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Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2007. Uncommon hardcover issue of this collection of writings by the French painter and poet. First edition. Translated by Marc Lowenthal. Square octavo, 9-1/4 x 7-1/4 in. viii, 478pp., with bibliography. Oatmeal cloth boards, black spine titles; in dust jacket. Fine in a fine jacket with a couple of small water spots to front panel.

San Francisco: The Black Tarantula, 1974. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. San Francisco: The Black Tarantula, 1974. Paginated continuous with previous volumes, pp. 167-192. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in self-wrappers. Toning to tops and along spine of wraps, with light rubbing and soiling. Internally clean with sound binding, very good. The sixth volume (of six total) of Acker's serially self-published second novel, issues of which were mailed to subscribers. Republished in a single- volume trade edition by Traveler's Digest in 1980. Though unstated, this copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022).

San Francisco: Fits Printing, 1971. Soft cover. Very Good. Inscribed copy of this book of poems by the Berkeley street performer known as The Puppet Man. San Francisco: Fits Printing, 1971. Third printing. Saddle-stapled in printed black-and-white wraps, 8-5/8 x 5-5/8 in. 24pp. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. SIGNED and briefly inscribed by Roberts on front cover verso. Very good, with mild soiling/toning to wraps, and wear along spine. Missing top staple.

Madras, India: Sayeeda Publications, 1983. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition. 8vo. 32pp. Signature-bound in glossy wraps. Signed by Howink on the front cover. Light rubbing, a small surface abrasion near top of front cover fore-edge, else very good (+). "This is the first in the series of Eminent Poets released by Sayeeda Publications, India." Howink was a Saint Louis, Missouri based social work educator, with at least seven volumes of poetry to her name before this one. From the included Biographical Statement: "I write because I can't not. It gives me a sense of deep satisfaction to come ot grips with what I think, what I am insofar as I can figure it, and to try to speak for the voiceless who were clients I have known.

NY: ISCA, 1988. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Edited by Louise Neaderland. A complete set of 53 items plus catalogue and membership application, housed in a cardboard box that also doubled as the shipping container. Issued in a limited edition of 200 copies, with many of the individual items being hand-numbered and signed. The International Society of Copier Artists (ISCA) was founded in 1981 by Neaderland as a way to promote the work of copier artists, and to help legitimize that process as a serious artistic methodology. The ISCA Quarterly ran from 1982 to 2003; beginning in 1986, ISCA issued an Annual Bookworks Edition, comprised of artists' books produced by organization members. The Third Annual Bookworks Edition offered here consists of 53 artists' books and a corresponding catalogue. Neaderland's own contribution includes two different versions of her zine OPEN ROADS--EMPTY NESTS, along with a photocopied letter discussing some of the conceptual and technical problems she… Leer más

NY: Crowell, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Unpaginated (~24pp.). First edition. Signed and inscribed by Carle on the front free endpaper/dedication page to the legendary young adult novelist Katherine Paterson, winner of two Newbery medals and two National Book Awards. Yellow vinyl boards with black titles and front panel design. Very good (+) in like jacket, with light foxing to end papers and top of textblock, as well as the flaps and interior of jacket. 2" closed tear at base of rear jacket panel; short horizontal closed tear at top of front flap. A wonderful association copy linking two titans of children's literature.

NY: Signet/New American Library, 1951. Soft cover. Near Fine. First Signet printing of this Hollywood novel by the American hard-boiled writer, author of They Shoot Horses Don't They? and others. First edition thus (stated first printing). Perfect-bound in pictorial color wraps, 7-1/8 x 4-1/4 in. Textblock edges stained pink. 144pp. Light rubbing and some spots of surface loss to front cover. Else about near fine. Spine uncreased. Signet 884. Cover art by Raymond Pease.

Richmond, VA: Davi Det Hompson. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A self-published artist's book consisting of fifteen short, sardonic anecdotes, one per page, all dealing with various characters' reactions to "my writings," "my work," etc.: 'Placing his hand flat against the wall a student called to me and said, "This is it. This is what your pieces are doing."' Saddle-stapled in plain paper. 8.5 x 5.5 in.; unpaginated (16pp., including covers). Very good condition, some brown dampstains along top edge, primarily at the spine corner. Although undated, Clive Phillipot ascribes this phase of Hompson's book production specifically to the years 1976-77 ("Some Contemporary Artists and Their Books," in "Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook," ed. Joan Lyons, 120).

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The deluxe signed edition of this collection of mesostic poems, which Cage delivered as Harvard's Charles Eliot Northern Lectures in 1988-1989. One cassette documents Cage's reading of Mesostic IV, the other a Q&A section from one of his lectures. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. First edition. Signed by Cage to half-title. 452pp. 4to. Gray cloth stamped in silver on front board and spine; dust jacket. Housed in a two-piece matching cloth box with two 60-minute audio cassettes in cases, and the original blurb/price sheet. Fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket with two very short closed tears at head of spine. Incidental rubbing to one corner of box, else also fine. Nice copy.

NY & Madras: Hanuman Books, 1992. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. NY & Madras: Hanuman Books, 1992. First edition. 16mo. Signature-bound in blue wraps; photo-illustrated dust jacket. 137pp. Very near fine in like jacket. Poems by the writer best known as lyricist for the Grateful Dead. No. 47 of 50 titles in the Hanuman Books series published by Raymond Foye and Francesco Clemente. Edited by Paul Rickert and George Scrivani. Cover photo by Jessica Leopard.

