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Catalogue 33

Little Magazines

1. Morrow, Bradford (editor). CONJUNCTIONS: I New York, 1981. Winter 81-82. First Edition. Cloth in dust jacket. A Festschrift in honor of James Laughlin, publisher of New Directions. A bi-annual, one of the fne literary journals of its day, this was the inaugural double-issue with many of Mr. Laughlin's authors attending. The cloth issue, done only for the frst 14 issues. Near fne in like dust jacket, bump to bottom edge, unread. [11885]

$25.00

2. [Pound,Ezra]; Hinckley, Theodore Ballou. THE DRAMA: A Quarterly Review. Chicago: The Drama League of America, August 1916. First Edition. Steel grey wrappers, printed in blue. Pp. 329 - 479, ads. Prints "Kakitsuhata," A Noh Drama by Motokiyo from the notes of Ernest Fenollosa, edited by Ezra Pound, pp. 428 - 435. Also, prose by John Rodker and an article on the Actors Equity Assoc. unionizing (joining the AFL), etc. Some pages uncut. Yapped edges lightly worn, else near fne. [12121] $75.00

3. Zavrian, Suzanne; Joachim Neugroschel (eds.). EXTENSIONS. NY: Extensions, 1968. First Edition. First issue (of 8?) of this literary magazine with a short poem by George Schneeman and Ron Padgett, and work by Hugh Seidman, Stephen Stepanchev, John Perrault, Steve Katz, Miodrag Pavlovic, Jack Anderson and others. Mostly avant garde, New York centric and surprisingly not in Clay/Phillips. 96 pp. Very good in wraps with little wear, light toning. [11892] $35.00 4. Meyer, Staney Dehler (ed.). FANTASY Vol. 5, No. 1. Pittsburgh: Fantasy, 1935. First Edition. 52 pp. Story by August Derleth "The Wild Swan", an essay by W.C. Williams, "To Write American Poetry", "Lyric" by Lola Ridge,and two sonnets by Jesse Stuart. Easily very good in wraps. [12073] $15.00

5. Meyer, Staney Dehler (ed.). FANTASY Vol. 6, No. 4. Pittsburgh: Fantasy, 1940. First Edition. 76 pp. Poems by William Carlos Williams ("Perfection"), Eugene Jolas, Winfeld Townley Scott , John Wheelwright, Charles Henri Ford, and Federico Garcia Lorca among others as well as prose work including an essay on Patchen. Issue number in pencil and lightly soiled wrappers. Near fne in wrappers. [12074] $20.00

6. Meyer, Staney Dehler (ed.). FANTASY No. 26. Pittsburgh: Fantasy, 1942. First Edition. 130 pp. Tenth Anniversary Issue, with poems by Winfeld Townley Scott, Derleth, Eberhart, Rexroth, Patchen, and many in translation including Rilke, Garcia Lorca, Neruda, Andrade, Mistral, Borges, among others as well as a story by Jesse Stuart. Reviews including a long one of Patchen's The Journal of Albion Moonlight by William Carlos Williams. Side stitched, staples showing through (inevitably) else near fne in wrappers. [12076] $25.00

7. George Hitchcock, (ed.). KAYAK 21. Santa Cruz: Kayak Press, 1969. First edition. Stapled wrappers; 72 pp. Poems by Wendell Berry "Meditation in the Spring Rain", Robert Mezey, Bert Meyers, Diane Di Prima, R. G. Vliet, Carolyn Stoloff, Gene Frumkin, John Tagliabue, Howard McCord and others. Very light toning, one corner a bit creased else near fne. [11880] $20.00

8. George Hitchcock, (ed.). KAYAK 26. Santa Cruz: Kayak Press, 1971. First edition. Stapled wrappers; 72 pp. Printed on varied colored papers. Poems by Snyder, Berry, Wagoner, Stanford, Booth, Morris, Yaryan, Ignatow, Alexander, Wilson, Tate, Kessler, Saunders, Stepanchev, Tagliabue, and Ira Sadoff, with prose by Carol Berge (prose poem), Bullock, Russell Edson, Zekowski, and Dobyns among others. Good poems: Snyder's "I went into the Maverick Bar", Stanford's "Wishing my wife had one leg" from his frst collection published that year. Bert Myers' poem with substitute lines in the margins in pencil in an unknown hand may be of interest. Minor toning and wear, but easily very good in stapled wrappers. [11884] $20.00

9. Johns, Richard (ed.). PAGANY, Vol. 1, No.2: A Native Quarterly. Boston: Richard Johns, Spring 1930. First Edition. Red printed covers. 112 pp. Work by William Carlos Williams, Erskine Caldwell, Louis Zukofsky, Witter Bynner, R. P. Blackmur, Norman MacLeod, Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis and many others. Worn at front spine edge, other wise light creasing to the spine and overall at least very good. Pagany lasted for twelve issues from 1930 to 1933. Scarce issue of one of the most distinguished little magazines in quite nice condition. [12093] $45.00

10. Johns, Richard (ed.). PAGANY, Vol. 1, No.3: A Native Quarterly. Boston: Richard Johns, Summer 1930. First Edition. Light green printed covers. 88 pp. Work by William Carlos Williams (Excerpt from WHITE MULE - A Novel), Gertrude Stein, Erskine Caldwell, Norman MacLeod, Yvor Winters, Mary Butts and many others. Light wear, back cover a bit creased, else very good. [12094] $45.00

11. Johns, Richard (ed.). PAGANY, Vol. 1, No.4: A Native Quarterly. Boston: Richard Johns, Fall1930. First Edition. Blue printed covers.110 pp. Work by William Carlos Williams (two poems), Louis Zukofsky, Erskine Caldwell, Norman MacLeod, Charles Reznikoff, Charles Henri Ford and many others. Back cover with two small chips, otherwise lightly worn and creased, spine sunned, else very good. Subscriber card laid in. [12095] $45.00

12. Abbott, Steve; Joyce Jenkins (eds.). POETRY FLASH: A Poetry Review & Literary Calendar for the West. Berkeley: Poetry Flash, 1984 -1996 45 Issues of Poetry Flash the Bay Area review and calendar newspaper from 1984 through 1996. Nos. 130 -148, 157, 159, 167, 169, 176-7, 179-182, 188-193, 195, 200- 202, 229, 236, 238, 252, 261, 268. Interesting material with many events advertised and covered; essays, reviews; photographs of poets and occasionally poetry. Mailing labels and stamps, folded for mailing, some toning of newsprint and wear, but very good. [11876] $175.00

13. Lansing, Garrit (ed.). SET Volume I, Numbers 1 & 2 (complete run in two issues). Gloucester, MA: Lansing, 1961 & 1963. First printing. Stapled, illustrated paper wraps; 8 1/2 x 11 in..[2-31 ; 34-64 pp.] Two issues

(the complete run) of this uncommon literary journal with poetry from Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Edward Dorn, Robert Kelly, Lansing, Weiners, Elmslie, Stephen Jonas, LeRoi Jones, Diane Wakoski, Robert Kelly and John McGavern and three excerpts of metaphysical verse from Aleister Crowley's (as Fra Perdurabo) The Book of Lies. Fine bright copies. Clay/Phillips pp. 134-135. [11979] For the pair: $100.00

