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LITTLE MAGAZINES

1. Aldan, Daisy (ed.) A NEW FOLDER: Americans: Poems and Drawings. NY: Folder Editions, 1959 [1960]. Reddish-orange printed wrappers; 8vo. 128 pp. Magazine associated with the New York School poets, although many others were included. Aldan also edited the four issues of FOLDER, which ceased publication after four issues in 1956. One of 1000 copies of which 150 were in cloth. Contributors include John Ashbery, Jackson Pollack, Kenneth Koch, Franz Kline, Larry Rivers, Joan Mitchell, Frank O'Hara, William de Kooning, most of the major Beats as well as James Merrill, Anais Nin and other more mainstream writers. Foreword by Wallace Fowlie and cover drawing by Nell Blaine. Photos; illustrations. Light rubbing and wear, cover a bit splayed, but very good. (11163) $20.00 2. [Camus, Albert]. VENTURE: Vol. 3, No. 4. Albert Camus: 1913 – 1960: A Final Interview. NY: Venture Publications, 1960. Photographic wrappers; 8vo. Literary magazine of Long Island University. Contributions by Diane Wakoski, John Clellon Holmes, Bink Noll and others. etc. Camus on front cover---prints his final interview (answers to questions from a LIU professor received at the publication offices two weeks prior to Camus' death). One crease to front cover, rubbed, otherwise easily very good. (11165) $35.00 3. Eshleman, Clayton, (ed.). FOLIO Vol. XXV, No. 1. Bloomington: Dept. of English, Indiana, 1960. Purple and white wrappers. 8vo. 64 pp. A solid issue with "Poem" by William Carlos Williams, an essay by Solt on WCW and poems by Cid Corman, Robert Bly, Eshleman, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Kelly and others, with three by Neruda in original Spanish (facing translations by Eshleman with others). Light wear at extremities else about fine copy. (11209) $25.00 Eshleman was briefly an editor of Folio while a graduate student at Indiana. This issue contains some of his earliest work, and precedes his editorship of the better known Caterpillar by seven years. 4. Fisher, Stanley (ed.). BEAT COAST EAST: An Anthology of Rebellion. NY: Excelsior Press, 1960. Yellow wrappers; Fred McDarrah photo on front. Kerouac, Mailer, Leroi Jones, etc. Illustrations by Oldenburg and Elaine deKooning created for this edition. Classic early anthology. Tight clean copy, lightly toned spine else very good, with ink number (“25”) on cover and two checkmarks on back cover (from Fred McDarrah's library - though not otherwise noted). (11126) $35.00 5. Flaherty, Douglas & James Bradford (eds.). ROAD APPLE REVIEW; Vol. 1, No. 1. Albuquerque: Road Runner Press, 1968. Orange printed, stapled wrappers; square 8vo. 38 pp. Scarce first issue of this little mag. Poetry, with contributions from Gene Frumkin; John Tagliabue; James Bertolino; Margaret Randall; Douglas Blazek et al.; an interview with Creeley on politics following the 1968 election. Very good. (11113) $15.00 6. Killian, Kevin and Dodie Bellamy. MIRAGE #4/PERIOD(ICAL) #7. San Francisco: n. p., 1992. Stapled wrappers. Cover drawing by Johnny Noxzema. Poems by Tom Carey, Steve Caroll, Carla Harryman, Catriona Strang, Kathe Burkhart and Bellamy. Early issue of this long-running periodical. Near Fine. (11271) $15.00 7. Kupferberg, Tuli (ed.). BIRTH No. 3, book 2. NY: Birth Press, 1960. Red stapled covers. 80 pp. More on "Dope". With Ted Joans; Allen Ginsberg. Stray black ink mark, else about fine. (11028) $40.00

8 Lockhead, Gordon (ed.); Jim Smith; David Phillips. NMFG (No Money from Government): Nos. 17-26; Vancouver, BC: NMFG, 1977-79. Ten issues (the last ten issues); 4to.; mimeographed, stapled at corners. Illustrated throughout. Clip-bound into a binder with autographed titling. Also, with typed letter from NMFG to Jim Smith, envelope; and David Phillips Wake Me When The Dancing Starts, Prince George, circa 1978; 8vo. chapbook issued from the press, with envelope. With a few pencil notes by Smith. Minor wear, overall easily very good. (11224) $200.00 Final ten issues of this periodical produced by Gerry Gilbert, Stan Persky and Brian Fawcett, and edited by Lockhead, which was published between 1976 and 1979, and distributed primarily via subscription. These are all from writer Jim Smith. Contributors included West Coast poets and other Canadian avant garde (one issue says 24 issues without Irving Layton). Contributors from these ten issues include: Jack Spicer, Margaret Randall, Stan Persky, Brian Fawcett, Duncan McNaughton, Jim Carroll, John Thorpe, Tom Clark "To Ungaretti", Fred Wah, Robin Blaser, Lewis MacAdam, J. T Osborne (all of iss. 23), Daphne Marlatt, and Amiri Baraka "Das Kapital". 9. Masters, Greg (ed.). THE POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER No. 66. NY: The Poetry Project, June 1979. Eight mimeograph pages stapled at corner. Addressed to Tom Carey, 2nd Gen New York School poet. Poems by Bob Rosenthal and Rochelle Kraut; reviews by John Yau and Bruce Andrews. Folded for mailing, but very good. (11270) $10.00 10. Masters, Greg (ed.). THE POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER No. 52. NY: The Poetry Project, February 1978. Eight mimeograph pages stapled at corner. Addressed to Tom Carey, 2nd Gen New York School poet. Prose poem by Coolidge, poem by James Schuyler and a review by Alice Notley of Koch's The Duplications, and more. Toned, folded for mailing, but very good. (11269) $10.00 11. Masters, Gregory; Michael Scholnick and Gary Lenhart (eds.). MAG CITY #3. NY: Mag City, 1977. Illustrated, stapled wrappers (offset). 4to. Third Gen New York School mag with contributions from Rene Ricard, Bob Holman, John Godfrey, Ted Greenwald, Tom Carey, Steve Levine, the editors and others. Light soiling and creasing; easily very good in wraps. Clay/Phillips pp. 232 -3. (11265) $25.00 12. Sorrentino, Gilbert (ed.). NEON No. 4. Brooklyn: Neon, 1959. Illustrated stapled printed wrappers; 8vo. Work by Lorine Niedecker, Louis Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams, Paul Goodman, and others including very early Hubert Selby fiction. Final issue of four of Sorrentino's little mag, plus two supplements. Fielding Dawson cover. Inked over price on contents page; stamp of Fred McDarragh the great Village Voice photographer. Clay/Phillips p. 287. Light wear, scratches, but very good. (11238) $75.00 13. Warsh, Lewis; Anne Waldman (eds.). ANGEL HAIR 6. NY: Warsh, 1969. Illustrated white card covers, stapled; large 4to. George Schneeman cover. [64 pages] Eleven poems by O'Hara, work (mostly poetry) by Berrigan, Warsh, Waldman, Steve Carey, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, Ron Padgett, Jim Carroll, Clark Coolidge, Brownstein, Bathurst, Veitch, Giorno, Clark, Elmslie, Berkson, Malanga, Borregaard, Thorpe, Franks, Kyger, Koller and Fagin. Terrific issue with a wonderful Schneeman cover. Stray, short, ink mark on cover over title, minor wear and soiling, title page unevenly toned, but easily very good. (11116) $35.00

BROADSIDES / POSTERS & the Like

14. Bruchac, Joseph. “In Milan”. Binghampton: Bellevue Press, 1978. Crisp elegant miniature broadside, postcard size, with striking poem by Bruchac on orange stock, printed letterpress by Stuart McCarty. Signed by the author beneath the poem. (9144) $10.00

Two Christodora House Broadsides

15. Dickinson, Emily. "A Bird Came Down the Walk". NY: Poet's Guild, n. d. (after 1924). First Separate Edition. A single sheet, printed on both sides, and measuring 4 5/8 by 7 3/8 inches. One of two of Dickinson's poems printed as "The Unbound Anthology", like the Frost and others in this series quite uncommon. Not in Myerson. Toned paper, but fine. (3642) $200.00 16. Dickinson, Emily. "Before You Thought of Spring" NY: Poet's Guild, n. d. (after 1924). First Separate Edition. A single sheet, printed on both sides, and measuring 4 5/8 by 7 3/8 inches. Retitled in some volumes as "The Bluebird". Not in Myerson. Toned paper, but fine. (3641) $200.00

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 17. Dylan, Bob. The iconic Milton Glaser poster that accompanied most of the early

pressings of Dylan’s “Greatest Hits” Album of 1966. Though some 6 million were reportedly produced it is somewhat uncommon in collectible form. Folded into eleven inches square it unfolds into a large 66 x 66 inch bit of nostalgia for many of us. Glaser founded Push Pin Studios in 1954, but this poster was one of his first (of hundreds), and one of the most recognized of his many well-known designs. The typeface was created specifically for the poster. Near fine (folded as issued) in a lightly worn near fine cover with the album appearing to be in similar condition, the sleeve quite toned. (11380). $150.00 18. Poster for THE POETRY PROJECT at St. Mark's Church, April 1981. NY: The Poetry Project, 1981. Illustrated poster, approx. 17 x 11 inches. April 1981 schedule for readings by Steve Carey, Lyn Hejinian, Robert Grenier, Joe Brainard, Michael Palmer, Koch, Michael Skolnick, writing workshops by Carey and Jessica Hagedorn, and much more. Folded twice for mailing, wear to edges, but very good. (11272) $25.00

