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JOHN ASHBERY

W. H. AUDEN CHARLES BUKOWSKI THEODORE ENSLIN T. S. ELIOT MICHAEL MCCLURE W. S. MERWIN AND OTHER 20th & 21st CENTURY AUTHORS RIVERRUN 1. ADAM, Helen. City, issue 3. Edited by Marilyn Hacker and Samuel Delaney. : R. Fitzgerald, 1968. Folio. 17, [1] pp. Mimeod. Photographically illustrated. Stapled as issued in original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION of the third issue of City, entirely devoted to 's work. Scarce. (402516). $80

2. Æ (pseudonymn on George W. RUSSELL). Dark Weeping. : Faber and Faber, 1929. 8vo. [13] pp. Two full-page designs by Paul Nash. Original printed boards. Slightest shadow to front board, minimal wear at extremities. LIMITED ISSUE, number 276 of 400 copies on large-paper and case bound, signed by Æ. Nash’s mystical plate is hand-colored. This is no. 19 of the Ariel series. Russell adopted the name Æ from Æon signifying the lifelong quest of man. A Dublin-born author, critic, and painter, Æ met Yeats through Joyce in 1902 and practiced theosophy and mysticism throughout his adult life. He claimed to be clairvoyant and conversant with spiritual beings, which he illustrated in his paintings and drawings. (402521). $275

3. ALLEN Donald, Editor. The New . New York: / Evergreen, 1960. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Some light wear to wrappers.

FIRST TRADE EDITION, inscribed by Allen Ginsberg on the half-title: “For Michael Matros 9/27/91.” Signed “Allen Ginsberg” beneath a characteristic drawing of a sunflower. Ginsberg was represented by eight poems in ’s seminal anthology. (400019). $75

4. ANDREWS, Bruce and Charles BERNSTEIN, editors. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 1, no. 4. New York: August 1978. First edition. 4to. [28]pp. Self-wrappers, stappled. Fine. The back cover reproduced a 1920 collage by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy from Richard Kostelantz’s Moholy-Nagy (1970). This issue of Andrews and Bernstein’s landmark journal of the opens with an by Ron Silliman on Louis Zukofsky, and later includes Silliman’s classic distillation “For L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E.” Other contributors include , Richard Foreman, Bruce Andrews, Michael Gottlieb, and Joseph Timko. (401523). $50

3 5. ASHBERY, John; KOCH, Kenneth; and SCHUYLER, James, editors. Locus Solus. New York: 1961-62. First. A complete set of this important avant-garde little magazine, co- edited by three of the major figures of the , comprising the first four issues (the third volume is a double-issue). A fine set.

FIRST EDITIONS. Volume I: Winter 1961. Edited by James Schuyler. Includes ten poems by Frank O’Hara, nine sonnets by Edwin Denby, seven poems by , six poems by , etc. This has the first state of the wrapper, untrimmed. Volume II: Summer 1961. Edited by . Special issue of Collaborations. Includes a long section from A Nest of Ninnies (Ashbery and Schuyler), work by Ceravolo, etc. Volumes III-IV: Winter 1962. Double Issue. Edited by John Ashbery. “New Poetry.” Includes work by Berkson, Ceravolo, Elmslie, Merrill, O’Hara, LeRoi Jones, etc. Locus Solus is a landmark anthology of important innovative writing of the time and a defining statement of the first generation of the NY School. (400012). $500

6. ASHBERY, John and James SCHUYLER. A Nest of Ninnies. Calais, VT: Z Press, 1975. 8vo. Original printed wrappers after a design by . Wrappers lightly rubbed.

Second edition, one of 2,500 copies. Originally published by Dutton in 1969. (400653). $30

7. ASHBERY, John. And the Stars Were Shining. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [1994]. 8vo. 100 pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Fine.

FIRST EDITION of Ashbery’s sixteenth collection of poems. (402506). $50

8. ASHBERY, John. Can You Hear, Bird. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [1995]. 8vo. 175 pp. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. Fine.

FIRST EDITION of Ashbery’s seventeenth collection of poems. (402505). $30

9. ASHBERY, John – . Jane Freilicher March 1995. New York: Fischbach Gallery, 1995. 4to. Color plates. Original printed wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION. With a list of solo exhibitions, public and private collections, and a select bibliography. Both a fine distillation of Freilicher’s work, and a scarce Ashbery work. (400261). $25

4 10. ASHBERY, John. Ignorance of the Law is no Excuse. [Iowa City, IA]: Empyrean Press, 2004. Broadside. 11 x 18 inches. Color illustration by David Tallitsch. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies signed by Ashbery and Tallitsch. Printed on Rives BFK paper from Parisine Plus and Syntax Types. (402542). $90

11. AUDEN, W. H. . London: Faber and Faber, [1937]. 8vo. 12 pp. Original red printed wrappers. Soft diagonal crease, otherwise fine.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. 2,913 copies. Auden donated all proceeds from the sale of the pamphlet to medical aid for Spain. Bloomfield & Mendelson A14a. (402314). $175

12. AUDEN, W. H. and Louis MACNEICE. . London: Faber & Faber, [1937]. 8vo. 268 pp. Large folding map at end; profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs by Auden. Original light green cloth; pictorial dust jacket. One small chip at foot of spine panel, generally fresh and bright.

FIRST EDITION. SIGNED by Auden in his characteristic tiny hand on the front flyleaf. AND WITH AN ANS laid-in, postcard postmarked 14 May 1935, to the Secretary of The Poetry Society, thanking him for an invitation to read. “Unfortunately I can never get away on Wednesdays. I am sorry.” Bloomfield & Mendelsohn A15a. (402310). $800

13. AUDEN, W. H. . New York: Random House, [1947]. 8vo. 138 pp. Original dark bluish green cloth; printed dust jacket. Small closed tear at top of rear jacket panel, slightly toned and a few tiny touches at extremities, a near-fine copy. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. This first edition precedes the first UK edition by over one year. Auden’s book-length modern eclogue, partly set in a bar on Third Avenue in New York, won the in 1948. It was the basis of ’s “Symphony, no. 2” and Jerome Robbins 1950 ballet. One of 3,500 copies. Bloomfield & Mendelson A29a. (402309). $300

5 14. AUDEN, W. H. The Enchafèd Flood. Three Critical Essays on the Romantic Spirit. New York: Random House, [1950]. 8vo. 154 pp. Original dark-green cloth lettered in white; printed dust jacket. Jacket price-clipped, spine toned, split along rear joint, a few short tears/nicks at edges, first owner’s signature on front free endpaper.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED on the title-page by Auden, beneath his crossed- out printed name. These lectures were delivered at the University of Virginia 22-24 March 1949. One of 2,500 copies. Bloomfield & Mendelson A31a. (402308). $250

15. AUDEN, W. H. The Old Man’s Road. New York: Voyages, [1956]. 8vo. [24] pp. Original light-grey printed wrappers. Slightest toning to edges of wrappers and front endleaves, soft paperclip impression on front wrapper, generally a fine copy. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 24 of 50 copies signed by Auden. Bloomfield & Mendelson A36. (402315). $650

6 16. AUDEN, W. H. The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays. New York: Random House, [1962]. 8vo. 527 pp. Original green cloth; grey printed dust jacket. Jacket a bit toned and touched at extremities, small penmark on spine.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY AUDEN on the title, beneath his crossed-out printed name. The text includes the famous lectures he delivered as Professor of Poetry, with a strong emphasis on Shakespearian verse. Bloomfield & Mendelson A45a. (402311). $300

17. AUDEN, W. H. Louis MacNeice a memorial address. London: Privately printed for Faber and Faber, [1963]. 8vo. 14 pp. Original rose printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION. An edition of 250 copies, not distributed at the memorial service, but sent out after to a number of personal friends whose names were mainly suggested by Mrs. MacNeice. Bloomfield & Mendelson A46. (402317). $75

18. AUDEN, W. H. The Platonic Blow. New York: The Fuck You Press, 1965. Square 8vo. [12] pp. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy with only minimal handling wear.

FIRST EDITION. One of 300 copies of the “Trade edition” (there was also the “Rough Trade Edition” of 5 copies; an edition of 3 unnumbered copies; and the “Turkey Edition” of two copies).

“According to persistent rumour the poem generally knows as ‘The Platonic blow’ was written by Auden in 1948 under the stylistic influence of Charles Williams. The poem appears to have circulated in typescript copies, one of which came into the hands of Mr. , who printed it in his magazine ‘Fuck you / a magazine of the arts’... The notoriety attaching to this first appearance led Mr. Sanders to issue [this] following separate edition” (Bloomfield & Mendelson, p. 366, Appendix II). (402313). $225

7 19. AUDEN, W. H. City Without Walls and Other Poems. New York: Random House, [1969]. 8vo. 124, [1] pp. Original two-toned cloth; printed dust jacket. Two tiny closed tears at edges, light scuffing to rear panel, generally a fresh and bright copy.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first printing. Bloomfield & Mendelson A63 (first edition). (402312). $60

20. AUDEN, W. H. Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems. London: Faber and Faber, [1972]. 8vo. 72 pages. Original grey printed wrappers. Slightest toning at edges, a fine copy.

Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the last collection of poetry published by Auden before his death in 1973. Not in Bloomfield & Mendelson. (402318). $100

21.AUDEN, W. H. Wystan Hugh Auden 1907-1973 Memorial Service. New York: The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1973. Bifolium. 4 pp. Fine.

FIRST EDITION. The program for Auden’s memorial service, held 3 October 1973 at New York’s Church of St. John the Divine. The service included readings by , , Muriel Rukeyser, , William Meredith, , and Ursula Niebuhr. Benjamin Britten provided music set to a text by Auden. (402316). $75

22. AUDEN, W. H. – John G. BLAIR. The Poetic Art of W. H. Auden. Princeton: Press, 1965. 8vo. 210 pp. Original printed wrappers. Near-fine with only minor shelfwear.

FIRST EDITION, paperback issue. (402320). $15

23. AUDEN, W. H. – Robert A WILSON. Auden’s Library. New York: The Phoenix Bookshop, 1975. 8vo. 8 pp. Original blue printed wrappers, with the original mailing envelope. Fine.

FIRST EDITION. One of 300 copies, not for sale, printed as a Christmas keepsake in celebration of Wilson’s purchase of two-thirds of Auden’s library after the returned to Oxford in 1972. (402319). $50

24. BARONE, Dennis. The Territory of Innocence. London: Writers Forum, 1987. 4to. [40] pp. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers. Wrappers slightly cockled, otherwise fine. FIRST EDITION of this scarce early Barone work. (402512). $60

8 25. BECKETT, Samuel. Murphy. New York: Grove Press, 1957. 8vo. 282, [2] pp. Original tan linen; pictorial dust jacket designed by Francine Felsenthal. Light toning to jacket, chip at upper front fore-edge corner, two closed tears on rear panel, light shelfwear, a very good copy.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, trade issue (there was a signed limited edition of 100 copies). (402338). $125

26. BECKETT, Samuel. imagination morte imaginez. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1965]. 8vo. 18, [1] pp. Original white printed wrappers, entirely unopened. Slightest soiling to wrappers, near-fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 52 of 450 copies on Rives from an edition of 612 (there were 50 hors commerce and 112 reserved for the publisher). (402328). $125

27. BECKETT, Samuel. bing. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1966]. 8vo. 17, [1] pp. Original white printed wrappers, entirely uncut. Near-fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 43 of 550 copies on Rives from an edition of 762 (there were 100 hors commerce and 112 reserved for the publisher). (402329). $100

28. BECKETT, Samuel. The Collected Works. New York: Grove Press, [1970]. Complete in 16 volumes, 8vo. Uniformly bound in black cloth, gilt-lettered on spines. A near-fine set with only slightest toning to the spines.

FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 95 of 200 copies SIGNED by Beckett in on the limitation leaf. (402324). $3,500

29. BECKETT, Samuel. Premier Amour. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1970]. 12mo. 56, [1] pp. Original white printed wrappers. Fine. First trade edition. (402332). $50

9 30. BECKETT, Samuel. For to End Yet Again and Other Fizzles. London: John Calder, 1976. 8vo. 54 pp. Original brown cloth; printed dust jacket. Tiny bump at head of spine panel, but a fine, fresh copy.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Beckett on the title: “For John Crampsie with all good wishes Samuel Beckett.” The eight texts in this volume were written between 1960 and 1976. “Still” was originally written in English, but the remaining pieces were translated by Beckett from his original French texts. (402325). $500

31. BECKETT, Samuel. Compagnie. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1980]. 8vo. 87, [5] pp. Original white printed wrappers, entirely unopened; original glassine. Front panel of glassine with tear at head, otherwise fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 87 of 99 copies from an edition of 106 (there were 7 hors commerce) on Alfamousse, publisher’s numbered limitation ticket. (402327). $250

32. BECKETT, Samuel. Ill Seen Ill Said. New York: Grove Press, [1981]. 8vo. 59, [2] pp. Original white cloth-backed black boards. Lacks jacket.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, trade issue. (402333). $10

33. BECKETT, Samuel. Mal Vu Mal Dit. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1981]. 8vo. 76, [1] pp. Original white printed wrappers, entirely unopened; original glassine. Tiny penmark and one small nick to glassine, otherwise fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 42 of 99 copies from an edition of 114 copies (there were 15 hors commerce) on Alfamousse, publisher’s numbered limitation ticket. (402331). $225

10 34. BECKETT, Samuel. Ill Seen Ill Said. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1982. 8vo. 45, [1] pp. Printed in blue and black. Original black morocco-backed striped- paper boards, morocco faced fore-edge, gilt-lettered on spine. A fine copy.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, copy Y of 26 lettered copies from an edition of 325, SIGNED by Beckett on the half-title. Printed on mouldmade Bugrabutten paper, printed by Henry Morris, and bound by David Bourbeau. Translated from the French by Beckett. (402323). $2,000

35. BECKETT, Samuel. solo suivi de catastrophe. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1982]. 12mo. 31, [1] pp. Original white printed wrappers, entirely unopened; original glassine. A fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 61 of 99 copies on Vélin d’Arches (there were also an unspecified number of hors commerce copies), publisher’s numbered limitation ticket. (402326). $150

36. BECKETT, Samuel. Disjecta. Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment. London: John Calder, [1983]. 8vo. 178 pp. Original red cloth; red and white printed dust jacket. Fine. FIRST EDITION. Edited and with a foreword by Ruby Cohn. Collects for the first time Beckett’s miscellaneous criticism, reviews, selected letters and unpublished “residues” of early work. (402335). $60

37. BECKETT, Samuel. quoi où. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1983]. 12mo. 20, [1] pp. Original white printed wrappers, entirely unopened; original glassine. A fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 57 of 99 copies on Vélin d’Arches (there were also an unspecified number of hors commerce copies), publisher’s numbered limitation ticket. (402330). $275

11 38. BECKETT, Samuel. Worstward Ho. London: John Calder, [1983]. 8vo. 47 pp. Original green cloth; white and green printed jacket. A few soft marginal creases to last few leaves; externally fine.

First trade edition. (402334). $40

39. BECKETT, Samuel. Worstward Ho. New York: Grove Press, [1983]. 8vo. 47, [1] pp. Original white cloth-backed black boards; dust jacket with a design after Alberto Giacometti. Near-fine.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. (402336). $60

40. BECKETT, Samuel. As the Story was Told. London and New York: John Calder and Riverrun, [1990]. 8vo. 134 pp. Original black cloth; white and purple dust jacket. Fine.

FIRST EDITION. (402337). $35

41. BERKSON, Bill. Lush Life. Calais, VT: Z Press, 1984. Small 4to. Original pictorial wrappers. Some minor soiling.

FIRST EDITION, number 90 of 750 copies. (400051). $20

42. BERRIGAN, Ted. Scorpion, Eagle & Dove (A Love Poem). No place: no publisher, 1970. Broadside. 17 x 11 inches. Near-fine. FIRST EDITION. A fine broadside of Berrigan’s poem, with an illustration by . (402543). $150

43. BERRIGAN Ted and Anne WALDMAN. Memorial Day. New York: The Poetry Project, 1971. 4to. [28] mimeod pp. Stapled as issued in stiff card covers reproducing an image by Donna Dennis, a single plain blue endleaf at beginning and end. Minor browning at the extremities [and a tiy spot to the fore-edge] else a very good copy.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION of this collaboration between these two New York School poets. Fischer, pp. 41-42. (402511). $275

12 44. BERTOLINO, James. The Alleged Conception. Np: Granite, 1976. 8vo. [64] pp. Original printed wrappers. Soft vertical crease to wrappers and endleaves, lightly rubbed.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in 1977 on the front free endpaper by Bertolino: “in the hallowed bowels of Roger Wm’s with vino et cheez, Jim Bertolino.” (103116). $15

45. BLACKBURN, Paul. Proensa. Palma de Mallorca: Divers Press, 1953. Tall 8vo. 26 pp. Provençal and English texts on facing pages. Original printed wrappers. Front joint split, shadow on front wrapper, but a respectable copy of this fragile work.

FIRST EDITION, issued from Robert Creeley’s Divers Press, publishing for the first time Blackburn’s beautiful translations of the Provençal poets Guillem de Peitau, Arnaut de Marueil, Raimbautz de Vaquieras, Sordello, Bernart de Ventadorn, Piere Vidal, and Bertran de Born. Ezra Pound encouraged Blackburn as a translator, praising his voice over his own. (402534). $80

46. BLACKBURN, Paul. The Cities. New York: Grove Press, [1967]. 8vo. 157 pp. Oiginal printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, an Evergreen paperback original, the table of contents misprinted out of sequence. (402520). $40

47. BLACKBURN, Paul. Sing-Song [Caterpillar IV]. New York: Caterpillar, 1967. 4to. 7 multilithed leaves. Stapled in original printed wrappers. Light toning at edges.

FIRST EDITION, second issue, one of 300 multilithed copies (100 mimeod copies were issued in 1966). (402457). $80

48. BLACKBURN, Paul. Three Dreams And An Old Poem. Buffalo: University Press, [1970]. 8vo. 8 leaves. Stapled as issued in original blue printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 1,000 copies (the first 100 were signed and numbered). This is Number One in the Beau Fleuve Series. (402459). $15

49. BLACKBURN, Paul. Early Selected y Mas. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1972. 8vo. 129, [4] pp. Original quarter patterned cloth, printed boards. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 167 of 200 copies signed by Blackburn from an edition of 1,500. (402458). $80

13 50. BLY, Robert. An archive of letters and typescripts sent by Bly to Elaine Rendell in London, 1972-1978. Comprising six autograph letters signed and nine typescripts, of which four are signed and four are titled in manuscript by Bly at the foot. With four original envelopes. One letter dampstained and largely illegible, the remaining in fine condition.

Bly sends news of his work, and forwards typescripts to the poet Elaine Rendell. Bly’s last letter mentions her marriage to the poet Barry MacSweeney. Together Rendell and MacSweeney ran Blacksuede Boot Press, publishing works by Andrew Crozier, J. H. Prynne, Nicholas Moore and themselves. The typescripts are of the poems “Some November Privacy Poems”; “Watching a Turtle Climbing from a Rock”; “Doing Nothing Poem”; “Thinking of ‘Seclusion’”; “Insect Heads”; “Prophets”; “To Live”; “Pulling the Boat Up Among Lake Reeds”; and “Jumping Out of Bed”. (401165). $1,000

51. BOUDIN, Jean. Some of the Parts. The Pomegranate Press, 1982. 8vo. 60pp. Illustrated by Karyl Klopp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers with shadow, corner bumped.

FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies. INSCRIBED by the author. Errata slip laid-in. (400679). $25

52. BRAINARD, Joe. I Remember. New York: Angel Hair, 1970. 4to. [18] pp. Stapled as issued in original pictorial wrappers. Minor crease to front cover, a few minor smudges to the rear cover, and modest paper slightly turned. FIRST EDITION, trade issue, one of 700 copies from an edition of 726. Brainard’s classic was quickly sold out. While writing the book, he wrote to a friend: “I am way, way up these days over a piece I am still writing called I Remember. I feel very much like God writing the Bible. I mean, I feel I am not really writing it but that it is because of me that it is being written. I also feel that it is about everybody else as much as it is about me. And that pleases me.” wrote of it that “It is . . . one of the few totally original books I have ever read.” (402513). $275

14 53. BRONK, William. The Empty Hands. New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, [1969]. 8vo. 49 pp. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. Fine.

FIRST EDITION of Bronk’s third book, and his first with The Elizabeth Press. (402522). $50

54. BROOKS, Gwendolyn . The Wall. Detroit: Broadside Press., 1967. Broadside. 11 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Minor browning at edges.

FIRST EDITION of Broadside No. 19. (46844). $30

55. BUKOWSKI, Charles. Mockingbird Wish Me Luck: A New Book of Poems. Los Angeles: , [1972]. Broadside. 15 x 10 inches. Printed on yellow paper in black and blue. Folded twice. a fine copy. broadside.

FIRST EDITION of this broadside announcement of the title poem in Bukowski’s forthcoming volume. This is Black Sparrow Broadside / Flyer no. 2. (23963). $75

56. BUKOWSKI, Charles. “fourteen dollars and thirty two cents”. Typescript with holograph corrections signed (“Charles Bukowski / 9-28-77”). [Los Angeles], 1977. Two pages, 4to, on cream typing paper, stapled. 51 lines, with 11 corrections to punctuation. Published in Dangling in the Tournefortia (Black Sparrow, 1981). Aubrey Malone, in The Hunchback of East Hollywood: A Biography of Charles Bukowski references this poem as an example of Bukowski’s “incredibly jumpy mind” (p.126). Bukowski creates a poem out of insomnia, and life pressures, “dead cat on the boulevards. / de Sade grinning in the dark. / more trouble in the government. [...] getting an erection / from looking at the girl cashier. / ‘how your doing?’ she asks / ‘I need my teeth drilled,’ tell / her [...]” (401191). $3,500

15 57. CAGE, John. I-VI. Hanover and London: Press and the University Press of New , [1997]. Tall 8vo. 452 pp. Original printed wrappers; CD recording of Cage reading in pocket on inner rear wrapper. Light wear to wrappers, a very good copy.

Second edition of Cage’s contribution to Harvard’s Norton Lecture Series, given in 1988- 89. (402515). $65

58. CAHEN, Didier / Translated by Cid CORMAN. A World in Prose. Charleston IL: Tel-Let, 1992. 18 leaves. Stapled as issued in wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 100 copies. (205526). $10

59. CAHILL, Thomas. Of Frogs and Stars. [Hartford, CT]: By the author, 1960. 8vo. 88pp. Original gilt-lettered green cloth. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies. INSCRIBED by the author in 1966. (401159). $50

60. CERAVOLO, Joseph. Spring in this World of Poor Mutts. New York & London: Press, 1968. 8vo. Original cloth; original printed dust jacket. Small tear to upper front joint of jacket, a few small areas of rubbing, otherwise fresh and clean.

FIRST EDITION. This was a Frank O’Hara Award winner, and was the first book granted that prestigious title. The award was “specifically intended to encourage the writing of good new experimental poetry and to aid in its publication” (Jacket copy). Ceravolo was 34 at the time of publication, and a civil engineer as well as a poet. (400052). $75

61. CERAVOLO, Joseph. Millenium Dust. New York: Kulchur, [1982]. Tall 8vo. 126 pp. Original printed wrappers. Lightly rubbed.

FIRST EDITION, review copy, with slip laid-in. (402533). $25

62. CERAVOLO, Joseph. The Green Lake is Awake. : Coffee House Press, 1994. 8vo. 131, [3] pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION. (402532). $15

63. CLARK, Tom. Stones. New York: Harper & Row, 1969. 8vo. Original two-toned cloth; original printed dust jacket. Very minor surface rubbing on rear panel of jacket.

FIRST EDITION. (400049). $25

16 64. CLARK, Tom. Air. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Tall 8vo. Original blue cloth-backed boards; original printed dust jacket. Two tiny nicks to rear jacket panel, otherwise a fine copy.

FIRST EDITION. (400053). $20

65. CONKLE, D. Steven and Gary SNYDER. Tree . Columbus: The Broken Stone, 1984. 12mo. [24] pp. Stapled as issued in wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 4 of 100 copies signed by Conkle from an edition of 1,000. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to the poet John Perlman, 1964. (205448). $20

66. COOLIDGE, Clark. Mesh. Detroit: In Camera, 1988. 4to. 39, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers. Near-fine with one small smudge on rear wrapper. FIRST EDITION. (402531). $15

67. CORMAN, Cid. The Precisions. [Palma de Mallorca]: Sparrow Press, 1955. 8vo. [36] pp. Frontispiece by Michael Lekakis. Original printed wrappers. Near-fine, the wrappers with a few minor smudges.

FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies of Corman’s third book. The wraps have the Massler stamp for Sparrow Magazine at West Lafayette, Indiana address. This volume was designed by Robert Creeley’s Divers Press. (34909). $125

17 68. CORMAN, Cid. for granted. New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1967. 16, [1] pp. Sewn in original Japanese-style wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies. (402526). $20

69. CORMAN, Cid. plight. New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, [1968]. 8vo. [104] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Fine.

FIRST EDITION. (402528). $20

70. CORMAN, Cid. no more. New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1969. 16, [1] pp. Sewn in original Japanese-style wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 1,000 copies. (402527). $20

71. CORMAN, Cid. Out & Out. New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1972. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Fine, without the slipcase.

FIRST EDITION, one of 400 copies. (402529). $35

72. CORMAN, Cid. O|I. New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1974. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Slightly toned, without the slipcase.

FIRST EDITION, second printing. (402530). $15

73. CORMAN, Cid, editor. Origin. The 4th Series, Numbers 3, 5-10, 12-20. and : Origin Press, 1978-1982. 16 issues of the Fourth Series, 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Minor spot to the corner of issue three, but a fine set.

