1.
ASHBERY, John.
Collected French Translations: Poetry.
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2014).

First edition. xxiii + 399 pp w/appendix. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Rosanne Wasserman and Eugene Richie. From Baudelaire to Bonnefoy, 171 poems by twenty-four poets in a bilingual presentation.
$45

2.
BARFIELD, Owen.
Unancestral Voices.
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (1965).

First US edition. 163 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. The second of Barfield’s Burgeon titles.
$45

3.
[BEACH, Sylvia].
Les Années Vingt: Les Écrivains Américains a Paris et Leurs Amis 1920–1930.
Paris: Centre Culturel Américain, 1959.

First edition. 142 pp. Light overall wear to edges, else near fine in wrappers. A well-illustrated exhibition catalogue of works by, and photographs of, the American expatriate crowd. Text in French.
$125

4.
BECKETT, Samuel.
Mercier and Camier: A Novel.
NY: Grove Press (1974).

First US edition. 123 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Beckett himself. Originally written in 1946, but not published in Paris until 1970.
$40

5.
[BECKETT, Samuel].
Macgowran Speaking Beckett.
Dublin: Claddagh Records (1966).

First edition. Fine vinyl LP in near fine sleeve with faint ring wear to front panel and small bends to corners. Rear cover illustration of Beckett by Avigdor Arikha. Music contributed by John and Edward Beckett, with Samuel on gong. Recording made under the personal supervision of Beckett.
$75

6.
BELTRAMETTI, Franco.
Semper Cercando.
Mendrisio: Museo d’arte Mendrisio, 1999.

First edition. 4to. 135 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 1000 copies. INSCRIBED by Franco’s son, Giona [Beltrametti] on page 101, and again on the half title page, “For Joanne [Kyger] and Donald [Guravich].” Illustrated with many b&w photographs and color reproductions. Text in Italian.
$75

7.
BENJAMIN, Walter.
Moscow Diary.
Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press, 1986.

First US edition. 150 pp w/index. Fine in full gray cloth with red lettering to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Gary Smith. Translated from the original German by Richard Sieburth. Preface by Gershom Scholem. Uncommon in hardcover.
$75

8.
[BERMAN, Wallace]. Di Prima, Diane. ed.
Floating Bear #37.
NY: Diane Di Prima, 1969.

First edition. 4to. [22 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers with a small corner crease to last sheet. Front cover art by Wallace Berman. Contributions also by Lenore Kandel, LeRoi Jones, Kirby Doyle, Gary Snyder, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Michael McClure, Di Prima, and others.
$75

9.
BERRY, Wendell.
A Small Porch.
Berkeley: Counterpoint (2016).

First edition. 159 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 together with “The Presence of Nature in the Natural World: A Long Conversation.”
$45

10.
[BERRY, Wendell]. Jordahl, Kate.
Wild Geese.
(np): True North Editions & Dreaming Mind, 2015.

First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Berry’s poem, “The Wild Geese” accompanies reproductions of ten photographs by Jordahl, with her afterword. SIGNED by Jordahl. one poem book no. 3.
$40

11.
BRAINARD, Joe.
Reading at the Poetry Project: Flyers by Joe Brainard.
NY: Poetry Project/St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery (1997).

First edition. Fifteen 11 x 8 ½ inch flyers, title, colophon, contents leaf, and a statement by Bill Berkson, all housed in an illustrated envelope. Internal elements fine, envelope near fine. One of 250 numbered copies.
$125

12.
BRINGHURST, Robert.
Everywhere Being Is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking.
Kentville: Gaspereau Press (2007).

First edition. 345 pp w/index. Near fine in printed wrappers with a touch of wear to the top edge. Precedes the Counterpoint edition of 2009. Laid into this copy is a brief ALS on Bringhurst letterhead presenting this copy, “Here’s the trial version of vol. 2 — just as thorny as vol. 1.”
$75

13.
BROWNSTEIN, Michael.
Behind the Wheel: Poems.
[NY]: C Press (1967).

First trade edition. 4to. [52 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers with toned rear panel. Cover art by Alex Katz. One of 184 (of 200) copies. Edited by Ted Berrigan, production by Ron Padgett. The little-known 14th and concluding issue of “C” Magazine.
$250

14.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Run with the Hunted.
Chicago: Midwest Poetry Chapbooks (1962).

First edition. 32 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 300 copies. Twenty poems. Original mailing envelope, addressed to Wormwood Review editor Marvin Malone accompanies. Bukowski’s Krumhansl 9.
$2500

15.
CALHOUN, Ada.
Also A Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father and Me.
NY: Grove Press (2022).

First edition. 259 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Compelling memoir by the daughter of Peter Schjeldahl.
$35

16.
CATHER, Willa.
My Mortal Enemy.
N: Knopf, 1926.

First edition. 122 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket and bright near fine publisher’s slipcase. Decorations and illustrations by D.W. Dwiggins.
$350

17.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Myers, J. William.ed.
Poetry Dial 1: 1 – 1: 2 (complete).
South Bend: Poetry Dial (1960–1961).

56 + 48 pp. Two issues, both near fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributions by Ciardi, Eshleman, Louis Ginsberg, Kreymborg, William Carlos Williams, Judson Crews, Samuel Hazo, and many others. For the pair:
$40

18.
CREELEY, Robert.
Histoire de Florida.
Santa Rosa: Ferriss Editions, 1996.

First edition. Narrow 4to. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 140 copies SIGNED by Creeley. First appearance of the complete text of this long poem, printed letterpress. Original prospectus accompanies.
$125

19.
CREELEY, Robert and Robert Indiana.
Numbers.
Stuttgart & Düsseldorf: Edition Domberger/Galerie Schmela (1968).

First trade edition. [74 pp]. Faint toning to spine, else fine in printed wrappers and near fine publisher’s decorated slipcase. One of 2500 copies. Preface by Dieter Honisch. Creeley’s poems in English and German translation, together with ten vibrant screenprinted number paintings by Indiana. Despite the large limitation, increasingly uncommon.
$2000

20.
CUNLIFFE, Dave.
Deep Within This Book Of Earth is Writ A Description Of The Beast.
Lancs: BB Books, 1966.

First edition. Oblong 8vo. 32 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems. Mimeographed BB Bks flyer of available titles laid in.
$20

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