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1 TRIOLET RARE BOOKS, ABAA P.O. Box 1821 San Luis Obispo, CA Tel: (302) THE NEW YORK ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR MARCH 9-12, 2017 BOOTH D30 All items subject to prior sale and are guaranteed as described. For any return, please contact us within 10 days of receipt. Libraries may be billed according to their needs. Payment by check, wire transfer, PayPal, and credit cards accepted. California sales tax (if applicable) and shipping will be added. Further information or more detailed digital photographs of any item provided on request. Should you wish to view any item at the book fair please let us know and we can set it aside for you. 1. ASHBERY, John. The New Spirit. New York: Adventures in Poetry, First edition. Side-stapled wrappers, photographically illustrated front cover. One of 65 copies printed, called to be numbered and signed, this copy neither signed nor numbered. Fine copy. on hold 2. [ASPHODEL BOOK SHOP]. James R. Lowell: The Asphodel Book Shop, 25 Years. [n.p.]: Stapled wrappers. [22] pp. Minor cover toning, near fine. One of thirty copies printed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Asphodel Book Shop. Contributions by Robert Creeley, Raymond Souster, Gael Turnbull, Paul Metcalf, and others. A penciled note on the rear inside cover notes that this was Jim Lowell s copy. OCLC locates four copies. A nice tribute to a legendary bookstore and bookseller. $ AUDEN, W.H. The Platonic Blow. New York: The Fuck You Press, First edition, one of 300 copies printed. Stapled printed wrappers. Some minor surface wear and toning to wrappers. Auden s notorious pornographic poem, unauthorized but occasionally conceded by the author. See Bloomfield & Mendelson, Appendix II. $150

2 4. BALTHUS [Balthasar Klossowski de Rola]. Mitsou. Quarante Images par Baltusz. Preface de Rainer Maria Rilke. Erlenbach-Zürich & Leipzig: Rotapfel-Verlag, First edition. 13, [40] pp. Original ivory paper boards. Some browning to covers, spine exterior fragile, browned and chipping slightly; contents clean and solid. Forty drawings by the then-eleven-year-old Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, wordlessly depicting the true tale of a stray cat s journey in and out of his family s life. The drawings are reminiscent of the work of Frans Masereel, whose work the young artist may have seen. Cats were to be a recurring presence in Balthus work, indeed a 1935 self-portrait was titled The King of the Cats, and the final trauma of the cat s disappearance (the last drawing, following his frantic search for the lost cat, shows Balthus weeping inconsolably) can be seen as an early signifier for much of the work that was to follow over the seventy years, an elusive and enigmatic sense of loss. The book s publication was arranged by Rilke, who was at the time the lover of Balthus mother; his preface was the first work he composed entirely in French, and this shift was to inspire the verse in French he wrote for the last six years of his life. Uncommon in the trade, OCLC locates about forty copies spread over multiple records, with less than twenty in America. $ BARNES, Djuna. A Book. New York: Boni and Liveright, First edition. 220 pp. Full black cloth, printed paper label on the spine. Spine label darkened but complete and unchipped, minor rubbing to extremities. Previous owner note in pencil and small label on front pastedown, evidence of bookplate removal. Barnes second, and first fulllength, publication, an idiosyncratic collection of poems, stories, and one-act plays, with six reproductions of Barnes drawings. Messerli 2. $350