FIRST EDITIONS. Issues devoted to André du Bouchet, Cid Corman, Mark Karlins, Harrah Pornoff, David Miller, , Philippe Denis, George Evans, Kusano Shimpei, Andy Echavarria, Armand Schwerner, , Graham Lindsay, Bruce McClelland, Ted Pearson, and Gill Ott & John Levy. (35144). $150

74. CREELEY, Robert. A Day Book. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1972]. 8vo. Original white printed cloth, the cover designed by Robert Indiana; printed clear acetate wrapper. Three chips along upper edge of wrapper, otherwise a near-fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Creeley on a slip with an image of a bird, mounted on front free endpaper. (402479). $75

18 75. CREELEY, Robert. Thanks. Deerfield, MA and Dublin: The Deerfield Press and The Gallery Press, 1977. 8vo. [16] pp. Illustrated by Timothy Engelland. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. One small tear to jacket, some slight toning and shelfwear.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 250 copies signed by Creeley. (402477). $40

76. CREELEY, Robert. Echoes. West Branch, IA : The Toothpaste Press, 1982. 12mo. [10] pp. Original cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper spine label. Slightest sunning to spine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 139 of 200 copies signed by Creeley from an edition of 2,200. Designed and printed by Alan Kornblum. Printed on Strathmore Grandee. Bound by Constance Sayre at Black Oak Bindery. (402478). $60

77. CUMMINGS, E. E. The Enormous Room. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. 8vo. 271 pp. Original cloth. Some light wear at extremities, spine faded; lacks jacket. A good, sound copy. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK, first issue with “shit” unexpurgated on p. 219. (402422). $200

78. CUMMINGS, E. E. Him. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. 8vo. Title printed in red and black. 145 pp. Original black cloth-backed pictorial boards. Lacks jacket; spine rubbed, extremities worn, discoloration to front endpapers.

FIRST EDITION, trade issue (there was a limited issue of 160 signed copies). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CUMMINGS in green pencil on the front free endpaper: “For Mary & Rudy from Cs.” This was Cummings’ first play. (402421). $175

79. CUMMINGS, E. E. 50 Poems. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1940]. 8vo. [9], 100 pp. Original tan cloth; portions of jacket (separated and lacks spine). Stain at foot of spine.

FIRST EDITION, trade issue (there was a signed limited edition of 150 copies). (402423). $75

80. CUNNINGHAM, J. V. To What Stangers, What Welcome. Denver: Alan Swallow, 1964. 8vo. [24] pp. Original green printed wrappers. A fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, one of “about 1000 copies” according to the colophon. A series of 15 short poems. (402501). $15

19 81. DANIEL, Robert Woodham. Tennessee Eclogues: A Garland of Seven Poems. New Haven: 1939. 4to. 10 pp. Stapled in original printed wrappers. Wrappers toned at edges.

FIRST EDITION. Inscribed on the title to fellow Yale alum Louis F. Laun (an economics award is named in his honor at Yale). This prints 1939’s Prize Poem, the 37th such award granted, judged by Prof. Robert Dudley French at Yale, Stephen Vincent Benét, and Prof. George R. Elliott of Amherst College. (400650). $20

82. DAWSON, Fielding. Krazy Kat / The Unveiling & Other Stories. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969. 8vo. 186, [1] pp. Original red cloth, reproduction of a collage by Dawson mounted on front cover. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 27 of 250 hardcover copies signed by Dawson from an edition of 1,276. Introduction by fellow Black Mountain College poet Robert Creeley. (402465). $80

83. DINGS, Fred. The Bruised Sky. [West Chester, PA]: Aralia Press, 1988. 8vo. 10 leaves, Illustration on title-page by Diane Collins. Sewn in original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 125 copies, number two in the Aralia Press chapbook series. (462883). $25

84. DIPALMA, Raymond . Works in a Drawer. Bowling Green, OH: Blue Chair Press, 1972. Oblong 8vo. [24] pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 191 of 200 copies. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO THE POET JOHN PERLMAN in 1983 on the title: “some early poems writ in Ohio 1970.” (402510). $40

85. DORN, Ed. Gunslinger. Book III The Winter Book prologue to the great Book IIII Kornerstone. West Newbury, MA: Frontier Press, 1972. Folio. 20 pp. Stapled in original pictorial wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION. (402468). $20

86. DORN, Ed. Slinger. Berkeley, CA: Wingbow Press, 1975. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. Split along front fore-edge of jacket, a short tear along front joint, otherwise a very good copy.

FIRST EDITION, trade issue. (402467). $15

20 87. DORN, Ed. Yellow Lola. Formerly Titles Japanese Neon (Hello La Jolla, Book II). Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1981. 8vo. 128, [5] pp. Photograph mounted as frontispiece. Original cloth- backed marbled boards, printed paper spine label. Near-fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 41 of 161 copies signed by Dorn on his author’s portrait taken by Tom Clark. (402466). $50

88. DUNCAN, Robert. Roots and Branches. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1964. 8vo. 176 pp. Original black cloth. Fine copy without jacket. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Duncan on the half-title: “Robert Duncan / New York May 1967.” Bertholf A14a. (402476). $40

89. DUNCAN, Robert. The Cat and the Blackbird. San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, [1967]. 4to. 48 pp. Illustrated by Jess [Collins]. Original orange comb binding, printed stiff card covers.

FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies. Bertholf A23. (402471). $80

90. DUNCAN, Robert. The Truth & Life of Myth. An Essay in Essential Autobiography. New York: House of Books Ltd., 1968. 8vo. 78, [1] pp. Original blue cloth; glassine. A fine copy save some light wear to glassine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 110 of 300 copies signed by Duncan from an edition of 326. This is number 16 of the Crown Octavo series published by House of Books. Bertholf A26b. (402474). $100

91. DUNCAN, Robert. Poetic Disturbances. [San Francisco]: [Clifford Burke], [1970]. 4to. 6 leaves. Sewn in original green wrappers, printed label on front cover. A fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 33 of 50 numbered copies on Tovil paper signed by Duncan from an edition of 300. This is Maya Quarto Eight. Bertholf A34a. (402470). $150

21 92. DUNCAN, Robert. Tribunals Passages 31-35. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970. 4to. 24, [1] pp. Original cloth-backed patterned paper boards; acetate wrapper. A fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 128 of 250 copies signed by Duncan from an edition of 1,276. With the 16-page facsimile of the holograph notebook and of the final typescript in pocket on rear pastedown as issued. Bertholf A37c. (402472). $80

93. DUNCAN, Robert. Caesar’s Gate. [San Francisco]: San Dollar, 1972. 4to. 73, [1] pp. Illustrated by Jess [Collins]. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Jacket slightly soiled and cockled.

Second edition, the first collected edition (reprinting the Divers Press edition of Caesar’s Gate and the Maya Quarto edition of Poetic Disturbances). One of 600 copies bound in cloth from an edition of 2,600. Bertholf A8d. (402473). $60

94. DUNCAN, Robert. Veil Turbine Cord & Bird. Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, 1979. 8vo. [11] pp. Sewn in original wrappers, printed paper label on cover. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 191 of 200 signed copies. Bertholf A53a. (402508). $100

95. DUNCAN, Robert – Ekbert FAAS. Young Robert Duncan. Portrait of the Poet as Homosexual in Society. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1983. 8vo. 361, [4] pp. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. A fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies in cloth. (402469). $30

96. EIGNER, Larry. Valleys Branches. London: Big Venus, [1969]. 8vo. 22, [1] pp. Stapled in original orange printed wrappers, printed paper label mounted on front wrapper. Fine.

FIRST EDITION. Charters A18. (402463). $20

97. ELIOT, T.S. . London: Faber and Faber, 1930. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt- lettered on front cover and spine, top edges gilt, with bookseller’s ticket of Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company, on rear pastedown. Slightly cocked, otherwise fine, with gilt fresh and bright.

FIRST TRADE EDITION, one of 2,000 copies. Provenance: Arthur McComb (signature of front free endpaper dated Paris, 1930), art historian, professor of baroque art at Vassar and Harvard; he carried out an extensive correspondence with John Dos Passos, which was published in 1991. Two further inscriptions record the book was passed as a gift to members of the Day family. Gallup A15b. (400297). $175

22 98. ELIOT, T. S., translator – St.-J. PERSE. Anabasis. London: Faber and Faber, [1930]. Tall 8vo. 75 pp. Original green cloth; original cellophane wrapper; publisher’s slipcase. Slipcase lightly worn, otherwise fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 11 of 350 copies signed by Eliot. Gallup A16b. (402303). $600

99. ELIOT, T. S. . Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama. London: Faber and Faber, [1932]. 8vo. 31 pages. Original blue boards; yellow dust jacket printed in blue. Light toning to spine of boards; jacket lightly soiled and toned at edges, but a nice, fresh copy.

FIRST EDITION, first binding (blue). Gallup A23. (402304). $150

100. ELIOT, T. S. The Rock A Pageant Play. London: Faber and Faber, [1934]. 8vo. 86 pp. Original printed wrappers. Light toning to spine and edges, but a nice copy.

FIRST EDITION. One of 1,000 copies in wrappers from an edition of 2,000 (the remaining copies were issued in boards). Gallup A26a. (402302). $200

101. ELIOT, T. S. . Canterbury: H. J. Goulden, [1935]. 8vo. 38 pages. Original printed wrappers. Light spotting to endleaves; pale toning to edges of wrappers.

FIRST (ACTING) EDITION. One of 750 copies printed and distributed at performances at Canterbury Cathedral in May 1935. The text is slightly abbreviated and altered from the text of the complete edition published in June. Gallup A29a. (402306). $1,000

23 102. ELIOT, T. S. Murder in the Cathedral. London: Faber and Faber, 1935. 8vo. 87pp. Original purple cloth; later slipcase. Lack dust jacket, front hinge cracked, some toning to boards, pencilings in text presumably by Perkins.

FIRST TRADE EDITION. A PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Eliot on the title: “Inscribed for Dr. John Carroll Perkins by the author T. S. Eliot 11.vi.1935” (publication of its 3000 copies was two days later on June 13th). Rev. Perkins was minister of King’s Chapel, First Unitarian Church of Boston, the oldest church in the USA, from 1926 to 1933, and was well known in Eliot’s society. Upon his death, Eliot wrote in his condolence letter to Perkins’ wife Edith that he could express “what you know already, and what must have been said already by many friends: what a good and beautiful person Uncle John [Perkins] was, and how much loved he was. Like every one else who knew him, I shall continue to cherish every memory of his very Christian soul, of essential integrity and innocence... His own patience and humility made one rather ashamed, and his readiness to see people at their best” (The Letters, Vol 6). Mrs. Perkins was Eliot’s hostess in Chipping Camden each summer from 1934 to 1939, and the Perkins’ were instrumental in raising -- T.S. Eliot’s early infatuation -- after her mother’s illness. Gallup A29b. (401322). $3,000

103. ELIOT, T. S. Murder in the Cathedral. London: Faber and Faber, [1935]. 8vo. 87 pp. Original purple cloth; dust jacket. Slightest toning to jacket; endleaves lightly spotted, generally fine.

FIRST TRADE EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIOT on the title: “Inscribed for A. Jones, Esq. with the author’s compliments T. S. Eliot.” Gallup A29b. (402305). $2,000

24 104. ELIOT, T. S. Old Possum’s Book of Practical . New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1939]. 8vo. Original black-lettered cloth; pictorial dust jacket priced $1.25. Jacket slightly soiled and with some light wear at joints and extremities, owner’s name in ink on front free endpaper.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. One of 2,000 copies. Gallup A34b. (402190). $450

105. ELIOT, T. S. . London: Faber and Faber, [1954]. 8vo. 134, [2] pp. Original blue cloth; printed yellow dust jacket. Jacket with one small hole on spine panel [with associated bump on cloth], head of spine with split at joint and chip, generally fresh and bright.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with misprint “Ihad” [for “I had”] on p. 7; first issue jacket priced “10s 6d”. With a TLS from the bibliographer Donald Gallup laid-in detailing the issue points of the book, including those on pages 7 and 61. “Fabers now say that ‘about the first 250’ copies had the error and that it was corrected in the press. But this cannot be right because the ratio of copies with the error to those without it in several shipments to the U.S.... runs about 3 to 1. One thing is definite: that copies with and without the error were issued simultaneously, and Mr. Eliot’s own first copies were of both states...” Gallup A24. (402299). $250

106. ELIOT, T. S. The Confidential Clerk. London: Faber and Faber, [1954]. 8vo. 134, [2] pp. Original blue cloth; printed yellow dust jacket. Jacket with one small hole on front flap joint, some light wear at extremities, generally fresh and bright.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with misprint “Ihad” [for “I had”] on p. 7; first issue jacket priced “10s 6d”. With printed Author’s Compliment’s slip on green paper laid-in. Gallup A24. (402298). $250

107. ELIOT, T. S. On Poetry and Poets. London: Faber and Faber, [1957]. 8vo. [8], 262 pp. Original blue cloth; printed dust jacket. Closed tear at top of front panel, some light chipping at ends of spine panel.

FIRST EDITION. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, WITH A REVEALING LETTER BY ELIOT. ’s copy, with newspaper clippings neatly pinned and laid-in at front and with a TLS from Eliot mounted on the pastedown, 16 August 1961. Eliot replies to the author-editor’s request for a submission of a 6-10 page typescript, with an advance of $1,000, intended for children.

“I am afraid I cannot run to that length for a script intended for children of 6 to 8. Nor do I believe I could or should try to compose a

25 children’s story limited to a vocabulary of 250 words laid down in advance. I have only written verse for children, and I have always maintainted the view, judging from the children of my acquaintance, is correct, that children like long and euphonious words, without understanding them. Indeed, for me as a child, and I am sure for any intelligent child who likes reading the new and unknown words are part of the fun. They may even be words that the child would not use until it is grown up. So I am afraid I cannot be one of your distinguished contributors.”

