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84039
41.
KAFKA, Franz.
Amerika: The Missing Person.

NY: Schocken (2008).
First edition. xxxiii + 299 pp w/chronology & bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. A new translation from the original German by Mark Harman, based to the restored text, with his substantial preface.
$40
72457
42.
KEROUAC, Jack.
Visions of Cody.

London: Andre Deutsch (1973).
First UK edition. xii + 398 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Originally composed 1951–52, but only excerpts appeared separately before the complete publication of the US edition in 1972. Review slip accompanies. Charters A30b.
$200
83891
43.
KLEIN, Yves.
Yves Klein.

NY, Paris, Genève: Alexander Jolas (1965).
First edition. [40 pp]. Spine sunned, scattered soiling to unprinted rear cover. In all, very good plus in printed wrappers. Klein’s original text, “Hotel Chelsea, New York, 1961” present in French and English translation. Six reproductions. Separate list of works exhibited and an, “Avec les compliments de Alexandre Jolas” printed card, with the holograph addition, “et de Rotraut Klein,” laid in.
$125
83936
44.
LAMANTIA, Philip.
The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia.

Berkeley: University of California Press (2013).
First edition. lxvi + 437 pp w/index of titles. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited by Garrett Caples, Andrew Joron, and Nancy Joyce Peters. Foreword by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Bibliography by Steven Fama.
$50
84063
45.
[LEARY, Timothy]. Bryan, John.
Whatever Happened to Timothy Leary?

San Francisco: Renaissance Press (1980).
First edition. 299 + [48] pp. Light crease to rear cover, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. The distillation of Bryan’s attention to Leary during the 60s and 70s. The volume concludes with a suite of images “one of the most interesting pictorial retrospectives yet put together on the sixties.” INSCRIBED by Bryan, “Luck not love, / John Bryan.” This book constitutes the 201st issue of Open City.
$50
84062
46.
levy, d.a.
Suburban Monastery Death Poem.

Cleveland: Offense Fund (1976).
Second Zero edition. [40 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover photos by Mark Kafuman. A long poem with a “pre-face” by levy. Published by RJS, who also produced the 1968 first Zero edition.
$40
83889
47.
[LICHTENSTEIN, Roy]. Dervaux, Isabelle.
The Black-and-White Drawings 1961–1968.

Ostfildern & NY: Hatje Cantz/Morgan Library & Museum (2011).
First edition. 4to. 207 pp w/list of works cited. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Essays by Graham Bader, Clare Bell, Thomas Crow, and Margaret Holben Ellis and Lindsey Tyne. The first exhibition devoted to a group of about 50 large drawings created between 1961 and 1968.
$125
84075
48.
[LITTLE MAGAZINES]. Kaufman, Bob and John Kelly. eds.
Beatitude #17.

San Francisco: City Lights, 1960.
October–November. 4to. [44 pp]. Three small holes through an unprinted part of the cover, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover photo credit added in holograph. Contributions by Kaufman, Ginsberg, Kerouac, McClure, Whalen, Meltzer, Corso, Kandel, Ferlinghetti, and others. Previously published at the Bread and Wine Mission, this transitional issue was published by City Lights the same year as their BEATITUDE ANTHOLOGY, which collected work from the prior 16 issues.
$250
84050
49.
MAC ADAMS, Lewis and The Dark Bob.
Beirut.

[Los Angeles]: High Performance, 1982.
First edition. Fine 7” single in original stamped white sleeve. Mac Adams and The Dark Bob joined by Wipo, Aseley Otten, and Twinka Thiebaud. “This record is not for sale / it’s for white magic.”
$50
83725
50.
McCAFFERY, Steve.
Bouma Shapes: Shorter Poems 1974–2002.

La Laguna: Zasterle, 2002.
First edition. 66 pp w/a note on the title. Fine in printed wrappers. Cover art by Ana Fernández. SIGNED by McCaffery on the title page.
$50
60541
51.
McCLURE, Joanna and Michael.
Seasons.

Berkeley: Arif Press, 1981.
First edition, deluxe numbered issue. [10 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. A poem each by Joanna and Michael, with a frontis by Wesley B. Tanner, who printed and published this book. One of twelve numbered copies with a hand-colored frontis. INSCRIBED by Tanner on the colophon page, “for Jerry + Barb. / Wesley B.”
$150
83854
52.
McNAUGHTON, Duncan.
Tiny Windows.

San Francisco: Auguste Press, 2014.
First edition. 4to. [66 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by George Herms. One of 250 copies. Poems.
$35
4025
53.
MERWIN, W.S.
Green with Beasts.

London: Hart-Davis, 1956.
First UK edition. 85 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with yellow ‘Poetry Book Society Choice’ wrap around band present and intact. Neat signature of Ruthven Todd penned to front free endpaper. Merwin’s third collection of poems.
$125
83128
54.
MERWIN, W.S.
Waves in August.

Berkeley: Small Press Distribution, 1999.
First edition. 10 ½ x 8 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. One deckle edge. One of 200 copies.
$25
29312
55.
MEYNELL, Katherine and Susan Johanknecht.
Seas of the Moon.

London: Gefn Press, 1981.
First edition. [42 pp]. Fine in wrappers of lunar-like, textured iridescent paper, housed in a soft denim slipcase. Letterpress text illustrated throughout with collagraphs by Susan Johanknecht. One of 40 numbered copies SIGNED by Meynell and Johanknecht.
$250
84078
56.
MILLIGAN, Spike.
My Mother.

Leicester: New Broom Private Press (1991).
First edition. [4 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers. A poem with drawings by Robert Tilling. One of 85 of (160) numbered copies on cornflower blue paper.
$45
84082
57.
MOORMAN, Charlotte and Nam June Paik.
Thanks.

NY: Judson Gallery, 1967.
First edition. 11 x 8 ½ inch flyer, folded twice for mailing (addressed, but not mailed). Near fine. A list of participants, each with “Thanks” in a different language. Philip Corner, Ken Jacobs, Jim Tenney, Ken Werner, Jud Yalkut, and several others. Moorman and Nam June Paik are also listed. Moorman has circled their names in red ink, and added in blue, “Paik and I are in Life / oct 13 pgs, 114–116 / Best Regards / Charlotte.”
$125
84077
58.
MOORMAN, Charlotte and Nam June Paik.
Global Groove.

NY: WNET 1973.
First edition. 18 ¾ x 13 inch poster. Folded twice for mailing, but not mailed. Fine. Poster photograph by Peter Moore, design by Jim McWilliams. Merrily Mossman directed this performance. Allen Ginsberg, Charlotte Moorman, Jud Yalkut, and John Cage are among the listed participants. TOGETHER WITH two version of the press release. One is two pages, stapled, the other a single sheet, with Charlotte Moorman’s red name and address rubber stamp to the verso. INSCRIBED by Moorman near her printed name, “much love, / Charlotte.” For the three:
$150
83999
59.
[MURPHY, Gerald]. Rubin, William with Carolyn Lanchner.
The Paintings of Gerald Murphy.

NY: Museum of Modern Art (1974).
First edition. Small 4to. 48 pp w/notes. Very near in illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Archibald MacLeish. Photographs and b&w reproductions.
$45
84043
60.
NOMURA, Hitoshi.
Chronoscore.

Tokyo: Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1995.
First edition. 4to. 40 pp w/biographies. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Music scored by applying photographs of birds over staves. Texts in Japanese and English translation. Illustrated with photographs and scores.
$75