3 6. [BARNES, Djuna]. Ladies Almanack. Showing their signs and their tides, their moons and their changes, the seasons as it is with them, their eclipses and equinoxes, as well as a full record of diurnal and nocturnal distempers. Written and illustrated by a Lady of Fashion. Paris: Printed for the author, and sold by Edward W. Titus, 4 rue Delambre, at the sign of the Black Manikin, First edition. 84 pp. Illustrations by the author. One of 1000 copies on Alfa, of a total edition of Original cream folded wrappers, illustrated on front and rear covers. Slight foxing to preliminaries, minor bump to lower spine, overall near fine, partially uncut. A legendary roman à clef of the Paris lesbian community of the twenties, playfully using the almanac format. After Barnes and Titus came to an impasse regarding payment and distribution, Robert McAlmon stepped in and covered the printing costs, and Barnes distributed the book herself. Due to that imbroglio many copies have the Titus publication information blacked out on the titlepage; this copy does not. Printed by Darantière. Messerli, 3. Also see Ford, Published in Paris, pp on hold 7. BAUM, Timothy, ed. Nadada. Whole numbers 1-2 [all published]. New York: Nadada, Inc., First edition. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Minor age-toning, closed tear to top edge of rear panel of issue 2 repaired with tape, overall near fine. The full run of this excellent New York-based journal, apparently typed on the Factory IBM Selectric at night after Baum s day job at Brentano s. Gerard Malanga was the associate editor. The first issue was devoted to contemporary American poets with a frontispiece by Andy Warhol and contributions by Allen Ginsberg (Morgan C194), Bill Berkson, Frank O Hara (Smith C181), Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Stan Brakhage, Diane di Prima, Charles Bukowski (Dorbin C238), Jackson Mac Low, and many others. The second issue contains work by Guillaume Apollinaire, translated by Ron Padgett; a retrospective of Tristan Tzara, Ted Berrigan; Diane di Prima; Kenward Elmslie; Charles Henri Ford; Aram Saroyan and others. In an article on Warhol s Screen Tests, Baum noted, In the Sixties, IBM typewriters were still the greatest new achievement. So I would sleep in the Factory. And since a lot of us were on speed at the time there wasn t so much sleeping anyway. $600/the lot 8. BERRIGAN, Ted, ed. C: A Journal of Poetry. Whole numbers 1 (May 1963) and 2 (June 1963). New York: Lorenz Gude/Ted Berrigan, Side-stapled tall (legalsized) mimeographed wrappers. The first two issues of thirteen published (there was no number 12) of one of the most important mimeo magazines of the 1960s, and a crucial link between the first and second generations of the New York School poets. Originally a vehicle for the Tulsa core of Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Dick Gallup and Joe Brainard, the journal also published John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Frank O Hara, Kenneth Koch and many others. Always a fragile publication, carelessly assembled to begin with, when found issues of C are usually not in great shape and issues can vary from copy to copy depending on who was manning the stapler at the time. These copies were collated against Jed Birmingham s C Press Index at realitystudio.org. Condition notes follow. Number 1: edges worn, last two sheets detached and third from last almost detached, collates complete. Number 2: some stains and soiling to covers, stapled twice (total of six staples), last sheet detached, one poem ( Sally ) not present compared to Birmingham. All issues

4 of C are fairly uncommon, these first two are quite rare. Clay & Phillips, pp $2750/the lot 9. BISHOP, Elizabeth. Geography III. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, First edition. 50 pp. Full brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight bump to top front corner, overall just about fine. Signed by Bishop on the title-page and dated April Bishop s final full-length collection, containing, among others, One Art. MacMahon A13. $ BOLTON, Joe. Breckinridge County Suite. To a Young Kentucky Woman. Omaha: The Cummington Press, First edition, one of 215 copies printed. 40 pp. Marbled paper boards over black cloth backstrip, printed spine label. Fine copy. Bolton s first book, and only lifetime publication. Donald Justice wrote of Bolton s poems: Effortlessly they transcend the merely anecdotal; they are always edging towards something emblematic. And they can be immensely moving in their modesty. A beautiful and dark cycle of verse, full of loss, winter and poverty, yet transcendent in its language and cleareyed vision. $750

5 11. [BOOK TRADE]. Come on in and browse around: A Collection of Drawings from the New Yorker of Particular Interest to the Book Trade. New York: The New Yorker, n.d., c Stapled printed wrappers. [36] pp. Amusing New Yorker cartoons pertaining to books and bookstores. Some minor soiling to covers. Two copies in OCLC (Ransom Center, Ohio State). [together with:] For booklovers only: A Collection of Drawings from the New Yorker of Particular Interest to the Book Trade. New York: The New Yorker, n.d., c Attractively bound by an amateur in quarter buckram over paste-paper boards, printed labels on front cover and spine. [48] pp. One copy in OCLC (Grolier Club). $175/the lot 12. DAVENPORT, Guy, trans. Anakreon: The Extant Fragments. [Tuscaloosa]: University of Alabama, Parallel Editions, First edition. [42] pp. Original paper wrappers with birch bark fragment mounted on front cover, papyrus endleaves. One of seventy-five copies in wrappers, of a total edition of ninety copies. Contains 162 numbered translations, with foreword and notes by Davenport. Signed by Davenport at the foreword, as issued. Fine copy. Crane A37. $600

