JEFF MASER, BOOKSELLER ABAA CATALOG 45. Poetry Literature the Arts & French Literature in Translation

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1 Poetry Literature the Arts & French Literature in Translation

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3 Poetry 1 ABBOTT, Keith. 12 Shot: A Photopoem. Calais: Z Press, First edition. [40 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 474 numbered copies. $20 2 AMMONS, A.R. Selected Poems. NY: Library of America (2006). First edition. 130 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by David Lehman. $15 3 ANTIN, David. Meditations. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, First trade paperback printing. 107 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Antin on the front free endpaper, For Doug / Best / David. Morrow & Cooney 108a. $ ANTIN, David. Talking. NY: Kulchur Foundation (1972). First trade paperback printing. 186 pp. One reading crease to spine and a bump to base, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Short letter from the press and order form laid in. $75 5 AUDEN, W.H. and Isherwood, Christopher. Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, Princeton: Princeton University Press (1988). First edition. xxxiii pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Edward Mendelson, a volume in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden. $ AUDEN, W.H. and Kallman, Chester. Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings Princeton: Princeton University Press (1988). First edition. xxxvi pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Edward Mendelson, a volume in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden. $95 7 AUSTER, Paul. Wall Writing. Berkeley: The Figures (1976). First edition. 63 pp. Small stain on front cover near spine, else near fine in printed wrappers; a trade paperback original. One of 500 copies. SIGNED by Auster on the title page. His second collection of poems. $350 A run of signed books by Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones 8 JONES, LeRoi. Blues People: Negro Music in White America. London: MacGibbon & Key, First UK edition. 244 pp w/index. Page edges browned, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with wear to edges and rubbing to rear panel. Dated (97) and SIGNED by Jones as Baraka. $ maser@detritus.com

4 9 JONES, LeRoi. Four Black Revolutionary Plays. Indianapolis & NY: Bobbs- Merrill (1969). First trade paperback printing. 89 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Collects Experimental Death Unit #1, A Black Mass, Great Goodness of Life, and Madheart. SIGNED by Jones as Baraka. $75 10 JONES, LeRoi. Home: Social Essays. NY: Morrow, First edition. 252 pp. Light pen mark to top edge, else very good plus in like dust jacket with wear to base and crown of spine. Dated (92) and SIGNED by Jones as Baraka. $ JONES, LeRoi. Home: Social Essays. London: MacGibbon & Kee (1968). First UK edition. 252 pp. Near fine in near fine, price-clippped dust jacket. Dated (98) and SIGNED by Jones as Baraka on the front free endpaper. $ JONES, LeRoi. Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note... NY: Totem/Corinth (1961). First edition. 47 pp. Sunning and light wear along spine and top edge, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover drawing by Basil King. Ownership signature of poet Bill Berkson on the title page. Dated (92) and SIGNED by Jones as Baraka. $ JONES, LeRoi. Short Speech to My Friends. (np): L.A. Wallrich (1969). First edition. Single sheet folded once to make a booklet. Fine. One of an unstated number of copies printed for friends of L.A. Wallrich. Designed and printed at Cape Goliard Press. An excerpt from Jones The Dead Lecturer. Dated (11/98) and SIGNED by Jones as Baraka. $ BARAKA, Amiri. The Black Arts Movement. (np: np nd). First edition. [26 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Dated (11/98) and SIGNED by Baraka. $60 15 BARAKA, Imamu Amiri. A Black Value System. Newark: Jihad Productions (1969). First edition. 16 pp. Staples a bit rusty, else near fine in wrappers. Dated (96) and SIGNED by Baraka. First separate edition of this essay which appeared originally in The Black Scholar. $75 16 BARAKA, Amiri. Funk Lore. Westfield: Open Magazine, First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 200 copies. Dated (11/98) and SIGNED by Baraka. A single poem, read at The Cooler, NYC, April 15& $50 17 BARAKA, Amiri. Funk Lore: New Poems ( ). Los Angeles: Littoral Books, First edition. 119 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Dated (97) and INSCRIBED by Baraka, Unity + Struggle. Promotional flyer laid in. $50

5 18 BARAKA, Amiri. Hard Facts (excerpts). Newark: Congress of Afrikan People (nd). First edition. 40 pp. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Dated (11/06) and INSCRIBED by Baraka, Unity + Struggle. Poems $ BARAKA, Amiri. Heathens and Revolutionary Art. Louisville: White Fields Press, First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 97 numbered copies SIGNED by Baraka. Published in Heaven Chapbook Series #45. $45 20 BARAKA, Amiri. Important Sonnet. NY: Hard Press (nd). First edition. 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch card, printed in red on white stock. Fine. A single poem, dated (11/98) and SIGNED by Baraka. $45 21 BARAKA, Amiri. In the Tradition (for Black Arthur Bluthe). [Newark: Jihad Press 1980]. First edition. [12 pp]. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Vincet Smith. Dated (11/98) and SIGNED by Baraka. An esaay. $50 22 BARAKA, Amiri. The International Business of Jazz & the Need for the Cooperative & Collective Self Development of an International People s Culture. Newark: Newark Music Project, First edition. 15 pp. 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheets, stapled once in the upper left-hand corner. Fine. Dated (11/98) and SIGNED by Baraka. Text of a speech delivered at the 1998 JazzTimes Convention in NYC. $85 23 BARAKA, Amiri. Reggae or Not! NY: Contact II Publications (1981). First edition. 22 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Dated (11/98) and SIGNED by Baraka. Poems. $75 24 BARAKA, Amiri. The Sidney Poet Heroical. NY: I. Reed Books (1979). First edition. 106 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers; a trade paperback original. Dated (11/98) and SIGNED by Baraka on the title page. $45 25 BARAKA, Amiri. Spring Song. (np): Painted Earth Editons, First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn oblong wrappers. Printed at the Tideline Press. Title page monoprint by Leonard Seastone. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Baraka. $75 26 BARAKA, Amiri. When Miles Split! (np): (np) (nd, c., 1991). First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in tall stapled wrappers. Dated (11/98) and SIGNED by Baraka. Prose on Miles Davis. $60 27 BARAKA, Amiri. Wise Why s Y s: The Girot s Song Djali Ya.. Chicago: Third World Press (1995). First trade paperback printing. 132 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Baraka on the title page. Poems. $ maser@detritus.com

