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$950.00Fayetteville & [Seattle]: Lost Roads/Mill Mountain Press 1977. First edition. 542 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Stanford’s epic poem begun as a teen and worked on and off for years. Issued as Lost Roads 7-12. Though there is an assigned isbn for a hardcover edition of this title, one was not produced.
$450.00Indianapolis & NY: Bobbs-Merrill (1951). Advance copy. 400 pp. Some light wear to base of spine, else near fine in full brown, gilt-stamped cloth without dust jacket. Stamped “Sample Copy / Not For Sale” on the front free endpaper, along with Styron's agent's name and address. Styron's first book.
$450.00Santa Cruz: Clatworthy Colorvues, 1974. First edition. Oblong 8vo. [54 pp]. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Preceding their important collaboration EVIDENCE by three years, this volume recontextualizes advertising images of useful household and personal items.
$45.00[Melbourne]: Bloom Publishing (2015). First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of smaller number (of 200) copies accompanied by a full-color two-sided poster. Photographs of protests in Kiev and rural Ukraine during the initial actions of February 2014.
$125.00London: Covent Garden Press, 1973. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 11 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Trevor. Covent Garden Stories Number Six.$750.00NY: Knopf, 1976. Uncorrected proof. Narrow 4to. 233 pp. Sticker shadows to front and rear covers near bottom edge, two small stray ink marks to fore-edge, publication info inked to front wrap (which is stapled to front free endpaper). In all, a very good plus proof copy of Tyler's sixth book.
$350.00NY: Hocus Pocus (1990). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 302 pp. Faint sunning to spine, else fine in full orange cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Vonnegut.$450.00Oxford: Plough Press, 1984. First edition. 24 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. One of 100 numbered copies. In addition to the press history, includes an original leaf from THE OCTAVO FERNS and THE BRITISH SEAWEEDS.
$500.00[North Pomfret]: Elysium Press (1993). First edition, deluxe numbered issue. [48 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label in publisher’s matching clamshell case. Foreword by Edmund White. Illustrated by Pierre Le-Tan. One of 20 Roman numbered copies SIGNED by White, and with a corresponding numbered etching SIGNED by Le-Tan. Original prospectus accompanies.
$750.00Norfolk: New Directions [1949]. Second edition. 207 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with two closed tears and a chip to crown of spine. This second edition adds “Something wild...” by Williams as an introduction. INSCRIBED by Williams, “For Ruth Dutton / who has the happy / distinction of being / the sister of Lois / Tennessee.”
$350.00NY: New Directions (1971). First edition. 591 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. SIGNED by Williams on the front free endpaper. Collects THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE, SUMMER AND SMOKE, THE ROSE TATTOO, and CAMINO REAL.
$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:$300.00Tokyo: Photo Musée (1998). First edition. 8vo. [670 pp]. Near fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket. Obi present. Dated (Oct. 08) and INSCRIBED by Kurata on the front free endpaper. Photographs from some of the darker corners.$500.00(np): Privately Printed, 1964. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with gilt-titled leather spine. The printed month for services has been struck through in holograph and “november” penned in. Zachary Scott and John Steinbeck each contribute a brief essay on their friend Emery.
$350.00Santa Barbara: Cadmus, 1979. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 12mo. 85 pp w/note. Fine in illustrated wrappers and fine unprinted glassine dust jacket. Translated from the original Arabic by Paul Bowles. Foreword by Gavin Lamberg, concluding note by Williams. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Choukri and Bowles.