ALEXANDER Literary Firsts & Poetry RARE BOOKS. CATALOGUE FORTY-TWO: Misc., mostly Poetry

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1 ALEXANDER Literary Firsts & Poetry RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE FORTY-TWO: Misc., mostly Poetry

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3 Catalogue Ashbery, John. SUNRISE IN SUBURBIA. New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, First Edition. Sewn card covers in decorated wrappers, with paper label; oblong 12mo. Number 93 of 100 copies (of 126 total). Additionally inscribed on the title page "For C. W. With my very best wishes,/ John Ashbery/ February 12, 1997/ New York". Printed at the Ferguson Press, Cambridge. Spine a bit worn, else fine. [13136] $ Auden, W. H. EPISTLE TO A GODSON: and Other Poems. New York: Random House, First edition. Green cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 77 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. Top edges sunned, a bit dusty else fine in an easily very good, bright dust jacket with minor wear at corners. Small sticker over price, not price-clipped. [13362] $ The last collection of poems published before his death in 1973, it is quite rare signed.

4 3. Auster, Paul. MOON PALACE. New York: Viking Press, First Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Top tip bumped, slightly sunned edges, else fine in a lovely complete dust jacket. Near fine in fine dust jacket. [13389] $ Banks, Russell and William Matthews (editors);. LILLABULERO Number 10 & 11: A Journal of Contemporary Writing. Northwood Narrows, NH: Lillabulero Press, First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 159 pp. Double issue. Signed by Banks. Contributors include the editors as well as Ammons, Wendell Berry, Fielding Dawson, Geo. Hitchcock, Metcalf, Merwin, Simic and Tate among others. Bottom edge sunned, else very good. [13376] $ Banks, Russell and William Matthews (editors);. LILLABULERO Number 10 & 11: A Journal of Contemporary Writing. Northwood Narrows, NH: Lillabulero Press, First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 159 pp. Double issue. Contributors include the editors as well as Ammons, Wendell Berry, Fielding Dawson, Geo. Hitchcock, Metcalf, Merwin, Simic and Tate among others. Near fine. [13379] $ Banks, Russell and William Matthews (editors);. LILLABULERO Number 7: A Journal of Contemporary Writing. Northwood Narrows, NH: Lillabulero Press, First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 102 pp. Work by the editors as well as by Ammons, Berry, Kuzma, Simic, and Snyder (two poems including "Smokey The Bear Sutra" and a photo). Overlapping edges creased, else near fine. [13378] $ Banks, Russell and William Matthews (editors);. LILLABULERO Number 9 A Journal of Contemporary Writing. Northwood Narrows, NH: Lillabulero Press, First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 100 pp. Work by the editors as well as by Bly, Creeley, Harrison, Merwin, Simic, Tate, and others. Overlapping edges creased, else near fine. [13377] $20.00

5 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p.3 8. Banks, Russell and William Matthews (editors); LILLABULERO 14: The Final issue. Northwood Narrows, NH: Lillabulero Prrss, First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 187 pp. Signed by editor Russell Banks and also Charles Simic at his contribution (four poems). Work by Lousie Gluck, Fanny Howe, James Tate, Charles Wright and many others. Overlapping edges a bit on, else very good, clean no tears. [13372] $ Berkson, Bill. BIG SKY 1. Bolinas: Big Sky, First edition. Illustrated, stapled wrappers; 4to. Very good copy of the first of twelve issues of this seminal 70's little mag; this issue with work by Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan, Tom Clark, Anne Waldman, Diane Di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Joanne Kyger, Clark Coolidge, Lewis Warsh, Robert Creeley and many others, many associated with the Bolinas crowd. Cover illustration by Greg Irons; with Irons and Tom Veitch collaboration on a satyrical comic regarding the growth of Bolinas. Light wear, rubbing, soiling and sunning, still very good. [12908] $ Berkson, Bill and Joe Brainard. I Love You, de Kooning. [Bolinas?]: Yanagi, circa First edition. Single sheet 54 x 56 folded to 18 x 14 cm. (7 x 5 1/2 in.), with 11 panels of cartoon art. Number 147 of 300 copies in the Yanagi IV broadside series. Lightly worn, creased and toned front panel, else about near fine. [11817] $ Blackburn, Paul. Journals. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, First Edition. Inscribed by editor Robert Kelly to Burt Britton of the Strand Bookstore. (Blackburn died in 1971.) This is one of the 500 unnumbered copies. Fine lacking the plain acetate covers. [9288] $ Boyle, Kay; Nanos Valaoritis et al. Poster for a Poetry Reading at Cody's. Berkeley: Cody's, [1975]. Poster for readings in March [likely 1975] by Kay Boyle, Nanos Valaoritis, Howard Hart, Susan Efros, Erika Horn and Terry Wetherby. Cody's on Telegraph Ave. under two ownerships was arguably the

6 preeminent bookstore in Berkeley for over 50 years, and hosted regular readings. Light toning at edges but else near fine on thin blue paper. 8 1/2 x 14 in. Quite scarce. [13422] $ Brown, Spencer. TWO SONNETS. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, First Edition. Gray printed wrappers; sewn; 8vo. One of "fifty copies printed from DeRoos types at the Kelly-Winterton Press, New York, to celebrate in memoriam the 90 [sic] birthday of the poet, 16 October 1999". Pouch at rear containing "a copy of a letter dated 7 November 1964 from Brown to Sheridan Baker, editor of the Michigan Quarterly, where the sonnets were first published". Note card from publisher Weil to another small press publisher/poet laid in. Slightly spine-faded, else fine. Attractively printed in two colors. [12829] $ Carson, Anne. CANICULA DI ANNA in QRL Contemporary Poetry Series. Princeton: Quarterly Review of Literature, First Edition. Black and oatmeal cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. [317 pp.] 39 pp. constitute the first book CANICULA DI ANNA by Anne Carson, one of five poets in the volume, all winners of the Colladay Prize. The other poets: Rafael Alberti, Reuel Denney, Nancy Esposito and Larry Kramer. Fine, virtually as new in like dust jacket. Issued primarily in paperback, quite uncommon in cloth. [13373] $ ANOTHER COPY. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with light wear to back cover edge. [13374] $75.00 Precedes her frst book of poetry by a decade, and her frst solely published work EROS THE BITTERSWEET by two years.

