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1 TRIOLET RARE BOOKS, ABAA P.O. Box 1821 San Luis Obispo, CA Tel: (302) NEW ARRIVALS, OCTOBER 2017 All items subject to prior sale and are guaranteed as described. For any return, please contact us within 10 days of receipt. Libraries may be billed according to their needs; deferred billing is available. Payment by check, wire transfer, PayPal, and credit cards accepted. California sales tax (if applicable) and shipping will be added. Further information or more detailed digital photographs of any item provided on request. 1. ASHBERY, John; Kenneth Koch; Harry Mathews; James Schuyler, eds. Locus Solus I-V. Lans-en-Vercors: Locus Solus Press, Five issues bound in four octavo volumes. Perfect-bound printed wrappers; 167, [1]; 205, [3]; 294, [2]; 184 pp. Issue I fine; issue II a bit dust-soiled with some browning and creasing to the spine; issue III-IV spine a bit sunned; issue V small crease to lower front corner. A clean, solid set. A complete run of this extremely important literary journal. Issue V is scarce. Clay and Phillips noted it presented no manifestoes or editorial statements, just high-quality literature simply and elegantly presented with care and respect (Clay and Phillips, p.169). Schuyler edited issues I and V, Koch II, and Ashbery III-IV, with Mathews serving as publisher and oracle. An exemplary and defining publication. $ ASHBERY, John. John Ashbery. Readings in Contemporary Poetry, Volume 1. New York: Dia Art Foundation, First edition. 52 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine, else fine. A nice selection from

2 the range of Ashbery s career to that date, published on the occasion of his reading at Dia in October $ [BARBARIAN PRESS]. Chi, Lu. Wen Fu. The Art of Writing. Translation and Afterword by Sam Hamill. [Mission, B.C.]: Barbarian Press, First edition. 38, [4] pp. Full red cloth, lettered in black on the front board and spine. One of 200 numbered copies. A trade edition was published subsequently. Fine copy. $ BENEDETTI, David. Ideas Imagine Passion. A Computer-Written Prose Poem, Generated by a Program Written by David Benedetti, Using a 2300 Word Vocabulary Collaboratively Supplied by Over 80 Writers. San Francisco: Peoples Internationalist Publishing Conspiracy, First edition. [57] pp. Mimeographed sheets in a brad-bound plastic-covered folder. Minor handling wear, lower corner of plastic cover bumped. As Benedetti writes in his introduction, this book has been generated by a program I wrote to find out how creative a computer could be on its own. The program takes 800 words sent in by 80 writers and friends, and 1500 words I added, and constructs sentences. The word list, coded for part of speech, is shuffled often, and random number generators are used to drive the variations in word choice and syntax. The participants include Leslie Silko, Tom Raworth, Joanne Kyger, Leslie Scalapino, Judson Crews, Ron Silliman, Lyn Hejinian, Robert Creeley, and many others. An early example of the attempt, rapidly becoming charmingly futile, to control and harness the power of our machine overlords. $ BERKSON, Bill. Red Devil. Bolinas: Smithereens Press, First edition. Sidestapled wrappers. Some minor tanning to edges. From a total edition of 50 copies, this is one of ten numbered and signed, containing an additional poem and drawing. Cover design by Lynn O Hare. on hold 6. BLASER, Robin. The Moth Poem. San Francisco: Open Space, First edition, one of 300 copies. Stapled wrappers with dust jacket. Printed and designed by Graham Mackintosh at the White Rabbit Press. Some handling wear and foxing to edges. Inscribed by Blaser to another poet. $ BLASER, Robin. Les Chimeres. San Francisco: Open Space, First edition, one of 500 copies. Stapled wrappers with dust jacket. Printed and designed by Graham Mackintosh at the White Rabbit Press. Spine sunned with some minor cover wear. Inscribed by Blaser to another poet. $75 8. BRAINARD, Joe. More I Remember More. New York: Angel Hair, First edition. [29] pp. Stapled wrappers, cover photo of the author by Bill Katz. Minor spotting to rear cover, else fine and crisp. One of 700 copies printed. $75 9. BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Octopus Frontier. San Francisco: Carp Press, First edition. Stapled wrappers. Due to a production error the second leaf is not