6 13. DAVIS, Lydia. The Thirteenth Woman and other stories. New York: Living Hand, First edition. 81 pp. Printed perfect-bound wrappers with French flaps. One of 500 numbered copies printed. Spine a bit sunned, as usually seen, very slight cover wear, a near fine copy. The debut volume of a major American writer, published as Living Hand 5. Inscribed For Susan / in friendship / Lydia. $ DEJONG, Constance. The Complete Works of Constance DeJong. New York: TVRT/Mirror Press, First edition. Five volumes, plain blue stapled wrappers. Minor wear to edges, overall near fine. Published in serial format similar to Kathy Acker s contemporaneous novels, the first book by an author and artist best known for her libretto for Philip Glass opera Satyagraha. Later published under the title Modern Love. $ DUNCAN, Robert. In Memoriam Wallace Stevens. Storrs: University of Connecticut, Single sheet folded to make [4] pp. Issued by the Special Collections Department of the Wilbur Cross Library at the University of Connecticut to commemorate Robert Duncan s reading at the Wallace Stevens Memorial Program, April 25, copies were printed. Minor bumps to top corners, near fine. Bertholf A42a. $45

7 16. EDWARDS, Dorothy. Winter Sonata. London: Wishart & Co, First edition. [8], 1-245, [3] pp. Blue cloth boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine, with the dust jacket. Slight browning to jacket flap edges, else a remarkably fresh copy, near fine or better. The somewhat garish jacket design belies the subdued nature of the book. The second book and only novel by the Welsh writer Dorothy Edwards ( ), following Rhapsody, a collection of short stories, the previous year. Claire Flay in the Oxford DNB writes, A restrained, multi-faceted, and structurally innovative novel, [Winter Sonata] deconstructs social and gender hierarchies through its depiction of a small English village during the winter months. Both Rhapsody and Winter Sonata present in a highly distinctive and unique manner the subordination and marginalization experienced by women in contemporary British society. Both of Edwards books were reprinted by Virago in the 1980s, leading to a new appreciation of her previously neglected work. Uncommon in the trade; OCLC locates about fifteen copies. $750

8 17. ELMSLIE, Kenward. Pavilions. New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, First edition of Elmslie s first book, one of 300 copies printed. 34 pp. Staple-bound wrappers with dust jacket. The jacket was originally glued under the flaps to the front and rear covers; the glue has come undone on the front flap. Small ink mark on rear cover, else a fine copy. Signed by Elmslie on the title-page and dated 1963 and additionally inscribed across the front flap, inside front cover, and front flyleaf, for Rosalinde / with love / from KSE. $ FARIÑA, Richard. On Sunday, the first of May an autograph party will be held for Richard Fariña. San Francisco: The Discovery Bookshop, [1966]. Poster advertising an event for Richard Fariña, in celebration of the publication of his novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, at the Discovery Bookshop in San Francisco, on May 1, [1966]. Letterpress printed on heavy textured rust-orange paper, right edge uncut as issued. 11 ¾ x 15 ½ inches. Two almost invisible slight blemishes to surface, else fine. An unintended memorial, as Fariña was killed in a motorcycle accident the previous day, following a reading at a bookshop in Carmel. In his brief 29 years, Richard Fariña cut a wide swath through literary and folk music scenes, recording several albums with his wife Mimi and greatly influencing his Cornell colleague Thomas Pynchon (who dedicated Gravity s Rainbow to Fariña). His only novel, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is now considered a countercultural classic. One copy of this poster recently surfaced in the trade; other than that, OCLC locates a single copy, at Brown. $ FOWLER, John, ed. Grist. Whole numbers 9 and 12 (of a total of 14 published). Lawrence, KS: Abington Book Shop, Photographically illustrated stapled wrappers. Two issues of this excellent Midwestern journal, edited by John Fowler, with George Kimball and Charles Plymell. Number 9 includes very early work by S. Clay Wilson (here Steve ), along with Bukowski, levy, Frank O Hara, Ted Berrigan, Ginsberg, Silliman, Eigner, and others, not to mention the Grist Playmate of the Month, Gerard Malanga. Number 12 includes work by Berrigan, Padgett, Mac Low, Hollo, and Hannah Weiner, along with a double-page center spread by Wilson. Both issues near fine, number 9 with some staple holes on the fore-edge through the first two sheets, and mailing label addressed to Glen Todd (fellow Wichita poet and friend of Plymell) on the lower front cover. Clay & Phillips, p. 279 (ill. p. 277). $750/the lot 20. FULTON, Alice. Anchors of Light. [Oneonta]: Swamp Press, First edition, one of one hundred and sixty-five copies (a further sixty-eight were issued in boards). 18, [4] pp. Printed string-tied wrappers. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. The uncommon first publication by an important contemporary poet, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Library of Congress Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and other accolades. $ GUNN, Thom. Fighting Terms. New York: Hawk s Well Press, First edition. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. 46 pp. First American edition, first state, of Gunn s second book, which was extensively revised for the U.S. edition copies were printed. Slight scuffing to spine edges, near fine. Hagstrom & Bixby A2c. $125