Untermeyer and his wife Bryna Ivens Untermeyer created a number of books for young people in the series Golden Treasury of Children’s Literature. He edited for the Crowell-Collier Press the Modern Masters for Children Series in the 1960s. It is most likely for this that he solicited a submission from Eliot. Eliot’s most famous work for children was Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats [1939]. Gallup A69. (402300). $2,500

108. ELIOT, T. S. . A Play. London: Faber and Faber, [1959]. 8vo. 108, [2] pp. Original red cloth; printed dust jacket. Half of jacket spine panel perished.

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIOT TO THE CRITIC T. C. WORSLEY, AND WITH AN ALS LAID-IN. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To T. C. Worsley Esq with the author’s compliments. (See p.7) T. S. Eliot.” In the printed thanks from the author on p. 7, Eliot acknowledged “Mr. T. C. Worsley for a hint in a critical notice of the Edinburgh’s production which inspired Mr. Martin Browne to propose a small but important excision.”

Laid-in is an ALS from Eliot, 31 March 1958: “I want to express my appreciation of your exceptionally perceptive and sympathetic notice of my play. Also this is the first time in my experience that a critic has made a point which has led to an alteration improving the play. Martin pointed out to me what could be done by a very simple operation. If as I hope you see the play again when it comes to London, you will see how we have benefited from your criticism.”

Thomas Cuthbert Worsley (1907-1977) was a British teacher, writer, editor, theatre and television critic. He went to Spain with during the Spanish Civil War, which he recorded later in his Fellow Travellers. Gallup A70. (402301). $2,250

26 109. ELIOT, T.S., contribution. Fiftieth Anniversary Report of the Harvard Class of 1910. , MA: The Cosmos Press, 1960. 8vo. 561 pp. Original red cloth. With the stamps of the Harvard Club of New York, including their discarded stamp. Spine a bit faded and with a few soilmarks, a few bumps to board edges.

FIRST EDITION. A scarce T.S. Eliot item, his lengthy autobiographical entry occupying pages 133-136. Members of the class were asked to send in their current contact information, along with autobiographies summarizing the half century that had passed since their graduation. Eliot gives his address at Faber & Faber, his occupation as “Author and Publisher”, lists his honorary degrees and awards and opens his text: “What the Secretary appears to be bent upon extracting from his wretched classmates is a full-length autobiography. If he really wants everything he says he wants he should have provided a good deal more paper, but I am glad he didn’t. I don’t see why I should again review my life ‘since graduation’: I did my best to oblige him in this respect 25 years ago, and that statement can stand, with two important qualifications-- I now prefer claret to burgundy, and I prefer Inspector Maigret to Arsène Lupin. So I shall begin with 1933: that is a good date for me, as that is the year in which I broke into Show Business...” Despite his playful/combative opening tone, Eliot goes on at length to list his many publications and accomplishments, and ends by saying that without his marriage to Valerie Fletcher “no achievement or honour could give me satisfaction at all.” Another lengthy entry is provided by his classmate Walter Lippmann. Accompanied by the printed pamphlet of the speeches given by Lippmann and Clarence Little and a copy of the chairman’s report. Gallup C642. (400931). $600

110. ELIOT, T. S. – CATTAUI, Georges. T. S. Eliot. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1966. 8vo. 128 pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Slightest shelfwear, rear panel lightly toned.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. (402307). $20

111. ELMSLIE, Kenward. Moving Right Along. Calais, VT: Z Press, 1980. Tall 8vo. 122, [1] pp. Original blue cloth; dust jacket. 1-inch tear at head of front joint on jacket, lightly rubbed.

FIRST EDITION, cloth trade issue. (402525). $25

112. ENSLIN Theodore. Agreement, and Back: Sequences. New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1969. 8vo. [96] pp. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. Jacket with one minor closed tear, spine slightly sunned.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Enslin on the front free endpaper. (103601). $20

113. ENSLIN, Theodore. This Place Where I am Standing. New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, [1964]. 8vo. 32 pp. Stapled in original red printed wrappers. Soft vertical crease, otherwise fine.

FIRST EDITION, first printing of Enslin’s second book. (402462). $20

27 114. ENSLIN, Theodore. To Come To Have Become. New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1966. 8vo. [52] pp. Original striped paper wrappers, printed label on front cover. Light wear at head of spine, otherwise fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies. (402518). $15

115. ENSLIN, Theodore. The Place Where I am Standing. New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1969. 8vo. 31 pp. Original red printed wrappers. Spine slightly sunned.

Second printing (the first was 1964). (40275). $10

116. ENSLIN, Theodore. Etudes. New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1972. 8vo. 81, [2] pp. Original red printed boards. Nearly fine, spine slightly faded with one light stain, slipcase sunned at edges.

FIRST EDITION, one of 400 copies. (34851). $20

117. ENSLIN, Theodore. In the Keeper’s House. Dennis, MA: Salt-Works Press, 1973. 8vo. [14] pp. Sewn in original printed wrappers. Near-fine, a few minor soilmarks along spine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies. (204638). $10

118. ENSLIN, Theodore. Sitio. Hanover, NH: Granite Publications, 1973. 8vo. [48] pp. Original blue printed wrappers. A few spots to wrappers, spine slightly sunned.

FIRST EDITION. (40239). $10

119. ENSLIN, Theodore. Views. New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1973. 8vo. 64, [3] pp. Original red printed boards; slipcase. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 400 copies. (22453). $25

120. ENSLIN, Theodore. Fever Poems. Brunswick, ME: Blackberry One, 1974. 8vo. [16] pp. Stapled as issued in self-wrappers. Near-fine, slightest handling crease.

FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies. (40237). $15

28 121. ENSLIN, Theodore. The Last Days of October. Dennis, MA: Salt-Works Press, 1974. 8vo. [32] pp. Sewn as issued in printed wrappers. Pale shadow to front wrapper, near-fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies with stitched covers of hand-made rag paper and marsh grass fiber. (36676). $15

122. ENSLIN, Theodore. The Mornings. Berkeley, CA: Shaman Drum, 1974. 18 leaves. Original blue printed wrappers. Near-fine, the spine slightly toned.

FIRST EDITION, one of 392 copies in wrappers from an edition of 500. (40238). $15

123. ENSLIN, Theodore. LÄNDLER. New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1975. 8vo. 57, [2] pp. Original printed boards; slipcase. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies. (34818). $25

124. ENSLIN, Theodore. Some Pastorals A New, Year’s, Cycle for Jake. Dennis, MA: Salt-Works Press, 1975. 8vo. [24] pp. Sewn in original printed wrappers. Top corner slightly bent, but generally bright.

FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies. (40241). $15

125. ENSLIN, Theodore. Papers. New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1976. 8vo. 107, [2] pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies. (22455). $15

126. ENSLIN, Theodore. May Fault. Fort Kent, ME: Great Raven Press, 1979. [14] pp. Original red textured-paper wrappers. Slightly toned along spine, otherwise bright.

FIRST EDITION. (40234). $15

127. ENSLIN, Theodore. Opus 31, No. 3. Markesan, WI: Pentagram Press, 1979. [12] pp. Original mustard printed wrappers. Fine, bright copy.

FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies. (204631). $10

128. ENSLIN, Theodore. The Flare of Beginning Is in November. Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, 1980. 8vo. 36 pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 49 of 150 copies signed by Enslin. (34912). $15

29 129. ENSLIN, Theodore. Star Anise. Markesan, WI: Pentagram Press, 1980. Square 8vo. 3, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, number 133 of 225 copies. (15096). $15

130. ENSLIN, Theodore. Two Geese. Merkesan, WI: Pentagram Press, 1980. 4 pp. Sewn in original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 275 copies. (204647). $10

131. ENSLIN, Theodore. September’s Bonfire. Needham, MA: Potes & Poets, 1981. 8vo. [32] pp. Original printed wrappers. Slightly toned, but near-fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies. (40240). $20

132. ENSLIN, Theodore. Meditations on Varied Grounds. Hartford, CT: Potes & Poets, 1982. 8vo. [24] pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies. (40236). $10

133. ENSLIN, Theodore. To Come Home (to) 1976-1979. Fort Kent, ME: Great Raven Review, 1982. 8vo. [24] pp. Original yellow printed wrappers. Near-fine.

FIRST EDITION, issue 21/22. (204639). $10

134. ENSLIN, Theodore. Music for Several Occasions. Milwaukee: Membrane Press, 1985. 8vo. 59, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers. Near-fine, the wrappers with a few pale spots and slightly toned.

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Enslin to the poet John Perlman. (40233). $20

135. ENSLIN, Theodore and Keith WILSON. Meeting a Jal. Hobbs, NM: Southwestern Association, 1985. 8vo. 63 pp. Original printed wrappers. A fine, bright copy.

FIRST EDITION. (34892). $15

136. ENSLIN, Theodore. Re-Soundings 1-8: Poems. Minim: Tel-let, 1991. 8 leaves. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers. Near-fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 50 copies. (40243). $20

30 137. ESHLEMAN, Clayton. Nights We Put the Rock Together. Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1980. 8vo. Photographic illustration mounted. Original marbled wrappers, printed paper labels on cover and spine. Spine label lightly toned.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 51 of 126 copies signed by Eshleman. (400641). $40

138. ESHLEMAN, Clayton. Nights We Put the Rock Together. Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1980. 8vo. Photographic illustration mounted. Original printed wrappers. One bump to upper front cover, rear panel and spine lightly toned.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 374 copies, this copy additionally signed by Eshleman. (400639). $35

139. FAULKNER, WIlliam and Ernest HEMINGWAY. Salmagundi. Milwaukee: Casanova Press, 1932. Tall 8vo. 53, [1] pp. Photographic portrait of Faulkner mounted as frontispiece. Original printed wrappers, the rear wrapper printing Ernest Hemingway’s poem “Ultimately”; publisher’s board slipcase. Light rubbing to slipcase, a pale offset on endpapers; the book bright and fresh. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 483 of 525 numbered copies. In addition to Ernest Hemingways four-line poem Ultimately, printed on the back cover, Salmagundi contains five poems and three prose pieces by Faulkner: the poems “The Faun,” “Dying Gladiator,” “Portrait,” “The Lilacs” and “L’Apres-Midi dun Faune,” and the prose pieces “New Orleans,” “On Criticism” and “Verse Old and Nascent: A Pilgrimage.” Massey 753; Petersen A11a. An unusually fine copy. (402431). $550

31 140. FERLINGETTI, Lawrence. Tyrannus Nix? New York: New Directions, [1969]. Oblong 8vo. 92 pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

Second printing. SIGNED by Ferlinghetti on the title-page. (402503). $70

141. FROST, Robert. A Masque of Reason. New York: Henry Holt, [1945]. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. A worn jacket with losses.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. (402274). $50

142. FROST, Robert. A Masque of Mercy. New York: Printed at the Spiral Press for Henry Holt, [1947]. Tall 8vo. 46, [2] pp. Original blue cloth-backed boards; glassine; publisher’s board slipcase. Glassine lacks spine and slipcase lightly worn, volume fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 554 of 751 copies signed by Frost. Crane A31. (402435). $350

143. GEE, Fauntleroy. Poems: 1946-1954. Saucilito, CA: Privately printed [at the Golden Goose Press], 1954. 8vo. 79 pp. Original red cloth, printed paper label on spine. Front hinge starting, else very good.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. An obscure privately printed work, presumably in a very small edition for private distribution. (11118). $15

144. GEORGE, Stefan. Selection from his Works. Translated by Cyril Scott. London: Elkin Mathews, 1910. Square 8vo. 63, [1] pp. Original marbled wrappers, typed label on front cover. Signature of E. Doerfler on half-title verso. Marginal stain at extreme fore-edge of last few leaves; wrappers slightly rubbed and bumped at extremities.

FIRST EDITION. (402541). $75

145. GIBB, Robert. Whale Songs. Berkeley, CA: Turkey Press, 1976. 8vo. 28 pp. Original printed wrappers. Slightly soiled, otherwise very good.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 49 of 300 copies signed by Gibb. (103709). $20

146. GINSBERG, Allen. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. San Francisco: City Lights Books/House of Anansi, 1969. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. Pale sun toning along rear upper and lower edges, owner’s name on front free endpaper.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. (400040). $25 32 147. GINSBERG, Allen. Journals: Early Fifties Early Sixties. New York: Grove Press, 1977. 8vo. 302 pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

Uncorrected advance proof. Review slip laid in. (400928). $150

148. GRAVES, Robert. Collected Poems. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. 8vo. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. Some very minor wear and slightest toning to jacket.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. This was the first book of Graves’ complete poems to be published in America since 1955. (400101). $25

149. HERSHON, Robert. How to Ride the Woodlawn Express. New York: Sun, [1985]. 8vo. 59, [1]. pp. Original printed wrappers. Light foxing, rear wrapper slightly soiled.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Hershon in 1986 to the poet Paul Violi and his wife: “may there be 11 tokens in your 10 pack.” (402509). $25

150. HEYEN, William. Cardinals/The Cardinal. Derry, PA: Rook Press, 1976. Folded sheet, 9 x 4 inches. Illustration by William Lint. Original red printed wrappers; publisher’s envelope. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, number 36 of 96 copies signed by Heyen. (103885). $30

151. HEYEN, William. Evening Dawning with an Illustration by David Allan. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1979. 8vo. 36 pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 155 of 175 numbered copies from an edition of 276. (103884). $20

152. HEYEN, William. The Trains. Worcester, MA: Metacom, 1981. 8vo. [21] pp. Original wrappers, printed label on cover. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 49 of 150 copies signed by Heyen from an edition of 176 copies. Designed and printed by Nancy King and William Ferguson, printed on Rives. (103887). $40

153. HEYEN, William. Before Snow. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1983. 3 x 5 inches. Card with calligraphic reproduction of Heyen’s poem by Douglas Strickler. In original folding printed paper wrapper.

