RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE FORTY-EIGHT

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1 ALEXANDER Literary Firsts & Poetry RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE FORTY-EIGHT

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3 Catalogue 48 The following items all poetry: books, broadsides, journals and ephemera, are new acquisitions mixed with items from stock, the prices of which have been generally reduced, often substantially. 1. A d d o n i z i o, K i m. THE PHILOSOPHER'S CLUB. Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 78 pp. Trade paperback issued simultaneously with the hardcover; this copy inscribed, signed and dated by the poet. Two pages turned/creased else about fne. [14255] $ Ashbery, John. AS WE KNOW. New York: Viking Press, First Edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; oblong 8vo. 118 pp. Signed by Ashbery on the title page. A major title from the poet's middle years. A near fne copy with minor shelfwear in a very good dust jacket, complete, with a couple of short closed tears and small loss at corners. [14204] $ Bruce, Lennart. OBSERVATIONS. San Francisco: Kayak Press, First edition. Blue patterned stapled wrappers; 8vo. 68 p. Inscribed to Allan Brilliant, publisher of Unicorn Press, with a letter (Tls) on onion skin laid in, thanking him for the Unicorn Folios (not present) and conveying this book. illustrated with prints by George Hitchcock. 800 copies printed on heavy multi-colored papers. Extremities sunned, otherwise a fne copy. [3947] $ Cohen, Leonard. PARASITES OF HEAVEN. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, First Edition. Blue cloth, spine printed in silver; pictorial dust jacket; 8vo. First printing of Cohen's fourth collection of poems, which was issued simultaneously in paperback. This volume notable for the frst publication of several poems which would later be more fully realized as songs, especially "Suzanne". Judy Collins would record "Suzanne" the following year after she met Cohen, who had moved to New York to become a songwriter, deciding after publication of this collection and his second novel that he was not going to be able to make a living as a writer. Some soiling and rubbing to the jacket, spine faded as usual, with some closed tears and a few chips to edges; light wear to cloth with a bit of rubbing to edges; small ownership signature to front free endpaper; near fne volume in an about very good, complete (not price-clipped) dust jacket. [14089] $550.00

4 5. Collins, Billy. NINE HORSES. New York: Random House, First edition. Two-toned paper-covered boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 120 pp. Signed and dated in the year of publication by the poet on the title page; an event ticket for the signing laid in. Fine in a fne dust jacket. [14292] $ Collins, Billy. SAILING AROUND THE ROOM New and Selected Poems. New York: Random House, First edition. The second issue of the uncorrected proof in blue and white printed wrappers; small 8vo. 172 pp. Signed by the poet. Because there were contract problems to work out with Collins' previous publisher this book was delayed. The frst issue has a tentative publication date of February 2000, this issue has what turned out to be the correct date of September 11, 2001, by which time he was named Poet Laureate. Not to be confused with the ARC which is common. Quite scarce, especially as this is, signed and dated in 2002 by Billy Collins. Light shelf wear, still about fne. [14256] $ Davenport, Guy. FLOWERS & LEAVES Poema Vel Sonata. Highlands, NC: Nantahala Foundation/Jargon Books, First Edition. Photographic wrappers with French faps; large 8vo. 114 pp. A long poem with illustrations by the author. Designed and printed by Andrew Hoyem (of Arion Press); issued as Jargon 46. Lightly soiled and worn, still very good copy; lacking as usual the plain tissue wrap. [14110] $ De Martini, Francesco and Andrew Hoyem. FDM / ALH. San Francisco: Arion Press, First Edition. Single sheet folded twice to thin 4to. A keepsake from Arion Press printed in two colors with a poem in Italian translated by Hoyem. One hundred copies "For the Friends of the Poets at the Arion Press - Con Amore". Covers with some soiling else very good. [14114] $15.00

5 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p.3 9. Gilbert, Jack. VIEWS OF JEOPARDY. New Haven: Yale University Press, First Edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 43 pp. Monumental frst book by Gilbert who was not heard from again for nearly two decades. This copy signed "JG" in a late shaky hand. A fne copy with trace shelfwear. [14202] $1, Hall, Donald. THE ALLIGATOR BRIDE: Poems New and Selected. New York: Harper & Row, First Edition. Orange cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 95 pp. Hardcover copy of Hall's ffth collection, inscribed warmly to poet John Wain by Hall in Oxford in 1970, on the title page. A superb association copy as Wain and Hall were near exact contemporaries, overlapping briefy at Oxford where Wain later served in the prestigious fve-year post of Professor of Poetry. A near fne copy, light wear to edges, but topstain bright red, in a near fne lightly worn dust jacket. Kelleher A11. [14280] $ Hall, Donald. ESSAYS AFTER EIGHTY. Boston: Houghton Miffin, First Edition. Two-toned cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 134 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. Fine in a fne dust jacket. Copies of Hall's last few books are scarce signed as he traveled very little. [14279] $ Hall, Donald. "Fathers Playing Catch With Sons" in PLAYBOY Vol. 21, No.4. Chicago: Playboy, April First Edition. Photographic wrappers, stapled; 4to. 240 pp. A stellar issue with Hall's article "Fathers Playing Catch With Sons" which has become one of his most famous works (not published in book form until 1985); also, fction by Roald Dahl, Carlos Fuentes and Donald Barthelme, and Larry King's famous article "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas", which took on a life of its own; and of course the great ads. Donald Hall has signed this issue at his contribution; there is a photo of him in beard and Pirates cap on the contents page. Very good condition. [14278] $ Hall, Donald. THE GREAT AMERICAN POEM FESTIVAL. N. p. : n.p., n.d. Orange three pin folder 8 1/2 x 11 inches; 83 pp., rectos only. Unpublished manuscript, reproduced from typescript; 79 poems. The cover is inscribed "For Steve -- Don (with a drawing of a baseball)". Additionally two notations (in an unknown hand): "Call Sun[day] eve" and "Radio announcer tone". The "book" purports to