14. Bly, Robert, editor. THE SEVENTIES, Number 1: A Magazine of Poetry and General Opinion. Minnesota: Seventies Press, 1972. First printing (not the reprint). Poems translated mostly by Bly (in two cases with James Wright) of Neruda, Transtromer, Lorca, Rilke, Vallejo and others; new poems by Snyder, Edson, Knott, Pickard, Lamantia, Ginsberg, Orr and Wiener among others. Light wear, back cover lightly creased, but tight and about near fne in brown illustrated wrappers. 102 pp. [12050] $15.00

15. Bly, Robert, editor; THE SIXTIES, Seventh Issue: A Magazine of Poetry and General Opinion. Minnesota: Sixties Press, Winter 1964. First printing (not the reprint). The seventh issue, with poems by Neruda, Vallejo and others (trans. by Bly & Wright), as well as Bill Knott, Louis Simpson, Russell Edson, John Haines and others. Crunk (Bly) on Dickey. Wear to the last few leaves, else tight and very good in green wrappers. 84 pp. [12096] $15.00

16. Bly, Robert, editor. THE SIXTIES, Eighth Issue: A Magazine of Poetry and General Opinion. Minnesota: Sixties Press, Spring 1966. First printing (not the reprint). The eighth issue, with poems by fourteen German poets as well as new poems by Hall and Wright among others. Bly trashes Lowell, and there are parodies of Olson and Dickey. Spine-faded, light wear, tight and otherwise easily very good in red wrappers. 102 pp. [12049] $15.00

17. Elmslie, Kenward. Z # I. New York: Z Press, 1973. First edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. Cover and drawings by Trevor Winkfeld; poetry and or prose by Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Gerritt Henry, Phillip Lopate, Winkfeld and others. Spine area toned, light wear and soiling, else tight clean and very good. 116 pp. [11982]

$25.00

18. Bevins, Richard; William D. Shields; A. Kingsley Weatherhead; Kenneth Irby. The ZELOT nos. 1-4. Greensburg, PA: The Zelot Press, 1981. Stapled printed self-wraps; thin 8o. each issue devoted to a separate poet: Shields, Weatherhead, Irby and Blevins the publisher: Remembering the Future; The Day I Found Marco Polo...; from Poets in Oregon; Riding the Dog. Distributed by The Asphodel Book Shop, the legendary Cleveland bookshop owned by Jim Lowell a mentor to Blevins. Staples a bit rusty, else about fne. For set of 4. [11856] $50.00

Broadsides

19. Berrigan, Ted. FRAGMENT For Jim Brodey. London: Cape Goliard Press, 1969. First Edition. Illustrated broadside; approx. 15.5 x 11.5 inches. One of 327 (this copy not numbered as called for) copies made (the frst 60 of which were signed by artist and poet), after which "the plates were destroyed & the type dissed". Printed on Green’s English hand-made paper; illustrated with a three-color offset lithograph by Jim Dine. Dine born in Ohio spent four years in London, during which time this piece was published. Jim Brodey, to whom the 12-line poem is addressed was a poet and like Berrigan associated with the New York School in the late sixties. A wonderful collaboration between one of the foremost pop artists, and a central fgure of the Second Generation of New York School Poets The type is printed in blue and black and the toothbrushes in black, cream and pink. The colophon and limitation details are printed on the back of the sheet. This copy hors commerce, not numbered. In excellent condition, only light signs of handling to the edges. [11975] $225.00

20. Berrigan, Ted. 'MANY HAPPY RETURNS" To Dick Gallup. NY: Grabhorn-Hoyem for Angel Hair Magazine, 1967. First edition. Single sheet card stock, folded, title in red printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem of San Francisco. 8vo. One of 200 copies. This copy is signed by Ted Berrigan. Uneven offsetting, soiling, one corner turned, the interior and signature bright. Fischer p. 30. Good. no binding. [11933] $100.00Precedes the Corinth Press book bearing the same title by two years. Uncommon especially signed by the author.

21. Creeley, Robert. CHRISTMAS BROADSIDE: Number Three. Buffalo: Friends of the Lockwood Library, SUNY, 1970. First Thus. Broadside printed on green paper, folded in thirds for mailing, as issued. One of 2000 copies; author signature printed at foot of poem. Light toning, creasing, but still easily very good. [11875]

$35.00

22. Creeley, Robert. CHRISTMAS BROADSIDE: Xmas Second Series, Number Nine. Buffalo: The University Libraries SUNY Buffalo, 1987. First Thus. Single sheet folded; color illustration by Martha Visser't Hooft opposite Creeley's poem "Xmas". One of 2000 total. Fine. [11866] $15.00

23. ANOTHER COPY. One of 50 (of 2000 total) specially signed by the poet and illustrator. Quite scarce signed. Fine. [11865] $75.00

24. [Duncan, Robert; Robin Blaser]. The Writings and the World of Mary Butts. Davis, CA: The University of CA, Davis, 1984. First Edition. Single sheet folded in thirds to form six panels; program for a conference on Mary Butts held at UC, Davis. Signed by two of the panelists at their contributions brief essays on the program: Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser. Wear at folds, about fne. [11873]

$50.00

25. Fabilli, Mary. My Body. N.p.: Oyez, 1985`. First Edition. Single sheet folded twice; small 12mo. A poem by Fabilli; one of 250 copies for friends of the poet and press. This copy Inscribed by Bob Hawley co-founder of the press to a friend of the press. Fabilli was a longtime friend of Robert Duncan one of the primary authors published by Oyez. Signature a bit smudged, else fine. [12017] $10.00

26. Hoagland, Tony. The Loneliest Job in the World. Berkeley: Hit & Run, 2011. First Separate Edition. Broadside poem printed by Larry Rafferty on BFK Rives using his Vandercook SP-15 proof press. 8 1/2 x 11 in. One of 25 signed by the poet (of 75 total, of which 25 went to the author). A lovely production: black lettering with the publisher logo embossed on blue and white illustrated heavy paper. Fine. [11984] $65.00

The poem is from the 2010 collection UNINCORPORATED PERSONS IN THE LATE HONDA DYNASTY. Hoagland has become one of our most popular poets; winner of the Twain, Laughlin and many other awards.

27. Howe, Susan. CHRISTMAS BROADSIDE: Second Series, Number Five. Buffalo: The University Libraries SUNY Buffalo, 1983. First Thus. Single sheet folded; text & illustration by Susan Howe. A short poem beginning: "Threadbare evergreen season/". Fine and scarce. [11868] $75.00

28. Kupferberg, Tuli (ed.). YEAH 2 (brochure). New York: Birth Press, 1962. First edition. Single 8 1/2 x 11 in. sheet printed on yellow paper and folded. Evidently an advertising brochure for the magazine, reproducing the cover of YEAH 2, with subscription rate ("$100 for the next 400 issues (or pro rata)"), a poem beginning: "At the meeting of radicals...", and a "A Waiver & Agreement/ This certifes that I, the undersigned, a female about to enjoy intercourse with .......". A typical but scarce bit of ephemera from Tuli Kupferberg's Birth Press. Soiled and creased, about very good. [11879] $95.00

29. McCaffery, Steve. CHRISTMAS BROADSIDE: Prior to Meaning. Third Series, Number Eight. Buffalo: The University Libraries SUNY Buffalo, 1996. First Thus. Single sheet folded; color illustration by Michael Snow opposite McCaffery's poem "Prior to Meaning". One of 2000 total. Fine. [11867] $15.00