19. Harris, Marie. “Interstate”. Binghampton: Bellevue Press, 1977. Postcard poem; letterpress printed by Stuart McCarty. Signed by the author. (11278) $10.00 20. Eshleman, Clayton. "Chrysanthemum Lane" Binghampton: Bellevue Press, 1978. Postcard poem; letterpress printed by Stuart McCarty. Signed by Eshleman. Fine. (11279) $15.00 21. Hamill, Sam. "The Nets" from GRATITUDE. [Rochester]: BOA Editions, [1998]. Small broadside (approx. 4 x 6 inches) printing the poem "The Nets". Lovely letterpress work in two colors. Signed by the poet. (11280) $10.00

22. Kerouac, Jack. “Hymn” [Pax 10]. NY: Pax, 1959. Illustrated broadside poem; folded twice to 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 as issued. Issued as Pax Number 10, one in a series of broadsides by various authors. Illustrated by David Budd. Very light toning, only slightest of wear, and easily near fine. First publication of the poem, and not one of the reprints. (11140) $400.00 23. Kerouac, Jack. “An Imaginary Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant/ Edgar Allen Poe”. n. p. : Charters, 1967. Orange folio folded in half with tipped in photo of a black & white Hugo Weber painting; facing a printed poem by Kerouac. Photo by Ann Charters. Portents broadside, limited to 200 copies. Photo is loose (but easily reattached), minor handling, still about fine. Due to large format scarce in this condition. (11143) $150.00 24. Mac Low, Jackson; Larry Eigner et al.; Ian Tyson (publisher). TETRAD PAMPHLETS Vol. 1: Nos. I - X. London: Tetrad, 1969 / 1970. 6 Illustrated folders/broadsides, loosely laid into a box with printed label. 4to. An edition of 450 (of 500 total) copies. Each measures 20 by 12 inches unfolded. Includes Mac Low's "23rd Light Poem" illus. by Ian Tyson; Eigner's "Poem Nov. 68" illus. by Derrick Greaves (2 copies); Petre Andreevsky's "The Death of a Guiser", illus. by Richard Pinkney; Greaves "Sweet Pictorial Reason; Pinkney's "The Alphabet Twice"; thus lacking five folders with poems by Rothenberg, Ian Tyson (2), Roy Fisher, Tom Philips. The box evidently produced in a small number, and quite scarce. The Eigner folders a bit rubbed (likely from the black bottom portion of the box); one corner of the box worn else very good, the folders about fine (11351) $150.00 Ian Tyson is a British artist. He started Tetrad Press to do Artist's Books. This portfolio (albeit a partial one) is one of his earliest and most interesting collaborations with poets. Attractive art work, all but the Mac Low covering both inside panels. 25. Merton, Thomas. “The Originators”. [Santa Barbara]: [Unicorn], [1967]. Printed poetry broadside; approx. 9 1/2 x 12. Unicorn Folio Series One Number Three. Lightly creased; very good. (11144) $65.00 26. Paley, Grace. HERE. [Montpelier]: Vermont Arts Council, 2003. Small Broadside 3 3/4 by almost 5 1/2 on white card stock. Published by the Vermont Arts Council in 2003 when Paley became the Vermont State Poet. The poem is from Grace Paley's 2000 book Begin Again: Collected Poems. The rear of the broadside has biographical information. (9583) $10.00 27. Sandy, Stephen. “Arch”. Binghampton: The Bellveue Press, 1977. Small broadside postcard about 3 1/2 by 5 1/2 on Grey fine press paper card stock. Signed by the Poet. Letterpress printed by Stuart McCarty. Fine. (9580) $10.00

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28. Walker, Emery and T. J. Cobden Sanderson (printers). Leaf From The DOVES BIBLE: Baruch 4; pp. 219 & 220. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, n. d. (1903-1905). A single leaf from the monumental DOVES BIBLE. Printed in black with a red initial on each page. Folio. Prints pages 219 & 220 from Baruch 4. approx. 13 x 9 1/4 (33 cm x 23 1/2 cm). Notes in an unknown hand in red and green ink – one on each side: "twenty-first verse/Innocents Day Eve" and "Thirty-sixth verse/ Nov. 18 morn"; with text briefly marked. About a quarter inch on top and bottom browned, with a few spots above that, but otherwise quite clean; there is a faint light border indicating that it was previously matted. (11204) $125.00 29. Warren, Robert Penn; James Dickey; Reynolds Price. FOR AARON COPLAND 14 NOVEMBER 1978. Winston-Salem: Palaemon Press, 1978. Portfolio of 3 commemorative poems---Dickey, Warren, and Price, each broadside signed by the poets. Woodcut portrait of Copland by Ann Pollard, also signed and numbered; and colophon page numbered one of 50 (of 78 total), also signed by publisher Stuart Wright. Paper all housed in an envelope in a linen-backed marbled paper over boards portfolio; a handsome production, with everything from cloth ties to tissue. (11201) $450.00 First printing of Warren's poem "Why?" (Grimshaw C391) and Dickey's poem "Mexican Valley" (Bruccoli A30).

BOOKS, CHAPBOOKS, PROOFS & MISC. 30. Ashbery, John. THE MOORING OF STARTING OUT: The First Five Books of Poetry. NY: The Ecco Press, 1997. First edition. Cloth in dust jacket, w/ ribbon marker; small 4to. 389 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. Fine in like dust jacket (jacket verso with some dye transfer at both flap folds). (1888) $95.00 31. Auden, W. H. SECONDARY WORLDS: T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures. Ln: Faber & Faber, 1968. First edition. Some light red ink notes on rear end papers with a few related ticks in the text by the art critic John Russell, from whose library this came; though no signature. A tight but only better than good copy in a soiled but very good dust jacket. (11207) $45.00 32. Baxter, Charles. WEST OF ELY. NY: New Rivers Press, 1968. First edition. Tape-bound paper wrappers. [31 pp.] Two poems by Baxter, also, Alvin Greenberg, C. W. Truesdale, John Knoepfle, Jim Hiner, and Arthur Bradley. First book appearance preceding by two years Baxter's first book published by the same press. Lightly creased else easily very good (11340) $25.00 33. Benedikt, Michael. THE BODY. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1968. First edition. The simultaneously published Trade Paper edition of his second book. Two small nicks to spine, light wear, but quite tight, without the usual rubbing, and near fine. Compliments card from the press laid in. (11131) $25.00 34. Berrigan, Ted. THE MORNING LINE. Santa Barbara: Am Here Books , 1982. First edition. Stapled printed wrappers; 4to. Inscribed by Berrigan to "Tom Carey, the only artist in America * 96% like me, Love, Ted, 4 July 82. - (and at the bottom of the page) - "*T.C.'s character 4% better than mine". Typically wonderful inscription to one of his friends. One of only 250 copies (265 total) of this late Berrigan title. Fischer p. 56. Covers and faintly to the edges coffee stained (mostly the front), the interior very good, and certainly uncommon signed. (11262) $125.00 Carey, also a poet, was James Schuyler’s secretary.

35. Berryman, John. THE DREAM SONGS. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1969. First edition. Combines his 77 Dream Songs (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (winner of the National Book Award), and includes an index of first lines. The top edge (spine slightly) has faded, but else a near fine copy in near fine dust jacket. (11295) $40.00 36. Berryman, John. LOVE & FAME. NY: FS&G, 1970. First edition. Signed, Limited edition #74 of 250. The spine is rubbed (which seems to be endemic to this production), otherwise fine (no dj as issued) in a fine slip-case. (11375) $300.00 37. Berryman, John. SHORT POEMS. NY: FS&G, 1967. First edition. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards in dust jacket. A fine copy, in a very close to fine, bright dust jacket. Signed by the poet on the ffep. A somewhat scarce signature, and a lovely copy. (11346) $400.00 38. Bishop, Elizabeth. THE COLLECTED PROSE. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1984. First edition. Cloth in dust jacket. Edited with an intro. by Robert Giroux. Fine copy in like very near fine dust jacket. (11359) $35.00 39. Bly, Robert. THE LIGHT AROUND THE BODY. NY: Harper & Row, 1967. First edition. Blue paper-covered boards with white lettering in dust jacket; 8vo. Poet's second book, winner of the National Book Award. Inscribed by Bly "For Henry [Rago]/ Who published so many / of these poems ..." in three colors of ink. Rago was the editor of Poetry where fully a third of the poems in this volume were published. Rago was himself a well-published poet. Light wear to the edges, else about fine in a lightly worn at edges dust jacket which has toned a bit along the spine. An attractive copy of the somewhat uncommon hardcover issue (published simultaneously in paperback), an exceptional association copy. (11374) $300.00 40. Bolton, Joe. BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY SUITE: To a Young Kentucky Woman. Omaha: Cummington Press, 1989. First edition. Black cloth spine with front marbled boards, paper spine label; no dj as issued. Number 136 press numbered copies of 215 printed by Harry Duncan on Ingres d"Arches. A self-described novel in verse. The poet's first book. Fine copy and usual lovely work from the press. Very scarce in the marketplace. (11284) $150.00 Bolton committed suicide at 28 after completing his MFA at Arizona; he also studied at Florida.

