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21.
[DILEXI GALLERY].
Dilexi: The Dilexi Years 1958–1970.

Oakland: Oakland Museum (1984).
First edition. 100 pp w/biographies & checklist. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Christina Orr-Cahall, texts by Terry St. John and Jim Newman. Illustrated. Jay DeFeo, Jess, Manuel Neri, Hassel Smith, H.C. Westermann were among the many exhibited artists.
$75
84411
22.
DOOLITTLE, Hilda writing as “H.D.”.
Hippolytus Temporizes: A Play in Three Acts.

Redding Ridge: Black Swan Press (1985).
First printing of this revised edition. 156 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Frontis photograph of H.D. by Man Ray. Afterword by John Walsh. This edition incorporates changes H.D. made in 1955 to the 1927 first edition. Boughn A9b.
$35
84419
23.
DORN, Edward.
The Rites of Passage: A Brief History.

Buffalo: Frontier Press (1965).
First edition. 155 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Cover art by Raymond Obermayr. A prose work, later revised and reissued by Black Sparrow Press as BY THE SOUND in 1991.
$40
84443
24.
DRUCKER, Joanna.
Fragile, handle with care: Selected writing 1971.

[Berkeley]: Chased Press, 1977.
First edition. Long accordion fold sheet mounted to 6 ¼ inch square cardstock front and rear covers. String enclosure is tearing through the cover sticker a bit, otherwise all elements fine.
$150
83744
25.
DUNCAN, Harry.
The Technology of Hand Printing; A Burden for Craftsmen as Delivered Last Spring at West Chester State College and to The Colophon Club.

Omaha: Abattoir Editions, 1980.
First edition. 27 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine integral dust jacket with printed cover label. One of 170 copies on dampened Barcham Green paper. An “exhortation” on the craft delivered at West Chester State College and The Colophon Club.
$125
84398
26.
DUNCAN, Robert and Charles Olson.
An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (2017).
First edition. xiv + 312 pp w/notes, glossary, bibliography, & index. Fine in decorated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Robert J. Bertholf and Dale M. Smith. Preface by Smith. Letters from 1947–1969.
$75
45406
27.
EDSON, Russell.
The Wounded Breakfast: Ten Poems.

[Madison]: Red Ozier Press, 1978.
First edition. [20 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. Poems with three illustrations by Steven Appplequist. One of 160 numbered copies on Fabriano Ingres paper SIGNED by Edson. Peich 12.
$50
84407
28.
EDSON, Russell.
Wuck Wuck Wuck!

[NY]: Red Ozier Press (1984).
First edition. [18 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Linocut illustration by Richard Mock, printed on a fold-out sheet. One of 175 press-numbered copies on Arches Text paper SIGNED by Edson. Peich 58.
$125
30556
29.
[FERGUSON, Steve] and Mara.
Flowers for Brian Sherman.

Cleveland: Ayizan Press, 1968.
First edition. [24 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Two-color cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. One of 150 copies. Nine drawings. Uncommon. One of three books published toward the end of d.a. levy’s life, the others being his TIBETAN STROBOSCOPE and Tom Kryss’ BOOK OF RABBITS.
$75
84390
30.
GOGOL, Nikolai.
The Collected Tales and Plays of Nikolai Gogol.

NY: Pantheon (1964).
First edition. xxxix + 768 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Leonard J. Kent, with his introduction and notes. A bright copy of a heavy book that does not hold up well.
$75
74624
31.
[GROVE PRESS].
Evergreen Club News.

NY: Evergreen Club [c. 1969].
First editions. Twenty-four issues (volume v: 1–9, 11–13. vi: 2–7, 9–13. vii: 1). Light wrinkles to the cover of three issues, else all very near fine or better in stapled wrappers. Well-illustrated vehicle for Grove’s book club, emphasizing the more erotic books and films offered by the press. For the lot:
$250
84426
32.
GUEST, Barbara.
Seeking Air: A Novel.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1978.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 184 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Guest. Morrow & Cooney 288c.
$75
84388
33.
[HALL, Radclyffe]. Von Rhau, Henry.
The Hell of Loneliness.

NY: Inwood Press, 1929.
First edition. 47 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and near fine dust jacket with three short internally-mended tears to the top edge. Cover art, a caricature of Radclyffe Hall, and one internal illustration by the playwright John Colton. A parody of Hall’s 1928 novel THE WELL OF LONELINESS. Reprinted many times.
$200
84446
34.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
A Moveable Feast.

NY: Scribner’s (1964).
First edition. 211 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Order card designed for copies of this book, with the return address of the Gotham Book Mart, laid in.
$200
39800
35.
HOWES, Barbara.
The Undersea Farmer.

Pawlet: Banyan Press, 1948.
First edition. 40 pp. Fine in full dark blue cloth with printed spine label. Lacks the unprinted waxpaper dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies on Arches paper. Howes’ first book.
$75
84424
36.
HUGO, Richard.
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing.

NY: Norton (1979).
First edition. 109 pp. Light foxing along top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to spine. INSCRIBED by Hugo to a fellow poet, “For Kenneth / now, if you will just / follow instructions / Love, / Dick.”
$200
66319
37.
INGE, William.
Summer Brave and Eleven Short Plays.

NY: Random House (1962).
First edition. xi + 299 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Review slip laid in. Young 1950*.
$150
84414
38.
JARRELL, Randall.
Fly By Night.

NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1976).
First edition. 30 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Sendak on the first leaf. Jarrell’s last story for children, completed shortly before his death.
$200
83802
39.
[JOYCE, James]. Levin, Harry.
James Joyce: A Critical Introduction.

Norfolk: New Directions (1941).
First edition. x + 240 pp w/bibliography & index. Foxing to top edge, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with toning to spine and a few short edge-tears to the rear panel. Playwright Clifford Odets’ copy, with his embossed stamp “CLIFFORD ODETS / NEW YORK” on the front free endpaper, along with his inked initials.
$125
84418
40.
KEES, Weldon.
Poems 1947–1954.

San Francisco: Adrian Wilson Books, 1954.
First trade edition. 82 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine printed wide wrap-around band, lightly toned on the spine. Third book by Kees, the inaugural Adrian Wilson/San Francisco Books title.
$450