41.
HUGHES, Langston.
Simple Stakes a Claim.
NY & Toronto: Rinehart & Company (1957).

First edition. 191 pp. Pages toned (cheap paper) else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to base and crown of spine. The third book by Hughes to feature Jesse B. Semple.
$350

42.
JONES, David.
The Kensington Mass.
London: Agenda Editions, 1975.

First edition. 19 pp w/14 facsimile plates. Very near fine in glossy printed wrappers. The unfinished draft of Jones’ last poem presented in facsimile, and transcribed.
$45

43.
JONES, Gayl.
White Rat: Short Stories.
NY: Random House (1977).

First edition. 178 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Jones’ third book in as many years, following two novels.
$200

44.
KEES, Weldon.
Contributor’s Note.
Aralia Press, 1999.

First edition. [8 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 150 copies on Zerkall paper. A formerly unpublished poem by Kees, with an introduction by Dana Gioia.
$45

45.
KILLION, Tom with Gary Snyder.
California’s Wild Edge: The Coast in Poetry, Prints, and History.
Berkeley: Heyday (2015).

First edition. Oblong 8vo. 187 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Killion combines his wood and linocut prints with the poetry and prose of Snyder to convey something of California and its effect on the imagination. Selections also from the work of Robert Hass, Jaime de Angulo, William Everson, and Jane Hirshfield.
$75

46.
KOZLOFF, Max.
Cubism/Futurism.
NY: Charterhouse (1973).

First edition. xix + 234 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear at th base of spine. B&w illustrations. INSCRIBED by Kozloff on the front free endpaper, “To Kitaj / In friendship / Max / Sept. 1977.”
$45

47.
KRAUS, Karl.
In These Great Times.
Manchester: Carcanet (1984).

First edition. 263 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Two fold-out leaves. Edited by Harry Zohn, with his introduction. Translations from the original German by Joseph Fabry, Max Knight, Karl F. Ross, and Zohn. Satirist Kraus (1874–1936) inhabited the same Vienna as Freud, Musil, Schoenberg, and Wittgenstein.
$40

48.
KYGER, Joanne.
Trip Out & Fall Back.
Berkeley: Arif Press, 1974.

First edition, signed hardcover issue. [22 pp]. Light wrinkle to front panel, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art and internal drawings by Gordon Baldwin. One of 26 copies SIGNED by Kyger and Baldwin, the entire hardcover edition.
$450

49.
[LANGUAGE WRITING].
The Grand Piano Parts 1–10: San Francisco, 1975–1980.
Bloomfield Township: Mode A/This Press, 2006–2010.

First editions. All ten parts of this “Experiment in Collective Autobiography.” The issues each have some faint foxing to the top edges, else are fine in very near fine printed dust jackets with a short tear to #3, and some sunning to the spine of #4. The participating writers are: Bob Perelman, Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel, Ron Silliman, Kit Robinson, Lyn Hejinian, Rae Armantrout, and Ted Pearson. For the ten:
$100

50.
LEES-MILNE, James.
Diaries 1942–1945: Ancestral Voices & Prophesying Peace.
London: John Murray (1995).

First edition. viii + 504 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. First appearance of this combined edition, the two volumes originally published in 1975 and 1977 respectively.
$75

51.
LESKOV, Nikolai.
The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories.
NY: Knopf, 2013.

First edition. xxv + 575 pp w/notes. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing. Translations from the original Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Introduction by Pevear. Chekhov’s favorite.
$40

52.
LEVERTOV, Denise.
Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus.
Concord: William B. Ewert, 1981.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 16 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with printed cover label. One of 100 (of 136) numbered copies on Mohawk Superfine paper SIGNED by Levertov.
$75

53.
LEVINE, Philip.
One for the Rose: Poems.
NY: Atheneum, 1981.

First edition. 79 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Levine.
$250

54.
levy, d.a.
Suburban Monastery Death Poem.
Cleveland: Zero Edition, 1968.

First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers with pasted-on front and rear cover art by Barbara O’Connelly. levy’s long poem with his full-page prose preface.
$125

55.
LINDSAY, Jack and P. R. Stephenson. eds.
The London Aphrodite: A Miscellany of Poems Stories and Essays by Various Hands Eminent or Rebellious Published in Six Sections between August 1928 and June 1929.
London: Fanfrolico Press (1929).