Thirty-four items including scarce chapbooks & letters many inscribed to Robert Nye. 41. Booth, Martin. Twenty-nine printed items; four TLs and one typed card, signed. [UK /US]: [various], 1967-1980. A significant collection of first editions by this distinguished writer. Chapbooks, first collected book in jacketed cloth, pamphlets and broadsides - mostly poetry by Martin Booth. Paper Pennies And Other Poems. Privately printed, 1967 (signed - his rare first book; 1/100). Supplication To The Himalayas. Sceptre Press. 1968 (his second publication, a signed, illustrated broadside limited to 50 copies). In The Yenan Caves. 1969, one of 74 numbered copies. The Borrowed Gull. 1970, one of 74 numbered. White. 1971, one of 100 numbered. A Winnowing Of Silence. 1971, one of 180 numbered and signed. One The Death Of Archbishop Broix. 1971. The Crying Embers.Fuller D'arch Smith, 1971,1st Binding, 1st collected. Words Broadsheet Three., one of 100 numbered. Pilgrims And Petitions. 1972. Teller, 1972, inscribed to Robert Nye. Coronis, 1973, review copy with prospectus. In Her Hands [1973], one of 50 numbered and signed, with inscription to Robert Nye; and regular issue limited to 100. Hands Twining Grasses. 1974, one of 100 numbered copies; inscribed to Robert Nye. Spawning The Os. 1974, one of 350 numbered copies. Yogh. 1974, one of 100 numbered copies, with added poet's inscription. Brevities (Cid Corman's design At Elizabeth Press). [1974], one of 300 copies; inscribed to Robert Nye.

Rider And Horse. 1976. The Knotting Sequence. [1977]. The Earth Man Dreams Of A Turned Sod. [1978], one of 50 signed and numbered; and one of 150 numbered (of 200). The Dying. [1978], one of 50 numbered and signed. Winter's Night [1979], one of 50 numbered and signed; additional issue sent as Holiday Greeting. Decadal: Ten Years Of Sceptre Press. [1979], edited by Booth, one of 300 copies; specially signed. Calling With Owls. [1979], one of 100 numbered and signed. The Devil's Wine. 1980, full leather, one of 50 copies, signed. Martin Booth: Bedfordshire Writer. Conversations With A Captor by Jean Overton Fuller [1973], forward by Booth, with his inscription to Robert Nye. Making A Success Of A Small Press. Np/Nd. Most Published In The UK, some US. With four typed letters signed, and one typed postcard signed to author Robert Nye dated from Dec. 1973, to March 1974. Good publishing, writing content having to do with reviewing, sending books off to London publishers, needing a job, paying the printer, suggesting a book of "Porn-Ography", etc. Nye, like Booth a prolific novelist and poet, was the poetry editor of The Scotsman and there are references made to that publication. Many of these copies inscribed to Robert Nye his contemporary and fellow British poet and publisher. 34 items in total, including letters, ranging from very good to fine, mostly fine. A collection that would be nearly impossible to put together today, even without the association copies. (5211) $1,000.00 Booth began Sceptre Press in 1968. Himself a prize-winning poet, he late in his productive career became a best-selling and critically acclaimed novelist (e.g. A Very Private Gentleman from which the George Clooney vehicle The American was made) and writer of nonfiction. His press published many of the best British poets, and eventually US poets throughout the 70's. 42. Brakhage, Stan. THE SEEN. San Francisco: Pasteurize Press/Zepherous Image, 1975. First edition. Reflective printed wrappers, with mylar endsheets in the original printed envelope. Fine copy, scarce, especially with the envelope and in As New condition. (10667) $1,500.00

43. Brodsky, Joseph; Seamus Heaney; Derek Walcott. HOMAGE TO ROBERT FROST. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1996. First edition. Two-toned boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 117 pp. Essays by three Nobel prize-winning poets on Frost. Fine in like jacket. (11347) $30.00 44. Bronk, William. ESTIVAL: The Keepsakes Collection. Hudson Falls, NY: Carella, 2011 [2012]. First edition thus. 112 pages, 6 x9 inches, printed on archival paper. Designed by Jerry Kelly. One of 500 copies bound in Neenah Classic Laid wrappers with French fold flaps; gold-stamped. James L. Weil of the Elizabeth Press published 30 chapbooks of the poet's work from approx. 1983 through 2002 all in quite limited (often only 50 copies) editions. Richard Carella, Bronk's long-time friend and neighbor, whose collection forms the poet's primary checklist, has published this exquisite collection of the complete set of "keepsakes". Regular issue (there is a cloth in slipcase edition of

50) at the published price; prospectus laid in. As New. (11378) $40.00 45. Brooke, Rupert. LETTERS FROM AMERICA. NY: Scribners, 1916. First American edition. Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering. 8vo. Preface by Henry James. Brooke beginning in May 1913 traveled North America for a year, and posted these letters about his travels. Quite a nice copy, gilt fresh pages lightly toned. Small Brentano's label on rear end paper. Very good; lacking scarce dust jacket. (11133) $65.00

46. Brown, [Bob] Robert Carlton. MY MARJONARY. Boston: Luce, 1916. First edition. Red cloth lettered in gilt. Poet's first book. Inscribed by Brown in 1937 to Phil[ip] Kaplan/ "comrade artist". Kaplan was an art director and a successful though mostly amateur artist and somewhat of a Brown patron. Southern Illinois holds a large cache of Brown's letters, many to Kaplan. Quite an attractive copy with bright gilt and very little wear; nearly fine. (11141) $500.00 47. Bukowski, Charles. FIRE STATION. Santa Barbara: Capricorn, 1970. First printing (not the reprint by Capra). Red printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies, with 100 in hardcover. An unusually fine copy with a short closed tear on the back cover else fine and unread. (11151) $225.00 48. Bukowski, Charles. IN THE SHADOW OF THE ROSE. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. First edition. Cloth-backed decorated boards w/ paper spine label in blue unprinted dust jacket. 4to. #98 of 740 copies signed by the poet, with a small portrait below his signature. Light shelfwear, else fine in a fine dust jacket. (11350) $250.00 49. Codrescu, Andrei. [Paul Mariah]. DON'T WAIT FOR ME (postcard addressed to poet Paul Mariah). Oakland: G. P. Skratz , 1976. First edition. Postcard with Codrescu' s poem on the front; a note in the poet's hand to fellow poet Paul Mariah regarding Mariah's book Apparitions Of A Black Pauper’s Suit. Fine. (11277) $20.00 50. Corner, Philip. POPULAR ENTERTAINMENTS. NY: Something Else Press, 1967. First edition. White stapled wrappers. Great Bear Pamphlet. Corner a musician was an early participant in the Fluxus movement. Fine copy. (11245) $30.00 51. Creeley, Robert. A DAY BOOK: 1968 November 19 Tuesday. NY: Scribner, 1972. First printing, trade paper issue. Part prose, part poetry; an intimate look at his life. Robert Indiana cover. Light remainder mark, light soiling, else very good. (11213) $20.00 52. Cunningham, J. V. THE HELMSMAN. San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1942. First edition. Stiff paper boards in plain pasted on green covers, with blue cover label, printed in black. 8vo. First edition of the poet's first published book, and his first collection of poems (preceded only by a prose rarity that appeared for sale in a Peter Howard catalog, and one the bibliographer chose not to include). This copy signed by the poet on the title page. One of 300 copies in various formats including a rare cloth issue, and wraps issues in a floral design and plain green. This one of the scarce issues in heavy inflexible boards. Covers overlap, and thus are turned a bit, still with little wear and near fine. Rare issue and scarce signed. (11354) $650.00 53. __ __ ANOTHER COPY. Paper boards in plain green covers, with orange-yellow cover label, printed in black. Covers overlap, and thus are turned and a bit worn as usual; still easily very good. Number 2 in the Colt Press Poetry Booklets Series (11355) $200.00