FIRST EDITION, number 13 of 36 copies signed by Heyen of this seasonal keepsake for private distribution. (103886). $35

33 154. HEYEN, William. This Year. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1988. 4 1/2 x 6 inches. Color illustration by Gino Lee. Single sheet folded twice. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, letter V of 26 lettered copies signed by Heyen (there were an additional 10 copies for the author). (103883). $20

155. HIGGINS, Frank. Starting from Ellis Island. Kansas City, MO: The Book Makers, 1979. 8vo. 64 pp. Original printed wrappers. Some minor soiling.

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Higgins on the title-page. (402537). $10

156. HOBSON, Dorothy. Let There Be Light. New York: Bruce Fitzgerald, 1943. 8vo. 51 pp. Original red cloth, printed paper labels on cover and spine. Slight soiling to cloth, spine label worn.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOBSON to the poet and playwright Jane Dransfield, and with her occasional pencil marginalia. (10247). $15

157. HUGHES, Ted. The Earth-Owl and Other Moon-People. London: Faber and Faber, [1963]. 8vo. 46 pp. Illustrated by R. A. Brant. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A near-fine copy with slightest wear at ends of spine, and slightest toning.

FIRST EDITION. One of 3,000 copies of Hughes’ third book for children. Sagar and Tabor A7. (402412). $125

34 158. HUGHES, Ted. Wodwo. London: Faber and Faber, [1967]. 8vo. 184 pp. Original red cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. A few small tears at ends of jacket joints (one backed with tape), slightly toned, but a very presentable copy.

FIRST EDITION. One of 3,000 copies. Sagar and Tabor A12. (402406). $90

159. HUGHES, Ted. Crow. London: Faber and Faber, [1970]. 8vo. 80 pp. Original cloth; dust jacket with a design by Leonard Baskin. Jacket spine soiled, two tears along upper edge.

FIRST EDITION. One of 4,000 copies. Sagar and Tabor. A25. (402408). $20

160. HUGHES, Ted. Crow Wakes. Essex: Poet & Printer, 1971. 8vo. 27 pp. Quarter cream- colored Elephant Hide paper, patterned red boards. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, unsigned issue. “About 230 copies printed” according to the bibliographers, though the colophon states 200 (30 to academics and libraries according to a note by the printer). Alan Tarling of Poet & Printer told the poet’s bibliographers, Keith Sagar and Stephen Tabor, “These poems were excluded for personal reasons from [Hughes’s] Crow opus and he offered them to me in March 1970. The printing and casing-in lasted until April 71 when I began sending off copies. There were 200, a hundred each going to poet (TH) and printer (me) plus 30 review or academic copies. None of mine was signed and each cost £2.25, though I gave some to friends and relatives. All the ‘academic’ copies were gratis, and said as much in an extra colophon . . . I don’t know how TH’s copies were distributed or whether or not they were signed.” Hughes hand numbered and signed copies noting an edition of 88. Sagar and Tabor A28. (402413). $125

161. HUGHES, Ted. Season Songs. London: Faber and Faber, 1976. 8vo. 75 pp. Grey printed wrappers. Near-fine.

Apparently an advance proof of the first English trade edition, not noted by Sagar and Tabor A44c. (402411). $75

162. HUGHES, Ted, translator with Janos Csokits – Janos PILINSZKY. Selected Poems. London: Carcanet, 1976. 8vo. 67 pp. Original blue cloth; yellow printed dust jacket. A few short tears at edge of rear panel, slightly toned, generally very good.

FIRST EDITION. One of 1,000 copies. Sagar and Tabor B79. (402407). $50

163. HUGHES, Ted. Sunstruck. Knotting, Bedfordshire: Christopher Skelton for Sceptre Press, 1977. Square 8vo. [8] pp. Sewn in original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 7 of 100 copies signed by Hughes from an edition of 450. The colophon states that Hughes retained 50 of the signed copies for himself. Sagar and Tabor A53. (402410). $200 35 164. HUGHES, Ted. Cave Birds. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, [1978]. Oblong 4to. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. Original cloth; dust jacket. A few short tears at edges of jacket.

FIRST TRADE EDITION. Sagar and Tabor A46b.1. (402415). $20

165. HUGHES, Ted. Orts. London: Rainbow Press, 1978. 8vo. 63, [3] pp. Frontispiece by Leonard Baskin. Original black calf by Zaehnsdorf, gilt-lettered on spine, decorated paper endleaves, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; cloth slipcase. Some minor scuffs to leather; spots to slipcase.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 83 of 200 copies signed by Hughes. Sagar and Tabor A56. (402414). $250

166. HUGHES, Ted. Four Tales Told by an Idiot. Knotting, Bedfordshire: Christopher Skelton for Sceptre Press, 1979. Square 8vo. 4 pp. Stapled in original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 46 of 100 copies signed by Hughes from an edition of 450. The colophon states that Hughes retained 50 of the signed copies for himself. With errata slip laid-in. Sagar and Tabor A63. (402409). $200

167. HUGHES, Ted, translator – Yehuda AMICHAI. Time: Poems. New York: Harper & Row, 1979. 8vo. 90 pp. Original blue wrappers. Lightly stained and worn.

TED HUGHES’ COPY OF THE UNCORRECTED PROOF, with his corrections and additions in ink, and inscribed on the front wrapper: “Corrected – Ted Hughes.” There are corrections on 7 pages, mostly small marks for punctuation or notes about typesetting. Poem 38 is supplied in typescript. WITH: a clean bright copy of the proof without the changes [poem 38 is blank]. Though uncredited on the wrapper or in the text of the proof, Hughes translated the work with the author.

In the Times Literary Supplement, Ted Hughes wrote: “I’ve become more than ever convinced that Amichai is one of the biggest, most essential, most durable poetic voices of this past century – one of the most intimate, alive and human, wise, humorous, true, loving, inwardly free and resourceful, at home in every human situation. One of the real treasures” (9 January 1998). (204554). $250

168. JOYCE, James. Pomes Penyeach. Paris: Shakespeare & Co, 1927. 32mo. Original printed boards. Spine perished as often with this notoriously fragile volume, marginal chips to first two leaves, errata slip not present. FIRST TRADE EDITION. Contains thirteen poems. Slocum & Cahoon A24. (401625). $250t

36 169. JOYCE, James. The Collected Poems. New York: The Black Sun Press, 1936. Small 8vo. 66 pp. Frontispiece portrait after a crayon drawing by Augustus John, original tissue guard preserved. Original white boards decorated in blue, blue silk page marker, entirely unopened; original glassine. Glassine with small chips at head of spine (with pale associated toning to board) and on rear panel. A near-fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 626 of 800 numbered copies from an edition of 850 (fifty copies were printed on Vellum and signed). This collects Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, and Ecce Puer, the last of which is published for the first time. Slocum & Cahoon A44. (402321). $1,250

170. KNECHTEL, Mary Beth. Acts of Love. Vancouver: Standard, 1978. 4to. [11] pp. Illustrated by Bryan Wert. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 40 of 40 copies signed by the author and illustrator from an edition of 350 copies. (104122). $20

171. KOLLMAR, Richard. Vapor & Voice. New York: Oliphant Press, 1975. First. 8vo. [16] pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 100 copies. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to the owner of the bookstore on 12th and Broadway. (34241). $20

172. LENOX, Stephanie. The Heart That Lies Outside the Body. Sleepy Hollow: Slapering Hol Press, 2007. 8vo. Frontispiece by Tomomi Ono. Stitched in original printed wrappers. As-new.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 103 of 500 copies. (400648). $15

37 173. LEVENDOSKY, Charles. Aspects of the Vertical. Norman, OK: Point Riders Press, 1978. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Nearly fine with some age darkening.

FIRST EDITION, signed by Levendosky on the title-page. (40216). $10

174. LEVERTOV, Denise. Embroideries. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. Tall 8vo. 9, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers. Near-fine with modest handling wear to wrappers.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 28 of 300 copies in wrappers signed by Levertov from an edition of 700. Designed and printed by Saul and Lilliam Marks at the Plantin Press. (402461). $30

175. LEVINE, Philip. Pili’s Wall. Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1971. 8vo. 12 leaves. Photographic illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Small bump at foot of spine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 550 copies in wrappers (there were also 200 casebound and 50 signed/numbered copies). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Levine to fellow poet Michael Waters: “For Michael Waters with hope for our poetry .” (400938). $175

176. LOEWINSON, Ron. Goat Dances. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. 8vo. 145, [4] pp. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards; acetate wrapper.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 67 of 200 copies signed by Loewinsohn. (109419). $50

177. LOWENTHAL, Jessica. As if in turning. Providence: Burning Deck, 1996. 8vo. 14 pp. Original blue printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies from an edition of 526. With publisher’s press slip laid-in. (402504). $25

178. MAAS, Willard. Fire Testament. New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935. 8vo. Original printed wrappers; glassine. Glassine chipped at corners, toned.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, an unnumbered copy from the edition of 165 signed by Maas. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED in pencil on the front free endpaper to the playwright and poet Jane Dransfield: “To Jane Dransfield / belatedly but no less affectionately / Willard Maas.” (402539). $300

38 179. MACNEICE, Louis. The Other Wing. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. 8vo. [4] pp. Full- page color illustration by Michael Ayrton. Sewn in original printed wrappers, most of original mailing envelope preseved. Near-fine.

FIRST EDITION. From the Ariel Poems new series. (62441). $10

180. MCCLURE Michael. Little Odes & Raptors: Poems & a Play. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. 8vo. 43 pp. Original blue cloth; printed paper labels on cover and spine. One spot on front cover, else fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 71 of 200 copies signed by McClure from an edition of 1,226. (109463). $50

181. MCCLURE Michael. The Cherub. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. 4to. [32] pp. Original cloth-backed printed boards; acetate jacket.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 76 of 250 copies in boards signed by McClure. Designed and printed by Noel Young and Graham Mackintosh. (107414). $60

182. MCCLURE, Michael. Fragments of Perseus. Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, 1978. 8vo. [22] pp. Full-page illustration by Jordan Davies. Original white printed wrappers. Lightly soiled.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 67 of 200 copies signed by McClure. Printed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press. (35898). $35

183. MELTZER, David. French Broom. Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1973. 8vo. [16] pp. Sewn in original plain wrappers. Nearly fine with some faint smudging on covers.

FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies signed by Meltzer. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh. (34910). $20

184. MELTZER, David. Blue Rags. Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1974. 8vo. [32] pp. Original blue cloth; dust jacket. Slightest shelfwear to jacket.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 39 of 100 copies printed and bound by Graham Mackintosh and signed by Meltzer from an edition of 1,350. (402524). $50

185. MELTZER, David. Bolero: A Section from Asaph, a Work-in-Progress. Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1976. 8vo. 9 pp. Sewn in original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Meltzer at end. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh as a Christmas keepsake, 1976. (204736). $10 39 186. MERRILL, James. Four Poems. In: The Medusa, Vol. I, No. 1. Amherst: Fall 1946. 8vo. 60 pp. Stapled in original pink printed wrappers. Wrapper split along spine at top, staples rusted, some light soiling.

Edited by James Merrill and William Burford, this was the only issue of The Medusa, the literary journal they founded at Amherst College. This appeared only four years after Merrill’s scarce privately printed first book, Jim’s Book.

From the Amherst College Archives: “Merrill and Burford spent the previous spring and summer preparing the issue. They were involved in every aspect of creating the journal, including writing, soliciting material, proofreading, design, layout and production, and printing. Merrill handled the production aspect of the journal. Although he considered having the journal published in Athens, with the help of Kimon Friar, it was printed in Northampton by the Reynolds, Metcalf Printing Company (51 Clark Avenue). Merrill was also responsible for the design and layout, as well as the proofreading. “The name was taken from a student organization (interested in writing, music, art, and film) at Amherst, although it was published independently of the College. The journal published Merrill and Burford’s own work as well as the work of their friends (including Anaïs Nin), Amherst faculty members (Professors George Whicher and John Cook), and members of the college community. Contributors were: Kimon Friar, Anaïs Nin, Sprague Johnson, Janet Morgan, James Merrill, William Burford, George Whicher, John Cook, and Maya Deren.” (402486). $250

40 187. MERRILL, James. First Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. 8vo. 72, [1] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Rear panel of jacket slightly soiled and with one internal closed split, lightly toned, overall a very attractive copy. FIRST EDITION OF MERRILL’S FIRST COMMERCIALLY PUBLISHED BOOK, number 110 of 990 copies. SIGNED by Merrill on the title-page beneath his crossed-out printed name. Hagstrom & Morgan A4. (402480). $375

188. MERRILL, James. The Seraglio. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. 8vo. 312, [1] pp. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. Jacket lightly rubbed along edges.

FIRST EDITION. SIGNED by Merrill on the title-page above his crossed-out printed name. Hagstrom & Morgan A8a. (402493). $60

189. MERRILL, James. The (Diblos) Notebook. New York: Atheneum, 1965. 8vo. 147, [1] pp. Original two-toned cloth; dust jacket. Slightly toned jacket with one short tear on front panel.

