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21.
CHAUDHURI, Nirad C.
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian.
London: Picador (1999).
First printing of this edition. x + 515 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Reissue of this classic evocation of life in Calcutta and Chaudhuri’s ancestral village in East Bengal. Originally published in 1951.
$75
22.
CLARK, Thomas.
The Sand Burg.
London: Ferry Press (1966).
First edition. [28 pp]. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Joe Brainard. One of 500 copies. Clark’s first book. He would later publish exclusively under “Tom Clark,” to distinguish himself from the Scottish poet Thomas A. Clark, per their agreement.
$50
23.
CLARK, Tom.
White Thought.
West Stockbridge: Hard Press/The Figures (1997).
First trade edition. 63 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Clark on the title page in lavender pencil. Clark has also drawn a sphere in lavender and blue and green and added the lines “As all the ballast of familiar life / Floated away from the hot-air balloon // obscure as all those lost relationships, as all the ballast of familiar life.”
$45
24.
DAVENPORT, Guy.
The Bowmen of Shu.
NY: Grenfell Press (1983).
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 4to. [34 pp]. Fine in full limp vellum with gilt lettering to spine. Bound by Claudia Cohen. Illustrated with reproductions of five pen-and inks by Henry Gaudier-Brzeska and twelve illustrations by Davenport. One of 10 numbered copies on J. Barcham Greene’s Chatham Vellum paper dated (22 October 1983) and SIGNED by Davenport. Original prospectus accompanies. An assemblage on the life of Gaudier-Brzeska, centered on his time in the trenches during WWI.
$3000
25.
DELAY, Florence. et al.
S.
Cambridge & Paris: Lumen Editions & Alyscamps Press, 1997.
First English language edition. 97 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. A collaborative novel, penned by Florence Delay, Patrick Deville, Jean Echenoz, Harry Mathews, Mak Polizzotti, Sonja Greenlee, and Oliver Rolin.
$45
26.
DONALDSON, Stephen R.
Lord Foul’s Bane: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever Book One.
Garden City: Doubleday (1977).
First Book Club edition. 404 pp w/glossary. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (7.17.80) and SIGNED by Donaldson on the title page. This book club edition precedes the trade edition of this title.
$200
27.
DOYLE, Kirby.
The Collected Poems.
San Francisco: Greenlight Press 1983.
First trade paperback printing. 200 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Dated (SF 84) and INSCRIBED by Doyle to Robert [Duncan], “Dear Robert — / I hope you / find these lovely / your friend / Kirby Doyle.”
$100
28.
[DUCHAMP, Marcel]. Paz, Octavio.
Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare.
NY: Viking (1978).
First US edition. vii + 211 pp w/chronology. Faint offsetting to first leaf, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Spanish by Rachel Phillips and Donald Gardner. Paz situates Duchamp, together with Picasso, as being the two most influential 20th c. painters, and makes his case for Duchamp.
$50
29.
DUNCAN, Robert writing as “Robert Symmes.”
Experimental Review Number Two Supplement.
Woodstock: Experimental Review, 1941.
January. 8 pp. Lower inch of the spine split, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Three early poems by Duncan, together with work by Virginia Admiral, Harvey Breit, Jack Johnson, and Sanders Russell. Later this year, the name change to “Duncan” would be established. Bertholf C21.
$200
30.
[DUNCAN, Robert]. Faas, Ekbert.
Young Robert Duncan: Portrait of the Poet as a Young Homosexual in Society.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1983.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 361 pp w/index. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 125 numbered copies SIGNED by Faas and Duncan.
$75
31.
EDSON, Russell.
With Sincerest Regrets.
Providence: Burning Deck, 1980.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. [32 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. Cover art by Edson. One of 26 lettered copies on Barcham Green Charter Oak paper SIGNED by Edson. Twenty short texts.
$250
32.
ELLIS, Rennie and Ian Turner.
Australian Graffiti Revisited.
Melbourne: Sun Books (1980).
Second printing of the second edition. [112 pp]. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Preface by R.E. Windsor, memoir by Ian Turner, introduction by Rennie Ellis. Black and white photographs of Aussie wit.
$50
33.
EVERSON, William.
The Blowing of the Seed.
New Haven: Henry Wenning, 1966.
First edition. [20 pp]. A few spots of foxing to top edge, else very near fine in paper-covered boards with leather spine. One of 200 (of 218) copies on Kochi paper SIGNED by Everson. Written concurrently with the poems that made up THE RESIDUAL YEARS, but not included in that collection.
$75
34.
[FAULKNER, William]. Franklin, Malcom A.
Bitterweeds: Life with William Faulkner at Rowan Oak.
Irving: Society for the Study of Traditional Culture, 1977.
First edition. 129 pp w/appendix. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Estelle Oldham Faulkner. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Franklin.
$125
35.
FULLER, R. Buckminster.
No More Secondhand God and Other Writings.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press (1963).
First edition. xv + 163 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a small spot on the front panel near spine. One large fold-out plate present. Prose and prose poem essays from 1940 to 1963.
$45
36.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Your Reason & Blake’s System.
Madras & NY: Hanuman Books, 1988.
First edition. 16mo. 43 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine dust jacket. Two essays. Hanuman 24.
$50
37.
GOYEN, William.
Arthur Bond.
[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press (1979).
First edition, author/publisher edition. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers integral dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 30 numbered copies for the use of the author and the publisher SIGNED by Goyen. A short story.
$50
38.
GRAHN, Judy.
edward the dyke and other poems.
Oakland: Women’s Press Collective, 1971.
First trade edition. Oblong 8vo. [66 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers with light tanning to spine and a small price sticker on the rear cover. Poems by Grahan with drawings by Wendy Cadden, Brenda Crider, Gail Hodgins, Sunny, and Susan.
$75
39.
GUNN, Thom & Eileen Hogan.
A Green Place.
Menlo Park: Occasional Works (1999).
First trade edition. 14 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with printed cover and spine labels. Gunn’s poem “Back to Life” bound with oil sketches by Eileen Hogan. Six color plates printed by offset lithography directly onto five accordion-fold Royal Impressions panels. One of 220 numbered copies on Mohawk paper.
$35
40.
HEANEY, Seamus.
Commencement Address.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1996.
First trade edition. 16 pp. Near fine in sewn wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. One of 400 (of 500) numbered copies. Brandes & Durkan A66.
$125