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$40.00Edinburgh: Polygon (1995). First edition. xxiv + 278 pp w/notes on contributors & index. Neat inked name inside front cover, else very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edwin Morgan, Stephen Bann, Simon Cutts, Thomas A. Clark, and others contribute. Illustrated. Includes a contributor list for Poor Old Tired Horse and a conversation with Finlay by Peter Hill on Little Sparta.
$125.00(np): Transport Canada [1974]. First edition. [120 pp]. Small gift inscription to first leaf near spine, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Designed to be flipped from either end. “Concern for people, good design can solve problems.” A lone bird eventually joins others at the top of a tree. A promotional item for the film “Walk a While in My Shoes,” which sought to heighten the awareness of design and those with limited mobility.
$75.00London: Bertram Rota, 1983. First edition. 92 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. An interesting and useful history and bibliography, designed to conform to the style of the publications of the Fortune Press.
$25.00London: Enitharmon/Ampersand, 1981. First edition. 34 pp. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. Twenty-six contribute, including Adrian Henri, Michael Hamburger, Lawrence Durrell, Kathleen Raine, and Jeremy Reed. Halliwell 94.
$200.00NY: Holiday House (1981). First edition. [64 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art and interal illustrations by Edward Gorey. SIGNED by Gorey on the title page.
$150.00Alta Loma: Dr. Strange Records (1999). First edition. LP. Two tiny corner bumps else fine, still sealed. One of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by Gorey and the members of The Freeze.
$50.00Walkerton: Stoneyground Press (1989). First edition. 66 pp. Light bump to one upper corner, else near fine in printed wrappers. Designed and produced by Colin Sackett. Contributions by Bowers, Davis, Gullans, Kleinzahler, Oliver, Peck, Powell, Steele, Stephens, Vince, Wells, and Wilmer.
$200.00NY: Inwood Press, 1929. First edition. 47 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and near fine dust jacket with three short internally-mended tears to the top edge. Cover art, a caricature of Radclyffe Hall, and one internal illustration by the playwright John Colton. A parody of Hall’s 1928 novel THE WELL OF LONELINESS. Reprinted many times.
$20.00Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1980. First trade edition. x + 230 pp w/index. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 500 copies. Illustrated.
$75.00Paris: Chene (1975). First edition. 4to. 158 pp w/bibliography & index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine. Fully-illustrated with b&w illustrations, and four color plates. Text in French.
$200.00Belfast: Blackstaff Press (2002). Second edition, first printing. xiii + 293 pp w/editor’s notes. A few tiny spots of foxing to page edges, else fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Seamus Heaney. Edited by Sophia Hillan with her afterword. Illustrated with wood engravings created for this edition by Barbara Childs. SIGNED by Heaney on the title page, and uncommon thus. Brandes & Durkan B32b.
$75.00Dresden: Veb Verlag Der Kunst (1971). Second edition. 4to. 385 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Text in German. Well illustrated with b&w and some color reproductions.
$45.00London: Mayer Gallery (2011). First edition. Small 4to. [62 pp w/bibliographies, biographies, exhibition histories]. Fine in printed wrappers. Mark Van Proyen introduces this exhibition catalogue. Thirty-seven color reproductions and photographs.
$75.00Palo Alto & Belmont: Palo Alto Cultural Center/Weigand Gallery (1990). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 46 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Exhibition catalog illustrated in color and black & white. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Brockway, Jess, and Jacobus.
$125.00Buffalo: Albright-Knox Gallery (1993). First edition. 245 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket but for some sunning to orange lettering on spine.
$35.00London: Enitharmon Press, 1975. First edition. 68 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 350 copies. Halliwell 49.
$125.00Manchester: Manchester University Press (1983). First edition. 236 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
$125.00Norfolk: New Directions (1941). First edition. x + 240 pp w/bibliography & index. Foxing to top edge, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with toning to spine and a few short edge-tears to the rear panel. Playwright Clifford Odets’ copy, with his embossed stamp “CLIFFORD ODETS / NEW YORK” on the front free endpaper, along with his inked initials.
