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Little Magazines: 1. ALDEBARAN REVIEW Nos. 1,2,3,4,6 & 8. Berkeley: Alderbaran/Noh Directions Press, circa 1967-70. First Edition. John Oliver Simon (editor). Six numbers, all on multi-colored mimeograph sheets, stapled, most illustrated; four 4to., side-stapled, one small thin 4to., one thin 8vo. No. 4 (a "mini" 8vo., 12 pp.) in a stated edition of 500 copies. Early issues of this little magazine which William Reese states as 29 published; WorldCat lists as until 1980. Poems by Gene Fowler, Charles Potts, , Sister Mary Norbert Korte, Richard Krech, , , d. r. Wagner, Dave Meltzer, d. a. levy, Margaret Randall, Ronald Silliman, Pete Winslow, Brown Miller, Douglas Blazek, Ronald B. Koertge, Lyn Lifshin, Gerald Locklin, Emilie Glen, John Thomson, Art Cuelho, James Tipton, and Alta. Not in Clay/Phillips, but Alta's Shameless Hussy Press was published in Berkeley during the same period, and LITMUS and other presses have the same address; distributed by Serendipity. Staples rusty, some fading, wear; good copies. [14181] For six numbers: $75.00

2. THE REVIEW Vol. 47, No. 1. Philadelphia: APR, January/February 2018. First Edition. Newsprint; folio. Signed by Donald Hall on the front cover. Hall's "Selected Poets" is the centerpiece/supplement of the issue with his takes on poets he knew: Dickey, Spender, Creeley, Hill, Heaney etc. One of his last publications and signed in a late hand. Fine. [14449] $25.00

3. AVANT GARDE. : Avant-Garde, 1968 - 1971. First edition. Ralph Ginzburg (editor). Fourteen issues (all published) of this magazine which ceased when Ginzburg began serving his sentence for obscenity (related to his magazine EROS), a case that went to the Supreme Court. Large square (11 1/4 x 10 3/4 in.) illustrated wraps. A mixture of artistic erotica, including photography and contemporary art; anti-war, racial and counter cultural articles; prose and poetry. Includes some iconic work from that extraordinary period (even the eponymous font created for the magazine is well-known): Bert Stern serigraphs of Marilyn Monroe; Picasso's erotic gravures (the entirety of no.8); John Lennon's erotic lithographs; work by Mailer, Lenore Kandel, Rexroth, Arthur Miller, Genet, Peter Schjeldahl, Roald Dahl, Auden ("A Day For A Lay") among others. Rubbed with some edgewear, vols. 6, 11, 14 with small loss to edges, some paper browning, easily very good. A diffcult set to put together. [10359] $350.00 4. BAD BREATH #2. Davenport, Iowa: JOMA(?), May 1974. First Edition. Side-stapled blue decorated covers; 4to. Literary magazine with substantial anti-US gov. policy, mostly produced from typescript, with collage and found art. Five poems from Diane di Prima and work of various sorts from , Ray DiPalma, Kathleen Fraser, Peter Granic and several others. No editor is listed. Interesting and rare (two copies found on WorldCat, although the title listed is questionable, and possibly other issues used a different name). The mailing address is JoMA, Davenport. A good copy, the back cover separated. [14192] $25.00

5. CONTACT 3: A Collection of New Writing, Art and ideas. Sausalito, CA: Angel Island Publications, 1959. First Edition. Calvin Kentfeld et al (editors). Photographic wrappers; 8vo. Illus.; 160 pp. Finely produced issue of this little magazine with poetry contributions from Wendell Berry "Boone", , Maxine Kumin "The Lunar Probe", Robert Sward, Bink Knoll and others, and prose from Mary Lee Settle, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Evan S. Connell, Lillian Hellman (an interview with her), an excerpt from James Light's biography of Nathanael West. and others. An about very good copy, clean interior, lightly worn covers. [14193] $15.00

6. CRAYON: Premier Issue - Festschrift for Jackson Mac Low's 75th Birthday. Brooklyn: Crayon, 1997. First Edition. Andrew Levy & Bob Harrison (editors). Photographic wrappers; 8vo.; w/ CD. 313 pp. "Contributions include essays, poetry, graphics, photographs, an interview and sixty minutes of music on a CD." Some 80 plus contributors include Creeley, Ginsberg, Guest, Higgins, R. Owens, Padgett, Rothenberg, Waldman, and the Waldrops. Fine, still unopened in shrinkwrap. [14766] $30.00

Two edited magazines 7. THE EXILE No.1. Dijon: Maurice Darantiere, 1927. First Edition. Ezra Pound (editor). Original printed wraps; 12mo. 92 pp. The frst of four issues of this important little magazine; issue number one published in Europe the others in the US, therefore this issue seemingly the least common. Contains "Part of Canto XX"; and a short poem by Hemingway. (This copy without the correction of the title in Pound's hand.) Guy Hickok, and Richard Aldington contribute short pieces: prose and poetry, respectively. Gallup C689. Lightly sunned and creased, else a tight and near fne copy. [13131] $850.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.3 8. THE EXILE No.3. Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1928. First Edition. Ezra Pound (editor). Original printed wraps; 12mo. The third of four issues of this important little magazine. Contains Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Blood and Moon"; part of Canto XXIII; long poem by , and John Rodker, R. C. Dunning, Morly Callaghan and others contribute short pieces of prose and poetry. Spine a bit slanted else about fne. Gallup C705-709. [13132] $300.00

9. FITS #1. San Francisco: 7 Fred's Press, 1971. First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers in classic comix format. Cover by Rory Hayes & Simon Deitch; inside cover adv. for SF Comics Books by R. Crumb; back page illustration by Greg Irons; Tom Veitch/ collaboration; Padgett & collaboration, poems by Charlie Vermont, Andrei Codrescu, Tom Clark, , and others. A good copy, a portion of back cover (approx. 2 x4 inches) lost, staples partially pulled, pages toned as would be expected. [14191] $20.00

10. INROADS Issue 9: Featuring . Knife River, MN: Inroads Press, 1993. First Edition. Black and white glossy wrappers; small 4to. 48 pp. Bruchac and others. Crisp fne copy, signed by Joseph Bruchac at his story "Wolves". [9127] $15.00

11. CODE OF SIGNALS/IO#30: Recent Writings in Poetics. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1983. First Edition. (editor). Photographic wrappers; 8vo. 314 pp. Essays on poetics by Mayer, Ashbery, Howe (Susan and Fanny), Mackey, Coolidge, Bernstein, McCaffery, Perelman and several others. Published as IO issue #30. Very good copy. [14172] $10.00

12. MAGAZINE THREE. New York: Interim, 1966. First Edition. Kirby Congdon (editor). Illustrated stapled wrappers; thick 4to. Mimeographed underground literary magazine, this issue with poems by Walter Lowenfels, Clarence Major, Steve Richmond, Diane Wakoski and many others; prose from Charles Bukowski (a long letter), Gene Fowler and others, with reviews. Jay Socin was the editor of Interim Books. Most pages brown from acidic paper, fragile; spine and extremities worn. Good. [14796] $35.00 13. O-BLEK Issues 1-11: A Journal of Language Arts. New York: Garlic Press, 1987-1992. Peter Gizzi and Connell McGrath (editors). Poetry magazine in uniform small square wrappers; 8vo. The frst eleven issues of Gizzi's and McGrath's little mag which featured the best from , and related work, among them: Michael Gizzi, Forest Gander, The Waldrops, , , , , Fanny and , , Jackson Mac Low, Harry Mathews, , , Bernadette Mayer, Ron Padgett, , Kenward Elmslie, Elaine Equi, and many others. Some covers with notable illustrators: Jess, Winkfeld, Dine, etc. A generally very good or better set (issue 2 still in shrinkwrap), little sign of use, edges soiled. [14167] $125.00

14. OBJECT PERMANENCE Issues 2-7: New Writing. Glasgow: Object Permanence, 1994-1996. First Edition. Peter Manson and Robin Purves (editors). Glossy white stapled wrappers; small 8vo. Mostly 68 pp. Poetry journal from Scotland with contributions from a predominantly experimental/ LANGUAGE School bent: Rae Armantrout, Carl Rakosi, Ted Enslin, Clark Coolidge, Tom Clark, Bruce Andrews, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Adrian Clarke, Ron Padgett, , Norma Cole, , Charles Bernstein, Gael Turnbull, Ann Waldman, Ralph J. Mils, Jr., Larry Eigner, Bill Griffths, , Bob Cobbing, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Steve McCaffery and many others. "6 Towns Poetry Festival" fyer ( among the poets appearing) laid in vol. 6. All near fne. No copies found on WorldCat outside of the UK, and a handful of issues online. For six Issues (missing no. 1): [14171] $150.00

15. PAGANY: A Native Quarterly. [12 issues Complete.] Boston: Richard Johns, 1930-1933. First Edition. Richard Johns (editor). Printed wrappers; 8vo. Twelve issues, all published, of this literary magazine which focused on "American" writing. Johns' wrote to in April 1929, asking permission to use the name borrowed from his VOYAGE TO PAGANY and offering a position as "associate Editor". WCW declined editorship and expressed doubts of any possibility of success, but was encouraging, and contributed from the beginning including serializing his novel WHITE MULE in the magazine. He encouraged others to contribute. Surviving despite the timing - the frst issue coming right after the October 1929 stock market crash, Johns was fortunate to have support from the likes of Charles Henri Ford and Sherry Mangan who had themselves published AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.5 successful magazines, and the taste to publish some of the fnest writers of the day, many then unknown. The magazine was especially strong in fction: besides Williams, Johns published Erskine Caldwell, John Dos Passos (part of USA trilogy), John Cheever, James T. Farrell, Katherine Anne Porter, Edward Dahlberg, and William March. Other contributors included Kenneth Rexroth, Norman Macleod, Parker Tyler, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Mary Butts, Hilda Doolittle, Charles Henri Ford, Conrad Aiken, e.e. cummings, J. V. Cunningham, August Derleth, Jean Toomer, Robert McAlmon, Carl Rakosi, Josephine Herbst, Emanuel Carnevali, Basil Bunting, Mina Loy, Charles Reznikoff, Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis, Harry Crosby, Joe Gould, Witter Bynner, and Louis Zukofsky. The volumes range from good to near fne, the frst issue's cover has separated, the spine mostly perished, the second's spine partially perished; the rest very good or better. [All volumes in Brodart archival 4mil removable covers.] (See Hoffman THE LITTLE MAGAZINE; Halpert & Johns RETURN TO PAGANY) [14557] For the set: $750.00