6 28 BARAKA, Imamu Amiri (Leroi Jones). It s Nation Time. Chicago: Third World Press (1970). First edition. 24 pp. Small bookstore stamp to title page, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Dated (96) and SIGNED by Baraka. $85 29 BARAKA, Imamu Amiri (Leroi Jones). Jello. Chicago: Third World Press (1970). First edition. 38 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. A play featuring Jack Benny and Rochester. Dated (11/98) and SIGNED by Baraka. $75 30 BARAKA, Imamu Amiri (Leroi Jones). Spirit Reach. Newark: Jihad Productions (1972). First edition. 25 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Dated (11/98) and SIGNED by Baraka inside the front cover. Poems. $80 31 BARAKA, Amina & Amiri. 5 Boptrees. Newark: Rising Tide (nd). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Dated (91) and SIGNED by Amiri Baraka inside the front cover. Apparently one of fewer than 100 copies in the first issue, with a multi-color cover. $65 32 BERNSTEIN, Charles. Islets/Irritations. NY: Jordan Davies (1983). First edition. 101 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. $20 33 BERRYMAN, John. The Dream Songs. London: Faber & Faber (1990). First UK edition. 427 w/index of first lines & titles. Fine in fine dust jacket. $75 34 BERRYMAN, John. We Dream of Honour: John Berryman s Letters to His Mother. NY: Norton (1988). First edition. xxi pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. 221 letters and 12 previously unpublished poems by Berryman, as edited by Richard J. Kelly. $20 35 [BERRYMAN, John]. Haffenden, John. The Life of John Berryman. Boston & London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1982). First edition. 451 w/bibliography & indexes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. $25 36 BERSSENBRUGGE, Mei-mei. Sphericity. (np): Kelsey St. Press, First edition. 42 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Texts by Berssenbrugge, with illustrations by Richard Tuttle. $15 37 BISHOP, Elizabeth. The Collected Prose. NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1984). First edition. xxii pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with toning along top edges. $50

7 38 BISHOP, Elizabeth. Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2006). First edition. xx pp w/notes & bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited and annotated by Alice Quinn. $20 39 BLAKE, William. Songs of Innocence and of Experience. NY: Orion Press with the Trianon Press (1967). First printing of this edition. Unpaginated. Spine gilt a little dull, else fine in full blue cloth and publisher s near fine cloth-covered slipcase with two pasted-on illustrations. A facsimile edition, reproducing the plates in full color. Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. $60 40 BLY, Robert. ed. The Sixties: Number Four. Madison: Sixties Press (1960). Fall. 68 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Poems by Levertov, Bly, Simpson, Hugo; work by Cortazar; poems by Lorca and Machado. $20 41 [BOWERING, George]. Miki, Roy. A Record of Writing: An Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering. Vancouver: Talonbooks (1989). First edition. 401 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine and a crease to the front flap. $20 42 BRANDI, John. Diary from a Journey to the Middle of the World. Berkeley: The Figures, First edition. 97 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Brandi s travel notes, illustrated with his drawings and concluded with a bibliography on Ecuador. Dated (1995) and INSCRIBED by Brandi with a small drawing. $45 43 BRANDI, John. Looking for Minerals. Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions (1975). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. INSCRIBED by Brandi to a fellow poet. $45 44 BRANDI, John. Narrowgauge to Riobama. Santa Barbara: Christopher s Books, First edition. 62 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Dated (1.985) and INSCRIBED by Brandi to a fellow poet, To Doug Blazek / a few from / South America / with my very / bests to / You - / John Brandi. Above the inscription Brandi has drawn a small mountain range with clouds above. $35 45 BRODSKY, Joseph. Conversations. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (2003). First trade paperback printing. 191 pp w/index. Small ink mark on bottom edge, else fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. $15 46 BRODSKY, Joseph. Verses on the Winter Campaign London: Anvil Press Poetry (1981). First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Translated by Alan Myers. One of 500 numbered copies. $ maser@detritus.com

