41.
MOORE, Daniel.
Burnt Heart: Ode To The War Dead.
London & San Francisco: City Lights (1971).

First edition. 62 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. A long poem with five internal illustrations and cover art by Moore. Cook 95.
$20

42.
MOORE, Daniel.
Dawn Visions.
San Francisco: City Lights (1964).

First edition. 116 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Moore’s poems, accompanied by b&w reproductions of his artworks. Cook 48.
$25

43.
MRABET, Mohammed translated by Paul Bowles.
M’Hashish.
San Francisco: City Lights (1969).

First edition. 56 pp w/notes. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Ten stories taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. Miller A20. Cook 73.
$75

44.
PARKINSON, Thomas.
Protect the Earth.
San Francisco: City Lights, 1970.

First edition. 43 pp. Small price sticker on rear cover, else very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Front cover photograph of a police officer at People’s Park removing plants. Cook 82.
$12.50

45.
PESSOA, Fernando.
Always Astonished: Selected Prose.
San Francisco: City Lights (1988).

First edition. ix + 134 pp w/chronology & bibliographical note. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited, introduced, and translated from the Portugese by Edwin Honig. Cook 201.
$22.50

46.
PESSOA, Fernando.
Poems of Fernando Pessoa.
San Francisco: City Lights (1998).

First printing of this City Lights edition (originally published in 1986 by the Ecco Press). xvii + 240 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the Portugese by Edwin Honig and Susan M. Brown with their introduction.
$15.95

47.
PETERS, Nancy J. ed.
City Lights Review Number Five: War After War.
San Francisco: City Lights (1992).

First edition. 273 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributions by Tom Clark, Philip Lamantia, Paul West, Karen Finlay, Wanda Coleman, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Indiana, and many others.
$10

48.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Weishaus, Joel. ed.
On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing.
San Francisco: City Lights (1971).

First edition. 128 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Meltzer, Creeley, Borregaard, Kyger, Tom Clark, Berkson, Warsh, and many others. Book design and typography by Cranium Press. Wonderful frontispiece drawing by Arthur Okamura. Cook 91.
$20

49.
[POUND, Ezra]. Laughlin, James.
The Master of Those Who Know: Ezra Pound.
San Francisco: City Lights (1986).

First edition. 48 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Two essays, “Pound the Teacher” and “Pound and the Primitive.” Cook 178.
$12.50

50.
REXROTH, Kenneth.
Beyond the Mountains.
San Francisco: City Lights [1966].

First edition. 190 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers that are lightly rubbed. A collection of four plays: Phaedra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Hermaios, and Berenike with Rexroth’s introductory note. Cook 60.
$20

51.
REY ROSA, Rodrigo.
The Beggar’s Knife.
San Francisco: City Lights (1985).

First edition. 95 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated by Paul Bowles. Miller A45[b]. Cook 165b.
$50

52.
RUMNEY, Ralph.
The Consul.
San Francisco: City Lights (2002).

First US edition. 124 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Conversations with Gérard Berréby, translated from the French by Malcolm Imrie. A delightful read — Rumney, interesting in his own right, intersected with Debord, Yves Klein, Duchamp, Bataille, Burroughs, and many other dynamic figures of his day. Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time, Vol. II.
$12.95

53.
SANDERS, Ed.
Poem from Jail.
San Francisco: City Lights (1963).

First edition. 27 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers with a small smudge to rear cover. Inked ownership signature of Berkeley poet Richard Krech inside the front cover, “Krech.” Cook 42.
$75

54.
SHURE, Robert.
Twink.
San Francisco: City Lights (1958).

First enlarged edition (originally self-published by Shure in 1955). 24mo. 46 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Drawings by R. Zimmerman. Cook 13.
$20

55.
SNYDER, Gary.
The Old Ways: Six Essays.
San Francisco: City Lights (1977).

First edition. 12mo. 96 pp. Near fine illustrated wrappers with light toning to spine. Cook 121.
$20

55a.
Same title.
Near fine illustrated wrappers with some toning to front cover. SIGNED by Snyder on the title page.
$100

56.
TAKAHASHI, Mutsuo.
Sleeping Sinning Falling.
San Francisco: City Lights (1992).

First edition. 105 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Poems translated from the Japanese by Hiroaki Sato, with his preface.
$12.50

57.
TOPOR.
Panic.
San Francisco: City Lights (1965).

First edition. 12mo. [48 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. A collection of forty-one b&w drawings by Roland Topor, author of THE TENANT. Cook 55.
$30

58.
VALAORITIS, Nanos.
My Afterlife Guaranteed & Other Narratives.
San Francisco: City Lights (1990).

First edition. 88 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Original Greek prose poems, meditations, and narratives translated by Mary Kitroeff, Lennart Bruce, Allegro Shartz, and Valaoritis. Cook 230.
$12.50

58a.
Same title.
Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED on the half-title page, “For James Schevill / with my best / regards — / + for an old / debt / in / gratitude / Nanos / Bekeley / 2.10.97.”
$20

59.
WILSON, Colin.
Poetry & Mysticism.
San Francisco: City Lights (1969).

First edition. 79 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Printed dedication to Lawrence Ferlinghetti. INSCRIBED by Wilson to poet/publisher Douglas Blazek, “For Doug / warm regards / Colin Wilson / Oct 88.” Cook 77.
$75

60.
YEVTUSHENKO, Yevgeny.
Flowers and Bullets & Freedom to Kill.
San Francisco: City Lights (1970).

First edition. 19 pp. Very near fine in yellow wrappers. Printed at the Cranium Press. Translated by Anthony Kahn and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Contains two political poems by Yevtushenko, both written in reaction to murders in the United States. ‘The Freedom to Kill’ was written after Robert F Kennedy’s assasination; ‘Flowers and Bullets’ is an elegy for Allison Krause, one of the four students killed at Kent State. Cook 83.
$20

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