16. POETRY Vol. CXXIV, No. 1. Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, April 1974. First Edition. Daryl Hine (editor). Illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. Pp. 1-60. Poems by John Ashbery "Grand Galop", Louis Zukofsky "'A'- 22, Part II" and others including Stephen Sandy who has briefy inscribed and signed - frst name only - this copy in pencil. Very good. [14194] $25.00

17. POETRY FLASH No. 180: The Bay Area's Poetry Review & Literary Calendar. Berkeley: Poetry Flash, March 1988. First Edition. Joce Jenkins (editor). Newsprint. 20 pp. Issue featuring the recently deceased with a photo of the poet and remembrances by Michael McClure, , Steve Abbott, and among others, with selections from RD's work. Folded (as presumably issued), easily very good. [14791] $25.00 A short run of Morris Edelson's quixotic journal 18. QUIXOTE Vol. 4, No. 2: The Watercolored World. Madison, WI: Quixote, 1968. First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; 4to. The magazine here issued as a book printed on glossy paper in several colors with "Cut outs", visual poetry, typographic art, with watercolors [see Cover] throughout: Norbert Blei's two part "The Watercolored World" and "Happenings Happen However". Staples rusty, spine worn, else bright, about very good.[14803] $25.00

19. QUIXOTE Vol. IV, No. 4. Madison, WI: Quixote, n.d. [1968]. First Edition. Side-stapled photographic wrappers; thin 4to. [20 pp.] Nineteen (plus cover montage) photographs printed rectos only by M[ichael] Lesy, predating his famous Wisconsin Death Trip by three years (using WorldCat dating). These photographs are in contemporary black and white street/ photojournalistic style. Editor Edelson's name does not appear at all. Staples rusty, corner creased, worn; good or better. Very scarce. [14800] $150.00

20. QUIXOTE Vol. IV, No. 5. Madison, WI: Quixote, [1969?]. First Edition. Spiral bound printed covers; 4to. 147 pp. The highlight is a four panel foldout four color silkscreen advertisement for The Living Theater (Jan. 17) sponsored by Quixote (Edelson helped bring them to the city). D. A. Levy (posthumous: "Letter From an Invisible Greek"), Ed Ochester, Felix Pollak, James Bertolino; much of the issue devoted to contest winners. Minor stain, moderate wear, close to very good. [14802] $150.00

21. QUIXOTE Vol. 6, No. 1. Lodz, Poland: Quixote, Circa 1973. First Edition. Printed wrappers; 8vo. 72 pp. A single issue (don't pay much attention to the numbering) of this long-running little poetry magazine that began in Madison, WI, and traveled until ending its journey in Texas. Always interesting, this with contributions by Judson AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.7 Crews, Al Cook, Hugh Fox, Sy Gresser, Richard Grossinger, Harry Lewis, Gil Orlovitz, John Tagliabue, William Wantling to name a few. A very good copy. [14189] $25.00

22. GLOBAL MODALITY in QUIXOTE 8/4: 32 Poems. Madison, WI: Quixote, Circa 1974. First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; thin, square 8vo. Bennett's name not on this issue. Poetry by Charlie McDade with illustrations. This magazine published in various formats and an incomprehensible or at least unreliable numbering system, sometimes as with this devoted to a single poet. This a cheaply produced issue, and seemingly scarce; according to a later volume it actually was produced in Poland (though that may be spurious; nevertheless Bennett was in transition, by 1975 he was in Texas). One staple rusty, extremities sunned, interior very good. [14187] $25.00

23. QUIXOTE Vol. 8, No. 7. Madison, WI: Quixote, n.d. (circa 1974). First Edition. Stapled (along the top) illustrated wrappers; thin 4to. Collaborative play by Tuli Kupferberg and Edelson; poems by Felix Pollak and others, mostly prose and mostly regarding Madison and politics (including an adv. for a school board position) by Ed Ochester, Jack Hirschamn, Dave Wagner, and others. Editor Edelson's name does not appear at all on this issue. Some small stains, creasing and soiling; good or better. [14799] $25.00

24. QUIXOTE Vol. 10, No. 2: Communist Manifesto. Houston, TX: Quixote, 1975. First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; 4to. 95 pp. Graphics by Rius. Comic version of the Marx, Engels & Rius work translated from the Spanish. Editor Edelson's name does not appear at all in this issue. Staples rusty, paper lightly toned, else very good. [14801] $25.00

Quixote was begun by Edelson in Madison, WI as a decidedly counter cultural magazine and publisher with quixotic numbering, subject matter and formats. Among the authors published were d a levy, Charles Bukowski, Doug Blazek, and Jack Gilbert.

25. RE/SEARCH #4/5. San Francisco: RE/Search Publications, 1982. Later printing. Glossy photographic wrappers; 4to. 96 pp. Double issue of this magazine here dedicated to William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and the anarchist punk band Throbbing Gristle who were heavily infuenced by Burroughs and Gysin. With numerous interviews, a chapter from CITIES OF THE NIGHT that was excluded, Burroughs' on Gysin's "cut-up method", an extensive (international recordings) Throbbing Gristle chronology and discography, many photos. Often reprinted, this issue with $12.99 on back cover, and advs. through issue #10, thus circa 1987. Fine, scarce as such. [14788] $30.00

26. SECOND COMING VOL. 1, NO. 2. San Francisco: Winans/ Second Coming Press, Summer 1972. First Edition. A. D. Winans (editor). Illus. stapled wrappers; square 8vo. Second issue of this long-running magazine with contributions by Charles Bukowski (his frst of many appearances in this magazine), Ferlinghetti "Airport Mantra (Seeing Ginsberg of to India)", Wantling, John Bennett, Judson Crews, Greg Kuzma, Lyn Lifshin, Al Masarik, Charles Potts; illustrations by Dick Gilfeather. Staples rusty else very good. [14184] $35.00

27. SECOND COMING Vol. 12, No. 2: Special Free Subscribers Issue. San Francisco: Second Coming, n.d.. First Edition. Printed card stapled wrappers; 8vo. Special "broadside" issue limited to 100 (and a possible second printing of 100) copies "not for sale". Contributors include Charles Bukowski (2 poems), Wm Wantling, Al Maserik, Gene Fowler, Paul Fericano and others. Printed on various colored paper, rectos only. Staples rusty else very good. Scarcer than other issues. [14798] $50.00

28. SECOND COMING Vol. 14, No. 1. San Francisco: Second Coming, 1986. First Edition. A. D. Winans (editor). Photographic wrappers; 8vo. 70 pp. Issue dedicated to Bob Kaufman who had recently died, with cover photograph of the poet. Contributors include Charles Bukowski (4 poems), Judson Crews, Lyn Lifshin, James Purdy (prose), Steve Richmond, Rafel Jesus Gonzalez and others. Creased but very good. [14186] $15.00

29. ANOTHER COPY. Fine.[14524] $25.00

30. SALTED FEATHERS Vol. 4, No. 3. Portland, OR: Salted Feathers, August 1967. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 4to. Number 10. Dick Bakken and Lee Altman (editors). Contributors include , Carol Berge, Charles Bukowski, George Dowden, Larry Eigner, Carlos Reyes, Howard McCord, Robert Lima translations of Lorca and an interview with Galway Kinnell; also, uncredited photographs of Ginsberg, Snyder and Kinnell. Two offerings from the publisher laid in. A fair to good copy only, [14156] $20.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.9 31. THIRD RAIL No. 1. Los Angeles: Third Rail, 1976. First Edition. Doren Robbins and Uri Hertz (editors). Orange illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. 57 pp. poem (!), translations of Indian poet Kabir, Walter Lowenfels and a brief piece on Lowenfels by Rexroth, with Lewis Hyde and others. Spine area lightly sunned and very good. [14797] $25.00

32. THIS 10. San Francisco: THIS, Winter 1979-1980. First Edition. Watten Barrett (editor). Decorated wrappers; square 8vo. Cover art by Watten Barrett. Tenth of twelve issues of this little magazine which singled out as "the frst self-conscious journal of what would become known as language writing". With a number of the major fgures associated with Language Poetry (besides the editor, Charles Bernstein, Christopher Dewdney, Diane Ward, Lyn Hejinian, Clark Coolidge, , Perelman, Ray DiPalma, Rae Armantrout, Merrill Gilfllian and others). Clay/Phillips pp. 238-9. About very good. [14179] $25.00

33. TRUCK #2, 5, 6 & 8. New Haven, CT: Truck, Circa 1970. First Editions. Side-stapled illustrated wrappers; thin 4to. David Wilk and others (editors). Four issues of this scarce (early issues especially so) poetry magazine. Nos. 2 and 5 printed at Kline Science Library at Yale, New Haven, No. 6 with no publication information given. Wilk is most associated with this magazine which lasted 20 issues; he later moved it to NC, VT and other states. TRUCK grew into a serious literary magazine as well as a publisher of books. Wilk published frequently in little mags; a central fgure in the small press movement as a publisher and distributor. Kit Robinson, Sue Cobble, Linda Orr, Tom Veitch, Steve Benson, Merrill Gilfllan, Larry Fagin, , Ken Irby, Richard Grossinger, and Albert Glover are among the contributors to these four issues. Clay/Phillips p 301. Issue 2 heavily soiled (looks like a boot print), issue 5, very good, issue 8 with some soiling and unevenly sunned covers; all with rusty staples; good or better. [14175] $150.00

