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$200.00NY: Mulch, 1971-1976. Nine numbers in eight issues. Price sticker to first leaf of the first issue, else all near fine or better in illustrated wrappers. Contributions from Basil King (who was also an editor), Enslin, Blackburn, Russell Banks, Ginsberg, Wieners, Di Prima, Fielding Dawson, Ray Johnson, Coolidge, and many others. For the run:
$450.00Hessle: Listen/Marvell Press (1954-1962). Twelve issues, all very near fine or fine in stapled wrappers, with the exception of a small snag to the cover and firs three leaves of 2:2. A major vehicle for Philip Larkin (appears in all but two issues). Work also by Pound, Skelton, Amis, Davie, MacBeth, Merwin, Gunn, Rich, Stevie Smith, Henry Moore,and others. Laid into the last volume is a flyer for “Listen Records,” announcing releases by Thom Gunn and Kingsley Amis. For the run:
$450.00Berkeley & Oakland: Poetics Journal (1982-1998). Ten issues, growing larger from an initial 80 pp to a concluding 294 pp with the last volume including a series index. All issues fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E vehicle, with each issue structured around broad topics: knowledge, the person, elsewhere, postmodern?, no/narrative, etc. For the run:
$2,500.00San Francisco & Santa Cruz: Kayak (1964-1984). 64 issues, all fine in stapled wrappers. One of the best, and longest-lasting, little mags known for its surrealism-inspired clippings of nineteenth-century engravings, fondness for the “found poem,” and no fear of translation. Bly, Antin, Atwood, Levine, Ammons, Merwin, Simic, Knott, Tate, Roditi, Berry, Pillin, Blazek, Carver, Valaoritis, Beiles, Sexton, Snyder, and many many others. For the run:
$650.00Burlingame: Chrysalis West Foundation (1962-1964). Eight issues (1-7 + supplement), all fine in illustrated wrappers with the supplement volume fine in stapled wrappers. The first issue alone has work by Jack Gilbert, Paul Bowles, Denise Levertov, Grace Paley, La Monte Young, and many others.Middle issues include Enslin, Levertov, Wakoski, Wild, Edson, Stafford, Corso, Mac Low, Kesey, Barthelme, Whalen, and others. The supplement is made up of poems accepted or publication by editor Barney Childs, who was informed that Genesis West would no longer publish poems, hence this collection. Complete sets of this periodical in fine condition are uncommon. For the run:
$40.00South Bend: Poetry Dial (1960-1961). 56 + 48 pp. Two issues, both near fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributions by Ciardi, Eshlemen, Louis Ginsberg, Kreymborg, William Carlos Williams, Judson Crews, Samuel Hazo, and many others. For the pair:
$35.00NY: Bright Lights Studio, 1969. First edition. 4to. [74 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Vincente Huidobro translated by Laszlo Frey, Tom Veitch, Iris Rifkin, and Carter Ratcliff. A one-shot.
$450.00Chicago: Big Table (1959-1960). Five issues, all near fine in illustrated wrappers (light toning to spine of #1). Created from the furor over suppression of portions of William S. Burroughs’ NAKED LUNCH, Big Table went on be a major forum for “Beat” writers including Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Corso, and Bowles, but would embrace the Black Mountain and NY schools quickly and thoroughly. Bookplate of Joanne [Kyger] and Jack Boyce inside the front covers of 2-5. A sharp set:
$400.00London & Tunbridge Wells: Peter Russell, 1949-1956. Eleven issues, all near fine or better in printed wrappers with most being fine. Pound, Eliot, Gascoyne, Santayana, Cummings, Bunting, Graves, Borges, Eluard, and many others contribute. A number of inserts included, among them an announcement that the Russell’s house (and Nine office) burnt down, causing a delay in issuing #7. Issues 2 and 4 of the Nine Bookmart, as well as “New and Recent Books we Recommend” all priced for sale, also. For the run:
$75.00Sacramento: Runcible Spoon [1970]. Two issues, each 4to, each fine in side-stapled wrappers. The first issue features Blazek, Nichol, Finch, Kryss, Spicer, and others, with cover art by T.L. Kryss. Blazek, Locklin, Wagner, Arthur Knight, Swanberg, Von Tersch, Zurbrugg, Thomas A. Clark, Depew, and others appear in the second issue. Stapled to this issue, inside a printed paper bag, is the chapbook NEED A DOZEN TOW BOYS? by Jim Stewart (as issued). For the pair:
$125.00Santa Cruz: Greenhouse Review Press (1975-1979). Four issues, all near fine or better in printed wrappers. Work by Wakoski, Edson, Neruda, Soto, Charles Wright, Gary Young, and many others. For the run:
$150.00Stanford: Stanford University Press (1949). First edition. x + 165 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly toned. Preface by Stegner. Lead story, “I’ll Take You to Tennessee” by Connell, his first appearance in a book. SIGNED by Connell on the front free endpaper.