54. Cunningham, J. V. TO WHAT STRANGERS, WHAT WELCOME. Denver: Alan Swallow, 1964. First edition. Sewn wrappers. Sequence of 15 short poems that appeared in Poetry and the Partisan Review. Design by Theo Jung and printing by Swallow, in an edition of "about 1000" on Hamilton's Andorra and sewn into Fabriano covers. Lightly sunned spine, else fine. (11315) $15.00 55. Dacey, Philip. GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS MEETS WALT WHITMAN IN HEAVEN AND OTHER POEMS. Great Barrington: Penmaen Press, 1982. First edition. Cloth in dust jacket. One of 75 numbered copies (#14) signed by Dacey and McCurdy. Of 900 hand-printed total copies only 300 were issued in cloth. Bound at the Stinehour Press. Wood engravings by the designer and publisher Michael McCurdy. Top edge of text block spotted, else clean and fine in a fine dust jacket. Errata slip laid in. (11184) $50.00 56. Dahlberg. Edward. BECAUSE I WAS FLESH: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1963. First edition. Red cloth in dust jacket. 8vo. One leaf torn/creased at the bottom, else fine copy in a very lightly worn, lightly rubbed, else near fine dust jacket. 234 pp. (11333) $25.00 57. Dickey, William. INTERPRETER'S HOUSE. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1963. First edition. 94 pp. Cloth in dust jacket. Inscribed and signed in full in his elegant hand on the free end paper: " For Sister Davida, a most appreciative audience / with gratitude". Poet's second collection, which followed his Yale Younger Poets series volume. Near fine copy, shelfwear only, in a worn dust jacket with three areas of tape reinforcement. Uncommon book signed. (11293) $75.00 58. Digges, Deborah. TRAPEZE. NY: Knopf, 2004. First edition. Poet's fourth and final collection before her death, assumed a suicide. Signed by the poet on the title page. Fine copy in like dust jacket. Scare signed. (11297) $75.00 59. Digges, Deborah. VESPER SPARROWS. NY: Atheneum, 1986. First edition. Her first book, winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award. A short closed tear on the front panel, minor wear on a couple of corners; still an attractive dust jacket. Signed by the poet on the title page. (11296) $150.00 60. Doty, Mark. FIRE TO FIRE: New and Selected Poems. NY: Harper Collins, 2008. First edition. Hardcover issue of the poet's first selected poems. Signed by the poet on the title page. Ticket stub for Doty reading at The New School; brochure from the school laid in. Fine copy (one tip lightly bumped) in a fine dust jacket. (11329) $45.00 61. Doty, Mark. MURANO: Glass from the J. Paul Getty Museum. LA: Getty Publications, 2000. First edition. Oblong small 8vo. A poem about Venice ("Murano" was originally published in Sweet Machine), with illustrations of seventeen pieces of Murano glass. Briefly inscribed by the poet. A very attractive publication. Fine in fine dust jacket. (11331) $55.00 62. Doty, Mark. SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: Poems. NY: Harper Collins, 2005. First edition. Signed by the author at a New Hampshire reading, in advance of publication. Lovely copy. Fine in like dust jacket. (7950) $50.00 63. Doty, Mark. STILL LIFE WITH OYSTERS AND LEMON. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001. First edition. Part memoir (his third), part art history (with the Dutch still life painting referred to reproduced on the back of the dust jacket) and part essay on poetry. Fine hardcover in like dust jacket. (11292) $20.00

64. Doty, Mark; Carolyn Chute. A Replica of the Parthenon & Tall Woman Love in PLOUGHSHARES. Cambridge: Ploughshares, 1984. First edition. Illustrated wraps; 8vo. Page 118 signed by poet Mark Doty ; page 78 inscribed by Chute at their contributions. Light creasing at corners and lower spine, very good or better. (11369) $20.00 65. Dr. Seuss [Theodor Geisel]. THE SEVEN LADY GODIVAS. NY: Random House, 1987. First edition thus. First printing of the re-issue. Advance copy consisting of gathered and side-stapled sheets in dust jacket. Scarce advance format. Cover lightly worn along folds, else fine. (7438)

$75.00 66. Eliot, T. S. THE CULTIVATION OF CHRISTMAS TREES. NY: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First American edition Black paper covered boards printed in gold & white. Thin 8vo. A short poem on "the several attitudes towards Christmas". Typography, binding, and decorations by Enrico Arno. Originally published in 1954 in the UK, the US edition is the first hardcover. Crown of spine bumped, else fine in a very good original printed envelope. Attractive copy in the uncommon envelope (no dust jacket as issued). (Gallup A66b) (11255) $95.00 67. Eliot, Thomas Stearns. "Goethe as the Sage"; GEDENKSCHRIFT ZUR VERLEIHUNG DES HANSISCHEN GOETHE-PREISES 1954. Hamburg: Goethe-Preis, 1954. First edition. White printed wrappers. 72 pp. Eliot's speech on receipt of the

prize (in English) pp. 49-71. Printed in proceedings for 1954 Goethe Prize ceremonies; In German and English. Light toning, else near fine. One of 1200 copies; not for sale, thus somewhat scarce. Gallup B74. (11146) $150.00 The actual ceremony did not take place due to Eliot's illness until 1955. He donated his prize to flood victims in Austria/Germany. 68. Fenton, James. LEONARDO'S NEPHEW: Essays on Art and Artists. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998. First American edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; small 4to. 284 pp. Briefly inscribed and signed in full on the title page. Tips slightly bumped, but still fine in like dust jacket. (11328) $20.00

69. Fenton, James. THE STRENGTH OF POETRY Oxford Lectures. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2001. First American edition. 266 pp. Collection of essays. Top tips bumped, else fine in a very near fine (tiny closed tear at crown) dust jacket. (11324) $15.00 70. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. HER. NY: New Directions, 1960. First printing; trade paper issue. 157 pp. Author's first novel. Trace rubbing, but clean and easily very good. (11169) $25.00

71. Finstein, Max. SAVONAROLA'S TUNE. NY: L. Hellenberg/ dist. by Totem, 1959. First edition. White wrappers, designed by Dan Rice; 12mo. 41 pp. Introduction by Gilbert Sorrentino. Poet's first book. Fred McDarrah's copy with ownership stamp. Near fine. (11240) $45.00 Finstein generally associated with the Beats. Nice copy and a nice association copy as McDarrah was among the earliest photographers to document the Beats. 72. Ford, Charles Henri. SLEEP IN A NEST OF FLAMES. n.p. [Norfolk]: New Directions, 1949. First edition. Pale green paper-covered boards, w/ paper label, in slipcase. Intro. by Edith Sitwell. Inscribed by Ford, as "Charlie," to the actor Zachary Scott, his then brother-in-law, married to his sister Ruth Ford. Bottom of spine bumped and cracked; mint green paper covered slipcase cracked along half of bottom edge, else all clean and very good. Remarkably pretty and fragile book. (11138) $125.00 Ruth was an actress, and through her close associations with the likes of William Faulkner and Orson Welles and through her brother's literary connections was quite famous for the "salon" at her Dakota apartment (where her brother, also, kept an apartment for some time); where the avant garde and major figures of theater and literature met. Charles a singular figure as arguably the foremost surrealist in US literature. Scott began and ended his career in the theater, though for a decade he was a major Hollywood star. 73. Freeman, Ed. AMERICAN ECLIPSE. n. p. : Privately Printed, 1959. First edition. Stapled, mimeographed; 12mo. 12 pp. A long proto-beat poem in three typed sections with third section on the back cover in the poet's hand (reproduced). Presumably the poet's own copy with textual emendations. The poem clearly Beat-influenced moves from Mobile, AL to several regions of Mexico to San Francisco to Iowa among other places. Minor soiling else fine. Possibly unique, certainly rare (no copies on WorldCat). (11194) $95.00 74. Ginsberg, Allen. EMPTY MIRROR: Early Poems. NY: Totem Press w/ Corinth Books, 1961. First edition. Intro. by William Carlos Williams. Illustrated stapled wraps. 47 pp. Light wear, staples a bit rusty, but fresh and else near fine. (11241) $30.00

75. Ginsberg, Allen. EMPTY MIRROR: Early Poems. NY: Totem Press w/ Corinth Books, 1961. First edition. Intro. by William Carlos Williams. Illustrated stapled wraps. 47 pp. This copy inscribed: 'For Ted Berrigan/ From Columbia College/ and Psychiatric Institute/ 1946-1951/ Allen Ginsberg". The inscription referring to both Ginsberg's alma mater and the Columbia psychiatric hospital where he spent time on two occasions. The poet's third published book after the two great City Lights publications: Howl & Kaddish. Spine edge toned, else about fine. Wonderful association copy between two of the most important poets of the second half of the Twentieth Century. (10357) $1,000.00

76. Ginsberg, Allen. IRON HORSE. Toronto: Coach House, 1973. First edition. Second printing (originally published in 1972). Oblong 12mo. Illus. wrappers (no hardcover issued). 53 pp. Long poem printed on illustrated paper. Fine copy. (11247) $25.00 77. Ginsberg, Allen; Philip Glass. HYDROGEN JUKEBOX. NY: Dunvagen Music Publishers, 1990. First Separate Edition. Stapled printed wrappers. Libretto mostly from previously published Ginsberg poems; music by Glass. Light wear, lightly creased corner, else about fine. (11268) $20.00 78. Gioia, Dana. BARRIER OF A COMMON LANGUAGE: An American Looks at Contemporary Poetry. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. First edition. Trade paper issue; 8vo. American formalist looks at British poets including Hughes, Causley, Fenton, Larkin, Cope, Connor, Tomlinson, Gunn, Amis and several others. Tips bumped else fine. (11312) $10.00 79. Gioia, Dana. THE GODS OF WINTER. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1991. Fine first printing of the trade paper edition (there was a small hardcover printing). (11283) $15.00 80. Gioia, Dana. THE HAND OF THE POET. NY: Rizzoli, 1997. First edition. Original boards in jacket; small folio; 358 pp. Card from then NEA Chairman Gioia typed and signed "Dana" to recipient laid in. Gioia refers to a William Safire NYT column "A Gioia to Behold", also laid in. Reproductions of manuscripts by our greatest poets held at The NY Public Library/Berg Collection, with essays on each by Dana Gioia. Fine in like dust jacket. (11322) $45.00

81. Gioia, Dana. INTERROGATION AT NOON. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf, 2001. First printing, trade paper issue. Fine copy. (11286) $12.00 82. [Gioia, Dana] Lindner, Linda. DANA GIOIA. Boise: Boise State Univ., 2000. First edition. Stapled photographic wrappers; thin 8vo. 61 pp. No. 143 in the Western Writers Series. Long essay on the poet. Fine unused copy. (11313) $10.00 83. Giorno, John. POEMS. NY: Mother, 1967. First edition. Illustrated stapled wrappers; square 8vo. Robert Rauschenberg cover. 1000 copies. The author & artist's first book, includes his overtly homosexual poem "Pornographic Poem". Light wear, easily very good. (11242) $50.00

