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41.
OLSON, Charles.
Some Early Poems.
Iowa City: Windhover Press (1978).
First edition. [64 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Title page woodcut portrait of Olson by Roxanne Sexauer. One of 300 copies on Fabriano Book paper. Berger 70.
$50
42.
OLSON, Charles.
This.
Black Mountain: Black Mountain College Graphics Workshop (1952).
First edition. Single long sheet folded twice as issued (12 x 9 inches, closed). Very near fine, with a tiny tear at one fold. Olson’s poem in a beautiful design by Nicola Cernovich. Butterick calls for an edition of only 30, but there were undoubtedly more than that produced. Butterick A6.
$450
43.
ONDAATJE, Michael.
Running in the Family.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1983.
First UK edition. 207 pp. A few tiny spots to fore-edge, else very near fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Ondaatje on the title page.
$75
44.
POUND, Ezra.
Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the Manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, Chosen and Finished by Ezra Pound, with an Introduction by William Butler Yeats.
Churchtown: Cuala Press, 1916.
First edition. xviii + 48 pp w/notes. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Introduction by W.B. Yeats. One of 350 numbered copies (the entire edition). Gallup A12. From the library of Black Sparrow publisher John Martin, with his ownership ticket.
$500
45.
POUND, Ezra.
Exultations of Ezra Pound.
London: Elkin Mathews, 1909.
First edition. 51 pp. Expected light scattered foxing, else fine in boards and in the original glassine that is a bit rumpled and edgeworn with a few short tears. Gallup A4a. One of Pound’s own copies, with the label, “From The Venice Library of Ezra Pound & Olga Rudge” inside the front cover. Housed in a custom clamshell case (two lower corners lightly bumped). From the collection of Black Sparrow publisher John Martin, with his label.
$2500
46.
POUND, Ezra.
Personae: Collected Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound.
London: Faber and Faber (1952).
First UK edition. 287 pp w/index of titles or first lines. Fine in two copies of the dust jacket, both also very near fine, one with the original 25s net price, the other clipped with the printed 21s. net price, as well as completely different texts on the rear cover and jacket flaps. Gallup A27c.
$200
47.
POUND, Ezra.
Quia Pauper Amavi.
London: The Egoist [1919].
First trade edition. 51 pp. Very near fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. One of 500 copies. As in most copies, Pound has corrected the misprinted “Wherefore” to “Wherefrom” on page 34. Gallup A17a. From the library of Black Sparrow publisher John Martin, with his ownership ticket.
$650
48.
PRIME-STEVENSON, Edward.
Those Restless Pilgrimages.
[North Pomfret]: Elysium Press, 2002.
First edition. 17 pp. Fine in stiff wrappers and fine pale green paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 50 numbered copies on Somerset paper, ten of which were for private use. Edited by Tom Sargant, with his introduction. Bookseller Burton Weiss wrote: travel pieces by a gay American writer born in 1858 who lived most of his adult life in Europe, where he published two groundbreaking books under the pseudonym “Xavier Mayne”: IMRE: A MEMORANDUM (Naples, 1906), the first sympathetic and explicitly gay novel by an American, and THE INTERSEXES (1908), the first separately published study of homosexuality by an American.
$125
49.
PRYNNE, J.H.
Down where changed.
London: Ferry Press, 1979.
First edition. 42 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. A single long poem, given good room in this elegant edition.
$125
50.
PRYNNE, J.H.
News of Warring Clans.
London: Trigram Press, 1977.
First trade edition. [32 pp]. Fine in wrappers and very near fine integral illustrated dust jacket with sunned spine. One of 574 (of 600) copies.
$75
51.
RAWORTH, Tom.
Lion Lion.
London: Trigram Press (1970).
First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Printed letterpress in two colors. One tipped-on illustration. Far less common than either the paperback or signed limited issue of this title.
$50
52.
[REGISTER, John]. Browning, Jeffrey.
John Register.
Santa Barbara & San Francisco: Black Sparrow/Modernism, 1985.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 4to. 63 pp. Touch of shelf wear, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Sixteen color plates, an interview, 23 b&w plates, and an essay by Browning, “Chairs Rooms Windows.” One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Browning and Register.
$200
53.
RICARD, Rene.
God with Revolver: Poems 1979–82.
Madras & NY: Hanuman Books, 1989.
First edition. 8vo. 101 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in full cloth and fine printed dust jacket with pasted-down (as issued) unprinted clear cellophane cover with a short tear and fold to rear panel. The only full-sized book from Raymond Foye and Francesco Clemente’s press.
$500
54.
ROETHKE, Theodore and John Roy.
Sequence Sometimes Metaphysical: Poems.
Iowa City: Stone Wall Press (1963).
First trade edition. [60 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards and fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. Twelve Roethke poems, each paired with an engraving by Roy. One of 330 numbered copies on Rives Heavy and Mulberry papers. Berger 13.
$450
55.
ROTHENBERG, Jerome.
A Poem in Four Parts: A Poem to Celebrate the Spring & Diane Rothenberg’s Birthday.
Perry: Perishable Press, 1975.
First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with a paper construction by Jody Shields bound into the center fold. One of 76 copies. SIGNED by Rothenberg.
$150
56.
RUBOVITS, Frank.
Doggerel Exchange By & For the birthday of Doctor Frank Rubovits.
Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, 1978.
First edition. [18 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 125 copies pritned letterpress on seven different handmade papers for friends of Rubovits and the Press. Hamady 85.
$75
57.
SAROYAN, Aram.
The Rest.
NY & Philadelphia: Telegraph Books (1971).
First trade edition. 107 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A collection of short poems.
$45
58.
SIMIC, Charles.
The Chicken Without a Head.
Portland: Trace Editions, 1983
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Simic. A five part long poem with a title page illustration.
$45
59.
SIMIC, Charles.
Weather Forecast for Utopia & Vicinity: Poems 1967–1982.
Barrytown: Station Hill (1983).
First edition. 48 pp. Very near fine in full red cloth with gilt stamping. No dust jacket, as issued. SIGNED by Simic on the front free endpaper. Thirty-five poems.
$200
60.
SNYDER, Gary.
Manzanita.
Bolinas: Four Seasons Foundation, 1972.
First edition. 30 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Arthur Okamura. Nineteen poems. SIGNED by Snyder on the title page. McNeil A42.
$100