21.
CARSON, Anne.
Glass, Irony and God.
NY: New Directions (1995).

First edition. x + 142 pp w/endnotes & bibliography. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Guy Davenport. Presents “The Glass Essay” and five other works.
$35

22.
COLETTE.
Chéri.
San Francisco: George F. Ritchie, 1983.

First printing of this edition (originally published in the US by Boni in 1929). xiv + 97 pp. Fine in full black cloth with printed spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 120 copies on Tovil handmade paper. Designed and printed by Peter Koch at Black Stone Press. Translated from the original French by Janet Flanner. Introduction by Wallace Fowlie.
$100

23.
COLLINS, Nicolas.
Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking.
NY & London: Routledge (2006).

Later trade paperback printing. xv + 245 pp. One page corner-creased, else very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. CD present and fine in envelope inside the rear cover.
$35

24.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Lish, Gordon and Barney Childs. eds.
Genesis West 1–7 + supplement.
Burlingame: Chrysalis West Foundation (1962–1964).

Eight issues (1–7 + supplement), all fine in illustrated wrappers with the supplement volume fine in stapled wrappers. The first issue alone has work by Jack Gilbert, Paul Bowles, Denise Levertov, Grace Paley, La Monte Young, and many others. Middle issues include Enslin, Levertov, Wakoski, Wild, Edson, Stafford, Corso, Mac Low, Kesey, Barthelme, Whalen, and others. The supplement is made up of poems accepted for publication by editor Barney Childs, who was informed that Genesis West would no longer publish poems, hence this collection. Complete sets of this periodical in fine condition are uncommon. For the run:
$650

25.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Schwartz, Horace. ed.
Goad 1–4 (complete).
Columbus: Goad, 1951–1953.

Four issues, all near fine in or better in stapled wrappers. Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Leslie Woolf Hedley, James Boyer May, Gil Orlovitz, Larry Eigner, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferling aka Lawrence Ferlinghetti, George Hitchcock, and many others appear. For the run:
$200

26.
CRAVAN, Arthur. et al.
4 Dada Suicides: Selected texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma and Jacques Vaché.
London: Atlas Press (1995).

First edition. 269 pp w/notes. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Roger Conover, Terry Hale, and Paul Lenti. Translated by Hale, Lenti, Iain White, and etc. “... their works are the remnants of lives lived to the limit and cast aside with nonchalance and disdain...”
$75

27.
CREWS, Harry.
Car: A Novel.
NY: Morrow, 1972.

First edition. 152 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Crews’ fifth novel, about a man who vows to eat a car “bumper to bumper.”
$300

28.
DAHL, Roald.
Someone Like You.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1954.

First edition. 256 pp. Very light foxing to the least leaf, else very near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light chipping to top edge and crown, and an internally mended tear to the rear panel near the spine. An early collection of Dahl stories.
$450

29.
DAWSON, Fielding.
An Emotional Memoir of Franz Kline.
NY: Pantheon (1967).

First edition. 147 pp. Slender vertical crease to the edge of the front fold-out plate, else near fine in very good dust jacket with a closed tear at the front gutter and light toning and wear overall. From Black Mountain College to New York City’s Cedar Tavern.
$75

30.
[DeFEO, Jay]. Stitch, Sidra.
Works on Paper.
Berkeley: University Art Museum (1989).

First edition. 4to. 89 pp w/checklist & bibliography. Near fine in printed wrappers. Illustrated.
$40

31.
DESNOS, Robert.
22 Poems.
Santa Cruz: Kayak (1971).

First US edition. 39 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Translations from the French by Michael Benedikt, with his introduction. Illustrated with multi-color prints by Jacqueline Airamé.
$50

32.
DIDION, Joan.
Run River.
NY: Ivan Obolensky (1963).

First edition. 264 pp. Very near fine in very good plus dust jacket with several short edge tears, a few with wrinkles, and some light wear to tips of flap folds. Didion’s first book, preceding her famous SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM by five years.
$750

33.
DIGBY, John.
Hallucinations of a Drunken Heart: Automatic Poems and Illustrations.
Hounslow: Caligula Books (1974).

First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Poems and drawings. Bound into the center is an elaborate silhouette image of an ibex. Caligula Books No. 2.
$45

34.
DIGBY, John.
Preparations for the Birth of the Sun: Poems and Illustrations.
Hounslow: Caligula Books (1975).

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Caligula Books No. 5.
$45

35.
DODGE, Jim.
Learning to Talk.
[Berkeley]: Tangram, 1997.

First edition. 9 x 5 ½ inch broadside, printed in two colors. One deckle edge. Fine. A poem printed on the occasion of the Winter Solstice.
$35

36.
DUNSMORE, Roger.
Laszlo Toth: An Improvisational Text.
Vancouver: Pulp Press (1979).

First edition. 25 pp. Light wrinkles along spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. A consideration of Toth’s hammer attack on Michelangelo’s Pieta.
$45

37.
[ECM].
Sleeves of Desire: A Cover Story.
Baden: Lars Müller Publishers (1996).

First edition. 359 pp w/indexes. Near fine in printed wrappers with a tiny spot and isbn sticker on rear cover. Texts by Peter Kemper, Peter Rüedi, Lars Müller, and Steve Lake. Fully illustrated with color reproductions.
$250

38.
[ECM]. Müller, Lars. ed.
Windfall Light: The Visual Language of ECM.
Baden: Lars Müller Publishers (2010).

First edition. 447 pp w/index & biographies. Near fine in printed wrappers. Texts by Thomas Steinfeld, Katharina Epprecht, Geoff Andrew, Ketil Bjornstad, and Lars Müller. Profusely illustrated.
$250

39.
FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence.
Starting from San Francisco.
NY: New Directions (1961).

First edition. 79 pp. Spine lightly sunned, else near fine in pictorial boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Seven inch record of Ferlinghetti reading a portion of the text present in the unopened envelope inside the rear cover.
$50

40.
FINLAY, Ian Hamilton.
Unnatural Pebbles with Detached Sentences on the Pebble.
Edinburgh: Graeme Murray Gallery, 1981.

First edition. [48 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers and near fine dust jacket with a tiny spot on the verso. Two fold-out plates. Murray 3.82.
$sold

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