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Misc. Literature, Mostly Poetry Mark Alexander Alexander Rare Books 110 West Orange Street Hillsborough, NC Alexanderbooks@Charter.Net (919) 296-9176 ALEXANDER Literary Firsts & Poetry RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE FORTY-FOUR: Misc. Literature, mostly Poetry Mark Alexander Alexander Rare Books 110 West Orange Street Hillsborough, NC [email protected] (919) 296-9176 All items are US or UK First Editions, First Printings, unless otherwise stated. All items guaranteed & all are fully refundable for any reason within 30 days; orders subject to prior sale. NC residents please add 7.50% sales tax. Checks, money orders, most credit cards, & PayPal accepted. Net 30 days. Institutions billed according to need. Reciprocal terms offered to the trade. Shipping is free in the US (sent via Priority or First Class Mail); Canada $10 per shipment; elsewhere $20 per shipment. Visit AlexanderRareBooks.com for scans of most items. We encourage you to visit for the latest acquisitions. Thank you in advance for perusing this list. Catalogue 44 1. Abramsky, Sasha. THE HOUSE OF TWENTY THOUSAND BOOKS. New York: New York Review of Books, 2014. First Edition. 8vo. 359 pp. Signed by the author on the title page. A memoir of Sasha's grandfather Chimen Abramsky and his wife who amassed a remarkable collection of books on socialist literature and Judaica, owned a bookstore in London, and hosted regularly at their home the likes of Isaiah Berlin, E. P Thompson and Eric Hobsbahm. Well-received portrait of London's left-wing Jewish intellectual life pre- and post- WWII. Fine copy in like dust jacket. [13510] $25.00 2. Achepohl, Keith; James Tate. KEITH ACHEPOHL Prints 1970 - 1975. San Francisco: self- published, 1975. First Edition. Stapled illustrated card wraps; square 8vo. [14pp.] Produced by the artist "to coincide with an exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum..." [San Francisco]. Signed by the artist, additionally signed by James Tate who provides a brief surrealistic prose piece as a foreword. A good or better copy, covers beginning to separate, the staples tarnished, small loss to front cover, interior mostly fne. Scarce with the Tate signature. [13561] $45.00 Achepohl taught printmaking for many years at Iowa, where he is professor emeritus; Tate was at Iowa for the Writers' Workshop. 3. Adam, Helen. MISS LAURA. n. p. : White Rabbit, 1967. First edition. Folded broadside (as issued) laid into purple printed wrappers. 100 copies: "for friends of the poet & the press". A long poem mostly rhyming couplets of a Southern love affair between a black man and a white girl gone bad: “Black is the colour of my true love’s skin./ White girl, black man, where is the sin?”. Fine. [11083] $50.00 Adam was included in Donald Allen's infuential anthology of avant-garde poets: The New American Anthology 1945 - 1960, but she was much older than the Beats (her first book was published in 1923). 4. Adam, Pat and Helen. SAN FRANCISCO'S BURNING. Berkeley: Oannes, 1963. First edition. Brown illustrated wraps over card covers; small 4to. Cover, end papers and illustrations throughout by Jess. Play with songs by Helen and Pat Adam. One of 500 lithographically printed. Light wear and creasing but easily very good. [11700] $100.00 A "Ballad Opera" set on the eve of the 1906 earthquake, the play was first performed with Helen and her sister Pat performing on Halloween in 1960 at Ebbe Borregaard's "Museum", a gallery of sorts. The play moved on to a larger venue and in January 1962 even the SF Examiner had given it a very positive review. [Lisa Jarnot ROBERT DUNCAN, pp. 199-210] 5. Adonis (Ali Ahmed Said); Samuel Hazo (trans.). THE BLOOD OF ADONIS Selected Poems. Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh, 1971. First Edition. Red cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. Uncommon cloth issue of the Syrian-born poet's frst book published in the US. Signed by Adonis on the title page. Translated by Samuel Hazo. Adonis has long been on the shortlist for the Nobel Prize which only one Arabic writer the novelist Mahfouz has won. This copy very lightly rubbed and soiled, but still essentially fne. Scarce signed. [13544] $650.00 6. Ai. CRUELTY. Boston: Houghton Miffin, 1973. First edition. Inscribed to Burt (Britten), NYC bookseller (The Strand). A lovely copy of the poet's frst book. She would win the National Book Award in 1999 for her collection VICE. Ai born Florence Anthony died in 2010. Fine in near fne very lightly worn dust jacket. [141] $225.00 7. Ai. KILLING FLOOR. Boston: Houghton Miffin, 1979. First edition. Inscribed "To Burt, Love, Ai" and dated January 26, 1979. The offcial publication was in February so this is an early inscription. The Lamont Poetry Selection for 1978. The sole faw of this book is a slightly cocked spine noticeable only on the bottom half. Near fne in fne dust jacket. [142] $125.