6 be a "festival" with an appearance by each poem at "The Great American College", and each poem's entrance to the podium is described in humorous, nonsensical and surreal detail, but still, not unlike his reminisces in prose in his eighties regarding poets he knew: i. e. Tom Clark and baseball, Carolyn Kizer and horses. The poems fondly ft the poet - for example this typical, and fairly short poem: "Ted Berrigan's poem emerges slowly and deliberately/ from the back seat of a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud./ It is a two-hundred-and forty pound Havanna cigar/ with a silk pinstripe cigar band./ It carries an ash four feet long/ which never falls off/ although it smokes itself day and night./ When the cigar goes out--taking a nap, maybe,/ or basting an ox at an oxroast--/ it lights itself from a thousand dollar bill/ which it carries everywhere, for that purpose." The attending poems are listed in the index describing work by Ashbery, Baraka, Berrigan, Bly, Brooks, Corso, Dickey, Dorn, Duncan, Eshleman, Ginsberg, Kinnell, Levine, Lowell, McClure, Merrill, Padgett, Rexroth, Sexton, S.S. Gardons, and Snodgrass, Snyder, Strand, Waldman, and of course Hall among others. Internal evidence (mostly poets included and more importantly missing) it seems likely this is circa The agent reportedly has a copy, and Hall most likely sent out other copies; still none found listed on WorldCat. Certainly rare, and highly unusual for a manuscript by a poet of Hall's stature to go unpublished. To this reader they are at the very least entertaining. A few mostly indecipherable notes in text and the name (and poem) of Steven Berg (likely the recipient) added to the index in Hall's hand. The binder is very good, worn at edges, else near fne with minor stains. [14286] $1, Hall, Donald. HENRY MOORE: The Life and Work of a Great Sculptor. NY: Harper & Row, First Edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. 182 pp., w/ index. Illustrated. Inscribed and signed in full in Ann Arbor in 1966, where Hall taught. Small stain on front fy, else about fne in a price-clipped else very good dust jacket with a few short closed tears. Kelleher B6.[14282] $ Hall, Donald. THE IDEAL BAKERY Stories. San Francisco: North Point Press, First edition. Green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 138 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. Poet's frst collection of short stories. Attractive publication, cover art by Frank Stanford's widow Ginny Crouch Stanford. Fine in a fne dust jacket. [14281] $35.00

7 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Hall, Donald (ed.); Robert Bly et al. NEW POEMS: Vol. One, No. One. A Fantasy Press Publication. Swinford, Oxford: Fantasy Press, Autumn First edition. Chapbook in light green printed wrappers, stapled. 12pp. Signed by Donald Hall at his contribution on the last page. Includes poems by Robert Bly, Elizabeth Jennings, Martin Seymour- Smith, Simon Broadbent, A. Alvarez, Michael Shanks, Jenny Joseph, F. George Steiner, Alistair Elliott and Donald Hall "Wedding Speeches". Subscription form laid in. Light wear and soiling, a short ink line on the front cover in what seems to be the same purple ink Hall used to sign his name, but easily very good. Uncommon publication, and rare signed. Kelleher D13. [14284] $ Robert Greenwood and Newton Baird (eds.). TALISMAN 8. San Jose, CA: Talisman, Winter, 1955 Spring, First Edition. Sewn wrappers pasted into printed dust jacket; 8vo. Pp Signed by Donald Hall where his book TO THE LOUD WIND is reviewed quite favorably by Lois Henderson. Among Hall's earliest reviews, certainly in the US, as it was the frst of his books published here. Lewis Turco, Leonard Nathan and others contribute poems, Ann Stanford an essay. Yapped edges are worn, still very good. Scarce little mag, certainly rare signed by Hall. [14283] $ Hall, Donald. TO THE LOUD WIND. Cambridge: The Harvard Advocate, First Edition. Plain card covers with printed blue dust jacket; 8vo. 26 pp. Signed by Hall on the title page. Volume 1, Number 1 of the Pegasus Publication Series. A near fne copy, covers bright, with trace wear and without the usual toning of the covers. The poet's frst book published in the US. An exceptional copy. Kelleher A5. [14285] $400.00

8 19. George Hitchcock, ed. KAYAK 16. San Francisco: Kayak Press, First edition. Stapled wrappers. 68 pp. Signed by Donald Hall ("The Repeated Shapes") and Charles Simic ("Bestiary for the fngers of my left hand") at their contributions. Also, poems by Mezey, McClure, Villon (trans. by Richard Wilbur), Bruce, Kessler, Haines, Skelton, Tagliabue, Matthews, Blazek, Lipsitz, Barker, McPherson, Raymond Carver, Purdy and others. Staples lightly rusted, else near fne. [14230] $45.00 For Hall also see # Hoffman, Michael (signed by). POETRY Vol. 193, No. 5; Vol. 195, No. 4. Chicago: Poetry, First Edition. Printed wrappers; small 8vo. Two issues of POETRY signed at his contributions by Michael Hoffman: Dec. 2009, p. 439 a manifesto; Jan issue, pp , commentary. Fine copies. [14104] For the pair: $ Hoyem, Andrew. CHIMERAS: Transformations of Les Chimeres A Twelve Sonnet Sequence by Gerard de Nerval. San Francisco: Dave Haselwood Books, First Edition. Sewn pictorial wrappers; 8vo. 23 pp. Poems from the French in English, translated by Hoyem with notes and cover art by him. Inscribed "Glenn Todd 14 June 1966" and signed by the poet on the frst blank leaf. Very good. [14120] $20.00 Todd was a printer and publisher of Arion Press and co-authored with Hoyem a 1981 Arion Press title SHAPED POETRY, a particular interest. A nice association. 22. Kinnell, Galway. THE BURN. Anchorage: Salmon Run Press, First edition thus. A single poem sewn into photographic wrappers; small 8vo. The ninth pamphlet in the Salmon Run Pamphlet Series I. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine. [14207] $ Kinnell, Galway. Daybreak. Berkeley: Littoral Press, N.d. First Separate Printing. Illustrated broadside approx. 5 3/4 x 9 inches. Signed by the poet. Designed and printed by Lisa Rappoport at Littoral Press, Oakland CA to beneft the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Scholarship Fund. Fine copy, with press mailing envelope which has been folded. [14232] $50.00