9 22. HOWE, Susan. Secret History of the Dividing Line. New York: Telephone Books, First edition. 40 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Fine copy. An early publication by an important poet. 750 copies were printed. on hold 23. HOWE, Susan. Defenestration of Prague. New York: Kulchur Foundation, First edition. 126 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Slight crease to rear cover, else about fine. $ HOWES, Barbara. The Undersea Farmer. Pawlet, VT: The Banyan Press, First edition. Full blue cloth, printed paper label on the spine. 40 pp. Slight rubbing to spine label, near fine overall. One of 250 numbered copies of Howes first book. Attractive publication announcement laid in. $ JEFFERS, Robinson. Dear Judas and Other Poems. New York: Horace Liveright, First edition. Signed limited edition of Jeffers important collection, one of 375 copies printed. 128 pp. Vellum backstrip lettered in black over patterned paper boards, with the original publisher s slipcase with silver printed label. Top edge uncut. Some browning to pp from sewn-in bookmark. Spine a bit soiled but not as much as usually seen. Slipcase rubbed, especially at edges, but solid and unbroken. Alberts 61. Broomfield A10b1. $ LINDSAY, Vachel. A Letter of Vachel Lindsay on the Movies. [n.p.]: Privately Printed, First edition. [4, 5 [facsimile], 3] pp. Tall sewn green printed wrappers. One of 25 copies, printed for Nathan van Patten (likely by the Grabhorn Press but unconfirmed). Reproduces in facsimile a five-page letter from Lindsay to Paul Powell, dated July 24, Nathan van Patten was the longtime director of the Stanford University Libraries ( ) and later professor of bibliography. Tape residue at spine (apparently removed from housing), small withdrawal stamp of the Bancroft Library on the first text page. Lower corner slightly creased. OCLC locates fifteen copies, so if the limitation is to be believed, quite scarce outside of institutions. $ [LIVING THEATRE]. [Robert] Lavigne, designer. Paradise Now. A Film by Marty Topp. Produced for Universal Mutant by Ira Cohen. n.p. [New York?]: n.d [c. 1969]. Poster for unspecified screenings of Paradise Now, with blank section at bottom for filling in screening details. Quote by Artaud. 15 x 10 inches. A cinematic record of perhaps the most notorious Living Theatre production, which assaultively broke down the barriers between the audience and the performers; Judith Malina said of it, Marty Topp s beautiful film of Paradise Now reveals how the theories of revolutionary change and the experience of sexual liberation are not separate paths to the beautiful nonviolent anarchist revolution. Practiced together they are a single thrust, encompassing both political action and sensual joy, leading to the dreamed-of terrestrial paradise. Some minor toning and handling wear, still near fine, and rare: no copies in OCLC, one copy located in the Angus MacLise papers at Columbia. $450

