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$125.00London: Faber & Faber (1954). Second UK edition, first printing. 252 pp. Top edge lightly soiled, else near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket.$35.00NY: Doubleday (1994). Uncorrected proof. 383 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Anthology includes prize-winning stories 'Better Be Ready ‘Bout Half Past Eight’ by Alison Baker, ‘The Voyage Out’ by John Rolfe Gardiner, and ‘Terrific Mother’ by Lorrie Moore, as well as notable stories ‘We Didn’t’ by Stuart Dybek, ‘Not the Phil Donahue Show’ by Kelly Cherry, ‘Semper Fidelis’ by Amy Bloom, and other work by Judith Ortiz Cofer and Elizabeth Oness.$20.00NY: Random House (1963). First edition. 240 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.$25.00Stanford: Stanford University Libraries (2000). First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in hand-sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with printed cover label. One of 300 copies. Printed letterpress by Peter Koch on Mohawk Superfine paper. Introductory notes by Peter Stansky and Philippe Tapon. Posthumously published after Abraham’s death in 1998, this volume is a tribute to his work as biographer, novelist, poet, and editor, and collects the poetry Abrahams wrote and published in the ‘30s and ‘40s.$125.00Woodside: Occasional Works (1977). First edition. [8 pp]. Spine tanned, else near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 25 copies. Poems that originally appeared in Poetry Magazine in May 1948. An early item from the Press$25.00Berkeley: National Student Anthology (1977). First edition. 89 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Preface by Ishmael Reed.$22.50San Francisco: Moonrise, 1975. First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies.$25.00St. Louis: Cauldron Press, 1977. First edition. [44 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers. Cover and one interal illustration are woodblock prints by Russell Edson.$12.50Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1984. First edition. 53 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Two essays.$20.00London: Ferry Press (1966). First edition. [32 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems, one of 350 copies.$25.00NY: (np) (1964). First edition. [20 pp]. Small dampstain to front cover, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems.$35.00NY: (np) (1964). First edition. [20 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Inked ownership signature of Richard Krech, “Rich Krech” on the title page.$45.00NY: (np) (1965). First edition. [20 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Short poems, most only a few words. Epigraph reads, "We're finally doing waiting. -Mac Low."$35.00(np): Impressions West, 1964. First edition. [6 pp]. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. Inked ownership signature of Richard Krech, “Rich Krech,” inside front cover. INSCRIBED by Krech on the title page, “O’ Brother - / on the street we shall / meet our keeper / -la-hitra-ot-O’ Brother / Martin P. Abramson.”$15.00Berkeley: Undermine Press (1967). First edition. [10 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. First separate appearance of this long poem, which appeared originally in Avalanche #1.$45.00London: Hutchinson (1973). First edition. 71 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket that is lightly sunned along the spine. SIGNED by Abse on the title page.$30.00Portland: Portland University Library (1971). First edition. [24 pp]. Light fade along top-edge, else very near fine in sewn wrappers. A long poem. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Abse.$20.00London: Hutchinson (1962). First edition. 59 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. “Choice of the Poetry Book Society” band present, though with two wrinkled tears to the rear.$30.00London: Hutchinson (1979). First edition. 104 pp. One edge bumped, else near fine in glossy wrappers. Dated (March ‘84) and INSCRIBED by Abse. A play, and a collection of poems, FUNLAND, which was published originally in 1973.$25.00London: Hutchinson (1970). First edition. vi + 95 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to base and crown of spine. INSCRIBED by Abse on the front free endpaper.$10.00London: Vista Books (1963). First edition. 48 pp. Near fine in classy yellow floral wrappers. Interior clean and bright. Selections from three of the poet's Hutchinson Co. books, plus three new, uncollected poems.$25.00London: Scorpion Press (1967). First edition. 135 pp. Very good plus in printed wrappers; a trade paperback original. SIGNED by Abse.$12.50Riverdale-on-Hudson: Sheep Meadow Press (2000). First edition. 126 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original.$125.00Berkeley & London: Tree/Trigram, 1976. First edition. 73 pp. A few small spots to fore-edge, else near fine in very good plus illustrated dust jacket with wear along the top edge. Translations and adaptations by Bruria Finkel, Jack Hirschman, David Meltzer, and Gershom Scholem. Tree Texts 4.$55.00Garden City: Doubleday, 1973. First US edition. 129 pp. Foxing to page edges, else near fine in very good dust jacket with stains along spine and extrems of rear panel.$25.00NY: Semiotext(e) (1991). First edition. 140 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.$75.00London: Chatto & Windus (1952). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1932). 276 pp. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light tanning to spine. Ackerley “revised and extended” the text for this new edition. Young 6.
$50.00London: Ian McKelvie, 1972. First edition. 29 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Francis King introduces this collection of five poems. Tipped-on frontis portrait of Ackerley by Don Bachardy. One of 350 numbered copies.$40.00NY: Coward-McCann (1969). First US edition. 219 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Young 9* (UK edition).$75.00Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1923. First edition. 119 pp. Previous owner's name inked to front free endpaper, some scattered dark foxing to top and bottom edges, else very good in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed paper spine label. Lacks the uncommon dust jacket. Extra spine label tipped in at rear. 'This volume comprises four independent books of verse which the authors did not consider suitable for separate publication.' Ackerley's first book.$20.00London: Bodley Head (1962). Third printing. 157 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Young 11*.$27.50London: Bodley Head (1962). Second printing. 157 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with the original wrap-around band. Young 11*.