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21.
GIORNO, John.
Birds: John Giorno 1965.

NY & San Francisco: Angel Hair Books (1971).
First edition. 4to. [22 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover by George Schneeman. One of 250 copies.
$150
86608
22.
GREEN, Henry.
Doting: A Novel.

London: Hogarth Press, 1952.
First edition. 251 pp. Small smudge on fore-edge, else very near fine in like dust jacket with two tiny tears and an internal tape mend to crown. Cover art by Lynton Lamb. Green’s tenth and last novel.
$75
86609
23.
HEANEY, Seamus.
The Loose Box.

NY: Parnassus: Poetry in Review [2001].
First edition. Single large sheet folded twice to make a folding card (9 x 5 ¾ inches, closed). Fine. Printed in two colors at The Oliphant Press. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Heaney. Brandes & Kurkan AA68.
$400
67339
24.
HEANEY, Seamus.
Wintering Out.

London: Faber and Faber (1972).
Uncorrected proof. 80 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. As this title was published first as a trade paperback, proofs for this early collection of poems are uncommon at best. See Brandes & Durkan A8.
$2000
86686
25.
HELICZER, Piero.
The Soap Opera.

London: Trigram Press, 1967.
First edition. 36 pp. Fine in very near fine in dust jacket with pale sunning along spine. One of 440 (of 500) copies. Cover by Paul Vaughan. Frontis mandala by Robert Harding Brown. Illustrations by Ferro, Wallace Berman, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol (a Screen Test still), and Harold Chapman.
$350
86679
26.
HOWE, Susan.
Articulation of Sound Forms in Time.

Windsor: Awede, 1987.
First edition. [54 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Letterpress printed in two colors inside and out. SIGNED by Howe on the title page.
$250
86668
27.
HOWE, Susan.
Kidnapped.

Clonmel: Coracle, 2002.
First edition. [100 pp]. Fine in full green cloth and fine dust jacket. Photographs by Peter Hare and Susan Howe. Beautifully printed and produced with five small tipped-on plates and one small laid in printed slip. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Howe.
$125
86674
28.
JESS.
O!

NY: Hawk’s Well Press (1960).
First edition. [14 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. “Pre-Face” by Robert Duncan. A collage book by Jess.
$125
86630
29.
JONES, Le Roi.
Tales.

London: MacGibbon & Kee (1969).
First UK edition. 132 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a small inked price on the front flap. Sixteen short stories.
$50
86626
30.
KEROUAC, Jack.
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity.

NY: Totem/Corinth (1960).
First edition. [20 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art, in purple, by Jesse Sorrentino. Charters A11.
$450
86575
31.
LEVERTOV, Denise.
Psalm Concerning the Castle.

[Madison]: Walter Hamady, 1966.
First edition. 14 ¼ x 10 ½ inch broadside. Light bend to one corner, else very near fine. One of seventy copies, twenty being hors commerce. Uncommon in trade, explained in part by OCLC locating 27 copies in libraries. Wilson A9.
$150
86655
32.
LOGUE, Christopher.
Pax from Book XIX of The Iliad.

London: Turret Books (1967).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 21 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Cover art based on Vorticist designs by Wyndham Lewis from Blast. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Logue. As in most copies, holograph correction by Logue on page 8. Ramsden A20a.
$350
86685
33.
MAC LOW, Jackson.
French Sonnets Composed Between January 1955 & April 1983.

Tucson: Black Mesa Press 1984.
First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in full cloth with pasted-on spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 250 numbered copies printed letterpress in two colors on Rives lightweight paper. Mac Low contributes a four page preface.
$50
86636
34.
MacDIARMID, Hugh.
Poet at Play and Other Poems Being a Selection of Mainly Vituperative Poems.

(np): Privately Printed (1965).
First edition. 16mo. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 55 numbered copies. Twelve poems, “rescued” without the permission of either Dr. Grieve or Mr. Hugh MacDiarmid.
$125
86689
35.
McCLURE, Michael.
Dream Table.

San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1965.
First edition. Set of thirty 3 ½ x 2 ½ inch cards, including a title and colophon card. Small light mark on title card, which is a bit toned, else all are fine. Each card is printed on the recto with a cut of a lion head and a tree, along with four corner bullets in blue, and two black dots. On the verso of each is printed two words, one at top and one at bottom. Designed to be flipped and mixed. Haselwood 5.
$200
86576
36.
MERWIN, W.S.
Chinese Figures (Second Series).

Mount Horeb: Perishable Press, 1971.
First edition. Narrow 8vo. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine unprinted dust jacket. One of 120 (of which 75 were for public sale) copies on Shadwelll papers. Hamady 49.
$150
86680
37.
NERUDA, Pablo.
We Are Many.

London: Cape Goliard (1967).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [40 pp]. Fine in very near fine dust jacket, a little crimped along the top edges. Cover cut out by Jim Dine. Original Spanish poems with facing English translations by Alastair Reid. Photographs by Hans Ermann. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Neruda and Reid.
$1000
86678
38.
NIEDECKER, Lorine.
My Life by Water: Collected Poems 1936–1968.

London: Fulcrum (1970).
First edition. 126 pp. Fine in full black cloth with gold stamping to spine. Fine clear acetate dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies on glastonbury antique laid paper SIGNED by Niedecker.
$750
86602
39.
NIEDECKER, Lorine.
North Central.

London: Fulcrum Press (1968).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. [46 pp]. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear to the top edge of the front panel. One of 100 copies on Fourstone white mould-made, deckle-edge paper SIGNED by Niedecker.
$650
86648
40.
O’HARA, Frank.
Lunch Poems.

San Francisco: City Lights Books (1964).
First edition. 74 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Pocket Poets #19. Smith A8.
$750