84. Giovanni, Nikki (editor). NIGHT COMES SOFTLY: Anthology of Black female voices. Newark: n. p., 1970. First edition. Black wraps with black lettering, inside covers with photographic design; 8vo. 97 pp. Includes poetry from Giovanni, Brooks, Sanchez, Jordan, Walker and a few other notables; mostly unknowns, many still in school. Small crease light wear to the extremities, but near fine and scarce. (11121) $50.00

85. Godden, William. FAMOUS PEOPLE THOUGHTS AND POEMS. NY: Birth Press/Pup Press, 1959. First edition. Stapled orange illustrated wrappers. Small 8vo. Pup Press was an affiliate of Birth Press edited by Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs. Light creasing, but near fine (11246) $30.00 86. Goodman, Paul. RED JACKET. NY: Privately Printed, n.d. First edition. Stapled, red printed wraps. Small 8vo. 31 pp. The title poem appeared in Kenyon Review in 1958; this likely published prior to that - some University collections listing it as 1955. Some ageing, but near fine. (11237) $35.00 87. Gunn, Thom. The Man with Night Sweats Poems. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992. First edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Signed on the page by the poet. Fine in a fine dust jacket. (11362) $45.00 88. Gunn, Thom. SELECTED POEMS 1950-1975. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1979. First edition. Gold cloth in dust jacket. Inscribed in 1997 by the poet and signed "for Karen, with . gratitude for all the trouble you take over me! Love from Thom/ Berkeley 1997". The poet's own selections from his early great collections. Thomas Victor photo of the author on the back cover. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. (11363) $20.00 89. Gunn, Thom. THE SENSE OF MOVEMENT. Ln: Faber & Faber, 1957. First edition. Burgundy cloth, spine stamped in white. Signed by the poet on the half-title. 62pp. Mostly formal poems, an early book by the poet who emigrated to the US prior to this book. Near fine copy, lacking the dust jacket. (11303) $100.00 90. Gunn, Thom & Ander. POSITIVES. Ln: Faber & Faber, 1966. First edition. Rose cloth in dust jacket. Small 4to. 80 pp. Photographs in B&W by the poet's brother facing Thom Gunn's poems on each page. Top edge lightly soiled, light shelfwear, else fine in a lightly soiled and worn at edges easily very good dust jacket. (11321) $35.00 91. Hall, Donald. THE FARM SUMMER 1942. NY: Dial, 1994. First edition. Glossy illustrated boards in dust jacket. Signed by Donald Hall. Summer for a young man on a New Hampshire farm during WWII. Children's book with illustrations in full color by Barry Moser. Fine copy. (11178) $25.00 92. Hall, Donald. THE HAPPY MAN. NY: Random House, 1986. First trade paper edition issued simultaneously with the hardcover. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. Signed by the poet. Very near fine copy, never read. (11173) $35.00 93. Hall, Donald. THE IDEAL BAKERY: Stories. NY: Harper & Row/Perennial, 1988. First trade paperback edition in illustrated wrappers. Signed by the author. Short stories. Toning, especially to the verso of the front cover, else fine and never read. (11172) $10.00 94. Hall, Donald. LUCY'S CHRISTMAS. NY: Browndeer Press/Harcourt Brace, 1994. First edition. Glossy illustrated boards in dust jacket. Signed by Donald Hall. A Children's book with illustrations by Michael McCurdy. The story is about Hall's mother Lucy when she was a child, the house described is House at Eagle Pond the poet's ancestral home where he currently lives. Fine copy. (11177) $45.00

95. Hall, Donald. TO KEEP MOVING: Essays 1959 - 1969. Geneva, NY: Hobart & William Smith Colleges Press, 1980. First edition. Trade paperback original; 167 pp. Signed by the poet. Essays on poetry - covering his contemporaries and the masters, with a brief introduction by Hall. Fine copy, never read. Needless to say scarce signed. (11174) $45.00 96. Hall, Donald. WHEN WILLARD MET BABE RUTH. NY: Browndeer Press/Harcourt Brace, 1996. First edition. Third printing. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. Signed by Donald Hall. Pictorial children's book about Babe Ruth, a New Hampshire family and the passage of time. Lovely story with watercolors by Barry Moser. Fine copy. (11176) $20.00 97. Hall, Donald; Ian Hamilton. DONALD HALL: in Conversation with Ian Hamilton. Ln: Between the Lines, 2000. First edition. Blue photographic wrappers; 111 pp. Signed by Donald Hall. Fifth book in a series of interviews with poets, in this case Hamilton asking questions of biographic, poetic and personal (his wife Jane Kenyon had recently died) nature. Some signs of ageing, but still essentially a new copy. Uncommon, especially signed. (11175) $35.00 98. Kelleher, Jack (compiler). DONALD HALL: A Bibliographical Checklist. Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 2000. First edition. Original printed wrappers; 78 pp. With a foreword by Richard Wilbur, and useful commentary by Hall. Specially signed by the poet. Small area of wear on the back cover, but essentially fine. (11171) $20.00 99. Hammon, Kate. NEW TIERS NO NUMBERS. [NY]: Secret Press, 1979. First edition. Stapled printed wrappers; 4to.. 11 leaves printed on rectos only. One of 40 numbered copies signed by the poet. Scarce - no copies on WorldCat. Moderate wear and toning; very good in wraps (11263) $25.00 Evidently briefly part of the St. Marks poetry crowd, with a few poems in publications out of there, this seems to be her second book. 100. Hammon, Kate. RADIO HEART. NY: Open Window Books/ St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1978. First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. 4to. 14 leaves, printed on rectos only. George Schneeman cover. Inscribed to Tom (Carey) by Hammon. Printed at St. Mark's Poetry Project. 1/150 copies; poet’s first book. Toned covers with a few coffee spots, else very good. (11273) $25.00 Association copy between two poets associated with St. Mark's Church Poetry Project directed at the time by Ron Padget. Carey was James Schuyler's secretary. Hammon seems to have disappeared from the NY poetry scene. Not in Clay/Phillips. 101. Hart, Howard. THE SKY OF ORANGE WHISPERS. NY: Gallery: Gertrude Stein, 1964. First edition. White wrappers printed in orange. 8vo. 55 pp. Signed by Hart a Beat poet and jazz drummer; he was friends with many of the jazz greats as well as the early Beats and NY poets especially Lamantia and Delmore Schwartz a friend from Columbia where he earned his MA. An attractive copy with only minor wear. Scarce signed copy of the poet's second book. (11215) $50.00 Howard Hart, Philip Lamantia, and Jack Kerouac, who Philip had introduced to Howard, read their poetry with French horn & piano jazz improvisations by David Amram at The Circle In The Square and the Brata Gallery, major events in the history of poetry and jazz fusion performances. [Armour Garland PoetryBay, Winter 2003]

102. Hass, Robert. FIELD GUIDE. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. First edition. Cloth issue; 8vo. 73 pp. The author's first book; signed by him on the title page. Volume 68 of the Yale Younger Poets Series; chosen by Stanley Kunitz. Light soiling and foxing, else very good in a rubbed but bright (not price-clipped) dust jacket with evidence of dampstaining on the verso. There are numerous notes (mostly critical) in ink and check marks at the titles throughout. With faults still an attractive copy in the uncommon cloth issue and signed not inscribed. (11281) $450.00 Hass was Poet Laureate from 1995 to 1997. Hass has won the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, once for poetry, once for criticism; one of our finest poets, he has also been the primary translator into English of Czeslaw Milosz. 103. Heaney, Seamus. KEEPING GOING. Concord: William B. Ewert, 1993. First edition. Large gray paper wraps with gold titling. Folio. One of 150 numbered copies (of 250 - 50 were case bound, 50 laid into a portfolio) signed by Heaney, Dimitri Hadzi (illustrator) & Gino Lee (the printer). Printed by The Bow & Arrow Press of Cambridge, MA, and bound in handsewn wrappers. A total of eight poems, and heavily illustrated. An attractive production. Very fine. (10366) $250.00 104. __ __ ANOTHER COPY. This copy is not numbered and is inscribed by the publisher "for Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon with highest regards", and is additionally signed by Bill Ewert (not called for). Exceptional association copy between the poets; Ewert published both poets. Fine. (10982) $450.00 105. Heaney, Seamus. THE LOOSE BOX. NY: Parnassus, 2001. First Separate Edition. Single folio sheet folded twice to form four printed pages. One of 101 numbered copies signed by the poet. "Printed at The Oliphant Press, NY on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Parnassus: Poetry in Review." As new at the published price. (10087) $250.00 106. Heaney, Seamus. SWEENEY ASTRAY: A Version From The Irish. Derry: Field Day Theatre Company, 1983. First edition. Quarter calf w/ gilt stamp over batik paper-covered boards. In a heavy gray, cloth slipcase. Presumably specially rebound from the first edition. The binding is slightly convex, but otherwise fine, and quite nicely done. (11344) $100.00