34. VAGABOND Vol. 1, No. 3: A Literary Quarterly. Munich, Germany: Vagabond, 1966. First Edition. J[ohn] Bennett Jr. (editor). Stapled illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. 45 pp. Blazek, Wantling, Bukowski with a long poem "These mad windows..."; an interview with Stephen Spender by Louis McCarty. Peter Halfar provides a striking black and white cover illustration. Staples rusty else very good. Scarce. [14185] $75.00 35. VAGABOND 17. Ellensburg, WA: Vagabond Press, 1973. First Edition. John Bennett Jr. (editor). Stapled illustrated wrappers; square 8vo. 59 pp. Mimeo with contributions from Charles Bukowski, Linda King, Lyn Lifshin, Al Masarik, Jack Micheline, Alicia Ostriker, Dara Wier, and others. Acidic paper, else fne. [13883] $35.00

3 6 . VAGABOND 23-24. Ellensburg, WA: Vagabond, Summer 1976. First Edition. John Bennett Jr. (editor). Stapled illustrated wrappers; square 8vo. 119 pp. Double issue of this mimeo magazine with contributions from T. L. Kryss, Kent Taylor, Lyn Lifshin, Al Masarik, and others. Eight page supplement folded, laid in. Acidic paper, creasing and good or better. [14183] $15.00

Scottish Renaissance Rarity 37. THE VOICE OF SCOTLAND Vol. IX, No. 3: A Quarterly Magazine of Scottish Arts & Affairs. Dunfrmline: The Voice of Scotland, 1961. First Edition. Hugh MacDiarmid [Christopher Murray Grieve] (editor).The last issue of the magazine, approximately 15 copies printed on rectos only at the editor's request, but never distributed. Includes MacD.''s poem "The Chinese Genius Wakes Up" and work by Edwin Morgan and Margaret Caroline Tait. The magazine lasted from 1938 to 1961. Minor creasing else fne; housed in a custom buckram folding envelope. Quite rare. [12584] $350.00

38. YANAGI Issue no. 1. Sausalito, CA: New College, May 1974. First Edition. Bill Barrett et al (editor) Side-stapled illustrated covers; thick 4to. Mimeograph: printed on rectos only. Bill Beckman cover. Contributions from Michael McClure, Bill Berkson, Dave Meltzer, , Tom Clark, Ron Padgett, Dick Gallup, Ebbe Borregard, , Duncan McNaughton and others. Paper heavily toned, else about very good. [14173] $25.00

39. YANAGI Issue no. 3. Mill Valley, CA: N. p., May 23, 1976. First Edition. Bill Barrett and Lewis Patler (editors). Side-stapled illustrated covers; thick 4to. Mimeograph: printed on rectos only. Contributions from (one page from a book held at UT), , Duncan McNaughton and others. Paper heavily toned, one closed cover tear else better than good. [14174] $25.00 Books, Broadsides &c.: 40. 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. [10777] $2,500.00

Ammons was the vice-president of a glass manufacturing frm when this book was published; his next book was not published for nine years, at which time he began a long career teaching at Cornell, where he taught until his death. A rare frst book, Dorrance being a "vanity" publisher, and very much so signed by the poet.

41. Ashbery, John. SUNRISE IN SUBURBIA. New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1968. First Edition. Sewn card covers in decorated wrappers, with paper label; oblong 12mo. Number 93 of 100 copies (of 126 total). Additionally inscribed on the title page "For C. W. With my very best wishes,/ John Ashbery/ February 12, 1997/ New York". Printed at the Ferguson Press, Cambridge. Spine a bit worn, else fne. [13136] $350.00

42. Atwood, Margaret. BIRDS. New York: Glenn Horowitz, 2012. First edition. Blue cloth, embossed black design with silver spine lettering; in mylar covers as issued. 8vo. 27 pp. One of 100 copies handbound and signed by Sullivan and Atwood: Deluxe Issue (there were 350 additional copies in wrappers). Essays by Margaret Atwood, drawings of birds by Billy Sullivan. As New. [11495] $275.00

43. Auster, Paul. A LITTLE ANTHOLOGY OF SURREALIST POEMS. New York: 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 Surrealists 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

44. Barker, George. THIRTY PRELIMINARY POEMS. London: The Parton Press, 1933. First Edition. 37 pp. Green paper over boards in dust jacket w/ 2/6 price on fap; fragile glassine still present. Signed by the poet. Poet's frst book. Spine sunned else about fne. Glassine chipped and brittle. An attractive copy and quite scarce signed. [12627] $400.00

45. Berrigan, Ted. RED WAGON. Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1976. First edition. Red cloth, gold stamped in dust jacket. On of 26 signed and lettered copies with a holograph poem. This is letter "P", with a poem reading "Poem/ Orange Black/ Back --/ Death/ /1961". Additionally signed and lettered at the colophon. Cover by Rochelle Kraut, jacket photo by Gerard Malanga. Fine copy in a fne dust jacket with light rubbing on the back panel. [10262] $400.00

46. 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. [13248] $1,000.00

47. Berryman, John [Marshall A. Best]. Letters (Two Tls; one signed post card). n.p. : n.p., n.d. Two typed letters signed (Tls), with one handwritten, signed postcard to marshall A. Best Viking editor who oversaw the Viking Portables regarding publishing a Portable Stephen Crane. The frst letter is dated 20 February 1950 on Berryman's Princeton stationary, some 250 words, regarding permissions, word count; the postcard is dated (publisher stamp) May 25 ,1951, begins with JB's current project: "I was breaking my brains out on the end of a draft of a short critical biography of Wm. Shakespeare [a long time unpublished during his lifetime project] when your bad news came last month". The bad news was problems with Knopf re: permissions. "If the world still exists then, and you do, and I do, we might consider again. Meanwhile if the bombs begin I hope they will not neglect Knopf." The fnal letter is on small cream paper dated 2 jan 1952; approximaely 190 words. He refers two having "been dilatory about the return of a contract" and refers to two books. The bulk of the letter refers to his colleague Randall Jarrell doing a Portable Kipling. "Shakespeare is going on slowly." All three signed in ink, with red ink date stamp and staple holes; both letters folded, with pencil notations, but little wear and very good. [10770] $950.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.13 Berryman never did publish with Viking, nor any of the books discussed, including his Shakespeare, though FS&G did in 1999, publish a Berryman's Shakespeare. There was no Portable Crane until 1969 (and not Berryman) and no Kipling until 1982. The Viking Portables along with The Modern Library were essential college textbooks, the most famous Viking Portable being Cowley's editing of Faulkner putting his Yoknapatawpha stories in chronological order; helping him to win the Nobel Prize three years after the books publication in 1946.

48. Boyle, Kay, Howard Nemerov, Diane Di Prima et al. PORTFOLIO 1983. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1983. First Separate Edition. Ten broadsides letterpress printed on rectos only under the direction of Tree Swenson on various paper and in sizes ranging from approximately 5 x 9 1/2 to 8 1/2 x 13, some illustrated or with calligraphy. Poets: Carol Bangs, Marvin Bell, Kay Boyle, Diane Di Prima (2 different ones), Linda Gregg, Jim Heynen, William Kittredge (folded as a card as called for), Michael McClure, and Howard Nemerov. All fne with copyright/title broadside in a near fne (corner creased) folding printed green portfolio. A large and wonderful group, scarce separately and as a complete set. [14765] $100.00

49. Bukowski, Charles. CRUCIFIX IN A DEATHHAND New Poems 1963-65. /New York: Loujon Press/Lyle Stuart, 1965. First edition. Illustrated wrappers with folding faps, pages and covers; small folio. Preliminary leaves of varied colors and widths. Illus. by Noel Rockmore. 101 pp. One of 3100 copies printed by the Webbs, signed (this copy dated 3-17-65 in red) by Bukowski and shipped as bound by the Webbs to New York publisher Lyle Stuart who is listed as the publisher. A complicated publication as usual with Gypsy Lou and Jon Webb, the paper handmade. Gypsy Lou #2. Ex-library. Title and library number labels taped to spine, back fap reinforced at fold with the same tape as the spine, a few internal stains mostly tape remnants and library marks. [14777] $150.00

50. Burroughs, William S. CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; large 8vo. 332 pp. Signed by the author and inscribed "For Jack" on the title page. Board edges faded, text edges with a couple of faint stains, and very good in a price clipped else near fne dust jacket. [14764] $75.00 51. Burroughs, William S. EVERYTHING LOST: The L a t i n A m e r i c a n Notebook of William S. Burroughs. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008. First Edition. Decorated glossy boards in mylar covers; 4to. 217 pp. Burroughs' notebook from July and August 1953, in facsimile and transcribed by Geoffrey D. Smith, John M. Bennett, and Oliver Harris, chronicles a portion of this nearly four year trip, the sole survivor of the trip, just prior to the publication of JUNKIE. Fine copy in protective mylar covers. [14787] $100.00

52. Burroughs, William S. JUNKIE. New York: Ace, 1964. Mass market. 126 pp. First paperback edition of this title with the author's name, preceded by the 1953 edition published under the pen-name of William Lee. Foreword by Carl Solomon, preface and glossary by the author. Last few pages corners turned, spine creased, but tight and close to very good.[14794] $35.00

53. Burroughs, William S. NAKED LUNCH. New York: , 1966. Mass market. 255 pp. Evergreen Black Cat # BC-115. The frst US paperback printing, preceded by the Olympia (French) edition and the Grove hardcover (1959). An easily very good copy, front cover creased, but very tight, quite evident that it has never been read. [14795] $35.00 For Burroughs also see item #25 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.15 54. Cage, John. NOTATIONS. New York: Something Else Press, 1969. First Edition. White cloth binding (issued simultaneously in soft cover), gold spine lettering, in dust jacket; square 4to. Cages reference book on musical notation: "shows the spectrum in the twentieth century which extends from the continuing dependence on notation to its renunciation" [from the dj fap]. Red "100' marked on the front fap, small water stains on top stain, else very good, the interior clean, in a worn at edges dust jacket that would be easily very good except for water stains on the verso edges mostly at the spine; a small stain on the back cover at the top of the spine. Still good or better; the hardcover uncommon. [14767] $300.00