3 stapled into the binding and is laid in; it contains the title-page and The Sawmill and the final two poems, The Nature Poem and Private Eye Lettuce. Clean and sharp, an early self-published Brautigan title. $ BRODSKY, Joseph. To Urania. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, First edition. 174 pp. Full black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. Old price sticker on rear jacket panel, overall about fine. Inscribed by Brodsky on the front free endpaper in Berkeley in November Brodsky s signature is somewhat uncommon. $ BRYAN, John, ed. Notes From Underground. Whole numbers 1-4. San Francisco/Los Angeles: 1964-[1977]. First editions. 72; 82; 48; 80 pp. Numbers 1 and 2 are side-stapled with stiff wrappers and taped spine; number 3 is stapled wrappers; number 4 is folded sheets housed loose in a stiff printed cover. Volume 3 has a closed tear to the fore-edge of the contents page, all others near fine. A great literary magazine, very representative of the scene, edited by Bryan following his earlier journal Renaissance (Clay & Phillips p. 291). Contributors include Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac (Charters C99), Bob Kaufman, Lenore Kandel, William S. Burroughs (M&M C293), Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg (Morgan C429) and many others. Issue 3 has a brief Typed Letter Signed from Bryan to Lenore Kandel laid in, dated June 10, 1970, presenting the copy and discussing a visit. $600/the lot 12. BUKOWSKI, Charles. Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window. Salt Lake City: Litmus, First edition with correspondence, second printing. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. 46 pp. Foxing to edges and covers. $ BURROUGHS, William S.; Allen Ginsberg; Gregory Corso, et. al. Takis. Magnetic Sculpture. New York: Howard Wise Gallery, [12] pp. Some handling wear, old stain and minor creasing to front cover. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the works of Panagiotis Takis Vassilakis at the Howard Wise Gallery, April 7-29, Texts by Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso, and Nicolas Calas. Maynard & Miles F20. Morgan E21b. $ CARVER, Raymond. At Night the Salmon Move. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, First edition, wrappers issue, of Carver s third collection of poetry. 44 pp. Spine slightly sunned, minor handling wear to covers. $ CARVER, Raymond. Put Yourself in My Shoes. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, First edition, wrappers issue. 36, [1] pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Block prints by Marcia/maris. Carver s first book of fiction, a single short story published in the Capra Chapbooks series. Fine copy. $ CREELEY, Robert. If You. San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, First edition. 14 leaves, loose in printed wrapper, as issued. Illustrations by Fielding Dawson. One of 200 copies, printed by Henry Evans at the Peregrine Press,

4 number eight in the Poems and Pictures series. Edgewear and rubbing to all edges of the portfolio, leaves about fine. Novik A7. An attractive and underrated production. $ DIDION, Joan. Sunset. In Occident Literary Magazine, Spring 1956, pp Berkeley: The Associated Students of the University of California, Perfectbound printed wrappers. Some browning from formerly laid-in acidic paper, near fine. Didion s first published short story, using autobiographical circumstances for a theme that will be long-recurring in her career: the idea that the rules have changed and the center cannot hold. She was the editor of Occident in 1956, the year she graduated from Berkeley. $ DORN, Edward. The Newly Fallen. New York: Totem Press, First edition. 31 pp. Stapled wrappers. Cover drawing by Fielding Dawson. Minor age toning to the wrappers, small burn mark on front cover. Thom Gunn s copy with his ownership signature: Thom Gunn / San Francisco. $ EVERSON, William. Poems: MCMXLII. Waldport: The Untide Press, First edition. Stapled wrappers with overlaid cover. Some soiling and handling wear to covers. Erratum slip tipped in, as issued. One of 500 copies printed. Bartlett & Campo A8. $ [EVERSON, William]. Virginia Spanner [pseud]. Brother Antoninus / Mystic of the Flesh. [Kentfield: Privately Printed, n.d., c. 1969]. [7] leaves, stapled in upper left corner into red covers. A biographical and critical essay written by Everson