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$25.00Nottingham: Tarasque Press, 1968. First edition. Oblong 16mo. [38 pp]. Fine in wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Cover photograph and design by Stuart Mills. One of 250 copies. “So here I am / and there you are, / a diagram / most singular.”
$20.00Menlo Park: Occasional Works, 2002. First edition. 22 pp. Fine in wrappers with printed label. Illustrated. One of 100 copies on Velin Arches paper, printed letterpress. Number 2 in the Occasional Works “Of Interest” series. First separate appearance of this essay, printed originally in The London Review of Books. At publication price:
$45.00London: Profile Books (2010). First edition. 167 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Hill on the half-title page. Seller (scout really) of antiquarian books plagued by the ghost of a small child.
$125.00Lisbon: Penumbra Press, 1981. First edition. 41 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 125 (of 250) numbered copies on Nideggen paper. While this copy is numbered, it is marked “review copy” below the designation, and “review copy, newsprint proofs and page proofs” in holograph on the front free endpaper. This copy does have the colored title page done with relief block and porchoir techniques.
$750.00Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1945. First edition. 249 pp. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some light wear to base and crown, and sunning to red lettering on spine. First novel by Himes, in much better condition than normally encountered.
$20.00San Francisco: Kayak (nd). First edition. 61 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems with prints by Mel Fowler.
$55.00[San Francisco]: Kayak Press, 1969. First edition. Fourteen loose sheets (all fine) laid into a printed folder (near fine). Nice collage work with short poem captions. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Hitchcock.
$50.00Toronto: Coach House Press, 1978. First edition. 69 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Printed endorsements on the rear jacket flap by Coleman, Creeley, and Duncan. INSCRIBED by Hogg on the front free endpaper, “For George & Mary Oppen / This small light / against the sea / With the deepest respect / & thanks / Bob Hogg / Mountain, ‘79.”
$45.00Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1987. First edition. xi + 267 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. The first of three volumes of selected essays by Holmes, featuring his long series on Vietnam, “Walking Away from the War.”
$750.00Nicasio: Experimental Musical Instruments (1985-1999). Seventy issues, all 4to, all very near fine in stapled wrappers with some staining to the spines of three early issues. Published bi-monthly for the first nine years, then quarterly for the next five. “For the design, construction, and enjoyment of unusual sound sources.” Illustrated. For the run:
$100.00NY: Atheneum, 1972. First edition. 371 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art by Guy Fleming. Second novel by Hopkins. Review slip laid in. Young 1881 (1972 UK ed).
$450.00Prahran: Champion (1983). First edition. 4to. [228 pp]. Fine in illustrated boards. One of 250 copies. Flexidisc present. An elaborate artist’s book, picking up where Time/Life left off. Accompanied by the accordion-fold promotional flyer, illustrated with photographs by Peter Lyssiotis.
$45.00Basel & Hannover: Kestner-Gesellschaft (1995). First edition. 103 pp w/list of installations and select bibliography. Fine in glossy printed boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Illustrated with color images. Texts in German and English. Still in original shrinkwrap.
$300.00London & NY: Vision Press/St. Martin’s Press (1992). First US edition. 168 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hornby’s first book. Chapters on Raymond Carver, Anne Tyler, Bobbie Ann Mason, Richard Ford, Jayne Anne Phillips and Joy Williams, Tobias Wolff, André Dubus, and The New Yorker Short Story.
$35.00Madley: Five Seasons Press (1982). First edition, numbered issue. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 220 numbered copies on Rives mould made paper. Poems by Horovitz and Garfitt, with brush drawings by Halsey.
$85.00London: New Departures, 1971. First edition, numbered & signed issued. 38 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Horovitz with a full page holograph poem “Pretty as a Picture” penned on the first leaf. This book constitutes issue #9 of New Departures magazine.
$75.00London: Michael Joseph (1958). First edition. 238 pp. Page edges lightly toned, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a small stain to the top edge of the front flap. Autobiography by the author of ROGUE MALE. While not quite as thrilling as the lives of his protagonists, Household still had his share of experiences.
$450.00London: British Film Institute, 1960-1969/70. 29:2 - 39:1 Forty-two issues. A bit musty, else all near fine or better in stapled wrappers. An unbroken decade-long stretch of this unflagging periodical. Founded in 1932, and still running. Notable for the editorial policy of reviewing “art house” films in addition to those in general release. An important decade for film, as the Hollywood studio system declined as independent and underground film asserted themselves.
$250.00Berkeley: Tuumba, 1984. First edition. [28 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers with some light edgewear. One of 450 numbered copies. INSCRIBED by Howe on the title page, “For Eileen / from Fanny.” Tuumba 48.
$100.00NY: Bonacio & Saul/Grove Press, 1954. First edition. 48 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. A sharp copy of Howes' second collection.
$75.00Pawlet: Banyan Press, 1948. First edition. 40 pp. Fine in full dark blue cloth with printed spine label. Lacks the unprinted waxpaper dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies on Arches paper. Howes’ first book.
$35.00San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1963. First edition. 29 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine integral printed dust jacket. One of 750 copies on Curtis Rag paper. Hoyem's first book, a collection of poems. Auerhahn 22.
$15.00Santa Barbara: Christpher’s Books, 1972. First edition. 16mo. 24 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 650 copies. Poems “Written while in the custody of the state of California, 1971-2.”
$350.00London: Rainbow Press (1976). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 16mo. 65 pp. Fine in full blue leather with silver stamping in near fine publisher’s slipcase. Poems with illustrations by the author. One of 200 (of 226) numbered copies SIGNED by Hughes. Sagar & Tabor A48.
$450.00[North Tawton]: Morrigu Press (1983). First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Printed on an Albion hand-press in two colors. One of 75 numbered copies on Roma paper SIGNED by Hughes.
$450.00[North Tawton]: Morrigu Press (1983). First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 75 numbered copies on Roma paper SIGNED by Hughes. A late item from the press of Nicholas Hughes.
$350.00Crediton: Richard Gilbertson [1970]. First edition, withdrawn issue. [8 pp]. Fine in printed marbled-paper wrappers with rivit binding. Withdrawn due to a transposition of two lines in the poem, and Hughes' disapproval of the wrappers. Although 100 numbered, signed and dated copies were projected, almost all of them - the bibliographers noting only one exception - were left unnumbered, unsigned, and undated, and never officially released. Sagar & Tabor A21a.1.
$200.00NY: Norton (1979). First edition. 109 pp. Light foxing along top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to spine. INSCRIBED by Hugo to a fellow poet, “For Kenneth / now, if you will just / follow instructions / Love, / Dick.”
$150.00Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company (1970). First edition. xix + 180 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with three short edge-tears and a small bookseller label on the front flap. Foreword by Lee Rainwater. Sociologist Humphrey’s “imaginative” research method, “passing as a deviant” to observe and interview, was roundly criticized and stands as an example of questionable research ethics.
$150.00Melbourne: Macmillan (1980). First edition. Small 4to. 96 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Humphries on the title page. Color and b&w images of some of Australia’s finest.
$35.00Waukesha: Trevor Huskey (2017). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 40 numbered copies SIGNED by Huskey. Seven poems and an equal number of color and black and white photo works.
$100.00NY: Dutton (1930). First US edition. 305 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Spanish by Arthur Livingston. A fresh bright copy of this novel that “captured the essence of the whole Spanish Conquest, and the aging half-crazy Columbus has never been more truly and terribly presented.”