ALEXANDER Literary Firsts & Poetry RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE FORTY-TWO: 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. Catalogue 42 1. 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 fine. [13136] $350.00 2. Auden, W. H. EPISTLE TO A GODSON: and Other Poems. New York: Random House, 1972. First edition. Green cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 77 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. Top edges sunned, a bit dusty else fine in an easily very good, bright dust jacket with minor wear at corners. Small sticker over price, not price-clipped. [13362] $450.00 The last collection of poems published before his death in 1973, it is quite rare signed. 3. Auster, Paul. MOON PALACE. New York: Viking Press, 1989. First Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Top tip bumped, slightly sunned edges, else fine in a lovely complete dust jacket. Near fine in fine dust jacket. [13389] $50.00 4. Banks, Russell and William Matthews (editors);. LILLABULERO Number 10 & 11: A Journal of Contemporary Writing. Northwood Narrows, NH: Lillabulero Press, 1971. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 159 pp. Double issue. Signed by Banks. Contributors include the editors as well as Ammons, Wendell Berry, Fielding Dawson, Geo. Hitchcock, Metcalf, Merwin, Simic and Tate among others. Bottom edge sunned, else very good. [13376] $35.00 5. Banks, Russell and William Matthews (editors);. LILLABULERO Number 10 & 11: A Journal of Contemporary Writing. Northwood Narrows, NH: Lillabulero Press, 1971. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 159 pp. Double issue. Contributors include the editors as well as Ammons, Wendell Berry, Fielding Dawson, Geo. Hitchcock, Metcalf, Merwin, Simic and Tate among others. Near fine. [13379] $20.00 6. Banks, Russell and William Matthews (editors);. LILLABULERO Number 7: A Journal of Contemporary Writing. Northwood Narrows, NH: Lillabulero Press, 1969. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 102 pp. Work by the editors as well as by Ammons, Berry, Kuzma, Simic, and Snyder (two poems including "Smokey The Bear Sutra" and a photo). Overlapping edges creased, else near fine. [13378] $20.00 7. Banks, Russell and William Matthews (editors);. LILLABULERO Number 9 A Journal of Contemporary Writing. Northwood Narrows, NH: Lillabulero Press, 1970. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 100 pp. Work by the editors as well as by Bly, Creeley, Harrison, Merwin, Simic, Tate, and others. Overlapping edges creased, else near fine. [13377] $20.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.3 8. Banks, Russell and William Matthews (editors); LILLABULERO 14: The Final issue. Northwood Narrows, NH: Lillabulero Prrss, 1974. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 187 pp. Signed by editor Russell Banks and also Charles Simic at his contribution (four poems). Work by Lousie Gluck, Fanny Howe, James Tate, Charles Wright and many others. Overlapping edges a bit on, else very good, clean no tears. [13372] $50.00 9. Berkson, Bill. BIG SKY 1. Bolinas: Big Sky, 1971. First edition. Illustrated, stapled wrappers; 4to. Very good copy of the first of twelve issues of this seminal 70's little mag; this issue with work by Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan, Tom Clark, Anne Waldman, Diane Di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Joanne Kyger, Clark Coolidge, Lewis Warsh, Robert Creeley and many others, many associated with the Bolinas crowd. Cover illustration by Greg Irons; with Irons and Tom Veitch collaboration on a satyrical comic regarding the growth of Bolinas. Light wear, rubbing, soiling and sunning, still very good. [12908] $150.00 10. Berkson, Bill and Joe Brainard. I Love You, de Kooning. [Bolinas?]: Yanagi, circa 1978. First edition. Single sheet 54 x 56 folded to 18 x 14 cm. (7 x 5 1/2 in.), with 11 panels of cartoon art. Number 147 of 300 copies in the Yanagi IV broadside series. Lightly worn, creased and toned front panel, else about near fine. [11817] $250.00 11. Blackburn, Paul. Journals. