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$150.00NY: Random House (1962). First edition. xi + 299 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Review slip laid in. Young 1950*.
$25.00London: Eyre Methuen (1980). First edition. 338 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Front and rear cover portraits by Don Bachardy. Beginning with his 1939 arrival in the US to Prabhavananda’s death in 1976, Isherwood details their long friendship, and his own spiritual struggles.
$35.00London: Menard Press, 1979. First UK edition. 46 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Translated from the original French by Anthony Rudolf, with his introduction. This volume is also is the Journals of Pierre Menard No. 5.
$25.00Berkeley: Tree, 1973. First edition. 89 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers from flaps, else fine in wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Introduction by Rosmarie Waldrop, who also translated this volume from the original French.
$17.50NY: New Directions (1977). First US edition. 60 p. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket that is toned at the extrems. Translated from the original French by André Lefevere (prose) and Michael Hamburger (verse). Review slip laid in.
$35.00NY: Harper & Row (1972). First US edition. 185 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. This edition includes Nonce Preface, Outline, Preface for a Second Reading and the section entitled Some After-Speaking: Private Words. A greatly expanded version of the text that was issue 35 of Chelsea.
$45.00[Brooklyn]: Cuneiform Press (2008). First edition. Single sheet folded twice to make a booklet (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches, closed). Fine. Jacob’s poem in French, Fagin’s version in English. SIGNED by Fagin on the rear cover.
$250.00Berkeley: Thyrsus Press, 2018. First edition. [46 pp]. Fine in half-cloth and printed paper-covered boards. Translated from the original French by Alastair Johnston. Thirty-three selected poems with 32 original illustrations by Jinny Pearce. Printed letterpress and hand bound. One of 135 numbered copies SIGNED by Johnston and Pearce. New, at publication price:
$35.00Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1977). First edition. 24 pp w/glossary. Near fine in illustrated wrappers that are lightly rubbed. Two short stories, with questions, in “simplified text” for educational purposes. An uncommon appearance by South African novelist Jacobson.
$20.00Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1967. First edition. 39 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Poems in English translation by Teo Savory, followed by the original French versions.
$40.00Wien: Das Fröhliche Wohn-Zimmer-Edition (2002). First edition. 16mo. [66 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers. Dated (Wien, 10,6,2002) and INSCRIBED by Jaschke to Anne and Jackson Mac Low, “für / Anne & Jackson / herzlichst / vom / Gerhard.”
$200.00[Covelo]: Yolla Bolly Press (1983). First edition. Folio. 127 pp w/notes. Fine in cloth-covered boards with leather spine. Near fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. Jeffers’ poem illustrated with woodblock prints by Mark Livingston. Afterword by James D. Houston. One of 225 (of 240) numbered copies SIGNED by Livingston and Houston. Press compliments slip laid in.
$250.00Los Angeles: Arundel Press, 1988. First edition, deluxe issue. 4to. 33 pp w/notes. Fine in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Robert J. Brophy, with his introduction. One of 50 (from an edition of 250) numbered copies on Gutenberg paper. Printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh. A selection of over twenty previously unpublished poems by Jeffers, dating from his earliest writings.
$750.00Pasadena: Flame Press, 1930. Second edition, first printing. 3 pp. Covers lightly rumpled, else very good plus in sewn wrappers. One of 110 numbered copies printed by Harry Ward Ritchie. The first edition but for 15 copies was destroyed due to typographic errors. Alberts 63. Broomfield A11b.
$450.00San Mateo: Quercus Press, 1940. First edition. 4to. [12 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Printed by hand at the Quercus Press on the Albion proof press used by William Morris at his Kelmscott Press. One of 250 copies on Kelmscott hand-made paper of which 200 were for sale. Two poems by Jeffers, with an excerpt from Una Jeffers’ English journal. Original publication announcement laid in.
$20.00Cardiff: Second Aeon Press, 1971. First edition. 20 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Jenkins' second collection, largely of concrete poems. One of 400 copies.
$750.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970. First edition, publisher’s copy. 4to. [126 pp]. Fine in full leather with gilt stamping to front cover. Fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. “Versions” by Jess, fully illustrated with his drawings on almost every page. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Jess. Morrow & Cooney 92c (note).