9 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Kinnell, Galway. The Music Box. Concord NH: William B. Ewart, First edition. Elegant chapbook handsewn by Carolyn Colman in brown wrappers titled in gold. Number 30 of 36 copies signed by the poet. Illustration by Jane Banquer Burnham. A single short poem; there was a broadside issued also. Fine. [14206] $ Lasky, Dorothea. BLACK LIFE. Seattle: WAVE, First Edition. Cloth in dust jacket; tall 8vo. 77 pp. One of 100 copies numbered (#25) and signed by the poet on a bookplate pasted to the rear end paper (as issued). The poet's second book was also issued in paper, the hardcover itself is uncommon. Lasky is one of the most talked about young poets of her generation.the usual fne production from the publisher; quite scarce in cloth and As New. [12202] $ Laughlin, James. GISTS & PITHS. Iowa: The Windhover Press, First Edition. Limited to 250 copies. 22pp., letterpress printed in two colors in Spectrum types on Rives paper. Blind-stamped on the title page with the likeness of Pound, with errata sheet. Laughlin was the founder of New Directions a venture he undertook with Pound's encouragement; he was Pound's editor. Their friendship is recounted rather lightly as the title suggests in this address he gave at Penn. A lovely production and a very fne copy - never read - in clothbacked paper-covered boards, paper label on spine. [3654] $ Lauterbach, Ann. MANY TIMES, BUT THEN. Austin: Texas University Press, First edition. Dark gray cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 70 pp. First regularly published book, issued simultaneously in paper. This copy with a full-page inscription dated 1979, and signed by the author; including a drawing of a heart, to bookseller (The Strand buyer) Burt Britten. A beautiful copy with only light edgewear. Near fne in like (not priceclipped) dust jacket [32] $ Lauterbach, Anne. ON A STAIR. New York: Penguin Books, Trade paperback original; 8vo. 85 pp. Signed by the poet. The ffth collection from this recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship; with a printed advertisement for a Fall 2003 reading series with Lauterbach as a featured poet. Near Fine in Wraps. [2487] $25.00

10 29. Lawrence, D. H.; Kenneth Rexroth (intro. and signed by). SELECTED POEMS. New York: New Directions, First edition. Cloth in dust jacket. 12mo. Signed by Kenneth Rexroth who wrote the introduction pp Lustig cover; The New Classics Series. Top edge a bit spotted, else very good in a chipped at corners, else lightly worn, spine-sunned near very good dust jacket. [11666] $ Lederer, Katy; D. A. Powell, and others. SPECTACULAR EMOTION. I o w a C i t y : E x p l o s i v e Magazine, First Edition. Side-stapled decorated wrappers; 4to. 75 pp. D.A. Powell pages Also includes an unused cassette. The regular issue of 200 copies (an additional 15 signed and numbered by the cover artist). Other poets, Ishmael Klein, Emily Wilson, Martin CorlessSmith, Ales Corey, Pamela Lu, Tan Lin, Josh May, Juliana Spahr. A Lederer fnanced magazine when she was earning her MFA at Iowa's Writers School; evidence of nine issues total. Published the same year as Powell's frst book; both poet's going on to considerable critical acclaim. Quite scarce, with two of this issue listed on WorldCat. Near fne. [9587] $ Lerman, Eleanor. COME THE SWEET BY AND BY. Amherst: Massachusetts, First edition. Yellow cloth in dust jacket; square 8vo. 73 pp. The scarce hardcover issue of her second book, winner of the frst Juniper Prize awarded by the publisher. Colophon by Barry Moser. Her frst book was nominated for National Book Award, her third book came some twenty-fve years years later. She won the prestigious 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize given by The American Academy of Poets for the most outstanding book of poetry published the previous year for her fourth collection OUR POSTSOVIET HISTORY UNFOLDS. Published simultaneously in paper, this is a very diffcult book to fnd in hardcover, particularly in this condition. Fine copy, the black dust jacket lightly rubbed, still about fne. [3921] $ Levertov, Denise. CONVERSATION IN MOSCOW. n.p.: Hovey Street Press,, First edition. Red stapled card covers in matching printed card wrapper; thin 8vo. Signed by the author. Written and produced as a wedding gift to friends. Near-fne condition. Number 39 of 200 signed and numbered, from a press run of 1000 total. Designed by Judy Katz. Calligraphy by Peggy Johnstone. [7886] $35.00

11 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Levertov, Denise. MODULATIONS FOR SOLO VOICE. San Francisco: Five Trees Press, First edition. Tall printed wrappers with printed paper labels. One of 250 copies (there were 50 additionally in cloth). Specially signed by the author. Prospectus laid in. Back cover creased along the top with resulting 3/4 in. closed tear at spine. Else fne. A beautiful production and quite scarce signed. [10312] $ Lewis, Janet. POEMS Denver: Alan Swallow, First edition. Issue in green cloth (also issued in brown cloth) stamped in gilt in light blue dust jacket printed in red; 12mo. One signature of noticeably different paper stock. Signed by the poet on the title page. Near fne copy in a heavily spine-toned dust jacket with one short closed tear and faint damp staining along the bottom edge, else very good. Quite uncommon, rare signed. [11691] $ Lindsay, Vachel. IN PRAISE OF JOHNNY APPLESEED. N.p.: American Fruit Growers, circa First Edition. Plain beige stapled wrappers; thin 4to. [15 pp.] A poem by Lindsay reprinted from the Century magazine, August, 1921, with "The Rodin of American poetry", by Glenn Frank from the same issue. Likely the original envelope, now separated, included. Staples rusty, else very good. Very scarce, fve copies found on WorldCat. [12169] $ Lindsay, Vachel. LITANY OF WASHINGTON STREET. N.p.: Privately Printed, [1927]. First Edition. Stapled brochure; 8vo.; 9 pp., in a contemporary Gaylord Photomount Pamphlet Binder. Signed by the author "Nicholas Vachel Lindsay". This is copy number 34: "Of this brochure ffty-fve copies have been printed for private distribution by the author." With the bookplate of W. D. Vincent. The pamphlet taped at the back into the binder as designed by the library supplier. An essay on George Washington as our "Great Red Indian Chief, White Horse". Some aging, offset from the bookplate and Gaylord ticket, but very good with no wear, albeit bound at edges by tape. Quite rare, especially signed. The same title (with the addition of "The") was used for a book of prose published six years later, after he had moved back to Springfeld from Spokane, where the recipient was his banker. [12164] $250.00