30. Montague, John. CHRISTMAS BROADSIDE: Last Chance. Second Series, Number Ten. Buffalo: The University Libraries SUNY Buffalo, 1988. First Thus. Single sheet folded; color illustration a quilt by Evelyn Montague opposite Montague's poem "Last Chance". One of 2000 total. Fine. [11871] $35.00

30a. Montague, John. Small Secrets (for Patrick Collins) London: Poem-of-the-Month Club, 1972 - 11 x 15 in. broadside poem signed by the author. Wrinkled, long crease, about very good. $50.00

31. Sarton, May. Bliss. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1992. First edition. Broadside poem measuring 10 x 13 inches, printed on recto only; calligraphy and illustration by R. P. Hale. Number 6 of 36 copies signed by poet and illustrator. The total edition was 136 copies, the rest a smaller size. Issued to celebrate the poets 81st birthday, May 3, 1993. This copy very fne, and not folded (as many seem to have been - for mailing). An especially attractive broadside. [11931] $150.00

32. Sarton, May. Blizzard. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1986. First edition. Broadside poem, approx. 9 3/4" x 16 1/2". Calligraphy and illustration by R. P. Hale. This issue signed by the author limited to 50 copies, and printed on special paper (total edition was 186 copies). In addition this copy designated as "Publisher's Copy". Fine and lovely. [11928] $200.00

33. Sarton, May. Coming Into Eighty. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1992. First edition. Broadside poem, approx. 8" x 12". Verso prints colophon. Printed at Firefy Press for private distribution by Sarton to celebrants of her eightieth birthday; designed by John Kristensen. This signed issue limited to 36 copies, printed on special paper (total edition was 136 copies). Fine copy. [11930] $75.00

34. Sarton, May. The Ender, The Beginner. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1992. First edition. Broadside poem, approx. 8" x 12". Verso prints colophon. Printed at Firefy Press for private distribution by Sarton to celebrants of her eightieth birthday; designed by John Kristensen. This signed issue limited to 36 copies, printed on special paper (total edition was 136 copies). Fine copy. [11927] $75.00

35. Sarton, May. The Smile After a Painting By Stefano Sassetta (c. 1400-1450). Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1987. First edition. Broadside poem, approx. 10" x 14". Typography by John Kristensen, and printed in Rives at the Firefy Press. Signed by the author limited to 70 total copies. Fine, and a smaller printing. [11929] $100.00

36. Sarton, May. The Work of Happiness. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1991. First Separate Edition. Broadside, approx. 9 x 12 in. There were 136 copies printed; this is one of 36 numbered copies on special paper and signed by the poet. Designed by John Kristensen, printed in two colors by Firefy Press for Sarton's 79th birthday. A scarce broadside. Fine. [11926] $125.00

37. Stallings, A[licia]. E[lsbeth]. Watching the Vulture at the Road Kill. Berkeley: Hit & Run, 2013. First edition thus. Poetry broadside (approx. 7 3/4 x 12 in.) printed in two colors on BFK Rives gray paper. One of 20 numbered copies signed by the author Alicia E. Stallings; of the 100 total copies, 25 went to the author, the remaining 55 unsigned. Printed on a Vandercook No. 4 Proof Press at Colored Horse Studios in Ukiah, CA. The poem is from the poet's frst regularly published book ARCHAIC SMILE. Fine, and a lovely production from Larry Rafferty's press. [12101] $65.00

37a. ANOTHER COPY. Regular issue, not signed. [11944] $25.00

Stallings was a recent winner of a McArthur "genius" Award. Originally from Georgia, she now lives in Greece, and has become a leading translator from the Greek, and one of the leading poets of her generation.

38. Trethewey, Natasha. Pastoral. Berkeley: Hit & Run, 2013. First Separate Printing. Poetry broadside (approx. 9 x 12 in., bottom edge uncut) printed on BFK Rives off-white paper. Printed on a Vandercook No. 4 Proof Press at Colored Horse Studios in Ukiah, CA. With a photoshopped photograph of the poet with four of the Fugitive poets, the subject (of the dream) of the poem. A lovely production from Larry Rafferty's fne press. Not issued signed. [12060] $35.00

Trethewey was named Poet Laureate in 2012; previously she was the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for her collection Native Guard, the collection in which "Pastoral" was first published.

Poetry Books, Fine press, Letters, &c.

39. Anderson, Margaret. GROCER SHOPS AND SOULS. Rochester, NY: Lillies & Schoolteachers, 1983. First Thus. Sewn printed wrappers. One of 100 copies, the frst publication of the press of Dale Davis and Candace Lorimer. Attractively printed from Bodoni types on J. Whatman paper. Brief essay by Anderson on literary criticism originally published in 1914, in The Little Review. For a colloquium co-hosted by the NY State Literary Center. Fine. [12070] $15.00

40. Ashbery, John, and Joe Brainard. THE VERMONT NOTEBOOK. LA: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Cloth-backed illustrated paper-covered boards; 8vo. Signed edition, number 74 of 250 copies, and signed by both Joe Brainard and John Ashbery. Top edges soiled and cloth spine ends lightly sunned; easily very good, the original mylar cover with one small chip. Interior very clean. [11977] $275.00

41. Auden, W. H. ON THIS ISLAND. NY: Random House, 1937. Second Edition. Brown cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. This copy signed by Auden on the title page, having crossed out his name as usual, and, also, in the same ink and presumably in Auden's hand on page 31 drawn three arrows down the long empty space after the words "physician, bridegroom and incendiary". The bibliographer calls this a "second impression", with two printings of the frst edition and three of this edition. All priced at $1.50. Bloomfeld A13b. A nearly fne copy with shelfwear, the spine gilt only slightly dull, in a spine dulled dust jacket, separated at the fold, else mostly edgewear and about very good, [12030] $275.00

Published in England as LOOK, STRANGER! Auden wrote to publisher Bennett Cerf of Random House "Faber invented a bloody title while I was away without telling me. It sounds like the work of a vegetarian lady novelist.” The American edition also included changes requested by Auden (not unusual for him).

42. Auden, W. H. THREE SONGS FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY. NY: Privately Printed, 1941. First

Edition. Blue wrappers sewn with blue cord; 12mo. A Christmas Greeting from Caroline Newton published with Auden's permission. A small printing for an A item by a major poet. Bloomfeld A25. Light wrinkling and very lightly toned, "L-D-7" in ink on front leaf, else near fne. [12021] $250.00

43. Baxter, Charles. THE SOUTH DAKOTA GUIDEBOOK. NY: New Rivers Press, 1974. First edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 86 pp. One of 200 copies in cloth (there were 400 in paper) of the writer's second book a substantial collection of poems, published by the same publisher as his frst collection, and all more than a decade before his frst fction was published. Signed and dated in 2011 by the poet. Very light wear to ends, still fne in a bright dust jacket with a few small closed tears and a small pencil eraser-sized chip near the spine. [12020] $350.00

44. Berrigan, Ted. THE MORNING LINE. Santa Barbara: Am Here Books , 1982. First edition. Stapled printed wrappers; 4to. One of only 250 copies (265 total) of this late Berrigan title. Fischer p. 56. Covers lightly offset, front some spotting, the interior very good and clean. [11934] $25.00

