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$17.50NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2008). First edition. 340 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket.$25.00Powys: Wooden Books (1999). First edition. 58 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated.$35.00NY: Random House (1956). First edition. xv + 108 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Rouben Ter-Arutunian. Auden and Kallman translated the libretto of Mozart’s opera.$25.00Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1963. First edition. vii + 167 pp. A few faint spots of foxing to top edge, else near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.$20.00NY: & Oxford: Oxford University Press (1986). Later printing. x + 415 pp w/index. Light foxing to page edges, else near fine in near fine dust jacket.$35.00Oxford: Oxford University Press (1990). First edition. 55 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Music by Barry, libretto by Deane.$35.00San Francisco: Ego Magazine (1982). 46 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Interviews with Quentin Crisp and Jello Biafra, review of Laurie Anderson at the Kabuki, interview with Bad Posture, lots of record reviews and photos, plus transvestite of the month (Ambisexterous).$25.00Boston: Northeastern University Press (1998). First trade paperback printing. xiii + 370 pp w/index. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.$35.00NY: Norton (1987). First edition. xxviii + 497 pp w/index. Faint foxing to page edges, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited by Juliane Brand, Christopher Hailey, and Donald Harris.$35.00NY & London: Marion Boyars (1985). First US edition. 192 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with two short closed tears.$35.00Berkeley: Publish or Perish (1983). First edition. Oblong 16mo. 64 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Binge-Purge on the title page. Cartoon drawings.
$850.00[North Pomfret]: Elysium Press, 1997. First edition, lettered & signed issue. x + 141 pp. Fine in full blue cloth with inset cover and spine labels. Fine publisher’s clamshell case in matching cloth. Introduction by Gavin Lambert. Illustrated with four tipped-in photographs. Upon the box endpapers are reproduced the first printings of original music by each of the two correspondents. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Bowles, Rorem, and Lambert. This is copy “A.”. Original prospectus accompanies.
$300.00NY: League of Composers 1939-1944. Nine issues, all near fine in stapled wrappers. In addition to sitting on the “Composers’ Committee,” Bowles was a frequent translator and contributor from 1931 to 1946. Out of thirty or so citations, this batch includes Miller C95, C100-1, C107-8, C109, C110, C111, C134-5, C279, and C350. For the lot:$125.00NY: The Kitchen [1995]. 18 x 13 inch poster. Near fine, with a touch of edgewear and some trivial soiling and toning to the verso. SIGNED by Branca. This performance was filmed and released on dvd by Atavistic Records in 2003.$20.00Los Angeles: California Institute of the Arts/High Performance Books, 1992. First edition. 4to. 80 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. A 16-city survey of new art music, covering sampling, sonics, Terry Riley, minimalism, interactive music, Seattle and Portland, and much more.$25.00Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. First edition. 177 pp w/notes & index of names. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrated with fourteen plates.$35.00NY: Schirmer Books (1992). First edition. xv + 265 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. CD present.$25.00Hanover & London: Wesleyan University Press (1996). First edition. xlvii + 360 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wrinkles to base and crown of spine.$25.00Boston: Godine, 1973. First trade edition. 4to. 161 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a price sticker to front flap and a small abrasion to cover. Selected and prefaced by W.H. Auden, with an introduction by John Hollander.
$250.00London: Latimer (1974). First edition. 125 pp. Pages toned (cheap paper) else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with wear to rear panel and sunning to the red spine lettering. Cameron Allan’s penciled name and date (’76) on the front free endpaper. Cardew wrestles with modern music and class.$25.00Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1970. First edition. 233 pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued.$20.00Minneapolis: Grason (1986). First printing of this edition. 226 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.$125.00NY: HarperCollins (1990). First US edition. 248 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Cave’s first novel.$35.00NY: Oak Publications (1963). Third printing. 111 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with photographs throughout by Ann Charters. Dated (Feb. 10, 1967) and warmly inscribed to his Oyez Press publishers Bob and Dorothy Hawley.$35.00London: Blandford (1995). First edition. 320 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket.$45.00NY: McGraw-Hill (1989). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1939). xxiv + 307 pp. Hard erasure to first blank leaf, else fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by William Schuman.$20.00NY: Something Else Press, 1967. First edition. [14 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. A Great Bear Pamphlet.$25.00NY: Adventures In Poetry (nd). First edition. 4to. [20 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Photographic cover portrait of Crabtree by Peter Schjeldahl. Memoir written late in his short (1943-1973) life, largely concerned with Allen Ginsberg. Crabtree was a pianist and arranger for The Fugs.$12.50NY: Knopf, 1984. First edition. x +433 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a short surface scratch to front panel.$15.00London: Thames and Hudson (1989). First UK edition. 296 pp. Light soiling to fore-edge, else very near fine in fine dust jacket.
$40.00Sydney: Random House (1999). First edition. 224 pp w/index. Fine in illustrated boards and near fine clear unprinted acetate dust jacket. CD present in front cover well. Insider anecdotes and photographs complement this history of Australian rock music.
$75.00Prahran: Hardie Grant Books (2009). First edition. 198 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers and near fine dust jacket. A trade paperback original. INSCRIBED by Cummings “Craig in Santa Monica / its all good / man! / Stephen Cummings.” Memoir by the Melbourne-based musician and novelist.