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21.
CORTEZ, Jayne.
Pissstained Stairs and The Monkey Man’s Wares.
(np): Phrase Text (nd).
First edition. [56 pp]. Light bends to corners of front panel, else naer fine in illustrated wrappers. Cortez’s first book. Poems with cover art and internal illustrations by Mel Edwards. Printed dedication to the members of the Watts Repertory Theatre Company.
$450
22.
[CRANIUM PRSS]. Brunke, Frederic.
A Few Words.
San Francisco: [Frederic Brunke] 1969.
First edition. [10 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. One of 12 numbered copies (the entire edition) on handmade Tovil paper SIGNED by Brunke. A scarce Cranium title.
$250
23.
DEBORD, Guy.
Society of the Spectacle.
Detroit: Black & Red/Radical America, 1970.
First US edition. [120 pp]. Small stain to the rear cover, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. First English translation of Debord’s landmark text — one of the key works to emerge from the Situationist International. Most reprints eliminate the illustrations that appear in this text (but do not appear in the original French edition). Co-published with Radical America, as their issue Vol. IV, No. 5.
$150
24.
DIEBENKORN, Richard.
From Nature to Abstraction.
San Francisco: Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, 1999.
First edition. Small 4to. [60 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with a small crease to the spine. Introduction by Paul LeBaron Thiebaud. Essay by Stephen Nash. Forty color plates.
$45
25.
DINE, Jim.
Diary of a Non-Deflector: Selected Poems.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987.
First edition, deluxe limited issue. 78 pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 120 copies on Rives paper. Tipped-on opposite the title page is an original self-portrait etching by Dine, SIGNED by Dine in pencil below the image.
$350
26.
DOUBIAGO, Sharon.
Hymn to the Cosmic Clothesline: A Mendocino Love Poem.
[Albion: Modern Prometheus, 1978].
First edition. [36 pp w/notes]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. A poem by Doubiago, with prints by R.H.A. Josephson from photographs by M.E. Abell, Efrain Correal, and Sierra. Doubiago’s first book.
$125
27.
DUNCAN, Robert.
Poems 1948–49.
[Berkeley]: Berkeley Miscellany Editions [1949].
First edition, second state (expurgated). 84 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Duncan on the title page. Bertholf A2b.
$200
28.
DUNCAN, Robert.
Poems 1948–49.
[Berkeley]: Berkeley Miscellany Editions [1949].
First edition, second state (expurgated). 84 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Dated (Stinson Beach, 1958) and SIGNED by Duncan on the title page. Additionally INSCRIBED again, “with lines inscribed / Berkeley 1981 / for Burton, his / education / RD.” Duncan has added the 45 words excised from the second state. Bertholf A2b.
$400
29.
DUNCAN, Robert.
Writing Writing: A Composition Book. Stein Imitations.
Albuquerque: Sum Books (1964).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [60 pp]. Light sunning along spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Folded erratum and bonus poem sheet present and fine. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Duncan with an original dated (1964) and signed drawing pasted to the first leaf; in this instance, a terrific multicolored image of a snail with the accompanying text, “Turning into a Snail’s Pace.” Bertholf A13b.
$1250
30.
ELMSLIE, Kenward and Joe Brainard.
Album.
NY: Kulchur Press (1969).
First trade paperback printing. Small 4to. 176 pp. Very faint tanning along spine, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems with cover art and internal drawings by Brainard. INSCRIBED by Elmslie on the half-title page, either “white guy” or “white goy” Kenward Elmslie, and SIGNED by Brainard on the title page.
$200
31.
FINCH, Peter.
Second Aeon Publications 1972.
Cardiff: Second Aeon Publications (1972).
First edition. 28 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. In addition to poems by Asa Benveniste, Robert Bly, and Pablo Neruda (as translated by William Wantling), provides a full description of the Second Aeon backlist and forthcoming titles, as well as select books from other presses. Order form laid in.
$35
32.
GIOIA, Dana.
Daily Horoscope.
[Iowa City]: Windhover Press (1982).
First edition. [20 pp]. Very near fine in wrappers with printed spine. Linoleum cut frontis by Thomas Kovacs. One of 225 copies on Windhover paper. Gioia’s second book. Acknowledgment slip present. Hagstrom & Morgan A2. Berger 78.
$125
33.
GODFREY, John.
Flood Monkey and Middle Notch.
[Boston]: Pressed Wafer (2001).
First edition, lettered & signed issue. Single sheet folded once (8 ½ x 5 ½ inches, closed). Fine. Produced for Godfrey’s reading at M.I.T. on 15 November 2001. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Godfrey. Two poems.
$40
34.
GORDIMER, Nadine.
Town and Country Lovers.
Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 26 pp. Fine in decorated cloth over boards. Fine in clear acetate dust jacket. One of 300 (of 330) numbered copies on Arches mouldmade paper SIGNED by Gordimer. A short story.
$125
35.
GREGER, Debora.
Blank Country: Poems.
San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1985.
First edition. 4to. 25 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Tri-fold two-color lithograph by Madel Greger. One of 130 numbered copies on Nideggen paper SIGNED by Debora and Madel Greger.
$100
36.
GUILLEN, Jorge.
Fuera Del Mundo.
Trenton: Eleutherian Printers (1981).
First edition, numbered issue. [20 pp]. Original Spanish poems with facing English translation by Reginald Gibbons. The conclusion of FINAL, the fifth and last series of AIRE NUESTRO. One of 50 (of 76) numbered copies on Rives paper.
$200
37.
HAMRI, Mohamed.
Tales of Joujouka.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1975.
First edition. 47 pp. Fine in illustrated paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Eight tales, translated from the original Mahgrebi by Blanca Nyland. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Hamri. Capra Chapbook Series #35.
$250
38.
HARRISON, Jim.
Warlock.
NY: Delacote/Seymour Lawrence (1981).
First edition. 262 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Harrison on the half-title page. Promotional flyer accompanies. His fifth novel.
$75
39.
HEANEY, Seamus.
Among Schoolchildren.
Belfast: John Malone Memorial Committee, 1983.
Second edition. 16 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Text of a lecture delivered by Heaney on 9 June 1983 at The Queen’s University, Belfast. Permissions slip laid in. SIGNED by Heaney on the title page. Due to copyright problems, the entire first printing was suppressed. Brandes & Durkan A35b.
$350
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HEANEY, Seamus.
North.
London: Faber and Faber (1975).
First edition. 73 pp. Light toning to front fixed and free endpapers, else fine in very near fine dust jacket with some light toning, common with this title. Brandes & Durkan A12a.
$1000