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$45.00Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles 1980. First edition. 39 pp. Very near fine in wrappers and integral illustrated dust jacket. One of 400 copies. Title page photograph by Penny Pillatt. Dated (Oct. 3. 1980) and INSCRIBED by Wolfe, “For Leslie, / Thanks for the party; / there’s no place like home. / Love, Michael.” Wolfe’s third book, a journal of his 1979 visit to Morocco, from smoking kif to dining with Paul Bowles.
$35.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1987). Advance excerpt. 18 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. The first chapter from Wolfe’s then forthcoming novel.
$75.00NY: Columbia University Press, 1926. First edition. x + 55 pp. Short closed tear at crown, else fine in printed wrappers. Introductory note by John Erskine. First separate appearance of this essay that appeared originally in Century Magazine in 1893. Poet Woodberry appreciates more than most travel writers of the day.
$20.00Minneapolis: Zelot (1986). First edition. [48 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. A selection from an autobiographical novel, “concerning mainly one of my daughters, one of my wives, and one of my mothers.”
$85.00NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1950). First edition. viii + 248 pp. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a tiny tear to the base of spine. Leonard Woolf contributes an introductory note. Kirkpatrick A30a.
$125.00Iowa City: Windhover Press (1990). First edition. 4to. 38 pp w/notes. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. One of 250 copies on Iyo handmade Japanese paper SIGNED by Wright. Berger 98.
$125.00Providence: Lost Roads 1984. First edition. 39 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Early book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Lost Roads 24.
$20.00Durango: Logbridge-Rhodes (1981). First edition. 19 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 478 (of 500) copies on Classic Text. Nine poems.
$75.00Durango: Logbridge-Rhodes (1981). First edition, numbered issue. 17 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 22 numbered copies on Classic Text in handmade paper wrappers. A collection of ten poems.
$250.00New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First edition. xix + 93 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to tips of flap folds, and base and crown of spine. “1593” inked on rear cover, but not obtrusive. Foreword by W.H. Auden. Wright’s first book, issued as the 53rd volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
$450.00New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First edition. xix + 93 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with a sliver of toning along top edge. Foreword by W.H. Auden. Wright’s first book, issued as the 53rd volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
$100.00NY: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence (1978). First edition. 178 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Young 4252.
$150.00NY: Macmillan, 1908. First edition. xiii + 210 pp Very near fine in full dark blue cloth with elaborate gilt decoration along spine. t.e.g. Collects THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS, CATHLEEEN NI HULIHAN, and THE HOUR-GLASS. Wade 73.
$125.00Los Angeles: Robin Price, 1993. First edition. Oblong 18mo. [22 pp]. Fine in stiff printed wrappers. Poems by Young with woodcut illustrations by Mary Allan. Type composition, design,a and printing by Robin Price. One of 85 numbered copies SIGNED by Young, Allan, and Price.
$100.00Scarborough: Catalyst (1976). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 79 pp. Fine in two-part cloth biding with printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems by Young, one co-written with Richard Phelan, and one by Phelan on his own. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Young and Phelan. Young 4257*.
$25.00St. Paul: Truck Press (1977). First edition. 32mo. [64 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Briefly INSCRIBED by Young to Ron Silliman. One of 700 copies printed and bound by Young himself at the Membrane Press.
$250.00San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press (1981). First edition, lettered & signed issue. 208 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated from the original Spanish by E.A. Lacey with his concluding note. Introduction by José Joaquín Blanco. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Zapata and Lacey. Young 4277a*.
$75.00Philadelphia & NY: Lippincott (1968). First edition. 192 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a small scuff and short tear to rear panel. Laid into this copy is a TLS from a Lippincott editor presenting this copy to Kay Boyle. Young 4279*.