8 47 BRONK, William. Vectors and Smoothable Curves: Collected Essays. San Francisco: North Point, First edition. 221 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. $ BRUCHAC, Joseph. Flow. Austin: Cold Mountain, First edition. 23 pp. About fine in printed wrappers. One of 700 (of 1000 copies total). INSCRIBED by Bruchac, Long Nights moon / 12/7/81 / For Doug, / With respect / for your work and / in friendship. / Peace / Joe. $75 49 BUNTING, Basil. Collected Poems. London: Fulcrum (1968). First edition. 160 pp w/notes. Very near fine in full cloth and very good plus dust jacket with wear to base and crown of spine and overall rubbing. Dust jacket art by Barnett Newman. One of 150 numbered copies on grey glastonbury paper SIGNED by Bunting. Laid in, as called for, is a numbered silkscreen print of the cover design, housed in the original cellophane envelope with backing board. The print is near fine, with some toning along the top edge and along the middle of the image. $ [BUNTING, Basil]. Terrell, Carroll F. ed. Basil Bunting Man and Poet. Orono: National Poetry Foundation (1981). First edition. 427 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Essays arranged under headings: The Man, The Poet, The Thinker, The Translator, The Testament. $45 51 CAMPION, Thomas. Selected Songs of Thomas Campion. Boston: Godine, First trade edition. 161 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a price sticker to front flap and a small abrasion to cover. Selected and prefaced by W.H. Auden, introduced by John Hollander. $25 52 CARVER, Raymond. Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems. NY: Random House (1985). First edition. xii pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Carver on the title page. $ CHERNOFF, Maxine. Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems. Chicago: Another Chicago Press (1990). Uncorrected proof. 139 pp. Very near fine in printed red wrappers. Promotional flyer laid in. $10 54 CORSO, Gregory. Mindfield: New & Selected Poems. NY: Thunder s Mouth (1989). First trade paperback printing. 268 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Forewords by William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Introduction by David Amram. $ CRANE, Hart. The Poems of Hart Crane. NY: Liveright (1986). First edition. 269 pp w/notes, index of first lines & titles. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Marc Simon with an introduction by John Unterecker. $55

9 56 CREELEY, Robert. The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley. Berkeley: University of California (1989). First edition. xv pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Creeley. $45 57 [CREELEY, Rboert]. Faas, Ekbert with Trombacco, Maria. Robert Creeley: A Biography. Hanover & London: University Press of New England (2001). First edition. 513 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Prints also excerpts from Creeely s memoirs and the 1944 diary of his first wife Ann MacKinnon. $15 58 DAVIDSON, Michael. The Landing of Rochambeau. Providence: Burning Deck (1985). First edition. 79 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. $15 59 DAVIDSON, Michael. The Prose of Fact. Berkeley: The Figures, First edition. 88 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 650 copies. $ DAVISON, Peter. The Poems of Peter Davison NY: Knopf, First edition. 311 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. $ DEANE, Seamus. Selected Poems. Ireland: Gallery Books (1988). First edition. 78 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. $75 62 DEUTSCH, Joel. Space - Heaters. San Francisco: Open Skull (1969). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by Deutsch, Going fat / but not / silly - / Joel Deutsch / Early poems, from Douglas Blazek s press. $ DOBYNS, Stephen. Velocities: New and Selected Poems NY: Viking/Penguin (1994). First edition. xviii pp. One page corner-creased, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. $25 64 [DORN, Ed]. Streeter, David. A Bibliography of Ed Dorn. NY: Phoenix Book Shop First edition. 64 pp w/index. Near fine in printed wrappers. $20 65 EDSON, Russell. The Wounded Breakfast. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (1985). First edition. 69 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Review slip laid in. $50 66 ELMSLIE, Kenward. Pavilions. NY: Tibor De Nagy Editions, First edition. 34 pp. Small circled letter inked to rear cover, else fine in stapled wrappers and fine dust jacket. Illustrated with a collage image by Ron Gorchov. One of 300 copies. INSCRIBED by Elmslie along front flap, inside front cover, and front free endpaper, For Rosalinde / with / Love / from KSE. Elmslie s first book. $ maser@detritus.com

10 67 FEARING, Kenneth. Selected Poems. NY: Library of America (2004). First edition. 183 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Robert Polito. $15 68 FINLAY, Ian Hamilton and Costley, Ron. Heroic Emblems. Calais: Z Press, First edition. 53 pp w/bibliography. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Introduction and commentaries by Stephen Bann. One of 750 copies printed at the Stinehour Press. $45 69 FORCHÉ, Carolyn. Blue Hour. NY: HarperCollins (2003). First edition. 73 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Forché on the title page. Her fourth collection. $45 70 GINSBERG, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. San Francisco: City Lights (1996). First printing of this 40th Anniversary Edition. 57 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated boards without dust jacket, as issued. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. $25 71 GRAHAM, Jorie. The Errancy. Hopewell: Ecco (1997). First edition. 112 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Dated (2002) and INSCRIBED by Graham. $75 72 GRAHAM, Jorie. Materialism: Poems. Hopewell: Ecco (1993). First edition. 146 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Graham. Her fifth trade collection. $75 73 GRAHAM, Jorie. Region of Unlikeness: Poems. NY: Ecco (1991). First edition. 130 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (1993) and SIGNED by Graham. $75 74 GRAVES, Robert. Poems. NY: Limited Editions Club, First edition. xx pp. Fine in gilt-stamped half-cloth and printed paper-covered boards. Fine publisher s slipcase. Selection and introduction by Elaine Kerrigan. Illustrated with drawings by Paul Hogarth. One of 2000 numbered copies SIGNED by Hogarth and Freeman Keith, who designed the typographic plan for this volume. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Club newsletter laid in. $75 75 GRIGSON, Geoffrey. Recollections: Mainly of Writers & Artists. London: Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press (1984). First edition. 195 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. $20 76 GURNEY, Ivor. War Letters. London: Hogarth Press (1984). First printing of this trade paperback edition. 271 pp w/index. Page edges browned, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. $10

