e-catalog #112
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1.
ARENDT, Hannah.
The Promise of Politics.

NY: Schocken (2005).
First edition. xxxv + 218 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Jerome Kohn, with his introduction.
$45
86515
2.
ASHBERY, John.
Can You Hear, Bird: Poems.

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1995).
First edition. 175 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Ashbery.
$75
83132
3.
ASHBERY, John.
Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles 1957–1987.

NY: Knopf, 1989.
First edition. xxiii + 417 pp w/index. Small dot to top edge of one board, a touch of faint foxing to top edge. In all, near fine in near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel and a fade to the Borzoi on the spine. A heavy book, that does not generally wear well.
$55
86775
4.
BARTHELME, Donald.
Sixty Stories.

NY: Putnam’s (1981).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 457 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth and very near fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Barthelme. Nine previously uncollected stories round-out this selection drawn from Barthelme’s published books.
$100
86669
5.
BERRIGAN, Ted.
In the Early Morning Rain.

London: Cape Goliard Press, 1970.
First trade edition. Small 4to. [104 pp]. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Cover art and internal drawings by George Schneeman. A substantial collection of Berrigan poems. Review slip laid in.
$75
7095
6.
BOYLE, T. Coraghessan.
Descent of Man: Stories.

London: Gollancz, 1980.
First UK edition. 219 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a bit of rubbing to edge of spine. His first book, a collection of short stories.
$100
86665
7.
BRAKHAGE, Stan.
The Brakhage Lectures.

Chicago: The GoodLion (1972).
First trade edition. 106 pp. Very near fine in stiff wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Two page foreword by Robert Creeley. Illustrated with stills. Méliès, Griffith, Dreyer, and Eisenstein.
$200
86663
8.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard.
In Watermelon Sugar.

San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation (1968).
First trade edition. 138 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Edmund Shea. Brautigan’s third novel. Writing 21.
$75
86627
9.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
All the Assholes in the World and Mine.

Bensenville: Open Skull Press (1966).
First edition. [28 pp]. Light sunning along spine, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Bukowski. One of 400 copies. An early prose work. Krumhansl 23.
$500
86628
10.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts.

Bensenville: Mimeo Press, 1965.
First edition. [52 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers with some faint sunning along spine. Cover art from a painting by Anna Purcell. A prose work, the debut of longtime Bukowski character Henry Chinaski. One of 500 copies. Krumhansl 17.
$750
86625
11.
BUNTING, Basil.
Loquitur.

London: Fulcrum Press (1965).
First trade edition. 4to. 77 pp. Fine in decorated cardstock covers and unprinted clear plastic dust jacket. Both the book and the cover were designed by Richard Hamilton, with a reproduction of Bunting’s holograph on the cover. Poems on Glastonbury pure white antique laid paper.
$200
86672
12.
BURKE, Clifford.
Out of Nowhere: Nineteen Tiny Poems with Woodcuts from TEN THOUSAND SQUARE IDEAS (in progress).

[San Jose]: Desert Rose Press (2003).
First edition. [42 pp]. Fine in illustrated stiff wrappers with printed spine label. Beautifully printed in two colors.
$150
86664
13.
BURROUGHS, William S.
Doctor Benway: A Passage from THE NAKED LUNCH.

Santa Barbara: Bradford Morrow, 1979.
First trade edition. 41 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Frontispiece drawing by K. Anders. Designed and printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh. Burroughs contributes a new introduction to this publication, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the original appearance of Burroughs’ infamous novel. Original prospectus accompanies.
$150
86601
14.
COHEN, Ira. ed.
Gnaoua.

Tangier: Ira Cohen 1964.
First edition. 103 pp. Light sunning to spine and upper portion of front and rear covers, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. The expat of expat journals, presenting the work of Burroughs, Gysin, Norse, Ginsberg, McClure, Jack Smith (five photographs on glossy paper), and others.
$850
86688
15.
CONNER, Bruce and Michael McClure.
“Mandalas” publication announcement.

San Francisco: Dave Haselwood Books (nd).
First edition. 3 ½ x 6 inch printed card. Fine. Printed letterpress on deep heavy goldenrod paper with a pasted-on mandala drawing by Conner. Announcement for this “collaboration between poet, artist and book designer to produce an object in the form of a 10 x 10 book.” Uncommon.
$150
33666
16.
CREELEY, Robert.
St. Martin’s.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971.
First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. [40 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket with one short tear to rear flap fold. Illustrations by Bobbie Creeley. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Robert and Bobbie Creeley, with an original monoprint by her tipped-on opposite the title page. Morrow & Cooney 103c.
$150
7803
17.
CREWS, Harry.
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place.

London: Secker & Warburg (1979).
First UK edition. 171 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Crews’ memoir of growing up in Bacon Country, Georgia, “one of the finest memoirs even written.” — NYer.
$125
86662
18.
DAWSON, Fielding.
An Emotional Memoir of Franz Kline.

NY: Pantheon (1967).
First edition. 147 pp. A few small spots to bottom edges of boards, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with some light edgewear and a smalls snag to spine. One fold-out plate. From Black Mountain College to New York’s Cedar Tavern.
$75
53143
19.
[FLOCKOPHOBIC PRESS]. Sandford, Christy Sheffield and Dean Bornstein.
Cowrie Shell Piece (Baroque and Rococo Strains).

NY: Flockophobic Press, 1991.
First edition. 20 x 17 inch sheet, printed in five colors on both sides, folded and bound between two silk-covered boards with a design of three cowrie shells sewn to the front panel. Sanford’s prose text with linoleum cut illustrations by Dean Borntein and overall design by A.S.C. Rower. One of 175 numbered copies SIGNED by Sanford, Bornstein, and Rower.
$75
86610
20.
FORD, Charles Henri.
Poems for Painters: Duchamp, Leonor Fini, Francés, Yves Tanguy, Tchelitchew.

NY: View Editions, 1945.
First trade edition. 4to. [16 pp]. A few small splash marks to front cover, else very good plus in illustrated wrappers with light edgewear. Five poems by Ford, one of which appears here for the first time, with b&w reproductions of works by the artists in the title. Typography by Parker Tyler.
$75