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21.
CLARK, Tom.
Green.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 49 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Clark with an original signed drawing opposite the title page. Morrow & Cooney 102c.
$100
22.
COLLIER, John.
Gemini: Poems.
London: Ulysses Press (1931).
First edition. 33 pp. Very near fine in printed paper-covered boards and cloth spine. Printed label tipped onto the title page, modifying the publisher’s address. One of 185 numbered copies SIGNED by Collier. Work that appeared in part in The Dial and This Quarter.
$75
23.
COLLOM, Jack and Lyn Hejinian.
Situations, Sings.
NY: Adventures in Poetry (2008).
First edition. 192 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Hejinian on the title page, and additionally INSCRIBED, “for Leslie + for Tom / with enormous love / from Lyn.”
$125
24.
[COOLIDGE, Clark and Larry Fagin].
Tonto Lavoris.
[NY]: Adventures in Poetry (1973).
First edition. 4to. [32 pp]. Very fine in side-stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Coolidge on the title page. From the text, at random: Red Soapy, Peg Sluice, Miles Clout, Appian Snort, Lucky Lock, Buck Loop, Silas Moon, Pinball Foggy...
$150
25.
CRANE, Hart.
Hart Crane: Poèmes et Lettres.
Paris: Obsidiane (1980).
First edition. 65 pp w/index. Light sunning to spine, else very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies with a portrait drawing of Crane as a frontis. Thirteen poems and five letters in English with facing French translations. Obsidiane 2.
$45
26.
CRANE, Hart.
Seven Lyrics.
Cambridge: Ibex Press (1966).
First edition. [18 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Frontispiece engraving by Laurence Scott, which is signed by him in pencil. Preface by Kenneth A. Lohf. One of 200 (of 250) numbered copies. While these early poems are officially “juvenilia,” bits of these poems would reappear in later work.
$75
27.
CREELEY, Robert.
Mary’s Fancy.
NY: Bouwerie Editions (1970).
First edition. [6 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Single poem, printed by rubberstamp, with a tipped-on color photograph. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Creeley.
$100
28.
CREELEY, Robert.
Memory Gardens.
NY: New Directions (1986).
First edition. 88 pp w/index of titles. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Creeley, “For Ron [Kitaj] and Sandra — / With my love. / Bob / Waldoboro — 6/2/86.”
$75
29.
CREELEY, Robert.
Thanks.
Old Deerfield & Dublin: Deerfield Press/Gallery Press (1977).
First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Two poems with illustrations by Timothy Engelland. One of 250 copies SIGNED by Creeley.
$40
30.
DAVENPORT, Guy.
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays.
San Francisco: North Point, 1981.
First edition. x + 384 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. “The imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch, and must get drunk again to find it.” A key Davenport title.
$125
31.
DE LA MARE, Walter.
Walter De La Mare: A Selection from his Writings.
London: Faber and Faber (1956).
First edition. 312 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Selection made by Kenneth Hopkins, with his introduction. A handsome edition.
$40
32.
[DEAD LANGUAGE PRESS]. Maclise, Angus.
(opening section) aka Straight Farthest Blood Towards.
Paris: Dead Language (nd).
First edition. Single long sheet folded three times to make a booklet (6 ¼ x 5 ⅝ inches, closed). Near fine. The less common issue with some color elements. First separate publication by Maclise, produced by Piero Heliczer
$500
33.
[DUCHAMP, Marcel]. Schwarz, Arturo.
The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp.
NY: Abrams (1970).
Second edition, revised. xxi + 630 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. This second edition includes thirteen additional illustrations not in the first edition, as well as the first appearance in a book of the late work, here described as an “environment” (É tant donnés).
$300
34.
DUNCAN, Robert.
Tribunals: Passages 31–35.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970.
First edition, publisher’s copy. 24 pp. Very near fine in full gilt-stamped leather. Fine acetate dust jacket. Includes, as called for, the supplementary pamphlet printing a facsimile of the holograph notebook and final typescript of “The Feast: Passages 34” in an envelope mounted inside rear board. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Duncan. Additionally embellished and INSCRIBED by Duncan on the title page to the book’s publishers, “for Barbara and John / with Love.”
$450
35.
EGGLESTON, William.
William Eggleston’s Guide.
NY: Museum of Modern Art (1976).
First edition. 110 pp. Fine in full leatherette with inset cover illustration. No dust jacket, as issued. Introductory essay by John Szarkowski. Forty-eight color reproductions. The first one-man show of color photographs ever presented by the Museum of Modern Art. A Roth 101 title.
$200
36.
EIGNER, Larry.
cloud, invisible air.
Rhinebeck: Station Hill (1978).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art and design by Joan Kelsey. One of 43 numbered copies SIGNED by Eigner.
$100
37.
ELMSLIE, Kenward.
Communications Equipment.
Providence: Burning Deck (1979).
First edition, lettered & signed issue. [20 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers with a few light bumps to extrems. One of 26 lettered copies on Barcham Green Charter Oak paper SIGNED by Elmslie.
$75
38.
FINLAY, Alec.
Passport.
Edinburgh: Morning Star Publications (nd).
First edition. 32 pp w/notes. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 750 copies. An assortment of “customs” stamps, by a variety of artists including Donald Evans, Lawrence Wiener, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Thomas A. Clark, and many others.
$35
39.
FINLAY, Ian Hamilton. ed.
Poor Old Tired Horse 21.
Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press (nd).
First edition. [4 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Entire contents by Brazilian physician/poet Edgard Braga. Introduction by Augusto de Campos, typography and layout by Nigel Sutton. Murray 2.21.
$75
40.
[FREUD, Lucian]. Connolly, Cyril. ed.
Horizon: A Review of Literature & Art. Vol. 1, No. 4.
London: Horizon, 1940.
April. [76 pp]. Light crease to front cover two light smudges to spine. In all, near fine in printed wrappers. Features a drawing by an eighteen year old Freud, his first appearance in a periodical. This issue includes two book reviews by George Orwell.
$50