FIRST EDITION. SIGNED by Merrill on the title-page above his crossed-out printed name. Hagstrom & Morgan A17a. (402492). $90

190. MERRILL, James. Nights and Days. New York: Atheneum, 1966. 8vo. 56, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers. Lightly rubbed.

FIRST EDITION, paperback issue published simultaneously with the copies in cloth. SIGNED by Merrill on the title-page beneath his crossed-out printed name. Hagstrom & Morgan A20a. (402495). $60

41 191. MERRILL, James. Nights and Days. London: Chatto and Windus; The Hogarth Press, 1966. 8vo. 46, [1] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. A fine copy.

FIRST UK EDITION, INSCRIBED BY MERRILL on the title, beneath his crossed-out printed name. Nights and Days won the 1967 for Poetry. The English edition added seven poems and dropped three from the American. Hagstrom & Morgan A20b. (402491). $90

192. MERRILL, James. The Fire Screen. New York: Atheneum, 1969. Narrow 8vo. 77, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers. Slightly curled at edges, generally fresh and bright.

FIRST EDITION, a paperback original. SIGNED by Merrill on the title-page next to his crossed- out printed name. Hagstrom & Morgan A23a. (402496). $100

193. MERRILL, James. The Fire Screen. London: Chatto and Windus; The Hogarth Press, [1970]. 8vo. 52 pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. A fine copy.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, SIGNED by Merrill on the title-page beneath his crossed-out printed name. Hagstrom & Morgan A23b. (402490). $125

194. MERRILL, James. Braving the Elements. New York: Atheneum, 1972. 8vo. 73, [1] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Slightest toning, near-fine.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Merrill on the title-page beneath his crossed-out printed name. This won the for Poetry. Hagstrom & Morgan A26a. (402494). $75

195. MERRILL, James. Two Poems from the Cupola and The Summer People. London: Chatto and Windus; The Hogarth Press, [1972]. 8vo. 47 pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Fine in a clipped jacket.

FIRST EDITION. Hagstrom & Morgan A27a. (402489). $30

196. MERRILL, James. Metamorphosis Of 741. Pawlet, VT: The Banyan Press, 1977. Square 4to. [12] pp. Color woodblock on title. Original white printed wrappers; with the publisher’s mailing envelope. Slightest toning, generally fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 236 of 440 copies signed by Merrill. Hagstrom & Morgan A32a. (402488). $75

42 197. MERRILL, James. Ideas, Etc. Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, [1980]. 8vo. 10 pp. Original salmon printed wrappers. Negligible handling wear along top edge.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 56 of 200 copies signed by Merrill. (402487). $75

198. MERRILL, James. Mirabell: Books of Number. New York: Atheneum, 1978. 8vo. 182 pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Very good, the jacket with several tiny nicks and lightly curled at top.

FIRST EDITION. (16762). $45

199. MERRILL, James. The Changing Light at Sandover. New York: Atheneum, 1982. 8vo. 560, [1] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Near-fine in a jacket with only a few touches of wear.

FIRST EDITION, with the errata slip laid-in. (402498). $100

200. MERRILL, James. From the First Nine. Poems 1946-1976. New York: Atheneum, 1982. 8vo. 362, [1] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. A near-fine copy, the jacket slightly toned and one corner just touched.

FIRST EDITION. Hagstrom & Morgan A44a1. (402499). $50

201. MERRILL, James. From the First Nine. Poems 1946-1976. New York: Atheneum, 1982. 8vo. 362, [1] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. A very good copy with two short tears and one small crease to jacket.

FIRST EDITION. Hagstrom & Morgan A44a1. (402500). $30

202. MERRILL, James. Marbled Paper. Salem, OR: Rara Avis Press in Riverside CA for Charles Seluzicki Books, 1982. 8vo. 19 pp. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 200 copies signed by Merrill. The illustrations were taken from photographs of funeral masks unearthed by Heinrich Schliemann at Mycenae. (402482). $90

203. MERRILL, James. Peter. Deerfield, MA and Dublin: The Deerfield Press and The Gallery Press, 1982. 8vo. [12] pp. Illustrations by Timothy Engelland. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. A fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 300 copies signed by Merrill and hand-colored by the illustrator. (402483). $75

43 204. MERRILL, James. Santorini: Stopping the Leak. Worcester: Metacom Press, 1982. 8vo. 19, [1] pp. Sewn in original wrappers, printed label on cover. Pale stain on blank penultimate leaf, otherwise fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 57 of 300 copies signed by Merrill from an edition of 326. (402485). $90

205. MERRILL, James. Santorini: Stopping the Leak. Worcester: Metacom Press, 1982. 8vo. 19, [1] pp. Sewn in original wrappers, printed label on cover. Pale stain on blank penultimate leaf, otherwise fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 60 of 300 copies signed by Merrill from an edition of 326. (402484). $75

206. MERRILL, James. Bronze. New York: Nadja, [1984]. 8vo. 12 pp. Laced in original blue printed boards, with the publisher’s mailing envelope. A fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 47 of 150 copies signed by Merrill from an edition of 176. This is the fifteenth publication of the Nadja press. Bronze originally appeared in Grand Street magazine. WITH: publisher’s announcement for the book, a bifolium, and an ALS from the publishers to the original subscriber. Hagstrom & Morgan A55a (402481). $125

207. MERRILL, James. Late Settings. New York: Atheneum, 1985. 8vo. 87, [1] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Jacket lightly curled at edges, and with a few blind impressions on front panel, but a bright copy. FIRST EDITION, simultaneously issued in paperback. Hagstrom & Morgan A62a. (402497). $20

208. MERWIN, W. S. The Lice. New York: Atheneum, 1967. 8vo. 80, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers. Slightly toned, a near-fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Merwin on the front flyleaf. Issued simultaneously in wrappers and casebound. (402356). $60

209. MERWIN, W. S. Selected Translations 1948-1968. New York: Atheneum, 1968. Tall narrow 8vo. 176, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers. Corners slightly curled, some light cockling along spine, lightly toned.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Merwin on the title-page. Includes translations of early Asian poems, Iosip Brodsky, Baudelaire, Lorca, Neruda, and Mandelstam, as well as poems originally from Kabylia, Dahomey, Eskimo, Peruvian Indian, and Amazon. Issued simultaneously in wrappers and casebound. (402355). $60

44 210. MERWIN, W. S. Animae. San Francisco: Kayak Books, [1969]. 8vo. 31 pp. Illustrated by Lynn Schroeder. Printed on white and yellow papers. Stapled in original printed decorated paper wrappers. Extremities bumped, wrappers toned at edges.

FIRST EDITION, one of 1,200 copies. SIGNED by Merwin on the front flyleaf. Designed and printed by George Hitchcock. (402358). $50

211. MERWIN, W. S., translator – Antonio PORCIA. Voices. : Big Table, 1969. 8vo. 64 pp. Original printed wrappers with a design by Magritte. Lightly rubbed, abrasion to spine affecting the poet’s name.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Merwin on the title- page. This is the first translation into English of the enigmatic verses of the Argentine writer Antonio Porcia, who had died the year before publication. (402357). $60

212. MERWIN, W. S. The Carrier of Ladders. New York: Atheneum, 1970. Tall narrow 8vo. 138, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers. Corners slightly curled, ends of spine touched, a few shallow blind impressions.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Merwin on the front flyleaf. This was only issued in wrappers. (402354). $75

213. MERWIN, W. S. The Miner’s Pale Children. New York: Atheneum, 1970. Tall narrow 8vo. 235, [1] pp. Original green cloth; dust jacket. Closed tear on jacket front panel, slightly curled along top.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Merwin on the half-title. (402350). $75

214. MERWIN, W. S. Japanese Figures. Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1971. Tall 8vo. [9] pp. Hand-colored woodcut initial on title-page. Original green cloth, lettering in black on front cover somewhat faded. Pastedowns slightly discolored, a very good copy.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 116 of 125 case bound copies from an edition of 375, signed by Merwin. Printed by the Grace Hoper Press, bound by Gordon Thomsen. (402359). $100

45 215. MERWIN, W. S. Mary. Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, 1976. Tall 8vo. 39, [1] pp. Original red cloth-backed floral paper boards. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 31 of 175 copies signed by Merwin. Printed by Nadja. (402351). $150

216. MERWIN, W. S. The Opening of the Hand. New York: Atheneum, 1983. 8vo. 83, [1] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Slightest curling at top of jacket, a near-fine copy.

FIRST EDITION. (402352). $60

217. MERWIN, W. S. The Rain in the . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 8vo. 78, [5] pp. Original green cloth; dust jacket. Front joint of cloth with two tiny marks; whites of jacket lightly toned. A near-fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Merwin on the front flyleaf. (402353). $50

218. MILLER, David. In the Field. Charleston IL: Tel-let, 1992. 6 leaves. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers. Fine save some light rust on staples.

FIRST EDITION, one of 75 copies. (205450). $15

219. MOORE, Marianne. O to Be a Dragon. New Poems. New York: The Viking Press, 1959. 8vo. Original two-toned cloth; dust jacket. A very good copy, with slight toning to jacket and two short years on rear panel.

FIRST EDITION. (400045). $15

220. MOORE, Prentiss. The Garden of Winter and Other Poems. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981. 8vo. Original cloth; pictorial jacket. Chipping along upper jacket edge.

FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK. With John Ashbery’s commendation on the jacket: “Fresh, precise... one seems to be seeing everything from a strange but viable angle.” This is no. 7 in the University of Texas Poetry Series. (400649). $25

221. MORICE, Dave. Quicksand Through the Hourglass. West Branch, IA : The Toothpaste Press, 1979. 8vo. 57, [1] pp. Illustrations by the author. Original yellow cloth. Some light soiling to covers, generally very good.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 78 of 100 casebound copies signed by Morice from an edition of 1,000. Designed and printed by Allan Kornblum. (402540). $30

46 222. MULCH – David GLOTZER, Basil KING, Harry LEWIS, editors. Mulch : Vol. 1 No. 1 to Vol 3, No 4/Vol 4, No1. Mulch Press, 1971ff. Six issues, 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Light wear, a near- fine set.

FIRST EDITIONS. SIGNED BY ALLEN GINSBERG in issue 4, above his contribution on p. 55, “The Visions of the Great Rememberer: A Reminiscence of and Neal Cassidy.” A complete set except for issue 6 (Vol 3, No. 2-Winter/Spring 1975). Contributors include Theodore Enslin, Toby Olson, Paul Blackburn, , Allen Ginsberg, , and Diane Di Prima. (402507). $125

223. O’HARA, Frank. Love Poems (Tentative Title). New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1965. Square 8vo. 30pp. Original printed wrappers. Some discoloration to wrappers at edges and spine, marginal stain on penultimate leaf.

FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies. The New York poet Paul Violi’s copy. Inscribed in an unknown hand “Happy Birthday” on the title, and in another hand “passed on to Paul Violi Christmas 1970. A. A.” (401162). $1,000

224. O’HARA, Frank. Lunch Poems. San Francisco: City Lights, [1966]. Squarish 8vo. 74 pp. Original printed wrappers. Light wear to joints, some pale soiling; ink gift inscription on title. Third printing. (402266). $75

47 225. OLSON, Charles. Projective Verse. New York: Totem, 1959. 8vo. 14 pp. Stapled on original printed wrappers with a design by Matsumi Kanemitsu. Slight darkening at edbes as often, lacks errata slip.

FIRST EDITION of Olson’s groundbreaking essay. It influenced the next generation of poets, as well as William Carlos Williams who extensively quoted from it in his autobiography. “... “the getting rid of the lyrical interference of the individual as ego, of the ‘subject’ and his soul [. . .] For man is himself an object.” (64021). $90

226. PADGETT, Ron. The Big Something. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1990. 8vo. Original printed wrappers reproducing a painting by Jedd Garret. Slightest wear to front joint.

FIRST TRADE EDITION, SIGNED by Padgett on the title. (400642). $30

227. PATCHEN, Kenneth (1911- 1972). Poem-Scapes. [Cover title:] Poemscapes. Highlands, North Carolina: , 1958. 8vo. 50pp. Specially bound in plain gray wrappers over stiff board, typed cover label on handmade yellow paper. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE of Jargon 11, number 36 of 42 copies of the “Gold and Gray Edition,” with an original watercolor by Patchen mounted as the rear pastedown and free endpaper, a manuscript of his poem “Kindness of Clowns”, 8 lines, on a watercolor ground of reds, pinks, and greens. This limited issue is smaller than the more common painted-binding issue of 75 copies. OCLC lists only the copies at LC, Duke and Harry Ransom.

“It happens that very often my writing with pen is interrupted by my writing with brush, but I think of both as writing,” said Patchen. “In other words, I don’t consider myself a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to extend.” (402142). $1,750

48 228. PERISHABLE PRESS – . Why Don’t You Work Smarter and Not So Necessarily Harder? Life Is Short, Guide It with Thought. Mount Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press, 1964. Broadside. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Fine.

FIRST EDITION. This is the second item printed by Hamady. (43001). $150

229. PERISHABLE PRESS – Walter HAMADY. th prshbl prss lmtd: Books. Mount Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press , 1968. Broadside. 15 x 5 inches. Fine. broadside.

