY: Hacker Art Books, 1978.

First printing of this reissue (originally published in 1968). xxxii + 228 pp w/bibliography, index, errata & addenda. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Martin contributes a new foreword to this new edition.
$50

53.
MATTHIESSEN, Peter.
Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969–1982.
Boston: Shambhala, 1986.

First edition. xii + 288 pp w/index. Faint foxing along top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Briefly INSCRIBED by Matthiessen on the title page, “For Jack / with kindest regards / Peter.”
$75

54.
MELTZER, David.
Beat Thing.
Albuquerque: La Alameda Press (2004).

First edition. 154 pp w/notes. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Meltzer’s epic poem on the mid-20th century scene, enhanced by b&w photographs.
$25

55.
MILLER, Henry.
Letters to Emil.
NY: New Directions (1989).

First edition. 168 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket (lightly toned). Edited by George Wickes with his introduction. First appearance of these letters to Emil Schnellock, composed originally from 1922 through 1934. Shifreen & Jackson A258a.
$25

56.
MILLER, Henry.
The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus, book one and two.
NY: Grove (1965).

Fourteenth edition overall, first printing of this second American edition. 634 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. A remarkably sharp copy with no reading creases to spine. BC-99. Shifreen & Jackson A76u.
$35

57.
MOREA, Benn and Ron Hahne. eds.
Black Mask No. 4.
NY: Black Mask, 1967.

Feb. – Mar. Single large sheet folded once. Fine. Cover photograph by Laurence B. Fink. “Revolution: Now and Forever.” Juxtaposition of an article on Miss Mississippi and a photo of a lynching, a takedown of Timothy Leary by Morea, and “Poetry Comes Out of the Barrel of a Gun.”
All issues of Black Mask have become scarce. $400

58.
MOREA, Benn and Ron Hahne. eds.
Black Mask No. 7.
NY: Black Mask, 1967.

August – Sept. Single large sheet, folded once (13 x 10 inches, closed). One old horizontal fold, else very near fine. Articles include, “Revolution or its Abortion?,” “The Sexual Revolution: Wilhelm Reich (1935, 1944),” and under the “Black American” headings, articles on Newark and the R.A.M. (Revolutionary Action Movement).
$350

59.
[MYERS, Michael and Holbrook Teter].
Spirit Photography.
Daytona Beach: Zephyrus Image (1973).

First edition. Horizontal 16mo. [36 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. Found cuts of chairs and sofas and beds all miraculously empty of the various gurus photographed thereon, be it in the lounge and parlour, dining room, or bedroom. A highspot for the press, both in concept and execution.
$450

60.
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Nikolai Gogol.
Norfolk: New Directions (1944).

First edition. 172 pp w/index. Very light foxing along top edges, else very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with two tiny edge tears, and light wear to crown. A volume in the “Makers of Modern Literature” series. Juliar A22.1.
$100

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