55. Chaucer, Geoffrey. THE CANTERBURY TALES. London: Limited Edition Club/George W. Jones at the Sign of the Dolphin, 1934. First Thus. Linen-backed w/ dec. boards (issued without a dust jacket); small folio; two vols.: 670 pp. One of 1500 copies signed by the printer. Attractively printed with ruled pages, decorated frontispiece and initials. Lined card (previous owner) tipped in at rear endpaper. A handsome about fne set in a very good slipcase. [13239] $250.00

56. Collins, Billy. QUESTIONS ABOUT ANGELS. New York: William Morrow, 1991. First edition. 105 pp. Uncorrected proof of the poet's fourth book published in The National Poetry series. A book that went into multiple printings, and frst established him as one of the preeminent (and certainly most popular) poets of his generation. Fine unmarked copy in beige printed wrappers. Quite scarce, and printed well in advance of the also scarce frst printing. [6888] $750.00

57. Coolidge, Clark. FLAG FLUTTER & U. S. ELECTRIC. New York: Lines, 1966. First Edition. Stapled, white illustrated wrappers; 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Poet's frst book. From previous dealer's description Izzy Young's (former owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, NY) copy. On back cover " B. Young, 7- 6-66, stolen from Coolidge reading" on back cover, a bit of uneven toning, minor soiling else near fne. [12708] $500.00

58. Creeley, Robert. THE FINGER. Los Angeles: , 1968. First edition. One of 50 copies with an original collage by Bobbie Creeley. 10-1/4 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide. Half gray cloth with dark brown and black textured boards, with printed paper label on the spine. Printed by Graham Mackintosh for the press. Handbound, with 4 black & white reproductions of collages by Bobbie Creeley, and a tipped-in original color collage signed in pencil by Bobbie Creeley on the mount. The covers are rubbed along the edges. Of a total edition of 300 copies, this is one of only 50 numbered copies (this number 17) handbound in boards with an original collage signed by the artist; the rest of the issue(s) in wrappers. Signed by both Robert and Bobbie Creeley as called for. (Morrow & Cooney #21). Some wear to the bottom board edges, otherwise a fne copy in acetate dust jacket (one short tear and a few small chips) as issued. An early book and a beautiful publication from the press. [10271] $400.00

59. Creeley, Robert, Robert Therrian, Michael Butor. 7 & 6. Albuquerque: Hoshour Gallery, 1988. First Edition. 33 unbound sheets folded to 4to. in slipcase housed in a second slipcase, with paper label and cover design. Contains 7 original poems by Robert Creeley, colour plates by Robert Therrien and prose pieces in French by Michael Butor. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies. Beautifully designed by Eleanor Caponigro collaborating with Therrien and the publisher, and printed by the Meriden-Stinehour Press. The interior slipcase and sheets are fne; the exterior case is worn at edges with remnants of old label and a scuffed area on the front. Overall certainly very good. [14763] $100.00

60. Creeley, Robert [Ted Berrigan]. ALs: Letter from Robert Creeley to Ted and Alice Berrigan. Bolinas, CA: n.p., 1975. ALs on Creeley's Bolinas, CA stationary with envelope addressed to Ted and Alice Berrigan at their Chicago address. In ink, on both sides, in Creeley's very legible if not always grammatical hand. Approx. 175 words, some personal, but Creeley asks Alice for poems for a supplement to the American Poetry Journal, then fnally he asks: "Also, 'help' - can you (Ted!' a more lovely man never lived...' old saying...) get me the $$ for plane - or let me know when that will be simple? Not to bug you, please - but to know. Ok." Signed "Love to you all, Bob". Folded once, else fne in a roughly torn at one edge, else very good envelope. [10482] $300.00

Interesting content both professional and personal. Robert Creeley had invited Ted Berrigan to read at Buffalo in 1965, one of his frst appearances outside of NYC, and they even collaborated on a poem together. AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.17 61. Duncan, Robert. 65 DRAWINGS. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Edition. Loose sheets: seven preliminary, 65 numbered, plus colophon laid into a folding cloth box in matching slipcase, with gilt stamped leather label. One of 326 (plus 10 not for sale) total copies, this number 221; signed by the author. Reproduced line drawings by Duncan in an elaborate production. A few sheets lightly creased, slight break at one fold, but essentially a fne copy, with a Poets House bookplate. Bertholf A36a. [14774] $85.00

62. Duncan, Robert. AS TESTIMONY: The Poem & the Scene. San Francisco: White Rabbit, 1964. First Edition. Stapled buff wrappers; 8vo. 20 pp. One of 350 copies. Bertholf A12. Near fne in added removable mylar covers. [14769] $25.00

63. Duncan, Robert. MEDEA AT KOLCHIS/THE MAIDEN HEAD. Berkeley: Oyez, 1965. First Edition. Red printed wrappers; small 8vo. 44 pp. Signed by the author on the title page and dated April 1978. One of 500 (28 of which were issued in cloth and signed), but surprisingly uncommon, especially signed. A play originally performed at in 1956. Faintly sunned spine, else fne in removable mylar covers. Bertholf A16a. [14771] $75.00

64. Duncan, Robert. POETIC DISTURBANCES. [Berkeley]: Maya Quarto Eight, 1970. First Edition. Sewn green wrappers with paper label.; small square 4to. One of 300 total. Published as No. 8 in the Maya Quartos series. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. A good copy unevenly sunned, a bit wrinkled and worn; prev. owner's name in ink on fap. Bertholf A34a. [14783] $15.00

65. Duncan, Robert. TRIBUNALS: Passages 31 - 35. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Edition. Stapled wrappers; large 8vo. 24 pp. One of 1000 copies of the regular issue. This copy specially signed by the author on the title page "at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Jan. 1973", with a drawn chalice incorporating his name. A good or better copy unevenly toned, lightly soiled and creased. [14785] $45.00 66. Duncan, Robert. THE TRUTH & LIFE OF MYTH: An Essay in Essential Autobiography. New York: House of Books, 1968. First edition. Small 8vo. blue cloth, in glassine; this is one of 300 numbered and signed copies (total of 326). Fine in original tissue dust jacket which is lightly chipped at edges. Bertholf A26a. [14384] $50.00

67. Dunn, Joe; Jess [Collins]. THE BETTER DREAM HOUSE. [San Francisco]: White Rabbit Press, April 1968. First Edition. Stapled illustrated card covers; 8vo. [30 pp.] Collaboration between Dunn and Jess, with twelve collages by Jess. One of 1000 copies printed. Near fne copy. [14784] $20.00

68. Elmslie, Kenward; (illus.). THE 1967 GAME CALENDER (sic) Drawings by Joe Brainard/ Words by Kenward Elmslie. N. p.: Self-published, 1967. First Edition. S t a p l e d i l l u s t r a t e d wrappers; 4to. [12 pp.] Twelve calendar girls, a collaboration between two wonderful New York School artists. Front cover crease and short tear, some soiling, still about very good. [14531] $175.00

69. Elmslie, Kenward; Joe Brainard (illus.). POWER PLANT POEMS. [ N e w York]: C Press, [1967]. First Edition. Side-stapled wrappers, printed rectos only; 4to. [26 leaves.] Cover and illustrations by the poet's companion Joe Brainard. Housed in original mailing envelope addressed to Doug Calhoun, editor of the Athanor Journal. Four wonderful full- page Brainard illustrations. One stapled pulled, but still near fne in a roughly opened else very good envelope. [14530] $125.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.19 We are pleased to offer three new broadsides from Larry Rafferty's Hit&Run Press (now celebrating 40 years as a publisher) all printed by Littoral Press of Richmond, CA on a 10”x15” Chandler & Price platen press: Item's 70, 100 & 123 below (Lyn Emanuel, Marie Howe and David St. John). Previously published broadsides by Hit&Run with poems by Louise Glück. Sharon Olds, Tony Hoagland, Charles Wright, Kay Ryan, A. E. Stallings, Adam Zagajewski and many others are available on our website.

70. Emanuel, Lyn. "Blond Bombshell" Berkeley: Hit&Run Press, 2019. First Separate Printing. Broadside poem approximately 9 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches. One of 35 signed copies of a total edition of 100. Designed by Deborah Cowder and Lisa Rappaport and printed at the Littoral Press in Richmond, CA on a 10”x15” Chandler & Price platen press, with additional foil stamping. Printed on Strathmore Pure Cotton in Glamour Light, with Impuls titling. Fine. [14804] $60.00

71. Foster, Edward Halsey. . Boise: Boise State Univ., 1991. First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. 52 pp. Pamphlet number 97 in the Western Writers Series. Essay with selected bibliography of secondary sources. Staples tarnished else about fne. [14790] $20.00

72. Frost, Robert. A BOY'S WILL. London: David Nutt, 1913. First edition. First issue, Binding B: cream vellum-paper boards stamped in red; 50 pp. One of 350 or fewer copies of the frst issue were published by the publisher before bankruptcy in 1921; binding B - what remained of the frst issue were bound circa 1917 during the war. The rest of the 1000 sheets had a complicated history and very different bindings. The frst regularly published book by one of the great fgures in of the 20th Century. Crane A2b. A very scarce (far scarcer than Binding A) and fragile binding, this copy with light wear at edges, spine darkened, else fne. [13067] $3,500.00

73. Frost, Robert. "A Hillside Thaw" New York: The Poet's Guild, n. d. [after 1923]. First Separate Edition. A single sheet, printed on both sides, and measuring 5 by 7 3/8 inches. Scarce work reprinted from NEW HAMPSHIRE. One of four Frost poems printed as "The Unbound Anthology". Not in Crane. Near fne [11942] $250.00 74. Frost, Robert. NORTH OF BOSTON. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1914. First Edition. Gray-brown boards backed in brown cloth, paper labels; 8vo. Binding B: One of 150 copies with cancellans [Holt] title-leaf from sheets ordered from England (from the original 1000 sheets printed), bound in the US. This the frst publication of Robert Frost in his native country which was in fact February 1915, sold out immediately; concerns of piracy prompted Holt to print immediately in the US. Front board lightly soiled, spine label chipped, corners softly bumped with boards exposed, extremities worn. Very good overall. Crane A3.1. Very scarce and important issue, lacking rare dust jacket. [13427] $1,250.00

Of 1000 original sheets only about 350 were bound by Nutt for the frst British binding "A". The Holt US edition (binding "B") appeared the following year. There were six binding states in total. An extraordinary collection of poems opening with the short italicized "The Pasture" with the famous fnal line in both stanzas ending: "You come too"; "Mending Wall", "After Apple-picking" and "The Wood-pile", and the great long poems "Home Burial" and "The Death of the Hired Man".