45. Berrigan, Ted, Anselm Hollo. DOUBLETALK. Iowa City: N.p., 1969. First Edition. Single sheet folded with a single poem by each poet with an image of each in green sewn wraps; tall 8vo. One of 240 copies signed by both poets as called for. This copy specially inscribed "Happy Birthday Don [Hall] Sept. 1969, with a hand correction by Berrigan to his poem "Poem". Hall had invited Berrigan to the University of Michigan to read (Berrigan stayed one night at Hall's home). The book printed by T. G. Miller a student of Kim Merker at Iowa, not regularly published, which may account for its seeming scarcity. Fischer p. 31. Heavily sunned along the top edge, creased, else very good. An interesting association copy.[11935]$150.00

46. Bly, Robert. The Teeth Mother Naked at Last. San Francisco: City Lights, 1970. First Edition. Illustrated blue and white wrappers; Number 26 in the Pocket Poets series that City Lights established. One of 5000 copies printed; the frst printing in book form of this widely read anti-war poem. Cook p. 69. Lightly toned spine, else fne. [11900] $30.00

47. Cavafy, C. P. PASSIONS AND ANCIENT DAYS. NY: Dial Press, 1971. First Edition. Half cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo.; 68 pp. Poems in translation facing original Greek. Translated by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis. Lightly soiled jacket, else about fne. [11899] $25.00

48. Clough, Francis. I THE HYMN (with Tls). Newburgh, NY: Pen-Acres, 1947. First Edition. White printed wrappers, small 8vo. Enclosed is a typed letter (Tls) to Bob Browning (of the Kingston, NY radio station) describing his travails traveling back to his home Pen-Acres in Newburgh from his visit to Bob in Kingston. The book is additionally inscribed to Bob Browning in 1950. Quite an erudite and humorous letter. According to the author preface two of the poems published in WORD IS OUT drew the FBI for their antiwar stance; although liberal and the author likely a pacifst, the poems are hardly radical in tone. An attractive self-published book of poetry with an interesting letter. A few poems with hand (presumably the author's) corrections. Very good. [11882] $35.00

49. Colum, Padraic. WILD EARTH: A Book of Verse. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 1907. First Edition. Linen-backed boards; 16mo. Inscribed on the half-title by the poet in 1937, with a previous owner's name and "Christmas 1907 (the publication month was December)" above. 39 pp. A few light pencil marks, light foxing at the extremities, separating at half-title, but about very good. Lacking rare dust jacket. The poet's frst book, which went into a new edition in 1909, and was expanded in later years. Quite scarce in the marketplace, and rare signed. [11911] $350.00

A key figure in the Irish Literary Revival unlike, Joyce, Yeats and others he spent many years in the US.

50. Creeley, Robert. Autobiography. Madras & NY: Hanuman Books, 1990. First edition. Small near miniature-sized paperback from the press founded by Raymond Foye and Francesco Clemente. 103 pages. Back cover toned, light wear and very good. [11864] $15.00

51. Creeley, Robert. THE ISLAND. New York: Scribners, 1963. First edition, second state w/cancel p. 145 (as per Lepper). 190 pp. Light blue cloth in dust jacket. Poet's frst novel. Somewhat uncommon, as it was issued simultaneously in trade paperback. Very good in a rubbed else lightly worn and very good dust jacket. [11890] $50.00

52. De Otero, Blas; Hardie St. Martin. TWENTY POEMS. Madison, MN: Sixties Press, 1964. First Edition. Card covers in illustrated jacket; 8vo. 63 pp. Bilingual, translated by St. Martin from the Spanish. SIXTIES magazine subscription fyer laid in. Light blue covers faded and lightly worn at edges, a few short tear; one page two small fnger smudges; very good. [12039] $20.00

53. Di Piero, W. S. THE FIRST HOUR. Omaha: Abattoir Editions, 1982. First printing of the author's third book. Light brown cloth with paper label, issued without a dust jacket. One of 200 copies printed by Harry Duncan (Cummington Press) on a Vandercook cylinder press on Frankfurt paper. As New. [12111] $35.00

54. Di Piero, W.S. BROTHER FIRE. NY: Knopf, 2004. First edition. Poet's eighth collection. Fine unread copy in a fne dust jacket. [12051] $10.00

Di Piero won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2012. One of our most distinguished poets and teachers, he is well-known for his translations. His most recent poetry collection from McSweeney's.

55. Dorbin, Sanford M. FAMILY LIFE, and Others. Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1968. First edition. [10 pp.] Small chapbook; one of 30 sewn-bound, signed and numbered (#30) by the poet (of a total edition of 500). A volume in the Santa Barbara Poetry Series edited by Jack Shoemaker of North Point and Counterpoint fame. Designed by Alan Brilliant, printed by Bill Horton. With a fne copy of the regular issue. Fine in stapled wrappers and printed dust jacket. [12000] $45.00

56. Duncan, Robert. FAUST FOUTU: A Comic Masque. Stinson Beach: Enkidu Sur Rogate, 1960. Third edition, First Thus (self-published). First complete edition, preceded by a mimeograph edition for performers and audience at the Six Gallery reading, and a White Rabbit publication of the frst act only. Yellow illustrated wraps. 71 pages. One of 750 total copies. An about very good copy in yellow wrappers that are moderately soiled, with some wear at the base of the spine and with a small owner signature to the front free endpaper. Signed by Duncan in Chicago in 1982 opposite the title page. Bertholf A7c. [11980] $175.00

57. Duncan, Robert. OF THE WAR. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1966. First Edition. First issue. Black and red illustrated, stapled wrappers; thin 8vo. One of 1000 copies (there were an additional 6 copies in hardcover - NFS). This copy inscribed to his friend "Allan [Covici] with two Els/ Robert". Duncan's inscription refers to the fact that with his correspondence and signed books (of which we have had many) to Covici he often misspelled his name. Fine copy. [12025] $65.00

58. Duncan, Robert. POETIC DISTURBANCES. [Berkeley]: Maya Quarto Eight , 1970. First Edition. Sewn green wrappers with paper label.; 4to. Copy 31 of 50 printed on Tovil paper, of 300 total. Signed by Duncan on the limitation page. A near fne copy in sewn wrappers with paper label affxed to the front panel with a small spot to the front panel. Bertholf A34b. [11981] $175.00

59. Duncan, Robert . Poems From The Margins of Thom Gunn's MOLY. San Francisco: Ground Work, 1972. First Edition. Stapled pamphlet; 12 pp. Cover reproduction of the author's holographic hand. One of 250 copies for private distribution, according to the bibliographer not all distributed. Many if not most were numbered and inscribed to friends. Bertholf A43. Creased, back cover with short tear, very good. [11872] $25.00

60. Duncan, Robert; Jess [Collins] (illus.). THE CAT AND THE BLACKBIRD. San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1967. First Edition. Illustrated card stock, spiral bound; 4to. One of 500 copies. The book plate, which is in all copies, and serves as a colophon of sorts, is inscribed "Allan Covici from Uncle Robert". Ink from Duncan's signature has transferred lightly to the half-title, one comb has broken from the binding, a light paperclip mark on the front cover, else about fne. A lovely copy of this children's book of sorts profusely illustrated by Jess. A scarce book signed; this to Covici a Berkeley librarian, noted collector and part of the San Francisco gay culture of the 60's. [12018] $200.00

61. Eberhart, Richard. FORTY DARTMOUTH POEMS. Hanover: Dartmouth Publications, 1962. First Edition. Green illustrated wrappers; thin 8vo. Undergraduate poems with a short prose introduction by Eberhart. One of 300 copies printed at the Stinehour Press.Very light foxing, else about fne. [11995] $20.00