to be used for publicity purposes; he used the pseudonym so as not to appear self-aggrandizing. Fine copy. Bartlett & Campo F13. $ EVERSON, William. Mexican Standoff. Emeryville: The Lapis Press, First edition. Full orange cloth, printed label on the spine, with the unprinted glassine jacket. Small chip at top of front edge of glassine, else fine. Designed and printed by Les Ferriss at The Lapis Press Studio in Emeryville, California. Woodcut frontispiece by Robin Eschner. One of 100 copies printed, signed by Everson at the colophon and Eschner at the frontispiece. $ FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence, trans. Lorenzo Chiera. Shards/Cocci. Frammenti di Versi. Firenze: City Lights Italia, First edition. 55 pp. Perfectbound printed wrappers. Minor browning to spine, brief gift inscription. A collection of brief verse, in Italian with English en face, with introduction by Ferlinghetti. Republished by New Directions in 2015, Shards is a playful prank, casually disclosed in a New York Times article, in which Ferlinghetti offered a translation of verses by a 14 th century Roman poet named Lorenzo Chiera (trans. Who Was Lawrence ). He writes in his preface, We soon realize we are in the presence of a savage erotic consciousness, as if the lust-driven senses were suddenly awakened out of a hoary sleep of a thousand years, a youth shaken

5 awake by a rude medieval hand, senses still reeling, drunk in the hold of some slave ship, not knowing night from day nor sight from sound, the eye and the ear and the nose confounding each other, not yet knowing which function each was to take up in the quivering dawn. Five copies of this original edition in OCLC. $ [GOLDEN HIND PRESS]. Morley, Christopher. Barometers and Bookshops. Madison, NJ: The Golden Hind Press, First edition. Sewn wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. Mounted photograph frontispiece. One of 250 copies printed. Some minor sunning to spine and rear cover. Laid in is an amusing ALS on Golden Hind stationery from Arthur Rushmore, proprietor of the press, to Norman Dodge of Goodspeed s bookshop in Boston, dated 1/27/53, in which he breezily introduces himself and discusses Morley, Morley s rare first book The Eighth Sin, and his career at Harper s as a book designer and his pleasure with his private hobby, his printing press. $ HAMILL, Sam. Requiem. [Port Townsend]: Copper Canyon Press, First edition, one of 250 copies printed, signed by the author on the colophon. Front board and top edge foxed. Quarter dark blue cloth over handmade paper, printed spine label, bound by Marsha Hollingsworth, paper by Sara Krohn. Hand-set Centaur type on Gutenberg laid paper. Hamill s elegy to Kenneth Rexroth. $ HEANEY, Seamus. Wintering Out. New York: Oxford University Press, First American edition. 80 pp. Full blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Jacket spine a bit toned, else a fine, fresh copy. The first edition published by Faber in 1972 was issued in wrappers only in an edition of 2500 copies; there were only 500 copies of this hardcover edition printed (Brandes and Durkan A8b). Review slip with date of publication stamp (Apr ) laid in. $ HOWE, Susan. Singularities. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England, First edition. 70 pp. Full black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, with the dust jacket. Jacket spine a bit sunned, minor toning to jacket edges. Nicely inscribed by the author, Another book of mourning- / complicity battles redemption / with admiration- / Susan / Buffalo (place of mourning) An important work by a major poet, uncommon signed. $ JOHNSON, Ronald. The Spirit Walks, the Rocks Will Talk. Eccentric Translations From Two Eccentrics. With Vignettes by Guy Davenport. New York/Penland: The Jargon Society, First edition. Tall string-sewn wrappers. Very minor rubbing to extremities. 500 copies of this opusculum have been printed in the autumn of 1969 for distribution among those friends of the Jargon Society who may be lacking their own private winter garden. colophon. Jargon 72. $ KEES, Weldon. The Last Man. San Francisco: The Colt Press, First edition. 48 pp. Green cloth spine over green decorated paper boards, printed spine

