e-catalog #107
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1.
[ATLAS PRESS]. Brotchie, Alastair. ed.
Atlas Anthology Two.
London: Atlas Press (1984).
First edition. 114 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light tanning to spine. A terrific press sampler, featuring work by Breton, Daumal, Jarry, Mathews, Perec, Queneau, Satie, and many others.
$75
2.
ATWOOD, Margaret.
Notes Towards a Poem that Can Never Be Written.
[Toronto]: Salamander Press (1981).
First edition. [32 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers with light sunning to spine. Ten poems, printed in two colors. One of 200 numbered copies on Rolland Tints Ash Gray paper SIGNED by Atwood.
$150
3.
[BACON, Francis]. Gowing, Lawrence and Sam Hunter.
Francis Bacon.
NY & Washington DC: Thames and Hudson/Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1989).
First edition. 4to. 187 pp w/select bibliography. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Forward by James T. Demetrion. Ninety-six illustrations, including 83 color plates and 10 fold-outs. Published on the occasion of Bacon’s 80th birthday, and a major retrospective in the US.
$45
4.
BERGER, John and Anne Michaels.
Railtracks.
Berkeley: Counterpoint (2012).
First edition. 80 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. A meditation on “railways, love, and loss” with photographs by Tereza Stehlíková.
$25
5.
BERKSON, Bill.
Lush Life.
Calais: Z Press (1984).
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 50 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Berkson. This is copy “A.”
$75
6.
BERKSON, Bill.
Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently.
Woodacre: Owl Press 2007.
First edition. 62 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art an image by Val Celmins. Poems in two sections, “25 Grand View” and “Same Here.”
$20
7.
BERKSON, Bill.
Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981–2006.
[Victoria]: Cuneiform Press, 2007.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 109 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art by Philip Guston. One of 26 lettered copies (this is copy “L”) SIGNED by Berkson and additionally INSCRIBED, “for Alan Loney—.”
$100
8.
[BERMAN, Wallace]. Perkoff, Stuart Z.
Alphabet.
Los Angeles & Fairfax: Red Hill Press, 1973.
First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 600 copies. Cover art by Wallace Berman.
$45
9.
[BERRIGAN, Ted]. Berkson, Bill and George Schneeman.
Ted Berrigan. Austin: Cuneiform Press,
2008. First edition.
Tall 4to. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. The Berkson/Schneeman illustrated text followed by “A Note on Ted Berrigan” by Berkson and “A Note from the Publisher” by Kyle Schlesinger.
$25
10.
[BERRIGAN, Ted]. Waldman, Anne. ed.
Nice To See You: Homage to Ted Berrigan.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1991.
First edition. Small 4to. x + 253 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. An excellent homage with fifty-six illustrations. Edited by Waldman, with her introduction.
$50
11.
BIGUS, Richard.
Echo / from water, / etchings / of skies: poems.
[Santa Cruz]: Richard Bigus (1974).
First edition. 4to. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 78 numbered copies on Strathmore Artlaid paper SIGNED by Bigus. A book of poems, designed and printed by Bigus with M. Cary on the Cowell Press at the University of Santa Cruz. Jack Werner Stauffacher and William Everson are thanked on the colophon. First book.
$125
12.
BLOOD, Benjamin Paul.
The Poetical Alphabet.
Chicago: Black Swan Press (1972).
First edition. 22 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction by Stephen Schwartz. Blood (1832–1919) is situated by Schwartz among the most important American precursors of surrealism. Surrealist Research & Development Series Number Three.
$30
13.
BRADBURY, Ray.
The Illustrated Man.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1951.
First edition. 251 pp. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to base and crown of spine, which is faintly sunned, and a small tear and wrinkle to base of the rear panel. INSCRIBED by Bradbury on the front free endpaper, “For / Joel — / with my friendliest / wishes — / from / Ray Bradbury / — Dec, 1952 —.”
$2000
14.
BRINGHURST, Robert.
Jacob Singing.
Vancouver & San Francisco: Kanchenjunga Press, 1977.
First edition. 4to. 10 pp. Sunning along spine, else near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies on Grandee Pyrenees White text paper SIGNED by Bringhurst. A long poem printed letterpress.
$75
15.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Factotum.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1975.
First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 205 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski with an original geometric abstract painting in seven colors SIGNED “BUK.” Krumhansl 51d.
$4500
16.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
A Love Poem.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1979.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Fine unprinted paper dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski. A New Year’s Greeting from the Press. Krumhansl 67b.
$350
17.
BURKE, Clifford.
A Landscape with Cows In It.
Newark: Janus Press (1987).
First edition. An elaborate construction featuring a 37 inch long sheet of printed text, a second sheet with a linoleum cut by Ruth E. Fine, and bound in the middle a sequence of sewn pages. The whole folded and slotted into a printed paper-covered stiff folder. All elements fine. One of 150 copies SIGNED by Burke and Fine.
$125
18.
BURROUGHS, William S.
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: A Fiction in the Form of a Film Script.
NY: Richard Seaver/Viking (1975).
First US edition. 115 pp w/list of illustrations. Fine in very near fine dust jacket that is lightly toned. Images sourced from contemporary photo and police files.
$75
19.
[CALDER & BOYARS].
Signature Anthology.
London: Calder & Boyars (1975).
First edition. 166 pp. Small blemish on fore-edge, else fine in very near fine dust jacket with two tiny edge tears. Ownership signature of literary critic Vivian Mercier on the front free endpaper. First appearance of works by Beckett, Elsepth Davie, Eva Figes, Kenneth Gangemi, Aidan Higgins, Ionesco, Robert Nye, Jan Quackenbush, Ann Quin, and Nicholas Rawson.
$35
20.
CHASE-RIBOUD, Barbara.
From Memphis & Peking: Poems.
NY: Random House (1974).
First edition. 112 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. First book of poems by Chase-Riboud, at the time of publication known internationally as a sculptor.
$45