7 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Carson, Anne. MEN IN THE OFF HOURS. New York: Knopf, First Edition. Fine copy in very near fine dust jacket with light wear at the fold. Signed "respectfully ac 2004" on the title page. [Carson generally inscribes with initials only.] [13363] $ Carson, Anne. PLAINWATER. New York: Knopf, First edition. Published simultaneously (stated) with the Canadian edition, this is a selection of her essays and poetry, mostly from journals. Her first book published by a large NY publisher. Fine in fine dust jacket. [13380] $ Coates, Ta-Nehisi. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME. New York: Spiegel & Grau, First Edition. 12mo. Signed (not inscribed to anyone) by the author on the title page. Bestselling and must read non-fiction title of 2015, the most difficult questions of American history explored in a man's letter to his son. Fine in fine dust jacket. [13391] $ Jess [Collins]. Paste-Ups by Jess. San Francisco: Eastern Washington Historical Society, First edition. Collage poster, printed on heavy paper with the title imposed on images and short blocks of text, approx. 22 x 27 1/2 inches for an exhibition at the Cheny Coles Museum. Published in an edition of 125. This is 111 of 125 signed by Jess. Printed by East Wind Printers under the artist's supervision. Rolled, three pieces of tape on verso for hanging, light wear along edges, but easily very good. [11782] $1, Collom, Jack (ed.). THE No. 10. Boulder, CO: Jack Collom, circa First Edition. Photographic wrappers; stapled 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Poetry magazine with several poems by Larry Eigner, also, John Brandi, Reed Bye, Toby Olson, John Giorno, John Gierach, Larry Goodell, Ron Silliman, Ed Dorn, Anne Waldman, Robert Creeley, and others. Slip laid stating this to be the last of ten issues, however, Clay/Phillips lists 14 issues, Rare, this (and most) issue not in C/P or WorldCat. Clay/Phillips p Unevenly toned, edges creased, about very good. [13404] $45.00

8 21. Coolidge, Clark. AMERICAN ONES (Noise & Presentiments). Bolinas: Tombouctou, First Edition. Red printed wrappers; square 8vo. 46 pp. Inscribed at a later date and signed by the poet. Light wear at foot and bottom tipped bumped, but still tight and easily very good. [12774] $ Coolidge, Clark (ed.). JOGLARS Vol. 1, No. 1. Providence: Joglars, First Edition. Stapled wrappers; 8vo. 43 pp. First volume of a three volume run edited by Michael Palmer and Coolidge. Inscribed and signed by Clark Coolidge at a later date. Poetry by Gary Snyder, "3.XI.60", Michael McClure, John Weiner, Fielding Dawson, Robert Kelly, Jonathan Williams, Lorine Niedecker, Paul Zukofsky, Joel Oppeheimer, Carol Berge, and Louis Zukofsky. Spine worn, else minor wear and easily very good. [12777] $ Creeley, Robert; Ted Berrigan. ALs: Letter from Robert Creeley to Ted and Alice Berrigan. Bolinas, CA: n.p., ALs on Creeley's Bolinas, CA stationary with envelope addressed to Ted and Alice Berrigan at their Chicago address. In ink, on both sides, in Creeley's very legible if not always grammatical hand. Approx. 175 words, some personal, but Creeley asks Alice for poems for a supplement to the American Poetry Journal, then finally he asks: "Also, 'help' - can you (Ted!' a more lovely man never lived...' old saying...) get me the $$ for plane - or let me know when that will be simple? Not to bug you, please - but to know. Ok." Signed "Love to you all, Bob". Folded once, else fine in a roughly torn at one edge, very good envelope.[10482] $ Creeley, Robert; Joanne Kyger; Ed Dorn. [Poster] Poetry Reading. San Francisco: First Unitarian Church, Poster for a poetry reading on Friday, August 31 [1973?] with Creeley, Dorn and Kyger. 9 1/2 x 14 inches on yellow paper. A benefit for the Committee for Prisoner Humanity & Justice. Heavily worn along the right side, though not affecting print. Good only. [13421] $25.00

9 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Dahlen, Beverly; Robert Duncan (afterword). THE EGYPTIAN POEMS. Berkeley: Hipparchia Press, First Edition. Oblong burgundy wrappers, paper label; 8vo. [22 pp.] Illustrated by Jaime Robles. Long afterword (about a third of text) by Robert Duncan. One of 175 copies printed on Frankfurt Cream in Roma covers and Japanese end sheets. Lightly worn fragile overlapping edges, still close to fine. Quite uncommon. [13405] $ Daley, Michael. YES: Five Poems. Port Townsend, WA: Sagittarius Press, First Edition. Sewn wrappers; thin 8vo. One of 300 copies numbered and signed by the poet. Very lightly sunned spine, else fine. Attractive publication printed in two colors. [12887] $ H. D. [Hilda Doolittle]. THE POET & THE DANCER. San Francisco: Five Trees Press, First edition. One of 100 copies (an additional 500 in paper) in hand-bound boards with paper label. Printed by Kathy Walkup. Two small stains on the front cover, trace foxing to fore edge, else fine. Scarce. [7465] $ Dorn, Ed. Ed Dorn Reads GUNSLINGER [Poster]. San Francisco: SF Museum of Art, First Edition. Poster for a reading by Dorn on Nov. 12, x 14 3/4 inches. Dramatic image of pistol being loaded - illustrator unknown. Folded (3 folds) for mailing, stamped "please post", edges worn with small loss, but still quite attractive and about very good. Rare. [13423] $75.00