6 label, no dust jacket as issued. Spine edges a bit rubbed, minor spotting to front endpapers. Kees first book, published in an edition of 300 copies. Gillane and Niemi A.I.1. on hold 29. KEROUAC, Jack. The Scripture of the Golden Eternity. New York: Totem Press, First edition, first issue (illustration printed in purple). [20] pp. Stapled wrappers. Some browning and spotting to covers. Uncommon in the first issue. Charters A11. $ [LAUGHLIN, James]. Tabellae. New York: The Grenfell Press, First edition, one of 100 copies printed. Heavy paper wrapper, printed on the front cover with printed label on the spine. Issued anonymously and privately, this copy inscribed with initials by Laughlin. Spine slightly darkened, near fine. $ LAZER, Hank. Negation. [Tuscaloosa]: INK-A! Press, First edition, one of 50 copies printed, signed by the author. Bound signatures sewn into cloth boards, printed label on spine, cassette (!) laid in integral traycase. An early production of the press, nicely printed on hand-dyed paper, with several illustrations and foldouts, and cassette of the author reading. Fine copy. $ LEAF, Munro. I Hate You I Hate You. Boston: Sterling Institute Press, First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. Some minor handling wear to covers. A late publication by the author of the classic The Story of Ferdinand, a further call for pacifism, tolerance, and cooperation. OCLC locates only a handful of copies. $ levy, d.a. The North American Book of the Dead. Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, First 7 Flowers Press printing, second revised edition. [28] leaves. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets, with original abstract painted image on kraft paper overlaid on front cover. One of 210 copies printed. Small ding to upper portion of front cover, else about as nice a copy one would hope to find of a fragile format. A version of parts 1 and 2 was published the previous year, noted by Jim Lowell as a typically bad Free Lance production with horrendous errors throughout. This edition is much expanded and revised. One of the major works of Cleveland s great poète maudit. In Mike Golden s introduction to The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle: The Selected Poetry & Art of D.A. Levy, he writes of this poem, this is not only a major epic spiritual hymn, it is one of, if not the major post-modern shamanistic-poetic vision of America written this century. Lowell A23. Taylor & Horvath P-104. on hold 34. LORDE, Audre. From a Land Where Other People Live. Detroit: Broadside Press, First edition. 46, [2] pp. Stapled wrappers. Fine copy. An early title by the great Audre Lorde. Review copy, with slip laid in. $ LORDE, Audre. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. Watertown: Persephone Press, First edition. 256 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Extremely slight corner bump to rear corners, else fine. The true first edition of Lorde s classic

7 biomythography, a landmark publication. Republished the following year by Crossing Press after the collapse of Persephone Press, the first edition is uncommon in the trade. $ MATHEWS, Harry. The Ring. Poems [Leeds]: Juillard Editions, First edition, one of 300 copies printed. Side-stapled wrappers. Beautiful cover by Joe Brainard, edited by Trevor Winkfield. Minor browning to extremities. An unaccountably scarce collection by the great modern master. OCLC locates twelve copies. $ MATHEWS, Harry. Wedding Announcement Card. East Hampton: Small card, 3 ½ x 4 ¾ inches. Text in English on recto and French on verso. Announcement for the wedding of Mathews and Marie Chaix, July 29, A nice bit of ephemera related to the oracular Oulipoian. $ MERTON, Thomas. Clairvaux. [Santa Barbara: College of Creative Studies, 1985]. [10] pp. Sewn wrappers. One of fifteen copies, handset and printed at the Printer s Workshop, College of Creative Studies, UCSB, December An attractive production of Merton s poem, set in Centaur and printed on Rives Heavyweight and Fabriano Roma. Briefly inscribed on the colophon, likely by the unattributed printer. Some minor browning to the edges. No copies in OCLC. $ MYLES, Eileen, and Anne Waldman. Polar Ode. New York: Dead Duke Books, First edition, one of 350 copies. Side-stapled wrappers. Cover by Steve Levine. Some handling wear to covers. A collaborative poem composed in New York, Boston, Cherry Valley, San Francisco, and Florida, completed for a reading at Zu in New York on December 22, $ NELSON, Maggie. The Argonauts. Minneapolis: Graywolf, First edition. 