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$75.00London: Enitharmon Press, 1976. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 34 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine. Near fine unprinted clear plastic dust jacket with a short split to the rear flap fold. Poems. One of 45 numbered copies on Glastonbury Laid paper SIGNED by Manning. This copy is additionally INSCRIBED by Manning on the colophon page to a fellow Enitharmon author, “For Miriam Benkovitz / wishing her strength + joy.” Prospectus laid in. Halliwell 54b.
$100.00London: Enitharmon Press, 1972. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 30 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine. Near fine unprinted acetate dust jacket. t.e.g. One of 75 numbered copies on Abbey Mills Coloured Text paper SIGNED by Manning. Halliwell 30b.
$150.00Hove: Codex (2000). First edition. 190 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Drawings throughout from Manning’s sketchbooks. “Documents the spiraling depravity of his years within the moral quagmire of bad sex, worse drugs, and truly horrific rock and roll.”
$45.00Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions (1978). First edition. 107 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Front and rear cover collages by Claude Pelieu-Washburn. Translated from the original French by Mary Beach.
$50.00Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art/Relache (2003). First edition. 95 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Edited by Susan Rosenberg. Includes a conversation by Christian Marclay, Thomas Y. Levin, Thaddeus A. Squire, and Ann Temkin. The Large Glass and the Liberty Bell.
$45.00South San Francisco: Manroot (1974). First edition, lettered & signed issue. [28 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. A twenty-part long poem. One 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Mariah. Young 2503*.
$200.00Sidmouth: TRANSFOMAcTION (1973). First edition. 151 pp w/list of illustrations. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers with a few gentle reading creases to spine. One of 985 (of 1000) numbered copies. Texts on a variety of colored papers, translated by John Lyle, with his preface. Profusely illustrated with color and b&w images.
$250.00Berkeley: El León Literary Arts (2009). First edition. 663 pp. Bump to bottom edge, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Marlantes on the title page. Picked up by Atlantic Monthly Press shortly after this small press edition, and republished in hardcover to New York Times Best Sellerdom.
$20.00Toronto: Coach House, 1977. First edition. [94 pp]. Near fine in wrappers; a paperback original. One of 1000 copies.
$150.00NY: Atheneum, 1961. First edition. 177 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art by Susan Foster. Marshall’s second book, a collection of four novellas.
$350.00London: Chapman & Hall, 1959. First edition. 254 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to spine. SIGNED by Martin on the title page, with his holograph note to the copyright page, “The reason for the blacked out section on the dust jacket is that we were threatened with a libel suit. I’d been sent a fan letter by another writer called Delanoy. I used his last name for a decadent character, and we were threatened with a libel suit. We settled by blacking out the name on the dust jackets that hadn’t been distributed. Ken Martin.” Young 2541*.
$150.00NY: Knopf, 1971. First edition. 311 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Maxwell, “For ____ / with good wishes / William Maxwell / 'Family history is like a kaleidoscope...' / page 311.”
$25.00San Francisco: Inferno Press, 1955. First edition. 39 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems by the editor of the long-running journal TRACE.
$125.00NY: Art-Rite Publishing (1977). April. [20 pp]. Small nick at base of spine, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Whole issue devoted to this work of prose, illustration, and photography by Mayer.
$20.00Vancouver: Very Stone House (1969). First edition. 16mo. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Playful short poems, verging on the concrete.
$75.00Toronto: Anonbeyond Press (1978). First edition. Eight small printed leaves laid into a folder (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, closed). All elements fine. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Smith and McCaffery.
$50.00La Laguna: Zasterle, 2002. First edition. 66 pp w/a note on the title. Fine in printed wrappers. Cover art by Ana Fernández. SIGNED by McCaffery on the title page.
$25.00London: Phoenix House (1998). First edition. 248 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by McCann.
$45.00Santa Fe: Santa Fe Opera (1996). First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Libretto for this opera based on the Judith Rossner novel of the same title. Music by Tobias Picker. SIGNED by McClatchy on the title page.
$125.00NY: Sea Cliff Press 1987. First edition. [26 pp]. Light toning along top edge, else very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 110 numbered copies on Nideggen paper SIGNED by McClatchy. Original prospectus and signed “Compliments of Sea Cliff Press” slip accompanies.
$150.00Berkeley: Arif Press, 1981. First edition, deluxe numbered issue. [10 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. A poem each by Joanna and Michael, with a frontis by Wesley B. Tanner, who printed and published this book. One of twelve numbered copies with a hand-colored frontis. INSCRIBED by Tanner on the colophon page, “for Jerry + Barb. / Wesley B.”
$75.00NY: Delacorte (1971). First edition. 211 pp. Top edge dusty, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light edgewear. INSCRIBED by Blazek, "For Douglas Blazek / Michael McClure" with a constellation of letters across the title page. Collects eleven plays.
$125.00London: Cape Goliard Press, 1969. First edition. [118 pp]. Light foxing to page edges, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with original wrap-around band (bit rubbed, one tear). Mounted cover art on front and back panels by Wallace Berman.
$45.00Sacramento: Runcible Spoon [1969]. First printing of this pirated edition (originally published by Love Press in 1968). Horizontal 4to. [16 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 350 copies. Front and rear cover photographs of McClure and an unidentified woman on a motorcycle. For what it’s worth, you can see a 1964 Buick Special in one photo. My dad still drives his.
$100.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1974. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 123 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by McClure.
$50.00San Francisco: Wharf Theatre [1967]. First edition. 11 x 7 3/4 inch illustrated broadside. Two tiny edge tears, one corner crease. In all, very good plus. After a legally tumultuous first year (1966), the play would go on to win Best Director and Best Actress in the 1967/8 Obie Theatre Awards.
$20.00(np): Frontier Press, 1969. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh.
$100.00[Portland]: 23rd Avenue Books/First Choice Books, 1998. First edition. 18 x 12 inch illustrated broadside, printed in three colors. Fine. One of 200 (of 250) numbered copies SIGNED by McCourt. An excerpt from McCourt’s celebrated memoir.
$250.00Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. First edition. 31 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Poems with illustrations by Rolf Gérard. McCullers’ last book.
$10.00Berkeley: Twowindows Press (1975). First edition. 32mo. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Cover art by d.t. tremons. One of 300 copies on Curtis Rag paper. A long poem.
$45.00Berkeley: Peter Koch (1994). First edition. Eleven 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inch letterpress printed cards, together with a folded cover sheet, all housed in a printed cardstock box. All elements fine, but for a few light spots to the box. One of 500 copies.
$150.00NY: Doubleday (2002). First US edition. 351 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by McEwan on the title page. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The source for the 2007 film of the same title.