11 77 HACKER, Marilyn. Selected Poems NY: Norton (1994). First edition. xii pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. $20 78 HALL, Donald. White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems Boston: Houghton Mifflin, First edition. xv pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. CD of poems read by Hall housed in an envelope (unopened) affixed inside the rear cover. $25 79 HAMILTON, Alfred Starr. The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton. Penland: Jargon Society, First edition. Unpaginated. Near fine in wrappers and very good dust jacket, that is foxed. Introduction by Geof Hewitt. Drawings by Philip Van Aver. Jargon 49. $20 80 HARRYMAN, Carla. Property. Berkeley: Tuumba, First edition. [28 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 450 numbered copies. Tuumba 39. $35 81 HEANEY, Seamus. Finders Keepers: Selected Prose London: Faber & Faber (2002). First edition. x pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Preface by Heaney. $65 82 HEANEY, Seamus. The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1989). First US edition. xxiii pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Thirteen essays on Auden, Lowell, Plath, Mandelstam, Kavanagh, translation and other subjects. $20 83 HEANEY, Seamus. Opened Ground: Poems London: Faber & Faber (1998). First edition. xiii pp w/indexes of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. Brief introductory Author s Note by Heaney. $75 84 HEANEY, Seamus. Selected Poems NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1990). First US edition. 273 pp w/index of first lines. Corners lightly bumped, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a light fade to spine. $25 85 HEANEY, Seamus. trans. Sophocles. The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles Antigone. London: Faber & Faber (2004). First trade edition. 56 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. $20 86 [HEANEY, Seamus]. Vendler, Helen. Seamus Heaney. Cambridge: Harvard University Press First edition. xvi pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. $20 87 HEJINIAN, Lyn. Redo. Grenada: Salt-Works Press (1984). First edition. [32 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 400 copies. $ maser@detritus.com

12 88 HIGGINS, Dick and Porter, Bern. Die Fabelhafte Getraume Von Taifun Willi / Sections in Crazy German. Somerville: Abyss (1970). First edition. 38 pp. Hard bump to base of spine, else near fine in glossy printed wrappers. Texts by Higgins, illustrations throughout by Porter. $45 89 HIKMET, Nazim. Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse. NY: Persea (2002). First edition. xiv pp w/glossary. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the Turkish by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk. Foreword by Edward Hirsch. First publication in English of this 17,000 line verse novel, the composition of which began while Hikmet was serving a prison sentence as a political prisoner during WWII. $35 90 HILLMAN, Brenda. Death Tractates. Hanover & London: Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England (1992). First edition. 49 pp. Fine in full cloth, lacking dust jacket. $35 91 HOLUB, Miroslav. On the Contrary and Other Poems. Newcastle-Upon- Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (1984). First edition. 124 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translations by Ewald Osers, forward by A. Alvarez. Dated (Davis 4/21 88) and INSCRIBED by Holub. $ HOWARD, Richard. Inner Voices: Selected Poems, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2004). First edition. x + w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. $25 93 HOWE, Susan. Marginalia de Melville. Courbevoie: Theatre Typographique (1997). First French edition. 82 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Text in French. Letter from the publisher regarding another project laid in. $45 94 HOWES, Barbara. A Private Signal: Poems New and Selected. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (1977). First edition. 187 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. $25 95 HUGHES, Ted. The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales. London: Faber & Faber (2003). First edition. 321 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. $30 96 INMAN, P. / Vel /. Oakland: O Books (1995). First edition. 61 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. $10

13 97 JACKSON, Laura (Riding). The Poems of Laura Riding: A New Edition of the 1938 Collection. NY: Persea (1980). First US edition. xiv pp. Pages browned (cheap paper), else near fine in near fine dust jacket with sunned spine. Prints a new introduction by Jackson for this edition. Errata sheet laid in. $35 98 JARRELL, Randall. No Other Book: Selected Essays. NY: HarperCollins (1999). First edition. xx pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Edited, with an introduction by Brad Leithauser. $20 99 JARRELL, Randall. Randall Jarrell s Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, First edition. xvi pp w/index. Small scuff to top edge of rear board, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a small sticker shadow to the front panel. Edited by Mary Jarrell, with her introduction. Illustrated. $ JARRELL, Randall. Selected Poems. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1990). First edition. viii pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by William H. Pritchard, with his introduction. $ [JARRELL, Randall]. Pritchard, William H. Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1990). First edition. xii pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Review slip, promotional flyer, and photograph of Pritchard laid in. $ JEFFERS, Robinson. The Selected Letters of Robinson Jeffers Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1968). First edition. xx pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light edgewear. Edited by Ann N. Ridgeway with a foreword by Mark Van Doren and illustrated with photographs by Leigh Wiener. $ JEFFERS, Robinson. The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. NY: Random House (1938). First edition. xviii pp w/index of poems & first lines. Near fine in full cloth with printed spine label. Very good dust jacket with tanned spine, a large chip to rear panel, and heavy wear along top edges. Photographic portrait of Jeffers by Edward Weston. $ [JEFFERS, Robinson]. Antoninus, Brother. Robinson Jeffers: Fragments of an Older Fury. [Berkeley]: Oyez, First edition. x pp w/list of works cited and indexes. Fine in near fine dust jacket. $ KINNELL, Galway. The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the World: Poems Boston: Houghton Mifflin First edition. 177 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. $ maser@detritus.com

