Books & Manuscripts (1669) May 28, 2020 EDT, ONLINE ONLY Lot 158

Estimate: $200 - $300 (plus Buyer's Premium) [Poetry] Zukofsky, Louis 3 Titles by Louis Zukofsky Found Objects Georgetown, Kentucky: H.B. Chapin/A Blue Grass Book (Blue Grass #3), (1964). First edition. 8vo. 43 pp. Cover designed by Dan McIntosh. Original limp wrappers; creasing at bottom corners. Together with: Little, a fragment for careenagers (Los Angeles): Black Sparrow Press, (1967). Limited edition, #86 of 250 copies, signed by Louis Zukofsky. 8vo. (iv), (25), (3) pp. Inscribed by Zukofsky to his publisher Tom Maschler on front free endpaper: "again/all happiness/to/Tom Maschler/from/Louis & Celia/Nov. 17, 1968". From the library of Tom Maschler, and with his book- plate on verso of front wrapper. Original limp green wrappers, faded; offsetting on front free endpaper. Together with: Zukofsky, Celia A Bibliography of Louis Zukofsky Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First and limited edition, letter M of 20 lettered copies (of a total of 320 copies), signed by Celia and Louis Zukofsky. 8vo. (56) pp. Additionally inscribed by Celia Zukofsky to Louis's publisher Tom Maschler on verso of first free leaf: "Tom Maschler's/copy/with kindest thoughts/Celia/6/1/69". From the library of Tom Maschler, and with his book-plate on front paste-down. Original quarter leather over ochre-yellow paper- covered boards, stamped in black, paper spine label; in acetate wrapper. Tom Maschler (b. 1933) is well renowned publisher, who acted as head publisher at Jonathan Cape, and was one of the founders of the Booker Prize in the 1960s. He is well known for publishing Joseph Heller's "Catch-22", Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint", Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast," as well as launching the careers of Gabriel García Márquez and John Fowles, among others.

Louis Zukofsky (1904-78) was an American poet and one the founders of the Objectivist group of poets, a second generation group of Modernists, influenced by Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.