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1.
AIKEN, Conrad.
Bring! Bring!

London: Martin Secker, 1925.
First edition. 266 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Aiken’s first collection of short stories. From the collection of John Martin (Black Sparrow Press) with his ownership ticket inside the rear cover.
$250
70906
2.
AIKEN, Conrad
The Jig of Forslin: A Symphony.

Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1916.
First edition. 127 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with just a bit of wear to the foot and crown of spine. Cover art by Dorothy Pulis Lathrop. Dated (1934) and INSCRIBED by Aiken on the front free endpaper. A novel of adventure... in verse! From the collection of John Martin (Black Sparrow Press) with his ownership ticket.
$450
84076
3.
APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume.
Letters to Madeleine: Tender as Memory.

London, NY, Calcutta: Seagull (2010).
First edition in English. xxxii + 615 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited by Laurence Campa. Translated from the original French by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Apollinaire’s letters from the trenches, 1915–16.
$75
83958
4.
[BALLARD, J.G.]. Vale & Andrea Juno. eds.
Re/Search No. 8/9: J.G. Ballard.

San Francisco: Re/Search Publishing (1984).
First edition. 4to. 171 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Collects interviews, fiction, non-fiction, bibliography, and more. SIGNED by Ballard opposite the contents page. Uncommon thus.
$350
83960
5.
BARAKA, Amiri.
Ed Dorn & the Western World.

Austin: Skanky Possum & Effing Press (2008).
First edition. 27 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 600 copies. Introduction by Dale Smith. Delivered at the Ed Dorn Symposium. Baraka reflects on his friendship with Dorn, Dorn’s writing, and the intersection of poetry and the politics in those times.
$40
80528
6.
BECKETT, Samuel.
Worstward Ho.

NY: Grove Press (1983).
First US edition. 47 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. “All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
$40
83019
7.
BERRY, Wendell and Gary Snyder.
Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder.

Berkeley: Counterpoint (2014).
First edition. xxv + 288 pp w/notes & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited by Chad Wriglesworth. Letters from 1973–2013.
$35
16275
8.
BOWLES, Paul translates Rodrigo Rey Rosa.
The Pelcari Project.

Tiburon: Cadmus Editions (1997).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 117 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Rey Rosa’s original Spanish novella with a facing English translation by Paul Bowles (to whom the book is dedicated). One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Rey Rosa and Bowles.
$75
84042
9.
BRETON, Andrea with Wolfgang Paalen and Cesar Moro.
Exposicion Internacional del Surrealismo.

Mexico City: Galeria de Arte Mexicano, 1940.
First edition. [48 pp]. Very good in illustrated wrappers with a light ripple to the cover and first few leaves, and a short split at the base of spine. Non-authorial pencil gift inscription on first leaf. Texts in Spanish and English translation by Moro and Paalen. Fifteen countries represented. Reproductions of work by Bravo, Arp, de Chirico, Dali, Duchamp, Kahlo, Miro, Rivera, Breton, Remedios, and many others in b&w.
$450
56263
10.
BRODEY, Jim.
Identikit.

NY: Angel Hair Books (1967).
First edition. 4to. 21 pp w/introductory notes. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover photograph by Bob Cato. Printed dedication to Clark Coolidge. One of 500 copies.
$40
84038
11.
BURROUGHS, William S.
Junky.

NY: Penguin (1977).
First printing of this edition (originally published in 1953). xvi + 158 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers with sunned spine, and a very pale bit of discoloration to the edge of the first three leaves. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. The first complete and unexpurgated edition, originally published as JUNKIE under the pen name “William Lee.” SIGNED by Burroughs on the title page.
$250
84068
12.
[BURROUGHS, William S. and Brion Gysin]. McGrath, Tom. ed.
International Times April 28 May 12. [#12]

London: Lovebooks Ltd [1967].
First edition. Folio. [8 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers. This issue features a centerfold devoted a section from MINUTES TO GO by Burroughs, Gysin, Corso, and Sinclair Beiles.
$125
84054
13.
CHANDLER, Raymond.
Raymond Chandler’s Unknown Thriller: The Screenplay of PLAYBACK.

NY: Mysterious Press (1985).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. xxi + 168 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket and fine publisher’s near fine slipcase. Preface by James Pepper. Introduction by Robert B. Parker. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Parker.
$45
65180
14.
CHESTER, Alfred.
The Exquisite Corpse: A Novel.

NY: Simon & Schuster (1967).
First edition. 240 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a shallow corner crease to the front flap. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Chester’s second novel. Publisher’s reply card specific to this title laid in. Young 649*.
$75
37536
15.
CLARK, Tom.
Blue.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 80 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Clark. Poems with seven of Clark’s own drawings. Morrow & Cooney 184b.
$75
78382
16.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Hitchcock, George. ed.
Kayak 1–64 (complete).

San Francisco & Santa Cruz: Kayak (1964–1984).
64 issues, all fine in stapled wrappers. One of the best, and longest-lasting, little mags known for its surrealism-inspired clippings of nineteenth-century engravings, fondness for the “found poem,” and no fear of translation. Bly, Antin, Atwood, Levine, Ammons, Merwin, Simic, Knott, Tate, Roditi, Berry, Pillin, Blazek, Carver, Valaoritis, Beiles, Sexton, Snyder, and many many others. For the run:
$2500
76467
17.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Ashbery, John. et al, eds.
Locus Solus I–V (complete).

Lansen-Vercors: Locus Solus (1961–1962).
Five issues in four volumes (III–IV is a double), all very near fine in printed wrappers. Issue #1 is in the first state, untrimmed. In addition to Ashbery, Kenenth Koch, Harry Matthews, and James Schuyler, who together edited this stellar mag, contributors include Guest, O’Hara, Blaser, Berkson, Burroughs, Corso, Eluard, Kraus, Peret, Di Prima, Lax, Ceravolo, Malanga, Denby, Kallman, Wieners, and many others. For the run:
$850
65889
18.
CORINGTON, William writing as “John Coriolan.”
A Sand Fortress: A Novel.

San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press (1984).
Second edition, numbered & signed issue 223 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. One of 10 numbered copies SIGNED by Corington. A revised and expanded version of this novel, originally published in 1968, and reissued in 1978. Young 800* (1968 edition).
$200
74422
19.
CORLISS, Richard.
Lolita.

London: BFI Publishing (1994).
First edition. 91 pp w/bibliography. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Illustrated. Corliss tackles the Kubrick film.
$25
83931
20.
CRUMB, R.
Bible of Filth.

NY: David Zwirner Books (2017).
First edition. 334 pp w/contents. Fine in full gilt-stamped black leather. a.e.g. Ribbon place-marker bound in. Originally published in France in 1986, this edition includes the entire content of the first edition, plus over 100 pages of new material (comics that were omitted from the first edition, plus work from after 1986). The title says it all.
$150