107. Higgins, Dick. A BOOK ABOUT LOVE & WAR & DEATH: Canto One. NY: Something Else Press, 1965. Later printing with 20 listings on back. About fine copy of this early Great Bear Pamphlet. Paperback. (11249) $15.00 108. Higgins, Dick et al. MANIFESTOS. NY: Something Else Press, 1966. First edition. Chapbook, stapled, yellow printed wrappers; 8vo. 31 pp. 10 titles listed on the back cover. A Great Bear Pamphlet. With manifestos from Ay-0; Philip Corner; Robert Filliou; Al Hansen; Alison Knowles; Jerome Rothenberg; John Giorno; Emmett Williams; Higgins and others. Minor darkening and creasing to spine area, else easily very good. (11235) $45.00

109. Hirsch, Edward. WILD GRATITUDE. NY: Knopf, 1986. First edition. Cloth in dust jacket. Signed on the title page. The second collection by the poet, no. 21 in the Knopf Poetry Series. Winner of the 1886 National Book Critics Circle Award. Fine copy in a near fine white illustrated dust jacket that is very lightly smudged, with moderate age-toning. (11343) $75.00 110. Hirschman, Jack. A CORRESPONDENCE OF AMERICANS. Bloomington: Indiana, 1960. First edition. Original boards in scarce glassine wrapper. The poet's first regularly published book. Intro. by Karl Shapiro. Spine (pink) faded, bottom corners worn, still very good in a chipped and worn fragile glassine wrapper. (11314) $35.00 111. Hoagland, Tony. DONKEY GOSPEL: Poems. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1998. First edition. 71 pp. Signed by the Poet Tony Hoagland on the title page. Winner of the 1997 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Scarce signed. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (11341) $95.00 112 Howe, Susan. THE MIDNIGHT. NY: New Directions, 2003. First edition. Original wrappers, French folds. Inscribed by the poet in 2004. 178 pp. A work in five sections of poetry and prose and amply illustrated. Fine. (11256) $150.00 An uncommon signature by one of our most highly regarded poets. Item # 113

113. Howe, Susan. DEFENESTRATION OF PRAGUE. NY: Kulchur, 1983. First edition. Illustrated wrappers; 4to. 126 pp. Light wear and creasing, but easily very good. (11260) $60.00 114. Irby, Kenneth; Robert Creeley; Larry Goodell (ed.). MOVEMENTS/ SEQUENCES. DUENDE 8. Placitas, New Mexico.: Duende, 1965. First edition. Mimeographed leaves in printed wrappers; stapled. 35 pp. Postscript by Robert Creeley. Entire issue (all issues devoted to single writers) devoted to Irby's poems. Lovely, near fine copy with slight creasing and stain at one corner. Clay/Phillips pp. 150-1. Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps. (11114) $100.00 115. Jeffers, Robinson. SUCH COUNSELS YOU GAVE TO ME. NY: Random House, 1937. Limited Edition; No. 165 of 300 numbered and signed copies. Tan

leather spine stamped lettering over decorated boards. Title and cover decorations by Fritz Eichenberg. Attractively printed at The Spiral Press. 129 pp. Attractive contemporary bookplate of Basil Burwell w/ resulting light offset on ffep; leather spine scuffed, bottom tips bumped, else about fine, lacking original tissue and slipcase. (11301) $150.00

116. Jeffers, Robinson. TAMAR and Other Poems. NY: Peter G. Boyle, 1924. First edition. Light gray-green cloth, gilt stamped. 8vo. One of 500 copies. Lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, top edge text block lightly foxed, else near fine; lacking the rare gray unprinted dust jacket. (11307) $400.00 117. Jones, LeRoi [Amiri Bakara]. PREFACE TO A TWENTY VOLUME SUICIDE NOTE.... n. p.: Totem/Corinth, 1961. First printing, second issue. Illustrated wrappers. The author's third book of poetry. Basil King cover drawing. 47 pp. Small abrasion presumably where the price was removed, else a bright, white near fine copy. (11120) $25.00 118. Justice, Donald. BANJO DOG. Riverside: Doe Press / Thaumatrope Press, 1995. First edition. Navy silk, w/ leather spine label stamped in gilt; small 4to. One of 49 copies bound in cloth by Barbara Blumenthal (the rest of the edition "about 200" were paper). Signed by Blumenthal, the printer Sidney Berger, and the poet Donald Justice. Fine copy of a lovely production with linocuts by Justice, without dust wrapper as issued. (11258) $350.00 119. Kherdian, David. TAKING THE SOUNDINGS ON THIRD AVENUE. Woodstock: Overlook, 1981. First edition. Cloth issue in dust jacket. Signed by the poet. Very good or better in like dust jacket with price sticker on flap. (11188) $20.00 120. Kinnell, Galway. AVE. BEARING THE INITIAL OF CHRIST Poems 1946-1964. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. First edition. Original green printed paper wraps (as issued). Specially signed by Kinnell on the title page with fountain pen, and with the publisher's Advance Uncorrected Proof slip laid in. Includes selections from First Poems 1946-1954, What a Kingdom It Was, and Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock. Includes a two page Preface by the author. Uncommon in uncorrected proof state, and especially so signed. Lightly spine-faded (much less than usual) else fine. (11384) $225.00 121. Kinnell, Galway. FLOWER HERDING ON MOUNT MONADNOCK. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. First edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. Author's second book of poems. Near fine copy in a lightly worn, bright and complete (not price-clipped) jacket with one short closed tear and bb shot loss at flap. (11288) $40.00 122. Levertov, Denise. OVERLAND TO THE ISLANDS. Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1958. First edition. Tall 8vo. One of 450 copies. Japanese paper jacket over stiff card wrappers. Issued as Jargon 19. Small stain on back cover; small loss of lightly darkened fragile dust jacket at head and tail. Very good, and an attractive early publication from the poet. (11161) $100.00 123. Levine, Philip. THE MERCY. NY: Knopf, 1999. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in clear plastic binder with black cloth spine (Measures 8-1/2 x 11 in.). Precedes the more common paperbound proof. Fine. (11111) $50.00 124. Levine, Philip. THE NAMES OF THE LOST. Iowa City: The Windhover Press, 1976. First edition. Black cloth with paper spine label. Fine copy of these great poems printed by one of our finest presses. One of 200 copies, signed by the poet. The trade edition was published in paper only. (11259) $350.00

125. Liddy, James. BLUE MOUNTIAN. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1968. First edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Inscribed and signed in full in marker: "For Mark and Francis with affection" in Dublin in 1968. Offsetting from jacket on endpapers, else fine in an evenly faded lightly worn at folds still near fine dust jacket. 39 pp. (11306) $125.00 126. Liddy, James. IN A BLUE SMOKE. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1964. First edition. First Dublin (w/out Dufour printed on Title page) edition. Original boards in dust jacket. First printing of the poet's first book of poems, preceded by an address on Joyce. Inscribed: "This copy is for Mr. Silliman / James Liddy". About fine copy in a lightly sunned at extremities else fine dust jacket (ghost of price sticker on front flap). Rare signed. (11318) $200.00 127. [Liddy, James] Arkins, Brian. JAMES LIDDY: A Critical Study. Galway: Arlen House, 2001. First edition. Cloth in dust jacket. Inscribed by Liddy under the author Arkins name: "who wishes he were James Liddy & James Liddy who wishes he were Brian Arkins/ James Liddy". "First comprehensive study....": [from back cover]. Neat inscription in Liddy's hand. Fine in like dust jacket. (11327) $45.00 128. Lowell, Robert. LORD WEARY'S CASTLE. NY: Harcourt Brace, 1946. First edition. 8vo. Black cloth, gilt lettering, in dust jacket. Grolier Bookshop book ticket on front pastedown. Vary good copy with light wear to extremities and foxing to prelimns; black jacket lightly rubbed, few spots; few tears to rear; top and bottom of spine of jacket with small chips, else very good. Poet's first regularly published book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1947; Lowell became consultant to the Librarian of Congress the same year. (11125) $125.00 129. Mac Low, Jackson. ECHOES of New Trier. Winnetka, IL: New Trier High School, 1939. Green illustrated covers. Large 4to. Jackson Mac Low's senior class yearbook; his personal copy, with his senior year report card laid in. New Trier was and is an elite public school - Wikipedia lists over 100 distinguished alumni (not however Mac Low); Jackson seems to have been an average student in a class where the majority were headed to the Ivy League, the Seven Sisters, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Michigan, or (like Jackson Mac Low) to Chicago. Besides his class photo, there is a group photo of him with the Gavel Club (he was president of the debate team his senior year); under activities he is listed as being on the Inklings staff (with internal evidence that he contributed), and he was the winner of the Williams Poetry prize for 1938. Typical classmate farewells throughout, a number mentioning his (lack of) height and his poetic ambitions. A unique item and it would seem a useful one for anyone with a biographical interest in a poet central to the New York avant garde scene, including Language Poetry, and the Fluxus Movement. Worn at corners, soiled and about very good (though of course numerous brief writings in ink throughout); four clippings laid in including one from 1941 with a photo of two classmates, and a later NY Times section; some mild offsetting as a result of the clippings. For Year Book and Report Card. (11152) $200.00 130. Mac Low, Jackson. THE TWIN PLAYS: Port-au-Prince & Adams County Illinois. NY: Something Else Press, 1966. First edition. Chapbook, stapled, green printed wrappers; 8vo. 14 pp. 10 titles listed on the back cover. A Great Bear Pamphlet. Two plays, both performed in 1963 on "Yam Day" at the Hardware Poets Theater in NYC by Mac Low, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles and others. Fine in wraps. (11236) $15.00 131. Mahon, Derek. THE CHIMERAS: A Version of Les Chimeres by Gerard de Narval. Dublin: Gallery Books, 1982. First edition. Lovely copy of the hardcover issue (one of only 300 copies in cloth) of this reworking of these poems from the 19th C French. Mahon is one of the most popular Irish poets working today. Very near fine in like dust jacket. (11311) $45.00