143 pp. Black boards, spine lettered in white, with the dust jacket. The extremely important memoir and meditation on gender, sexuality, marriage and parenthood. Hilton Als wrote in the New Yorker,...the book won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, but long before that it was passed around and praised by any number of readers who knew nothing, or next to nothing, about Nelson s interest in queerness, let alone lives like the ones her memoir grew out of and embodies. What those fans responded to most viscerally, perhaps, was the fact that it s a book about becoming, both mentally and physically about what it takes to shape a self, in all its completeness and disarray. Minor jacket bump at head of spine and front crease, else fine. Reprinted many times, the first edition is uncommon. $ NOTLEY, Alice. A Diamond Necklace. New York: Frontward Books, First edition. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets, cover illustration by Rochelle Kraut. Minor handling wear, near fine. $150

8 42. OPPEN, George. This in Which. New York: New Directions/San Francisco Review, First edition. 85 pp. Yellow cloth over gray paper boards, spine lettered in black, with the dust jacket. Minor browning to jacket spine, very slight bump to top corners, near fine. $ PATCHEN, Kenneth. Fables and Other Little Tales. Karlsruhe / Baden / Highlands: Jonathan Williams, First edition. 131 pp. Unprinted perfectbound wrappers with dust jacket. Jacket spine browned with some toning and minor chipping to head and tail, some browning to endpapers offset from jacket. Jargon 6. Morgan A21a. $ [PERISHABLE PRESS]. Cunningham, J.V. Some Salt. Aliquid Salis or if you prefer English, Some Salt. Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, First edition. Sewn wrappers with dust jacket. One of 200 copies printed on Crown & Sceptre handmade paper. Hamady 13. Fine copy. $ POUND, Ezra. Ars Vivendi. In Gadfly, December Cambridge: Published by Sara Dakin and Oliver Bernier, Printed stapled wrappers. 32 pp. Some spotting to rear cover. The second issue, of apparently only two published, of this elegant little magazine. Contains texts by Guy Davenport and Piero Heliczer, among others, and cover by Laurence Scott, along with Pound s Ars Vivendi, solicited by the editors who offered him complete freedom in his text. Canzone Alla Rustica, a further five lines of doggerel, appears on p. 29. Gallup C1878. Crane D17. Scarce. $ PROUST, Marcel. Swann s Way. London: Chatto & Windus, First edition in English, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. Two volumes. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. [xii], 303; [viii], 288 pp. Some minor rubbing to the head and tail of each spine, spines slightly darkened, endpapers a bit browned. Minor foxing to fore-edges. Overall very good or better. The first appearance in English of one of the crowning achievements in all of literature. $ REESE, Harry. Arplines. [Isla Vista: Turkey Press, 1980.] First edition. Stringsewn wrappers with printed dust jacket. One of 54 copies on Nideggen sewn into wrappers, signed and numbered (another 30 copies were hardbound). Selected lines from the poems of Jean Arp, collaged together to form new poems. Inscribed by Harry Reese on the front endpaper and dated Prospectus laid in. Fine copy. Turkey Press 18. $ REESE, Harry. Arplines. [Isla Vista: Turkey Press, 1990.] First illustrated edition, much expanded from the 1980 edition. Black cloth clamshell case by Sandra Liddell Reese, with original acrylic painting by Harry Reese on front cover, housing ten folded sheets laid in a chemise wrapper. One of 43 copies printed. Drawing, prints, collages, typographic prints, painting, and collaged poems by Harry Reese. A major work of the press and author, incorporating multiple techniques and

