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21.
DAVENPORT, Guy.
Fragmenta Nova.

Berkeley & Brookston: Arif Press/Twinrocker Papermill [1981].

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. The prospectus for this elaborate presentation of text by Sappho, which includes the whole of Davenport’s “A Note on the Text.” Crane D93.
$40

22.
DI PRIMA, Diane.
Poems Are Angels.

San Francisco: Omerta Publications (2013).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 19 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 73 numbered copies SIGNED by Di Prima. Eighteen poems drawn from The Black Notebook.
$45

23.
DIEBENKORN, Richard.
Figurative Works on Paper.

San Francisco: John Berggruen Gallery (2003).

First edition. 4to. 113 pp w/exhibition checklist, selected solo exhibitions, & selected bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by John McEnroe. Essays by Jane Livingston and Barnaby Conrad III. Forty-two reproductions.
$75

24.
[DUCHAMP, Marcel]. Clearwater, Bonnie. ed.
West Coast Duchamp.

Miami Beach & Santa Monica: Grassfield Press/Shoshana Wayne Gallery (1991).

First edition. 4to. 128 pp w/chronology, appendixes, & bibliography. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Illustrated. Essays by Bonnie Clearwater, Francis M. Naumann, Naomi Sawelson-Gorse, Dickran Tashjian, Walter Hopps, and Robert L. Pincus.
$75

25.
DUNCAN, Robert.
Faust Foutu: A Comic Mask. Act One of Four Acts.

San Francisco: White Rabbit (1958).

Second edition, numbered & signed issue. 15 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. Colophon in Duncan’s holograph, “#2 of 10 copies signed & distributed / November 1962 / Robert Duncan” with a full-page embellishment. Johnston A6. Bertholf A7b.
$450

26.
DURCAN, Paul.
Christmas Day with A Goose in the Frost.

London: Harvill (1996).

First edition. 88 pp w/notes. Fine fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Durcan on the title page. Pairs the long title poem, a conversation between Paul and Frank in the top floor flat of a Dublin apartment on Christmas, with “A Goose in the Frost” a tribute to Seamus Heaney on winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
$45

27.
EATON, Manford L.
Bio-Music.

Barton: Something Else Press, 1974.

First edition. 32mo. 65 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with some light wear to spine. According to the bibliography, c. 500 copies printed. The preface opens, “Bio-Music... is a class of electronic systems that use biological potentials in feedback loops to induce powerful, predictable, repeatable, physiological/psychological states which can be elegantly controlled in real time.”
$75

28.
EVERSON, William writing as “Brother Antoninus.”
The Last Crusade.

Berkeley: Oyez (1969).

First edition. Folio. 25 pp. Fine in full cloth with gilt-stamped leather spine. Fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. Designed and printed in two colors by Graham Mackintosh. One of 165 numbered copies on Arches paper SIGNED by Antoninus.
$200

29.
FALLON, Peter.
Airs and Angels.

[Carrollton]: Press on Scroll Road (2007).

First edition. 4to. xv + 20 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label (small wrinkle to label). Foreword by Wendell Berry. Illustrations by Carol J. Blinn. One of 60 numbered copies, the entire edition.
$350

30.
[FORTUNE PRESS]. D’arch Smith, Timothy.
R.A. Caton and the Fortune Press: A Memoir and a Hand-List.

London: Bertram Rota, 1983.

First edition. 92 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. An interesting and useful history and bibliography, designed to conform to the style of the publications of the Fortune Press.
$75

31.
GUNN, Thom.
The Fantasy Poets Number Sixteen: Thom Gunn.

Swinford: Fantasy Press (1953).

First edition. [4 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Six poems, produced in an edition of fewer than 300 copies. Gunn’s first book. Hagstrom & Bixby A1a.
$250

32.
[HANUMAN BOOKS].
Assorted items from the Press.

NY: Hanuman (c,. 1991–1993).

Six items from this press, edited and published by Raymond Foye and Francesco Clemente. Includes a business card, illustrated t-shirt order form, new titles 1991 catalogue, Series #8 1993 flyer, and two larger titles-in-print catalogues. For the lot:
$75

33.
HASS, Robert.
Winter Morning in Charlottesville.

Knotting: Sceptre Press (1977).

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 100 (of 150) numbered copies on Abbey Mills laid paper. The title poem.
$125

34.
HEJINIAN, Lyn.
My Life.

Providence: Burning Deck (1980).

First trade edition. 89 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover art and design by Keith Waldrop. One of 950 copies.
$45

35.
HELMES, Scott.
Untitled Print.

(np): (np) 1978.

First edition. 11 ½ x 9 inch print. Very near fine. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Helmes.
$55

36.
HOFFMANN, Yoel. ed.
Japanese Death Poems Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death.

Rutland & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle (1986).

First US edition. 366 pp w/notes, bibliographical notes, & indexes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Introduction and commentary by Hoffmann. Historical context, Death Poems by Zen monks, Death Poems by Haiku Poets.
$100

37.
HOUSEHOLD, Geoffrey.
Against the Wind.

London: Michael Joseph (1958).

First edition. 238 pp. Page edges lightly toned, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a small stain to the top edge of the front flap. Autobiography by the author of ROGUE MALE. While not quite as thrilling as the lives of his protagonists, Household still had his share of experiences.
$75

38.
HUGO, Richard.
Poems.

Portland: Portland Art Museum (1959).

First edition. Single large sheet folded vertically thrice (10 ½ x 4 ¼ inches, closed). Near fine. Cover art by Louis Bunce. One of eight uniform flyers issued on the occasion of the exhibition, “Paintings and Sculptures of the Pacific Northwest.” Five poems, preceding Hugo’s first collection, A RUN OF JACKS, by two years.
$250

39.
KRYSS, T.L.
Brotherhood.

[Dover]: Bottle of Smoke Press [2005].

First edition, lettered & signed issue Single printed sheet tipped into printed card covers (5 ½ inches square, closed). Fine. Printed letterpress. A concise prose meditation on brotherhood, occasioned by two men with shotguns. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Kryss.
$15

40.
[LONG, Richard]. Wallis, Clarrie. ed.
Stones Clouds Miles: A Richard Long Reader.

London: Ridinghouse (2017).

First edition. 340 pp w/lists of selected awards, solo exhibitions, and group exhibitions. A collection of Long’s own writings, preceded by a wealth of essays on his work. Illustrated.
$35

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