62. Eberhart, Richard. THIRTY FIVE DARTMOUTH POEMS. Hanover: Dartmouth Publications, 1963. First Edition. Green printed wrappers; thin 8vo. Undergraduate poems with a short poetic introduction by Eberhart. One of 200 copies printed at the Stinehour Press. Light stain/foxing to interior, else about fne. [11994] $20.00

63. Eberhart, Richard. TWENTY ONE DARTMOUTH POEMS. Hanover: Dartmouth Publications, 1964. First Edition. Tan illustrated wrappers; thin 8vo. Undergraduate poems with a short postscript by Eberhart. One of 200 copies printed at the Stinehour Press. Very lightly but unevenly toned cover, else fne. [11996]

$20.00

64. Edson, Russell. WHAT A MAN CAN SEE. Penland, NC: The Jargon Society, 1969. First Edition. Black wrappers in printed dust jacket. 4to. Russell Edson fables with Ray Johnson illustrations. Kathy Acker's copy with her name in ink on the frst leaf. Published as Jargon 37. A very good copy, lacking the problematic orange acetate covers. [11894] $125.00

65. Ehrilch, J. W. HOWL OF THE CENSOR: The Four Letter Word on Trial. San Carlos: Nourse, 1961. First Edition. Dark gray cloth in dust jacket. 144 pp. Edited with an introduction by Ehrlich a lawyer for the defendant the publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the bulk of the book contains transcriptions from the trial, as well as the poem "Howl". About fne copy lightly shelfworn, in a lightly worn at edges easily very good dust jacket. [11891] $50.00

66. Eliot, T. S. ASH WEDNESDAY: Six Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1930. First Trade edition (after a signed, limited edition of 600 copies) in brown cloth, gilt stamped, t.e.g., in dust jacket; small 8vo. One of 2000 copies. Small stain and two small areas of glue (?) stains in a bright complete (not price-clipped) dust jacket with wear at corners, closed tear at fap and 1/2' loss at crown. Name and early date on the front free end paper. Overall easily very good, and a better than usual copy. [12029] $250.00

67. Federman, Raymond. THE RIGAMAROLE OF CONTRARIETY [Excerpt from MOINOUS & SUCETTE]. Buffalo: Bolt Court Press/Univ. Libraries, U. of Buffalo , 1982. First Edition. Stapled chapbook; one of 100 signed and numbered copies. Avant garde prose from this long-time professor at UB; an excerpt from one of his semi-autobiographical works. Fine. [12061] $35.00

68. __ __ ANOTHER COPY. One of 100 copies; this hors commerce and marked "HC". Nicely inscribed (signed but not numbered as called for) "To __ who makes books with passion and friendship, Raymond". Fine copy. [12062] $25.00

69. Frank, Peter. SOMETHING ELSE PRESS: An Annotated Bibliography. McPherson & Company, 1983. First Edition. Buckram cloth, gold stamped lettering; oblong 4to. 89 pp. Illustrated. An annotated bibliography by Peter Frank documenting the publications of Something Else Press. Includes works buy Merce Cunningham, John Giorno, Claes Oldenburg, Al Hansen, Jerome Rothenberg, Dick Higgins, George Brecht, Ray Johnson, Jackson Mac Low, Robert Filliou, Emmett Williams, Daniel Spoerri, and many others. The press lasted from 1964 to 1974. Includes index of publications, including cards and newsletters. One of 500 copies bound in cloth, nevertheless scarce in the hardcover issue. Fine (issued without a dust jacket). [11938] $250.00

70. Frost, Robert. NEITHER FAR OUT NOR IN DEEP. NY: Spiral Press, 1935. First Separate Edition. Stitched wrappers. Christmas card, one of 1235 copies printed, this being one of 450 with the Elinor and Robert Frost imprint. Crane B3. As always the Japanese paper covers are offset on the endpapers; one stitch loose, else fne. A lovely production with JJ Lankes illustration. [11889] $135.00

71. Frost, Robert. WEST RUNNING BROOK. NY: Henry Holt and Co., 1928. First edition. T.e.g., leaf-patterned paper-backed in green cloth. Number 102 of 1000 numbered copies signed by Frost. Printed by D.B. Updike's Merrymount Press in different type and format from the trade issue, and includes four signed woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes. Edges very lightly worn, else fne. Attractive Michael McCurdy bookplate of previous owner laid in. The scarce slipcase is worn, but complete, the spine label toned, but also complete. Lacking the rare tissue wrapper. [12092] $750.00

72. Haines, John. LEAVES AND ASHES. San Francisco: Kayak Press, 1974. First edition. Limited edition to 1200 copies. Signed on the title page by the author. Near fne in green patterned wrappers; scarce signed. [11983] $50.00

73. Hall, Donald. THE DARK HOUSES. NY: Viking Press, 1958. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. 63 pp. Poet's second regularly published book. Inscribed "For __, whose house is not dark/ with love and affection,/ [signed] Don Hall/New York/1958". Printed at the Stinehour Press. Very good in toned at edges dust jacket with 1/3 loss at spine and separated at spine-fold. Kelleher A-7. [11919] $100.00

74. Heaney, Seamus. DOOR INTO THE DARK. NY: Oxford University Press, 1969. First U.S. Edition. Black cloth, spine gilt; 8vo. Poet's second regularly published book. Slightly splayed and soiled covers, else easily very good, interior very clean; lacking dust jacket. [12033] $35.00

75. Hine, Daryl. IN AND OUT. NY: Knopf, 1989. First edition. Yellow cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. Review slip and publisher's promotional bookmark with PW review excerpt laid in. Fine copy, red top stain bright, and no remainder mark; in a near fne dust jacket which has toned somewhat on the verso edges. An attractive, unread copy, scarce as a review copy. [11976] $20.00

76. Hughes, Ted. THE MARTYRDOM OF BISHOP FARRAR. Devon: Richard Gilbertson, 1970. First Separate Edition. Second Printing "corrected". Stapled illustrated wrappers; thin 4to. One of 88 copies (#60) signed and dated by the author (of 100 total). The frst printing was withdrawn (although sold), but except for the author's copy likely never issued signed. According to the bibliographers and evidence online this second signed printing is far scarcer than the frst. Very near fne copy. Sagar & Tabor A21a.2 [12027] $350.00

77. Jandl, Ernst, with multiple translators, esp. Rosmarie Waldrop. REFT AND LIGHT: Poems by Ernst Jandl With Multiple Versions by American Poets. Providence: Burning Deck, 2000. First edition. Crisp fne copy, small bump at spine foot. [12106] $15.00

78. Jarrell, Randall. SEVEN-LEAGUE CRUTCHES. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1951. First edition. Black cloth, gilt spine, in dj; 8vo. Poet's fourth collection. One of 2000 printed. Moderate wear to bottom tips and crown, else fne in a spine-sunned else near fne dust jacket with one closed tear and light resulting crease. Overall easily very good. Wright A4. [12022] $75.00

79. Jimenez, Juan Ramon; Robert Bly (trans.). FORTY POEMS. Madison, MN: Sixties Press, 1967. First Edition. Card covers in illustrated jacket; 8vo. 104 pp. Bilingual, translated by Robert Bly from the Spanish. Pages lightly toned, light blue covers faded and very lightly worn; bookseller ticket - Grolier Bookstore. Easily very good. [12038] $15.00

