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$40.00San Francisco: IGNA, 1983. First edition. 248 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A novel loosely based on the assassination in San Francisco of Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. But then, according to the dust-jacket blurb, "a small group of men...devised a plot to murder the assassin while he was still in prison...and one horrendous crime led to another, and then another, and..." According to bookseller Burton Weiss, one of only 100 hardcover copies printed.
$55.00London: Coracle, 1975. First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. Text by Cutts with nineteen tipped-on illustrations by Torok. One of 200 (of 250) numbered copies.
$40.00[Glasgow]: Wax 366 (2000). First edition. [32 pp]. Very near fine in textured printed blue wrappers. Bottom page edges uncut, green concrete flax poem printed along the top edges, flanked by green endpapers.
$15.00[Clonmel] & NY: Coracle/Granary Books, 2007. First US edition. 74 pp. Fine in printed wrappers.
$1,000.00[Sherman Oaks]: D’Ambrosio, 1986. First edition. 57 pp. Fine in elaborate binding and publisher’s clamshell box with printed spine label. One of 50 numbered copies largely on Mouette handmade paper SIGNED by D’Ambrosio. Additionally INSCRIBED by Stuart, “for David / with appreciation / Gloria Stuart” and by D’Ambrosio,. “To David - with best wishes - / Joe D’Ambrosio / ‘88.”
$200.00[North Pomfret]: Asphodel Editions, 2001. First facsimile edition. 14 + 38 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 150 numbered copies. d’Arch Smith introduces this facsimile edition of the rare 1920 magazine. Tipped-in at the rear of the volume is a facsimile of the prospectus which, at the time of this publication, was shot from the only known surviving copy. The second British gay periodical, following The Chameleon (1894). Contributors included Kenneth Ingram, E.E. Bradford, Leonard Green, John Gambril Nicholson, Arthur Lee Gardner, and Dorothy Sayers (two poems).
$450.00London: Secker & Warburg, 1954. First edition. 256 pp. Very light foxing to the least leaf, else very near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light chipping to top edge and crown, and an internally mended tear to the rear panel near the spine. An early collection of Dahl stories.
$45.00Berkeley: Arrowhead Books (1981). First edition. 138 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Briefly INSCRIBED by Darlington on the title page. New York to Cambridge to Europe.
$40.00Berkeley & Brookston: Arif Press/Twinrocker Papermill [1981]. First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. The prospectus for this elaborate presentation of text by Sappho, which includes the whole of Davenport’s “A Note on the Text.” Crane D93.
$25.00Boston: Arion/Boston University (2006). Third Series 13.3 Winter. [38 pp w/notes]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Letters by Guy Davenport to Nicholas Kilmer from 1978-1983, with Kilmer’s introduction and commentary. An Arion Offprint.
$75.00NY: Scribners (1974). First edition. 261 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. 1500 copies printed. Crane A10.
$25.00Monterey: Weng & Associates, 1984. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 600 numbered copies (there were 55 in boards) on Ragston paper, printed at the Larkspur Press. A single poem. Crane A24.
$20.00Toronto: Letters/Coach House (1993). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. “... but the bookseller is in his shirtsleeves, struggling with a large and heavy box.” A keepsake distributed at the book fair.
$35.00San Francisco: Auerhahn Society, 1965. First edition. [64 pp]. Near fine in wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. One of 750 copies. Forty-two poems with an unsigned foreword. Auerhahn 38.
$125.00San Francisco: Print Workshop, 1955. First edition. [20 pp]. Tiny mark on one unprinted leaf, else fine in stapled wrappers and fine illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Dawson. One of 150 copies produced at The Print Workshop in San Francisco. Designed by Jonathan Williams.
$125.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. First edition, presentation copy. 134 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered board and fine acetate dust jacket. One of only two “presentation copies,” so designated on the colophon page and SIGNED by Dawson. As in the lettered issue, tipped-in after the title page is an original drawing dated (’73) and initialed by Dawson. Morrow & Cooney 170c (note).
$40.00London: Constable, 1927. First edition. xi + 109 pp. Quarter-sized stain to last leaf, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. T.E.G. Cover art and thirty internal woodcuts by “Bold.” Limericks, delicate satire, and nonsense rhymes.
$75.00London: Practical Paradise Publications (1977). First printing of this revised translation. [56 pp]. Light bend to one lower corner, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Errata slip present. Ford p.91.
$35.00San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1964. First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers. One of 500 copies printed. Andrew Hoyem contributes an introduction to this first collection of poems by the nineteen-year-old Deemer. Auerhahn Pamphlet Series Number Three. Auerhahn 37.
$250.00Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972. First edition. 242 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket a tiny closed tear to the rear gutter. DeLillo’s second novel.
$25.00NY: Scribner (1997). Advance reading copy. 827 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
$20.00Sacramento: Runcible Spoon (1970). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. A strictly visual work, #1 in the Runcible Spoon CRETIN concrete poetry series.
$125.00Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1981). First US edition. vii + 114 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Alan Bass, with his notes. Three lengthy interviews with Derrida.
$75.00Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1973. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 31 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Di Prima. Yes! Capra Chapbook Series #10.
$75.00NY: Red Ozier, 1982. First edition. [30 pp]. Fine in plain wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. Illustrations by John Digby. One of 130 numbered copies on Franfurt Cream paper SIGNED by Joan and John Digby. Poems, printed in two colors. Peich 33.
$45.00Hounslow: Caligula Books (1975). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Caligula Books No. 5.
$750.00Lausanne: Éditions Clairfontaine (1955). First edition. Small 4to. [34 pp]. Fine in plain cardstock covers and very near fine illustrated dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing. Photographs of cats, birds, and rabbits combined with verse and illustrations. Design by Albert Plécy.
$75.00NY: Scribner’s (1960). First edition. 186 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A novel of the New York theater world, Broadway, and hipster societies. Doliner’s first book. Young 1028.
$45.00Redding Ridge: Black Swan Books (1983). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1960). 211 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. H.D.’s third published novel, with an afterword by John Walsh, Perdita Schaffner’s essay “A Profound Animal,” and excerpts from H.D.’s “Notes on Recent Writing.” Bohn A26a.iv.
$45.00[New Westbury: Frontier Press] 1971. First printing of this unauthorized edition. [62 pp]. Fine in wrappers with printed paper spine label. 1600 copies printed. Boughn A28.
$35.00Redding Ridge: Black Swan Press (1985). First printing of this revised edition. 156 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Frontis photograph of H.D. by Man Ray. Afterword by John Walsh. This edition incorporates changes H.D. made in 1955 to the 1927 first edition. Boughn A9b.
$200.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1991. First edition, publisher’s copy. 224 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Originally published in 1971, Dorn here adds a new preface. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Dorn.