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$650.00Norfolk: New Directions, 1936. First edition. 16mo. [16 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. The first book of the press, issued as “New Directions Pamphlets, Number One.” In his introductory note the publisher, James Laughlin, names the author, “the first American surrealist writer.” More than half a century later, in his afterword to Andrews' posthumous THE SURREALIST PARADE (New Directions, 1990), Laughlin recalled that “Wayne became my friend at Harvard...about 1935” and “the original 'Pianos' was...printed in an edition of 300 copies by the Vermont country printer who did the Harvard Advocate. But its unusual aroma quickly pervaded Harvard Square, and it was necessary to rush out a second printing.” WITH: the second printing of this work, bound in red wrappers as issued, adding the subtitle, “A Surrealist Shortstory,” and with the rear cover entirely reset with different text. Near fine. For the pair:
$125.00Monterey: Monterey Peninsula College 1969. First edition. Twenty-one 10 x 8 inch sheets laid into a printed folder. All elements very near fine or better. Printed at the Cranium Press. Previously known as “e.g.” Nolan took over editorship of the campus literary magazine, and changed the name to “The Brand New Testament” and then to “Dog Bite.” Uncommon.
$75.00Aldershot & Burlington: Ashgate (2007). First edition. xviii + 232 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker best known for his collaborations with Peter Greenaway and the soundtrack album to Jane Campion’s film THE PIANO.
$25.00Bolinas: Big Sky, 1988. Third edition, revised and corrected. Small 4to. 223 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Black & white photographs and reproductions throughout. Originally issued as Big Sky 11/12. Contributions by Berrigan, Feldman, Ashbery, Rorem, Wieners, Brainard, Southern, Ginsberg, Olson, Malanga, Cage, Baraka, and many others.
$75.00Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (2017). First edition. xi + 252 pp w/notes, glossary, bibliography, & index. Fine in decorated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Robert J. Bertholf and Dale M. Smith. Briefly INSCRIBED by Smith on the title page.
$200.00North Vancouver: Capilano Review, 1979. First edition, numbered & signed issue 100 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket that is sunned along the spine and extrems. One of 100 numbered copies on Mojave Matte paper SIGNED by Marlatt and Ondaatje. Prints a generous selection from Ondaatje’s “Running in the Family,” (which differs greatly from the eventually published text), together with Daphne Marlatt’s “In the Month of Hungry Ghosts.”
$75.00Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1975. First edition. 789 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Inked ownership signature of Wormwood Review editor Marvin Malone on the front cover. The first volume of this epic presentation. Illustrated.
$25.00Berkeley: (np) 1997. First trade edition. 31 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 450 (of 500) copies. Designed by Graham Mackintosh and Dave Bohn. A useful reference, especially for print runs.
$25.00Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1982. First edition. 9 x 4 inch printed card. Fine. Illustrated with Peter Moore’s photograph of V-yramid and Tom Haar’s photograph of Moorman playing Paik’s TV Cello while wearing TV Glasses.
$50.00Lake Placid: Center for Music, Drama and Art [1976]. First edition. 20 x 12 1/2 inch poster, folded twice for mailing with a Nonprofit Org. postage stamp on the verso. Fine. Paik appeared on 3 August showing videotapes, and then on 7 August in performance with Moorman.
$20.00NY: Bonino in Soho, 1976. First edition. 4 3/16 x 5 7/8 inch printed card. Fine.
$35.00NY: Electronic Arts Intermix (1982). First edition. Single large sheet folded twice (11 1/8 x 8 5/8 inches, closed). Fine. Front panel image, “Electronic Zen with Tri-Color Moon,” 1967, photograph by Bernard Gotfryd. Celebrating Paik’s association with the Howard Wise Gallery and Electronic Arts, announcing his one-man show at the Whitney (April 30-June 27), and the retrospective presented by WNET/CH 13, “On the Air,” featuring performances by Ginsberg, Kaprow, Cunningham, and Charlotte Moorman. Paik and Moorman both pictured.
$20.00Melbourne: Cantrills Filmnotes, 1974. December. Oblong 8vo. 39 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Issue features an interview with Nam June Paik on his TV Opera, with stills from “Global Groove” on the front and back covers, and five internal pages.
$35.00Santa Barbara: Capra Press (1988). First edition. 128 pp. Very near fine in glossy wrappers. Illustrated with color and b&w reproductions.
$35.00[Lisbon]: Penumbra Press (1983). First edition. [6 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 175 numbered copies on Frankfurt White paper. Carlile’s prose vision with two drawings by Schwartzman. A new year’s greeting from the Press.
$40.00NY: David Zwirner Books (2018). First edition. 102 pp w/list of works. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A number of color reproductions precede Durbin’s dissection of Pettibon’s prolific Twitter activity.
$25.00Bradenton:Refuge Records (1995). First pressing. Fine 7” single in a very good folded sleeve that is lightly toned and has some wear along the top edge. Pettibon’s work first appeared on a 7” single in 1979 (Black Flag’s Nervous Breakdown).