80. Jones, LeRoi [Amiri Bakara]. PREFACE TO A TWENTY VOLUME SUICIDE NOTE.... n. p. : Totem/Corinth, 1961. First edition. First issue: $1.25 price and titles in CAPS. Illustrated wrappers. The author's third book of poetry. 47 pp. Staples rusty, else a bright, white, near fne copy. [12047] $45.00

81. Kelly, Denis. DESERT/GARDENS. Bloomington: Privately Printed, 1967. Brown printed wrappers; 16mo. Number 33 of 40 copies printed by Terrance Gaughan at Indiana University. Two cycles of poems. Very attractive presentation, printed in red with black titling, with likely handmade endpapers. Creased and a trace of foxing, but still very good, and notably scarce piece of fne printing. [11999] $50.00

82. Kinnell, Galway. ANGLING, A DAY: And Other Poems. Concord, NH: Ewert, 1980. First edition. 21 pp. One of 150 (of 176 total) copies, this number 132, all signed by the poet. Includes besides the title poem "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps", "The Grey Heron", and fve other poems. Lovely copy with only trace signs of handling in sewn covers and green printed wrapper. [12024] $45.00

83. Kinnell, Galway. THE AUCTION. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1989. First edition. Oblong cloth-backed boards; small 8vo. One of 50 handbound in boards. (There were 80 total copies with 30 copies in wrappers, 50 copies in cloth, all signed by the poet and the illustrator.) Originally written as the frst section of his masterpiece BOOK OF NIGHTMARES, the poem was further revised as part V, then set aside; it appears here for the frst time. Lovely original Mary Azarian woodcuts, printed from the blocks. Printed and bound at The Firefy Press. Signed by Kinnell and Azarian at colophon; this copy hors commerce (thus not numbered). Very very

lightly rubbed boards, still fne, and a lovely production; issued without a dust jacket. [11978] $125.00

84. Kinnell, Galway. FLOWER HERDING ON MOUNT MONADNOCK. Boston: Houghton Miffin, 1964. First edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. Author's second book of poems. Inscribed "For Doug" and signed in full by the poet. Fine copy in a lightly toned at extremities complete (not price-clipped) jacket with small loss at the foot of the spine. [12028] $150.00

85. Kinnell, Galway. THE PAST. Boston: Houghton Miffin, 1985. First Edition. Red leather backed boards over blue cloth in slipcase; 8vo. Limited edition: Number 49 of 200 copies signed by the poet. Fine copy in a fne slipcase; issued without a dust jacket. [11936] $75.00

86. Kinnell, Galway. POEMS OF NIGHT. London: Rapp & Carroll, 1968. First edition. Uncorrected proof in brown printed wrappers, signed by the poet. No comparable US edition. Copyright date is 1967, the book was not published until 1968. Cheaply made proof is partially cocked, but also partly uncut and still near fne. An uncommon proof and scarce signed. [12023] $95.00

87. Kinnell, Galway. THREE POEMS. NY: The Phoenix Bookshop, 1976. First Edition. Light green sewn printed wrappers; small oblong. No. 4 of 100 copies (of 126 total) designed and printed at The Oliphant Press, NY. First printing of the poems: "Wait" "Brother of My Heart: and "The Still Time". About fne, and quite attractive. [11937] $75.00

88. Kirchwey, Karl. AT THE PALACE OF JOVE. NY: Putnam, 2002. First Edition. 8vo. Signed by the author. A program for the 92nd Street Y reading series of Feb. 2007, laid in. The program includes three reproduced corrected manuscripts from the participating poets: Kirchwey, Grace Schulman and David Yezzi, all previously directors of the 92nd St. Y in NYC. A fne copy in like dust jacket; the program folded, else fne. Not a remainder or inscribed to anyone. Simultaneously issued in paper, the hardcover is uncommon especially signed. [11974] $35.00

89. Kleinzahler, August. TWO POEMS. Montreal: The Word, 1978. First Edition. 4 pp. in envelope. Hand-printed by Fred Louder in an edition of 140 copies signed and numbered copies. Contains: "Sundown at Fletcher’s Field"; "Along These Rows". Far scarcer than the poet's frst book published in the prior year: his frst three books all published in Canada. Still in printed envelope which is sealed as issued. Very lightly toned at edges envelope; the chapbook presumed fne, and obviously unread. [12026] $400.00 90. Knight, Etheridge. BORN OF A WOMAN: New and Selected Poems. Boston: Houghton Miffin, 1980. First edition. 119 pp. Uncorrected proof copy in plum wrappers from this African-American poet who began writing from prison. Fine and scarce in this advance format. [612] $35.00

91. Laughlin, James. KOLLEMATA. Luneberg, VT: Stinehour Press, 1988. First Edition. Printed gray wrappers; small 8vo. Signed J Laughlin on the half-title. One of 150 copies very fnely printed. Tiny bump at spine, else Fine. [11874] $75.00

92. Loewinsohn, Ron. 3 BACKYARD DRAMAS WITH MAMAS. Santa Barbara: UNICORN, 1967. First Edition. Four leaves folded and sewn into dark green printed wrappers. One of 30 copies signed by the poet and numbered (#15); Lepper's "frst state". Of the original 400 copies few were distributed and fewer survived the recall. (The printing is noticeably of poorer quality than the re-printed edition.) The recall slip laid in, and it has offset the colophon/signature page. Printed by Alan Brilliant & Jeffrey Sorenson; one of the frst books of the press. Fine. Lepper p. 281. A rarity. [12015] $75.00

93. __ __ ANOTHER COPY. Second Edition. Four leaves folded and sewn into bright medium green printed wrappers. Of one of 400 copies printed at the Unicorn Book Shop on the occasion of the poet's reading on May 26, 1967, this is one of only 5 in Lepper's prefered state 1a. (A signed state of 30 signed copies taking priority - with the frst edition scraped). Fine. [12013] $45.00

94. __ __ ANOTHER COPY. Four leaves folded and sewn into medium green printed wrappers. This is one of 275 in Lepper's third state 1c. Fine. [12014] $15.00

95. Masters, Edgar Lee. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY. NY: Macmillan, 1915. First Edition. First issue. Original blue-green decorative cloth, gilt-lettered in very scarce dust jacket. A beautiful copy of the book. Several tiny chips and tears to jacket edges, tiny hole near spine heel; a small picture of Masters clipped from a newspaper and mounted to the dedication page, light offsetting from that and at endpapers from dust jacket; else a fne volume in a bright very good jacket. Near fne in a very good dust jacket. [12091] $2,000.00

Allen Tate wrote: “Masters is the most puzzling figure of his generation and one of the mysteries of American poetry. It may be only a slight exaggeration to say that he is a poet of one original book, SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY, which exploited the inner lives of commonplace Middle Westerners at a time when no literary medium had been found for them. None of his other verse shows any degree of originality: ...” . SIXTY AMERICAN POETS p. 99.