12 37. Loewinsohn, Ron. THE STEP. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, First edition. One of 125 (there were an additional 750 in soft cover) signed & numbered copies bound by Earle Gray in yellow cloth with paper labels. 59 pp. Nicely designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh. Fine, without a dust jacket (as issued). [4323] $ Long, Haniel. PITTSBURGH MEMORANDA. Santa Fe: Writers Editions, First edition. Black beveled cloth in a silver printed black dust jacket; large 8vo. 85 pp. An excellent copy of the signed, limited edition: #106/1000. Published by Writers Editions, a cooperative concentrating on publishing New Mexico writers. Printed and bound by the Rydal Press. Only the lightest of shelfwear to the bottom edges. A fne copy of a lovely production. [4317] $ Lowell, Robert. THE MILLS OF THE KAVANAUGHS. New York: Harcourt Brace, First edition. Black cloth in yellow and green dust jacket.; small 8vo. 55 pp. The poet's third book (second regularly scheduled). Light shelfwear, else fne in a bright (spine commonly found faded) complete dust jacket lightly rubbed at the folds and lightly worn at corners, else near fne. [11647] $ Lowell, Robert. NEAR THE OCEAN. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, First edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; small 4to. 125 pp. Signed by the author on the frst blank page. Light shelfwear else fne in a near fne dust jacket. [14236] $ Lowell, Robert. POESIE A Cura Di Rolando Anzilotti. Firenze: Edizioni Fussi, April First edition thus. Printed wraps; 12mo. Bi-lingual edition printed. Extremities worn and rubbed, about very good. [11690] $ Lurie, Toby. A Leaf of Voices, Oral Composition. San Francisco: Journeys Into Language, First edition. Stapled green decorated wrappers; 8vo. 73 pp. Scarce eighth volume of this California-based language poetry. Lurie combines art, music and poetry into a kind of performance art. Very good, spine sunned. [8311] $ MacFalls, Seán. BETWEEN THE LEAVES, THERE ARE LITTLE STARS. Mill Valley: Blue Falcon Books/Peregrine Press, First edition. Stapled grey printed wrappers; 8vo. 40 pp. One of 50 copies signed and numbered by the author.

13 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p.11 Woodcut decorations by Eric Gill. Back cover blurbs by Sharon Olds, Galway Kinnell and Rosalie Moore. Precedes his frst collection (which prints some of these same poems) from the same press (Peregrine) by three years. Fine copy of cheaply produced book. Rare, with two copies listed on WorldCat. [5669] $ Mahon, Derek. THE CHIMERAS: A Version of Les Chimeres by Gerard de Narval. Dublin: Gallery Books, First edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 20 pp. Lovely copy of the hardcover issue (one of only 300 copies in cloth issue ) of this reworking of these poems from the 19th C French. Mahon is one of the most popular Irish poets working today. Very near fne in like dust jacket. [11311] $ Mailer, Norman. DEATHS FOR THE LADIES (and Other Disasters). New York: Putnam, First edition. Black cloth-backed white paper-covered boards in black and white dust jacket. Signed by Mailer on the title page. The cloth edition uncommon as it was also issued in paper; one of his scarcest trade titles, and his only trade volume of poetry; quite scarce signed. Fine copy in a price-clipped, but only very lightly rubbed and worn, near fne dust jacket. [11601] $ Major, Clarence (editor). THE NEW BLACK POETRY. New York: International Publishers, First edition. Clothbacked boards in dust jacket. 8vo. 156 pp. Review copy with slip laid in; simultaneously issued in trade paperback. Intro. by Major. 76 poets are represented in this important anthology. Light foxing to edges, jacket verso, else easily very good. Light wear, the spine a bit toned, but an uncommonly bright jacket. [11587] $ Mariani, Paul [Barry Moser]. TIMING DEVICES: Poems. Boston: Godine, First edition. Red cloth in dust jacket; narrow small 4to. 61 pp. Elegant tall volume, Mariani's frst collection. This copy is signed by both Mariani and artist Barry Moser, highly unusual -- and both are lovely signatures. Moser set the type at his Pennyroyal Press; preceded by Moser's limited edition. Fine in like dust jacket. [10016] $50.00

14 48. McAlmon, Robert. NORTH AMERICA Continent of Conjecture. Paris: Contact, First Edition. Cream printed wrappers; small 4to.; 44 pp. Decorations by Hilaire Hiler. A long poem by the author who was also the publisher of the press; and the last book of the press. One of 310 copies printed. Very slight wear, most pages unopened (in removable protective mylar covers). Fine and scarce book from one of the most important fgures of the Lost Generation. [12797] $ McAlmon's BEING GENIUSES TOGETHER: is one of the essential books of the 20's. He was married for most of the 20's to Bryher the longtime lover of H.D; published both Bryher and H. D. as well as Hemingway (his frst book), Gertrude Stein, Marsden Hartley and William Carlos Williams, with whom he began in Greenwich Village CONTACT, a magazine whose fourth and fnal issue was published in Paris. 49. McClure, Joanna. Gathered. [Berkeley]: [Moe's], circa First Separate Edition. Single sheet folded; near miniature. "A Moe's Books Free Poem." No publishing information given, but from Moe's in Berkeley. Scarce and about fne. [12009] $ McClure, Michael. FRAGMENTS OF PERSEUS. New York: Jordan Davies, First edition. Sewn wrappers. One of 200 signed and numbered copies. Printed on Edmonds Cream Laid and Sheepstor papers by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press. Illus. by Jordan Davies. Near fne in pink wrappers. [11735] $ McHugh, Heather. DANGERS. Boston: Houghton Miffin, First edition. Red cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 96 pp. With a long inscription by McHugh to the poet Gerald Stern quoting cleverly Roethke. Her frst book in the somewhat uncommon hardcover issue. Fine in a near fne 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] $ McPherson, Sandra. RADIATION. New York: The Ecco Press, First edition. Yellow cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 68 pp. Review copy with review slip and printed publicity sheet laid in. In addition it is inscribed to bookseller Burt Britten and signed in full by the poet. Volume 1 in the American Poetry Series, and the poet's second book. Back cover blurbs by E. Bishop and A. Hecht. Touch of dust still fne; the jacket pristine. [1239] $50.00