10 28. LORDE, Audre. The First Cities. New York: The Poets Press, First edition. [32] pp. Staplebound printed wrappers. Lower corner bumped, else fine. The first book by an important African- American poet. $ MACDIARMID, Hugh. The Blaward and the Skelly. n.p. [Watford]: Privately Printed [by Duncan Glen], Single sheet of brown kraft paper folded into fourths, with the poem printed on first panel. Folded very slightly off-center, near fine. One of ten copies only. This poem was one of MacDiarmid s first poems in Scots to be printed; it was originally published with The Watergaw in the Dunfermline Press in 1922, but was never reprinted until this private publication. This copy is marked Extra copy in Duncan Glen s hand, and is signed by him. This extremely limited broadside was one of Glen s first MacDiarmid printing projects of many, predating the Akros imprint. OCLC locates a full eight copies, therefore despite this being labeled extra copy it is clear that most all examples are institutionalized. $ [MACLISE, Angus, and Ira Cohen]. Ghost Card. [Kathmandu]: nd. Single sheet, approximately 11 x 12 inches, handmade paper, block printed in several colors. A print, likely from the 1970s Bardo Matrix era, using several of the same block prints that would appear in other publications and broadsides from the time. A couple of old folds, clean and very good overall. No copies in OCLC, one copy located in the Angus Maclise papers at Columbia. $ MATHEWS, Harry. Selected Declarations of Dependence. Calais, VT: Z Press, First edition. 178 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Illustrated by Alex Katz. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Mathews and Katz. Fine copy. on hold 32. MAYER, Bernadette. The Golden Book of Words. Lenox: Angel Hair Books, First edition, one of 750 copies printed. Perfect-bound illustrated wrappers with front cover design by Joe Brainard and photograph of the author by Lewis Warsh on the back cover. Slight soiling to rear cover, else a fine copy. $ MERWIN, W.S. The Dancing Bears. New Haven: Yale University Press, First edition. 88 pp. Printed paper boards, with the dust jacket. A touch of rubbing to the head and tail of spine and the lower corners, else near fine in a dust jacket with a slightly faded spine and minor rubbing to the corners. The second book by this distinguished poet. $ MERWIN, W.S. The Lice. New York: Atheneum, First edition. 80 pp. Original black cloth, lettered in blind and silver, with the dust jacket. Extremely slight wear to head and tail of jacket spine, else fine. A beautiful copy of one of Merwin s most

11 important books, a howl of rage and despair at the destruction of the environment and the war in Vietnam. $ MERWIN, W.S., trans. A Sonnet by Dante. [Iowa City]: University of Iowa Center for the Book, First edition. String-sewn wrappers, title label mounted on front cover. [4] pp, printed on double leaves. Fine. One of one hundred copies printed, signed by Merwin. From the colophon: This sonnet from Vita Nuova was hand-set and printed to mark the occasion of the translator s reading in Iowa City at Lost and Found: The Art of Translation, presented by the University of Iowa International Writing Program. One hundred copies were printed... by Shari DeGraw and Sarah Roberts at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. OCLC locates two copies, Iowa and Princeton. $ MERWIN, W.S. Migration. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, First edition. 543 pp. Deep blue boards, lettered in gilt and blind, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine, overall near fine or better. Signed by Merwin on the title-page. A career-spanning retrospective of one of our greatest poets, winner of the National Book Award. $ MYLES, Eileen. Chelsea Girls. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, First edition. 276 pp. Decorated cloth backstrip over printed paper boards, publisher s acetate jacket, as issued. Designated publisher s copy on the colophon page and signed by Myles. Laid in are a letter from Myles, in which she discusses details of the book s publication, and two invitations to publication parties. On the book s reissue in 2015, the New York Times noted, Her work functions as a bridge between many of the discussions of the

12 present about sexual violence, class, hook-up culture and a past from which those narratives were often secret or hidden. A rare issue of a landmark publication. $ NEZVAL, Vítězslav, and Jindřich Štyrsky. Sexuální Nocturno. Příběh demaskované iluse. Praha: J. Štyrsky, First edition. Of a total edition of 138 copies, this is one of 69 on Japan paper, numbered full-page illustrations after collages by Štyrsky. Unbound signatures laid into pink textured paper wrappers, blue paper label printed in black on the front cover. Slight wear to covers, near fine. The first publication of Edice 69, an important series of six volumes of surrealist erotic literature and illustration. OCLC locates seven copies in the U.S. (Harvard, Yale, Getty, Art Institute of Chicago, Lilly, Northwestern, Smithsonian). $ O HARA, Frank. Oranges. New York: Angel Hair Books, [1969]. First edition thus, one of 200 copies. Side stapled mimeographed sheets, printed on rectos only. Minor wear, just about fine. O Hara s second book, which was originally published by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1953 in an edition of about 75 copies. Twelve prose poems originally written to accompany Grace Hartigan s paintings. Cover by George Schneeman. $200