75. Frost, Robert. SELECTED POEMS. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1923. First Edition. Cloth-backed patterned boards in dust jacket; 8vo. A selection from the poet's frst three volumes with one new poem "The Runaway". One of 1025 copies. Bottom front tips worn, bottom edges stained (likely an attempt to hide edge wear), but very clean and tight in a spectacular dust jacket with light wear at crown and at one edge. Scarce in dust jacket. Crane A5. [13066] $3,500.00

76. Frost, Robert. A SERMON BY ROBERT FROST: Spoken on the First Day of the Feast of Tabernacles at the Rockdale Avenue Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday Morning, October 10, 1946. NY: Spiral Press, 1947. First edition. One of a reported 500 copies printed for Dr. Victor E. Reichart. Reichart was the Rabbi at the temple (and a neighbor of Frost in Ripton, VT in the summer). He had Frost's unplanned talk recorded; this publication taken from that recording without the poet's authorization. The uncorrected issue with "worry" on p. 14, not over-struck and changed to "mercy" (as in the Barrett copy), as noted in Crane A33. Fine in red stapled wrappers and gray paper label. [3823] $250.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.21 77. Frost, Robert. WEST RUNNING BROOK. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1928. First edition. T.e.g., leaf- patterned paper-backed in green cloth. Number 102 of 1000 numbered copies signed by Frost. Printed by D.B. Updike's Merrymount Press in different type and format from the trade issue, and includes four signed woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes. Edges very lightly worn, else fne. Attractive Michael McCurdy bookplate of previous owner laid in. The scarce slipcase is worn, the spine label toned, but also complete. Lacking the rare tissue wrapper. [12092] $750.00

78. Geary, James. WORDS FOR REFRIGERATOR DOORS. San Francisco: e. g. A Literary Press, 1986. First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; thin 8vo. Inscribed by the author to his mentor the poet Alvin Feinman and signed "James" on the frst blank leaf. Also laid in is a sheet with the poem "Cloud Interior" which the author has signed in full. Spine sunned else very good. [14199] $25.00

79. Geary, James. WORDS FOR REFRIGERATOR DOORS. San Francisco: e. g. Booksellers & Publishers, 1987. First Edition. Stapled wrappers with a tipped on color photocopied illustration; thin 8vo. One of 26 lettered ("S") and initialed copies of a somewhat revised/enlarged second edition. With two postcards, one addressed to Alvin Feinman, and two folded sheets with poems/aphorisms. [14539] $35.00

Feinman was Geary's teacher at Bennington College; Geary would provide an introduction to the Collected Poems of Feinman. He is best known as a journalist and for his aphorisms, which these poems resemble.

80. Ginsberg, Allen; Barry Miles (ed.). HOWL: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated By Author, With Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading, Legal Skirmishes, Precursor Texts & Bibliography. New New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition. Burgundy cloth in matching slipcase (issued without a jacket); 4to. Number 206 of 250 copies signed by the author. Spine lettering a bit dull, slipcase a bit soiled, else fne. Some limited editions seem more common than the trade signed; that seems not to be the case with this quite useful edition of one of the essential poems of the 20th Century. [12799] $650.00 81. Grenier, Robert. WHAT I BELIEVE | TRANSPIRATION/TRANSPIRING | MINNESOTA. [Oakland, CA]: O Books, circa 1990. First Edition. 62 loose 8 /12 x 11 inch sheets mostly holograph in a black and white clamshell box. Introduction by Leslie Scalapino on the inside front and back covers of the box. Three sections divided by green sheets. In addition laid in is an Als dated 1996 to another poet/scholar in green ink, signed "Bob G." enclosing (and included) RG's "afterword" to a forthcoming book “readiness/enough/depends/on” here referenced as a Sun & Moon publication, but which in fact came out in 2000 from another press) by Larry Eigner. The letter discusses Eigner and other matters. The "afterword" seems not to have been published. Box worn, and very good, else including letter fne. [14786] $200.00

82. Grumman, Bob and Crag Hill (eds.). WRITING TO BE SEEN: An Anthology of Later 20th Century Visio- Textual Art. Volume One. N.p.: Light and Dust, 2001. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 4to. [328 pp.] Published for the Visual Poets' Cooperative., with work by twelve poets: Carol Stetser, Scott Helmes, Bill Keith, Joel Lipman, Guy R. Beining, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, David Cole, K. S. Ernst, Karl Young, Harry Polkinhorn,William Fox and Karl Kempton. As new in publisher's shrinkwrap. [14789] $75.00

83. H[ilda]. D[oolittle]. "PRIEST" AND "A DEAD PRIESTESS SPEAKS" Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1983. First Edition. Black cloth-backed decorated paper over boards (issued without a jacket). narrow 4to. [39 pp.] Two poem sequences. "This frst book issued with the new pressmark, adopted in Copper Canyon's tenth year, was printed in the summer by Tree Swenson in an edition of two hundred and thirty copies with hand set twelve point Bembo and twenty-four point Castellar types on Frankfurt paper. The book was hand bound by Marsha Hollingsworth who also collaborated with Tree Swenson on the design of the book. All illustrations are adapted from Greek vase , the two on the interior by the printer and the cover by Phyllis Hopeck, who also directed the silkscreening of the image onto Canson paper from the screen prepared by Drew Elicker. Thanks go to Centrum where Copper Canyon Press is in residence, and to James Laughlin who provided the manuscript." [Colophon.] Essentially fne copy, with light shelfwear to bottom edges, no spine label if in fact one existed. Scarce and lovely fne press edition of an essential Modernist's work. [14775] $150.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.23 84. Hawkes, John (as J. C. B. Hawkes Jr.). FIASCO HALL. Cambridge, MA: Privately Printed, 1943. First Edition. Card covers stapled into blue wrappers; small 8vo.. 14 pp. First edition of the author's scarce frst book, one of only approximately 100 printed (the author reportedly destroyed about half of them). Signed by the author on the title-page. Some toning to wrappers, one crease at spine near the bottom, but a very good copy. Needless to say scarce, especially signed. Provenance: Donald Kaufman collection. [13426] $2,500.00

"I wrote lots of poetry in high school-all of it terrible. When I left to go to Harvard, I had a friend whose mother knew the poet Robert Hillier, who was at Harvard at the time, and this woman told me to take my poems to him. So I did; Hillier read all of these poems, picked out about sixteen, and suggested I have them printed myself-this resulted in Fiasco Hall. A lot of these poems refected romantic notions about the war; I certainly thought I was probably going to be killed in the war, and I had the same romantic sensibility of some of the World War I poets -Wilfred Owen or Rupert Brooke. So I had these dreadful poems printed. Long after the war, I tried to destroy them by throwing them down the incinerator near our apartment in New York, but my mother luckily saved about ffty of them." (A Conversation with John Hawkes by Patrick O'Donnell From "The Review of Contemporary Fiction," Fall 1983, Vol. 3.3).

85. Heaney, Seamus. "A Drink of Water" Dublin: Gallery Press, 2008. First Thus. Broadside with a drawing by Martin Gale; approx. 8 1/4 x 11 5/8. Signed by Seamus Heaney. Not to be confused with a similarly titled broadside printed in California a decade earlier that is much more common. Not located on WorldCat. Corners bumped, but still near fne. [13209] $400.00

86. Heaney, Seamus. “Ballynahinch Lake, December 31, 1999”. N.p. : Privately Printed, 1999. First Separate Printing. Single sheet folded to make a decorated card of four pages; 8vo. In matching envelope with castle and address printed. Privately printed for Ballynahinch Castle, a hotel in Connemara, County Galway. Originally published in Milan in an edition of 70 copies to celebrate the poet's 60th birthday in April. This printed to be read on December 31, 1999, at the castle at midnight. The popular poem was published in the 2001 volume ELECTRIC LIGHT. One of 500 numbered (in red) copies. Fine [Brandes A74b.] [13208] $250.00 87. Heaney, Seamus. DYLAN THE DURABLE?: On Dylan Thomas. Bennington: Bennington College, 1992. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 33 pp. One of 1000 hand-numbered copies; Heaney's printed signature on the bibliographic page. Intro. by Stephen Sandy. Printing a lecture given at the college by Seamus Heaney. Very near fne. Brandes & Durkan A53. [14540] $25.00

88. Heaney, Seamus. from “Vitruviana”. N . p . : Hieroglyph Editions, 2003. First Separate Printing. Single leaf, card stock, folded to make four pages; thin 8o. "From 'Vitruviana' by Seamus Heaney. Watercolor by Felim Egan. Published by Hieroglyph Editions in an edition of 1,000. 1 to 100 numbered and signed by the artists"-- Colophon. Signed by Seamus Heaney and Felim Egan, not numbered - an author retained copy. Fine and scarce. [12735] $600.00

89. Heaney, Seamus. "I sing of a maiden…" Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath: Fallon/Gallery Press., 2003. First Edition. Single leaf folded to make four pages; thin 8vo. Signed by Seamus Heaney. Illustration by Catherine Heaney. Christmas 2003. Fine and scarce. [12736] $550.00

90. Heaney, Seamus. A LOUGH NEAGH SEQUENCE. Didsbury, Manchester: Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press, 1969. First edition. Chapbook; 8vo. 11 pp. Original stiff white stapled covers. Fine. Brandes & Durkan A4b. [10444] $300.00

91. Heaney, Seamus. “The Manger.” Loughcrew, Old castle, County Meath: Fallon/Gallery Press., 1998. First Edition. Privately published for the author by Peter Fallon, Christmas 1998. by Basil Blackshaw. Single leaf, card stock, folded to make four pages; thin 8vo. Signed by Heaney. Fine . [12737] $650.00

