41.
JOHNSON, Ronald.
Ark.
Albuquerque: Living Batch Press (1996).

First edition. [286 pp w/note]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Johnson’s major work, in an edition that has become elusive.
$75

42.
JONES, Brian.
The Mantis Hand and Other Poems.
Gillingham: ARC (1970).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 15 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Jones. A collection of nine poems.
$45

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

Uncorrected proof. 176 pp. Spine lightly sunned, else very near fine in printed wrappers with publication information taped to the front cover. Her first collection of stories, following two novels. Promotional flyer laid in.
$200

44.
KIZER, Carolyn.
Election Day, 1984.
Copper Canyon Press, 1996.

First edition. 7 ¼ x 7 ¾ inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. One deckle edge. Matted and framed. Reagan era conclusion, “Today with the President’s red button playing / Such a prominent role, / Though I can’t vote for it, I wonder / If evil could be safer, on the whole.”
$75

45.
LAWRENCE, D.H.
Sex Locked Out.
London: Privately Printed, 1928.

First edition. 11 pp. Fine in printed wrappers and integral unprinted clear tissue jacket, with two diagonal creases to rear cover. Published originally in the 25 November 1928 issue of the Sunday Dispatch. Roberts A44.
$250

46.
LEVERTOV, Denise.
The Menaced World.
Concord: William B. Ewert, 1985.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 copies on Rives lightweight text paper SIGNED by Levertov. Three poems.
$50

47.
LIMA, Frank.
Inventory: Poems.
NY: Tibor de Nagy Editions (1964).

First edition. 27 pp. Light toning along spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. Frontispiece drawing by Sherman Drexler. Kenneth Koch introduces this collection of thirteen poems. One of 300 copies. Lima’s first book.
$125

48.
LINDSAY, David.
The Violet Apple.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson (1978).

First UK edition. 252 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Originally written in 1924, revised between 1925 and 1926, finally published in the US in 1976. This is the first UK edition.
$100

49.
[LITTLE MAGAZINES]. Anderson, Margaret with Jane Heap. eds.
The Little Review. Vol. 12, No. 1.
NY: Little Review 1926.

Spring–Summer. 64 pp. Some chipping along the bottom edge of the rear cover, else very near fine in printed wrappers. A stellar issue, featuring Hemingway, Cowley, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Leiris, Crevel, Tzara and reproductions of work by Mirò, Höch, Masson, Moholy-Nagy, and others. From the collection of John K. Martin (Black Sparrow Press) with his ownership ticket.
$450

50.
[LITTLE MAGAZINES]. Davies, Alan. ed.
Oculist Witnesses.
Dorchester: Alan Davies, 1975.

Summer. 4to. [100 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Front and rear cover art by George Schneeman. Work by Wieners, MacAdams, Richard Dillon, Warsh, Saroyan (six poems and his prose work, “Meeting Bob Dylan”), Davies, Malanga, Cott, Corbett (four poems and a review of Jim Carroll’s LIVING AT THE MOVIES), and Fagin (five poems and a collaboration with Clark Coolidge).
$45

51.
[LITTLE MAGAZINES]. Pound, Ezra. ed.
The Glebe Volume 1, No. 5: Des Imagistes: An Anthology.
NY: Albert & Charles Boni, 1914.

First edition. 63 pp w/bibliography. Light wear to extrems, touch of foxing to the first leaf. In all, near fine in illustrated wrappers. The first magazine issue of this title, preceding the hardcover from Boni. Richard Aldington, H.D., F.S. Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Hueffer, Allen Upward, and John Cournos, appear. Gallup B7, C125.
$450

52.
MACHADO, Antonio.
The Dream Below the Sun: Selected Poems.
Trumansburg: Crossing Press (1981).

First edition. xviii + 155 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear near the crown. Introduction by John Dos Passos. Original Spanish poems with facing English translations by Willis Barnstone. Reminiscence by Juan Ramón Jiménez.
$45

53.
MATHEWS, Harry and Francesco Clemente.
Singular Pleasures.
NY: Grenfell Press (1988).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [146 pp]. Fine in full black cloth with printed spine label and ribbon place-marker. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 324 (of 400) numbered copies on Gampi and Kozo paper SIGNED by Clemente and Mathews. An erotic work, detailing the singular and imaginative efforts of many. While the text leaves little to the imagination, the artworks exhibit an ambiguous relation to the subject matter.
$350

54.
MATTHEWS, Nathaniel.
Bad To The Bone.
[Thornbury]: Knowledge Editions (2015).

First edition. 73 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. A comprehensive accounting of all the weaponry that appears in TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY. Illustrated with the appropriate stills, in color. One of 40 copies, the entire edition.
$35

55.
MAYER, Bernadette.
Utopia.
NY: United Artists Books, 1984.

First edition. 131 pp w/index. Very good plus in printed red wrappers. INSCRIBED by Mayer to Eileen (Callahan), “To Eileen, / With Love, Bernadette.” Bob and Eileen Callahan operated Turtle Island Foundation, publisher of Mayer’s MIDWINTER DAY (1982).
$200

56.
McBRIDE, Bill.
A Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions.
Hartford: McBride/Publisher, 2012.

Seventh edition, second printing. 142 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. The most recent edition, still incredibly useful. New, at publication price:
$19.95

57.
MELTZER, David.
From Eden Book.
San Francisco: Maya Quarto (1969).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 250 copies on hand made Tovil paper SIGNED by Meltzer. Maya Quarto Four.
$50

58.
MOTTRAM, Eric.
Shelter Island & The Remaining World.
London: Turret Books (1971).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. 15 pp. One upper corner lightly tapped, else very near fine in sewn wrappers and printed dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Mottram. This is copy #1, additionally INSCRIBED by Mottram, “for Joseph Gold.” Tall Turret #1.
$50

59.
MUSTILL, Norman Ogue.
Flypaper.
(np): Beach Books, Texts & Documents (1967).

First edition. [48 pp]. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. Foreword by Claude Pélieu, translated from the French by Mary Beach. SIGNED by Mustill on the first leaf. On the unprinted verso of the second leaf, there is taped down a napkin upon which is a clipped b&w photograph of a woman, from the verso.
$200

60.
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
The Enchanter.
London: Pan/Picador (1987).

First UK edition. 127 pp. Pages toned (cheap paper) else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel, and a corner crease to the rear flap. Translated from the original Russian by Dmitri Nabokov.
$35

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