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41.
LEVERTOV, Denise.
Wanderer’s Daysong.

[Port Townsend]: Copper Canyon Press (1981).
First edition. 4to. [28 pp]. Light sunning to spine, which is faintly mottled, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. Designed and printed by Tree Swenson. One of “approximately” 240 copies on Frankfurt paper SIGNED by Levertov.
$50
54380
42.
LIFSHIN, Lyn.
Cold Comfort: Selected Poems 1970–1996.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1997.
First edition, publisher’s copy. 278 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Lifshin with an original artwork. Laid into this copy is a letter from Lifshin to John Marin, Black Sparrow’s publisher, in part expressing her pleasure at this being her first book with the press.
$75
15202
43.
LOEWINSOHN, Ron.
The Leaves.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 27 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket, with a few spilts along one flap fold. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Loewinsohn. Original prospectus accompanies.
$25
86474
44.
LOWRY, Robert.
Hutton Street.

Cincinnati: The Little Man Press (1940).
First edition. 36 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art and internal illustrations by James Flora (uncredited). SIGNED by Lowry on the title page. The Little Man No. 2
$250
86475
45.
LOWRY, Robert.
Pip Pap Po: a book of many things.

Cincinnati: The Little Man Press (1940).
First edition. 32 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by James Flora (uncredited). Prose contributions by Robert Lowry, Lee G. Crutchfield, Jr., Weldon Kees, Charles Malmstedt, and Herbert Hunter. One of three books making up the 2nd issue of The Little Man quarterly.
$125
86477
46.
[LUCIE-Smith, Edward]. Cotton, John. ed.
Priapus 5.

Berkhamsted: John Cotton, 1966.
Summer. 26 pp. Light vertical bend, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by contributor Edward Lucie-Smith on the front cover, “Joseph Gold, / A small, but not very / ‘sweet’ addition to / my bibliography / Edward Lucie-Smith.”
$45
86478
47.
[LUCIE-Smith, Edward]. Cotton, John. ed.
Priapus 6.

Berkhamsted: John Cotton, 1966.
Autumn. 24 pp. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. A special issue featuring the Fantasy Press, including works by representative poets and a useful Press checklist. SIGNED by Lucie-Smith and George MacBeth on the front cover.
$50
86479
48.
[LUCIE-Smith, Edward]. Cotton, John. ed.
Priapus 16: International Poetry Number.

Berkhamsted: John Cotton, 1968/1969.
Winter. 29 pp. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by contributor Lucie-Smith on the front cover, “for Joseph Gold / with best wishes / Edward Lucie-Smith // This will be the / only publication / of these / translations of / mine / ELS.” Features translations of work by Neruda, Alberti, Eluard, Reverdy, Ponge, Char, and others.
$35
86379
49.
MALONE, Marvin with Allen De Loach. eds.
Wormwood Review 17. Volume 5, Number 1.

Storrs: Wormwood Review, 1965.
First trade edition. 27 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 600 numbered copies. Allen De Loach guest-edits this issue of the Review, with a focus on the Cafe Le Metro scene on New York’s Lower East Side. Contributing poets include Barbara Holland, George Montgomery, Diane Wakoski, Paul Blackburn, Ed Sanders, Peter Orlovsky, Tuli Kupferberg, Ted Berrigan, Gerard Malanga, and many others.
$25
66643
50.
MERRILL, James.
Bronze.

NY: Nadja (1984).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [22 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. One of 150 numbered copies on Hayle paper SIGNED by Merrill. A single long poem.
$125
67351
51.
MERWIN, W.S.
(Asian Figures).

NY: Atheneum, 1973.
First edition. 99 pp. Light foxing along top edge, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Merwin on the title page. Not issued in hardcover.
$125
74013
52.
[MILLER, Henry]. Bennett, John. ed.
Black Messiah: Premiere Issue.

Ellensburg: Vagabond Press (1981).
First edition. 4to. 93 pp w/Miller chronology. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Contributions by Jack Saunders, Alfred Perlès, Norman Mailer, Curt Johnson, Bennett, Charles Campbell, Noel Young, Erica Jong, Gerda Penfold, Dennis Lynds, Jerry Bumpus, John Krich, Jim Oren, Gary Allan Kizer, and Jan Kerouac. Erotic woodcuts by Richard Denner. Also issued in paperback, this is the first issue of this short-lived periodical.
$40
25035
53.
MILLS, Neil.
Dedication.

London: Advent Books, 1968.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. [4 pp]. Fine in stiff sewn wrappers and very near fine dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies on Ingres paper SIGNED by Mills. Dust jacket art designed by the author and screen-printed by the Trigram Press. Poems as flow chart.
$45
86504
54.
MURDOCH, Royal.
The Disrobing: Sex and Satire.

San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press (1982).
First edition, hardcover lettered issue. 111 pp. Fine in gilt-stamped paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. Edited by Winston Leyland, with his introduction. One of 26 lettered copies, the entire hardcover edition, with the long poem, “Ode for the Unforgotten,” laid in, as issued. Poems, aphorisms, journal selections, and part of an unfinished autobiographical novel.
$125
80471
55.
MURPHY, Richard.
Collected Poems.

Loughcrew: Gallery Press (2000).
First trade edition. 235 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Poems written between 1952 and 1984, with fifteen newer works. SIGNED by Murphy on the title page.
$50
47773
56.
NUTTALL, Jeff.
Poems I Want to Forget.

London: Turret (1965).
First edition. 20 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Cover illustration by Nuttall. Nine poems. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Nuttall. Turret Booklet No. 4.
$75
6543
57.
O’HARA, Frank.
Two Pieces.

London: Long Hair Books (1969).
First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Presents “Those Who Are Dreaming” and “Commercial Variations.” One of 500 copies. Smith A14.
$45
56427
58.
OSBORNE, John.
Damn You, England: Collected Prose.

London & NY: Faber & Faber (1994).
First edition. 264 pp. Pages lightly toned (cheap paper) else very near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dated (18.4.94) and SIGNED by Osborne. Book reviews, profiles, and letters by the playwright.
$55
86500
59.
PAIK, Nam June and Charlotte Moorman.
Guadalcanal Requiem.

[Newark]: WNET TV Lab, 1979.
First edition. Single 11 x 8 ½ inch illustrated flyer, and two versions of the press release. All items fine. Photograph of Moorman by Frank Pileggi. For the lot:
$125
86485
60.
PERCY, Walker.
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book.

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1983).
First trade edition. 262 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light sunning to spine, and a vertical crease to rear panel. SIGNED by Percy on the title page. His second non-fiction book.
$125