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$300.00NY: League of Composers 1939-1944. Nine issues, all near fine in stapled wrappers. In addition to sitting on the “Composers’ Committee,” Bowles was a frequent translator and contributor from 1931 to 1946. Out of thirty or so citations, this batch includes Miller C95, C100-1, C107-8, C109, C110, C111, C134-5, C279, and C350. For the lot:
$35.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First trade paperback printing. 73 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers.
$350.00Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions (1981). First edition, numbered & signed issue. Two LPs, both fine, in fine linen sleeve. Cover illustration by Brion Gysin. Colophon sheet and Erratum slip present. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles.$125.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982. First printing of this second edition (originally published in 1955). 406 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 1000 trade hardcover copies. Undescribed variant issue, with a black cloth spine, and pale ivory paper for the boards and spine label.$150.00NY: Random House (1955). First edition. 406 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of wear to crown.$125.00NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1967). First edition. 215 pp. Light fade to topstain, else fine in fine dust jacket. Miller A16.
$75.00Bolinas: Tombouctou, 1988. First trade edition. 86 pp. Fine in full black cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. No dust jacket, as issued.$45.00Montreal: DC Books (1971). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 76 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Boxer from a hardcover edition of 50.$15.00Trumansburg: Crossing Press (1973). First edition. 41 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems with graphics by David Sykes and an illustration by Zevi Blum.$25.00NY: Macmillan (1977). First edition. 214 pp. One lower board edge bumped, else fine in near fine dust jacket. Boyd's second novel.$15.00[Venice]: Yarmouth Press, 1980. First edition. 68 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Barbara A. Holland, Lyn Lifshin, David Trinidad, Guy R. Beining, and others.$35.00Fort Smith: South and West (1962). First edition. 40 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover design by Carolyn Tyson. Boyd’s second book.$35.00Fort Smith: South and West, 1964. First edition. 31 pp w/contents & biography. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover design by Hans Juergensen. Third book by the founder of “South and West.” Original mailing envelope present.$12.50Rocky Mount: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press (1992). First trade edition. 113 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 500 copies. Poems, with an afterword by Arthur Mann Kaye.$35.00London: Hamish Hamilton (1982). First edition. 370 pp. Slight lean to spine, else near fine in near fine dust jacket.$75.00London: Hamish Hamilton (2005). First edition. xvii + 650 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.$45.00London: Hamish Hamilton (2004). First edition. 208 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Boyd on the title page.$35.00Cambridge: 21 Publishing (1998). First edition. 67 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Novelist Boyd’s spoof- with the help of 21 publisher David Bowie- biography of a non-existent American painter. A number of art journals gave this straight serious reviews, and then had to beat a hasty retreat as the hoax was revealed.$75.00NY: William Morrow (1984). First US edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Boyd's third book, which contains two stories that were not in the English edition. INSCRIBED by Boyd to the actor MacDonald Carey.$20.00NY: Morrow, 1984. First edition. 217 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. A collection of short stories, with two tales not in the UK edition.$12.50London: Sinclair-Stevenson (1995). First edition. 194 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Boyd’s second collection of stories.$20.00London: Hamish Hamilton (1987). First edition. 462 pp. Pages toned (cheap paper) else near fine in near fine dust jacket.$45.00London: Hamish Hamilton (1987). First edition. 462 pp. Pages toned (cheap paper), else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a short tear to the top rear flap fold. SIGNED by Boyd on the title page.$45.00NY: Simon and Schuster, 1944 . First edition. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Very good.$150.00NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1940). First edition. 295 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some light soiling to spine. INSCRIBED by Boyle, “dear Burton - / I wish that all Americans / could be - would be - as / intelligent, and enlightened as / you. / Kay.” Young 386.
$75.00Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press (1985). First trade edition. 66 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Boyle on the title page with a correction in her hand on one page. Accompanying this copy is Boyle’s own erratum slip, indicating trouble on six additional pages.$20.00Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press (1985). First edition. 66 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.$25.00NY: Viking (1989). First edition. 224 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some sunning to spine. SIGNED by Boyle on the title page. His third collection of short stories.$200.00NY: Viking (1984). Uncorrected proof. 333 pp. Fine in printed red wrappers. Boyle's second novel.$25.00NY: Viking (1990). First edition. 364 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Dated (9/12/95) and SIGNED by Boyle on the title page.$20.00Athens: Ohio University Press, 1981. . First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Review copy with slip laid in. Translated by Cornelia Bozhilova. Fifth in the International Poetry Series. Fine in a near fine jacket.$12.50Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1981. 2nd printing. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some edgewear and a closed tear top front. Introduction by Samuel Hazo. One of the International Poetry Series.