132. Malanga, Gerard. LEAPING OVER GRAVESTONES. Hardwicke: Four Zoas Press, n.d. (circa 1971). First edition. Green, sewn printed wrappers. Thin 8vo. One of 350, type set and printed by hand by S. R. Lavin. Very light toning of spine and wear; near fine. (11122) $30.00 133. McClure, Michael. SPECKS. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1985. First edition. Green wrappers printed in yellow and red. Inscribed by McClure to the poet and founder of USCO Gerd Stern. A few small spots on covers, else about fine. Atractive copy, scarce signed, and a particularly nice association as both are key Beat figures. (11198) $75.00 134. McClure, Michael; LeRoi Jones/Amira Baraka (ed.). FOR ARTAUD. NY: Totem Press, 1959. First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. 8 pp. Blue Plate #2. Abstract cover illustration with printed signature of (Fielding?) Dawson '58. Coffee stain on back cover; end papers toned, else very good. (11166) $15.00 135. McHugh, Heather. DANGERS. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First edition. Red cloth in dust jacket. With a long inscription by McHugh to the poet Gerald Stern quoting cleverly Roethke. Her first book in the somewhat uncommon hardcover issue. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with trace foxing to verso. A wonderful association copy; they are friends as well as being two of the best known contemporary poets. (11206) $200.00 McHugh has won a number of prizes, and she was a recipient of a MacArthur "genius" Fellowship. 136. Merrill, James. THE FIRE SCREEN. Ln: Chatto and Windus, 1970. First UK edition. Orange cloth in dust jacket. Signed by the poet on the title page. Published for sale in the US in paper only. Very light wear at extremities in a (price-clipped) very good or better dust jacket with light

soiling. Hagstrom A23b. (11119) $150.00 137. Merrill, James. TWO POEMS. Ln: Chatto and Windus, 1972. First edition. Orange cloth in dust jacket. No US equivalent; only 800 copies printed. Signed by the poet on the title page. Very light wear at extremities in a like (price-clipped) dust jacket. Bright, lovely copy. Hagstrom A26. (11118) $150.00 138. Merwin, W. S. THE DRUNK IN THE FURNACE. NY: Macmillan, 1960. First edition. The poet's fourth collection published in this trade paper edition only in the US (and precedes the UK hardcover). Pages browning as usual, spine worn else very good. (11304) $20.00 139. Merwin, W. S. SOME SPANISH BALLADS. Ln: Abelard Schuman, 1961. First edition. Cream boards stamped w/ gilt in dust jacket. 8vo. An early book, second book of translations. A ten-page introduction and 70 poems. Light soiling to boards, else very good in a

complete (not price-clipped) jacket, lightly spine-faded, with small area of dampstaining to verso. Very good in like dust jacket. (11282) $25.00

140. Millay, Edna St. Vincent. COLLECTED LYRICS. NY: Harper & Bros., 1943. First edition thus. Stated first edition, although there was a two-volume edition published in 1939. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering in dust jacket. Near fine copy with previous owner's name and "Thanksgiving, 1943" on the ffep; the dust jacket lightly spine-faded with a couple of closed tears, but no loss. An attractive very good or better overall copy. (11192) $45.00 141. Milosz, Czeslaw. PROVINCES: Poems 1987 - 1991. NY: The Ecco Press, 1991. First edition. Light shelfwear, crown bumped a bit, but near fine in a rubbed, but near fine dust jacket. Printed publication material laid in. (4412) $15.00 142. Mirrlees, Hope. PARIS: A Poem [With an afterword by Mike Tortorello]. Olympia, WA: Pegana Press, 2010. First Thus; second separate edition. Blue cloth with inset printed pastedown; stamped gilt spine lettering. Folio. Illustrated. One of 75 (of which only 50 were bound) numbered copies of this letterpress edition of the long modernist poem, first published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their Hogarth Press in 1920. Mike Tortorello printed this on his Vandercook SP15 proof press using French 90# watercolor mould made paper; hand sewn and bound by Ars Obscura in Seattle. A lovely production that took Mike nearly a year to complete (actual publication was in 2011), reproducing the original spacing and typography, and with Woolf's hand corrections. The original prospectus laid in. As New and at the published price. (11385) $375.00 Mirrlees is best known for this poem – seen to some as a precursor to Eliot’s The Waste Land (he and Stein as well as the Woolfs were friends), and the fantasy novel Lud-in-the-Mist. The Hogarth edition of Paris (only their fifth and published in an edition of 175 copies) is virtually unattainable. The critic Julia Briggs described the poem as “modernism's lost masterpiece, a work of extraordinary energy and intensity, scope and ambition, written in a confidently experimental and avant-garde style”. 143. Murnaghan, Brigid. FROM THE DRAWER OF BRIGID MURNAGHAN. Jamaica, NY: Diamond Hitch Press, 1995. First edition. Stapled yellow printed wrappers; 20pp. Inscribed by Murnaghan to the legendary Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah. About fine. (11160) $25.00 Murnaghan was running weekly open mike poetry readings at The Back Fence a Bleeker Street bar when this book was published. She like The Back Fence was a survivor of the Beat Era. McDarrah was the first Voice photographer and it is likely their relationship went back to the 50's when he began documenting the Beat Generation. 144. O'Hara, Frank. THE END OF THE FAR WEST: 11 Poems. n.p.: n.p., 1974. First edition. Stapled mimeographed wrappers; 4to. [12 leaves.] Posthumously published poems, with a short foreword by Ted Berrigan. Heavily creased, about good, but complete. (11266) $65.00 145. O'Hara, Frank. SECOND AVENUE. NY: Totem Press, 1960. First edition. Black & white illus. wrappers w/ tipped on label. Larry Rivers cover. Unusually fine copy. (11244) $100.00

146. O'Hara, Frank; Bill Berkson. HYMNS OF ST. BRIDGET. NY: Adventures in Poetry, 1974. First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; art by Larry Rivers; 4to. Collaborative poems, written a decade earlier. Very light wear, near fine. (11267) $50.00 147. Olds, Sharon. THE DEAD AND THE LIVING. NY: Knopf, 1983. First printing of the poet's second book the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1984, and winner of the 1985 National Book Critics Circle award. Inscribed and signed in full " For __ March 90" on the title page. Near fine in a heavily sunned and worn at extremities dust jacket. (11308) $65.00 148. Olds, Sharon. THE WELLSPRING. NY: Knopf, 1995. First edition. Blue cloth stamped in silver, in dust jacket. The poet's fifth collection, and beautifully printed at the Stinehour Press in Vermont. Lovely fine copy in like dust jacket. (11291) $35.00 149. Ondaatje, Michael. COMING THROUGH THE SLAUGHTER. NY: Norton, 1976. First American edition. Cloth-backed boards. 8vo. Near fine copy in a lightly soiled near fine dust jacket (bottom, not price, clipped as usual). Attractive copy of the author's second book, first novel. (11309) $50.00 150. Ondaatje, Michael. DIVISADERO. NY: Knopf, 2007. First American edition. Fine copy in like dust jacket, unread. Signed by the author on the title page. (11323) $35.00 151. Ondaatje, Michael. HANDWRITING: Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1998. First Canadian edition. True first - precedes US edition. Fine copy in gray cloth and fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. (11316) $25.00 152. Ondaatje, Michael. SECULAR LOVE. NY: Norton, 1985. First American edition. Green cloth in dust jacket. 8vo. 126 pp. Fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Published simultaneously in trade paper, copies in hardcover in collectible condition are difficult. (11338) $50.00 153. Ondaatje, Michael (ed.). FROM INK LAKE: Canadian Stories. NY: Viking Press, 1990. First American edition. Black cloth in dj. 8vo.; 714 pp. Signed by the editor Ondaatje. Review copy with slip and promo material laid in. Fine copy in like dust jacket. (11319) $50.00 154. Orlovitz, Gil. SELECTED POEMS. San Francisco: Inferno Press Editions, 1960. First edition. Glossy yellow printed wrappers; soiled but tight; top edge bumped. 50 pp. Small 8vo. (11159) $20.00 Orlovitz was born in 1918 in Philadelphia and died in 1973, Neglected then and now he is one of the most interesting writers of the 50's and 60's experimenting in both fiction and poetry. This volume includes his long poem "The Rooster" as well as some of his experiments with the sonnet. 155. Patchen, Kenneth. THEY KEEP RIDING DOWN ALL THE TIME. NY: Padell, 1946. First edition. Stapled card covers in original printed jacket (no hardcover issue). Variant with the image by Patchen printed in red. Prose. 32 pp. Age-toning, light wear, easily very good. (11130) $55.00 156. Pinsky, Robert; Seamus Heaney; Philip Levine; Michael Hoffman; David Ferry; Harry Thomas (ed.). TALKING WITH POETS. NY: Handsel Books, 2002. First edition. Cloth in dust jacket.; small 8vo. 137 pp. Interviews by the editor Thomas's students; three of which appeared in TriQuarterly. Fine copy in a lightly worn easily very good to near fine dust jacket. (11348) $20.00