14 106 KINSELLA, Thomas. Peppercanister Poems Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, First trade paperback printing. 159 pp w/commentary. Page edges tanned, else fine in wrappers and like dust jacket. Preface by Kinsella. $ KINSELLA, Thomas. Poems Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press (1979). First trade paperback printing. 192 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine dust jacket. $ KIRCHWEY, Karl. Those I Guard: Poems. NY: Harcourt Brace (1993). First edition. 89 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. $ KIRSTEIN, Lincoln. The Poems of Lincoln Kirstein. NY: Atheneum (1987). First edition. 320 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. $ KOERTGE, Ronald. The Father Poems. Fremont: Sumac Press (1973). First trade paperback printing. 78 pp. Near fine in glossy printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies. $ KROETSCH, Robert. Seed Catalogue. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press (1977). First edition. 75 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 200 hardcover copies. $ KUNITZ, Stanley. Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz. Riverdale on Hudson: Sheep Meadow Press (1993). First edition. xvi pp w/appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Stanley Moss. $ KUSHNER, Aleksandr. Apollo in the Snow: Selected Poems. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1991). First edition. 99 pp w/notes. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Poems translated from the Russian by Paul Graves and Carol Ueland. Introduction by Joseph Brodsky. $ LANSING, Gerrit. Heavenly Tree Soluble Forest. Jersey City: Talisman House Publishers (1995). First trade paperback edition. 213 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. More poems by the author of The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward (North Atlantic Books, 1977). $ LARKIN, Philip. Early Poems and Juvenilia. London: Faber & Faber (2005). First edition. 382 pp w/index of titles & of first lines. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a light scratch to front cover. $20

15 116 LARKIN, Philip. Selected Letters of Philip Larkin: NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1993). First US edition. xxxvi pp w/index. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited by Anthony Thwaite. $ [LARKIN, Philip]. Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer s Life. NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1993). First US edition. xx pp w/notes & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. $ [LARKIN, Philip]. Spender, Stephen, et al. eds. New Poems London: Michael Joseph (1956). Second impression. 132 pp. Little offsetting to endpapers, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with sunned spine. Prints Larkin s Reference Back and Mr. Bleaney. $ LATTIMORE, Richard. Poems from Three Decades. NY: Scribner s (1972). First edition. xii pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a light fade to spine. $ LEVERTOV, Denise. The Sorrow Dance. NY: New Directions (1966). First trade paperback printing. 94 pp. Very good plus in printed wrappers. Ownership signature of novelist Tillie Olson inside front cover. $ LOWELL, Robert. The Letters of Robert Lowell. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2005). First edition. xxxi pp w/notes & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. $ [LOWELL, Robert]. Hamilton, Ian. Robert Lowell: A Biography. NY: Random House (1982). First edition. 527 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. $ LOY, Mina. The Last Lunar Baedeker. Highlands: Jargon Society, First edition. lxxix pp. Small bump at crown of spine, else fine in fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Roger L. Conover and with a note by Jonathan Williams. Jargon 53. $ LYNCH, Thomas. The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade. NY: Norton (1997). First edition. 202 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket (a bit rubbed). Preceeded by two collections of poems. $ MacDIARMID, Hugh. A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, First edition. 122 pp w/note. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Edited by John C. Weston. $ MACKEY, Nathaniel. Djbot Baghostus s Run. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon (1993). First edition. 204 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Second volume in Mackey s on-going epistolary fiction, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. $ maser@detritus.com

16 127 MacNEICE, Louis. Poems NY: Random House (1940). First US edition. xiv pp w/index of first lines. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a small chip to crown of spine. Foreword by MacNeice. $ MELTZER, David. Bolero. Berkeley: Oyez, First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 250 copies for use of the author and publisher as a seasonal greeting. SIGNED by Meltzer. $ MERRILL, James. Collected Novels and Plays. NY: Knopf, First edition. 676 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Ribbon place-marker bound-in. Merrill s two novels and three plays, edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser. $ MERRILL, James. Collected Prose. NY: Knopf, First edition. x pp w/notes & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Ribbon place-marker bound-in. Edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser. $ MERWIN, W.S. The Compass Flower: Poems. NY: Atheneum, First edition. 94 pp. Near fine in glossy printed wrappers; a trade paperback original. Dated (8/11/88) and SIGNED by Merwin. $ MERWIN, W.S. The Drunk in the Furnace. NY: Macmillan, First edition. 54 pp. Pages browned (cheap paper), else near fine in printed wrappers; a trade paperback original. Dated (8/11/88) and SIGNED by Merwin. $ MERWIN, W.S. Migration: New & Selected Poems. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon (2005). First edition. xviii w/index of titles & first lines. Poems drawn from his 1952 collection, A Mask for Janus, up to and including poems written in $ [MERWIN, W.S.] trans. Juarroz, Roberto. Vertical Poetry. Santa Cruz: Kayak (1977). First edition. 57 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Juarroz s Spanish poems with Merwin s facing translations. Dated (8/11/88) and SIGNED by Merwin. $ [MEW, Charlotte]. Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends with a Selection of her Poems. Reading: Addison-Wesley (1988). First US edition. xii pp w/notes & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Foreword by Brad Leithauser. $ MILOSZ, Czeslaw. Milosz s ABC s. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2001). First US edition. 313 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine. $15