First edition. 496 pp w/index. Near fine in full blue cloth with gilt decoration to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Liam O’Flaherty, T.F. Powys, Karl Capek, Rhys Davies, Aldous Huxley, Ivan Goll, Alexander Blok, and many others contribute. The complete run.
$150

56.
LONG, Richard.
Mud Drawings and Other New Works Made at Sperone Westwater.
NY: Sperone Westwater, 2004.

First edition. Oblong 8vo. 44 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fully illustrated with color photographs.
$45

57.
LORCA, Federico García.
Alocuciones Argentinas.
Madrid: Fundación Federico García Lorca, 1985.

First edition. 33 pp. Light toning along spine, else near fine in string-bound printed wrappers. Illustrated with five drawings by the author. Preliminary note by Manuel Fernández Montesinos and Mario Hernández. One of 100 (of 236) numbered copies. Transcriptions of Lorca’s 1935 radio talks, and an interview, published on the occasion of a visit to Argentina by the poet’s sister half a century later. The drawings first appeared in EL TABERNACULO (1934), by García Lorca’s friend, the Argentine poet Ricardo Molinari. All texts in Spanish.
$125

58.
MAGDA.
Ahayaye.
Bolinas: Smithereens Press (1986).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. [38 pp]. Light foxing to covers, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 10 numbered copies SIGNED by Magda. Poems with drawings and an an excerpt from a conversation with S. Fox on Lew Welch, Magda’s partner from 1964 to 1971.
$50

59.
[MONROE, Marilyn]. Mailer, Norman.
Marilyn: A Biography.
NY: Grosset & Dunlap (1973).

First edition, limited signed issue. 270 pp w/index of photographs. Fine in full white cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine publisher’s clamshell case with inset cover photograph. Text by Mailer, photographs edited by Lawrence Schiller. One of an unstated limitation SIGNED by Mailer and Schiller. All the great images by Eve Arnold, Avedon, Beaton, Capa, Erwitt, Halsman, Morath, and many others.
$350

60.
[MURPHY, Sara and Gerald]. Rothschild, Deborah. ed.
Making it New: The Art and Style of Sara & Gerald Murphy.
Berkeley & Williamstown: University of California Press/Williams College Museum of Art (2007).

First edition. Small 4to. 237 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introductory essay by Calvin Tomkins, author of LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE, also on the Murphys, THE art couple of The Lost Generation.
$75

TO ORDER: please email maser@detritus.com or phone 510-524-8830.

41.
HUGHES, Langston.
Simple Stakes a Claim.
NY & Toronto: Rinehart & Company (1957).

First edition. 191 pp. Pages toned (cheap paper) else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to base and crown of spine. The third book by Hughes to feature Jesse B. Semple.
$350

42.
JONES, David.
The Kensington Mass.
London: Agenda Editions, 1975.

First edition. 19 pp w/14 facsimile plates. Very near fine in glossy printed wrappers. The unfinished draft of Jones’ last poem presented in facsimile, and transcribed.
$45

43.
JONES, Gayl.
White Rat: Short Stories.
NY: Random House (1977).

First edition. 178 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Jones’ third book in as many years, following two novels.
$200

44.
KEES, Weldon.
Contributor’s Note.
Aralia Press, 1999.

First edition. [8 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 150 copies on Zerkall paper. A formerly unpublished poem by Kees, with an introduction by Dana Gioia.
$45

45.
KILLION, Tom with Gary Snyder.
California’s Wild Edge: The Coast in Poetry, Prints, and History.
Berkeley: Heyday (2015).

First edition. Oblong 8vo. 187 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Killion combines his wood and linocut prints with the poetry and prose of Snyder to convey something of California and its effect on the imagination. Selections also from the work of Robert Hass, Jaime de Angulo, William Everson, and Jane Hirshfield.
$75

46.
KOZLOFF, Max.
Cubism/Futurism.
NY: Charterhouse (1973).

First edition. xix + 234 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear at th base of spine. B&w illustrations. INSCRIBED by Kozloff on the front free endpaper, “To Kitaj / In friendship / Max / Sept. 1977.”
$45

47.
KRAUS, Karl.
In These Great Times.
Manchester: Carcanet (1984).

First edition. 263 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Two fold-out leaves. Edited by Harry Zohn, with his introduction. Translations from the original German by Joseph Fabry, Max Knight, Karl F. Ross, and Zohn. Satirist Kraus (1874–1936) inhabited the same Vienna as Freud, Musil, Schoenberg, and Wittgenstein.
$40

48.
KYGER, Joanne.
Trip Out & Fall Back.
Berkeley: Arif Press, 1974.

First edition, signed hardcover issue. [22 pp]. Light wrinkle to front panel, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art and internal drawings by Gordon Baldwin. One of 26 copies SIGNED by Kyger and Baldwin, the entire hardcover edition.
$450

49.
[LANGUAGE WRITING].
The Grand Piano Parts 1–10: San Francisco, 1975–1980.
Bloomfield Township: Mode A/This Press, 2006–2010.