92. Heaney, Seamus. POEMS AND A MEMOIR. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. First Edition. Full calf lettered in gilt on spine, t.e.g; 4to., in publisher's slipcase. 150 p. Limited Editions Club edition, with a preface by Heaney, introduction by Thomas Flanagan, and illustrations by Henry Pearson; signed by all three. One of 2000 copies. This copy additionally inscribed to a noted bookseller (and notably in pencil) on the entire front fyleaf by the illustrator. The spine heavily sunned (from dark brown to blond), else a fne copy. [14532] $350.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.25 93. Heaney, Seamus. ROBERT LOWELL: Memorial Address and an Elegy. London: Faber & Faber, 1978. First Edition. Privately Printed. Sewn printed wrappers; thin 8vo. Heaney's Memorial Address to Robert Lowell, with a poem written for the occasion: "Elegy". Fine, and usually found with faws. [12710] $350.00

94. Heaney, Seamus. "Stern" In Memory of Ted Hughes. Revere, Pa: J. Howard Woolmer, 2004. First Edition. Broadside, 9 x 16 1/4 inches. One of 26 lettered copies ("O") signed by Heaney. Total edition was only 76. Designed and printed by Robert Milevski at the Im Press, Princeton, NJ on a Vandercook SP-20. This is the frst printing of the poem. Fine. [13250] $650.00

95. Heaney, Seamus. "The Child That's Due" from 'Bann Valley Eclogue'. Dublin: [Bank of Ireland Group Treasury], [1999]. First Separate Printing. Broadside , 8 1/4 by 11 6/8. Signed by Seamus Heaney. Cream stock, printed in grey and black. The Treasury made a donation to the "Save the Bog Campaign" for use of the poem which the author read on Radio Telefs Eireann on the Millennium's eve. Fine, signed, and quite attractive. One of 300 signed copies of 340 total. Brandes & Durkan AA62. Fine. [13210] $450.00

96. Heaney, Seamus, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin et al. MODERN POETS FOUR. London: Faber & Faber, 1968. First Edition. Jim Hunter (ed.). Glazed paper-covered boards (issued without dust jacket); 12mo. 141 pp. The fourth primer edited by Hunter for school use. This volume with a brief introduction of each poet by Hunter and poems by Philip Larkin, Louis Simpson, Charles Tomlinson, Tony Connor, Ted Hughes and Heaney. Includes the frst publication of Heaney's "May Day". A fne copy, also issued in paper, and quite scarce, one even might say rare, most copies presumably having gone to libraries. Brandes & Durkan B5. [13125] $250.00

97. Heath-Stubbs, John [Stephen Sandy]. ARTORIUS: Book One. Providence: Burning Deck, 1970. First Edition. Stapled wrappers; 8vo. 29 pp. An early book from the Waldrop's press, and an early version of the poet's best known work which was based on the Arthurian Legends. 250 copies printed. This copy with the ownership signature of poet Stephen Sandy in pencil. Unevenly toned, soiled, little wear; better than good. [14195] $20.00 98. Hecht, Anthony. THE VENETIAN VESPERS. New York: Atheneum, 1979. First Edition. Inscribed on the half- title: "For Mark [Strand]/ and Jules -- /with esteem and affection/Tony". First issued as a limited edition by Godine, this is the expanded, hardcover trade issue, issued also in trade paper. Only the third book in a distinguished career. Fine in a very good dust jacket a bit sunned along the top edges, the spine faded. A lovely copy and a very desirable association, both poets near contemporaries and both winners of major prizes: Pulitzer, Bollingen, etc., and both appointed to the position of what is now called Poet Laureate. [7189] $250.00

99. Higgins, Dick. A DIALECTIC OF CENTURIES: Notes towards a Theory of the New Arts. NY, NY & Barton, VT: Printed Editions, 1978. First Edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. 178 pp., w/index. Simultaneously published in softcover, this cloth edition is scarce especially in this fne condition. [14762] $100.00

100. Howe, Marie. The Boy. Berkeley: Hit & Run, 2019. First Separate Printing. Illustrated broadside approx. 9 x 12 inches. One of 25 copies signed by the poet. Fine. [14528] $70.00

101. Irby, Kenneth. Riding the Dog. Greensburg, PA: The Zelot Press, 1981. Stapled printed self-wraps; thin 8vo. 8pp. The Zelot no. 4, a little magazine each devoted to a separate poet; distributed by The Asphodel Book Shop the legendary Cleveland bookshop owned by Jim Lowell a mentor to Blevins. Irby a long-time professor at Kansas was an important mid-century experimental poet. Fine. [14518] $20.00

102. Jeffers, Robinson. SOLSTICE: And Other Poems. New York: Random House, 1935. First Edition. First Trade edition. Green cloth, gold, stamped, in dust jacket; 8vo. 151 pp. Very near fne copy in a near fne dust jacket, with wear at folds, slightly darkened spine, else as nice a copy as one could expect to fnd. [14523] $125.00

103. Jeffers, Robinson. SOLSTICE: And Other Poems. New York: Random House, 1935. First Edition. Limited edition, one of 320 printed by the Grabhorn Press, and signed by the author. Linen backed patterned paper-covered boards, with paper spine label, in original plain dust jacket; 4to. 151 pp. Decorative devices by Mallette Dean, and initials by Joseph Sinel. Near fne copy endpapers offset as often the case, light soiling of top edge, in a near fne dust AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.27 jacket, with virtually no wear but neat tape reinforcement along top edge. [14526] $350.00

This was his frst book to be published by Random House which became his long-time publisher, and published at a time when Random House was becoming a major publishing house, not just a Fine Press publisher and publisher of The Modern Library.

104. Kaufman, Bob. Second April. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959. First edition. A very early work by this poet, folded broadside, accordion style. [12pp.] Generally regarded as Kaufman's frst publication, and preceding his book. Very clean copy, lightly creased, easily very good. [14772] $40.00

105. Lax, Robert. AS LONG AS. Passumpsic, VT: Furthermore Press, 1984. First Edition. Stapled printed covers; small 8vo. [8 pp.] Drawing by Lax, design by Michael Lastnite. One of the numerous but scarce pamphlets of short poems mostly printed in VT by Lax. Near fne. [14782] $25.00

106. Lax, Robert. SHEPHERDS CALENDAR. Lyndonville, VT: Furthermore Press, 1983. First Edition. Stapled printed covers; small 8vo. [8 pp.] Drawing & design by Michael Lastnite. One of the numerous but scarce pamphlets of short poems mostly printed in VT by Lax. Near fne. [14779] $25.00

107. Lax, Robert. SNOW FLAKE. Passumpsic, VT: Furthermore Press, 1984. First Edition. Stapled printed covers; small 8vo. [8 pp.] Drawing & design by Michael Lastnite. One of the numerous but scarce pamphlets of short poems mostly printed in VT by Lax. Very good, the cover looks rubbed, but seems likely part of the design (or quality of printing). [14781] $25.00

108. Lax, Robert. WA TER SUN LIGHT WRITES. Passumpsic, VT: Furthermore Press, 1984. First Edition. Stapled printed covers; small 8vo. [4 pp.] Drawing & design by Michael Lastnite. One of the numerous but scarce pamphlets of short poems mostly printed in VT by Lax. Near fne. [14780] $25.00

109. Lax, Robert and Bernard Moosbrugger. WASSER WATER L'EAU. Zurich: Pendo, 1973. First Edition. Photographic wrappers; tall 12mo. Attractively designed with black and white photos of water interspersed with lines in English, French and German. Stamped "Archives exemplar" on the top edge, spine ends bumped, else fne and tight. Scarce. [14792] $50.00

110. Levis, Larry. WRECKING CREW. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972. First edition. Orange cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 62 pp. A beautiful copy of the frst book by the award-winning poet (among other awards, his second book won the Lamont Poetry Prize) who died in 1996 at the age of 49. This is the scarce hardcover issue, uncommon in any format. Levis was championed by fellow Californian Philip Levine who edited his posthumously published fnal book Elegy. A very fne copy, the orange cloth bright; in a very near fne complete (not price-clipped) dust jacket with a few short cratches/squiggles on the front panel (likely the usual enemy - someone writing on a piece of paper using the book as a desk), but in Brodart cover not noticeable. With none of the usual rubbing or spine wear common to these thin covers. [3428] $350.00

111. Levy, D. A. UKANHAVYRFUCKINCITIBAK - D.A. Levy: a Tribute to the Man, an Anthology of His Poetry. Cleveland: Ghost Press, 1968. First Edition. Tape-backed pictorial wrappers (as issued); thick 4to. Mimeographed; illustrated with six original screenprints by T.L. Krys. One of 1000 copies. Edited by rjs. Tribute with texts by levy, bibliographic material, with testimonials by friends and other writers, and reproductions of press coverage of his arrest. "Proceeds, if any, from the sale of this book will go to the levy defense fund, the yet-to-be-conceived levy subsistence fund, and the subsequent levy offense fund." A considerable undertaking for the mimeo era. Levy would after many years of diffculties with the authorities in "fascist america" commit suicide in 1968, at the age pf 26. Edges and back cover a bit foxed, soiled, else easily very good, clean interior. [12692] $350.00 112. Levy, D. A. THE MADISON COLLAGES. Cleveland: an Offense Fund reprint, 1975. First edition thus. A reprint of a an edition frst published in an envelope in 1969. Silk-screen cover by t.l. kryss. Tall gold stapled wraps, printed in black, with black tape spine (as issued). Printed on heavy yellow paper. One of an edition of about 350 copies issued (stated). Text and collages by Levy. The overlapped edges lightly creased, otherwise fne. Scarce. [3757] $250.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.29 113. Levy, D. A. (ed.). THE BUDDHIST 3RD CLASS JUNKMAIL ORACLE. Cleveland: [d a levy], February 1969. First Edition. Newsprint, mostly printed in black. Feb. 1969 (16 pp.) Includes a two-page spread with what is supposed to be the last poem mailed out by d. a. levy: "Prose: On Poetry in the Wholesale Education & Cultural system"; much else including a cover devoted to levy, and a full- page poem by Doug Blazek ending "levy is dead". Folded once as usual, with worn edges, still good or better. and rarely found. [14383] $300.00

Levy's alternative paper covered the music, art, and literary scene in Cleveland for over two years, the magazine continuing after his death in Nov. 24, 1968. His poetry (often concrete), collages and commentary, and much on the Cleveland political scene (drugs and obscenity) were interspersed with advertising including those for the many rock groups coming to the city.