17 137 MONTALE, Eugenio. Cuttlefish Bones. NY: Norton (1993). First US edition. xxvi pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Original Italian with facing English translations by William Arrowsmith. $ MOORE, Marianne. The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore. NY: Viking (1986). First edition. x pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited with an introduction by Patricia C. Willis. Promotional flyer laid in. $ MOSS, Howard. New Selected Poems. NY: Atheneum, First edition. 296 pp. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. $ MULDOON, Paul. Poems NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2001). First edition. xiii pp w/index of titles. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Poems preceeded by an Author s Note by Muldoon. $ MURRAY, Les. Learning Human: Selected Poems. NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (2000). First edition. 230 pp w/indexes of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. $ NEMEROV, Howard. Trying Conclusions: New and Selected Poems Chicago: University of Chicago (1991). First edition. 159 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. $ NERUDA, Pablo. Memoirs. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1977). First US edition. 370 pp w/chronology & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the Spanish by Hardie St. Martin. $ NERUDA, Pablo. Passions and Impressions. NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1983). First edition. ix pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. $ NICHOLS, Robert. Exile: Book IV of Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai. NY: New Directions (1979). First edition. 108 pp. Printed price on rear cover inked-out, else near fine in illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. SIGNED by Nichols. $ NIEDECKER, Lorine. Collected Works. Berkeley: University of California (2002). First edition. xxiii pp w/notes, contents, and index of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Jenny Penberthy. A really pleasing presentation of Niedecker s work. $ NIEDECKER, Lorine. Paean to Place. Milwaukee & Kenosha: Woodland Pattern Book Center/Light & Dust, Second printing. 41 pp w/notes & an appreciation. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Facsimile reproduction of Niedecker s original manuscript. Notes and afterword by Karl Young. $ maser@detritus.com

18 148 NUTTALL, Jeff. Pig. London: Fulcrum (1969). First trade edition. 96 pp. Some foxing to fore-edge, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Elaborately INSCRIBED by Nuttall, For Doug Blaz / e Olé - / eminentaly [...] / piglets e elephants / Jeff Nut / Enclose some / pomes. / mudbathing / elephant / [drawing]. $ OPPEN, George. The Selected Letters of George Oppen. Durham & London: Duke University Press, First edition. xxxiii pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis. $ PAZ, Octavio. The Double Flame: Essays on Love & Eroticism. London: Harvill (1996). First UK edition. 206 pp. Sticker removal evidence to front free endpaper, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. $ PAZ, Octavio. Sunstone / Piedra De Sol. NY: New Directions (1991). First edition. 59 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. The original poem in Spanish, with facing English translation by Eliot Weinberger. $ PERKOFF, Stuart Z. Voices of the Lady: Collected Poems. Orono: National Poetry Foundation, First edition. 473 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a vertical crease to rear flap. Foreword by Robert Creeley. $ [POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Perelman, Bob. ed. Writing/Talks. Carbondale & Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press (1985). First edition. 295 pp. Very good plus in glossy printed wrappers. Uncommon anthology featuring many of the Language writers. $ POTTS, Charles. Charle Kiot. Salt Lake City: Folk Frog (1975). First edition. 64 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Poems. $ POUND, Ezra. Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir. NY: New Directions (1970). First printing of this edition (a reprint of the 1960 edition) xxx. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a short corner crease to flap fold. Gallup A10f. $ QUASIMODO, Salvatore. The Selected Writings of Salvatore Quasimodo. NY: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy (1960). First US edition. 269 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light sunning to spine and two short edge-tears. Edited and translated from the original Italian by Allen Mandelbaum. $25

19 157 RANSOM, John Crowe. Selected Poems. NY: Knopf, Uncorrected proof. 159 pp. Near fine in printed blue wrappers with some light rubbing. Third edition, revised and enlarged. $ REED, Ishmael. Chattanooga. NY: Random House (1973). First edition. 55 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Reed. $ REZNIKOFF, Charles. Holocaust. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, First trade paperback printing. 111 pp. Fine in glossy printed wrappers. Review slip laid in. Morrow & Cooney 206a. $ RILKE, Rainer Maria. Selected Poems. NY: Limited Editions Club, First printing of this edition. xv pp w/notes. Faint sticker shadow to front free endpaper, else near fine in half dark blue cloth with gold stamping to spine in publisher s slipcase, also near fine with light wear. Poems in the original German with facing translations by C.F. MacIntryre. Preface by Harry T. Moore, and illustrated with four full-page and six half-page lithographs by Robert Kipniss. One of 2000 numbered copies SIGNED by Kipniss. LEC newsletter laid in. $ ROETHKE, Theodore. Selected Poems. NY: Library of America (2005). First edition. 158 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Edward Hirsch. $ SCHNACKENBERG, Gjertrud. The Throne of Labdacus. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2000). First edition. 101 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket. $ SCHUYLER, James. Selected Poems. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1988). First edition. x pp w/indexes. Fine in fine dust jacket. $ SEIFERT, Jaroslav. The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert. NY: Macmillan (1986). First edition. 194 pp w/glossary & notes. Very near fine in like dust jacket with a small diagonal cut to spine. Translated from the Czech by Ewald Osers. Edited and with additional translations by George Gibian. Promotional flyer and review slip laid in. $ SIMIC, Charles. Austerities. NY: Braziller (1982). First edition. 61 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers, else near fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Simic on the half-title page. $ SIMPSON, Eileen. Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir. NY: Random House (1982). First edition. 272 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Simpson s even, affectionate, and beautifully-written memoir of her times with Berryman, Lowell, Schwartz, Jarrell, Stafford, and others. $ maser@detritus.com

