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41.
HIGGINS, Dick.
Amigo: A Sexual Odyssey.
Barton: Unpublished Editions, 1972.
First edition. [48 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Deckle fore-edges. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Higgins. Poetry. Young 1794*.
$200
42.
HIGGINS, Dick and Eugene Williams.
for eugene in germany / cream dreams.
Barton: Unpublished Editions, 1973.
First trade edition. 33 + 9 pp. Tiny smudge on the Williams cover, else fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Printed by Noel Young. One of 300 numbered copies.
$50
43.
ISHIGURO, Kazuo.
Never Let Me Go.
NY: Knopf, 2005.
First US edition. 288 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Ishiguro on the title page. His sixth novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, source for the eponymous film.
$200
44.
JARRY, Alfred.
Selected Works of Alfred Jarry.
NY: Grove Press (1965).
First edition. 280 pp w/sources & bibliography. One upper corner lightly tapped, else fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor, with Shattuck’s introduction. The Ubu Cycle, a portfolio of illustrations, writings on the theater, poems, essays, and fictions.
$75
45.
JOHNSON, Ray.
The Paper Snake.
NY: Something Else Press (1965).
First edition, Oblong 8vo. [50 pp]. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped (as issued) dust jacket. Essay on Johnson by William Wilson on the jacket flaps, concluding, “Ray Johnson makes eggs out of omelets and Dick Higgins eats them.” One of 197 copies with an original small collage work (here pictured on top of the front cover) by Johnson, housed in an envelope pasted inside the front cover, as issued.
$1250
46.
JONES, David.
In Parenthesis: seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu.
NY: Chilmark Press (1961).
First US edition. xv + 224 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to base and crown, and some tanning to rear panel. Two page “Note of Introduction” by T.S. Eliot.
$50
47.
KRECH, Richard.
Rumors of Electricity.
Sommerville: sunnyoutside (2006).
First edition. 36 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 200 copies. SIGNED by Krech on the title page. Seventeen poems.
$10
48.
KUENSTLER, Frank.
13 ½ Poems.
NY: S/Z Press (1984).
First edition. 18 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One, or perhaps one and a half, of the poems are published on the covers.
$45
49.
KUNDERA, Milan.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
NY: Harper & Row (1984).
First US edition. 314 pp. Upper corners lightly tapped, else fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Czech by Michael Henry Heim.
$100
50.
LAUGHLIN, James.
Some Natural Things: Poems.
Norfolk: New Directions (1945).
First edition. 47 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a short tear and light wear along the top edge. Printed at the Prairie Press. Dated (4/ix/45) and INSCRIBED by Laughlin on the front free endpaper, “for Mark / from Jay.”
$50
51.
[LAX, Robert]. Bannon, Anthony and Nancy Weekly. eds.
Robert Lax and Concrete Poetry.
Buffalo: Burchfield Art Center/Poetry/Rare Books Collection University Libraries, University at Buffalo 1990.
First edition. 4to. [32 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Essays by Mary Ellen Solt, Michael Basinski, and Robert J. Bertholf. Original poems commissioned for this publication by Robert Lax, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and bill bissett.
$50
52.
levy, d.a.
Visualized Prayers & Hymn for the American $God$.
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966.
First edition. [12 pp]. Toning to extrems, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Inked signature of Canadian poet George Bowering on the front cover. One of 115 copies. Taylor & Horvath P-89.
$500
53.
levy, d.a. ed.
The Silver Cesspool Vol. 4.
Cleveland: Renegade Press (1964).
First edition. [16 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers. Rear cover artwork, “A Night at Uxmal” by levy, internal print, “Birds,” by John Konyescni. Contributions by Judson Crews, Kirby Congdon, James D. Callahan, levy, Ronald Caplan, Keith Davie, Lewis Turco, and L.S. Torgoff. Taylor & Horvath P-46.
$350
54.
LEWIS, Wyndham. ed.
Satire & Fiction aka Enemy Pamphlets No. 1.
London: Arthur Press [1930].
First edition. 63 pp. Tiny chip to one upper corner, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Occasioned by the response to his satirical novel THE APES OF GOD, designed to add fuel to the fire. Morrow & Lafourcade C8.
$200
55.
[LITERARY ANTHOLOGY]. Miles. ed.
Darazt: An Anthology.
London: Lovebooks Limited (1965).
First edition. [20 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 500 numbered copies. William S. Burroughs, Lee Harwood, John Hopkins, and Miles contribute work to this collection.
$75
56.
LOPEZ, Barry.
Nunca Más!
Red Wing: Red Dragonfly Press (2007).
First trade edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 260 (of 350) numbered copies on Mohawk Superfine paper. Erratum slip present. Lopez reflects on a visit to Auschwitz.
$35
57.
LOTI, Pierre.
Notes On My Youth: Fragments of a Diary Assembled by his Son Samuel Viaud.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924.
First US edition. xii +178 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a band of toning along the bottom edge. Foreword by Emile Vedel. Translated from the original French by Rose Ellen Stein. Previously unpublished letters and diary fragments, the diary covering the years 1870 when Loti was 19, just out of naval school, ending in 1879, while a lieutenant in the French navy.
$125
58.
MASTERS, Robert E.L. and Jean Houston.
Psychedelic Art.
NY: Grove Press (1968).
First edition. Small 4to. 190 pp w/bibliography & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Contributions also by Barry N. Schwartz, “Context, value & direction” and Stanley Krippner, “The Psychedelic Artist.” Illustrated with b&w images, and 32 full color pages.
$150
59.
McEWAN, Ian.
The Child in Time.
London: London Limited Edition/Jonathan Cape (1987).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 220 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Very near fine unprinted tissue dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by McEwan. Winner of the 1987 Whitbread Novel Award.
$125
60.
[MILLER, Henry].
Three Bibliographies.
Hayes, Minneapolis, & San Francisco: Fort Hayes Kansas State College/Henry Miller Literary Society/Michael Hargraves. 1961 & 1980.
First editions. 52 + 32 + 21 pp. Three volumes, all near fine or better in stapled wrappers. The Hayes volume is SIGNED by the bibliographer, Esta Lou Riley, the Henry Miller Society is one of 1000 numbered copies, the Hargraves includes a useful discography. For the trio:
$75