13 40. OLIVER, Mary. No Voyage and Other Poems. London: J.M. Dent, First edition. 56 pp. Full green patterned paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Minor edgewear to jacket, slight sunning to jacket spine, overall near fine. The first book by a preeminent American poet. The American edition was published two years later in different form. $ PATCHEN, Kenneth. Picture-Poems by Kenneth Patchen. Seven Letterpaper Cards and Envelopes. Series R-150PC [together with:] Series RS-150PC. n.p. [Palo Alto?]: Kenneth Patchen, n.d. [1962]. A total of 14 cards with envelopes in two separate, original packaging, unopened. Cards: 8 x 5 inches. In a letter to another bookseller Miriam Patchen described these two series as seven different, never-beforepublished Picture-poems on a variety of colored and not colored papers, some surfaced, some not, packaged with deluxe, deckle-edged (like the one here) envelopes in a sealed cellophane wrapper with a gaily-colored identifying label.... The printing is small. All the poems later appeared in Hallelujah Anyway. Unopened in original cellophane wrappers. Morgan B8. $600/the lot 42. [POUND, Ezra]. Guido Cavalcanti Rime. Edizione Rappezzata Fra le Rovine. Genova: Edizioni Marsano, n.p. [1932]. [4], 7-56, xvi, 56 pages, 40 leaves of plates. Original red printed wrappers. Spine slightly faded, small chip to lower front corner. Slight foxing to page edges. About 500 copies were printed, at Pound s own expense, following the failure of Faber & Gwyer and the Aquila Press to complete the edition. Gallup B27. $ POUND, Ezra. Introductory Text Book E. P. [Rapallo, 1939]. First edition. Single sheet folded to make [4] pp. Five hundred copies were printed for distribution to correspondents and friends, sent out March 1939 (cf. Gallup). Extremely slight edgewear to top edge, still a fine copy. Prints quotations from Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, and the Constitution of the United States, along with a note by Pound. Later reprinted in various places, and reissued in the same format in 1945, on inferior paper with different fonts. Gallup E2r. $150

14 44. ROETHKE, Theodore. Open House. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, First edition. Full blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. 70 pp. Slight rubbing to head of spine and rear top corner; jacket has a small stain on the front panel and very slight chipping to the head of spine, overall an extremely attractive copy. Roethke s first book, published in an edition of one thousand numbered copies, of which this is number 206. Signed by the author on the title-page. McLeod A1. $ ROETHKE, Theodore. Words for the Wind. London: Secker & Warburg, First edition. Green cloth, lettered in silver on the spine, with the dust jacket. 200 pp. Cloth a bit stained at heel of spine, jacket price-clipped with some light chipping to the head of the spine and some foxing to the rear panel. McLeod A5, preceding the American edition, which was published in a slightly different form and won the National Book Award. $ SCHUBERT, David. Initial A. New York: Macmillan, First edition. 70 pp. Blue cloth boards, spine lettered in white, with the dust jacket. Published fifteen years after Schubert s early death in 1946, greatly hailed by Ashbery, O Hara and other New York School poets. The jacket shows some edgewear and minor rubbing, slight chipping at the head of the spine, front corner flaps clipped with new price printed. A scarce book, issued simultaneously in hardcover and wrappers. The hardcover issue is particularly uncommon. $ SCHUYLER, James. A Sun Cab. New York: Adventures in Poetry, First edition, one of 300 copies printed. Side-stapled wrappers. Cover and illustrations by Fairfield Porter. Minor wear and soiling to the covers, especially the rear cover. $ SCULLY, Robert. [Robert McAlmon, pseud.?] A Scarlet Pansy. New York: William Faro, Inc., Early edition (first published in 1932). Full red cloth, printed paper label on the spine. 370 pp. Spine a bit rolled, hinges a little loose but solid. Label rubbed, a very good copy. A lost classic of gay fiction (recently republished with a scholarly introduction by Fordham University Press), published by the infamous Samuel Roth. Several scholars have surmised that the book is by the Lost Generation publisher and writer Robert McAlmon, and a wealth of data suggests this roman a clef, but it has not yet been fully proved. [together with]: SCULLY, Robert. The Scarlet Pansy. New York: Royal Publishers, n.d. First edition thus. 223 pp. Blue faux-leather buckram, spine lettered in black, with the dust jacket. Later edition, expurgated, with the text significantly changed. Royal may have possibly been another imprint of Roth s. The jacket is toned on the top half of the rear panel but otherwise in remarkable nice shape, and quite uncommon thus. $1750/the lot 49. SEBALD, W.G. Vertigo. London: Harvill Press, First edition. 263 pp. Black cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Fine copy. First edition in English, translated by Michael Hulse, of Sebald s third book to be translated, which was actually written before The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. The hardcover edition is scarce. $300