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Inscribed by editor Robert Kelly to Burt Britton of the Strand Bookstore. (Blackburn died in 1971.) This is one of the 500 unnumbered copies. Fine lacking the plain acetate covers. [9288] $85.00 12. Boyle, Kay; Nanos Valaoritis et al. Poster for a Poetry Reading at Cody's. Berkeley: Cody's, [1975]. Poster for readings in March [likely 1975] by Kay Boyle, Nanos Valaoritis, Howard Hart, Susan Efros, Erika Horn and Terry Wetherby. Cody's on Telegraph Ave. under two ownerships was arguably the preeminent bookstore in Berkeley for over 50 years, and hosted regular readings. Light toning at edges but else near fine on thin blue paper. 8 1/2 x 14 in. Quite scarce. [13422] $50.00 13. Brown, Spencer. TWO SONNETS. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1999. First Edition. Gray printed wrappers; sewn; 8vo. One of "fifty copies printed from DeRoos types at the Kelly-Winterton Press, New York, to celebrate in memoriam the 90 [sic] birthday of the poet, 16 October 1999". Pouch at rear containing "a copy of a letter dated 7 November 1964 from Brown to Sheridan Baker, editor of the Michigan Quarterly, where the sonnets were first published". Note card from publisher Weil to another small press publisher/poet laid in. Slightly spine-faded, else fine. Attractively printed in two colors. [12829] $45.00 14. Carson, Anne. CANICULA DI ANNA in QRL Contemporary Poetry Series. Princeton: Quarterly Review of Literature, 1984. First Edition. Black and oatmeal cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. [317 pp.] 39 pp. constitute the first book CANICULA DI ANNA by Anne Carson, one of five poets in the volume, all winners of the Colladay Prize. The other poets: Rafael Alberti, Reuel Denney, Nancy Esposito and Larry Kramer. Fine, virtually as new in like dust jacket. Issued primarily in paperback, quite uncommon in cloth. [13373] $125.00 15. ANOTHER COPY. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with light wear to back cover edge. [13374] $75.00 Precedes her frst book of poetry by a decade, and her frst solely published work EROS THE BITTERSWEET by two years. AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) 296-9176 p.5 16. Carson, Anne. MEN IN THE OFF HOURS. New York: Knopf, 2000. First Edition. Fine copy in very near fine dust jacket with light wear at the fold. Signed "respectfully ac 2004" on the title page. [Carson generally inscribes with initials only.] [13363] $65.00 17. Carson, Anne. PLAINWATER. New York: Knopf, 1995. First edition. Published simultaneously (stated) with the Canadian edition, this is a selection of her essays and poetry, mostly from journals. Her first book published by a large NY publisher. Fine in fine dust jacket. [13380] $75.00 18. Coates, Ta-Nehisi. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015. First Edition. 12mo. Signed (not inscribed to anyone) by the author on the title page. Bestselling and must read non-fiction title of 2015, the most difficult questions of American history explored in a man's letter to his son. Fine in fine dust jacket. [13391] $75.00 19. Jess [Collins]. Paste-Ups by Jess. San Francisco: Eastern Washington Historical Society, 1967. First edition. Collage poster, printed on heavy paper with the title imposed on images and short blocks of text, approx. 22 x 27 1/2 inches for an exhibition at the Cheny Coles Museum. Published in an edition of 125. This is 111 of 125 signed by Jess. Printed by East Wind Printers under the artist's supervision. Rolled, three pieces of tape on verso for hanging, light wear along edges, but easily very good. [11782] $1,000.00 20. Collom, Jack (ed.). THE No. 10. Boulder, CO: Jack Collom, circa 1975. First Edition. Photographic wrappers; stapled 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Poetry magazine with several poems by Larry Eigner, also, John Brandi, Reed Bye, Toby Olson, John Giorno, John Gierach, Larry Goodell, Ron Silliman, Ed Dorn, Anne Waldman, Robert Creeley, and others. Slip laid stating this to be the last of ten issues, however, Clay/Phillips lists 14 issues, 1966-1977. Rare, this (and most) issue not in C/P or WorldCat. Clay/Phillips p. 298. Unevenly toned, edges creased, about very good. [13404] $45.00 21. Coolidge, Clark. AMERICAN ONES (Noise & Presentiments). Bolinas: Tombouctou, 1981. First Edition. Red printed wrappers; square 8vo. 46 pp. Inscribed at a later date and signed by the poet. Light wear at foot and bottom tipped bumped, but still tight and easily very good. [12774] $35.00 22. Coolidge, Clark (ed.). JOGLARS Vol. 1, No. 1. Providence: Joglars, 1964. First Edition. Stapled wrappers; 8vo. 43 pp. First volume of a three volume run edited by Michael Palmer and Coolidge. Inscribed and signed by Clark Coolidge at a later date.