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$100.00London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. First edition. 311 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Powys’ third novel. Custom bookplate of early Powys bibliographer and champion Lloyd Emerson Siberell inside the front board.
$45.00Gringly-on-the-Hill: Brynmill (1991). First trade edition. vii + 322 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited with notes by Ian Robinson, assisted by Elaine Mencher. Afterword by J. Lawrence Mitchell. Composed just before MR. WESTON’S GOOD WINE (1927), but unpublished until this edition.
$75.00London: Chatto & Windus (1930). First edition. 278 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear along the top edge and crown of spine.
$75.00Rocky Mount: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press (1989). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 45 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Price. Additionally dated (11 v 90) and warmly INSCRIBED by Price to a close friend.
$20.00[Rocky Mount]: Friends of the Library, North Carolina Wesleyan College (1981). First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. An essay with a short preface by Price. Produced on the occasion of his reading at the Library.
$750.00[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press (1979). First edition, lettered & signed issue. 29 pp. Fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 9 lettered copies SIGNED by Price with his original drawing on the title page.
$125.00[North Pomfret]: Elysium Press, 2002. First edition. 17 pp. Fine in stiff wrappers and fine pale green paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 50 numbered copies, of which ten were for private use. Edited, with an introduction by Tom Sargant. Burton Weiss wrote: travel pieces by a gay American writer born in 1858 who lived most of his adult life in Europe, where he published two groundbreaking books under the pseudonym “Xavier Mayne”: IMRE: A MEMORANDUM (Naples, 1906), the first sympathetic and explicitly gay novel by an American, and THE INTERSEXES (1908), the first separately published study of homosexuality by an American.
$150.00NY: Kent/Westreich (1989). First edition. 4to. [88 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. An artist’s book by Prince, juxtaposing works by Artschwanger, Brauntuch, Picabia, Polke, Man Ray, Richter, Sherman, Warhol, and Prince.
$150.00Los Angeles & Ostfildern-Ruit: Regen Projects/Hatje Cantz Verlag (2004). First edition, first issue. [176 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Catalogue/artist’s book produced on the occasion of his exhibition at Regen Projects.
$25.00(np): Wm. Meek Ltd., 1968. First edition. 16mo. 19 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. A poetic condemnation of sequential wars from 1914-1968.
$150.00NY: Dutton, 1971. First US edition. 222 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine. Puig’s first novel.
$125.00[Vancouver]: Colophon Books, 1990. First edition, numbered & signed issue. Folio. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Printed at the Pie Tree Press. Pairs “Blood Pressure Blues” with “Concerning Ms. Atwood.” One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy.
$45.00NY: Nadja [1978]. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Pages uncut. A single poem by Purdy, with his cover art. One of 174 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy. The first book of the press.
$75.00NY: Nadja (1979). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies on handmade Umbria paper SIGNED by Purdy. A prose work with a drawing by Purdy as a frontis.
$55.00NY: Nadja, 1985. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Purdy’s short story with an illustration by Ed Colker. One of 200 numbered copies on Arches paper SIGNED by Purdy and Colker.
$1,000.00Philadelphia & NY: Lippincott (1963). Advance reading copy. 492 pp. Light tanning to spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. Pynchon’s first book.
$75.00Village Station: Metapoetics Press (1975). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [24 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Cut marbled paper cover design by Susan Quasha. One of 137 numbered copies SIGNED by Quasha. Dated (26 October 75) and INSCRIBED by Quasha, “For Clayton + Caryl, with love, George / Rokeby Farm / Berrytown.” Quasha has penned a eight page poem on the title page.
$750.00London: John and Edward Bumpus, 1908. First edition. xi + 113 pp. Very near fine in full red cloth with gilt decoration. Her third collection of poems, preceding her first novel for many years. THE WELL OF LONELINESS, her best known book, was published in 1928.
$25.00[London]: Privately Printed, 1978. First edition. [22 pp]. Fine in wrappers and integral blue paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. Printed at the Tragara Press. One of 145 numbered copies on Conqueror Vellum laid paper. Published on the occasion of Raine’s 70th birthday. Halliwell A7.
$25.00West Branch: Toothpaste Press, 1981. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [32 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed paper cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Rakosi.
$12.50West Branch: Toothpaste Press, 1981. First trade edition. [32 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 1500 copies on Curtis Tweedweave paper. Twenty numbered poems, printed in two colors.
$20.00Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions (1976). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Wrap-around cover art by Claude Pelieu.
$250.00Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Eight poems with a printed dedication to Carol Bergé. Two internal prints and cover art by “A. Sypher,” a pseudonym for Wormwood Review editor Marvin Malone. SIGNED by Malone inside the rear cover. Taylor & Horvath P-30.
$45.00Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles, 1982. First edition. Oblong 8vo. [18 pp]. Pasted-on illustrated cover label. Fine in wrappers. One of 130 copies. A poem sequence with illustrations from papercuts made at the Yangchow Arts & Crafts Factory in China.
$150.00London: Anthony Blond (1959). First edition. 247 pp. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. Raven's second book, a spy thriller. Young 3208.
$75.00London: Anthony Blond (1961). First edition. 187 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art by Osbert Lancaster. A history of the decline English Gentleman, “a casulty in the first world war” and downhill from there. Young 3210*.
$35.00NY: Roof Books (1996). First edition. 106 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Endpapers decorated with Steve Lacy’s score to a text by Raworth “Absence.”
$35.00[Storrs]: University of Connecticut Library (1975). First edition. Narrow 4to. [4 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Designed by Robert Neff. One of 250 copies issued on the occasion of Raworth reading at the library. Number 2 in a series of postmodern writing.
$45.00Berkeley: Violet Ray, 1984. First edition. [32 pp]. Bump to crown, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of Violet Ray’s collage work at the New College of California Gallery. A hard cultural critique via the combination of news and advertising images.
$100.00Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1983. First edition. 24 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and very near fine integral dust jacket with printed cover label. Graham Greene provides a preface to this collection of five book reviews by Read. One of 110 (of 135) numbered copies.
$45.00Leamington Spa: Sixth Chamber Press 1985. First edition. [8 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 50 (of 56) numbered copies SIGNED by Redgrove. A single poem, designed and printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press.
$150.00Oxford: Sycamore Press (1970). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine integral marbled-paper dust jacket with printed cover label. One of 8 numbered copies on handmade paper SIGNED by Redgrove. A single long poem.