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21.
CREELEY, Robert.
Kitchen.
Chicago: Wine Press (1972).
First edition. 11 x 8 ½ inch broadside. Fine. One of 500 copies. Number 2 in the LETTERS broadside series from the Press.
$45
22.
DAHL, Roald.
Switch Bitch.
London: Michael Joseph (1974).
First edition. 184 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Dahl on the front free endpaper to Len Deighton’s biographer, “To Edward / Milward-Oliver / With love from / Roald Dahl / 1st Oct. 1980.”
$1250
23.
DE ANGULO, Jaime.
How the World Was Made.
Berkeley: Turtle Island, 1976.
First edition. 101 pp w/notes. A few tiny spots to top edge, else fine in full cloth with black lettering to spine and front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Bob Callahan, with his notes. Old Time Stories, Volume 2.
$45
24.
DEUTSCH, Joel.
Space — Heaters.
San Francisco: Open Skull (1969).
First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Dorothy Stewart. INSCRIBED by Deutsch, “Going fat / but not / silly — / Joel Deutsch / 1-69.” Early poems, from Douglas Blazek’s press.
$50
25.
DODGE, Jim.
Bathing Joe: An Elegy for Bob, 1946–1994.
[Berkeley]: Tangram Press (1995).
First edition. Single large sheet folded twice (9 ½ x 6 ¼ inches, closed). Fine. One of 150 copies printed in celebration of the Winter Solstice.
$40
26.
DOOLITTLE, Hilda writing as “H.D.”
Tribute to the Angels.
London: Oxford University Press, 1945.
First edition. 42 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket. Forty-three numbered poems. Boughn A20.
$125
27.
DUNCAN, Robert.
Letters.
Highlands: Jonathan Williams (1958).
First edition. [68 pp]. Fine in wrappers and very near fine marbled paper dust jacket with printed spine label (touch of wear to crown). Duncan’s text, illustrated with six drawings by him “of the ideal reader.” One of 450 numbered copies. Jargon 14. The uncommon original prospectus accompanies. Bertholf A9a.
$250
28.
DUNCAN, Robert. ed.
Berkeley Miscellany No. 1.
Berkeley: Berkeley Miscellany (1948).
24 pp. Near fine in sewn wrappers. Poems by Duncan and Jack Spicer, and a prose work by Fabilli. SIGNED by Duncan on the title page.
$150
29.
FINLAY, Alec.
Mesostic herbarium.
Edinburgh: Platform Projects (2004).
First edition. [208 pp]. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. The full subtitle of this book = a phytological anthology by various amateurs of botany being a partial heterodox collection of mesostic poems on the names of flora arranged according to habitat. Affixed inside the rear cover is a cd-rom presenting the work “Wordwood.”
$35
30.
FINLAY, Alec.
Turning Toward Living.
Edinburgh: Platform Projects (2004).
First edition. [126 pp]. Fine in glossy printed wrappers. Short found and contributed phrases from a variety of sources, transformed into “circle poems” by Finlay. Entire volume printed in white on black pages.
$35
31.
GALLAGHER, Tess.
Stepping Outside: Poems.
Lisbon: Penumbra Press (1974).
First edition. 33 pp. Faint sunning to spine and extrems, else near fine in printed wrappers. One of 100 (of 230) numbered copies printed in two colors on Wookey Hole Mill Creme Laid Book Paper SIGNED by Gallagher.
$150
32.
GILBERT, Jack.
Views of Jeopardy.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1962.
First trade paperback printing. vii + 43 pp. A small patch of foxing inside rear cover, and two last two leaves, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Dudley Fitts. Yale Series of Younger Poets #58.
$100
33.
HAINES, John.
Cicada.
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (1977).
First edition. 80 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Haines’ third book for the Wesleyan Poetry Program.
$35
34.
HAINES, John.
Twenty Poems.
Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press (1971).
First edition. 32 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Cover photograph by Claire Trotter. One of 480 numbered copies.
$50
35.
HARRIS, Wilson.
The Waiting Room.
London: Faber and Faber (1967).
First edition. 80 pp. Very near fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. In his “Author’s Note” preceding this short novel, Harris offers that the book is “based on the disjoined diary of the Forrestals which came into my hands many years ago.”
$50
36.
HASS, Robert.
Field Guide.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1973.
First edition. xvii + 73 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a touch of foxing to the bottom edge of the rear flap. Foreword by Stanley Kunitz. SIGNED by Hass on the title page. Yale Series of Younger Poets #58.
$750
37.
HOCKNEY, David.
Picasso.
Madras & NY: Hanuman Books, 1990.
First edition. 66 pp w/index of sources. Fine in wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. A miniature book (4 x 2 ¾ inches). Six internal illustrations, one of which is in color. Hanuman 31.
$150
38.
[HUGHES, Ted]. Faas, Ekbert.
Ted Hughes: The Unaccommodated Universe.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 225 pp w/index. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Includes selected critical writings by Hughes and two interviews. One of 270 numbered copies SIGNED by Hughes and Faas.
$100
39.
ISHIGURO, Kazuo.
Never Let Me Go.
London: Faber and Faber (2005).
First edition. 263 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (8th July 2018) and SIGNED by Ishiguro on the title page. His sixth novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, source for the eponymous film.
$200
40.
[JARGON SOCIETY]. Bell, Millicent.
The Jargon Idea.
Providence: Brown University, 1963.
First edition. 12 pp. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. An offprint from Books at Brown, Volume XIX, May, 1963, in specially produced covers. Includes a checklist for the first 45 Jargon titles plus broadsides, and other non-Jargon titles with which Jonathan Williams was involved. To the printed title Williams has penned, “--Jonathan Williams / still has it, / 1964.”
$50