41.
LORDE, Audre.
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde.
NY: Norton (1997).

First edition. xvii + 489 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Complete poems from the nine published volumes of Lorde’s poetry.
$125

42.
LOWRY, Malcolm.
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid.
Toronto: General Publishing Company (1968).

First edition. xxiii + 255 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Preface by Douglas Day. Seven hundred pages of notes and drafts uncompleted at Lowry’s death, here edited into shape by Margerie Lowry and Day. Woolmer A9a.
$50

43.
LOWRY, Malcolm.
Lunar Caustic.
London: Jonathan Cape (1968).

First edition. 78 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Earle Birney and Margerie Lowry. Foreword by Conrad Knickerbocker. First separate edition of this short story, originally publishing in the Paris Review. Cape Editions 13. Woolmer A8a.
$75

44.
LUKÁCS, Georg.
The Theory of the Novel: A historico-philosophical essay on the forms of great epic literature.
Cambridge: MIT Press (1971).

First US edition. 160 pp w/index of names & subjects. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original German by Anna Bostock.
$45

45.
McCULLERS, Carson.
Sweet as a Pickle and Clean as a Pig.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964.

First edition. 31 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Poems with illustrations by Rolf Gérard. McCullers’ last book.
$250

46.
MILLER, Henry.
The Nightmare Notebook.
NY: New Directions (1975).

First edition. [x + 210 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label. Lacks unprinted tissue dust jacket. One of 700 copies SIGNED by Miller. Facsimile of the notebook kept by Miller on his trip across the US that gave rise to the “Air Conditioned Nightmare.” Shifreen & Jackson A197.
$200

47.
MILLS, Stuart.
Aggie Weston’s No. 6: Flags from a Remnant Railway.
Belper: Stuart Mills (1975).

First edition. [12 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Eleven poems.
$35

48.
MILOSZ, Czslaw.
Emperor of the Earth: Modes of Eccentric Vision.
Berkeley: University of California (1977).

First edition. x + 253 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Essays, largely on aspects of Slavic literature. SIGNED by Milosz on the front free endpaper. Milosz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
$125

49.
MONTALE, Eugenio.
Xenia.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. Small 4to. 42 pp. Very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and paper label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. Original Italian poems with facing translations by G. Singh. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Montale and Singh. Laid in to this copy are two postcards from Singh to Black Sparrow publisher John Martin, thanking him for the production and for sending copies of the book.
$500

50.
MOODY, Rick.
Garden State: A Novel.
Wainscott: Pushcart Press (1992).

First edition. 212 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Moody’s first novel, described by John Hawkes as “a kind of MRS. BRIDGE set in a stylish, hellish New Jersey.” Winner of Pushcart’s Tenth Annual Editors’ Book Award.
$75

51.
MOORE, Brian.
Two Stories.
Northridge: Santa Susana Press, 1978.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 58 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Moore. Pairs “Preliminary Pages for a Work of Revenge” with “Uncle T.”
$75

52.
[MORRIS, Tina and Dave Cunliffe, eds].
Lord of the Carnage.
Blackburn: b b bks (nd).

First edition. 48 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Photographs, poems, charts, and collages by Tina Morris and Dave Cunliffe with excerpted materials by Carolee Schneemann, John Grigg, Luise Davis, and others. “A literary and sociological study of the human beast’s monstrous crimes against other animal species.” Mimeograph flyer for available BB Bks laid in.
$35

53.
MORRIS, Wright.
The Cat’s Meow.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. Small 4to. 25 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine clear acetate dust a jacket (two tiny chips). One of 125 numbered copies SIGNED by Morris with his original photographic print (of a cat meowing) as a frontis.
$150

54.
NICHOL, bp.
A Draft of Book IV of The Martyrology.
(np): (np) (1976).

First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover drawing by David Aylward. One of 250 copies printed on the occasion of a reading by Nichol at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.
$35

55.
NOTLEY, Alice.
How Spring Comes.
West Branch: Toothpaste Press, 1981.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. Small 4to. 51 pp. Light sunning to spine extending to front and rear covers, else very near fine in full cloth with printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. Title page drawing by George Schneeman. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Notley.
$150

56.
O’HARA, Frank.
The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara.
NY: Knopf, 1971.

First edition. xxix + 586 pp w/notes and index of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket with a tiny nick at base of spine. Edited by Donald Allen with an introduction by John Ashbery. First issue binding, first issue dust jacket. This dust jacket was deemed unsuitable by members of O’Hara’s family, and quickly replaced with a completely different, and very dull, typographic design. Regarding this earlier binding, Alexander Smith in his bibliography notes, “In addition to having the dust jacket designed by Larry Rivers, these copies are printed in gold on the front and back covers; subsequently, the covers were stamped blind.” The copies described are those shipped to reviewers and the first shipments on advance orders. Smith A15.
$1250

57.
OLSON, Charles.
Stocking Cap: A Story.
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1966.

Second edition, first printing. 15 pp. Faint sunning along spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. Ownership signature of R.B. Kitaj on the first leaf. Writing 13.
$45

58.
OPPENHEIMER, Joel.
The Dutiful Son.
[Highlands]: Jonathan Williams 1956.

First edition. [36 pp]. Near fine in wrappers with wraparound cover label. Frontispiece drawing by Joe Fiore. One of 200 copies. Jargon 16. Butterick A3.
$100

59.
[PAIK, Nam June with Charlotte Moorman].
Galeria Bonino in collaboration with Intermedia Institute presents PAIK-ABE Video Synthesizer with Charlotte Moorman.
NY: Galeria Bonino [1971].

First edition. 14 x 8 ½ inch flyer. Fine. Announcement of the exhibition of video works by Paik, with Paik and Moorman present for a performance.
$75

60.
PENN & TELLER.
Holy Bible.
(np): National Publishing Company, 1983.

Later printing. 1291 pp. Fine in decorated boards. Stamped “Stolen / by / Penn & Teller” inside the front board and SIGNED by Penn and Teller on the title page.
$200

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