First editions. All ten parts of this “Experiment in Collective Autobiography.” The issues each have some faint foxing to the top edges, else are fine in very near fine printed dust jackets with a short tear to #3, and some sunning to the spine of #4. The participating writers are: Bob Perelman, Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel, Ron Silliman, Kit Robinson, Lyn Hejinian, Rae Armantrout, and Ted Pearson. For the ten:
$100

50.
LEES-MILNE, James.
Diaries 1942–1945: Ancestral Voices & Prophesying Peace.
London: John Murray (1995).

First edition. viii + 504 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. First appearance of this combined edition, the two volumes originally published in 1975 and 1977 respectively.
$75

51.
LESKOV, Nikolai.
The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories.
NY: Knopf, 2013.

First edition. xxv + 575 pp w/notes. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing. Translations from the original Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Introduction by Pevear. Chekhov’s favorite.
$40

52.
LEVERTOV, Denise.
Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus.
Concord: William B. Ewert, 1981.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 16 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with printed cover label. One of 100 (of 136) numbered copies on Mohawk Superfine paper SIGNED by Levertov.
$75

53.
LEVINE, Philip.
One for the Rose: Poems.
NY: Atheneum, 1981.

First edition. 79 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Levine.
$250

54.
levy, d.a.
Suburban Monastery Death Poem.
Cleveland: Zero Edition, 1968.

First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers with pasted-on front and rear cover art by Barbara O’Connelly. levy’s long poem with his full-page prose preface.
$125

55.
LINDSAY, Jack and P. R. Stephenson. eds.
The London Aphrodite: A Miscellany of Poems Stories and Essays by Various Hands Eminent or Rebellious Published in Six Sections between August 1928 and June 1929.
London: Fanfrolico Press (1929).

First edition. 496 pp w/index. Near fine in full blue cloth with gilt decoration to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Liam O’Flaherty, T.F. Powys, Karl Capek, Rhys Davies, Aldous Huxley, Ivan Goll, Alexander Blok, and many others contribute. The complete run.
$150

56.
LONG, Richard.
Mud Drawings and Other New Works Made at Sperone Westwater.
NY: Sperone Westwater, 2004.

First edition. Oblong 8vo. 44 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fully illustrated with color photographs.
$45

57.
LORCA, Federico García.
Alocuciones Argentinas.
Madrid: Fundación Federico García Lorca, 1985.

First edition. 33 pp. Light toning along spine, else near fine in string-bound printed wrappers. Illustrated with five drawings by the author. Preliminary note by Manuel Fernández Montesinos and Mario Hernández. One of 100 (of 236) numbered copies. Transcriptions of Lorca’s 1935 radio talks, and an interview, published on the occasion of a visit to Argentina by the poet’s sister half a century later. The drawings first appeared in EL TABERNACULO (1934), by García Lorca’s friend, the Argentine poet Ricardo Molinari. All texts in Spanish.
$125

58.
MAGDA.
Ahayaye.
Bolinas: Smithereens Press (1986).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. [38 pp]. Light foxing to covers, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 10 numbered copies SIGNED by Magda. Poems with drawings and an an excerpt from a conversation with S. Fox on Lew Welch, Magda’s partner from 1964 to 1971.
$50

59.
[MONROE, Marilyn]. Mailer, Norman.
Marilyn: A Biography.
NY: Grosset & Dunlap (1973).

First edition, limited signed issue. 270 pp w/index of photographs. Fine in full white cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine publisher’s clamshell case with inset cover photograph. Text by Mailer, photographs edited by Lawrence Schiller. One of an unstated limitation SIGNED by Mailer and Schiller. All the great images by Eve Arnold, Avedon, Beaton, Capa, Erwitt, Halsman, Morath, and many others.
$350

60.
[MURPHY, Sara and Gerald]. Rothschild, Deborah. ed.
Making it New: The Art and Style of Sara & Gerald Murphy.
Berkeley & Williamstown: University of California Press/Williams College Museum of Art (2007).

First edition. Small 4to. 237 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introductory essay by Calvin Tomkins, author of LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE, also on the Murphys, THE art couple of The Lost Generation.
$75

TO ORDER: please email maser@detritus.com or phone 510-524-8830.