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Misc., Mostly Poetry Mark Alexander Alexander Rare Books 110 West Orange Street Hillsborough, NC Alexanderbooks@Charter.Net (919) 296-9176 ALEXANDER Literary Firsts & Poetry RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE FORTY-ONE: Misc., mostly Poetry Mark Alexander Alexander Rare Books 110 West Orange Street Hillsborough, NC [email protected] (919) 296-9176 All items are US or UK First Editions, First Printings, unless otherwise stated. All items guaranteed & are fully refundable for any reason within 30 days; orders subject to prior sale. NC residents please add 7.50% sales tax. Checks, money orders, most credit cards, & PayPal accepted. Net 30 days. Institutions billed according to need. Reciprocal terms offered to the trade. Shipping is free in the US (via Priority or First Class Mail); Canada $10 per shipment; elsewhere $20 per shipment. Visit AlexanderRareBooks.com for scans of most items. We encourage you to visit for the latest acquisitions. Thank you in advance for perusing this list. Happy Holidays to All Catalogue 41 1. Adonis (Ali Ahmed Said); Samuel Hazo (trans.). THE BLOOD OF ADONIS: Selected Poems. Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh, 1971. First Edition. Red cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. Uncommon cloth issue of the Syrian-born poet's frst book published in the US. Signed by Adonis on the title page. Translated by Samuel Hazo. Adonis has long been on the shortlist for the Nobel Prize which only one Arabic writer the novelist Mahfouz has won. This copy very lightly rubbed and soiled, but still essentially fne in dust jacket. Scarce signed.[13214] $650.00 2. ANOTHER COPY. This copy fne, in a dust jacket rubbed at extremities but still close to fne. [13247] $45.00 3. Alexievich, Svetlana. ZINKY BOYS: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War. NY: Norton, 1992. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 197 pp. The frst book published in the US by the Byelorussian Nobel Prize- winning author for 2015. A groundbreaking choice for the Literature prize as the author is a journalist, her works in the oral history tradition. Quite scarce in hardcover. Fine in fne dust jacket. [13215] $350.00 "She was put on trial on charges of defaming the Soviet Army with her third book, “Zinky Boys” (1992), about Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, some thousands of whom were sent back home in zinc coffns. The testimonies eroded notions of military heroism. She was acquitted." [New York Times May, 21, 2016] 4. Ammons, A. R. OMMATEUM With Doxology. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1955. First edition. Small 8vo. Light red cloth in dust jacket. The poet's rare frst book inscribed: "for Barbara 11-30-58" and signed in full by the author. Bookplate of Barbara H. Mallon on front paste down. 49 pp. Light soiling else about fne in a dampstained dust jacket with minimal wear and two closed tears with resulting creasing on the back panel. Near fne in very good - dust jacket. [10777] $2,500.00 5. Ashbery, John. SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR. NY: Viking, 1975. First edition. This copy inscribed "for Leslie from his old pal 'Ashes' /Love etc. May 14, 1975 (the month of publication). This book was the frst of Ashbery's collections to win a major award: indeed it won the trifecta in 1976 with the NBCC, NBA and The Pulitzer. In 1985 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. A nearly fne tight clean copy, in a bright lightly worn at edges complete (not price-clipped) dust jacket. [10778] $500.00 6. Auster, Paul. AUGGIE WREN'S CHRISTMAS STORY. West Midlands, England: The Delos Press, 1992. First Edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by Auster and fully bound in black Morocco (goatskin) with tan leather label, gilt stamped; marbled slipcase. 4to. Number "7" of 50 of 450 total, (100 in quarter-bound; 300 in wrappers). Spectacular copy of a lovely edition of a story published on Christmas day in 1990 in the New York Times. This the frst edition in the scarce and most attractive issue; the even numbers distributed in the US, the odd in the UK, where it was printed. Fine in a fne slipcase. [12579] $400.00 7. Auster, Paul. A LITTLE ANTHOLOGY OF SURREALIST POEMS. NY: Siamese Banana Press, 1972. First Edition. Mimeo printed on rectos only; 4to. Signed by Auster. Generally regarded as Auster's frst book, a mimeographed collection of his translations of poems by French Surrealist Breton, Éluard, Char, Péret, Tzara, Artaud, Soupault, Desnos, Aragon, and Hans Arp. Cover by George Schneeman. Covers front and back soiled with moderate creasing. Staples a bit tarnished though not rusty. An about very good copy. Drenttel C2. [13294] $350.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.3 8. Auster, Paul. UNEARTH Living Hand 3. [Weston, CT]: Living Hand, 1974. First edition. Printed blue wraps. Small 8vo. Auster's frst book (after translations) a collection of poems; published as the third of eight issues of this magazine he began and edited. This copy inscribed to poet William Bronk. One pencil correction. Faint stains and fading, easily very good. [10653] $400.00 9. Berrigan, Ted. 