20 167 SIMPSON, Louis. Selected Prose. NY: Paragon House (1989). First edition. x pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. $ SINCLAIR, John. Fattening Frogs for Snakes: Delta Sound Suite. New Orleans: Surregional Press, First trade paperback printing. 206 pp w/index. Smudge to fore-edge, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Sinclair on the title page. $ SLEIGH, Tom. Far Side of the Earth: Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, First edition. 103 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Sleigh s fifth collection. $ SMITH, Charlotte. The Poems of Charlotte Smith. NY: Oxford University Press First printing of this edition. xxix pp w/notes + indexes. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Review slip laid in. Writing in England at the same time as the Romantic poets, this is the first appearance of Smith s collected poems. $ SMITH, William Jay. The Streaks of the Tulip: Selected Criticism. NY: Delacorte/Lawrence (1972). First edition. xvi pp. One page corner-creased (due to bad trimming) else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a few light spots. $ SMITH, William Jay. The Traveler s Tree: New and Selected Poems. NY: Persea (1980). First edition. 167 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Illustrated with woodcuts by Jacques Hnizdovsky. $ SNODGRASS, W.D. Selected Poems NY: Soho (1987). First edition. vii pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. $ SNYDER, Gary. Left Out in the Rain: New Poems San Francisco: North Point, First trade paperback printing. 209 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Snyder on the title page. $ SNYDER, Gary. A Range of Poems. London: Fulcrum (1966). First edition. 164 pp. Page edges faintly foxed, else near fine in fine dust jacket. The first significant gathering of Snyder s poems into a single volume. McNeil A13a. $ SOTO, Gary. The Elements of San Joaquin. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (1977). First trade paperback printing. 56 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers (light rubbing). Soto s first book. INSCRIBED by Soto: To Doug / from / Gary Soto / May 10th 79. Review slip laid in. $85

21 177 STANFORD, Frank. Conditions Uncertain & Likely to Pass Away. Providence: Lost Roads, First edition. 151 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Short stories, issued as Lost Roads Number 37. $ STICKNEY, Trumbull. The Poems of Trumbull Stickney. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1972). First edition. 316 pp w/notes and index of titles & first lines. Small ink pen mark to bottom edge, else fine in near fine dust jacket a small closed tear to crown and faintly sunned spine. Poems selected and edited by Amberys R. Whittle. Foreword by Edmund Wilson. $ SZYMBORSKA, Wislawa. Nothing Twice: Selected Poems. Wydawnictwo Literackie (1997). First edition. 396 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Original Polish poems with facing translations by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. Afterword by Stanislaw Baranczak. $ TATE, James. Worshipful Company of Fletchers. Hopewell: Ecco (1994). First edition. 82 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with National Book Award Winner sticker affixed to front panel. $ THEROUX, Alexander. The Lollipop Trollops and Other Poems. Normal: Dalkey Archive (1992). First edition. 167 pp w/index of first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover illustration by Edward Gorey. $ THOMAS, Dylan. The Collected Letters. NY: Macmillan (1985). First edition. xxiii pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with sunning to spine and along top edges. Edited by Paul Ferris. $ THOMAS, Dylan. Early Prose Writings. London: J.M. Dent & Sons (1971). First edition. xvi pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Walford Davis. $ THOMAS, Dylan. The Poems. London: J.M. Dent & Sons (1971). First edition. xix w/index of titles & first lines. Corners lightly tapped, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Daniel Jones. $ TORRE, Stephan. You Gave Me These Rivers. Point Reyes Station: Floating Island, First edition. 34 pp. About fine in printed wrappers. $ WARREN, Robert Penn. New and Selected Essays. NY: Random House (1989). First edition. 423 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. $ maser@detritus.com

22 187 [WATKINS, Vernon]. Norris, Leslie. ed. Vernon Watkins London: Faber & Faber (1970). First edition. 105 pp. Top edge faintly foxed, else near fine in very near fine dust jacket. Contributions by Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas, Kathleen Raine, Marianne Moore, George Barker, James Laughlin, and many others. Edited by Leslie Norris. $ WHITE, E.B. Poems & Sketches of E.B. White. NY: Harper & Row (1981). First edition. xvi pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Preface by White. $ WIENERS, John. Ace of Pentacles. NY: James F. Carr & Robert A. Wilson, First edition. 72 pp. Very good plus in printed wrappers with some dampstaining along bottom edge and a spot on the front cover. SIGNED by Wieners on the front free endpaper. Additionally, this copy bears a gift inscription inside the front cover from one poet to another. $ WILBUR, Richard. The Catbird s Song: Prose Pieces NY: Harcourt Brace (1997). First edition. xii pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Preface by Wilbur. $ WILLIAMS, C.K. Poems NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1988). First edition. 244 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. Selections from five previously-published volumes, with a brief Author s Note by Williams. $ WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Paterson: Revised Edition. NY: New Directions (1992). First edition. xiv pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Chrisopher MacGowan, this one volume edition collects a statement by WCW on Paterson, the five books of poem, and three appendixes containing Book VI, a note on the text, and annotations and textual notes. $ WILLIAMS, William Carlos. The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams. NY: McDowell/Obolensky (1957). First edition. 347 pp w/index. Covers a bit mottled, else very good plus in like dust jacket with light overall edgewear. $ WILSON, Edmund. Night Thoughts. NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1961). First edition. x pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with overall light edgewear. $ WINTERS, Yvor. The Anatomy of Nonsense. Norfolk: New Directions (1943). First edition. 255 pp w/index. Non-authorial gift inscription to front free endpaper, else very good in full cloth, lacking dust jacket. $17.50

