21.
[COLLECTED POEMS]. Reed, Ishmael.
New and Collected Poems.
NY: Atheneum, 1988.

First edition. xiv + 233 pp. Small bump to top edge, else near fine in very near fine dust jacket. Work from three previous books plus a substantial selection of new poems.
$25

22.
[COLLECTED POEMS]. Reeves, James.
Collected Poems 1929–1974.
London: Heinemann (1974).

First edition. 180 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Corners lightly tapped, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly toned. Reeve’s own selection from 45 years of composition. Review slip laid in.
$25

23.
[COLLECTED POEMS]. Spender, Stephen.
New Collected Poems.
London: Faber and Faber (2004).

First edition. xxi + 393 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Michael Brett, with his introduction. Seven decades of work capped by the late uncollected poems.
$45

24.
[COLLECTED POEMS]. Warner, Francis.
Collected Poems 1960–1984.
Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1985.

First edition. 256 pp w/indexes of titles & first lines. Small US distributor sticker on title page and front flap, else fine in very near dust jacket. Features the sequence “Experimental Sonnets,” out of print for twenty years.
$25

25.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Herschkowitz, Harry. ed.
Death: A Literary Quarterly.
NY: Harry Herschkowitz (1946).

Volume 1, No. 1. Summer. 72 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Contributions from Beauford DeLaney, Michael Fraenkel, Yvan Goll, Benjamin Péret, Robert Duncan, Walter Lowenfels, Henry Miller, and others. First and only issue.
$50

26.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Coolidge, Clark and George Palmer. eds.
Joglars 1–3 (complete).
Providence: Joglars (1964–1966).

Three issues, the first two quarto, the third folio. The first two issues have small rust marks on the front covers from the mailing envelope; they are fine otherwise. The the third issue is fine. A terrific assemblage, drawing from several different “schools”: Snyder, McClure, Niedecker, Wieners, Zukofsky, Bruce Conner, Eigner, Brakhage, Edson, Mac Low, Finlay, Furnival, Cage, Coolidge, and many others. The three original mailing envelopes accompany. For the run:
$350

27.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. et al, eds.
Journal for the Protection of all Beings 1–4 (complete run).
San Francisco: City Lights, 1961–1978.

Four issues, all fine in illustrated wrappers. An all-star list of contributors that includes Ginsberg, Snyder, Camus, Levertov, Duncan, Welch, Reed, Rosemont and many others. The fourth issue was issued jointly with the Co-Evolution Quarterly, and makes issue 19 of that publication. For the run:
$350

28.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Plumb, David. ed.
Journal 31. 1: 1 & 1: 2 (all published)
San Francisco: Journal 31 (1972).

55 + 46 pp. Two creases to spine of #1 (production flaw) else both issues fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Pete Winslow on Bob Kaufman, Kicknosway, Barry Gifford, Paul Vangelisti, David Gitin, Blazek, Di Palma, Mariah, and many others contribute. Brief ALS from the editor laid into the first issue. For the pair:
$75

29.
COOPER, Clarence L. Jr.
The Farm: A Novel.
NY: Crown (1967).

First edition. 248 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. The “grim realities” of life in a Federal narcotics prison.
$40

30.
COPITHORNE, Judith.
Miss Tree’s Pillow Book.
Intermedia/Returning Press (1971).

Spring. [48 pp]. A few light droplet marks to front cover, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Text reproduced from Copithorne’s holograph. INSCRIBED by Copithorne inside the front cover, “To Bill / love from / Judith.”
$125

31.
CORNFORD, Adam.
Animations.
San Francisco: City Lights Books (1988).

First edition. 99 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Dated (February 18, 1988) and INSCRIBED by Cornford, “for David Meltzer / in admiration / and in hopes of continuing / fruitful collaboration / with warm regards / Adam Cornford.” Pocket Poets Number 45.
$45

32.
CORNFORD, Frances.
Fifteen Poems from the French.
Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1976.

First edition. 39 pp. Fine in wrappers and integral marbled paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 125 numbered copies. Original French poems with Cornford’s facing English translations. Apollinaire, Aragon, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Supervielle, and others. Dated (Nov. 1977) and INSCRIBED by Christopher [Cornford], Frances Cornford’s son.
$45

33.
CUNARD, Nancy. ed.
Poems for France: Written by British Poets on France since the War with Autobiographical Notes by the Authors.
London: La France Libre, 1944.

First edition. xi + 95 pp. Very near fine in wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Contributions by Oswell Blakeston, Lord Dunsany, Rayner Heppenstall, Lord Douglas, Hugh MacDiarmid, William Plomer, Paul Potts, Vita Sackville West, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and many others. Uncommon in such nice condition.
$200

34.
DE LA MARE, Walter.
Stuff and Nonsense.
London: Constable, 1927.

First edition. xi + 109 pp. Quarter-sized stain to last leaf, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. T.E.G. Cover art and thirty internal woodcuts by “Bold.” Limericks, delicate satire, and nonsense rhymes.
$40

35.
[DEBORD, Guy]. Kaufmann, Vincent.
Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry.
Minneapolis & London: University of London Press (2006).

First US edition. xix + 345 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Robert Bononno.
$40

36.
DODGE, Jim.
Gut Bucket.
[Berkeley]: Tangram, 2009.

First edition. Folding card (8 ½ x 5 ½ inches, closed), printed in two colors. Fine. A long poem, issued for the Winter Solstice.
$35

37.
DODGE, Jim.
Practice, Practice, Practice.
Berkeley: Tangram, 1998.

First edition. 6 x 9 inch poemcard, printed in two colors. One deckle edge. Printed on the occasion of the Winter Solstice.
$45

38.
DOOLITTLE, Hilda and Norman Holmes Pearson.
Between History and Poetry: The Letters of H.D. and Norman Holmes Pearson.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (1997).

First edition. xii + 311 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited by Donna Krolik Hollenberg. An annotated selection from their more than one thousand letters. Press promotional flyer laid in.
$45

39.
EDELSTEIN, Leo and Judith Elliston. eds.
Pataphysics System Access.
Melbourne: Pataphysics (2009).

First edition. 4to. [76 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Contributions by Lotringer, Hakim Bey, Brian Aldiss, Chris Kraus, and others, including interviews with Harry Mathews and John Cage.
$35

40.
[EXIT ART].
Oracle: Performances.
NY: Exit Art, 1985.

First edition. 17 ¼ x 15 ½ inch poster, folded twice for mailing, as issued. Fine. Bold poster advertising this event featuring Charlott Moorman, Komar + Melamid, John Giorno, Lynn Tillman, Alison Knowles, and many others.
$45

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