114. Lowell, Robert. LAND OF UNLIKENESS. Cummington: Cummington Press, 1944. First edition. 8vo. Original blue paper boards with red stamping, in unprinted tissue jacket. One of 224 copies (of 250 total) printed. Introduction by Allen Tate. Title page woodcut by Gustav Wolf. Sunned at extremities, top tips lightly bumped, else about fne in a lightly toned dust jacket with some loss at spine, else very good. Attractive copy of the great poet's frst book, a keystone of modern poetry, and rare in jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell case. [13617] $3,500.00

115. Meinke, Peter. THE RAT POEMS: Or, "Rats Live on no Evil Star" Cleveland: Bits Press, 1978. First Edition. "A Bits Chapbook"; green sheets stapled into brown printed wrappers; thin 8vo. Illustrations by Jeanne Meinke. Bits Press published out of Case Western. Yapped edges a bit worn, easily very good. [14180] $10.00

116. Merwin, W. S. (translator); Roxanne Sexauer (illus.). ROBERT THE DEVIL. Iowa City: Windhover Press & The University of Iowa, 1981. First Edition. Linen cloth w/ paper spine label, publisher's matching slipcase; 4to. 44 pp. Published in a limited edition of 310 copies, this is one of 50 numbered copies with hand-colored wood engravings by Roxanne Sexauer, and signed by both Merwin and Sexauer. A beautiful production, one of the press's fnest, printed on hand made Windhover paper with Dante and Bembo italic type. Translation of: Miracle de Notre Dame de Robert le Diable from an Anonymous French Play of the XIV Century and introduced by W.S. Merwin. Laid in is the "erratum" slip correcting the number printed of the special edition. Quite scarce and a desirable fne press. Fine copy. [14529] $1,000.00

117. Moore, Marianne. "Marriage" [In MANIKIN, Number Three]. New York: Monroe Wheeler, 1923. First Edition. Thin stapled paper wrappers; small 8o. Second issue with altered address in colophon (the bibliographer notes one copy without cancelled address). Glenway Westcott's two-leaf review of Moore's POEMS laid in as issued. The poet's second book, frst published in he US; according to the bibliographer Wheeler estimated that approximately 200 copies were produced, mostly for presentation. Wrappers browned at spine edge, a few small chips, partially split, still about very good, interior clean. Abbott A2. [13120] $450.00

118. Olson, Charles (Robert Creeley ed.). MAYAN LETTERS. Palma de Mallorca: Divers Press, 1953. First edition. Decorated wrappers; square 8vo. 89 pp. Olson's letter written to Creeley from the Yucatan, edited and with an introduction by Creeley. An important book uniting two of the most important poets of the period (Origin/Black Mountain) who helped to usher in the Beats. Moreover, it represents the beginning (1950) of their conversations and as Creeley writes in the intro. an emphasis on "the need to break with the too simple westernisms of a 'greek culture' ". The Beats following in the footsteps of Olson, Creeley and Cid Corman in particular would certainly do that. Divers Press was Creeley's own short-lived but important venture. A beautiful copy in added removable mylar covers. [14527] $350.00

119. Ondaatje, Michael. THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BILLY THE KID: Left Handed Poems. Toronto: Anansi, 1970. First Edition. Decorated red and black wrappers; square 8vo. The Canadian frst printing, frst issue, simultaneously published with the scarce hardcover, a Review copy with slip from US publisher Norton, errata slip and photograph of the author laid in. Inscribed "To __ and __" by Ondaatje on the title page, and with an unusually nice (likely early) signature. The frst of Ondaatje's books to win a Canadian Governor General's Award, and the book that made his reputation. One of the key works in the author's canon. An easily very good copy, light edgewear and soiling. Scarce as a review copy. [14525] $150.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.31 120. Ondaatje, Michael. RAT JELLY. Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1973. First Edition. Decorated red and black wrappers; 8vo. The Canadian frst printing simultaneously published with the scarce hardcover. Inscribed "To __ and __" by Ondaatje on the title page, and with an attractive and likely early signature. An essentially fne copy, tight with faint wear to edges. [14534] $125.00

121. Perkoff, Stuart Z. POEMS FROM PRISON. Denver: Press, March 1969. First Edition. Single sheet of blue paper folded to 8 1/2 x 11 inches; Bowery broadsheet #3. Early publication from this long-running press edited by Larry Lake dedicated to poems by Perkoff who was a Venice Beach area Beat poet. These poems published while he was in prison on drug charges. He died in 1974. Scarce. Folded twice, some discoloration at center fold, so good only. [14177] $75.00

122. Pound, Ezra. "IF THIS BE TREASON...... " Siena: Privately Printed, 1948. First Edition. Stiff green printed wraps, stapled. 8vo. 33 pp. Printed for Olga Rudge by Tip. Nuova in January, 1948. Rudge had these "talks" from Pound's radio broadcasts printed without changes or corrections. Contains "E. E. Cummings" "E.E. Cummings/examined, " "James Joyce: to his memory, " "A French Accent, " "Canto 45, " and "Blast." One of approximately 300; this like most copies not numbered. Paper toned, spine sunned, about very good. Scarce. Gallup A59. [13103] $650.00

123. Pound, Ezra and Alberto Luchini. CONFUCIO STUDIO INTEGRALE. Rapallo: Scuola Tipografca Orfanotrofo Emiliani, 1942. First Edition. Cream stapled wrappers; 8vo. Variant issue printed on watermarked paper and not priced. (Most copies printed on cheap paper, with buff wrappers.) Italian translations of Chinese; pages numbered back to front. First publication of the text, published several years later in English. Gallup B46. Small chip, minor waterstain along bottom edge, else close to fne. Scarce, especially this "deluxe" issue. [13134] $350.00

124. St. John, David. "The Color of Salvation" Berkeley: Hit&Run Press, 2019. First Separate Printing. Broadside poem approximately 9 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches. One of 100 copies all signed by the poet and the illustrator Danny Garrett. Garrett known for his rock and blues posters. Designed and printed by the Littoral Press on BFK Rives grey in gray, black and red. Fine. [14805] $75.00 125. Salter, James. THE ARM OF FLESH. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 183 pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Light offsetting to the endpapers else near fne in an about very good dust jacket,well-rubbed and with shallow loss at crown and foot of the spine area; ink price on fap over old price (not price-clipped). The author's second novel, scarce in collectible condition, very scarce signed. [13592] $750.00

126. Sandy, Stephen. Three poems in THE YALE REVIEW {Offprint]. New Haven: Yale University Press, Spring 1971. First Edition. Printed stapled wrappers; thin 8vo. Offprint with Sandy's poems "Japanese Room", "Closing the House, Leaving the Country" and "Joshua's Poem"; the frst two poems are on a single sheet laid in (pp. 67-8), the third bound in (p. 390). Near fne, rare. [14154] $25.00

127. Schulberg, Budd; Elia Kazen. ON THE WATER- FRONT: The Final Shooting Script. Hollywood: Samuel French, 1989. First Thus. Blue cloth, 8vo. Number 19 of 300 copies. Signed by the author Schulberg and the director Kazan on the colophon; additionally signed by three of the principal actors: Rod Steiger on the ffep, and Karl Malden and Eve Marie Saint on the title page. Scarce with the additional signatures. The movie as released in 1954, a novelization by Schulberg followed the following year. A fne copy, issued without a dust jacket. [13480] $450.00

128. Schuyler, James. FIREPROOF FLOORS OF WITLEY COURT: English Songs and Dances by James Schuyler. West Burke, VT: Janus Press, 1976. First Edition. Orange wrappers with silver moon decoration, printed in two colors with double-page cut-out endpapers; 8vo. One of 150 copies. "...designed, handset in Monotype Times Roman, printed, torn, cut, and bound by Claire Van Vliet at the Janus Press on and of Kozu, Fabriano and Canson paper. The endpapers are the topiary gardens of Levens Hall, Westmorland, England. This is copy no 85." Back cover lightly sunned along the front edge, else fne, unopened. [12944] $1,200.00

Claire Van Vliet's work has been heavily collected for over 50 years, well before she won an early MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 1989, with many institutions subscribing. This title particularly elusive in the trade. AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.33 129. Shepherd, Reginald. ANGEL, INTERRUPTED. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. First Edition. Orange cloth embossed in black (issued without a dust jacket); 8vo. 96 pp. The poet's second book in the scarce cloth issue here with a long inscription to his teacher at Bennington College Alvin Feinman and signed "Love, Reginald". Fine copy issued without a dust jacket. Shepherd who was black, gay and died young was a graduate of The Iowa Writers School; Feinman was a poet and highly respected critic. Fine. [14197] $50.00

130. Shepherd, Reginald. WRONG. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 104 pp. The poet's third book a Trade Paperback Original inscribed to his teacher at Bennington College Alvin Feinman, and signed "Reginald". Fine copy. Shepherd who was black, gay and died young was a graduate of The Iowa Writers School; Feinman was a poet and highly respected critic. [14198] $20.00

131. Snyder, Gary. RIPRAP. Ashland, MA: Origin Press, 1959. First edition. The frst printing of Snyder's frst book, in patterned blue paper wrappers, a printed label, and string-bound in the Japanese style. One of 500 copies printed (Lepper). Poet Kenneth Irby's copy with his name in ink and dated January 1960/Cambridge, MA. A near fne copy. [13565] $950.00

132. Spicer, Jack. COLLECTED POEMS 1945 - 1946. Berkeley: White rabbit, 1981. First Thus. Stapled wrappers; square 8vo. [23 pp.] Facsimile of the sole copy typed and bound by the author and given for Christmas to Josephine Miles. An underappreciated book given that the only previous edition is unobtainable (the sole copy held at the Bancroft Library), and itself somewhat uncommon. Near fne. [14770] $25.00

