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$45.00Waco: Motive Book Shop, 1946. Second edition. 62 pp. Very near fine in plain stapled wrappers and near fine dust jacket with some toning and light wear to the unprinted rear cover. First published by the Colt press in an edition of 500 copies. Shifreen & Jackson A52c.
$350.00[Paris]: Gallimard (1946). First French edition, hors commerce issue. 267 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. First French edition of BLACK SPRING, translated by Paul Rivert. One of five lettered hors commerce copies. This is copy “c.”
$25.00Santa Barbara: Capra, 1974. First trade edition. 62 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Noel Young. Miller’s consideration of Jacob Wassermann’s novel. Shifreen & Jackson A52h.
$35.00NY: Grove (1965). Fourteenth edition overall, first printing of this second American edition. 634 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. A remarkably sharp copy with no reading creases to spine. BC-99. Shifreen & Jackson A76u.
$40.00Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1980. First trade edition. 272 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited with an introduction and notes by Evelyn J. Hinz and John J. Teunissen. Miller died two days before the first copies of this book came back from the bindery. He began to write it in 1932. Promotional materials laid in.
$200.00Various Places: Various Publishers (1959-1967). Variant second, first variant binding (A25f), Variant second edition, fifth binding variant (A25j), Variant second edition, eighth variant binding, first paperback edition (A25m), Variant second edition, ninth variant binding (A25n), Variant fourth edition (A25q), Ninth edition, 5th US edition, third piracy (A25x). Two hardcover and three paperback volumes, all very near fine or better with exceptions being some light edge wear to the Olympia Press volume and a bookplate inside the front board of one of the hardcovers. For the lot:
$75.00Berkeley: Bern Porter [1944]. First US edition. 24 pp. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. 738 copies printed, all of which were to be censored by hand to cover 14 words, as in this copy. From the library of poet Douglas Blazek, SIGNED by Blazek on the front free endpaper. Shifreen & Jackson A10c.
$100.00Berkeley: Bern Porter [1944]. First US edition (third edition overall). 12mo. 24 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Ten words blacked-out (by the publisher) as a condition of publication. Shifreen & Jackson A10c.
$35.00NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons (1954). First edition. 213 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with an internally mended tear at the rear flap, and light wear along the top edge. One crazy weekend, “the most moving novel of adolescent life to appear since J.D. Salinger’s THE CATCHER IN THE RYE.” - from the jacket text.
$25.00Rutland & Tokyo: Tuttle (1983). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1978). 243 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Illustrated with 225 photographs throughout the text, which seeks to define and illuminate the genre.
$75.00Berkeley: Arif Press (1987). First edition. 33 pp. Fine in paste paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems with illustrations by Wesley Tanner. One of 95 copies designed and printed by Tanner and bound by Shelley Hoyt.
$40.00Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press, 1967. First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover photographs by Magdalene Sinclair. One of 500 copies. Poems and a drawing. WB/19.
$55.00Boston: Little, Brown (1978). First edition. 277 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Monette’s first novel, following a collection of poems. Review slip laid in. Young 2753*.
$25.00Dublin/London/Winston-Salem: Dolmen, Oxford, and Wake Forest University Press (1975). First US edition, with printed US$ price on rear cover. 63 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover drawing by Jack Coughlin.
$125.00NY: At-Swim Press (1982). First edition. 16mo. [14 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 300 copies. Text reproduced from Malachi McCormic’s calligraphy.
$125.00North Tonawanda: Bolt Court Press (1984). First edition, lettered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers and near fine illustrated dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Montague. A collection of eight poems.
$500.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970. First edition, lettered & signed issue. Small 4to. 42 pp. Very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and paper label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. Original Italian poems with facing translations by G. Singh. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Montale and Singh. Laid in to this copy are two postcards from Singh to Black Sparrow publisher John Martin thanking him for the production and for sending copies of the book.
$35.00Niagara Falls: Press Today Niagara, 1966. First edition. 16mo. [12 pp]. Near fine in unprinted wrappers that have been trimmed back from the edges of the text to reveal the title. One of 150 copies published by D. r. Wagner
$75.00Wainscott: Pushcart Press (1992). First edition. 212 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Moody’s first novel, described by John Hawkes as “a kind of MRS. BRIDGE set in a stylish, hellish New Jersey.” Winner of Pushcart’s Tenth Annual Editors’ Book Award.