96. Merrill, James. "Lorelei". Corrected typescript; single leaf; autograph correction in ink; signed "James Merrill". Not folded. First published in FIRE SCREEN, 1969. Fine on decorated paper with an ornate foral top border in four colors. [12110] $150.00

97. Merrill, James. "The Art Dealer". Corrected typescript; single leaf; autograph dash in ink; two creases as folded for mailing; signed "all best wishes/ James Merrill”. First published in the National Book Award-winning NIGHTS AND DAYS, 1966. A sonnet. Two folds, else fne on Whiz-Erase typing paper. [12108] $100.00

98. Merrill, James. "The Mad Scene". Corrected typescript; single leaf; autograph correction in ink; signed "James Merrill". Not folded. First published in the National Book Award-winning NIGHTS AND DAYS, 1966. Fine on decorated paper with an ornate foral top border in four colors. [12109] $150.00

99. Merrill, James. "Watching the Dance". Corrected typescript; single leaf; two creases as folded for mailing; autograph correction in ink; signed "all best wishes/ James Merrill”. First published in the National Book Award-winning NIGHTS AND DAYS, 1966. Two folds and light creasing to edges, else fne on Whiz-Erase typing paper. [12107] $100.00

100. Neruda, Pablo. ODES TO OPPOSITES: Selected & Illustrated by Ferris Cook. Boston: Bulfnch/Little Brown & Co, 1995. First edition stated. Cloth-backed paper boards, with pasted label; 8vo. 149 pp. Translated by Ken Krabbenhoft, with Spanish facing the English. A lovely edition printed at the Stinehour Press. Fine copy, issued without a dust jacket. [12034] $75.00

101. Pinsky, Robert. THE FIGURED WHEEL: New and Collected Poems 1966 - 1996. NY: Farrar, Strauss, 1996. First edition. 300 pp; index. Bookplate on front free end paper created for BU class of 1997, signed by the poet. Name of prev. owner on ffep, else fne in a fne dust jacket. [12102] $20.00

102. Pound, Ezra. CANZONI. Ln: Elkin Matthews, 1911. Streaky gray cloth lettered in gold at top of front panel and spine; small 8vo. Issued without a dust jacket. 1000 sheets printed, of which "not more than 500"were used in an issue combined with Ripostes and published in 1913. Spine darkened, one small spot on cover, pencil checks on contents page and two poems with notations in pencil ("this manner of verse used by Pierre Vidal in his song..."); very good. A scarce book in the frst issue. Gallup A7. [12119] $350.00

103. Pound, Ezra. DRAFTS & FRAGMENTS OF CANTOS CX - CXVII. NY: New Directions, 1968. First Edition. 32 pp. Black cloth, silver spine lettering, in dust jacket.; 8vo. One of 3000, published in April preceding the Stonewall Press limited edition published in October. Faint soiling to top edge else fne in a very lightly toned, soiled and worn at tips, else fne and complete (not price-clipped) dust jacket with a bookseller's ticket (Grolier) on the ffep and pencil mark on front fap. Very attractive copy, becoming diffcult in collectible condition. Gallup A91.a. [12099] $35.00

104. Pound, Ezra. HOW TO READ. London: Desmond Harmsworth, 1931. First Edition. Red cloth(with later issue spine stamped in black) in dust jacket; small 8vo. 55 pp. No equivalent US printing. Small negligible scratches to front cover, light offset on end papers, else tight, clean and near fne in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with loss at crown and front cover affecting border of Gaudier-Brzeska illus. of EP. Gallup A33. [12118] $150.00

105. Pound, Ezra. MAKE IT NEW: Essays. London: Faber & Faber, 1934. First Edition. Green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. Later issue binding and dust jacket; a total of 1600 printed. Essays by Pound on subjects including French poets, Henry James and the Troubadours with his translations of the Provençal poet Arnaut Daniel. Near fne copy with trace foxing to rear endpapers and foreedge in a spine and extremities-faded dust jacket, 3/4 inch loss at crown, otherwise little wear, bottom of front fap clipped (not price). Over all easily very good and much nicer than usual copy. Gallup A36a. [12117] $150.00For Pound also see item #2

106. Ridge, Lola. FIREHEAD. NY: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1929. First Edition. Cloth-backed striped, multi-colored paper boards in orange printed dust jacket; thick 8vo. Poet's fourth book, a long narrative poem regarding the crucifxion of Jesus. Ridge was an anarchist, and one of the essential avant garde poets of her day. The bottom edges are worn and the jacket is also worn along the edges, still easily very good though with a slightly musty odor. [11993] $20.00

107. Rothenberg, Jerome (Trans.); Gunter Grass et al. NEW YOUNG GERMAN POETS. San Francisco: City Lights, 1959. First Edition. Original blue and white wrappers; 12mo. The Pocket Poets Series Number 11. Bremer, Grass, Celan, Enzensberger, Dreyer and fve others; English translations only. Light toning, creasing and soiling; about very good in wraps. Early entry in this collectible series. Rothenberg's frst book; followed by many translations and original volumes of poetry. Cook p. 38. [11908] $20.00

108. [Russell, George] A. E. HOMEWARD SONGS BY THE WAY. LN & NY: John Lane, 1908. Fourth Edition. Square 16mo.; 64 pp. New edition of the poet's frst book originally published in 1894, and in the US by Thomas Mosher. Inscribed and signed "George Russell/ 'A E'”. Tape reinforced spine, small loss at crown, else very good; lacking presumed dust jacket. Rare issue, scarce signed and better than it sounds. [11912] $75.00

109. [Russell, George] A. E. VALE and Other Poems. NY: Macmillan, 1931. First U.S. Edition. Rose cloth, paper labels; 8vo. Signed "George Russell" and "A E" with a lovely colored pencil sketch of two fgures on a hill on the title page signed "A E'. AE was a key fgure in the Irish Literary Revival as a poet, Theosophist and artist. He was trained as an artist, and this pencil drawing is typical of the subject mater of his larger works. A very good copy though the label spine gilt has completely faded; the drawing and pages are clean, although the previous owner has written her name in ink on the ffep and marked passages in pencil. Lacking the dust jacket. [11910] $450.00

110. Schwerner, Armand. SEAWEED. LA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First Edition. Regular issue in illustrated wrappers; 8vo. Kathy Acker's copy, with her signature on the front free end paper. Spine sunned, light soiling, else very good. [11895] $50.00

111. Strand, Mark; Jorie Graham. THE LIVES OF THE POEMS: Twelve Drawings on Canvas. East Hampton: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2005. First Edition. Gray printed wrappers with French faps; oblong, small 4to. 25 pp. One of 450 (of 500 total) copies of the regular edition; introduction by Jorie Graham (7 pp.). 12 full-page illustrations of the drawings. Lovely production by Jerry Kelly. Fine. [11887] $30.00

Strand trained as an artist as an undergrad at Yale, studying with Joseph Albers.

112. Tate, Allen. Letter (Tls). 1944 typed letter by Tate, on Library of Congress letterhead (as Chair of Poetry), to Edward Titus, acknowledging Titus's return to the States and suggesting a future visit. Signed handsomely in full. Folded three times for mailing, old tape-repaired tear, creasing at margins, but good or better. [12123] $150.00

Titus was a Polish-born American citizen who founded a bookstore and later a press in Paris called the Black Manikin Press. He also published This Quarter one of the premier literary magazines of the modern era, publishing Hemingway, Sirin (Nabokov). Cummings, Mann and many others including Tate.

