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21.
CONNER, Bruce.
Double Award.

[San Francisco: Bruce Conner 1981].
First edition. 3 ¼ x 6 inch card. Fine. Stamped “For Deposit Only / to the account of / Bruce Conner” on the verso. Conner’s public frustration with his former gallery (Braunstein/Quay), distributed by his assistant at the gallery’s twentieth anniversary party.
$750
70487
22.
CREELEY, Robert.
Divisions & Other Early Poems.

(np): Perishable Press, 1968.
First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies on handmade Shadwell paper. Poems left out of Creeley’s THE CHARM, published by the press in 1967. Hamady 15.
$150
86488
23.
[DI PRIMA]. Creeley, Robert & David Lehman. eds.
The Best American Poetry 2002.

NY: Scribner (2002).
First edition. 232 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Di Prima at her contribution, “Midsummer.” Work also by Anne Carson, Louise Glück, Sharon Olds, and may others.
$45
58285
24.
DISCH, Tom.
Haikus of an AmPart.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1991.
First edition. [20 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. Cover art and internal illustrations by Ann Mikolowski. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Disch and Mikolowski. Morning Coffee Chapbook 30.
$150
86499
25.
FINLAY, Ian Hamilton and Margot Sandeman.
Arcadian Sundials.

(np): Wild Hawthorn Press [1970].
First edition. Folding card (4 ½ x 6 ¼ inches, closed). Fine. Murray 4.25.
$50
86501
26.
[FINLAY, Ian Hamilton]. Malone, Marvin. ed.
Wormwood Review 14. Volume 4, Number 2.

Storrs: The Wormwood Review Press, 1964.
First trade edition. 35 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 600 numbered copies. Special Ian Hamilton Finlay center section, “eleven from edinburgh.”
$35
86505
27.
FOX, Civ Cedering.
Color Poems.

Missoula: Calliopea Press, 1978.
First trade edition. Twenty-seven 12 ½ x 9 ½ inch sheets, housed in a printed paper portfolio with a ribbon tie. All elements fine. Twenty-three poems by Fox, each with a different illustrator. One of 500 sets, printed on Canson Mi-Teintes French mould-made paper.
$75
86466
28.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Howl and Other Poems.

San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop (1956).
First edition. 44 pp. Two faint patches of discoloration on the front panel, else very near fine in printed wrappers. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Ginsberg’s first “regularly” published book, a highspot of postwar American poetry. Pocket Poets #4. Morgan A3a1.1.
$3500
45416
29.
GIOVANNI, Nikki.
The Women and the Men: Poems.

NY: William Morrow, 1975.
First edition. [64 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light toning to extrems. Jacket art by James Barkley. Publisher’s compliments slip laid in.
$125
74306
30.
HANSEN, Ron.
Nebraska: Short Fiction.

Omaha: Abattoir Editions (1991).
First edition. 14 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. A short story with multicolor woodblock prints by Karen Kunc. Designed and printed by Bonnie O’Connell. One of 500 copies on Nideggen paper.
$50
43723
31.
HART, Mickey with Jay Stevens.
Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Art of Percussion.

NY: HarperSanFrancisco (1990).
First trade paperback printing. 263 pp. Light erasure to front free endpaper, else very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Hart.
$45
83366
32.
HOSTOVSKY, Egon.
The Lonely Rebels.

NY: Arts, Inc., (1951).
First US edition. 118 pp. Light foxing to top edges, corners tapped, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Small mark on second leaf. Three novelettes by the Czech literary exile. The sixth of the Golden Griffin books.
$50
86481
33.
JACOB, Max and Larry Fagin.
Two Poems.

[Brooklyn]: Cuneiform Press (2008).
First edition. Single sheet folded twice to make a booklet (7 ½ x 4 ½ inches, closed). Fine. Jacob’s poem in French, Fagin’s version in English. SIGNED by Fagin and Schneeman on the rear cover.
$45
80465
34.
JOHNSTON, Jennifer.
This Is Not a Novel.

London: Review/Headline (2002).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 214 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped goatskin spine with raised bands. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase with a small bump on one side panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Bound and issued by Kenney’s of Galway. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Johnston.
$350
86492
35.
[JONAS, Stephen]. Torra, Joseph. ed.
Lift Magazine Double Issue Numbers 10 & 11: The Poetry of Stephen Jonas.

Somerville: Lift Magazine 1992.
129 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited by Joseph Torra, with his introduction. Contributions by Gerrit Lansing, John Wieners, David Rattray, Jack Spicer, Cid Corman, Joe Dunn, and several others, together with work by Joans.
$75
86489
36.
KINNELL, Galway.
Angling, A Day and Other Poems.

Concord: William B. Ewert, 1980.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 21 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket. Eight poems. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Kinnell.
$75
86493
37.
KLEIST, Heinrich von.
An Abyss Deep Enough: Letters of Heinrich von Kleist with a Selection of Essays and Anecdotes.

NY: E.P. Dutton (1982).
First US edition. xii + 297 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited, introduced, and translated from the original German by Philip B. Miller.
$75
21868
38.
LACHANCE, Bertrand.
tes rivieres t’attendent.

[Vancouver]: blewointment press (1971).
First edition. Oblong 8vo. [132 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Poems with illustrations by bill bissett. One of 500 copies.
$25
86472
39.
LAMANTIA, Philip.
Touch of the Marvelous.

Berkeley: Oyez, 1966.
First edition. 65 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. One of 1500 copies designed and printed in two colors by Graham Mackintosh. Two versions of the prospectus, one featuring a biography of Lamantia by Parker Tyler, the other Lamantia’s poem “I Am Coming” accompany.
$45
86486
40.
LEVERTOV, Denise.
Embracing the Multipede.

[Berkeley]: Tangram, 1992.
First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with printed cover label. Original inkwash drawing on the title page by Thomas Ingmire. One of 93 numbered copies on Nideggen mouldmade paper SIGNED by Levertov.
$125