'MANY HAPPY RETURNS" To Dick Gallup. NY: Grabhorn-Hoyem for Angel Hair Magazine, 1967. First edition. Single sheet card stock, folded, title in red printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem of San Francisco. 8vo. One of 200 copies. This copy is signed by Ted Berrigan, although not one of the four lettered hors commerce copies. Cover dusty with light offsetting, the interior and signature bright. Fischer p. 30. Very Good [11475] $150.00 Precedes the Corinth Press book bearing the same title by two years. 10. Berrigan, Ted. SO GOING AROUND CITIES. Berkeley: Blue Wind Press, 1980. First Edition. Red cloth in cloth slipcase; thick 8vo. 403 pp. One of 75 numbered and signed copies. Selected poems arranged in chronological order with new poems. Spine faded, a bit soiled and gilt dulled, case lightly rubbed, else fne. One of Berrigan's scarcest and most desirable titles. Near fne. [13248] $1,000.00 11. Berryman, John. HIS THOUGHT MADE POCKETS. Pawlet, Vt.: Claude Fredericks, 1958. First edition. Thin 8vo. Sewn cream wrappers. Number 236 of 500 copies (526 in total). The book was printed and handbound at Claude Fredericks' private press. Loosely inserted is a letter from Fredericks presenting this copy as a gift--to T.W. (not Tennessee Williams since Fredericks refers to TW's wife). This was the frst publication or frst book appearance of ten of the eleven poems printed. Stefanik A8.I.a White rice paper wrappers slightly darkened and worn along left and top edge, else nice and fne; lacking the envelope. [11024] $100.00 12. Blake, William. SONGS OF INNOCENCE. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1925. First edition thus. 16mo. Original foral-patterned boards, gold-cloth backed, w/ printed paper spine label. 1 of 100 copies. Facsimile of the frst edition, frontispiece illus. printed in red. Printed by Ralph Thatcher at the press of John Henry Nash; completed with E. Grabhorn at the Grabhorn Press for private distribution of Albert Bender. Very scarce edition of the press, many not surprisingly in institutions. Edges worn, bottom about half to the boards; pink foral design faded, else complete and very clean. [10545] $300.00 13. Bronk, William. Adversaries. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1988. First edition. String-tied wrappers; [5 pp.]. Short poem by Bronk, issued as a holiday card. One of 50 "keepsake copies" printed by Mardersteig. Fine. [12858] $35.00 14. Bronk, William. BARE BONES. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1994. First Edition. Sewn blue wrappers; oblong 8vo. One of 50 printed "at the Kelly-Winterton Press". Six short poems. Fine. [12845] $35.00 15. Bronk, William. Beethoven: The Late Sonatas. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1990. First Edition. Sewn green printed wrappers. A single poem. One of 60 keepsake copies printed at the Kelly-Winterton Press. Fine. [12839] $35.00 16. Bronk, William. THE SHAKER CHAIR. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1993. First edition. Red string-tied wrappers; thin 8vo. Short poems by Bronk, one of 50 printed as a keepsake at the Kelly-Winterton press. Fine. [12862] $35.00 17. Brooks, Gwendolyn. ANNIE ALLEN. NY: Harper, 1949. Second edition. Navy cloth, gilt titling on the spine; small 8vo.; 60 pp. The poet's second regularly published book and frst by an African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize. Spine head bumped, light wear and soiling, but easily very good, Lacking the dust jacket. [13262] $75.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.5 18. Bruncken, Herbert. LAST PARADE. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1938. First edition. Blue cloth with paper label. One of 390 copies designed and printed by Carroll Coleman. Inscribed to 'Mary Katherine Reely in the deep- est personal esteem of Herbet Bruncken". Lightly faded along extremities, else fne in a chipped and dampstained lightly toned but complete and better than usual if good dj. [6843]$100.00 19. Carrigan, Andrew G;. Greg Kohl; Daniel Rosochacki. BOOK 3. N.p.: N.p., N.d. First Edition. This is one of 26 lettered copies ("Y") signed by all three poets. Additionally inscribed by Greg Kohl, mentioning that "the Sumac Press is Dan Gerber of Gerber's Baby Foods". The black cloth fne in an about very good dust jacket with three small chips and three (the longest 1") closed tears. The reverse of the jacket has three pieces of tape presumably from an old protective cover. [4352] $75.00 20. Carroll, Paul (ed.). THE YOUNG AMERICAN POETS. Chicago: Follett, 1968. First Edition. Red cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 508 pp. Intro. by James Dickey. A hefty Big Table anthology - a solid collection with 54 poets including Ted Berrigan, Louise Gluck, James Tate, Charles Simic, Bill Knott (as Saint Geraud), Ron Padgett, Robert Hass and many others.
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