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41.
HEJINIAN, Lyn.
Writing is an Aid to Memory.

Berkeley: The Figures (1983).
Second printing. [64 pp]. Sunning along spine, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Printed five years after the first edition, this printing is of the same design.
$75
85575
42.
HIRSCHMAN, Jack.
The Ferlinghetti Arcane.

San Francisco: X-Ray Book Co. (2011).
First edition. 8 pp. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. Title page illustration by Ferlinghetti. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Hirschman. Original prospectus accompanies.
$45
58090
43.
HOLAN, Vladimír.
Mirroring: Selected Poems of Vladimír Holan.

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (1985).
First edition. ix +125 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated by C. G. Hanzlicek and Dana Hábová. A posthumous collection drawn from more than 3000 pages of work. Holan was accused of “decadent formalism” and officially ignored in his home of Czechoslovakia from 1948 until 1964, but later awarded the country’s highest artistic honor, National Artist and Laureate of the State, in 1968.
$45
3433
44.
HUGHES, Ted.
Words Broadsheet Twenty Five.

London: Words Press (nd).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. Single sheet folded twice (8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches, closed). Poems by Lyman Andrews, Edwin Morgan, Ted Hughes and Jeremy Reed. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by all contributors.
$100
85524
45.
JASCHKE, Gerhard.
Proviele.

Wien: Edition Freibord (1988).
First edition. [24 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Paired images of human silhouettes created by removing the image from a text field and placing it next to the negative space.
$35
85525
46.
KANDEL, Lenore.
Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel.

Berkeley: North Atlantic Books (2012).
First edition. xx + 242 pp w/index & list of works. Fine in fine dust jacket. Preface by Diane di Prima. The first comprehensive collection of Kandel’s writing.
$30
85599
47.
KEES, Weldon.
The Fall of the Magicians.

NY: Reynal & Hitchcock (1947).
First edition. 55 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear along the top edge. Reveiew slip laid in. Second book of poems by Kees.
$250
84660
48.
[KEROUAC, Jack]. Bryant R. and Michael Grieg. eds.
New Editions 2: An Anthology of Literary Discoveries.

Berkeley: Paperback Editions Limited [1957].
First edition. 136 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Features an excerpt from Kerouac’s VISIONS OF CODY titled, “Neal and the Three Stooges.” Charters B4.
$40
80291
49.
KITTREDGE, William.
Phantom Silver.

Missoula: Kutenai Press, 1987.
First edition. [26 pp]. Faint sunning to spine, else fine in printed wrappers. A prose work with a title page wood engraving by Dirk Lee. One of 150 numbered copies on Mohawk Letterpress Text paper SIGNED by Kittredge and Lee. Original prospectus accompanies.
$100
85574
50.
KLEINZAHLER, August.
Tanka-Toys-- a memoir.

San Francisco: X-Ray Book Co. (1997).
First edition. 9 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. A single poem. One of 100 numbered copies, printed letterpress by artnoose. SIGNED by Kleinzahler.
$35
85562
51.
KYGER, Joanne and Larry Fagin.
Letter from Paris.

[Berkeley: Poltroon Press] (1977).
First edition. Single large sheet folded twice (10 ¼ x 7 inches, closed). A few corner wrinkles, else near fine. Written during a visit to Paris by Joanne Kyger, Jack Boyce, and Larry Fagin. Printed by Alastair Johnston for inclusion in the lettered issue of his Auerhahn Press bibliography, with a few extras.
$125
85580
52.
LAMANTIA, Philip.
Crystals: Kriz.

Berkeley: Bancroft Library Press, 2001.
First edition. Folio. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of [45] copies on Rives French mouldmade paper. Handprinted by students under the direction of Les Ferriss. A previously unpublished poem discovered in the Bruce Conner archive.
$450
85570
53.
[LEARY, Timothy]. Ginsberg, Allen.
Bay Area Writers Appeal to Swiss Government for Leary Political Asylum.

San Francisco: San Francisco Bay Area Prose Poets’ Phalanx, 1971.
Second or later edition. Two 11 x 8 ½ inch sheets, stapled upper left. Near fine. Named signatories include Kesey, Rexroth, Ferlinghetti, Creeley, Nin, and Ginsberg. The text in the original has upped the number of participating writers to “thirty” indicating an earlier printing. A call for Switzerland to resist extradition for Leary’s 1970 arrest for marijuana possession.
$100
84876
54.
[levy, d.a.]. Simon, Adelaide.
Permit Me Voyage.

Cleveland: Free Lance Press, 1964.
First edition. 26 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art and thirteen internal illustrations by d.a. levy. The Free Lance Press published levy’s NORTH AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DEAD.
$75
85547
55.
[levy, d.a. with Kenneth Patchen and D.r. Wagner]. Crane, Michael. ed.
American Renegades: Kenneth Patchen, d.a. levy, D.R. Wagner.

Boulder: CU Art Galleries (1992).
First edition. 4to. 18 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Color catalogue with reproductions of many works by the title poets. Contributions by B.L. Kennedy, Anne Waldman, Ingrid Swanberg, Kent Taylor, and Ron Petrochuck.
$35
85419
56.
[MALONE, Marvin]. Malone, Christa. ed.
Special Issue 145–146: The Marvin Malone Festschrift.

Stockton: Wormwood Books and Magazines, 1999.
First trade edition. 47 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 565 (of 600) numbered copies. The Marvin Malone Festschrift, featuring a special section of his own poems, and an essay on the history of Wormwood. Three page essay on Malone by Peter Howard (Serendipity Books). Contributions by Bukowski, David Barker, Ron Koertge, Lyn Lifshin, Steve Richmond, and many other frequent contributors.
$25
85342
57.
MARSHALL, Anthony.
Fossicking for Old Books.

Melbourne: Bread Street Press, 2004.
First edition. 284 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Second book well-received title by the proprietor of Alice’s Bookshop in North Carlton.
$35
85603
58.
MAYER, Bernadette.
The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters.

West Stockbridge: Hard Press, 1994.
First edition. 346 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Rear cover endorsements by Lyn Hejinian and Clark Coolidge. Reprinted in 2017 by Nightboat Books.
$45
85544
59.
MELTZER, David.
The Martyr.

North Hollywood: Essex House (1969).
First edition. 176 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Postscript by Frank M. Robinson. SIGNED by Meltzer on the title page. Uncommon.
$125
85298
60.
MERWIN, W.S.
Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology.

Washington DC: Counterpoint (1996).
First edition. 89 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Merwin at the conclusion of the title poem.
$45