113. Tate, Allen. SIXTY AMERICAN POETS. Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1945. Reprint. Folcroft Library Editions, 1970. First "reprint" (and hardcover) of the 1945 mimeographed edition; 150 copies, stated limitation. Red library buckram. Selected with a preface and critical Notes by Allen Tate, The Chair of Poetry. A preliminary checklist by Frances Cheney. A useful checklist, and Tate's choices and commentary on poets of his time (1945) have held up well. A near fne copy in a binding meant to hold up well (issued without a dust jacket). [12122] $45.00

114. Thayer, W. S[cofeld]. AMERICA 1917: And Other Verse. Baltimore: Norman Remington Company, 1926. First Edition. Slate paper covered boards; tan spine, printed label. 200 copies, the entire edition. Bookplate (armorial) of Sir Farquhar Buzzard, Bt. Inscribed with is initials in 1928, by Thayer to Buzzard on front free end paper. A poem on half title in ink likely in the hand of some one other than Thayer. And with an elegant pencil copy on front free end paper beneath Thayer's presentation of a short statement about Thayer, linking him to Eliot, the Dial (which Thayer edited), etc. Other than armorial bookplate, trace wear and foxing, ink poem and old price, near fne. Issued without a jacket. rare signed. [12125] $150.00

Thayer was Harvard and Oxford educated. It was Thayer's sister who introduced T. S.Eliot, in Thayer's rooms at Magdelen College, to his future wife Vivien; and it was Thayer who published The Waste Land in the Dial which he turned into arguably the finest US literary magazine of the 1920's.

115. Transtromer, Tomas (Samuel Charters, trans.). BALTICS. Berkeley: Oyez, 1975. First Edition. Green printed wrappers; thin 8vo. A presentation copy: inscribed "Dear Jane [Cooper], here is a poem you read 1 1/2 year ago and partly changed (you are responsible for a few words in Part VI I think)--Good to be in NY again. 18-10-1975. Tomas" With four small emendations to the text. A near fne copy of the Nobel Laureate's frst long poem originally published in Sweden in 1974. New to market. A scarce signature and a generous inscription to another poet. ][12120] $500.00

Jane Cooper was on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence for many years, a distinguished and award-winning poet she died in 2007.

116. Troupe, Quincy (ed.); WATTS POETS: A Book of New Poetry & Essays. LA: House of Respect, 1968. First Edition. Stapled, mustard illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 90 pp. Poems by Troupe at the age of 25, who also edits this little magazine. Also, Stanley Crouch, Herbert Simons and several - mostly college-aged, others. A bit of wear and creasing, about very good. [12100] $25.00

117. Turner, Fred. DEEP-SEA FISH. Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1968. First edition. [20 pp.] Illus. One of 30 copies "sewn-bound, signed and numbered by the poet". The poet's frst book, a chapbook; the title poem the frst in his frst regularly published book, which was in the Wesleyan series. The third book in the Santa Barbara Poetry Series edited by Jack Shoemaker one of the great small press editors (e.g. North Point, Counterpoint). Trace wear else fne in printed wrappers. [12016] $75.00

118. Voigt, Ellen Bryant. HEADWATERS: Poems. NY: Norton, 2013. First edition. As new copy in like dust jacket of the much admired poet's eight collection. Signed by the poet on the title page. Peter Campion in Poetry wrote: "she has always been obsessed ... with making a home in a natural world that she sees, shifting her cold eye, as both beautiful and fatal". Although her latest volume eschews some of her usual formality (including here no punctuation), her poems are populated by animals and trees, and the seasons both beautiful and fatal. A wonderful collection. Fine in fne dust jacket. [11985] $50.00

119. Vosnesensky, Andrei. ANTIWORLDS. NY: Basic Books, 1966. First Edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 120 pp. Signed by the poet: "Thank you for the memory" and "Siele XX" on the half-title. With the recipient Ruth Ford's notes about the poet's reading at the home of Tatiana and Alex Liberman (the famed Vogue editor). An important collection by the great Russian poet who was one of the best known poets in the West in the 60's and remained an important literary fgure until his death in 2010. Foreword by W. H. Auden, with translations by Auden, Wilbur, Kunitz, W. J. Smith and others. A few of Ford's pencil notes, a couple of light smudges, else about fne in a lightly worn at edges, else near fne dust jacket. A lovely copy and a rare book signed. [11893] $200.00

Ruth Ford was an actress, and the sister of Charles Henri Ford (and wife of Randolph Scott); she was known for her soirees at her Dakota apartment. Vosnesensky read to thousands in Russia and in the West.

120. Warren, Robert Penn. PROMISES: Poems 1954-56. NY: Random House, 1957. First Edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket. With the compliments of the Author and Publisher's compliments card laid in. This book won the Pulitzer and National Book Award; he is the only writer to win the Pulitzer for fction and for poetry (which he won twice). A central literary fgure as a founder of the New Criticism and as a member of the Fugitives. Top edges dusty, bottom tip worn, but very good in a slightly worn, edge-frayed black jacket. [12124] $65.00

121. Whitman, Walt [Malcolm Cowley]. LEAVES OF GRASS. NY: Viking Press, 1959. First Thus. Two-tone green cloth in slipcase. One of 475 copies sent to friends of the press for Christmas. This with a

slip "Greetings of the Season ... New Year", signed by the editors which include "Malcolm[Cowley], alias WW"; "Dennis"; "M.A.B." [Marshall Best]; "CJB; "XXX Tom" [likely Guinzberg whose father founded the company, and became himself president]" and one other. Viking in the 1950's had likely the greatest assemblage of editors (along maybe with Random House) in publishing. Fine in a worn about very good and solid slipcase. Attractive edition with the addition of a likely unique "review" slip, as this was given to a woman who was the publicity director for Viking at the time - a bit of an inside joke: a review slip to a publicity director. Fine. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). [11914] $95.00 122. Williams, Emmett, editor. AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONCRETE POETRY. NY: Something Else Press, 1967. First edition. White cloth with gold and green spine lettering, in dust jacket. 8vo. 342 pp. The frst US and still defnitive anthology of concrete poetry, with biographies of over 70 poets and examples from many more. A pristine copy. There was a wrappers issue, the cloth uncommon in this condition. Fine in fne dust jacket. [11878] $300.00

121. Wilson, Robert. TEN TINTYPES AND A TIGER. NY: Privately Printed, 1983. First Edition. Printed, stapled wrappers; 12mo. One of 300 copies issued as a Christmas Greeting by the proprietor of The Phoenix Book Shop, NYC. Photos, all but one - the tiger, by Wilson of his friends, Marianne Moore, Alice Toklas, Gregory Corso, John Wieners, Robert Duncan, Michael McClure, James Purdy and Nell Blaine. Front cover soiled, else fne. [12059] $15.00

122. Wylie, Eleanor. NETS TO CATCH THE WIND. NY: Harcourt Brace, 1921. First printing, frst issue. Two-toned brown cloth; 12mo. The poet's frst book published under her own name, and one generally regarded as her best. Wylie was in the heady 20's a literary star, famous for her beauty, and infamous as well for her several marriages and affairs. She died young of a stroke in 1928, but in the short time between her death and the publication of this book she published four more volumes of poems and four novels. This an exceptional copy, with light wear, spine gutter darkened in places, else about fne, in a dust jacket faintly soiled and chipped and darkened at the spine. Housed (for quite some time) in a custom folding chemise and quarter leather slipcase with raised band, which has light wear to the ends. Overall near fne and scarce as such. [12019] $275.00

123. Yeats, W. B. LAST POEMS AND PLAYS. London: Macmillan, 1940. First Edition. Green cloth, blind stamped design w/ gilt spine lettering; large 8vo. Includes many of the poet's fnest poems. Gilt rubbed, shaken, interior a bit soiled, about very good; lacking the dust jacket. One of 2000 copies. Combines with different ordering and in some cases titling of two Cuala Press limited editions. Wade 203. [11913] $95.00

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