10 29. Duncan, Robert. HEAVENLY CITY EARTHLY CITY. Bern Porter, First edition. One of 100 copies in dark yellow-green cloth, signed at colophon by Duncan and Mary Fabilli (artist), with two poems in Duncan's hand (not in the regular issue of 250). Poet's frst book. Additionally inscribed on title page to Allan Covici, Berkeley librarian and noted book dealer. Very light fading and wear to extremities, mild offset to endpapers, spine gilt faded ("DUNCAN" mostly gone), else quite fine. Lacking the dust jacket which was not distributed with most copies (the bibliographer located three). The colophon in Duncan's hand reads: "This is one of 100 copies..."; not numbered, so a variant not noted by the bibliographer or "hors commerce" (some copies eliminate "This is"). Bertholf A1b. [10277] $1, Duncan, Robert. NOTEBOOK POEMS: San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley/San Francisco State University, First Edition. Orange wraps with paper label; sewn sheets laid in. Folio. [23 pp.] Signed by the artist (Duncan's partner) Jess who contributes three illustrations. "Transcribed and edited by Robert J. Bertholf... designed, printed and bound in an edition of one hundred copies by Peter Rutledge Koch..."--Colophon. Near fine copy, with light creasing. [13408] $ Duncan, Robert. OF THE WAR. Berkeley: Oyez, First Edition. Unbound folio sheets printed in two colors laid into portfolio with paper label. Signed by the author. Corner of portfolio creased else fine. According to the bibliographer 80 copies printed. Bertholf A19c. [13409] $ Duncan, Robert. A PARIS VISIT. [New York]: Grenfell Press, First Edition. Quarter leather over illustrated boards; tissue wrapper; small folio. illustrations by R. B. Kitaj. One of 110 numbered copies printed on handmade Indian paper, bound by Claudia Cohen, and signed by the author and artist, from a total edition of 130. Very near fine in original tissue wrappers with added protective removable covers. Grenfell Pres catalog laid in. Scarce and lovely book. [13410] $350.00

11 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Duncan, Robert; Jess [Collins] (illus.). THE CAT AND THE BLACKBIRD. San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, First Edition. Illustrated card stock, spiral bound; 4to. One of 500 copies. The book plate, which is in all copies, and serves as a colophon of sorts, is inscribed "Merry Christmas/ Bobby Bertholf/ from Uncle Duncan". A lovely copy of this children's book of sorts profusely illustrated by Jess. A scarce book signed by the author, and this copy to Duncan's friend and bibliographer Robert Bertholf. A wonderful association. Bottom corner bumped, about very good, but clean and bright. [13406] $ Duncan, Robert. THE SONG OF THE BORDERGUARD. Black Mountain, NC: Nicola Cernovich, Black Mountain College Graphic Workshop, First edition. Folio broadside (49.6 x 31.8 cm/ 12.5 x 19 in.) pasted at the center fold to medium reddish orange covers with an original woodcut design in black by Cy Twombly. A very early Duncan item, and once considered the first work by Twombly. One of approximately 200 copies printed. Bertholf A5. Light creasing, wear and fading at extremities, but very good. [11760] $3, Duncan, Robert and Edouard Roditi. Poetry Reading [poster]. San Francisco: Intersection, Poster for a poetry reading at Intersection in San Francisco on Feb. 20, 1975, with Edouard Roditi & Robert Duncan. 8 1/2 x 11 inches printed in brown on tan. Light creasing, two pieces of tape. Very good. [13420] $ Ehrhart. W. D. A GENERATION OF PEACE; ROOTLESS; EMPIRE. San Jose, CA; Richford, VT: Samisdat, 1977 & First Edition. Stapled chapbooks; thin 8vo. SAMISDAT issues no. 53, 54 & 66. Three early works published as single author issues of this little magazine. Ehrhart made his name as a poet writing about his service in the Vietnam War. All three volumes inscribed to a fellow poet. Very good, uncommon as a set (later published in a single volume), very much so signed. [13332] $100.00

12 37. Enslin, Theodore, et al. BLACK BOX 16. Washington DC: Watershed Intermedia, First Edition. Cardboard box measuring 4.5" x 7.25" approx. containing two C-60 audio cassette tapes, and featuring work by 14 poets, including Janine Pomy Vega, Russell Edson, Kenward Elmslie, T. Enslin, John Logan, Blackman, Carer& Mason (trans. of Celan), Dreyer, Gaver, Garelick, Marina LaPalma, Honor Moore, and Margot Treitel. Lightly worn box, but easily very good. Scarce. [13396] $ Enslin, Theodore. A MAN IN STIR. Markesan, WI: Pentagram, First Edition. Sewn illustrated wrappers; 8vo.[24 pp.] One of 163 copies signed by the Enslin and the illustrator Bill Nelson. Designed and printed by Michael Tarachow. Prose. Spine lightly sunned, else fine. [12861] $ Enslin, Theodore. SITIO. Hanover, NH: Granite, First Edition. Printed wrappers; 8vo. Signed by the author on the frst sheet/half-title. Spine faded, old price in ink, prev. owner's name in light pencil; VG copy. [12870] $ Enslin, Theodore. THIS DO (& THE TALENTS). Mexico City: Ediciones el Corno Emplumado, First Edition. Blue printed wrappers; 8vo. 39 pp. One of 1000 copies from Margaret Randall's press. The poet's fifth book. Spine edgeworn, light foxing, a good or a bit better copy. [12869] $ Etter, Dave. "On The Death Of Adlai E. Stevenson, " [from] LIGATURE '68: A Cooperative Portfolio with 10 Midwestern Poets. Chicago: E. Hearne, Madison Park Press, Print (originally one of ten art prints from a portfolio) mounted on a leaf (folio) on which a related poem is printed. One of twenty "artist proof" copies, all signed by the artist Nick de Matties; not signed by the poet. "Seventy copies were made... Of the fifty signed and numbered copies, forty-nine were made available for purchase." Handset and printed by John Michael of Acorn Press. Nick de Matties has an MFA in Printmaking from Chicago Institute of Design, and currently works out of Arizona. Oblong 21 x 18 inches (print 13 x 15). Fine copy. [13432] $200.00