15 50. STANFORD, Frank. The Singing Knives. Fayetteville: Lost Roads Publishing Company, , [4] pp. Printed perfect-bound wrappers. Cover silk-screened by David Hurley. Second edition of Stanford s first book, originally published in Contains an unpaginated, unattributed four-page afterword, with a short colophon which notes that two poems have been added to this edition ( The Nocturnal Ships of the Past and Bergman the Burning Ship ). Lower rear corner slightly bumped, minor foxing to edges. $ STEVENS, Wallace. Two or Three Ideas. [Amherst]: College English Association, University of Massachusetts, Chap Book. Published by the College English Association, University of Massachusetts, as a Supplement to the CEA Critic, Vol. XIII, No. 7, October, pp. Stapled printed wrappers. An address delivered at a meeting of the New England College English Association at Mount Holyoke College, April 28, Extremely slight rust mark near staples, still a fine copy. Edelstein A16. $ STRAND, Mark. Reasons for Moving. New York: Atheneum, First edition. 47 pp. Full deep blue cloth, lettered in gilt and blind, with the dust jacket. A fine, fresh copy of Strand s second book, and first trade publication following the limited Stone Wall Press edition of his first book. The hardcover edition is uncommon, especially in such beautiful condition. Signed by Strand on the title-page. $ TANNING, Dorothea [Adrienne Rich]. Dorothea Tanning. New York: George Braziller, First edition. 404 pp. Full orange cloth, spine lettered in black, with the dust jacket and publisher s slipcase. Slight sag from weight of text block, still about fine. Texts by Jean Christophe Bailly and Robert Morgan, along with pieces by John Cage and James Merrill. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white plates of Tanning s paintings, sculpture, and works on paper. The major monograph about Tanning: painter, printmaker, sculptor, and poet. Inscribed on a preliminary page, for Adrienne Rich with admiration, Dorothea Tanning January 17, The following year Rich s poem Pictor mysteriosa (Burnt Umbrage) was written to title and accompany Tanning s painting in the book Another Language of Flowers (Braziller, 1998). $ THOMPSON, Dunstan. Poems. New York: Simon & Schuster, First edition of Thompson s first book. 55 pp. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, with the dust jacket. Jacket rubbed with some edgewear and chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Overall a clean copy of the debut of an undersung poet. Thompson s poetry is greatly admired by a small but growing base. $150

16 55. VANDERMEER, Jeff. Lyric of the Highway Mariner. Troy, NC: Nocturnal Publications, First edition. [20] pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Illustrations by Penelope Miller. A very early publication, a collection of poems by an important writer of fantastic fiction, notably the Southern Reach Trilogy (2014). This copy inscribed by the author on the title-page and dated 1/22/92. Laid in is a two-page photocopy of VanderMeer s story Henry Dreams of Angkor Wat, with a brief note to the same inscribee from the author, dated 1/24/92. Very slight sunning to spine, else about fine. OCLC locates one copy, at Brown. $ VAN DUYN, Mona. For Ollie, On His Birthday. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press, n.d. [c. 1984]. First edition. String-sewn printed wrappers. This poem, written for Oliver H. Lowry, was privately distributed by the author handset in Garamont [sic] and printed letterpress in an edition of 125 copies OCLC (four copies located). Fine with slightly toned original envelope, with Van Duyn s printed address on the flap. $ [WHITE RABBIT PRESS]. Dull, Harold. Bird Poems. San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, First edition, one of 200 copies printed. Sewn wrappers, illustrated by Nugent of Paris. Dull s first book, and an early White Rabbit Press title. Foxing to wrappers and a couple of creases to front cover. Johnston A7. $ WRIGHT, C.D. Tremble. New York: The Ecco Press, First edition. 60 pp. Gray paper boards over blue cloth backstrip, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Slight wear to lower edge of jacket, else fine. Wright s eighth collection, and first to be published by a major commercial publisher. $200