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BETWEEN THE COVERS RARE BOOKS, INC. 112 Nicholson Rd (856) 456-8008 Gloucester City, NJ 08030 [email protected] www.betweenthecovers.com C ATALOG 156: More Treasures from Below (below $100, that is) You see before you another catalog of interesting but reasonably priced books (all less than $100, in fact), intended to distract you while you are closeted away this frigid January (or not, I guess, depending on where you live), and before we send out our next list of more expensive stuff. Much of the last month at Between the Covers has been spent doing what we do best: amus- ing ourselves, and if it isn’t too much trouble to us, in trying to amuse you as well, at our new Between the Covers blog site: http://betweenthecoversblog.wordpress.com/ Dan, Matt, and I have been trying to regularly contribute articles, bon mots, soupcons, and other nuggets of wonderment about rare books, book fairs, the book trade, our digestion, or whatever else seems to come to mind when Blogmaster General Matt, says “got anything for the blog?” once a week or so. In the future, we hope to have additional staff members contribute as well, assuming that they can aspire to the high standards of mediocrity that we have so far established. Presumably this could distract you for a few minutes now and again, while providing us with an excuse to foist our unsolicited opinions upon you. I keep asking Matt if our blog has “gone viral.” I don’t actually know what this means, but I understand that on the Internet, this is a good thing. I’m not sure that it has yet, but hope springs eternal. Tom C. Terms of Sale All books are First Editions unless otherwise noted. All books are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Books may be reserved by telephone, fax, or email. Institutions will be billed to meet their requirements. For private individuals, payment should accompany order if you are unknown to us. Customers known to us will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Payment schedule may be adjusted for larger purchases. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS, DISCOVER and PayPal. Gift certificates available. Domestic orders please include $5.00 postage for the first item, $2.00 for each item thereafter. Overseas orders will be sent airmail at cost (unless other arrangements are requested). N.J. residents please add 7% sales tax. All items are insured. All items subject to prior sale. Members ABAA, ILAB Cover by Tom Bloom. © 2010 Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. Note: Color pictures of all available items in this catalog can be seen at www.betweenthecovers.com by searching under author or title. 1 ADAMS, Richard. Education for Literature: The First Archibald Yell Smith IV Lecture. Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Baylor School 1976. First edition. Octavo. Printed white wrappers. A little age- toning to the white wrappers, else fine. [BTC #310749] 2 AGEE, James. Letters of James Agee to Father Flye. New York: George Braziller 1962. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Uncommon in this condition. [BTC #276683] 3 ALBEE, Edward. Counting the Ways and Listening: Two Plays. New York: Atheneum 1977. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #106053] 4 —. Three Tall Women. New York: Dutton (1995). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play. A very uncommon title. [BTC #100672] 5 ALLEN, Woody. The Floating Light Bulb. New York: Random House (1982). First edition. Remainder stripe on the topedge, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing and a tiny tear near the crown. A play. [BTC #285194] 6 ANDERSON, Sherwood. Poor White. London: Jonathan Cape (1921). First English edition. Fine in a spine-tanned, very good dustwrapper. Author’s fifth book, a novel, and considered by many critics to be his best. A very nice copy in the uncommon jacket. [BTC #314483] 7 (Animation). JONES, Chuck. Chuck Amuck: The Life and Time of an Animated Cartoonist. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux (1989). First edition. Foreword by Steven Spielberg. Small quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by Chuck Jones on the half-title. Invitation to a signing party laid in. [BTC #312877] 8 (Anthology). ALLEN, Donald and Robert CREELEY, edited by. New American Story. New York: Grove Press (1965). First edition. Introduction by Warren Tallman. