e-catalog #106
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1.
AKSYONOV, Vassily.
Surplussed Barrelware.
Ann Arbor: Ardis (1985).
First US edition. 195 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited and translated from the original Russian by Joel Wilkinson and Slava Yastremski, with their introduction. Five stories written between 1969 and 1978, all in English translation for the first time.
$75
2.
AMIS, Martin.
Other People: A Mystery Story.
London: Jonathan Cape (1981).
First edition. 223 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Amis on the title page. His fourth book.
$125
3.
ARTAUD, Antonin.
The Peyote Dance.
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1976).
First US trade paperback printing. 105 pp. Toning to inside edges of covers, else near fine in illustrated wrappers with sunned spine. Translated from the original French by Helen Weaver.
$50
4.
ASHBERY, John.
Shadow Train: Poems.
NY: Viking (1981).
First edition. 50 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fifty sixteen line poems.
$45
5.
BECKETT, Samuel.
Malone Dies.
NY: Grove Press (1956).
First US edition. 120 pp. Fine full cloth with black lettering to spine and front panel. Near fine clear acetate dust with shallow chipping to base and crown of spine, and tips of flap folds. Printed price of $3.75 on the front flap. One of 500 numbered copies. Federman & Fletcher 375.01.
$850
6.
BENSON, Steve.
Briarcombe Paragraphs.
Paris: Moving Letters Press, 1984.
First edition. [24 pp]. Corners bumped, else near fine in printed wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Cover design by Joseph Simas and Johanna Drucker. One of 274 (of 300) numbered copies.
$35
7.
BERRY, Wendell.
A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural.
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1972).
First edition. 182 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to crown of spine. Berry’s fourth collection of essays.
$100
8.
BERRY, Wendell.
Terrapin and Other Poems.
Berkeley: Counterpoint (2014).
First edition. Small 4to. 48 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Poems by Berry with full color illustrations by Tom Pohrt.
$35
9.
BINDER, Eando.
Enslaved Brains.
NY: Avalon Books (1965).
First edition. 192 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a small corner crease to the front flap. Explorer Dan Williams, after being lost for forty years, returns to a post nuclear war America, now ruled by a class of eugenics friendly Scientists who are also running machines by removed and reanimated brains.
$50
10.
[BLANCHOT, Maurice]. Gill, Carolyn Bailey. ed.
Maurice Blanchot: The demand of writing.
London & NY: Routledge (1996).
First edition. xiii + 234 pp w/index. Tiny bump on spine, else fine in decorated boards. A collection of twelve essays, plus a previously-unpublished letter by Blanchot addressing his political sympathies in the 1930s.
$45
11.
BONNEFOY, Yves.
On the Motion and Mobility of Douve.
Athens: Ohio University Press (1968).
First US edition. 145 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear and a chip to base of spine. “Cecil Hemley Poetry Prize” sticker on the front panel. Bonnefoy’s original French poem with Galway Kinnell’s facing English translation. SIGNED by Kinnell on the title page.
$75
12.
BOWLES, Paul.
The Thicket of Spring: Poems 1926–1969.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1972.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 56 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket, which has one short tear. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles. Morrow & Cooney 115b.
$150
13.
BOWLES, Paul. trans.
Five Eyes: Stories by Abdeslam Boulaich, Mohamed Choukri, Larbi Layachi, Mohammed Mrabet, Ahmed Yacoubi.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1979.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 145 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Cover art by Mrabet. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles, Layachi, and two additional contributors.
$200
14.
BRINGHURST, Robert.
The Stonecutter’s Horses.
Vancouver: Standard Editions, 1979.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. 11 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 40 numbered copies SIGNED by Bringhurst. A single long poem.
$50
15.
BRONK, William.
Estival: The Keepsake Collection.
[Hudson Falls]: Richard A. Carella, 2011.
First trade edition. 105 pp w/notes. Fine in printed wrappers. Selected by James L. Weil, with his afterword. One of 500 copies. A round-up of all the keepsake poems by Bronk, published by Weil fro 1983–2002.
$40
16.
BUNTING, Basil.
Ode II/2.
London: Fulcrum Press (1965).
First edition. Illustrated card, the two outside edges folded to meet in the middle (5 ½ x 4 ¼ inches, closed). Very near fine. Printed by the Goliard Press.
$75
17.
[BURROUGHS, William S.]. Harris, Oliver.
Making Naked Lunch: Two Appetisers.
Schönebeck: Moloko Print, 2022.
First trade edition. 167 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Two illustrated talks, getting at the truth within the myths surrounding W.S.B.’s early work.
$35
18.
CARRINGTON, Leonora.
The Seventh Horse and Other Tales.
NY: Obelisk/Dutton (1988).
First trade paperback printing. 197 pp w/a note on the texts. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translations by Katherine Talbot and Anthony Kerrigan. First full-scale appearance in the US of Carrington’s short fiction.
$45
19.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Hess, Thomas B. and Harold Rosenberg. eds.
Location. Volume One, Number One and Volume One Number Two.
NY: Longview Foundation, 1963 & 1964.
Spring, Summer. 98 + 98 pp. Two volumes (all published), both fine but for a little bump to the upper outside corner of the second issue. Contributions by Kenneth Koch, Robert Rauschenberg, Saul Steinberg, Marshall McLuhan, Willem de Kooning, Saul Bellow, John Ashbery, William H. Gass, Donald Barthelme, and many others. For the run:
$125
20.
CORNFORD, Adam.
Shooting Scripts.
San Francisco: Black Stone Press (1978).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 55 pp. Fine in full black cloth with pasted-on cover and spine labels. No dust jacket, as issued. Handbound by Shelley Hoyt-Koch. Poems with collages by Ludwig Zeller. One of 50 numbered copies on Mohawk Superfine text paper SIGNED by Cornford. His first book. Original publication announcement accompanies.
$150