$75.00London: Jonathan Cape (1969). First edition. 256 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
$450.00Stuttgart: Jonathan Williams, 1956. First edition. [70 pp]. Gentle bend to upper corner, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers, bound in the Japanese style. Lacks unprinted acetate jacket. Issued as Jargon 15, in a regular edition of 300 copies. LZ's 6th publication. SIGNED by Zukofsky on the first leaf in red ink, with the additions, “1956? / with [...] / London 5/26/69.”
$45.00San Francisco: Empty Elevator Shaft Press [c 1973]. 63 pp. A few light spots to front cover, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Three prose poems by Acker, along with work by Eigner, Gitin, Potts, Mariah, Voelcker, and many others. The first and only issue.
$450.00(np): (np) 1965. First edition. 4to. 28 pp w/appendixes. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. The first of Bill W.’s pamphlets on this controversial subject, much of it based on the research of Drs. Abram Hoffer and Humphrey Osmond. Uncommon. Bishop & Pitman 1637, which offers a publication date of 1966.
$75.00San Francisco: Book Club of California (1985). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1981). Folio. 114 pp w/index. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 750 copies. Additions to date, including a checklist of ephemera.
$20.00Upper Galilee: Regional Council/Tel Hai College (1980). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Listed participants include Giancarlo Politi, Germano Celant, Alice Aycock, Laurie Anderson, Allan Kaprow, Vito Accconci, and several others. Text entirely in Hebrew.
$40.00Sewanee: University Art Gallery (2006). First edition. 63 pp. Some light soiling to unprinted front cover, else very near fine in wrappers. One of 500 copies. A profusely color illustrated exhibition catalogue.
$500.00San Francisco: Artspace Books (1992-2006). First editions. Fifteen volumes, all fine in illustrated boards (exceptions noted below). A vibrant series of prose works paired with art in a (mostly) uniform format. The contributors : David Wojnarowicz, Dennis Cooper & Nayland Blake (bump to lower corners), Jim Lewis & Jack Pierson (light band of sunning to rear cover), Klaus Kertess & Nan Goldin, Carlo McCormick & Tony Labat, A.M. Homes, Guillermo Gómez-Pena & Enrique Chagoya, Zoe Leonard & Cheryl Dunye, Moody, Steinke, Oates, Morrow & Gregory Crewdson (lower corners tapped), Dave Hickey & John Defazio, Ben Marcus & Matthew Ritchie (price sticker on rear cover), Heidi Julavits & Jenny Gage, Jonathan Raymond & Justine Kurland, Rebecca Solnit & Stefan Kürten, and the volume ARTSPACE WAS, ARTSPACE IS. For the collection:
$45.00San Francisco: Gray Fox Press (1981). First edition. 120 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with two short tears. Transcriptions of eight conversations dated from the late 1940s and early 1950s when Auden was living on Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village.
$350.00San Francisco: Re/Search Publishing (1984). First edition. 4to. 171 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Collects interviews, fiction, non-fiction, bibliography, and more. SIGNED by Ballard opposite the contents page. Uncommon thus.
$75.00London: Martin Brian & O’Keeffe (1973). First edition. 93 pp w/bibliography. Fine in full cloth and matching publisher’s slipcase. One of 250 (of 275) numbered copies. Contributions by Gascoyne, Ginsberg, Liddy, Geoffrey Hill, Peter Levi, C.H. Sisson, and many others.
$150.00Cambridge: MIT Press (1990). First US edition. 4to. 362 pp w/appendixes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Over 400 images drawn from the Bauhaus-Archiv, a wealth of essays, and documentary biographies of every Bauhaus photographer.
$125.00Paris: Centre Culturel Américain, 1959. First edition. 142 pp. Light overall wear to edges, else near fine in wrappers. A well-illustrated exhibition catalogue of works by, and photographs of, the American expatriot crowd. Text in French.
$20.00Brooklyn: Pressed Wafer [2015]. First edition. 215 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A festschrift with contributions from Ashbery, Brainard, Fagin, Guston, Kyger, Mayer, Padgett, Raworth, Ruscha, Waldman, and many others.