FIRST EDITION. Advertising books for sale. The list comprises new titles by Paul Blackburn, Robert Creeley [2], Loren Eiseley, Walter Hall, Walter Hamady, Denise Levertov, Toby Olson, , Carl Thayler, Tony Weinberger, and John Wieners. (42999). $60

230. PERISHABLE PRESS - Walter HAMADY. Another Fragment of a Never Ending Story: Valentine’s Day / Cleveland. Mount Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press, 1972. Broadside. 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches. Printing a 33-line poem by Hamady. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 78 copies [15 copies for sale]. (43000). $90

49 231. PERISHABLE PRESS – Walter HAMADY. An extensive collection of ephemera, 35 pieces. Comprising:

“Why Don’t You Work Smarter and Not So Necessarily Harder? Life Is Short, Guide It with Thought”. [1964]. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Walter Hamady’s second printed work.

Bulletins and lists: “the prshbl prss lmtd books. Divisions & Other Early Poems : : Robert Creeley...” [1968]. 15 x 9 inches. – “bulletin number 6.” [1969]. 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches – “bulletin 7.” 1970. 15 x 11 inches. – “New and current titles from the Prshbl Prss Ltd 1970.” 11 x 5 inches. – “bulletin 9.” [1971]. 15 x 11 inches. – “Offerings of illustrated broadsides...” 1971. 8 x 5 inches. – “Titles in print (old & new) as of Independence Day.” [1971]. 10 1/2 x 7 inches. – Announcement for ten titles starting with Water Hall, ‘The Spider Poems’. [1971]. 8 x 4 1/2 inches. – “This is a list of stuff getting offered as schmaltzy gift possibles.” 1973. 12 x 8 inches. – “In print of Labor Day 1973.” 9 x 4 inches. – “The Perishable Press Limited was established in 1964 & was so named because it seemed to most adequately describe the human condition which is both perishable and limited...” 1973. 20 x 13 inches. – “Books in Stock as of Our Suns Total Eclipse: 19 June 1974.” 15 x 6 1/2 inches.

Announcements for publications: , ‘Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons.’ 11 x 6 inches. [1969]. – Loren Eiseley, ‘The Brown Wasps.’ [1969]. 11 x 7 inches. – J. V. Cunningham, ‘Selected Poems.’ [1971]. 9 x 5. Laura Evans Hamady, ‘Printer’s Devil.’ 1975. 10 1/2 x 7 inches. – David Kherdian, ‘Homage to Adana.’ [1970]. 10 1/2 x 7 inches. – Michael Heller, ‘Figures of Speaking.’ 9 x 6 inches. – “A narrative poem by Sam Hamod After the Funeral of Assam Hamady.” [1971]. 11 x 6 inches. – “Coming events Shooting Pigeons, Toby Olson...” [1971]. 11 x 6 inches. – Harry Lewis, ‘Three Progressive States of a Single Poem...” 11 x 5 1/2 inches. – Diane Wakoski, “The Wandering Tattler.” 13 x 6 1/2 inches. – “Thumb Nailing the Hilex Interminable Gabberjabbs.” 15 x 6 inches. – Toby Olson, ‘Worms into Nails’. 8 1/2 x 5 inches.

Varia: “The Department of Art of The University of Wisconsin invites you to the formal dedication of the new facilities...” [1970]. 10 1/2 x 7 inches. – “If you are knocking on this door...” [1971] 4 x 6 inches. – Announcement of Walter Hamaday’s sabbatical: “stick that fatt finger in your ugly nostril or some other grateful orifice.” 9 x 6 inches. – “cut-back & the end...” requesting people write to receive future advertisements. 14 x 4 inches. – “An exhibition of prntining... [at] The Grolier Club.” [1972].

Etcetera: “A Short Poem by Ruth Evans Brinker.” [1971]. 8 x 4 1/2 inches. – three small business cards and an envelope. (402296). $1,200

50 232. PERLMAN, John, editor. Shuttle. [Worthington, OH]: 1972, 1975. Numbers 1 and 2, 4to. Mimeod. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers. Some slight handling wear, rusting to staples, overall very good copies.

FIRST EDITIONS of the first two issues of Perlman’s mimeod journal, with contributions by Perlman, William Bronk, James Weil, Michael Heller, Tim Longville, Theodore Enslin, Cid Corman, Frank Samperi, Franco Beltrametti, John Levy, and other authors. (402514). $60

233. PERLMAN, John. Homing. New Rochelle, N.Y.: The Elizabeth Press, 1981. 8vo. 55, [3] pp. Original printed boards; card slipcase. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 100 copies. SIGNED by Perlman on the title-page. (64036). $15

234. POUND, Ezra. Quia Pauper Amavi. London: The Egoist Press, [1919]. 8vo. 51, [1] pp. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine label. Label somewhat discolored, some spotting to endleaves.

FIRST EDITION, with the hand-correction by Pound on page 34. One of 500 copies. Gallup A17a. (402398). $400

235. POUND, Ezra. Selected Poems. New York: Faber and Faber, [1928]. 8vo. 199 pp. Original black cloth. Lacks jacket, spine worn.

FIRST EDITION. Edited with an introduction by T. S. Eliot. Gallup A30. (402395). $10

51 236. POUND, Ezra. How to Read. London: Desmond Harmsworth, 1931. 8vo. 55 pp. Original red cloth. Lightly soiled, lacks jacket.

FIRST EDITION. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY, COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED BY EDWARD SACKVILLE-WEST, 5th Baron Sackville, and with his bookplate. Nearly a third of the pages bear marks and pencilled notes by Sackville-West, and he reserves his lengthiest vitriole for the end: “The book of an averagely stupid, practically illiterate, American -- a deeply maddening book...” Elsewhere, Sackville-West marks passages as “rubbish,” refers to Pound’s “poor intellect”, and demeans Pound’s American English, as when he underlines the sentence “I rest my case.” and writes “not English.”

Sackville-West, the cousin of Vita, wrote four autobiographical in the 1920s and 30s that failed to find a large audience. His work as a music critic and as biographer of Thomas de Quincey, however, made him a well known figure. His column in New Statesmen championed the young Benjamin Britten and helped establish the composer’s reputation in Britain. His biography of de Quincey, titled A Flame in Sunlight, won the Black Memorial Prize, one of Britain’s oldest literary awards. Gallup A33. (402401). $600

52 237. POUND, Ezra. The Pisan Cantos. London: Faber and Faber, [1949]. 8vo. 132 pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Stain on rear jacket panel, several chips at edges.

FIRST UK EDITION. INSCRIBED BY TO HER BROTHER SACHEVERELL SITWELL on the front free endpaper: “For my darling Sachie / those nymphs and bassarids from Page 77 onwards to the end of that Canto / with best love from Edith.” She has made an X to mark this passage on p. 77. Edith Sitwell and Pound appeared together in the Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers in 1949. Sacheverell once accused Edith of preferring Pound’s cantos to her own, to which she replied that her brother was “one of the greatest [poets] that our race has produced in the last 150 years.” Gallup A60b. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. (402400). $400

238. POUND, Ezra. The Translations. London: Faber and Faber, [1953]. 8vo. 408 pp. Original blue cloth; dust jacket. Jacket price-clipped and lightly soiled, generally a fresh copy.

FIRST EDITION. One 1,398 copies. Introduction by Hugh Kenner. Gallup A66. (402397). $60

239. POUND, Ezra. . London: Faber and Faber, [1954]. 8vo. 576 pp. Errata slip at end. Original black cloth; yellow printed dust jacket. Jacket a bit soiled and worn along top edge, but a presentable copy.

Second English edition. One of 2,000 copies. Gallup A61c. (402396). $25

240. POUND, Ezra. Section: Rock Drill 85-95 de los cantares. London: Faber and Faber, [1957]. 8vo. 107 pp. Original black cloth; dust jacket. Top of spine gently rolled, light soiling to jacket, generally fresh and bright.

FIRST ENGLISH TRADE EDITION. One of 2,000 copies. Follows Milan, 1955 limited signed edition, and the first American of the previous year. Gallup A70c. (402393). $75

53 241. POUND, Ezra. Thrones. Cantos 96-109. London: Faber and Faber, [1960]. 8vo. 126 pp. Original red cloth; printed dust jacket. Jacket spine slightly toned and with one tiny chip at head, a near-fine copy.

FIRST UK TRADE EDITION. One of 2,290 copies. Follows the Milan, 1959 signed limited edition and the American edition of the previous year. Gallup A77. (402394). $60

242. POUND, Ezra. Drafts & Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII. New York: New Directions, 1969. Folio. 40 pp. Original russet cloth, printed paper spine label; board slipcase. Near-fine copy, with just a modest amount of shelfwear.

LIMITED EDITION, number 134 of 200 copies signed by Pound from an edition of 310. Printed on the hand-press of K. K. Merker, The Stone Wall Press on Umbria Paper. (402399). $800

243. PRITCHARD, N. H. The Matrix. Poems 1960-1970. Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. 8vo. 203 pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Some shealfwear, generally very good.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED with calligraphic flourishes in red, blue and black to “Dame Eleanor with my peace and love ever” on the pastedown, and with a one- page ALS from Pritchard to Eleanor laid-in. Additionally, Pritchard has hand colored this copy at intervals, and added several geometric drawings to the rear endleaves. (402538). $150

244. PRITCHARD, N. H. Eecchhooeess. New York: Press, 1971. 8vo. Original blue cloth; dust jacket. Jacket lightly toned on front, stain on rear panel.

FIRST EDITION. One of two volumes of poetry by this member of the Umbra school (the collective of African American writers in Manhattan’s Lower East Side founded in 1962). Both are highly inventive avant-garde works. (401032). $150

245. REZNIKOFF, Charles. Holocaust. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards; original glassine. Several losses to glassine, otherwise a fine and fresh copy.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 28 of 250 copies signed by Reznikoff (400054). $125

246. RODEFER, Stephen. Four Lectures. Berkeley, CA: The Figures, 1982. 8vo. 74, [6] pp. Original printed wrappers. Slightest toning along upper edge.

FIRST EDITION, one of 750 copies. (402535). $25

54 247. SAROYAN, Aram. The Rest. New York: Telegraph Books, 1971. 8vo. 107, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers. Slightest soiling, a near-fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, trade issue. (402523). $25

248. SCHOTTLAND, L. E. Rain in the Fall. New York: Loker Raley, 1941. 8vo. 48 pp. Original red cloth, printed paper label on front cover. Stains to covers, hinges cracked, short tear to front free endpaper, a few corners creased, lacks jacket.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper: “For Dr. Charles S. Meltzer with appreciation to the teachings of Hippocrates with all good wishes sincerely L E Schottland 1941.” (402146). $50

249. SMITH, William Jay. Poems 1947-1957. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. 8vo. 90 pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Jacket toned, one pale stain on front.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Smith on the title-page, and with a lengthy inscription on the front free endpaper to a couple “who have shown me so much about the Pittsburgh Poets and Taos”. (401039). $70

250. SNYDER, Gary. Nanao Knows. [San Francisco]: [Four Seasons], 1964. Broadside. 12 1//2 x 9 1/2 inches. Matted. Fine. FIRST EDITION. The broadside reproduces Snyder’s calligraphy and includes his date and signature in the print. One of 300 copies sold at a reading by Snyder, and at Longshoremen’s Hall is San Francisco on 12 June 1964. McNeil A7. (402544). $125

251. SNYDER, Gary. The Back Country. New York: New Directions, [1968]. 8vo. 128 pp. Original green cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A near-fine copy with slightest toning to whites, a small area of lamination puckered on front panel.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first printing, one of 2,000 copies. SIGNED by Snyder on the title-page. McNeil A16d. (402418). $125

55 252. SNYDER, Gary. Earth House Hold. New York: New Directions, 1969. 8vo. 143 pp. Original yellow cloth; textured translucent parchement-like pictorial dust jacket. Two small chips to rear panel and a short closed tear on front, otherwise a near-fine copy of this fragile jacket.

FIRST EDITION, one of 2,500 copies. SIGNED by Snyder on the title-page. An early collection of Snyder’s prose pieces. McNeil A22. (402417). $125

253. SNYDER, Gary. Earth House Hold. New York: New Directions, 1969. 8vo. 143 pp. Original wrappers. Wrappers worn, library withdrawn inkstamp on half-title.

Second printing. INSCRIBED by Snyder on the title-page in 1995. See McNeil A22. (402502). $35

254. SNYDER, Gary. In Transit: The Gary Snyder Issue. Eugene, OR: Toad Press, [1969]. 8vo. 55, [1] pp. Stapled in original pictorial wrappers with a photo of Snyder, his wife Masa Uehara, and the Japanese poet Nanao Sakaki. Light soiling.

FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies. SIGNED by Snyder on the title-page. Snyder edited this special issue that includes his own work, as well as contributions by Allen Ginsberg, Keith Wilson, Gene Anderson, Neale Hunter, Annettte Boushey, Robert Peterson, John Montgomery, Howard McCord, and other authors. McNeil C277-280. (402416). $55

255. SNYDER, Gary. Regarding Wave. New York: New Directions, [1970]. 8vo. 84 pp. Original blue cloth; pictorial jacket. A near-fine copy, only slightest of rubbing to jacket.

FIRST TRADE EDITION, one of 2,000 copies. SIGNED by Snyder on the title-page. The Windhover Press published a signed limited edition of 280 copies the previous year. This trade edition reprints the poems of that edition, but substantially expands the collection with the addition of two sections. McNeil A29. (402419). $140

256. SNYDER, Gary. . New York: New Directions, [1974]. 8vo. 114 pp. Woodcut illustrations by Michael Corr. Original light green cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy.