13 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Fairchild, B. H. Song. Berkeley, CA: Hit & Run Press, First Separate Printing. Illustrated broadside (9 x 13 in.) with a single poem by B. H. Fairchild from his collection THE ART OF THE LATHE, Illustration of a pair of heavy gloves by Davis Te Selle. Printed on a Vandercook 4 on Twinrocker cream. Designed by Colored Horse Studio, Ukiah, CA. One of 100 total copies. Fine. [13415] $ Feiffer, Jules. KILL MY MOTHER: A Graphic Novel. New York: Liveright, First Edition. Cloth in dust jacket; 4to. 148 pp. Signed by Feiffer on the title page. For more than 60 years Feiffer has been a central figure of American satire, and with this book after working successfully seemingly in virtually every medium has returned to his roots (the comic) with this noir graphic novel. A pristine copy, a very attractively publication, and signed. [13366] $35.00 In a rave NYT Book Review Laura Lippman writes: "The story is a thoughtful meditation on female identity and whether the not-so-simple art of murder can ever be defended as a moral necessity. It is a story about stories, the myths we have to create in order to keep putting one foot in front of the other. " 44. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. [Poster] United Farmer Workers Bene ft. San Francisco: Lone Mountain College, [1974]. First Edition. Poster for an appearance by Lawrence Ferlinghetti for the United Farmworkers. 6 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Attractive image of the City Lights Publisher and poet. Likely Thursday, April 3, Lone Mountain was absorbed by USF in the early 1970's. Very light creasing, essentially fine. [13425] $45.00

14 45. Ford, Richard. from ROCK SPRINGS. Berkeley: Black Oak Books, First Separate Printing. Illustrated Broadside (6 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.); with an excerpt from his collection published by Vintage Books. "This is a gift from Black Oak Books, Berkeley, on the occasion of a reading by the author." Designed and printed by Okeanos Press. Bottom corner creased. Very good. [13419] $25.00 The First of Frost's Books Published in the US 46. Frost, Robert. NORTH OF BOSTON. New York: Henry Holt and Co., First Edition. Gray-brown boards backed in brown cloth, paper labels; 8vo. Binding B: One of 150 copies with cancellans [Holt] title-leaf from sheets ordered from England (from the original 1000 sheets), bound in the US. The first publication of Robert Frost in his native country which was in fact February 1915, sold out immediately; concerns of piracy prompted Holt to print immediately in the US. Scarce and important issue of Frost's second book. Front board lightly soiled, front joint worn, spine label chipped, corners softly bumped with boards exposed, extremities worn; lacking rare dust jacket. Very good overall. Crane A3.1.Very scarce and important issue. [13427] $1, Frost, Robert. THE PROPHETS REALLY PROPHESY AS MYSTICS THE COMMENTATORS MERELY BY STATISTICS. New York: Spiral Press, First Separate Edition. Stapled wrappers; 32mo. Christmas card. One of 800 (OF 17,055 total copies) for Robert Frost (of 21 imprints). Near Fine, staples clean, only minor creasing. Crane B34. [13359] $ Gerber, Dan and Jim Harrison (ed.). SUMAC, Winter/Spring Double Issue. Fremont, MI: Sumac Press, Fall Vol. 4, No. 1. Wrappers; 8vo. Double issue with many poets: Rich, Simpson, Kuzma, Merwin, Pastan, Eshleman, Hollo, Wakoski, Banks, Malanga, Matthews, Levine, Antin, Tate, and Harrison. Linda Pastan and Russell Banks have added their signatures to this issue at their contributions. A bit worn and corners, but a very good and tight copy. [13384] $20.00

15 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Gibbons, Robert. ARDORS. [Charlestown]: Innerer Klang, First Edition. Sewn printed wrappers; thin 8vo. Poems. Letterpress printed on Mohawk in Stonehenge covers and with Tarei endpapers. One of 150 copies from Mark Olson's press; quite lovely and fine. [13322] $ Gioia, Dana. THE CATHOLIC WRITER TODAY. Milwaukee: Wiseblood Books, First Edition. Stapled wrappers; 12mo. 35 pp. First publication in book form of this essay on the Catholic writer in public culture today. Signed on the title page. Fine. [13361] $ Ginzburg, Ralph (ed.). AVANT GARDE. NY: Avant-Garde, Large square (11 1/4 x 10 3/4 in.) illustrated wraps. Fourteen issues (all published) of this magazine known for a mixture of artistic erotica, including photography and contemporary art; anti-war, racial and counter cultural articles; prose and poetry. Includes some iconic work from that extraordinary period: Bert Stern serigraphs of Marilyn Monroe; Picasso's erotic gravures (the entirety of no.8); John Lennon's erotic lithographs; work by Mailer, Lenore Kandel, Rexroth, Arthur Miller, Genet, Peter Schjeldahl, Roald Dahl, Auden, among others, as well as the eponymous font created for the magazine. Rubbed with some edgewear, small loss to edges, some paper browning, else easily very good. A difficult set to put together. [10359] $ Gizzi, Michael. GYPTIAN IN HORTULUS. Providence: Paradigm, First Edition. Stapled card covers in printed jacket; thin 8vo. One of 400 copies, this copy specially signed by the poet. Light mark on the back cover else fine. [12790] $ Gizzi, Michael. JUST LIKE A REAL ITALIAN KID. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, First Edition. Stapled wrappers; 8vo.; 20 pp. Poetry chapbook, inscribed and signed by the author. Brief memoir. Fine. [12778] $45.00