$60.00[Oakland]: TDW Books (2017). First edition. 4to. [84 pp]. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Color photographs, 1977-1980 in San Francisco, most of folks in and around the Mabuhay Gardens punk scene. Though not called for in this issue, SIGNED by Jacoy. New, at publication price:
$250.00London: Thames & Hudson (1985). First UK edition. 4to. 549 pp w/bibliography. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Illustrated with 1153 images, 226 of which are in color.
$75.00Llandogo: Old Stile Press (2002). First edition. [84 pp]. Fine in full orange cloth with gold stamping to spine and front cover. Fine printed paper vellum dust jacket. Introduction by Chris Newett. Pitts’ linocuts, printed in several colors, paired with texts. One of 150 numbered copies on Somerset Book paper SIGNED by Newitt and McDowall.
$150.00Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1980. First edition. xxi +194 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Lillian Marks.
$25.00NY: Groiler Club, 2005. First edition. 47 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Catalogue for this exhibition of items from the Heneghan collection, including the first 56 pocket poets volumes.
$75.00Austin: Cold Mountain Press (1974). First edition. Ten 5 x 6 1/2 inch poemcards, all fine, housed in a folded broadside presenting a section from THE ENDLESS SHORT STORY by Ron Sukenick. Occasional illustrations by Rochelle Holt, Gretchen Reed, and the “old fisherman.” Work by Gregory Orr, Frances Thronson, Ryan Petty, Joseph Bruchac, Kabir translated by Robert Bly, Diane Wakoski, Allen Ginsberg, Wendell Berry, Michael Delp, and Douglas Blazek.
$75.00Austin: Cold Mountain Press (1973). First edition. Ten 6 1/2 x 5 inch letterpress poemcards, all fine, housed in a folded broadside presenting Robert Bly’s translation of Neruda’s poem “Ode to Some Yellow Flowers.” Work by James Tipton, William Stafford, Peter Wild, Linda Pastan, Donald Hall, Ray Lindquist, John Haines, Thomas F. Sexton, Denise Levertov, and Terry Stokes.
$750.00Portland: Portland Art Museum (1959). First editions. Eight flyers, each folded three times vertically (10 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches, closed). All near fine or better with a bit of discoloration to the upper corner of the Kizer volume, and some toning to Stafford. The eight poets are John Haislip, Carol Hall, Kenneth O. Hanson, Robert Huff, Richard Hugo, Carolyn Kizer, William Stafford, and David Wagoner, each contributing a selection of poems with a cover image by a visual artist in the show, “Paitings and Sculptures of the Pacific Northwest.” For the collection:
$150.00Louisville: American Voice, 1989. First edition. [64 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with sewn binding. One of 50 numbered copies (the entire hardcover edition) on Iyo paper. A poem each by Peggy Steele, Denise Levertov, Sandra McPherson, Ruth Whitman, Gwen Head, Jo Carson, Jane Wilson Kaufman, Ann Kilkelly, Catherine Sutton, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and George Ella Lyon.
$45.00Chengdu: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House, 1993. First edition. 178 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Chinese translations by Ziqing Zhang and Yunte Huang, followed by English originals by Charles Bernstein, Hank Lazer, and James Sherry.
$35.00London: Graphix Press/Ealing School of Art (1971). First edition. [56 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies on Glastonbury Antique Laid paper, designed by Christopher Belson and Christopher Wellington, and printed letterpress. The ten poets are W.H. Auden, Charles Causley, Laurence Durrell, Ted Hughes, Ted Jones, Christopher Logue, W.S. Merwin, Louis Simpson, J. Wain, and Eric W. White.
$50.00San Francisco: Inferno Press [1961]. First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Translations of poems by Betocchi, Carrieri, De Libero, Fassolo, Fiorentino, Parranchi, Fisi, Sharbaro, Solmi, Valeri, and Quasimodo. The work of each poet is preceded by a short biography. Inferno Press Editions #32.
$25.00Quixote, 1969. Spring. 83 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Edited by Luckyk, with his introduction. Translations by Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak and Danylo S. Struck. Original Ukranian poems with facing English Translations. Ivan Drach, Vitaliy Korotych, Lina Kostenko, and Vasyl Symonenko presented.
$35.00[Dorcheser]: Words Press, 2015. First edition. Twelve 8 1/4 x 2 1/4 inch bookmarks. Fine. A bookmark per poet, most printed in two colors. New poems by Brian Patten, Wendy Cope, Jeremy Reed, Iain Sinclair, Roger McHough, Ruth Fainlight, A.F. Harrold, Jenny Joseph, David Harsent, Lachlan Mackinnon, Michael Horowitz, and Andrew Motion.
$125.00Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press (2005). First edition, lettered & signed issue. Twenty 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch broadsides laid into a printed folder. Fine. First appearance of Bukowski's poem, "Coffee and Babies." Also work by Henry Denander, S. A. Griffin, Richard Krech, Gerald Locklin, and others. One of 26 lettered sets SIGNED by all contributors, excepting Bukowski.