23 196 WINTERS, Yvor. In Defense of Reason. NY: Swallow Press & William Morris, First edition. 611 pp. Very good plus in good only dust jacket that has a large chip at the base of spine and a split the length of the rear cover along spine. Collects Primitivism and Decadence, Maule s Curse, The Anatomy of Nonsense, and The Significance of the Bridge by Hart Crane, Or What Are We To Think of Professor X. $ WINTERS, Yvor. The Function of Criticism: Problems and Exercises. Denver: Allen Swallow (1947). First edition. 200 pp. Previous owner s inked name to front free endpaper and embossed stamp, else very good plus in good only dust jacket with heavy chipping and splits to flap folds. $ WINTERS, Yvor. Maule s Curse: Seven Studies in the History of American Obscurantism. Norfolk: New Directions (1938). First edition. 240 pp w/index. Corners bumped, else very good only in full cloth, lacking dust jacket. Hawthorne, Cooper, Melville, Poe, Emerson, Jones Very, Dickinson, Henry James. $ WINTERS, Yvor. Selected Poems. NY: Library of America (2003). First edition. 171 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Thom Gunn. $ WOIWODE, Larry. Even Tide. NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1977). First edition. 83 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket with short tears at crown and long scratch to back cover. Faber price sticker covering the printed US price. $ WRIGHT, C.D. Further Adventures With You. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, First trade paperback printing. 52 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Wright. $ WRIGHT, C.D. Just Whistle. Berkeley: Kelsey St. Press (1993). First edition. 55 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Poems with photographs by Deborah Luster. INSCRIBED by Wright. $ WRIGHT, C.D. String Light: Poems. Athens & London: University of Georgia press (1991). First trade paperback printing. 62 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Wright, What an ardent suprise. $ WRIGHT, James. A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright. NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (2005). First edition. 633 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Anne Wright and Saundra Rose Maley, with Jonathan Blunk. $ YOUNG BEAR, Ray A. Waiting to be Fed. Port Townsend: Graywolf Press (1975). First edition. [11 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 165 (of 225) copies printed. Graywolf Pamphlet Series 1. $ maser@detritus.com

24 Literature 206 ABBEY, Edward. Hayduke Lives! Boston: Little, Brown (1990). First edition. 308 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Dated (June 19, 1991) and INSCRIBED by Steve Prescott (who is thanked by Abbey in the dedication statement to this book), To / In hopes that we ll soon be / neighbors. This book is important / to me since a subtitle (from my / perspective) could be How I Spent / the summer and fall of / editing. / I hope you enjoy it. / Steve Prescott. Abbey writes, to Steve Prescott... medical [man] who yanked me back, more than once, albeit reluctantly, from the edge of the grave. Abbey died in $ BERNHARD, Thomas. Extinction. London: Quartet (1995). First UK edition. 335 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the German by David McClintock. $ [BURROUGHS, William S.]. Angerame, Dominic. ed. Canyon Cinema Catalog 5. San Francisco: Canyon Cinema (1982). First edition. 328 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover drawings by William T. Wiley. Three page introduction by Burroughs, titled Take Nirvana. $ [CAPOTE, Truman]. Plimpton, George. Truman Capote, In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. London: Picador (1998). First UK edition. 498 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. $ GRAY, Alasdair. A Short Survey of Classic Scottish Writing. Edinburgh: Cannongate (2001). First edition. 159 pp. Fine in glossyy illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Gray. $ GURGANUS, Allan. The Practical Heart: Four Novellas. NY: Knopf, First edition. 322 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. $ HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. San Francisco: North Point, First printing of this edition. 291 pp. Light foxing to top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket that is toned at extrems. Illustrated with period photographs of San Francisco. sold 213 HAMSUN, Knut. The Women at the Pump. NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1978). First US edition. 392 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket that is slightly mis-folded. Translated from the Norwegian by Oliver and Gunnvor Stallybrass. $20

25 214 LEWIS, Wyndham. Self Condemned. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, First edition. 436 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Afterword by Rowland Smith. $ LEWIS, Wyndham. The Revenge for Love. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, First edition. 399 pp w/bibliography & notes. Fine in printed papercovered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. Edited by Reed Way Dasenbrock. $ MILLER, Henry. The Colossus of Maroussi. London: Heinemann (1960). First printing of the fourth UK edition. 248 pp. Top edge dusty and a little foxed, else very good plus in like, price-clipped dust jacket with tanning to spine and a few small chips at folds. Shifreen & Jackson A26j. $ O FLAHERTY, Liam. The Ecstasy of Angus. Portmarnock: Wolfhound Press (1978). First printing of this reissue (originally published in 1931 as a limited edition). 62 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with sunning to spine and some light edgewear. $ PESSOA, Fernando. The Book of Disquiet. NY: Pantheon (1991). First US edition. 278 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. Translated from the Portuguese by Alfred Mac Adam. $ SCIASCIA, Leonardo : A Novel. Manchester: Carcanet (1989). First UK edition. 133 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the Italian by Sacha Rabinovitch. $ STOPPARD, Tom. The Coast of Utopia. NY: Grove Press (2002). First US edition, boxed. Three volumes housed in publisher s decorated slipcase. Books are each fine in full cloth without dust jackets, as issued. Box is very near fine with a small bend to one side. $ TOLSTAYA, Tatyana. Sleepwalker In a Fog. NY: Knopf, First US edition. 192 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell. $ TREVOR, William. Reading Turgenev. London: Viking (1991). First edition. 220 pp. Foxing and a few pale stains to top edge, also a small stain to foreedge. In all, very good plus in very near fine dust jacket. $ VONNEGUT, Kurt. Timequake. NY: Putnam s (1997). First edition. 219 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Vonnegut in heavy black marker on the title page. $ maser@detritus.com