$250.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. xiii + [33 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels. Fine clear acetate dust jacket. Introduction by Robert Duncan. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Jess and Duncan. Original illustrated prospectus accompanies. Morrow & Cooney 105a.
$100.00London: Tetrad Press (1973). First edition. Three 4 3/4 x 3 1/4 inch cards in a glassine envelope, which is then housed in a small folder within a large printed cover sheet (12 x 10 inches, closed). All elements fine. One of 100 (of 125) copies.
$35.00NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1974). First edition. xi + 340 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Over 800 illustrations, many in color.
$75.00Urbana: Finial Press (1969). First US edition. [40 pp]. Fine in bright yellow-gold boards with stamped and gilt designs on the front cover. Text illustrated with drawings by Tom Kovacs. One of 171 numbered copies on Shinsetsu paper SIGNED by Johnson and Kovacs. First published in Scotland by Finlay’s Wild Hawthorn Press, "Sports" is a series of found poems "made from Erik Satie’s notes, in French, to the piano pieces SPORTS AND DIVERTISSEMENTS." This is copy 171.
$125.00NY & London: Routledge (2002). First edition. ix + 258 pp w/index. Price sticker/barcode on the rear cover, else fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Johnson gathers essays on John Cage, Willem de Kooning, Morton Feldman, Jasper Johns, Edgard Varese, Robert Rauschenberg, and others.
$35.00London: Review/Headline (2000). First edition. 213 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Johnston on the title page.
$45.00Gillingham: ARC (1970). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 15 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Jones. A collection of nine poems.
$3,500.00Toronto & London: Monk Bretton Books, 1981. First edition. Fourteen 20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inch lithographic portraits from life by Montreal artist Morton Rosengarten, each paired with a poem by the respective subject: Margaret Atwood, Earle Birney, Leonard Cohen, Ralph Gustafson, Irving Layton, John Newlove, Alden Nowlan, Michael Ondaatje, P.K. Page, Al Purdy, F.R. Scott, A.J. M. Smith, and Phyllis Webb. Each portrait sheet is numbered and SIGNED by Rosengarten, each broadside signed by the poet with the exception of Smith, who died during production. The whole housed, together with the title page, Jones’ introduction, the artist’s preface, and the colophon, in a black paper-lined buckram folding box, with the title silkscreened to the upper cover. All elements fine. A sumptuous Canadian livre d’artiste. Original prospectus accompanies.
$200.00NY: Random House (1977). Uncorrected proof. 176 pp. Spine lightly sunned, else very near fine in printed wrappers with publication information taped to the front cover. Her first collection of stories, following two novels. Promotional flyer laid in.
$350.00Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. First edition. [22 pp]. One by two inch sticker scar to rear cover, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards. Errata slip tipped-in after the colophon. Slocum & Cahoon A24.
$75.00NY: Passenger (2013). First edition. Folio. [180 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Still sealed in original packaging. Collaborative works featuring Harmony Korine, Sean Lennon, Dan Colen, John Waters, Dash Snow, selections from Tom Farber and Nacio Brown’s RAG THEATER, Yoko Ono, and much else.
$75.00NY: Schocken (1982). First US edition. xi + 130 pp w/notes, chronology, & index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to base and crown of spine. Translated from the original German by Richard and Clara Winston. Edited by N.N. Glatzer. Letters from 1909 to 1924, illustrated. From the library of David Meltzer, with his annotation to the first leaf.
$45.00Stuttgart: edition hansjög mayer, 1967. First edition. Single large sheet folded four times, as issued (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, closed). Fine. Original Japanese poems with English translations printed on the rear panel.
$250.00[San Francisco: Stolen Paper Editions, 1966]. First edition. [10 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Conforms to all the true first edition points but a variant issue with the cover printed in brown ink on white stock. The subject of one of the many major American censorship trials of its day.
$25.00Beacon: Untitled, 2007. First edition. 110 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards and fine printed dust jacket. Kaplan’s first full-length collection of poems since 1971. Beautifully printed in Naples, Italy.