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MALAPARTE, Curzio.
The Bird That Swallowed Its Cage: Selected Works.
Berkeley: Counterpoint (2013).
First edition. vi + 159 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Adapted and translated by Walter Murch. Afterword by Lawrence Weschler.
$75
62.
MARTIN, Agnes.
The Islands.
Bottrop & Düsseldorf: Josef Albers Museum/Richter Verlag (2004).
First edition. 4to. 55 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine dust jacket. Texts by Heinz Liesbrock “Figure and Emptiness: Agnes Martin’s The Islands at the Josef Albers Museum” and Martin, “Beauty is the Mystery of Life” in German and English.
$50
63.
METCALF, Paul.
Willie’s Throw.
San Francisco: Five Trees Press (1979).
First edition. [4 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers and near fine dust jacket with light toning along spine. One of 350 copies. The second leaf of the text folds out to reveal the entire text over three panels.
$40
64.
MILLER, Henry.
Love Between the Sexes.
NY: Greenwich Books, 1978.
First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn oblong wrappers. Printed by Carol Sturn at Nadja Editions. Cover illustration by Tom Bloom. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Miller and Bloom. Shifreen & Jackson A217a.
$250
65.
MOORCOCK, Michael.
Breakfast in the Ruins.
NY: Random House (1971).
First US edition. 174 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Moorcock on the front free endpaper to Thomas [Disch], “For Tom / in thanks for / the title and with / apologies for the / deed / Mike.” Young 2766.
$125
66.
MORIARTY, J. David and Robert Follett. eds.
The Rip Off Review of Western Culture No 2.
San Francisco: Ripoff Press (1972).
August–September. 64 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Victor Moscoso. Long feature on Dennis Hopper, “Acting Strange: Hopper’s Nickelbag Medicine Show Comes to Dime Box.” Hunter S. Thompson’s FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS reviewed. Work by S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton, and many others.
$40
67.
MRABET, Mohammed.
Love with a Few Hairs.
London: Peter Owen (1967).
First edition. 176 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with publisher’s price sticker on the front flap. Taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. Young 2804*.
$50
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OATES, Joyce Carol.
The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974.
First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 200 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket with a small chip and tiny tear. Fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Oates. Morrow & Cooney 178d.
$150
69.
OE, Kenzaburo.
Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself: The Nobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures.
Tokyo, NY, London: Kodansha International (1995).
First US edition. 128 pp. Small blemish on first leaf, else fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Oe in both Japanese and English.
$200
70.
ONDAATJE, Michael.
Handwriting: Poems.
NY: Knopf, 1999.
First US edition. 78 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Ondaatje.
$35
71.
PURDY, James.
The Texas Arts Journal: Manuscript Edition.
Dallas: Cameron Northouse (1977).
First edition, manuscript edition. 4to. Tiny spot to fore-edge of front cover, else fine in illustrated wrappers in near fine publisher’s slipcase with foxing along part of the top edge. One of 67 copies with a page of corrected typescript SIGNED by Purdy, housed in a folder with pasted-on label. The entire play, “A Day After the Fair” appears in the magazine complete. Young 3146 (Note of Hand edition).
$125
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[PYNCHON, Thomas]. Green, Geoffrey. et al, eds.
The Vineland Papers: Critical Takes on Pynchon’s Novel.
Normal: Dalkey Archive (1994).
First trade paperback printing. xi + 191 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Twelve essays and a VINELAND bibliography by Clifford Mead.
$75
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RANSOM, W.M.
Waving Arms at the Blind.
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon (1975).
First edition, limited hardcover issue. [28 pp]. Fine in quarter cloth and marbled paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 copies SIGNED by Ransom. Poems, printed letterpress in two colors.
$125
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RECHY, John.
City of Night.
NY: Grove Press (1963).
First edition. 410 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Rechy’s first novel. Dated (June 4, 1966) and INSCRIBED by Rechy, “for John Knight with / all Best Wishes / Sincerely, / John Rechy.” On the second leaf Knight has penned an eighty word note, dated 5 June 1966, detailing his meeting Rechy in the late 50’s, and crossing paths again in 1966. Young 3231*.
$350
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ROUTSONG, Alma writing as “Isabel Miller.”
Patience and Sarah.
NY: McGraw-Hill (1972).
First printing of this edition. 215 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Originally published in 1969 by Routsong herself under the title A PLACE FOR US. Young 2707.
$125
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RUSS, Joanna.
Extra (Ordinary) People.
NY: St. Martin’s (1984).
First edition. 160 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket that is slightly mis-folded. Dated (3/22/86) and SIGNED by Russ on the title page. Includes her work “Souls,” which won the 1983 Hugo Award for best novella. Uncommon signed.
$350
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SEIDEL, Frederick.
Evening Man.
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2008).
First edition. 55 pp. Fine in printed black wrappers. One of 500 copies SIGNED by Seidel. A collection of twenty-six poems.
$750
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SEITZ, William.
The Art of Assemblage.
NY: Museum of Modern Art (1961).
First edition. 176 pp w/index. Near fine in very near fine dust jacket. Cover art by Ivan Chermayeff. One color fold-out plate. The first book to recognize all varieties of assemblage as part of common tradition “unique to the twentieth century.” Well-illustrated.
$50
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SIMIC, Charles.
Biography and a Lament: Poems 1961–1967.
Hartford: Bartholomew’s Cobble (1976).
First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 200 (of 250) copies. Though not called for, this copy is SIGNED by Simic.
$75
80.
SIMIC, Charles.
School for Dark Thoughts.
[Baltimore]: Charles Seluzicki, 1978.
First edition. [18 pp]. Light sunning along spine, else near fine in sewn wrappers with printed cover label. One of 235 numbered copies on Weimar paper SIGNED by Simic. Printed at the Banyon Press.
$75