9 methods. Betty Bright wrote of this production, Consider Arplines once more. This kind of book is far from a unilateral and univocal object. Its conceptual program engages chance and the legacy of Dada, and its voice is literally multi-vocal, as Reese uses French, German and English, thus varying the degree of comprehension for each reader. Add to that his playfulness with the readable (printed) and the once-invisible (revealed through the act of rubbing). Confronting non-english words, language itself becomes an element of mystery if you don t know the language, and, play, if you do, as punning wordplay can extend into concrete poetry. Reading Arplines we integrate touch and sound and sight, and add texture and scale and weight, all senses firing, and accumulating in time: this, then, is the artist s book, the ultimate challenge to any simple dichotomy. Fine copy. Turkey Press 47. $ RICH, Adrienne. Adrienne Cecile Rich. The Fantasy Poets Number Twelve. Swinford: Fantasy Press, First edition. [8] pp. Stapled wrappers. Some rust marks from staples, else about fine. Published in the Fantasy Poets series, issued by the Oxford University Poetry Society, edited by Donald Hall and Oscar Mellor. An early work, published a year after Rich s first book A Change of World, while she was a student at Oxford. $ SCHUYLER, James. May 24th or So. New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, First edition. 27 pp. Perfect-bound paper wrappers. Slight toning and cover wear, overall near fine. Schuyler s first book of poems, published in an edition of 300 copies. $ SLADEK, John, and Pamela Zoline, eds. Ronald Reagan. The Magazine of Poetry. London: pp. Side-stapled wrappers. First issue (of apparently two published) of a legendary little magazine. Yapped edges rubbed, especially at the lower corner. Contains work by Vito Acconci, John Giorno, Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, and others, including J.G. Ballard s notorious Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan, the subject of several censorship battles, both upon its publication the previous year by the Unicorn Bookshop and two years later for its American appearance in The Atrocity Exhibition, which led to the initial edition being pulped. See also its acknowledged descendant, Henry Wessells Donald Trump: A Magazine of Poetry (2016), a manifestation of our current circumstances. $ [SOMBRE REPTILES PRESS]. Stanley Bummer [pseud. Darrell Gray]. Crabs. Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles, First edition. String-sewn wrappers. Minor edgewear, near fine. One of 26 copies, signed by Gray, publisher Mary Ann Hayden, and printer Alastair Johnston. The first book of the press, a typically elegant and enigmatic production. OCLC locates four copies (Irvine, LC, Delaware, RIT). $150

10 53. SPICER, Jack. A Book of Music. San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, First edition, first issue, one of 1800 copies. Stapled printed wrappers. Near fine. $ STANFORD, Frank. The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You. Seattle/Fayetteville: Mill Mountain Press/Lost Roads Publishing, First edition. 542 pp. Illustrated perfect-bound wrappers. Some rubbing and minor soiling to covers, spine a bit creased, very minor yellowing to prelims, but overall clean and tight. Of this book Ben Ehrenreich wrote, The world of Stanford s imagination- that unknown country where my dreams jump and shout - found its fullest expression in the work for which he is best known, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You. Like the lost text of some esoteric faith, many people have heard of it, but few have laid eyes on a copy. The Battlefield is a single poem, almost entirely unpunctuated, more than 500 pages long in its first edition, and until its reprinting in 2000 almost impossible to find. He continues, The Battlefield was likely cobbled out of work composed over at least a decade, but the carefully crafted enigma that surrounds it helped to build the Stanford myth- the backwoods prodigy and self-sprung genius, autochthonous fruit of the red Southern clay. Frank Stanford ( ) continues to cast a long shadow over a certain corner of American poetry. His work is expressionistic and surreal, forceful, unruly and eloquent, grappling with the ghosts of the South, race relations, childhood lost and experienced, and always the omnipresence of death. Born in Mississippi, raised in Memphis and Arkansas, he spent most of his life in small towns in the Arkansas Ozarks. Before he took his own life at the age of 29 he published seven books of poetry, collaborated on films, and co-founded (with C.D. Wright) Lost Roads Publishers, which continues to publish contemporary literature. Franz Wright has called him one of the great voices of death, and he earned praise from John Berryman, Alan Dugan, James Dickey, and Richard Eberhart. In 2015, Copper Canyon Press published What About This, a major volume of his collected poems, bringing his work to its widest audience yet. $ STANFORD, Frank. Crib Death. n.p. [Tucson]: Ironwood Press, First edition. Photographically illustrated perfect-bound wrappers. 