16 54. Gizzi, Michael. TOO MUCH JOHNSON. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; tall 8vo.; 31 pp. Poetry chapbook, inscribed "with love" and signed by the author. Staples tarnished else very good. Laid in a card to the recipient of the book of about 35 words mentioning a trip to Naropa and signed "Mike". Very good. [12770] $ Gizzi, Peter. MUSIC FOR FILMS. Providence: Paradigm Press, First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; thin 8vo. Inscribed warmly and signed by the poet in the year of publication. One of 500 copies of this early book by the poet well-known for his editorship of Jack Spicer's work. Trace foxing to cover edges, but easily very good with no wear. [12780] $ Gizzi, Peter. PERIPLUM Or, I The Blaze. Penngrove, CA: Avec Books, First Edition. Tall illustrated wrappers; 61 pp. Inscribed in the year of publication to another poet, small press publisher. First collection by the poet. Trevor Winkfield cover. Back cover blurbs by John Ashbery, Michael Palmer and Bernadette Mayer. Near fine, with just trace wear at corners. [12771] $ Godfrey, John. WHERE THE WEATHER SUITS MY CLOTHES. Calais, VT: Z Press, First edition. One of 750 copies (of 776 total), printed by The Stinehour Press. 32 pp. Cover photo by Jean Boulte. Inscribed and signed in full to another poet/fne press publisher. Attractive production from Kenward Elmslie's press in Poet's Corner, VT. Staples lightly tarnished, else fine in wrappers. [12864] $ Guevara, Ernesto Che. THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES. London and New York: Verso, First Edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 156 pp. Translated from the Spanish by Ann Wright. Che's account of his South American trip with his friend Alberto Granado. Their diaries were made into a fine film by Walter Salles with Gael Garcia Bernal and Rodrigo De la Serna. An exceptional copy, likely unread. [13385] $125.00

17 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p ANOTHER COPY. Fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with trace wear. [13386] $ Hall, Donald et al. ARROWSMITH: A Portfolio of Broadsides. [Boston]: Arrowsmith Press, First Edition. An unbound portfolio consisting of 19 sheet, including title and colophon pages, and seventeen poetry broadsides. 11 x 17 inches on heavy white paper. Issued as one of 26 lettered sets, this copy hors commerce (given in this case to poet Donald Hall). Poets included are: Peter Balakian; Kevin Bowen; William Corbett; Steven Cramer; Nguyen Duy (translated by Kevin Bowen with Nguyen Ba Chung); James Gray; Donald Hall; Tran Dang Khoa (translated by Fred Marchant with Nguyen Ba Chung); Gearóid Mac Lochlainn; Nduka Otiono; Etnairis Rivera (translated by Erica Mena); Joyce Peseroff; Marjana Savka (translated by Askold Melnyczuk); Tom Sleigh; Vasyl Stus (translated by Oksana Maksymchuk); Nguyen Quan Thieu (translated by Martha Collins with Nguyen Quang Thieu); Nguyen Quyen (translated by Bruce Weigl with Hanh Nguyen Weigl). An early issuance of the press. Askold Melnyczuk is a novelist and poet, and the founder of the literary journal Agni and Arrowsmith Press, he teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Paper clip mark on title page, a few tips lightly bumped, easily very good. Rare - Two sets located on WorldCat. [13412] $ Hall, Donald. "Stories" [from] LIGATURE '68: A Co-operative Portfolio with 10 Midwestern Poets. Chicago: E. Hearne, Madison Park Press, First Edition. Screenprint on paper (originally one of ten art prints from a portfolio) mounted on a leaf (folio) on which a related poem is printed. One of twenty "artist proof" copies, all signed by the artist Al Mullen; Donald Hall's copy, and he has specially signed at his poem "Stories" on the leaf. "Stories" was first published in book form in TOWN OF HILL seven years later. "Seventy copies were made... Of the fifty signed and numbered copies, forty-nine were made available for purchase." Handset and printed by John Michael of Acorn Press. The leaf is worn and toned along one edge (not affecting print),

18 which would be hidden by frame; the print lightly creased. Kelleher F-28, but effectively Hall's first published broadside, and most bibliographers would consider it an "A" item. Al Mullen taught as did Hall at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Little known and rare in the marketplace.very good -. [12928] $ The original set included prints by Max Kahn, Misch Kohn, Al Lunak, Stanley Rosenthal, Nancy Schulson, Martin Hurtig, Keith Achepohl, Nick de Matties, Lois Nowicki, and Al Mullen; with poems by Karl Shapiro, John Frederick Nims, Robert Bly, W.D. Snodgrass, X.J. Kennedy, Lucien Stryk, Jim Tate, Dave Etter, James Wright, and Donald Hall. For others from this set see nos.: 41; 81; 116; 130; 131; Hare, David. THE BLUE TOUCH PAPER A Memoir. New York: Norton, First U.S. Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. The great dramatist and screenwriter's memoir covering his first three decades. Fine in fine dust jacket..[13368] $ Hawkes, John (as J. C. B. Hawkes Jr.). FIASCO HALL. Cambridge, MA: Privately Printed, Card covers stapled into blue wrappers; small 4to. 14 pp. First edition of the author's scarce frst book, one of only approximately 100 printed (the author reportedly destroyed about half of the print run). Signed by the author on the titlepage. Some toning to wrappers, one crease at spine near the bottom, but a very good copy. Needless to say rare in the marketplace. [13426] $2, "I wrote lots of poetry in high school-all of it terrible.when I left to go to Harvard, I had a friend whose mother knew the poet Robert Hillier, who was at Harvard at the time, and this woman told me to take my poems to him. So I did; Hillier read all of these poems, picked out about sixteen, and suggested I have them printed myself-this resulted in Fiasco Hall. A lot of these poems reflected romantic notions about the war; I certainly thought I was probably going to be killed in the war, and I had the same romantic sensibility of some of the World War I poets -Wilfred Owen or Rupert Brooke. So I had these dreadful poems printed. Long after the