15 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p McPherson, Sandra. THE YEAR OF OUR BIRTH. New York: Ecco Press, First edition. Burgundy cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. The author's third collection in hardcover, with publisher post card reproducing a poem laid in. Light age-toning at extremities, else very fne. [615] $ Menashe, Samuel. TO OPEN. New York: Viking Press, First edition. 1/4 cloth over paper boards in printed dust jacket. 118 pp. Not quite minimalist poetry, but tight, short, and vivid. This copy is signed in black ink by Menashe on the half-title page. Spine of jacket is sunned and the book has a very slight spine tilt at top. A surprisingly nice copy, and scarce, more so signed. [8409] $ Merrill, James. THE FIRE SCREEN. London: Chatto and Windus, First UK edition. Orange cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 52 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. Published in the US in paper only. Very light wear at extremities in a price-clipped else near fne dust jacket with light soiling. Bright, lovely copy. [11119] $ Merrill, James. FROM THE FIRST NINE. New York: Atheneum, First edition. Simultaneously published trade paperback issue. Signed by the poet on the title page. Very Near Fine. [11605] $ Merrill, James. James Merrill: A Memorial Tribute [Program]. New York: The New York Public Library., First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; Thin 8vo. [8 pp.] Program for the Merrill Tribute: Saturday, May 13, Four o'clock. Celeste Bartos Forum:NYPL. Participants included Richard Kenney, J.D. McClatchy, John Hollander, Frank Bidart, Alison Lurie, Anthony Hecht, and Allan Gurganus. Great photo of Merrill as a child in theatrical costume. With invitation and numbered ticket for the event. Program folded in half, else fne. [12739] Three pieces: $ M e r r i l l, J a m e s. LATE SETTINGS. N e w Y o r k : Atheneum, First edition. Original printed wrappers. Briefy inscribed and signed in full by the poet in Hagstrom A62a2. Top tip bumped, else fne. [11602] $35.00

16 59. Merrill, James. TWO POEMS. London: Chatto and Windus, First UK edition. Orange cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 47 pp. No US equivalent. Signed by the poet on the title page. Very light wear at extremities in a like but price-clipped dust jacket. Bright, lovely copy. [11118] $ Micheline, Jack. I KISS ANGELS. New York: Interim Press, First edition. Yellow printed wrappers. 8vo. One of 500 copies. Inscribed in full: "For John & Gypsy, The best of luck to two nice people, nyc " (Did he misspell Jon? - Jon Webb and Gypsy Lou published THE OUTSIDER noted for early Bukowski and other avant garde poets including Micheline). Beat poet's second book. Minor soiling to a few pages, light scratch across front, yapped edges chipped and folded; still about very good. [7470] $ Miles, Josephine. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, First Edition. Issue in papercovered boards, in dust jacket; thin 8vo. From The Poet Of The Month Series, this book printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Spine ends a bit crumpled, several short mostly closed tears along the top edge (one about an inch), still a bright at least very good copy. Probably 500 copies published in boards, but they are quite uncommon in any condition. [6942] $50.00 Dr. Miles as a professor at UC Berkeley mentored many young poets in the Bay area. This is an early work in a distinguished career as professor and poet. 62. Millay, Edna St. Vincent. CONVERSATIONS AT MIDNIGHT. New York: Harper & Brothers, First Edition. Half cloth over blue paper-covered boards, paper label, in dust jacket; 8vo. 126 pp. Owner's name on fy in pencil, fne in a lightly worn at spine ends, soiling at tail, but bright and easily very good dust jacket. An exceptional copy. [7450] $35.00 The manuscript of this poem was destroyed in a fre in 1936, while Millay was staying on Sanibel Island, FLA. She recreated the poem - a conversation between six men, work quite different from her successful sonnets and lyrics that had arguably made her the most famous poet in America. The poor critical reception was the beginning of a rapid decline in popularity, accompanied by a decline in physical and mental health.

17 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Millay, Edna St. Vincent. FEAR. New York: SaccoVanzetti National League, n.d. [1927]. First Separate Edition. A single sheet printed on all sides, from THE OUTLOOK. Millay was deeply involved in this case, she marched in Boston along with fellow writers Dos Passos, Parker and Porter, and was arrested. The day before the execution she had an interview with the Governor. On August 22, 1927 her poem "Justice Denied in Massachusetts" was published in the New York World. "Fear" was published two months later; intended to be folded, this copy remains unfolded; other than overall light toning to the paper, fne. [12112] $ Moore, Marianne. THE COMPLETE POEMS. New York: Macmillan/Viking, First edition. Navy and light blue cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. 305 pp. w/ index of titles and frst lines. The frst issue with misspellings including "fowrrs" on p. 65. Published on 15 November 1967, the poet's 80th birthday. The poet on an otherwise blank page following the dedication page states "Omissions are not accidents". An interesting statement given that many of these poems, including her famous "Poetry" ("I, too, dislike it.") are here revised (a longer, earlier version is in the fairly extensive and useful notes to the poems), and the "complete poems" is in fact quite incomplete with only 120 poems (plus some translations from La Fontaine). An interesting collection, the poems as she wished them to be read by future generations. Overall a very near fne copy; the dust jacket spine very slightly toned, not price-clipped, and else near fne. Abbott A32.a1. [12139] $ Moore, Marianne. EIGHT POEMS. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, First Edition. Cloth-backed gray/brown paper over boards in slipcase, with paper label; 4to. Published by MOMA under the direction of Monroe Wheeler. Number 138 of 195 copies all signed by Ms. Moore and Robert Andrew Parker. Moore's poems in holograph; Parker's ten drawings all colored by hand. Addendum (erratum consisting of concluding lines of "The Fish") slip laid in. Poems include "The Fish"; "He Digesteth Harde Yron" and "Nevertheless". A nice pairing of Moore and Parker: both interested in the natural world. Lovely production. Fine. [12941] $850.00

