e-catalog #108
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41.
KEES, Weldon.
Two Prose Sketches.
[West Chester]: Aralia Press, 1984.
First edition. [26 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 240 (of 280) numbered copies on Mohawk Letterpress Text paper. Introduction by Dana Gioia. Portrait engraving of Kees by Michael McCurdy. Collects “Public Library” and “Midwestern University: Evening.”
$35
42.
KEROUAC, Jack together with Albert Saijo and Lew Welch.
Trip Trap: Haiku along the Road from San Francisco to New York 1959.
Bolinas: Grey Fox Press, 1973.
First edition. 57 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Additional recollections by Albert Saijo and Lew Welch.
$125
43.
KORTE, Mary Norbert.
A Breviary in Time of War.
San Francisco: Cranium Press (1970).
First edition, author’s copy. [26 pp]. Fine in full cloth with gilt-stamped leather spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. Printed by Clifford Burke. One of 7 numbered copies SIGNED by Korte. Additionally INSCRIBED by Korte on the colophon page to one of her publishers, “For Robert Hawley / with my affection / and esteem for / this gentleman / from that lady / Mary Norbert Körte / 12 May 1977.”
$125
44.
LAMANTIA, Philip.
Narcotica.
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1959.
First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers with one tiny nick to the fore-edge. Cover photographs by Wallace Berman. I DEMAND EXTINCTION OF LAWS PROHIBITING NARCOTIC DRUGS. In addition to Lamantia’s own poems and prose, includes work by Artaud translated by L. Dejardin, and Lamantia’s own translation of Leopardi’s poem, “The Infinite.”
$450
45.
LEAVITT, David.
Crossing St. Gotthard.
[North Pomfret]: Elysium Press (2000).
First edition, Roman numbered issue. 19 pp. Fine in full Niger leather with gilt stamping to spine. Fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 10 Roman numbered copies on Cartiera Sicars paper SIGNED by Leavitt.
$750
46.
LEVERTOV, Denise.
Embroideries.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. Small 4to. 9 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Designed and printed at the Plantin Press. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Levertov. Morrow & Cooney 73b.
$45
47.
LEVERTOV, Denise.
Overland to the Islands.
Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1958.
First edition. [52 pp]. Light bend to upper outside corner, else very near fine in wrappers and like dust jacket with a vertical crease to the front flap. One of 450 copies. SIGNED by Levertov on the first leaf. Her third book. Jargon 19.
$125
48.
[levy, d.a.]. Smith, Larry and Ingrid Swanberg. eds.
d.a. levy & the mimeograph revolution.
Huron: Bottom Dog Press (2007).
First edition. 264 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Nice compendium of work by and about levy, including a few color reproductions, a chronology, photographs, and a dvd copy of levy documentary film “if i scratch, if i write.”
$30
49.
MARTIN, Kenneth.
Aubade.
NY: Citadel Press (1958).
First US edition. 160 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some light wear to crown and along front flap fold. SIGNED by Martin on the title page. Uncommon thus. Young 2539* (UK edition).
$250
50.
McCLURE, Michael.
Soul Cinders.
Berkeley: Bancroft Library Press, 1996.
First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 45 copies on Zerkall Book paper, the entire edition. A collection of nine poems printed on an Albion handpress by students, overseen by Lester R. Ferriss.
$350
51.
MERRILL, James.
Japan: Prose of Departure.
NY: Nadja (1987).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. One of 74 (of 100) numbered copies on T.H. Saunders paper SIGNED by Merrill. Travel notes, printed in two colors.
$150
52.
MIDDLETON, Christopher.
Our Flowers & Nice Bones.
London: Fulcrum Press (1969).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 109 pp. Fine in full cloth and fine unprinted acetate dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies on antique laid paper SIGNED by Middleton.
$45
53.
MILLS, Barriss. trans.
Poems from the Greek Anthology.
New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press (1981).
First edition. 129 pp. Bump to one lower corner, else fine in printed paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Near fine unprinted card stock slipcase. One of 250 copies.
$45
54.
O’HARA, Frank.
Meditations in an Emergency.
NY: Grove Press (1957).
First trade edition. 54 pp. Light bump to crown, else very near fine in printed wrappers. “The poet is now at work on a novel and a musical.” O’Hara’s third collection. Smith A3a.
$750
55.
PASTERNAK, Boris.
My Sister-Life.
NY: Limited Editions Club (1991).
First edition. Folio. [100 pp]. Light sunning to spine, else fine in printed paper-covered boards with leather spine and fore-edges. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase, with just a bit of sunning. The poem presented here in Mark Rudman’s English translation, illustrated with etchings by Yuri Kuper. One of 250 numbered copies on handmade paper SIGNED by Kuper. Club newsletter specific to this publication laid-in.
$1250
56.
[PETERSON, Robert]. Lewis, Peter and Eric Overmyer. eds.
Native Dancer Number 1: The Robert Peterson Issue.
Portland: Native Dancer (1980).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 83 pp w/bibliography. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with pasted-on cover label. In addition to work by Peterson, includes contributions by Lennart Bruce, Carolyn Kizer, Lew Welch, Richard Hugo, and others. One of 26 numbered copies INSCRIBED by Peterson, “For Donald Allen / with all best wishes, / Robert Peterson / Portland 4.15.81.” Laid into this copy is a holograph letter from editor Lewis, presenting this copy to Allen, in his role as executor of the Welch estate.
$75
57.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Campbell, Carolee. ed.
Poetry at the Edge: Five Contemporary California Poets.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2014.
First edition. 49 pp. Fine paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Illustrated with two photographs by Campbell, who also designed this book. One of 300 numbered copies on Zerkall Frankfurt paper SIGNED by contributors Joseph Stroud, Kay Ryan, Gary Young, Martha Ronk, and Michael Hannon.
$200
58.
POWERS, Richard.
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance.
NY: Beech Tree Books/Morrow (1985).
First edition. 352 p. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light crimping to base and crown of spine. Power’s excellent first book.
$75
59.
SANFIELD, Steve.
A Fall from Grace.
Berkeley: Aldebaran Review 1976.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [18 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 33 numbered copies SIGNED by Sanfield. A collection of poems, issued as Aldebaran Review 22.
$45
60.
SMITH, Richard Cándida.
The Modern Moves West: California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (2009).
First edition. x + 250 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
$45