19 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p.17 war, I tried to destroy them by throwing them down the incinerator near our apartment in New York, but my mother luckily saved about ffty of them." (A Conversation with John Hawkes by Patrick O'Donnell From "The Review of Contemporary Fiction," Fall 1983,Vol. 3.3). 64. Heaney, Seamus. The Loose Box. New York: Parnassus, First Edition. Single folio sheet folded twice to form four printed pages. One 19 copies signed the colophon in the poet's hand: "8/19 Artists copies Seamus Heaney." There were 120 total copies, with the regular issue of 101 numbered copies signed by the poet. "Printed at The Oliphant Press, NY on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Parnassus: Poetry in Review." A fine copy in the rarest issue (presumably mostly given to the poet's friends). Brandes & Durgan AA68. [13435] $ Heaney, Seamus. "I Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath: Fallon/Gallery Press., First Edition. Single leaf folded to make four pages; thin 8vo. Signed by Seamus Heaney. Illustration by Catherine Heaney. Christmas Fine and scarce. Brandes AA77 [12736] $ Heaney, Seamus. The Manger. Loughcrew, Old Castle, County Meath: Fallon/Gallery Press., First Edition. Privately published for the author by Peter Fallon, Christmas Painting by Basil Blackshaw. Single leaf, card stock, folded to make four pages; thin 8vo. Signed by Seamus Heaney. Fine. Brandes AA59 [12737] $ sing of a maiden " item 12736

20 67. Heaney, Seamus. from Vitruviana. N.p.: Hieroglyph Editions, First Separate Printing. Single leaf, card stock, folded to make four pages; thin 8o. "From 'Vitruviana' by Seamus Heaney. Watercolor by Felim Egan. Published by Hieroglyph Editions in an edition of 1, to 100 numbered and signed by the artists"--colophon. Signed by Seamus Heaney and Felim Egan, not numbered - an author retained copy. Fine and scarce. Brandes AA73 [12735] $ Hejinian, C. H. [Lyn]. Selections from the Winslow Poems. Denver: Bowery Press, First Edition. Single sheet folded for mailing, printed on both sides; 17 x 11 inches. Bowery Broadsheet no. 4. Precedes her first book (which was self-published) by three years, and her editing TUUMBA by several. Folded as issued, else fine. [13333] $ Herbert, Zbigniew. INSCHRIFT [NAPIS / INSCRIPTION] Gedichte aus zehn Jahren. Frankfurt: SUHRKAMP Verlag, First German edition. Cloth with leather spine label in dust jacket. Large 8vo. 194 pp.; contents. Inscribed by Herbert in German in Warsaw to Werner Jansch in Early collection of poems in translation; his first books in Polish were published in 1956, 1957 and Attractively made book, slightly dusty, but near fine in a lightly worn at edges (one short closed tear) near fine dust jacket. Very scarce presentation copy. [11330] $ Hilbert, Ernest. AIM YOUR ARROWS AT THE SUN. New York: LATR Editions, First edition. Poetry chapbook, hand-sewn in letterpress covers. Signed by the author. Intro. by Adam Kirsch. One of 45 frst issue copies, all sold at the launch reading at Melville House in Brooklyn. Of the 250 copies printed, 205 were destroyed when the author pointed out that Kirsch's name was misspelled; the reprint of 205 correctly spells his name. Scarce, especially signed. Fine. [10110] $100.00

21 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Hitchcock, George, ed. KAYAK 13. San Francisco: Kayak Press, First edition. Stapled illustrated wrppers; 8vo. 68 pp. Contains early work by Philip Levine among others, including Wendell Berry, Donald Hall, Richard Wilbur, Carol Berge, Hayden Carruth, et al. Not listed on the contents page is Richard Wilbur who contributes a twelve line poem "A Postcard to Bob Bly" in the letters section in reaction to Bly's criticism of "my kind of writing". Order form for Tagliabue's Buddha Uproar and other titles laid in. Staples rusty, else very good. [13355] $ Hitchcock, George, ed. KAYAK 14. San Francisco: Kayak Press, First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; 8vo. Poems by John Haines, Margaret Atwood, Posner, Dobyns, Berry, Tate, Lipsitz, among others, and Yvan Goll in translations by Bly, Zweig and Hitchcock. Staples rusty, else fine. [13354] $ Hitchcock, George, ed. KAYAK 23. Santa Cruz: Kayak Press, First edition. Stapled wrappers; 72 pp. Poems by Enzensberger, James Welch, James Tate, Susan F. Schaeffer, Merwin (prose), Haines, Atwood, Philip Levine, Willard, Carol Berge (review) and others. Lightly toned covers, else a near fine copy. Near fine. Paperback. [13346] $ Hitchcock, George, ed. KAYAK 25. Santa Cruz: Kayak Press, First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; 70 pp. Printed on varied colored papers. Poems by Vliet, Kaufman, Levine ("How Much Earth', "Clouds"), Brown, Anderson, Barker, Haag, Merwin, Everwine, Willard, Tagliabue, Alberti (three poems trans. by Mark Strand), Witt, Sheltom, Mezey (prose), Harper, McIntosh, Felstiner, Stoloff, Carruth, Tate, among others. Small stain on the back cover, else about fine without the usual soiling and toning to the white covers. [13343] $ Hitchcock, George, ed. KAYAK 31. Santa Cruz: Kayak Press, First edition. Stapled wrappers; 72 pp. Poems by Anne Sexton ("rats live on no evil star"), Michael McClure, Lappin, Alexander Laing, Myers, Booth, Finkel, Grabill,