18 66. Moore, Marianne. A MARIANNE MOORE READER. New York: Viking Press, First edition. Orange cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. 301 pp. w/ notes and index. Inscribed quite wonderfully two weeks before publication date (Nov. 16): "Marshall A.Best/ Marshall the ("the" is underlined) best/ who does not hate writers--/whom writers do not hate,/ approaching circumspectly/ believe me,/ Marianne Moore/ November 1, 1961." Best was one of the senior editors for decades at Viking editing Iris Murdoch, Patrick White among others. A generous selection of poems, essays, the Fables of La Fontaine and "The Ford Letters", with previously uncollected work and an interview with Donald Hall. Light soiling else about fne in a very good dust jacket with a faded spine (as usual to yellow) and a few short closed tears. 301 pp. Abbott A18a.1. [10118] $ Mo ore, Mari anne. NEVERTHELESS. N ew Yor k: Macmillan, First Edition. Red cloth with paper label; 12mo. 14 pp., errata slip between pages 4-5 (frst printing, second state). Abbott A7.1(2). Near fne with bookseller ticket, in a clipped (not price) dust jacket with some loss at spine and back panel, but close to very good. [12707] $35.00 Includes the fne anti-war poem "In Distrust of Merits". 68. Moore, Marianne. WHAT ARE YEARS. New York: Macmillan, First Edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 54 pp., including notes. Somewhat uncommon: the bibliographer reports 1251 sold, and the book went out-of-print within the year. Nevertheless among the poems are favorites like "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'", "The Pangolin" and the title poem. A much nicer than usual copy: sunned at extremities, end papers lightly toed as usual, with a note in pencil of four poems not in "Collected"; in a clipped (front fap, top and bottom) dust jacket, with the price still present, worn with small loss at corners, but still close to very good. Abbott A6. [12140] $ Moore, Marianne (translator). THE FABLES OF LA FONTAINE. New York: Viking Press, First edition. One of 400 numbered copies signed by Moore. Thick 8vo, red cloth with gilt titling, in mylar cover, black glossy slipcase. A project to which she reportedly spent ten years. A fne, unopened (signature leaves have not been cut) copy in worn, separated, but complete slipcase. [12138] $100.00

19 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Moore, Merrill. 15 Poems from The Fugitive By Merrill Moore [ ] and one additional poem: Ego. Boston: Self Published/ Caduceus Press, First Edition. Soft Cover, presumed frst edition in near very good condition. 25 pages. Self -published by the author. Fifteen poems originally in the magazine published by The Fugitives, plus an additional long poem "Ego". Quite scarce, WorldCat with one entry (Wyoming). [9623] $35.00 For Moore see also # Moritz, A. F. THE RUINED COTTAGE. Toronto: Wolsak and Wynn, First edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 99 pp. The poet's seventh book inscribed to editor Harry Ford (arguably the most important poetry editor of the second half of the century), with a long typed letter again signed by the poet mentioning "some advice" given to him by Ford on the enclosed book. Moritz mentions some of Ford's recent publications as well as his own, and his work as Northrop Frye Visiting Lecturer at Victoria College, UT. Fine. [125] $ Moritz, A. F. SONG OF FEAR. London, Ontario: Brick Books, First edition. Photographic wrappers; 8vo. 106 pp. The poet's sixth volume of verse (not including numerous translations) inscribed to editor Harry Ford. Laid in is a typed, signed letter to Ford: "I have much to thank you for. The ms. you criticized for me a couple of years ago, revised in light of your criticisms has found a home." He mentions Knopf's poetry program and having heard Hecht, Van Duyn, Strand and Merwin read "from their recent books". Moritz although born and educated in the US has spent his working life in Toronto. Not wellknown in the U. S. he is one of Canada's fnest poets having won the Governor General's Award and in 2004 Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Award. Spine-faded, with a small bump, otherwise fne. [127] $ Moritz, A. F. and Ludwig Zeller. PHANTOMS IN THE ARK: A Collage-Poem. Vancouver: Cacanadadada, First edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 79 pp. With mechanical collages by the poet/artist Zeller with Moritz's poem, also translated by Susan Wald into Spanish. With an interview by her with the two. Inscribed to Knopf editor Harry Ford; additionally there is a brief typed and signed letter on his Victoria College stationary to Ford. Fine. [121] $45.00

20 74. Moss, Howard. NOTES FROM THE CASTLE: Poems. New York: Atheneum, First Edition. Brown cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 59 pp. Inscribed by the poet to William Shawn. A fne copy in a very near fne dust jacket. [12683] $ Moss, Howard. A SWIMMER IN THE AIR Poems. New York: Scribner, First Edition. Gray cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 75 pp. Inscribed by the poet to William Shawn. Poet's third book. Rollie McKenna photo of the author on the back cover. Fine in a spinetoned else fne dust jacket. [12686] $ Moss, Howard. TIGERS & OTHER LILIES. New York: Atheneum, First Edition. Blue-green cloth in dust jacket; tall 8vo. 40 pp. Inscribed by the poet to William Shawn. Humorous poems on plants with animal names, illus. by F. H. Belli. Bottom tips lightly bumped else fne copy in a very near fne dust jacket. [12685] $ Moss, Howard. WHATEVER IS MOVING Essays. New York: Atheneum, First Edition. Gold and green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 277 pp. Inscribed "with the affection of many years" by the poet to William Shawn. A fne copy in a very near fne dust jacket. [12684] $ William Shawn was the legendary editor at The New Yorker working there for 53 years until he was ousted by new owners in Moss was the poetry editor at The New Yorker for 39 years his tenure ending with his death in Moss won the National Book Award for Poetry in Moss, Howard Ray Roberts. Correspondence/Typescript etc. between Ray Roberts and Howard Moss. N.p.: n.p., First Edition. Archive of over 40 items, ca (bulk 1973). Letters from New Yorker poetry editor and National Book Award-winning poet Howard Moss to Ray Roberts, then editor at Macmillan. Moss s correspondence is largely in regard to A Poet s Story (New York, 1973), the anthology of short stores by eminent poets for which he wrote the introduction and edited. Highlights include Moss s thoughts on different writers as he discusses whom to include in the book discussed specifcally are Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Frank O Hara, John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Berryman. Several letters begin energetically with, Here s another story I d like to include... and go on to share his latest ideas for the project;

