1.
[ADVENTURES IN POETRY].
Mammoth Benefit for Adventures in Poetry.
NY: Ninety-Eight Greene St. Loft [c. 1971].

First edition. 19 x 14 ¼ inch poster, folded twice for mailing (to the Phoenix Book Shop). Very near fine. Premier of Rudy Burckhardt’s film, Inside Dope or Too Great for the Grave, Super Art Sale (Christo, Katz, Grooms, Brainard), and a Monster Poetry Reading! with Ashbery, Berrigan, Carroll, Giorno, Notley, Waldman, and many others.
$150

2.
ALLEN, Paula Gunn.
The Blind Lion.
Berkeley: Thorp Springs Press (1974).

First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Allen’s first book, a collection of poems.
$250

3.
ARAGON, Louis and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Le Paysan de Paris.
NY: Limited Editions Club (1994).

First edition. Folio. 163 pp w/translator’s notes. Fine in full gray-green semi-rough woven Japanese fabric over boards. Fine publisher’s slipcase. Translated from the original French by Simon Watson Taylor. Illustrated with seven lithographs and one photogravure by Henri Cartier-Bresson. One of 300 numbered copies on Velin Arches paper SIGNED by Cartier-Bresson. Club Newsletter specific to this volume laid-in.
$1250

4.
ARMANTROUT, Rae.
Wobble.
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (2018).

First edition. 128 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Promotional flyer laid in.
$35

5.
BERGER, John.
Cataract.
Berkeley: Counterpoint (2012).

First edition. 67 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth with inset cover illustration. No dust jacket, as issued. A series of short texts on the surgery experience, each illustrated by Selcuk Demirel.
$35

6.
BERKSON, Bill and Joanne Kyger.
Amsterdam Souvenirs.
Santa Cruz: Blue Press, 2016.

First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 250 copies. A collaborative journal created during their visit to the second annual One World Poetry Conference P’78 in Amsterdam, September 11–19, 1978
$15

7.
BERLIN, Lucia.
Safe & Sound.
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1989.

First trade paperback printing. 97 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover by Frances Butler. Twelve stories.
$125

8.
BERMAN, Wallace.
Original postcard.
[Los Angeles]: Wallace Berman [c. 1965].

4 x 3 inch card, with a mounted original verifax image of a crucifix over a hand-held radio, below which is printed “love from the Bermans.” The card is sunned making that printed line difficult to read, as is holograph postal address (Shig — c/o Sity Lites / 261 Columbus / San Francisco Calif). The blank verso has Berman’s holograph note: Allen gave me / package — / Gracias! / Sorry I missed / you — Was up one / day only for ‘Beard’ / — you weren’t in the store. — / Later! / W.
SOLD

9.
[BERMAN, Wallace].
Wallace Berman Exhibition July – August 1977.
Los Angeles: Timothea Stewart Gallery. 1977.

First edition. Single large sheet folded once (16 x 11 inches, closed). Fine. Long statement by George Herms, paired with a descriptive list of the 73 items in this exhibition, essentially a memorial for Berman, who died the previous year.
$125

10.
BERRIGAN, Ted.
In a Blue River.
NY: Little Light Books (1981).

First edition. [52 pp]. A few spots to front and rear covers, smudge to the fore-edge, else very good plus in wrappers. SIGNED by Berrigan on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED, “Dear Keith— / I’ve been just poor enough / to embarass (sic) myself by not re— / paying special favors, out of / stupid simple distractions. / Sorry. Here’s some / Vigorish. Will send / $ upon receipt of first / paycheck from CCNY / Circa 28 Feb. — Love, Professor Ted.” Also SIGNED by Berrigan on the colophon page and designating, “this is # ½ (hors commerce).” And if that weren’t enough, “This copy is for Keith Abbot” penned by Berrigan at the base of the page. As in the twenty-six numbered copies, this one has an original poem, “A Christmas Carol” inked opposite the colophon page.
$750

11.
BERRY, Wendell.
A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership.
Berkeley: Counterpoint (2010).

First edition. 237 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Berry on the title page.
$75

12.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard.
The Octopus Frontier.
San Francisco: Carp Press, 1960.

First edition. [20 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with some light toning to front panel and a corner crease to the unprinted rear cover. Cover by Gui de Angulo. Twenty-two poems.
$350

13.
BRONK, William.
Vectors and Smoothable Curves: Collected Essays.
San Francisco: North Point, 1983.

First edition. 221 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
$75

14.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
This.
Andernach: Burn Again Press, 1990.

First edition. [10 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with printed cover label. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski. Krumhansl 116.
$2500

15.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
to kiss the worms goodnight.
[Los Angeles]: Black Sparrow Press, 1966.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 14 ½ x 10 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. One of 27 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski. One of the earliest Black Sparrow Publications, at least 10 of which are in University Library collections. Krumhansl 20. Morrow & Cooney 3.
$2500

16.
[CAMERON]. Duncan, Michael.
Cameron.
NY: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery (2007).

First edition. Small 4to. [48 pp]. Fine in wrappers and near fine illustrated dust jacket. Forty color reproductions, plus photographs. Best known for her association with Wallace Berman, her photograph appeared on the cover of Semina 1, and a reproduction of one of her drawings sparked the closure of a show at the Ferus Gallery by police.
$125

17.
CHASE-RIBOUD, Barbara.
The Monument Drawings.
Wilmington & Baltimore: St. John’s Museum of Art/Walters Art Museum (2000).

First revised edition (originally published in 1997). 16 + [50 pp w/chronology]. Fine in wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket. Foreword by C. Reynolds Brown, preface by Gary Vikan, essay by Anthony F. Janson. Twenty-four reproductions. Dated (Nov 12, 2000) and INSCRIBED by Chase-Riboud on the title page.
$45

18.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Mandel, Tom. ed.
Miam 1–6 (complete).
San Francisco: Miam (1977–1978).

First editions. Six issues, all near fine in stapled wrappers, five of the six with toning to spine. Each issue devoted to: 1. Stephen Rodefer, 2. David Degener, 3. Ron Silliman, 4. Geoff Young, 5. Bob Perelman, and 6. Steve Benson. for the run:
$250

19.
CONNER, Bruce.
2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II.
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center (2000).

First edition. 4to. 267 pp. Pale foxing to green cloth on rear cover, else near fine in full two-part cloth binding with inset cover illustration and label. No dust jacket, as issued. SIGNED by Conner on page 252 below a reproduction of his work, “Portrait of the Artist.”
$200

20.
CONNOLLY, Cyril.
100 Key Books of the Modern Movement from England, France & America 1880–1950.
London: Allison & Busby (1986).

Second UK edition. 160 pp. Pages lightly toned (cheap paper) else very near fine in fine dust jacket. Short essays by Connolly preceding his defined literary eras, his selections, and rationale for including each work.
$35

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