55 pp. A posthumous collection from the legendary poet. Stanford s poems appeared widely in many journals, but all of his books were published by small presses and consequently have become very scarce. In the decades since his death his influence and mystique have only grown. Slight rubbing to extremities, near fine. $ STANFORD, Frank. You. Fayetteville: Lost Roads, First edition. 49 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Spine browned, old stain to top edge of rear cover. The second posthumous publication of Stanford s work, published as Lost Roads Number 15. Somewhat less uncommon than Stanford s earlier work published by Mill Mountain Press, but still rarely seen lately; a reprint edition was published in $350

11 57. [SUTTON HOO PRESS]. Everwine, Peter. Speaking of Accidents. Woodcuts by Gary Young. Winona: Sutton Hoo Press, First edition. Unpaginated. Full gray cloth with printed label on front board wrapped to spine. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by the author and illustrator. Extremely slight sunning to spine, else fine. $ TANNING, Dorothea. Birthday. Santa Monica/San Francisco: The Lapis Press, First edition. 185 pp. Full purple cloth, lettered in silver on the spine, with the dust jacket. A memoir by the great Surrealist artist, reflecting on her life and her marriage to Max Ernst. Fine copy. $ TARN, Nathaniel. The Persephones. [Santa Barbara]: Christopher's Books, First edition. [24] pp. Staple-bound glossy printed wrappers. Very minor surface wear to covers, else fine. Inscribed by the author with a drawing, for --- an edition destroyed by fire in California! Nathaniel Tarn A later fine press edition published by Ninja Press notes the destruction of much of the original edition and that the poems were significantly altered for the later edition. $ TINKER, Carol. The Cloud Covered Mountain. [Port Townsend]: Copper Canyon Press, First edition, one of 96 copies printed. Printed string-sewn wrappers. An elegy to Tinker s husband Kenneth Rexroth. Slight rubbing to corners, near fine. $ TRINIDAD, David. Pavane. Chatsworth: Sherwood Press, First edition. 61 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Slight spotting to rear cover, else fine. The first book by a noted poet. Inscribed by Trinidad on the title-page and dated in $ WARDE, Beatrice. The Same Book. A suggestion to readers on the five hundredth anniversary of the invention of printing with movable type. London: Privately Printed for the Author, First edition. [8] pp. String-sewn wrappers. Near fine. A short plea by the great typographical historian considering the solidarity of the act of printing and urging support for British printers during the war. $ WILLIAMS, Tennessee, et al. College Verse. Volume Six, Number Six. Laramie: The College Poetry Society of America, April, Stapled printed wrappers. Small sticker ghost on rear cover, lower corner slightly bumped, still near fine. University of Wyoming Semi-Centennial stamp on the front wrap. Includes the poem Inheritors by Thomas Lanier (Tennessee) Williams of Washington University. $ WILLIAMS, William Carlos. In the American Grain. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, First edition. 235 pp. Full black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Head and tail of spine a bit rubbed, spine gilt a little dull. Thom Gunn s copy with

12 his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. A nice association, as Gunn recognized Williams as an early model, trying as it were to anglicize him, to help make his openness of form and feeling available to English writers. (The Occasions of Poetry) Wallace A9. $ WRIGHT, Franz, trans. Rainer Maria Rilke. The Life of Mary (Das Marien- Leben). [Philadelphia]: Middle Earth Books, [41] pp. Marbled sewn wrappers with printed label on front cover. One of 300 copies printed, according to the colophon, but its scarcity suggests less copies were printed or distributed. A very early Wright publication, issued by a bookstore in Philadelphia which specialized in poetry and also published work by Victor Bockris and Patti Smith. Fine copy. Seven copies in OCLC. $750