$850.00San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1965. First edition. Horizontal 48mo. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Poem by Hoyem, pasted-on cover image, a “hallucinogram” by Bruce Conner. One of 100 copies printed letterpress. Haselwood 2.
$750.00San Francisco: Arion Press, 2002. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 51 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth with printed spine label. Fine publisher’s slipcase. Text by Todd with illustrations by Conner. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Todd and Conner. Original prospectus booklet and invitation to the publication party accompany.
$200.00NY: Castelli Feigen Cocoran (1983). First edition. Oblong 8vo. viii + 87 pp w/notes. Near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly toned at the extrems. Uncommon in hardcover. Exhibition catalogue documenting Cornell’s long fascination with dance.
$200.00San Francisco: [privately printed] 1973. First edition. xv + 125 pp w/addenda. Fine in full brick red cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. One of 100 copies on hand made Tovil paper printed by Clifford Burke. Eight tipped-in photographs.
$50.00[Sacramento: Open Skull, 1970]. First edition. 11 x 17 1/2 inch sheet. Fine. Unused cover for Blazek’s collection of poems featuring artwork by Robert Crumb.
$35.00Berkeley: University Art Museum (1989). First edition. 4to. 89 pp w/checklist & bibliography. Near fine in printed wrappers. Illustrated.
$3,500.00San Francisco: Arion Press 1990. First edition, lettered & signed issue. xxv + 171 pp. Fine in cloth-covered boards with leather spine. Fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems selected by Helen Vendler, with her introduction. Illustrated with six etchings by Richard Diebenkorn. One of 26 lettered copies for use of the participants in the publication SIGNED by Diebenkorn.
$250.00San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987. First edition, deluxe limited issue. 91 pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 120 copies on Rives paper. Tipped-on opposite the title page is an original portrait etching of Hoyem by Jim Dine, SIGNED by Dine in pencil beneath the image. Additionally, this copy is SIGNED by Hoyem on the half-title page.
$125.00London: Enitharmon Press, 1976. First edition. 58 pp. Fine in full green buckram and near fine, unprinted plastic dust jacket. t.e.g. Illustrated. One of 50 numbered copies on Glastonbury Ivory Antique laid paper SIGNED by White. White’s essay followed by previously-unpublished material from H.D.’s THE MYSTERY. Boughn B19.
$1,250.00NY: Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies (1942). First edition. [48 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Catalogue designed by Duchamp. Foreword by Sidney Janis. Rife with b&w reproductions.
$20.00New Paltz: Documentext/McPherson & Company (1985). First trade paperback printing. 158 pp w/index. Fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket. Illustrated with a number of photographs of Duchamp and his work. One of 500 copies.
$75.00[Paris]: Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (1977). First edition. 28 pp. Near fine in illustrated boards with light rubbing to extrems. No dust jacket, as issued. Images by d’André Raffray. Text in French. An illustrated life of Duchamp.
$100.00Venice: Lapis Press (1990). First US edition. 199 pp. Fine in green velvet over boards and near fine wrap-around band. Translated from the original French by Ian McLeod. Essays on Duchamp written between 1974 and 1977. Illustrated.
$500.00Paris: Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (1980). First edition. Folio. xvii + [221 pp]. Fine in full cloth and matching publisher’s slipcase. Preface by Pontus Hulten. One of 1000 numbered copies. Full-color reproductions of Duchamp’s notes, grouped into “Infrathin,” ‘The Large Glass,” “Projects,” and “Word Plays.” Texts in French and English translation.
$125.00Paris: Eric Losfeld [1972]. First edition. 4to. 103 pp. Light bump to one lower corner, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Over 260 items described.
$100.00Philadelphia & New Haven: Philadelphia Museum of Art/Yale University Press (2009). First edition. 447 pp w/select bibliography & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. A thorough consideration of Duchamp’s provocative work, published on the 40th anniversary of its initial installation. Profusely illustrated.
$250.00London: Granta Books (2007). First edition. 4to. 439 pp w/discography & index. Fine in fine dust jacket and very near fine publisher’s slipcase. Profusely illustrated.
$200.00Los Angeles: George Houle, 1987. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 21 pp w/notes. Light wear to corners, else very near fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Introduction by Everson. Photograph of the poet by Leigh Wiener. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Everson, Wiener, and Lehman. Original prospectus laid in.
$75.00Cleveland: Ayizan Press, 1968. First edition. [24 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Two-color cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. One of 150 copies. Nine drawings. Uncommon. One of three books published toward the end of d.a. levy’s life, the others being his TIBETAN STROBOSCOPE and Tom Kryss’ BOOK OF RABBITS.
$75.00Firenze: Galleria La Vigna Nuova, 1965. First edition. 13 3/8 x 9 1/2 inch poster, printed in black on magenta. Two old folds, tiny pinhole to center. In all, near fine.