$25.00Santa Barbara: Zilzal Press, 1985. First edition. 31 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 175 (of 200) copies. A long poem. Abd Al-Hayy Moore, under his birth name Daniel Moore, published his first two books with City Lights.
$75.00Santa Barbara: Zilzal Press, 1986. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 63 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poetry illustrated with “typoglifs” by Karl Kempton. One of 10 lettered copies SIGNED by Moore and Kempton, with covers that have been trimmed, inked, and collaged.
$50.00Boise: Boise State University (1991). First edition. Small 4to. 179 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Tuli Kupferberg, Eduard Roditi, Michael McClure, Ira Cohen, Theodore Enslin, Carl Solomon, Philip Glass, Bill Bissett, and many others contribute. All inserted postcards present, as is the ‘Summer Marigolds’ CD, which features recordings of Paul Bowles reading both his own work, and that of Mohammed Mrabet.
$75.00Northridge: Santa Susana Press, 1978. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 58 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Moore. Pairs “Preliminary Pages for a Work of Revenge” with “Uncle T.”
$25.00Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1958. First edition. 27 pp w/notes. Fine in stapled wrappers in integral dust jacket with printed cover label. Designed by Adrian Wilson. James E. Phillips introduces this volume that pairs the Inaugural Ewing Lectures delivered by Moore at the University of California in October 1956. Abbott A15.
$25.00NY: Albondocani, 1969. First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine dust jacket with printed paper cover label. One of 300 numbered copies on Hosho paper, of which 275 were for public sale. An essay on the art of poetry originally published in The Egoist in 1916 and not reprinted until this edition. Abbott A34.
$45.00[NY]: (np) [1963]. First edition. 11 x 8 1/2 inch flyer. Fine. Moorman and Tudor perform works by Webern, Byrd, Brown, Childs, Corner, Feldman, Young, and Cage. The flyer features facsimiles of each composer’s signature.
$45.00Köln: Funkhaus 1980. First edition. 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inch flyer, printed in black on pale yellow paper. Near fine. Moorman and Paik open this three day event under the title, “Soirée Paik-Moorman.” Musik der Zeit I.
$150.00London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1968. First edition. 7 3/4 x 15 1/2 inch sheet, folded diagonally as issued, together with a 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inch press release, printed in three colors. The larger sheet has a few light bends to the lower corner, the press release is fine.Announcement for the first London concert by the “far-out” cellist and the “composer, etc. from Korea,” and the press release, issued by the ICA for a second concert, added by popular demand. Paik and Moorman performed works by Beuys, George Brecht, John Cage, Takehisa Kosugi, Yoko Ono, James Tenney, and Paik, among others. For the pair:
$40.00Dusseldorf: Städtische Kunsthalle, [1975]. First edition. 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inch flyer, printed in black on white paper. Fine. Stamped “Beginn jeweils 20 Uhr” in blue ink along the bottom edge. Both Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik are featured artists, along with Peter Roggenkamp, Giuseppe Chiari, and Mauricio Kagel.
$150.00NY: Norman J. Seaman, 1968. First edition. 17 x 8 1/2 inch two-sided poster for this event at New York’s Town Hall. Fine. Illustrated with a collage by Jim McWilliams. TOGETHER WITH a folded (9 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches, closed) program with the details of the performance and biographies of Moorman and Paik. For the pair:
$125.00NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1980. Flyer and two-page press release for this event at the Guggenheim. Both 11 x 8 1/2 inches, both fine. Also, a stiff printed card folded three times (9 x 4 inches, closed) with original mailing envelope. Both items fine.Moorman and Paik to perform works by Paik (including Concerto for TV Cello), Kosugi, Christiansen, Ono, and Beuys. For the lot:
$50.00Bochum & Dortmund: Ruhr Park (1973). First edition. Folding invitation card (4 1/8 x 8 1/4 inches, closed), together with a program (8 1/4 x 6 inches, closed). Both items fine. In addition to “oldtime jazz,” this festival features Allan Kaprow’s “Happening für Kinder,” Moorman’s “Fernseh-Cello,” and Wolfgang Stoerchle “Video-Aktion mit Publikum,” and Sladek’s “Pantomime.” For the pair: