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1.
ACKERLEY, J.R.
Micheldever & Other Poems.

London: Ian McKelvie, 1972.
First edition. 29 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Francis King provides a four page introduction to this collection of five poems. Tipped-on frontis portrait of Ackerley by Don Bachardy. One of 350 numbered copies.
$50
86245
2.
ANDERSON, Kent.
Night Dogs.

Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications (1996).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. xi + 522 pp. Fine in quarter morocco and fine illustrated dust jacket. Fine publisher’s slipcase. Foreword by James Crumley. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Anderson and Crumley. His second novel.
$200
86264
3.
ANDERSON, Margaret with jh and Ezra Pound.
The Little Review: Exiles’ Number.

NY: The Little Review, 1923.
Vol. ix, No. 3. Spring. 56 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Front and rear cover art by Fernand Léger, with seven internal reproductions. Contributions by Ernest Hemingway (preceding his first book), Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, George Antheil, E.E. Cummings, jh, H.D. Robert McAlmon, Fernand Léger, and images by Jean Cocteau, Joan Miro, and Dorothy Shakespear.
$2500
86243
4.
BARTHELME, Donald.
The Emerald.

Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 40 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 300 numbered copies on Arches mouldmade paper SIGNED by Barthelme. A short story, with four collage illustrations by Bathelme.
$75
86242
5.
BARTHELME, Donald.
Presents.

Dallas: Pressworks (1980).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 22 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Barthelme. A short story with four tipped-on collage illustrations by Barthelme.
$50
86257
6.
BEACH, Mary. ed.
Liberty or Death.

Beach Books, Texts & Documents [c. 1970].
First edition. Small 4to. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Edited by March Beach, “freaked out & zapped” by Claude Pélieu. Dedicated largely to the May ‘68 actions. Contributions by Jean-Jacques Lebel, Pélieu, Ginsberg, Carl Weissner, Mary Beach, and others.
$75
86259
7.
BERKSON, Bill.
Ordinary Fascism.

[San Francisco: Bill Berkson, 1974].
First edition 4to. [14 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers, stapled upper left. Cast for the titular movie, a long list of historical figures paired with a list of the writers cast to play them ala “Gerald Ford — Joe Brainard.” The colophon reads in full, “Ordinary Fascism, 1974, is published in an edition of 26 lettered copies, of which this is copy W.” While the 1974 date appears at the end of the text, the item was produced by Berkson much later.
$125
86271
8.
BERRIGAN, Ted. ed.
C: A Journal of Poetry. Vol. 1, No. 10.

NY: Ted Berrigan [1965].
First edition. Folio. [146 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. One holograph correction to a poem by Dick Gallup. Contributions by Giorno, Padgett, Aram Saroyan, Joe Brainard, Brion Gysin, Philip Whalen, Gregory Corso, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, William Burroughs, Ed Sanders, Frank O’Hara, and many others.
$250
46061
9.
BLY, Robert.
Old Man Rubbing His Eyes.

Greensboro: Unicorn Press, 1975.
First edition. 47 pp. Faint band of sunning along top edge, else fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems with drawings by Franz Albert Richter. One of 200 (of 235) numbered copies.
$100
86258
10.
BROWNSTEIN, Michael and Ron Padgett with Joe Brainard.
Kiss My Ass! / Sufferin’ Succotash.

NY: Adventures in Poetry (1971).
First edition. 4to. [26 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers with light toning to extrems of one panel. Covers and internal artwork by Joe Brainard. One of 274 (of 300) copies. Back-to-back works by Brownstein and Padgett, both illustrated by Brainard.
$125
76415
11.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Crucifix in a Deathhand.

NY: Lyle Stuart [1965].
First trade edition. 4to. 101 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers with the original wrap-around band. Artwork by Noel Rockmore. One of 3100 copies printed at the Loujon Press. INSCRIBED by Bukowski, “For Marvin Malone / who has printed / much of my / poesy, and since / it hasn’t caused / the sky to fall / down (yet) / here is some / more and more / and more... / Charles / Bukowski / 5–2–65 / Los Angeles.” Gypsy Lou Series #2. Krumhansl 15.
$2500
86263
12.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Poems and Drawings aka Epos Extra Issue 1962.

Crescent City: Epos, 1962.
First edition. 26 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Bukowski on the first leaf to his Wormwood Review editor and champion Marvin Malone, “To Marvin Malone — / Who has / gambled on / some of mine. / Charles Bukowski.” Accompanied by the original mailing envelope (postmarked 5 December 1962) with both return and address in Bukowski’s hand. His first poems in the Wormwood Review were published earlier this same year, and would continue to appear for decades. Krumhansl 7.
$2000
86236
13.
[BURROUGHS, William S.]. Malone, Marvin. ed.
Wormwood Review 36. Volume 9, Number 4.

Stockton: Wormwood Review, 1969.
First trade edition. 39 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 700 numbered copies. This issue features Burroughs’ “Academy 23” along with five poems by William Wantling. Prints also, at the request of Sue Finlay, her letter excoriating the Fulcrum Press and its treatment of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s work.
$35
67565
14.
COLLINS, Billy.
Good Dog, Bad Dog.

NY: Center for Book Arts, 2001.
First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 200 numbered copies on Somerset Wove paper SIGNED by Collins. Two poems, “Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House” and “Dharma.”
$100
86266
15.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Meyers, Bert and Barry Sanders. eds.
Grove: Contemporary Poetry and Translation 1–4 (complete).

Claremont: Pitzer College (1975–1978).
First editions. Four issues, all near fine in printed wrappers with pasted-on fruit box labels. Work by Tess Gallagher, Thomas McGrath, Pablo Neruda, Donald Hall, Francis Jammes, Blas de Otero, Garcia Lorca, Jacques Prevert, Franz Wright, Yannis Ritsos, and many others. For the run:
$100
2499
16.
COOVER, Robert.
Charlie in the House of Rue.

Lincoln: Penmaen Press (1979).
First edition. 44 pp. Very near fine in half cloth and paper-covered boards. Near fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. Title page wood engraving by Jerome Kaplan. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Coover and Kaplan. Volume one in the Penmaen fiction series.
$45
68243
17.
COOVER, Robert.
In Bed One Night & Other Brief Encounters.

Providence: Burning Deck (1983).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 59 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Design and cover by Keith Waldrop. Nine short fictions. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Coover.
$100
32847
18.
CREELEY, Robert.
Places.

Buffalo: Shuffaloff Press (1990).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 36 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket. Illustrated with reproductions of paintings by Susan Barnes. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Creeley and Barnes. Original prospectus accompanies.
$75
86246
19.
CREELEY, Robert.
Selected Poems.

NY: Scribner’s (1976).
First edition. x + 182 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket that is very lightly toned. Selections from three earlier published volumes, plus sixteen recent works.
$45
65935
20.
CROWLEY, Aleister.
White Stains.

London: Duckworth (1973).
Second edition, corrected and reset. xv + 118 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with a closed tear and light crease to top edge of rear panel. Edited by John Symonds, with his introduction. One of 1000 numbered copies. Originally published in 1898 in an edition of 100 copies, most of which were destroyed by H.M. Customs. Young 869* (1898 ed).
$200