21 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p.19 other topics include Moss s own contributions and general editorial duties such as obtaining permissions, contracts, etc. Inventory: Ca. 16 typed letters signed. Typed note signed and 3 autograph notes/card signed. 3 typed postcards signed. A handful of enclosures, including photocopies or carbons of other correspondence; Manuscript material: Introduction to A Poet s Story, ca. 18 pp. typescript, comprised of annotated photocopied pages with Moss s latest corrections in ink, as well as a handful of passages inserted into the text and affxed to the page with tape. Together with his ALS that announces, Here s the umptieth revision of you-know-what.... A Ceremony of Losers, - story by Moss, ca. 7 pp. photocopy typescript. A "Xerox" of a letter from Josephine Jacobsen about a serious misprint in her story as published. Printed matter: Ca. 17 items, including a proof of Moss' Chekov published by Albondocani Press, printed (small broadside) of a poem by Moss: "Travel: A Window", programs from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Creative Arts Awards, and tear sheets of Moss articles and poems from the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, etc. Minor wear, creasing, some folded for mailing, but all near fne to fne. [12519] $ Motion, Andrew (signed by); Melvin Lasky, Anthony Thwaite (eds.). ENCOUNTER Vol. LV, No. 1. London: Encounter, July First Edition. Orange printed wrappers; 8vo. 96 pp. Signed by Andrew Motion at his contribution pp , an essay on poetry criticism. Highlights include an early short story by Tobias Woolf "Wingfeld". Very good. [14103] $ Myles, Eileen (ed.) DODGEMS Issues 1&2. New York: A Subsidiary of Fido Productions, F i r s t Edition. Spiral bound photographic covers (not mimeographed); 4to. Scarce publication edited by Myles; only two issues in total. Both copies signed by her at her contribution. A stellar list of poets: Andrews, Bernstein, Berrigan... Light wear, easily very g o o d. Cl ay / P h il l ip s [14224] $600.00

22 81. Nemerov, Howard. FEDERIGO Or The Power Of Love. Boston: Atlantic-Little Brown, First edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 265 pp. A Review copy with the review slip laid in of his second novel, and fourth book. In addition this copy is signed on the title page by the author. Previous owner's name in ink on the ffep, and one page turned down, still close to fne; the jacket is about very good, the spine faded, covers lightly rubbed, edgewear. Still a very presentable book, very scarce signed and with the review slip. [973] $ N e m e r o v, H o w a r d. FIGURES OF THOUGHT: Speculations on the Meaning of Poetry & Other Essays. Boston: Godine, First edition. Cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. 198 pp. Inscribed to Bernard Malamud and his wife Ann "12 vi 1978". Malamud and Nemerov were close friends and longtime colleagues at Bennington. A nice association between two of the leading Jewish-American writers who so dominated US literature of the midcentury: both won Pulitzer Prizes and National Book Awards among other prizes. Nemerov twice served as Consultant to the Library of Congress / Poet Laureate. A very good copy with foxing to top edge in a toned else fne dust jacket. [10063] $ Nemerov, Howard. STORIES, FABLES & OTHER DIVERSIONS. Boston: Godine, First edition. Red cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. 121 pp. This is one of David Godine's early exquisite creations, a volume of Nemerov's short fction, signed by the poet on the title page. Printed by the Stinehour Press. Easily very good: Light shelfwear to bottom edges and extremities of the dust jacket. [7564] $ Niedecker, Lorine; Cid Corman (editor). BLUE CHICORY. New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, First edition. Green paper-covered boards in slipcase; large 8vo. [82 pp.] One of an unspecifed number in hardcovers, of 400 copies total on Magnani Rag; printed by Stamperia Valdonega, designed by Mardersteig. Lovely edition of the poet's work that did not make it into the Fulcrum COLLECTED POEMS of 1968 or were written (some transcribed from tape) afterwards. Niedecker died in Certainly one of the fnest publications from the publisher. Spine faintly sunned, else fne in a lightly soiled and worn slipcase. [10307] $100.00

23 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Nichol, bp. A TRIBUTE TO BP. Toronto: Harbourfront, Friday, December 2, First Edition. Stapled blue wrappers; thin 8vo. A programme for a tribute to bp Nichol, with a photograph of him, and a list of the authors participating including Dennis Lee, Daphne Marlatt, Fred Wah, the remaining Horsemen, David Young and Michael Ondaatje who has signed next to his listing. Sunned and worn, and about very good. [14231] $ O'Neill, Eugene. A TOUCH OF THE POET. New Haven: Yale University Press, First edition. The last full-length play by O'Neill and like LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT published posthumously and against his wishes. Fine in a lightly worn and priceclipped (with old remainder sticker from Yale Co-op attached). [3646] $ Ochester, Ed. MIRACLE MILE. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, First edition. Brown cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 62 pp. Signed on the title page by the Poet Ed Ochester. Ochester was the long-time editor of the Pitt Poetry Series. Fine in a fne dust jacket. Scarce in cloth, issued simultaneously in paper, cloth went mostly to libraries. [9566] $ Oliver, Mary, and Others. THREE RIVERS POETRY JOURNAL 15/16. Pittsburgh: Three Rivers Press, First edition. Photographic wrappers; small 8vo. oft Cover. The Mary Oliver issue with a review of Oliver's third major collection, Twelve Moons, followed by 10 pages of her new poems and a "discussion" of her previous work by Robert Wallace. Also, poems by Ted Kooser, Vern Rutsala, and others. A review of a book of poetry by Kent Anderson prior to his frst book. The cover reproduces a photo of Ms. Oliver on the beach. Small coffee spots on front wraps, else easily very good. [7995] $ Olson, Charles. "A Magazine does have this 'life' to it..." N.p.: Printed by the Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger, First Thus. Small oblong broadside issued for Bookslinger at A.B.A, May Printed letterpress in two colors. Fine. [14053] $15.00

24 90. Olson, Toby. THE FLORENCE POEMS. London/New York: The Permanent Press, First edition. Illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. No. 43 of 50 copies numbered and signed by the poet and specially bound in heavy wraps (of 550 total). Near fne. [4713] $ Olson, Toby. DOCTOR MIRIAM. Mt Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, First edition. Original Wraps. Illustrated by Sondra Freckleton and Jack Beal. Signed by the Author and specially signed by both Illustrators. Created for the occasion of Miriam Meltzer becoming a PhD; "fve poems by her adoring husband Toby Olson." This is copy number 2 of 144. Blind-stamped, deep mauve wraps, printed on Perusia papers. Hamady 80. An elegant production, press-numbered. Fine. [7829] $ Onda a tj e, Mi cha el. THE DAINTY MONSTERS. Toronto: Coach House Press, First Edition. Brown cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 77 pp. Inscribed with quite an attractive signature by the poet on the title page; additionally laid in is the rare bio sheet/ prospectus which is also signed. Press numbered 76 of only 500 copies; the writer's frst book, a volume of poems. The top edge lightly soiled else fne in a near fne dust jacket worn a bit at corners. [14203] $1, Ondaatje, Michael. HANDWRITING Poems. New York: Knopf, First American edition. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards in dust jacket; 8vo. Inscribed and signed in full in Ann Arbor in '99 by Ondaatje to the novelist Nicholas Delbanco and his wife, who sponsored a reading by Ondaatje at the University of Michigan, where Delbanco, himself a critically acclaimed novelist, taught for many years. Fine copy in like dust jacket. [11383] $ Ondaatje, Michael. HANDWRITING Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, First Canadian edition. Fine copy in gray cloth and fne dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. True frst - precedes US edition. [11316] $25.00 For Ondaatje see also # Owens, Rochelle. FUTZ AND WHAT CAME AFTER Five Plays. New York: Random House, First Edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8o. 235 pp. Intro. by Jerome Rothenberg. Nice inscription from Owen to Ruth [Ford] covering front fy

