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21.
DEFEO, Jay.
Outrageous Fortune: Jay Defeo and Surrealism.

NY: Mitchell-Innes & Nash (2018).
First edition. 108 pp w/list of illustrations. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Dana Miller.
$50
23132
22.
DOWDEN, George.
Letters to English Poets.

London: Rain Press, 1967.
First edition. 58 pp. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Dowden inside the front cover. Correspondence printed by mimeograph on five paper colors. The first book from Rain Press, Dowden’s own imprint.
$45
86262
23.
DOWDEN, George.
Renew Jerusalem.

NY: Smyrna Press (1969).
First edition. [48 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. A long poem, dedicated to Leary, Ginsberg, Dylan, Sanders, and McClure. Dated (Brighton = 6.III.70) and INSCRIBED by Dowden, “for John Furnival / and lovely family / with all hopes for / long life/love / George Dowden.”
$45
86254
24.
DRUCKER, Johanna.
Kidz.

[Berkeley: Johanna Drucker] (1979).
First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover and internal text screen printed in two colors on Rives. Penciled inside the rear cover, “o: 8/26 (76).” The text is “a scree against patriarchy and authority, an anti-Oedipal stream of maniac infantilism in dark prose, but meant to be funny, outrageous, irreverent.” — Johanna Drucker.
$250
86239
25.
[DUCHAMP, Marcel]. Hamilton, Richard.
The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even: A Typographic Version by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp’s Green Box.

NY: George Wittenborn [1960].
First US edition. [122 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacket with two short closed tears. One fold-out plate. Translated by George Heard Hamilton. The Documents of Modern Art No. 14.
$1250
21334
26.
EVERSON, William.
In the Fictive Wish.

Berkeley: Oyez (1967).
First edition. 22 pp. Two corners tapped, else very near fine in near fine, unprinted white paper dust jacket. Woodcut illustration by Mary Fabilli. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Everson.
$100
86256
27.
[FLUXUS]. Paull, Silke and Hervé Würz. eds.
AQ 16: Fluxus.

Dudweiler: AQ (1977).
First edition. 99 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Peter Moore. Work by Geroge Maciunas, George Brecht, Ay-O, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Takako Saito, Daniel Spoerri, Emmett Williams, and others.
$100
6770
28.
GODFREY, John and Robert Indiana.
Twenty-Six Poems.

NY: Adventures in Poetry (1971).
First trade edition. 4to. [54 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover is an original serigraph by Robert Indiana, produced at Bouwerie Editions. One of 300 copies.
$75
86272
29.
GOREY, Edward.
Fruitcake.

[NY]: Albondocani Press (1990).
First edition. Folding card (7 x 5 inches, closed). Fine with original unprinted envelope. Printed by Nadja. “Holiday Greetings and Best Wishes for the Coming Year.” One of 350 copies for use of Gorey and the publisher, none of which were for sale.
$40
86273
30.
[GOREY, Edward].
Amphigorey: A Musicale.

NY: Playbill (1994).
First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Showbill program for this performance at the Perry St. Theatre. Several Gorey illustrations and Gorey related ads within. Accompanied by an illustrated handbill advertising the show, and a ticket stub from the 23 April performance.
$35
63171
31.
GUNN, Thom.
The Menace.

South San Francisco: Manroot (1982).
First edition, lettered & signed issue. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Illustrated with drawings by J.J. Hazard. One of 26 lettered copies on Strathmore SIGNED by Gunn and Hazard. A long poem. Hagstrom & Bixby A32. Original prospectus accompanies.
$100
38145
32.
HOLUB, Miroslav.
On the Contrary and Other Poems.

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (1984).
First edition. 124 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translations by Ewald Osers, foreword by A. Alvarez. Dated (Davis 4/21 ‘88) and INSCRIBED by Holub, “For / Douglas Blazek / Miroslav / Holub.”
$125
78195
33.
HOROVITZ, Michael.
Love Poems.

London: New Departures, 1971.
First edition, numbered & signed issued. 38 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Horovitz with a full page holograph poem “Pretty as a Picture” penned on the first leaf. This book constitutes issue #9 of New Departures magazine.
$75
30770
34.
JACKSON, Laura (Riding).
Chelsea 35. It Has Taken Long: From the Writings of Laura Riding Jackson.

NY: Chelsea Associates (1976).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 239 pp. Near fine in wrappers with some rubbing. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Jackson. Dedicated to the prose of the poet Laura (Riding) Jackson, who had long since given up poetry, and contains previously unpublished criticism as well as fiction which had, at the time, long been out of print, including stories from PROGRESS OF STORIES, LIVES OF WIVES, and sections of the novel A TROJAN ENDING. The selections are Jackson’s own.
$45
86270
35.
JOHNS, Jasper.
The Maps.

NY: Gagosian Gallery (1989).
First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly sunned along the spine. Introductory essay by Roberta Bernstein. Color reproductions of twelve map paintings and prints, a poem by David Shapiro, and a frontis photo of Johns. “With Compliments of Gagosian Gallery” card laid in.
$125
11153
36.
JONES, LeRoi. ed.
The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America.

London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1965.
First UK edition. xvi + 351 pp. Light foxing to top edge, else fine in very near fine dust jacket with one short closed tear. Eastlake, Kerouac, Creeley, Metcalf, Rechy, Burroughs, Jones, Dawson, Woolf (Douglas), Selby, Rumaker, Dorn, Di Prima, Edson. Jones adds a eight page introduction.
$75
56292
37.
KEARNEY, Larry.
Oz and the Damaged Architecture.

Bolinas: Smithereens Press (1986).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. [38 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Terry Bell. One of ten copies SIGNED by Kearney and Bell.
$100
4477
38.
KOCH, Kenneth.
Poems from 1952 and 1953.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968
First edition. 16 pp. Near fine in sewn wrappers. A collection of seven poems. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Koch.
$45
70943
39.
[LARKIN, Philip]. Brennan, Maeve.
The Philip Larkin I Knew.

Manchester & NY: Manchester University Press (2002).
First edition. xii + 240 pp w/index. Very near fine in gilt-stamped green boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Twenty-five b&w illustrations. Uncommon in hardcover. Includes a significant collection of letters between the two.
$75
39407
40.
[LARKIN, Philip]. Chambers, Harry.
An Enormous Yes: in memoriam Philip Larkin (1922–1985).

Calstock: Peterloo Poets (1986).
First edition. 67 pp w/notes. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. New poems by Andrew Motion, Vernon Scannell, Anthony Thwaite and several others on Larkin, prose memoirs by Peter Levi, Craig Raine, and Richard Selezer in tribute. Two unpublished poems by Larkin, two uncollected, along with other texts, photographs, and items from the University of Hull Larkin exhibition.
$20