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Contributions by Robert Creeley, Jack Kerouac (“The Railroad Earth, Part 1”), Williams Burroughs (“Ordinary Men and Women”), William Eastlake, LeRoi Jones, Hubert Selby, Jr., John Rechy, and others. Uncommon. [BTC #307640] 9 (Anthology). GARRET, George, Desmond O’GRADY, Patrick CREAGH, Sean O CRIADAIN, Ned O’GORMAN, and Robert BAGG. A Reading of New Poems. Rome: American Academy in Rome 1959. First edition. Corners a little bumped, near fine in printed red wrappers. Poetry first presented in a public reading at the American Academy in Rome on May 10, 1959. [BTC #277540] 10 (Anthology). COUZYN, Jeni, edited by. Twelve to Twelve. Poetry D-Day Camden Festival 1970. London: Poets Trust 1970. First edition. Octavo. Wrappers. Fine. Contains poems by Ted Hughes, Stevie Smith, George MacBeth, Peter Redgrove, Adrian Henri, Lee Harwood, Tom Pickard, Michael Hamburger, Edward Lucie-Smith, Seamus Heaney, Jon Silkin, and William Plomer. [BTC #275187] 11 (Anthology). (HUGHES, Ted and others). Moments of Truth: Nineteen Short Poems by Living Poets. London: The Keepsake Press 1965. First edition. Stapled stiff wrappers, with quarter hand- decorated paste-paper overlay. Poetry by George Barker, Martin Bell, John Betjeman, Edwin Brock, Robert Conquest, Gavin Ewart, Roy Fuller, Thom Gunn, Bernard Gutteridge, Francis Hope, Ted Hughes, Edward Lowbury, Kathleen Nott, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove, James Reeves, Peter Russell, David Wevill, and Hugo Williams. A trifle rubbed at the spine fold, else fine. Each represented poet was given twelve copies, and 100 were offered for sale. This is one of the 100. [BTC #276385] 12 (Anthology). LEVERTON, Denise, edited by. 1968 Peace Calendar & Appointment Book. Out of the War Shadow: An Anthology of Current Poetry. New York: War Registers League 1967. First edition. Spiral bound wrappers. Fine. A compilation of anti-war poetry by many prominent poets including Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, Galway Kinnell, Robert Bly, Hayden Carruth, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Jim Harrison, John Hollander, Gary Snyder, William Stafford, Louis Zukofsky, and others. [BTC #277656] 13 (Architecture). BAYER, Herbert, Walter GROPIUS, and Ise GROPIUS, edited by. Bauhaus 1919-1928. Boston: Charles T. Branford Company (1952). Second edition. Quarto. A faint stain on the rear board, near fine in very good dustwrapper with a corresponding stain on rear panel and light chipping near the crown. [BTC #303576] 14 (Art). CASTELLI, Leo. Jasper Johns: 35 Years. (New York: Leo Castelli Gallery and Abrams 1993). First edition. Edited by Susan Brundage. Essay by Judith Goldman. Design by Smatt Florence. Quarto. Illustrated spiral-bound boards. As new in publisher’s shrinkwrap. [BTC #309168] 15 ASHBERY, John. April Galleons. New York: Viking Press (1979). First edition. Oblong octavo. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #99730] 16 —. Can You Hear, Bird. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux (1995). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with the slightest of rubbing. [BTC #109217] 17 AUDEN, W.H. Secondary Worlds: Essays. New York: Random House (1968). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. [BTC #100124] 18 —. City without Walls and Other Poems. London: Faber and Faber (1969). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #102257] 19 —. The Platonic Blow. Washington, DC: Guild Press 1970. First illustrated edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Slight rubbing, very near fine. Homoerotic poem illustrated with explicit photographs. [BTC #306607] 20 BALLARD, J.G. Running Wild. (London): Hutchinson (1988). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. [BTC #306464] 21 —. War Fever. London: Collins 1990. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #306402] 22 BANVILLE, John. The Untouchable. (London): Picador (1997). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. [BTC #307258] 23 BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi Jones). Am/ Trak. New York: Phoenix Book Shop 1979. First edition. Fine in self-wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies (of a total edition of 126) Signed by the author. [BTC #105913] 24 BARCLAY, Mrs. Hubert. A Dream of Blue Roses. New York: Hodder & Stoughton (1912). First edition. Very nearly fine in cloth with a touch of soiling to the back cover and spine and the endpapers lightly spotted, without dustwrapper as issued. An uncommon romance. [BTC #69684] 25 BARKER, George. The View from a Blind I. London: Faber & Faber (1962). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Unsigned, but with six lines of poetry in manuscript in the author’s hand on each of pages 10 and 12. [BTC #309146] 26 (Basketball). RILEY, Pat. The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons (1993). First trade edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by Riley. [BTC #290421] 27 BATES, H.E. Edward Garnett. London: Parrish 1950. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a faint tidemark at the bottom of the front panel. [BTC #109027] 28 BECKETT, Samuel. Film: Complete Scenario/Illustrations/Production Shots. New York: Grove Press (1969). First edition. Paperback original. Illustrated. Wrappers. Fine. A beautiful copy. [BTC #274069] 29 —. Worstward Ho. New York: Grove Press (1983). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #104917] 30 BERRY, Wendell. The Hidden Wound. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1970. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with the slightest of wear. [BTC #308440] 31 BERSSENBRUGGE, Mei-mei. Four Year Old Girl. (Berkeley): Kelsey St. Press 1998. First edition. Oblong octavo. Decorated wrappers. Very near fine.Inscribed by Berssenbrugge to the poet Ray DiPalma.