$200.00Unterengstringen & Hamilton: (np) (1962-1963). First eighteen issues of this long-running periodical- March 1962 to December 1963. Most have light rust-marks near staples, else all are near fine or better. At the beginning of issue 18 is printed, “With this issue we wind up A Wake Newslitter, Old Style, and prepare for our emergence in print, early next year.”
$27.50Cardiff: Second Aeon Publications (1970). First edition. 24 pp. A few spots of foxing along page edges, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by John Idris Jones, Bob Leighton, George Dowden, Bob Cobbing, Peter Finch, William Wantling, Iain Sinclair, Franklin Osinski, and Kris Hemensley among others, as well as an excerpt from Kerouac’s MEXICO CITY BLUES.
$75.00NY: Gagosian (1989). First edition. Folio. 30 pp. Light rubbing to covers and extrems, else very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Robert Pincus-Witten. Two photographs of Klein, his “Chelsea Hotel Manifesto,” and four full-color reproductions.
$75.00Paris: Éditions Dilecta (2010). First edition. 440 pp w/selected literature. Fine in full decorated orange faux leather. a.e.g. Ribbon place marker bound-in. Essentially a Klein reader, presenting his texts, followed by Ottmann’s unpacking.
$35.00Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press (2010). First edition. 79 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. A thorough accounting of both works by, and published by, Richard Krech. One of 74 numbered copies SIGNED by Davis. Laid in is a small broadside poem SIGNED by Krech.
$50.00Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press (2010). First edition, lettered & signed issue. 79 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. A thorough going-over of works both by, and published by, Richard Krech. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Davis, Krech, and Briana Miller, who provided the cover art. Laid in is a small broadside poem SIGNED by Krech.
$20.00Derby: Research Group for Artists Publications/Coracle Press (2001). First edition. 157 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Excellent primer for this most interesting small press publisher. Forty-eight pages of illustrations, and a useful bibliography.
$75.00London: Gollancz, 1979. First edition. 160 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Two page foreword by Philip Larkin. Bloomfield B20.
$200.00London: Phaidon (2008). First edition. Two volumes, both fine in decorated boards. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase. A chronological tour of the life and work, via over 2000 photographs of the author, his buildings and plans, writings, and related documents.
$50.00San Francisco: Renaissance Press (1980). First edition. 299 + [48] pp. Light crease to rear cover, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. The distillation of Bryan’s attention to Leary during the 60s and 70s. The volume concludes with a suite of images, “one of the most interesting pictorial retrospectives yet put together on the sixties.” INSCRIBED by Bryan, “Luck not love, / John Bryan.” This book constitutes the 201st issue of Open City.
$125.00Ostfildern & NY: Hatje Cantz/Morgan Library & Museum (2011). First edition. 4to. 207 pp w/list of works cited. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Essays by Graham Bader, Clare Bell, Thomas Crow, and Margaret Holben Ellis and Lindsey Tyne. The first exhibition devoted to a group of about 50 large drawings created between 1961 and 1968.
$250.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. First edition, signed issue. [192 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacket (rubbed). Bound collection of individual Sparrow issues, all SIGNED by the respective authors or translators: Larry Eigner, Robert Creeley, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Michael McClure, Tom Clark, Clayton Eshleman, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Kelly, Diane Wakoski, Gerard Malanga, Clayton Eshleman (as translator of Artaud), and Jerome Rothenberg. One of 50 copies.
$150.00San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press (1982). First edition, signed hardcover issue. 193 pp. Fine in gilt lettered full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of an unstated limitation, thought to be 100, SIGNED by Leyland. Contributions by Robert Glück, Joseph Torchia, Ned Rorem, Allen Ginsberg, Will Inman, Oswell Blakeston, Jeffrey Beam, Joe Brainard, and many others.
$40.00Ivanhoe: Robert Kenny, 1974. [56 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies. First issue of this long-running Melbourne mag. John Jenkins, John Anderson, Kris Hemensley, John Tranter, and others contribute.