133. Spicer, Jack. THE RED WHEELBARROW. [Berkeley]: Arif/Cranium Press, 1971. First edition. Sewn, pale blue printed wrappers; square 12mo. One of 25 numbered copies with hand-colored free endsheets (the colophon states "frontispiece"); signed by Wesley Tanner of the press. This is one of the earliest books from Tanner's Arif Press. Fine copy of a rare and lovely production. [11257] $500.00 134. Stein, Gertrude. A PRIMER FOR THE GRADUAL UNDERSTANDING OF GERTRUDE STEIN. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Edition. Silk cloth-backed boards with printed spine label in mylar cover as issued, in marbled slipcase; 8vo. 158 pp. One of 60 numbered copies (this is number "1"!) specially bound by Earle Gray, with the holograph signature of Stein tipped onto the colophon page. Fine acetate dust jacket (which has shrunk as usual) in a nearly fne publisher's slipcase, the bottom lightly worn. The scarce issue signed by the author. [14768] $400.00

135. Stein, Gertrude. THE WORLD IS ROUND. London: Batsord, 1939. First U.K. Edition. Red cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 62 pp. This UK edition Illustrated by Sir Francis Rose; the US edition by Clement Hurd. This edition prints (on the fap) a portion of a letter by Stein regarding the title that appears no where else. A children's book in which appears the author's famous line: "A Rose is a Rose is a Rose is a Rose". The linen cloth is unevenly faded, the top stain though still dark; the lightly sunned dust jacket is not price-clipped, with small loss at the foot of the spine, and short closed tears, but still about very good, and much better than usual. The US edition had a small printing - less than 3000 copies, the printing for this edition is unknown, but given the war likely to have a been much smaller than the US. Wilson A32c. [14773] $100.00

136. Stevens, Wallace. An Ordinary Evening in New Haven Transactions of The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Sesquicentennial Celebration / Proceedings: Part I. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences, December 1949. Volume 38, pp. 151-172. Original salmon-colored wrappers, stapled; thin 8vo. "Written for the occasion of the thousandth meeting of the Connecticut Academy", this is the frst publication of this poem which would be lengthened from eleven to thirty-one sections when published in AUTUMNS OF AURORA. A very near fne copy, partially unopened, with only the lightest of edgewear. Quite scarce in this condition. Edelstein C190. [3659] $400.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.35 137. Stevens, Wallace. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN P O E T R Y A N D PAINTING. New York: The , [1951]. First Edition. Stapled self- wrappers; small 4to. 10 pp. Pamphlet reprinting a lecture given by Stevens at MoMA on January 15, 1951. Edelstein A15. Split at top and bottom of the spine, lightly creased, but bright and with little wear, and certainly very good. [14776] $200.00

138. Stevens, Wallace. THREE ACADEMIC PIECES. Cummington, MA: The Cummington Press, 1947. First edition. 37 pp. One of 92 copies (of a total of 246 copies in three issues) in light blue paper-covered boards printed on Beauvais/Arches paper. Lacking the plain white paper dust jacket. Binding by Arno Werner; initial letters by Wightman Williams. First book publication of these poems. Lovely book from Harry Duncan's great press. Spine and edges faded, previous owner's name on ffep, else about fne. Edelstein A12. [6892] $500.00

139. Strand, Mark; Jorie Graham. THE LIVES OF THE POEMS: Twelve Drawings on Canvas. East Hampton: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2005. First Edition. Gray printed wrappers with French faps; oblong, small 4to.; housed in a black cloth slipcase. 25 pp. One of 50 copies of the signed edition. Introduction by Jorie Graham (7 pp.). Signed by both Mark Strand and Jorie Graham. 12 full-page illustrations of the drawings. Lovely production by Jerry Kelly. [14385] $150.00 140. Svevo, Italo. JAMES JOYCE. San Francisco: City Lights, [1968]. First Thus. Photographic wrappers; square 12 mo. Originally published as a Christmas Greeting by New Directions in 1950, this lecture delivered in 1927 by Svevo, translated by Stanlislaus Joyce (James's brother), published for sale for the frst time in the Pocket Poets series format. Cover photo of Joyce by Man Ray, back cover of Svevo. Extremities a bit toned, about very good. [14389] $25.00

141. Updike, John; Ned Rorem & Larry Rivers. Untitled Print: "to face one's life and to live solemnly with an eloquence like a bow being drawn across a cello the color of god's cigar to make of this scuttle and heart, art." N. p. : N. P. , 1995. First Edition. A Larry Rivers lithograph 18 x 24 inches: Number 31 of 35 copies A/P, dated '95; signed by Ned Rorem, John Updike and Larry Rivers as called for and additionally briefy inscribed (in an unknown hand) to Chuck Adams. Updike gave the keynote address when Rorem and Rivers became members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1979, and according to Michael Broomfeld co-bibliographer of the Updike bibliography this collaborative work was later included in the Academy's Centennial Portfolio of 1998, The Academy published a two volume edition of 50 signed copies of collaborative works to raise money. There were 135 numbered copies of this print, with 100 (all but one were done in editions of 100 copies) for use by the Academy and 35 presumably for participants. According to Broomfeld the words are by Updike and the notes by Rorem. Both Updike and Rorem were Pulitzer Prize recipients; Updike introduced the catalog edition of the portfolio. Matted and appropriately framed (wood and gilt) behind glass; not examined out of frame. The frame with minor stains. Fine. [14521] $1,250.00

The prints and portfolios seem to have gone to the art market, as few if any are in the likely institutions with Updike collections. The one volume catalog in gray cloth printed by Stinehour Press is itself somewhat uncommon.

[see back cover for full image] AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.37 142. Wieners, John. CHINOISERIE. San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1965. First Edition. Sewn wrappers; oblong 32mo. (4x6½ inches.) [20] pp. One of 100 copies printed and bound by hand. Signed by Wieners on the title page. Scarce work by the Beat poet and member of the San Francisco Renaissance. Housed in an envelope from the Dept. of English, State University College at Brockport, NY. Some toning and faint spotting to wrappers; near fne. A scarce book in trade, fully a quarter in institutions; not issued signed, and rare as such. [14533] $400.00

An early book from the press founded after Haselwood and Hoyem stopped publishing the elegant Auerhahn Press titles; this publication shares the same Asian infuenced aesthetic.

143. Williams, Emmett. A VALENTINE FOR NOEL: Four Variations on a Scheme. Barton, VT: Something Else Press, 1973. First Edition. Card covers with a yellow printed dust jacket; thick 8vo. Printed in four colors. One of 2000 copies all in paperback of which according the bibliographer 1000 were signed and numbered: try and fnd one. A whimsical book beginning with the subtitle, with four poems, including a rather complicated game al la Mac Low played in the frst poem "IBM" which the author cleverly explains in the introduction, a letter to his wife Noel. Frank pp. 54-55. One page incorrectly cut in manufacturing- no real harm, and the lightest of wear; easily near fne. [14761] $100.00 144. Williams, William Carlos. MANY LOVES: And Other Plays. New York: New Directions, 1961. First Edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 437 pp. Signed by the poet in a very shaky hand. Only 1487 bound for publication, the rest of the printing - and most of those were in paper and not bound until after the poet's death in 1963. Wallace A47. Front end paper offset covering much of the signature, dampstain along the back edge of binding and end paper with some transfer to jacket verso. Conservatively good or better only although quite presentable and rare signed. [12760] $300.00

145. Wright, James. THE GREEN WALL. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First edition. Patterned paper-covered boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 93 pp. Review copy with reviewer's slip laid in. Prior owner's name in blue pencil. At the end of Auden's introduction quoting lines from Wright someone has written (in pencil) the fnal quatrain in reverse, and commented interestingly: "note the hovering image of the turn-ed worm". At any rate other than these marks in pencil, and some light edgewear a lovely copy of one of the most important frst books of poetry of the second half of the 20th C. As a review copy - scarce. Near fne in near fne dust jacket. [1237] $600.00

146. Wright, James; William Duffy; Robert Bly. THE LION'S TAIL AND EYES. Minnesota: The Sixties Press, 1962. First edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Ten poems each from three principles of the infuential little mag "The Fifties", "The Sixties". The frst appearance of Bly in print, the frst appearance of Wright's great poem (arguably his most famous) "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm..." which ends: "I have wasted my life". This copy signed by Bly on the title page. One of 500 copies in cloth issue. Near fne copy in an about very good dust jacket which is worn at corners, residue from old sticker on back panel. Attractive copy of a scarce and important sixties artifact. 45 pp. Gustafson B3. [10308] $150.00

147. Wright, Jay. THE HOMECOMING SINGER. New York: Corinth Books, 1971. First Edition. Orange cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 95 pp. One of 500 printed in hardcover (2000 was the total printing) of the poet's second book and frst in cloth. Inscribed by the poet in 1996. Uncommon in cloth, quite scarce signed. The thin orange dust jacket is rubbed, with two short closed tears, otherwise the book is quite fne. [2375] $125.00 148. Young, La Monte (ed.) and George Maciunas (designer). AN ANTHOLOGY. Heiner Friedrich, 1970. Second Edition. Red printed wraps; oblong 8vo. [102] pages printed on seven different color paper stock. Includes two loose sheets laid in; two compositions on cards in envelopes tipped to pages. Works by George Brecht, Claus Bremer, Earle Brown, Joseph Byrd, John Cage, David Degener, Walter de Maria, Henry Flynt, Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Terry Jennings Dennis, Ding Dong, Ray Johnson, Jackson Mac Low, Richard Maxfeld, Malka Safro, Simone Forti, Nam June Paik, Terry Riley, Diter Rot, James Waring, Emmett Williams, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young. First edition copyrighted by Young and Mac Low in 1963, is rare at best with one copy (Stanford) on WorldCat; about ten of this edition appear on WorldCat, and it is scarce complete. Wear at the spine, about very good, clean and complete. [14778] $500.00 The End

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