Curbstone Press: Willimantic, CT, 1986. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.5"); 61pp.; perfectbound in printed wraps. About near fine: light corner wear, a touch of foxing to fore-edge. Lyricism and an empathetic eye contend with more overt political content in this first collection of verse by the San Francisco-based poet and activist.

London: John Murray, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. xi+278pp, indexed. First edition, first printing. Teal cloth with gilt spine titles. Light wear at spine ends and tips, a handful of minorly crimped top page corners, else near fine. Very good plus unclipped "£3 net" jacket shows light perimeter wear and creasing, mostly along top edge. A collectible copy of Origo's classic autobiography.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition of the 1910 novel by the sui generis French writer, who exerted a strong influence on both the surrealists and the later OULIPO movement. Translated by Lindy Foord and Rayner Heppenstall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. First American edition. Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. Green cloth; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Faint toning to textblock edges. Else fine in a fine, price-clipped jacket, mildly rubbed to front panel. A particularly sharp copy.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. An attractive first printing of this gripping novel of a steamship caught up in an open-ocean hurricane, by the author of "A High Wind in Jamaica." First edition. Octavo (7.75 x 5. 25 in.); 273pp.; blue cloth boards, in dust jacket. Light bumping to top front board corner. Light rubbing/bumping to top fore-corner of the (moderately edge-toned) textblock. Offsetting to rear free endpaper and rear jacket flap from laid-in material: a contemporary review clipped from New York Herald Tribune, included now in archival isolation. Also laid in are the remnants of a belly band announcing the selection of the book as a Daily Main Book of the Month selection. In an unclipped ("7s. 6d. net") jacket with a small chip at head of front panel, light toning to spine, wear along hinges. A near fine copy in a very good (+) jacket.

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Uncommon later edition of this noteworthy collection of essays by the British philosopher, originally published in England and America in 1935. First edition thus. Octavo. 8.25 x 5.75 in. 231pp. Blue cloth boards, silver spine titles; in dust jacket. Small black remainder slash on bottom of textblock, negligible shelfwear. Else fine in a near fine, unclipped ("$7.95") jacket with a couple of short closed tears (and related creases). Attractive copy. N.B. Though the front jacket flap bizarrely credits this as the "first American publication," there was in fact a 1935 edition published in New York by W. W. Norton.

Berkeley, CA: Shambala Publications, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Berkeley, CA: Shambala Publications, 1970. Translated by Dinah Livingstone. Foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Miguel Ángel Asturias. First American edition (preceded by the 1969 UK edition, and the German-language edition of 1968). 4to. Glossy pictorial boards, as issued without jacket. 36pp.; illus. Sunning to front board, as usual; chipping and loss to material at spine ends and head of front board. Good or better; internally bright and clean. Dated (1972), inscribed, and signed by both authors to the title page. A colorful reimagining (by way of Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince) of a Central American Indian legend about a boy who "longs to get behind the appearance of things" and discover an unmediated version of reality. A statement at the rear of the volume places explicit emphasis on the story's relationship to psychedelic drugs, calling it the same "kind of journey described by Aldous Huxley… Leer más

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition of this autobiographical novel (his second, following My Jewish Roots) by the Jewish author of The Wise Men of Helm and others. Translated from the Yiddish by Moshe Spiegel. Octavo, 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 in. 273pp. Black cloth boards, white spine lettering; in dust jacket. Some rubbing to spine lettering. Near fine, with a few spots of light soiling to textblock top and fore-edge. In an unclipped ("$4.00") jacket, with a 1 1/2 x 1/2 in. piece missing from the top tip of the rear flap. Else very good, with mild edge wear and rubbing. Uncommon.

NY: Random House, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Signed by Johnson on the half-title. Octavo; 79pp.; black cloth, in dust jacket. Light foxing to textblock edges and endpapers, mild musty odor, else very good in a very good plus unclipped jacket with a short closed tear at base of spine, minor interior foxing that barely shows through in a few spots on the flaps. Johnson's considerable empathy and gift for images are both on full display in this, his third book of verse. Selected by Mark Strand for the National Poetry Series, and published a year before Johnson's first novel, Angels. Rear panel features praise from Raymond Carver and David St. John. A more than presentable copy.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Attractive first edition of Sharpe's second novel, a satire of South African apartheid and a sequel to his first novel, Riotous Assembly. Octavo (5.75 x 8.75 in.); 247pp.; black textured paper boards; gold spine lettering; in dust jacket. Light bumping to bottom board corners and head of spine. Jacket-related offsetting to endpapers, with former owner's seal blind-embossed on front free endpaper. Unclipped jacket shows minor edgewear and a few short closed tears. A near fine copy in like jacket.

Slymar, CA: Glenn Bray, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. Slymar, CA: Glenn Bray, 1982. First edition. 94pp; illus. Large 4to., 12.25 x 11 in. Signature-bound in wraps. Very good, with creasing and some light curling to top corners. Laid in are the following: five 8.5 x 11 in. illustrated color sheets advertising other books and prints published by Bray, including works by Szukalski; one postcard illustrated with Szukalski's "Threefaced Moscovite Hyenagog"; a TLS requesting additional "products and services," presumably a letter sent by the original owner to Bray; all in fine condition. A selection of sculpted, painted, and drafted portraits by Szukalski (1893-1987), with anecdotes and observations from the Polish-born artist on facing pages. Subjects range from the world-historical (Boleslaw Chroby, Bertrand Russell), to the archetypal ("Cynic"), to the fantastic ("A Centaur"). The second volume of Szukalski's work (following 1980's Troughful of Pearls… Leer más