22 Morris, James Tate, Dobyns, Donald Hall ("Mouth"), Hays, et al. Spine area toned, else fine. [13348] $ Hoagland, Tony. DONKEY GOSPEL: Poems. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, First edition. Signed by the poet on the title page. Winner of the 1997 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Scarce signed. Fine in fine dust jacket. [9175] $ Housman, A. E. MORE POEMS. New York: Knopf, Second Printing. "First and second printings before publication". Blue cloth with gilt lettering, t.e.g.; 8vo. Lacking dust jacket. Published on the same day as the UK edition; with textual variations. Type and design by WAD. Carter and Sparrow 41. Very near fine copy. [13341] $ Jarrell, Randall [Edited by Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor & Robert Penn Warren]. RANDALL JARRELL New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, First Edition. Burgundy cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 307 pp., with photographs. Original essays and memoirs of the poet by his friends and admirers including, Arendt, Berryman, Bishop, Lowell, Moore, Ransom, Sendak and Tate, as well as a new poem by RJ: "A Man Meets a Woman in the Street". Very good in a worn at corners very good dust jacket. [582] $ Joly, Greg. Stone Dance. Jamaica, VT: Bull Thistle, [1990]. First Edition. Single printed sheet sewn into illus. covers; 8vo. One of 10 copies created as a birthday card, with title, birthday inscription, colophon all in publisher/author Joly's hand, and signed by him. Fine and rare item from this important fine press. No copies listed on WorldCat. [12989] $ Kearns, Sherry [William Bronk]. The Ginko at 57 Pearl St. [New Rochelle]: James L. Weil, First Edition. Green printed wrappers, sewn; thin 8vo. One of 50 copies printed "at the Kelly-Winterton Press to cel- ebrate in memoriam the eighty-seventh birthday of

23 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p.21 William Bronk". Lines from a letter by Kearns made into an eight-line, four stanza poem by Weil, the publisher. About fine, edges of handmade paper rough as issued. [12828] $ Kennedy, X. J. "Little Elegy" [from] LIGATURE '68: A Co-operative Portfolio with 10 Midwestern Poets. Chicago: E. Hearne, Madison Park Press, First Separate Printing. Color lithograph (originally one of ten art prints from a portfolio) mounted on a leaf (folio) on which a related poem is printed. One of twenty "artist proof" copies, all signed by the artist Nancy Schulson; not signed by the poet. "Seventy copies were made... Of the fifty signed and numbered copies, forty-nine were made available for purchase." Handset and printed by John Michael of Acorn Press. Nancy Schulson is known primarily as a Chicago sculptor. 19 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches (print 17 1/2 x 11 3/8 in. oval). Fine copy. Fine. no binding. [13429] $ Kertesz, Imre. KADDISH FOR A CHILD NOT BORN. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, First Edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 95 pp. The Hungarian writer won the 2002 Nobel prize for literature. This short novel quite scarce as most of the edition was published in paperback, cloth mostly going to libraries. Fine copy in like dust jacket. [13390] $ Knausgaard, Karl Ove. MY STRUGGLE. New York: Archipalago Books, First Edition. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. [13365] $ Kochanowski, Jan; Seamus Heaney and Stanislaw Baranczak (trans.). LAMENTS. London: Faber & Faber, First printing of the scarce cloth issue. 53 pp. Translations with Polish facing English translations by Heaney and Baranczak. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with nearly imperceptible impressions on cover [11392] $150.00

24 85. Lehrer, Warren et al. FRENCH FRIES; VERSATIONS; I MEAN YOU KNOW... [Ephemera/prospectuses]. Purchase: Ear/Say, circa First Edition. Prospectuses for several Lehrer (and collaborators) titles: French Fries (long note, signed to subscriber), sample page from the book, and order form with printed envelope; Versations prospectus (3 in duplicate); I Mean You Know prospectus (6 in duplicate); signed note on Ear/Say stationary, in original printed envelope. All but envelope in fine condition. [13336] $ Levy, John. TRAVELS. (New Malden, UK: FIGlets, First Edition. Stapled chapbook of poems; thin 8vo. Briefly inscribed and signed by the poet on the colophon. Very good. [13324] $ Levy, Stephen (trans.). MANY HANDS: A Gathering of Sephardic Songs and Proverbs with a Poem in Judezmo and English. Cambridge: Firefy Press, First Edition. Stab bound printed covers; square 12mo. One of 1000 copies printed by John Kristensen on Curtis Ragston. Briefly inscribed by Levy who translated and made the selections. Fine. [13320] $ Lewis, John; Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell. MARCH: Book Two. Marietta, GA: Top Shelf Productions, First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; small 4to. Signed by Congressman John Lewis, co-writer Andrew Aydin and illustrator Nate Powell. Vol. 3 won the National Book Award for Young People s Literature, the first graphic novel to win. Fine copy, scarce signed by all three. [13387] $100.00

25 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Locke, Christopher. Slipping Under Diamond Light. Camp Porpoise, ME: Clamp Down Press, First Edition. Decorated wrappers; tall 12mo. One of 400 numbered copies printed at The Dunstan Press. Silkscreens by Donna Oehmig. Inscribed by Locke to another poet/small press publisher. Attractive publication. Fine. [13337] $ Lowell, Robert. LORD WEARY'S CASTLE. New York: Harcourt Brace, First edition. 8vo. Black cloth, gilt lettering, in dust jacket. Bookplate (gift to Univ. of Texas), else very good and quite clean, in a rubbed and worn at edges dust jacket: with small loss at corners, about very good. Poet's first regularly published book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. [10785] $ Lyman, Henry [William Bronk]. Bill's Room. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, First Edition. Sewn blue wrappers; oblong 12mo. One of 50 printed "at the KellyWinterton Press to celebrate in memoriam the eighty-fifth birthday of William Bronk...". Short personal note from Weil on his printed card. Fine. [12844] $ MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve] ed. THE VOICE OF SCOTLAND Vol. IX, No. 3 A Quarterly Magazine of Scottish Arts & Affairs. Dunfrmline: The Voice of Scotland, First Edition. The last issue of the magazine, approximately 15 copies printed on rectos only at the editor's request, but never distributed. Includes MacD.''s poem "The Chinese Genius Wakes Up" and work by Edwin Morgan and Margaret Caroline Tait. The magazine lasted from 1938 to Minor creasing else fine; housed in a custom buckram folding envelope. Quite RARE. [12584] $ Murau, Shigeyoshi "Shig" (ed.). SHIG'S REVIEW #52: Mark Green Issue. San Francisco: self-published, First Edition. Legal-sized paper stapled; printed rectos only; [7 pp.] Numbered 7/25. With photos and poems by Beat