25 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p.23 in full. Ford whose apartment in the Dakota the NYT described as a salon, was the sister of Charles Henri Ford, and an actress on Broadway, and in flm and TV. Near fne in a dust jacket with two quite small punch marks at gutter, else near fne. Wonderful association between two leading theater and literary women of the 1960's. [7485] $ Padgett, Ron. CRAZY COMPOSITIONS. n. p. : Big Sky, First edition. Cover by George Scheeman. Scarce early work by Padgett, who has signed this on the title page. Limited to 750. Moderate creasing at spine, easily very good, sharp. [8021] $ Patchen, Kenneth. BEFORE THE BRAVE. New York: Random House, First edition. Red cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. 131 pp. Poet's frst collection. Cloth with some sunning but clean and very good, in a mostly complete (not price-clipped) but heavily taped (at spine and along the top edge - verso) dust jacket. Still far more attractive than most in an uncommon at best dust jacket. [10580] $ Patchen, Kenneth. THE TEETH OF THE LION. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, First Edition. Paper over boards in dust jacket; 8vo. Hardcover issue, one of 500 copies (of 3000 total); Poet of the Month series. Offsetting to end papers else about fne in a worn at edges and spine dust jacket with two tears repaired with tape on verso. Hardcovers in this important series surprisingly uncommon in collectible condition. Morgan A5a. [12630] $ Patchen, Kenneth. THEY KEEP RIDING DOWN ALL THE TIME. New York: Padell, First edition. Stapled card covers in original printed jacket (no hardcover issue). Variant with the image by Patchen printed in red. Prose. 32 pp. Spine lightly toned, light wear, easily very good. [11130] $ Petersen, Donald. THE SPECTRAL BOY. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, First Edition. 70 pp. A Review copy in advanced form. Gray cloth with cover pasted on, no lettering on the spine as with the trade issue. The review slip pasted to the endpaper, compliments of the publisher card laid in. This copy inscribed by the poet to Lewis Turco, with his inked name on the review slip and his embossed label on the title page. The poet's frst book. An important association; it is Lewis Turco who writes the entry

26 for Petersen in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry: "The later poems are as well-written and as worthy of publication as any of those to be found in his frst book." Ink notation on the rear endpaper, otherwise excepting Turco's additions a fne copy, presumably issued without dust jacket. Quite a scarce format; nice association. [5016] $ Pommy-Vega, Janine. MAD DOGS OF TRIESTE New & Selected Poems. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, First edition. Cloth-backed illustrated paper-covered boards in acetate dust jacket; large 8vo. Gorgeous copy of this 272-page collection of vibrant poetry. Limited to 200 copies; this one is still in the original clear wrapper. [9945] $ Pound, Ezra. [Announcement.] A Draft of XXX Cantos. Paris: Hours Press, [1930]. First Edition. Printed postcard, 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches. Announcement soliciting orders for the frst edition. [ ] by Ezra Pound / eliminating the idea that his knowledge of the past has invalidated his perception of the present. Lightly toned else fne. The Hours Press was owned and operated by Nancy Cunard, who bought the press from William Bird who used it for printing books at his Three Mountains Press where he had published Pound (who served as an editor), Williams and Hemingway's frst book. Needless to say this card is exceptionally rare; the book itself a Connolly 100 title. Near fne. [14098] SOLD 103. Pound, Ezra. [Announcement]. Sujet pour violon (resineux). Paris: Salle du Conservatoire, [1923]. First Edition. Single sheet printed rectos only in blue; 5 ½ x 8 inches. An announcement card for a performance by Olga Rudge and George Antheil at the Salle due Conservatoire, December 11, [1923]. Lists several works performed by Rudge and Antheil, including her performance of Antheil s Two Sonatas for Violin and Piano., as well as this work by Pound. Paper toned, 1923 in ink to upper corner. Gallup E3g. No copies found on WorldCat. Very good. [14097] SOLD

27 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Pound, Ezra. [Program]. BOOK OF WORDS. Miss Florence Schmidt and Miss Elsie Hall Vocal and Pianoforte Recital. London: Bechstein Hall, [1910]. First Edition. Stapled printed wrappers, 7 ½ x 10 inches; [8 pp.] Pound provided uncredited English translations for the French (Verlaine and Chanson Provencal) and Italian lyrics featured in the program. 300 copies printed; sold at the recital, 1 March This is Pound's copy, with his manuscript corrections in three places, adding -Wood to Miss Schmidt s surname on the cover; correcting a typo in Verlaine s Clair de Lune ; and adding an extra round of lah las to Fantoches ; signed EP four times. Yeats' "The Lake of Innisfree" as a bonus. Fair to good copy: foxing; creased twice for mailing, with tearing along lower fold; covers detached. Gallup B2. Exceptionally rare, WorldCat listing a copy at Yale. [14095] SOLD 105. Pound, Ezra. VENEZIA NEI CANTOS. Tradotti in lingua italiana da Mary de Rachewiltz. Torino: Tallone Editore, First Edition Thus. Dark green wrappers, string-bound; 7 ½ x 11 ¾ inches; 16 pp. First separate Italian edition, one of 50 copies. A selection from Venice in the Cantos (Venezia nei Cantos), including Rachewiltz s prefatory note and Litania Notturna a Venezia. While the full volume is bilingual English-Italian, this selection contains only Italian text. The full volume is 160 pages, and was published in a limited and numbered edition of 360 copies. Lovely edition, in added mylar protective jacket. Fine. [14100] $100.00