FIRST EDITION, one of 2,000 copies. SIGNED by Snyder on the title-page. This volume won the Pulitzer Prize, and is considered by many to be his most fully realized work. McNeil A49. (402420). $375

257. SNYDER, Gary. Myths & Texts. New York: New Directions, 1978. 8vo. 54 pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Jacket slightly toned, one tiny nick.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Snyder on the title-page. Originally published in 1960. This is the first state binding with “Snyder” as “Synder” on spine. (206907). $45

56 258. STEVENS, Wallace. Harmonium. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. 8vo. 151, [1] pp. Original tan cloth, printed paper spine label. Some toning to cloth, extremities touched, spine label a bit soiled. Second edition, in the fourth binding. One of 397 copies in this binding according to the publisher’s records from an edition of 1,500 copies. Three poems were dropped from the first edition (1923) and fourteen were added. Edelstein A1.b. (402339). $175

259. STEVENS, Wallace. Ideas of Order. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. 8vo. 61, [1] pp. Title printed in red and black. Original vertically-striped cloth, printed paper spine label; printed dust jacket. Slightest toning to spine.

A SUPERLATIVE COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION, in the first binding. One of 500 copies in this binding according to the publisher’s records, from an edition of 1,000 copies. This, Stevens’ second book, was first published in 1935 by the Alcestis Press in an edition of 165 copies (20 for presentation). This second edition contains the thirty-three poems of the first, and adds three. Edelstein A2.b. (402341). $1,000

57 260. STEVENS, Wallace. The Man with the Blue Guitar. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. 8vo. 82, [1] pp. Original yellow cloth, decorated endpapers; yellow printed dust jacket. Some pale staining along upper joint of cloth with associated pale stain at gutter in preliminaries (not effecting the jacket); jacket with slightest toning to spine panel, top slightly rolled, but edges clean and sharp. A bright copy.

FIRST EDITION, second issue jacket reading “conjunctions” on the inner front flap. One of 1,000 copies. In addition to the celebrated title poem, this collection includes an extensively revised and shortened version of “Owl’s Clover,” first published separately by the Alcestis Press the previous year. Edelstein A4.a. (402340). $1,000

261. STEVENS, Wallace, and other authors. The Fortune Anthology. London: The Fortune Press, [1942]. 8vo. 79, [1] pp. Original blue boards with dark blue cloth spine, gilt-lettered on spine (somewhat faded). Boards lightly soiled.

FIRST EDITION, containing Stevens’ “Asides on the Oboe” and “Mrs. Alfred Uruguay.” Other contributors include , , Henry Miller, and Lawrence Durrell. Edelstein B29 (noting his own copy has this binding variant). (402349). $75

262. STEVENS, Wallace. A Primitive Like an Orb. [New York]: The Banyan Press for the Gotham Book Mart, 1948. Tall 8vo. [16] pp. Two plates by Kurt Seligmann on Zuba paper. Original bright green printed wrappers. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies. Printed on Etruria paper. Two years later, this poem was included in The Auroras of Autumn. Edelstein A13. (402344). $200

58 263. STEVENS, Wallace. The Auroras of Autumn. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. 8vo. 193, [1] pp. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; printed dust jacket. Spine panel lightly toned and with a few tiny nicks at head, two small tears at lower right of front panel, otherwise a bright copy.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. One of 3,000 copies. Contains “The Owl in the Sarcophagus,” “A Primitive Like an Orb,” “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,” and “Angel Surrounded by Paysans.” Edelstein A14a.1. (402343). $350

264. STEVENS, Wallace. The Auroras of Autumn. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. 8vo. 193, [1] pp. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; printed dust jacket. Binding with two words slightly rubbed on spine; jacket with small stain and nick along front joint, small chip at head of spine, small nick to rear panel, inner rear flap corner clipped, lightly toned.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. One of 3,000 copies. Contains “The Owl in the Sarcophagus,” “A Primitive Like an Orb,” “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,” and “Angel Surrounded by Paysans.” Edelstein A14a.1. (402342). $300

59 265. STEVENS, Wallace. The Necessary Angel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. 8vo. 176, [1] pp. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; printed dust jacket. Jacket price-clipped, soft crease at bottom of rear and spine panels, a few nicks at spine ends, lightly toned, but a nice bright copy.

FIRST EDITION. One of 3,000 copies. Stevens’ first book of prose, containing his selection of essays and speeches on the art of poetry, and on the relationship between the imagination and reality. Edelstein A17.a.1. (402345). $200

266. STEVENS, Wallace. The Collected Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. 8vo. 534, v, [1] pp. Original maroon cloth, abstract design on front cover and spine in gold, silver-lettering on front cover and spine; printed dust jacket. Pale stain to upper sheet edges; spine panel of jacket with pale dampstain, small nicks along upper edge, rear panel toned, bookseller’s ticket on rear pastedown.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 518 of 2,500 copies. With the exception of six poems, the poems in the section “The Rock” appear here for the first time. Despite the flaws enumerated, a very presentable copy of this definitive edition of Stevens’ work. Edelstein A23.a.1. (402346). $550

60 267. STEVENS, Wallace. Opus Posthumous. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. 8vo. 300, [4] pp. Original reddish-brown cloth, abstract design on front cover and spine in gold, silver-lettering on front cover and spine; printed dust jacket. Soft crease to inner rear flap, short closed tear on rear panel, a bright, near-fine copy.

FIRST EDITION. One of 4,800 copies. Edelstein A26a.1. (402347). $75

268. STEVENS, Wallace – Samuel French MORSE, Jackson R. BRYER, and Joseph N. RIDDEL. Wallace Stevens Checklist and Bibliography of Stevens Criticism. Denver: Alan Swallow, 1963. 8vo. 98 pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Foot of spine chipped; jacket toned, with a few small stains and several tears/nicks at edges.

Second edition, revised and expanded after the first of 1954. Edelstein I2. (402348). $25

269. TEASDALE, Sara. Helen of Troy and Other Poems. New York and London: The Knicker- bocker Press for G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1911. 8vo. 115pp. Original cloth-backed boards, matching lettered spine panel. Light toning at edges.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED with a poem. The poet has signed and dated the copy 1912 at top, and she inscribes it with an 8-line poem for “Mr. Gomme” on the front free endpaper: “I wonder, shall I add thereto, / Or let the name stand all alone? / What is the proper thing to do, / I wonder? Shall I add thereto? / I’ve autographed so very few -- / If I am wrong, let this atone; / I wonder shall I add thereto, / Or let the name stand all alone? / S.T. for Mr. Gomme.” This is presumably Laurence Gomme, collector of performing arts material, and bookseller. (400737). $500

270. THOMAS, Dylan. 18 Poems. London: The Sunday Referee and The Parton Bookshop, 1934. 8vo. Original black cloth; original printed dust jacket. Cloth lightly discolored at edges, inner flap of jacket separated but present, a few chips.

FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK, second issue binding (rounded spine, advertisement leaf). 500 sheets were printed, half of which were bound in December 1934, the remainder in February 1936. Connolly, Modern Movement 78a; Hayward 343; Rolph B1b. (400423). $400

271. THOMAS, Dylan. In Country Sleep. New York: New Directions, [1952]. 8vo. 34, [2] pp. Author’s photographic portrait mounted on title. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. Toning and chipping at ends of spine of jacket, price-clipped.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. (402434). $100

61 272. TOWLE, Tony. North. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1970. 8vo. 75 pp. Original black cloth; dust jacket designed by Jasper Johns. A few small nicks to jacket edges, otherwise fresh and bright.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Towle on the half-title. This won the Frank O’Hara Award, and was Towle’s first commercially published book (there were two earlier privately printed volumes). (402460). $60

273. TOWLE, Tony. “Autobiography” and Other Poems. New York: SUN / Coach House South, 1977. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Towle on the title-page and numbered 30/35. Although there is no colophon, nor limitation statement, it is presumed this is a limited issue in cloth with manuscript designation by the author, as the book is commonly found in original wrappers with an illustration by Robert Motherwell. Towle, a New York poet, won the Frank O’Hara Award for 1970 (see previous). He conducted a poetry workshop for the Poetry Project of the St. Mark’s Church for the 1969-70 season. (400042). $150

274. WAKOSKI, Diane. Discrepancies and Apparitions. Garden City: Doubleday, 1966. 8vo. 95 pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Very good with bright but slightly worn jacket with a small chip to the front.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED WITH A FOUR-LINE POEM on the front free endpaper: “For Paul [Evans] ‘It is a hard life, / with bones under you / and swords over your head. / But it is everyone’s life’ p. 87 / in some ways we poets have it hardest of all, but we also have something to believe in – and how many other people do? Best wishes; high hopes. Diane [drawing of a crescent moon and flower].” Paul Evans was a British poet associated with the . He is known for his dreamy tone and surrealist imagery. (44333). $80

275. WARSH, Lewis. The Maharajah’s Son. Lenox, MA / New York: Angel Hair Books, 1977. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. Some light rubbing to wrappers.

FIRST EDITION, printed in Berkeley, CA at the West Coast Print Center, and limited to 1000 copies. The text comprises Warsh’s “Letters”, 1960-65. (400044). $35

62 276. WEIL, James L. In Art. Charleston IL: Tel-let, 1992. 6 leaves. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers. Fine save some rust to the staples.

FIRST EDITION, one of 150 copies. (205451). $15

277. WILLARD, Nancy. Household Tales of Moon and Water. San Diego, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1982]. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. Light spotting to sheet edges, near-fine.

FIRST EDITION, second printing. WITH A LENGTHY INSCRIPTION by Willard to Myra Cohn Livingston, with a drawing on a crescent moon and star. (401040). $50

278. WILLIAMS, Oscar, editor. New Poems: 1940. An Anthology of British and American Verse. New York: The Yardstick Press, 1941. 8vo. 276 pp. 30 halftone portraits of the poets. Original cloth. Some soiling to cloth.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Signed by Oscar Williams on the front free endpaper. Includes contributions by Conrad Aiken, W. H. Auden, , , R. P. Blackmur, , William Empson, Robinson Jeffers, Archibald Macleish, , Frederic Prokosch, John Crowe Ransom, Muriel Rukeyser, Steven Spender, Wallace Stevens, Allan Tate, , Robert Penn Warren, Oscar Williams and William Carlos Williams. (400942). $100

279. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Kora in Hell: Improvisations. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1920. Tall 8vo. 86 pp. Frontispiece by Stuart Davis. Original printed boards. Somewhat worn at extremities, spine toned.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Williams on the front free endpaper. One of 1,000 copies, and scarce signed. Wallace A4a. t(402402). $450

280. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. White Mule. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1937. 8vo. 293 pp., advertisement leaf. Original cloth; dust jacket. Jacket with some wear.

FIRST EDITION, with inkstamp “Editorial Copy” on rear endpaper. One of 1,100 copies. Wallace A18a. (402403). $175

63 281. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. The Build Up. New York: Random House, 1952. 8vo. 335 pp. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. Jacket chipped and with short tears along top, toned.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. 684 copies were later distributed with a New Directions sticker over the imprint on the title-page. Walace A37. (402404). $60

282. WITT, Bana. Compass in an Armored Car. Oakland, CA: Zeitgeist Press, 1988. 8vo. 54pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Slight toning to spine, otherwise fine.

FIRST EDITION. (400671). $25

283. ZUKOFSKY, Louis. A Test of Poetry. Brooklyn: The Objectivist Press, 1948. 8vo. 165 pp. Rebound in green half morocco, patterned paper boards, morocco lettering-pieces on spine. A near-fine copy, lightly worn, gift inscription on front flyleaf.

FIRST EDITION. (402464). $80

284. ZUKOFSKY, Louis. It Was. New York: [Kyoto: Genichido Press for] Origin Press, 1961. 8vo. 132 pp. Original gilt-lettered green cloth. Modest paper turned as usual. Hardbound.

FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies from an edition of 250. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Zukofsky to House of El Dieff’s Lew David Feldman: “To Lew David Feldman with the future wave ever Louis Zukofsky January 6, 1962.” A fine association copy. Zukofsky resignedly dedicated his immersive study of Shakespeare, ‘Bottom,’ to Feldman, after the agent-bookseller demanded he do so (Feldman split the publishing costs with the University of Texas). They had become associated in 1959-60, after which Feldman helped arrange for the publication of several books and negotiated the sale of the poet’s archive to the Harry Ransom Center. (402517). $325

64 285. ZUKOFSKY, Louis. Little. A fragment for careenagers. San Francisco: Black Sparrow Press, 1967. 8vo. 24, [3] pp. Sewn in original green printed wrappers. Near-fine with one small nick to fore-edge of slightly rubbed rear wrapper.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 105 of 200 copies signed by Zukofsky from an edition of 250. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh. (402536). $75

286. ZUKOFSKY, Louis. Little, for Careenagers. New York: Grossman , 1970. 8vo. 177, [1] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Light soiling, otherwise a very attractive copy.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Zukofsky “All happiness to Felix Leon / Louis Zukofsky WNYC Sept 15 1970.” Leon was a lifelong Bronxite, a playwright, and 30- year producer at WNYC where he hosted the show “Spoken Words,” interviewing prominent writers. (46729). $75

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