41.
FIELD, Edward.
Counting Myself Lucky: Selected Poems 1963–1992.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1992.

First edition, publisher’s copy. 307 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Field contributes a preface to this collection of new poems and selections from previously published volumes. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Field.
$200

42.
FORSTER, E.M.
Virginia Woolf.
NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1942).

First US edition. 40 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with light toning to extrems. Printed dedication to Leonard Woolf. The Rede Lecture, delivered in Cambridge on 29 May 1941. Kirkpatrick A24b.
$150

43.
GASCOYNE, David.
Early Poems.
Warwick: Greville Press (1980).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 29 pp. Very near fine in full black cloth with gold stamping to front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 400 numbered copies SIGNED by Gascoyne. Poems with drawings by Barry Burman.
$45

44.
GASCOYNE, David.
Paris Journal 1937–1939.
London: Enitharmon Press, 1978.

First edition. 141 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing. Cover drawing by Julian Trevelyan. Preface by Lawrence Durrell. Paris before the war is the backdrop for Gascoyne’s “artistic and spiritual” struggle. Halliwell 69.
$35

45.
GASS, William H.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories.
NY: Harper & Row (1968).

First edition. 206 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. His second book. SIGNED by Gass on the half-title page. Review slip laid in.
$250

46.
GREENE, Jonathan.
Les Chambres des Poètes.
Asheville: French Broad Press (1990).

First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art and one internal drawing by John Furnival. Foreword by Guy Davenport. One of 274 (of 300) copies. SIGNED by Greene on the title page.
$35

47.
GREENE, Jonathan.
The Man Came To Haul Stone and other poems.
NY: Dim Gray Bar Press, 1995.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [18 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 65 (of 75) numbered copies on Wookey Hole paper SIGNED by Greene. Nine poems.
$75

48.
GRUMBACH, Doris.
The Spoil of the Flowers.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1962.

First edition. 187 pp. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some edgewear, a short closed tear to the rear panel, and shallow chipping to crown. SIGNED by Grumbach on the front free endpaper. Her first book.
$200

49.
[GUEVARA, Ernesto Che]. Gaucho, Franco el.
Che Guevara.
[Paris]: Rhinoceros, 2006.

First edition. 32mo. 47 pp. Finei in flexible boards. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 550 copies. A photographic study of Guevara. Text in Spanish.
$45

50.
[GUNN, Thom].
A Few Friends: Poems for Thom Gunn’s 60th Birthday.
Walkerton: Stoneyground Press (1989).

First edition. 66 pp. Light bump to one upper corner, else near fine in printed wrappers. Designed and produced by Colin Sackett. Contributions by Bowers, Davis, Gullans, Kleinzahler, Oliver, Peck, Powell, Steele, Stephens, Vince, Wells, and Wilmer.
$50

51.
HEANEY, Seamus.
The Testament of Cresseid: A Retelling of Robert Henryson’s Poem.
London: Enitharmon Editions (2004).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. Folio. 41 pp. Very near fine in full green cloth with printed spine label and inset cover art. No dust jacket, as issued. Designed and printed by Sebastian Carter of the Rampant Lions Press. Illustrated with images by Hughie O’Donoghue. One of 350 numbered copies on Arches Vélin paper SIGNED by Heaney and O’Donoghue.
$650

52.
HIGGINS, Dick.
Computers for the Arts.
Sommerville: Abyss (1970).

First edition. [16 pp]. Toning and light wear to spine and top edges, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Essay by Higgins on programming computers to generate and/or manipulate texts, with examples of the form via work by Higgins, James Tenney, and Alison Knowles.
$150

53.
HOPKINS, John.
Tangier Buzzless Flies.
NY: Atheneum, 1972.

First edition. 371 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art by Guy Fleming. Second novel by Hopkins. Review slip laid in. Young 1881 (1972 UK ed).
$100

54.
HOSSEINI, Khaled.
The Kite Runner.
NY: Riverhead, 1993.

First edition. 324 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Hosseini on the title page. His first novel.
$75

55.
HOUSEHOLD, Geoffrey.
A Rough Shoot.
Boston: Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown, 1951.

First US edition. 156 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A story of international intrigue instigated by an unintentional killing...
$150

56.
IBANEZ, Vicente Blasco.
The Knight of the Virgin.
NY: Dutton (1930).

First US edition. 305 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Spanish by Arthur Livingston. A fresh bright copy of this novel that “captured the essence of the whole Spanish Conquest, and the aging half-crazy Columbus has never been more truly and terribly presented.”
$100

57.
JONES, David.
Dai Greatcoat: A self-portrait of David Jones in his letters.
London: Faber and Faber (1980).

First edition. 273 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited by René Hague, with his introduction. Letters to four close friends from the last fifty years of Jones’ life.
$75

58.
[LANGUAGE, Colorful]. Kunitskaya-Petersn, Christina.
International Dictionary of Obscenities: A Guide to Dirty Words and Indecent Expressions in Spanish, Italian, French, German, Russian.
Oakland: Scythian Books (1981).

First edition. 93 pp w/list of abbreviations. Fine in printed wrappers. Includes a useful chart cross-referencing a number of the more common expressions.
$40

59.
LAUGHLIN, James.
Stolen & Contaminated Poems.
Isla Vista: Turkey Press, 1985.

First edition. 48 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Cover and design by Harry Reese. One of 200 numbered copies on Frankfurt Cream paper SIGNED by Laughlin. A lengthy collection of “Not-Notes” appears after the poems. Original prospectus laid in.
$75

60.
LE GUIN, Ursula K.
The Compass Rose: Short Stories.
London: Gollancz, 1983.

First UK edition. 273 pp. Fine in near fine clipped dust jacket with a light crease to the spine (production flaw). Her third collection of short fiction.
$35

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