61.
LEVERTOV, Denise and William Carlos Williams.
The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams.
NY: New Direction (1998).

First edition. xiv + 165 pp w/appendixes & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Christopher MacGowan, with his introduction. Thirty-four from Levertov, 42 from WCW, covering 1951–1974.
$20

62.
[LINES PRESS]. Grazide, Richard.
Somebody Get Us a Ladder Up Here.
Germantown: Lines (1988).

First edition. [10 pp + 12 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers with diecut doors and windows worked into the front cover. Present as slotted into the rear cover is the tiny chapbook, “from: No Aubade” as issued. An uncommon title from the press. SIGNED by Grazide on the title page, and additionally INSCRIBED, “For David / ahem / Michael.”
$125

63.
LONG, Haniel.
The Grist Mill.
Santa Fe: Rydal Press, 1945.

First edition. 79 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a small chip to crown. Errata slip tipped-in. Dated (Dec 6, 1945) and INSCRIBED by Long, “Dear Matt— / With my warm good wishes / Haniel.” University of New Mexico professor T(homas) M(atthew) Pearce’s copy, with his pencil notes to first leaf, and a typed poem by Tony Lacy (?) pasted to the verso of the last leaf, with Pearce’s annotation.
$75

64.
LONGLEY, Michael.
The Weather in Japan.
London: Cape Poetry (2000).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. ix + 68 pp w/notes. Very near fine in like dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Longley.
$250

65.
LOVESEY, Peter.
A Case of Spirits.
London: Macmillan (1975).

First edition. 160 pp. Pages toned (cheap paper) else very near fine in like dust jacket. SIGNED by Lovesey on the title page. A novel of Victorian occult.
$55

66.
MAC ADAMS, Lewis.
Africa and the Marriage of Walt Whitman and Marilyn Monroe.
Los Angeles: Little Caesar (1982).

First edition. 95 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Cover and book design by Henk Elenga/Hard Werken. Small poster reproducing the front cover art laid in.
$75

67.
MARSHALL, Paule.
Soul Clap Hands and Sing.
NY: Atheneum, 1961.

First edition. 177 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art by Susan Foster. Marshall’s second book, a collection of four novellas.
$150

68.
McCLURE, Michael.
Muscled Apple Swift.
Sacramento: Runcible Spoon [1969].

First printing of this pirated edition (originally published by Love Press in 1968). Oblong 8vo. [16 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 350 copies. Front and rear cover photographs of McClure and an unidentified woman on a motorcycle. INSCRIBED by McClure along the bottom edge of the front cover, “For Douglas Blazek Michael.”
$75

69.
MELTZER, David.
French Broom.
[Berkeley]: Oyez Press, 1973.

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 250 copies. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh for friends of the poet and the press. SIGNED by Meltzer on the front cover with a drawing.
$35

70.
MERRILL, James.
Short Stories.
Pawlet: Banyan Press, 1954.

First edition. 10 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and printed cover label. One of 210 numbered copies of which 60 were for sale and 150 for friends of the poet and printer. This is copy 203. Poems.
$500

71.
[MILLER, Henry]. Moore, John G.
The Latitude and Longitude of Henry Miller.
Philadelphia: Walton Press (1971).

First printing of this reissue (originally published in 1962). 22 pp. Fine in dark green cloth with gold stamping to spine. No dust jacket as issued. Frontis collage illustration by Bern Porter. Dated (3.5.91) and SIGNED by Porter on the copyright page.
$50

72.
[MOORMAN, Charlotte. et al.].
ars electronica
Linz: Linzer Veranstaltungsgesellschaft (1982).

First edition. 281 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers with a bit of a ripple along the top edge of the front cover, and bend to the lower corner. The full illustrated program of events for the Ars Electronica festival, featuring the “Sky Art Conference.” Texts in German and English. Charlotte Moorman performed “Sky Kiss” and is pictured in performance in color twice, and additionally in b&w. Fully illustrated with photographs of the participating artists, reproductions of work, and images from events. Nam June Paik was also a participant, and is pictured with Moorman, on his own, and with others.
$75

73.
MORRIS, William.
13 Songs for Lovers, Junkies, and Ordinary People.
(np): (np) (1966).

First edition. [16 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Fourteen, maybe fifteen poems, redolent of the time.
$35

74.
MOSLEY, Walter.
Devil in a Blue Dress.
NY: Norton (1999).

First edition. 219 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (5/21/90) and INSCRIBED by Mosley to Robert Campbell (who contributed the lead endorsement printed on the front flap), “The thought of your Los Angeles and mine goes through my mind now and then. Like jazz from different decades showing off their similar but distant strains. Thank you so much for reading my book and your generosity. Walter Mosley.”
$350

75.
MURPHY, Richard.
Collected Poems.
Loughcrew: Gallery Books (2000).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 235 w/notes. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 110 (of 125) numbered copies SIGNED by Murphy.
$200

76.
NIN, Anaïs.
The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume Five 1947–1955.
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1974).

First edition. ix + 275 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket that is slightly misfolded. Edited by Gunther Stuhlman, with his preface. Sixteen pages of photographs. Review slip and author photo accompanies.
$45

77.
OLDS, Sharon.
The Father.
NY: Knopf, 1992.

First edition. 79 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Olds’ fourth collection of poems, occasioned by her father’s illness and death.
$50

78.
OLSON, Charles.
Maximus to Gloucester: The Letters and Poems of Charles Olson to the Editor at the Gloucester Daily Times 1962–1969.
Gloucester: Ten Pound Island Book Company, 1992.

First edition. xi + 161 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited by Peter Anastas, with his introduction. Foreword by Gerrit Lansing.
$45

79.
[OLSON, Charles]. Stein, Charles.
The Secret of the Black Crysanthemum: The Poetic Cosmology of Charles Olson & his use of the writings of C.G. Jung including a facsimile of Olson’s last text.
Barrytown: Station Hill Press (1987).

First edition. xxvii + 224 pp w/notes & bibliography. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Illustrated. Includes the first trade publication of the facsimile and transcription of Olson’s death-bed summary of his own visionary cosmology.
$45

80.
ONDAATJE, Michael.
Elimination Dance / La danse éliminatoire.
London: Brick Books (1991).

First printing of this edition. 50 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Ondaatje’s original English eliminations with facing French translations by Lola Lemaire Tostevin. The bilingual traveler’s edition. SIGNED by Ondaatje on the title page.
$35

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