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.3 8. Alexievich, Svetlana. ZINKY BOYS Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War. New York: Norton, 1992. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 197 pp. The frst book published in the US by the Byelorussian Nobel Prize-winning author for 2015. A groundbreaking choice for the Literature prize as the author is a journalist, her works in the oral history tradition. Quite scarce in hardcover. An essentially as new copy. [13545] $350.00 "She was put on trial on charges of defaming the Soviet Army with her third book, “Zinky Boys” (1992), about Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, some thousands of whom were sent back home in zinc coffins. The testimonies eroded notions of military heroism. She was acquitted." [New York Times, May, 21, 2016] 9. Antrim, Donald. ELECT MR ROBINSON FOR A BETTER WORLD. New York: Viking Press, 1993. First Edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. First printing of the author's frst book. An As New Copy. [13599] $25.00 10. Arnold, Bob. INVENT A WORLD. Eugene, OR: Mountains & Rivers, 2005. First Edition. Sewn blue wrappers; thin 8vo. One of 150 signed copies; this copy specially inscribed with a drawing to poet Ted [Enslin] who Arnold published at his own Longhouse Press. A fne copy. [13551] $25.00 11. Ashbery, John & James Schuyler. A NEST OF NINNIES. New York: Dutton, 1969. First edition. A well- received comic novel co-written by the two poets. Fine copy in a bright dust jacket with two short closed tears. [11627] $65.00 12. Auster, Paul. COLLECTED POEMS. Woodstock: Overlook, 2004. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; large 8vo. 205 pp. Signed by Auster on the title page. The author is best known for his novels, but his career began with poetry and he is a noted translator as well as an anthologist of poetry. A fne copy in a fne dust jacket. [13595] $50.00 13. Auster, Paul. A LITTLE ANTHOLOGY OF SURREALIST POEMS. New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1972. First Edition. Mimeograph printed on rectos only; 4to. Signed by Auster. Generally regarded as Auster's frst book, a collection of his translations of poems by French Surrealist Breton, Éluard, Char, Péret, Tzara, Artaud, Soupault, Desnos, Aragon, and Hans Arp. Cover by George Schneeman. Covers front and back soiled with moderate creasing. Staples a bit tarnished though not rusty. An about very good copy. Drenttel C2. [13294] $350.00 For Auster also see items #12 & 109 14. Banks, Russell et al.; Joe David Bellamy (ed.). FICTION INTERNATIONAL 6/7. canton, NY: Bellamy, 1976. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers; 8vo. 180 pp. Signed by Russell Banks at the beginning of his contribution a story "The Perfect Couple" pp.46-53. There is also an interview with Banks. A magazine under the auspices of St. Lawrence University. Very good copy. [13531] $25.00 For Banks also see item #41 15. Beckett, Samuel. HAPPY DAYS. London: Faber & Faber, 1961. First U.K. Edition. First edition in hardcovers, published previously by Grove Press as a paperback original. Red cloth in dust jacket; 12mo. 48 pp. Fine copy in a lightly worn at corners near fne dust jacket; all bright with little of the usual toning. [13537] $135.00 16. Berge, Carol. UNFINISHED POEM. Green River, VT: Longhouse, 2006. First edition. Near miniature; rust wraps folded with broadside poem tipped in, with wrap around band. From Bob and Susan Arnold's press. Fine. Paperback. [13552]$15.00 17. Berrigan, Ted. 'MANY HAPPY RETURNS" To Dick Gallup. New York: 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: a good copy. Fischer p. 30. [1193] $100.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.5 18. Berrigan, Ted. RED WAGON. Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1976. First edition. Red cloth, gold stamped in dust jacket. One of 26 signed and lettered copies with a holograph poem. This is letter "Z", with the poem "Blue Targets": "You see a lot/ of white when you're/ looking at her eyes,/ She's so quick toward/ either side!/ but when/ you look straight/ down/ into her/ it's/ thru & at Targets,/ refecting, blue. Ted Berrigan/1975". Additionally signed and lettered at the colophon. Cover by Rochele Kraut, jacket photo by Gerard Malanga. Fine copy in a very near fne dust jacket. [10263] $500.00 19. 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.
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