157. Rilke, Rainer Maria. LETTERS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE: 1892 - 1910. NY: Norton, 1945. Cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 399 pp. Clifford Odets' copy with his signature and "9/45" date in ink on ffep. Includes two facsimile letters of Rilke. A very good copy in a chipped and worn at extremities near very good dust jacket. Top flap clipped, but $3.50 price at the bottom. (11345) $200.00 158. Rosen, Kenneth. WHOLE HORSE. NY: Braziller, 1973. First edition. Cloth issue in dust jacket. Inscribed on title page by the poet "For David Milch, the fellow who feeds the horses, from his friend Ken, one of the johns at the zoo, with much affection." There is a further quote from Marlowe; dated in June 1974 in Saratoga Springs. A very good or better copy in like dust jacket of the poet's first book. (11189) $35.00 An interesting presentation copy. Milch and Rosen both attended the Iowa Writers School and Yaddo (in Saratoga). Milch took a very different (and more financially successful) route than most Iowa MFAs as the creator of Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, Deadwood and most recently the unlucky Luck about his first love horse racing. So an interesting inscription written nearly a decade before Milch would be come famous. 159. Rothenberg, Jerome. WHITE SUN BLACK SUN. NY: Hawk's Well Press, 1960. First edition. White illustrated wrappers; 12mo. 39 pp. Poet's first book (preceded by translations). Stained covers, prev. owner's name "Kinter" on cover. Author's name (not signature) in ink on one page. About very good. (11239) $30.00 160. Sanders, Ed. HYMN TO MAPLE SYRUP and other Poems. Woodstock, NY: P. C. C. Publications, 1985. First edition. Stapled, printed covers' 4to. 51 pp. Inscribed in the year of publication by the poet: "For __ & the roots that go all the way - Ed". Poems by the publisher, poet, and member of The Fugs. Seven poems: the title poem one could use as an instructional guide to making maple syrup; the rest more lower east side. Back leaf creased, else about fine. Quite scarce. (11261) $300.00 See front of catalogue for cover image 161. Simic, Charles. THEY FORAGE AT NIGHT. NY: Nadja, 1980. First edition. Grey wrappers. One of 74 numbered copies signed by Simic. (There were an additional 26 lettered copies reserved by the publisher.) Inscribed in 1981 to Mark Strand (and his wife Jules). Simic signs himself "with love/ The Zinfindel Kid". Nice copy attractively printed on handmade paper. (11139) $250.00 A wonderful association copy between two of the most honored poets of their generation: Pulitzer Prizes, Wallace Stevens Prizes, MacArthur Awards and Poet Laureates. 162. Simpson, Louis. SEARCHING FOR THE OX. NY: William Morrow, 1976. First edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. 8vo. Inscribed and signed in full by Simpson to collector and bookseller (The Strand) Burt Britton in the year of publication. Lovely fine copy in like dust jacket. (11336) $50.00 163. Simpson, Louis. SELECTED POEMS. NY: Harcourt Brace, 1965. First edition. 145 pp. Selected from his previous volumes, including the 1964 Pulitzer Prize-winning At the End of the Open Road. Signed by Simpson on the title page. Light shelfwear in a near fine dust jacket with a few small fox spots on dust jacket verso. (11335) $45.00

164. Snodgrass, W. D. HEART'S NEEDLE. NY: Knopf, 1959. First edition. Red cloth, gilt lettering, black topstain in dust jacket. The 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning volume. The poet's first book. Bright fine copy in a worn at corners easily very good jacket (11290) $100.00 165. Solomon, Carl. MISHAPS, PERHAPS. San Francisco: City Lights, 1966. First edition. Photographic wrappers; 60 pp. A number in the Beach Books, Texts, and Document series edited by Mary Beach. Unsigned gift inscription to "C.P. Jermyn" on front inside wrapper. Cover photo of Solomon by Jeffrey Beach. A collection of prose and poetry edited by Mary Beach. Price on rear reduced to "1/2." in red grease pencil. Covers rubbed and soiled, but a pleasant if only about very good copy. A surprisingly uncommon title. (11170) $100.00 166. 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 (an early book from the press). Fine copy of a rare and lovely production.(11257) $600.00 167. Stafford, William. THE RESCUED YEAR. NY: Harper & Row, 1966. First edition. Original boards in dust jacket. A collection of poems, his first following his 1963 National Book Award for Poetry. The third volume of verse from the long time professor at Portland's Lewis & Clark College. First printing with trimmed fore-edge, in presumed second issue dust jacket with $4.95 price on the front flap. A near fine copy with light shelfwear in like dj, with faint sunning to spine and no wear. Lovely bright copy. (11317) $50.00 168. Stern, Gerd. FIRST POEMS AND OTHERS. NY: Privately Printed, 1952. First edition. Gray cloth over flexible black board, with letterpress paper label. Frontispiece and drawings by Ivan Majdrakoff; Julia Pearl lettering; multilith printed. Grey cloth spine has worn through in places, with some of the cover dye bleeding through. (This is clearly a homemade book, and it is likely that the glue used was not appropriate for the project.) Label toned with two small chips, else very good. (11136) $125.00 Stern was a founder of USCO; a poet better known for his multimedia art. 169. Stevens, Wallace. “Man and Bottle.” San

Francisco: Arion Press, 1985. First Separate Edition. Arion Press's 1985 Christmas Card. The poem taken from Helen Vendler's edited Selected Poems of Wallace Stevens published by the press. Single leaf folded, printed on T H Saunders; fine. (11195) $45.00

170. Stevens, Wallace. THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR & Other Poems. NY: Knopf, 1937. First edition. Yellow cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 1000 copies. Yellow covers heavily mottled particularly along the spine, presumably from glue. The Yellow jacket - 2nd state with correction to text of front flap - is a darkened on spine but otherwise bright and fresh. Edelstein A4a. Collectible copy of the poet's second regularly published book at an affordable price. (11349) $350.00 171. Strand, Mark. 18 POEMS FROM THE QUECHA. Cambridge: Halty Ferguson, 1971. First edition. White cloth, lettered in gilt. One of 1000 copies. 29 pp. Inscribed by Strand

"For Stewart/ Friend and Quecha/ Mark Strand/ Xmas 1971”. Translations from the Quecha descendants of the Incas. A short book nicely printed at the Ferguson Press; issued without a dust jacket. Cloth soiled, otherwise fine. (11199) $250.00

172. Strand, Mark. BLIZZARD OF ONE. NY: Knopf, 1998. First edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. Inscribed by Strand "For Stuart"/ We've come a long way from Dodge Hall.../ Avanti/ Mark Strand" This volume won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1999, and was reprinted a number of times. Lightly bumped along the edges, else fine in a lightly wrinkled at the edges, else near fine dust jacket (no chips or tears). A nice association copy, and an early copy without the Pulitzer sticker. (11200) $100.00 The previous owner of both copies listed here (– though spelled two ways) received his MFA from Columbia, hence the reference to Dodge Hall, where Strand was his thesis advisor (in his first stint at Columbia in the early 70’s). The latter publication sent by Strand to the previous owner in the late 1990s when his former student recommended Strand be hired at CalArts as poet-in-residence, the earlier book given when he was his advisor. 173. Tabb, John Bannister (Emily Dickinson). John Bannister Tabb on Emily Dickinson. NY: Seven Gables Bookshop, 1950. First edition. Gray printed, stapled wrappers; 4to. 4 pp. Foreword by Thomas H. Johnson. Consists of a two-page facsimile of a holograph letter from Tabb discussing his work and Dickinson's. Created as a Christmas card for 1950. 500 copies printed at the Spiral Press. Reportedly suppressed because it was feared that some readers might infer from the title an allusion to a sexual relationship between these poets. Light toning to the edges, else fine. (11153) $35.00

174. Thomas, Dylan. 18 POEMS. Ln: The Fortune Press, 1942. The second edition, issue in black buckram, flat spine, "printed at Poole by J. Looker". Lucie-Smith and Rolph disagree on which binding is first, and this edition appears in several bindings. This according to Lucie-Smith/Book Collector 1964 is the first binding, though most follow Rolph. Includes the great poem that begins: "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower". Author's first book, first published in 1934. A very near fine copy in a lightly spine-faded else nearly fine dust jacket. (11212) $250.00 175. Whalen, Philp. SELF-PORTRAIT, From Another Direction. San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1959. First edition. Single sheet folded printed on both sides, folded in sixths and pasted into rust printed wrappers. Other than a privately printed piece at college, his first book. Letterpress printed. Some creasing to printed covers, but easily very good. (11134) $30.00 176. Williams, C.K. THE SINGING. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2003. First edition. Uncorrected proofs in cream printed wrappers. Mark Strand's copy with a signed letter from Senior Editor Paul Elie at FSG conveying it to him. Very light creasing else fine (in removable protective covers). This volume won the 2003 National Book Awards. Needless to say a good association: two of the best-known poets of their generation, both having won many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. (11145) $45.00 177. Wright, Jay. THE HOMECOMING SINGER. NY: Corinth Books, 1971. First edition. One of 500 printed in hardcover (of 2000 total) of the poet's second book and first 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 fine. (2375) $195.00 178. Wright, Jay. TRANSFIGURATIONS. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. First edition. The collected poems of this MacArthur Fellow, winner of a 2000 Lannan Award; signed by the poet in 2003. Very near fine in jacket. (2376) $75.00

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