26 photographer Mark Louis Green. Shig Mauro was the longtime manager of City Lights, and thus a central figure in SF literary circles for two decades beginning in When he left the store he issued some 90 mostly "xerox copies" (as is this)of his little zine. Mostly given to friends, issues size as the number here would suggest was small. Pages are numbered 1,2,6,4,7,5,10 (likely as issued). Photocopy quality poor, some creasing and toning (mostly cover), but close to very good. [13416] $ Merrill, James. MIRABELL: Books of Number. New York: Atheneum, First edition. Burgundy cloth in dust jacket. Briefly inscribed by Merrill. This book, a sequel to DIVINE COMEDIES which won the Pulitzer Prize, won the National Book Award. The one volume book collecting the three volumes of this occult work won the National Book Critics Circle Award giving the masterwork the triple crown of publishing. Mirabell is the name of Merrill's and his partner's Ouija board guide. A spectacular copy, with a couple of trifing dust jacket creases, yellow top stain bright. [11610] $ McInerney, Brian. All My Life. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, First Edition. String-tied cream wrappers; 8vo. Single short poem by McInerney, issued as one of 50 copies, designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed by Stamperia Valdonega. Issued unsigned. Fine. [12985] $ Merwin, W. S. A Letter From Gussie. Boston: Yorick Books, First Separate Edition. Illustrated and calligraphic broadside; illus. reminiscent of Edward Gorey by Serge Arnoux. Very large: oblong: 35 x 20 inches (approx.). One of three (this being the scarcest and largest) published at the same time, and the three comprising Merwin's first broadside publications. Light creasing, else near fine on heavy paper. [12246] $ Metcalf, Paul. THE ASSASSINATION. Barrytown: Station Hill, First Edition. Illustrated stapled wrappers; 8vo Lincoln's assassination in contemporary quotes. Specially signed by the author. Very good. [13188] $20.00

27 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Mitchell, Jack; Edward Albee (introduction, signed by him). ICONS & IDOLS A Photographer's Chronicle of the Arts, New York: Amphoto, First Edition. 160 duotone photos of celebrity artists & performers, mostly from the photographer's New York studio. Particularly strong on the visual arts, opera, dance and the theatre, with several of Warhol and his stars. John and Yoko are on the cover. Foreword by Edward Albee and signed by him. Fine copy. [13371] $ Moore, Marianne. TELL ME, TELL ME: Granite, Steels and Other Topics. New York: Viking Press, First edition. Gray paper over boards, calico blue cloth spine. 57 pp. Inscribed by Moore to actress Ruth Ford with a note card laid in mentioning a publication party for her brother the poet Charles Henri Ford and the recent death of her husband actor Zachary Scott. Near fine with ffep offset, in a lightly worn, front fap creased, but still about near fine dust jacket. The note card and ffep with indentation from paper clip. (Abbott A30.1) [13392] $ Ruth Ford was a stage and screen actress. She and her brother Charles lived in the famed Dakota Apartments in NYC where she held for decades a literary salon. Her most prominent role was in Faulkner's only play (written for her) where she played opposite her husband Zachary Scott in Requiem for a Nun Moore, Todd. THE DARK AND BLOODY GROUND. Brown Mills, NJ: A Ptolmey/The Brown Mills Review Press, First Edition. Stapled chapbook; 16 pp. Fifth book by the self-described Outlaw poet, a school teacher from Belvidere, IL This copy inscribed to the poet "Ted [Enslin] w/warmest regards", and signed Todd. Moore is best known for his long poem in several volumes DILLINGER, but many of his poems are as here short unpunctuated stories. Toned but else very good, and quite scarce, especially signed. [13397] $35.00

28 101. Morgan, Frederick. WASHINGTON SQUARE. [West Chester, PA]: Aralia Press, First Edition. Chapbook: thick French fold covers with paper label. [20 pp.] Photograph by Galen Morgan tipped in as frontispiece. Usual fine press work from Michael Peich. Morgan founded and was coeditor at The Hudson Review. Fine copy. [12856] $ Morrow, Bradford and Seamus Cooney. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BLACK SPARROW PRESS Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, First Edition. Cloth-backed, paper-covered boards, paper spine label; 8vo. xxiv, 302 pages. Ordinary issue. 312 entries. Fine in fine original acetate dust jacket. [13335] $ Naipaul, V.S. A TURN IN THE SOUTH. London: Viking Press, First U.K. Edition. Fine copy in a slightly wrinkled, still near fine dust jacket. Acidic paper browned as usual. Signed by the author on the title page. [13370] $ Niedecker, Lorine. PAEAN TO PLACE. Milwaukee/Kenosha: Woodlawn Pattern and Light and Dust, First Separate Printing. Illustrated covers; 8vo. 41 pp., plus notes. "Wd. like to see it in print in a little book all by itself," wrote Lorine Niedecker to Florence Dollase in August, [from the notes]. This book the first separate publication of this sequence of short poems from the manuscript book she sent Ms. Dollase. Fine. [13403] $ Padgett, Ron & Clark Coolidge. SUPERNATURAL OVERTONES. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, First edition. Very good in sidestapled, printed card wrappers; square 8vo. Briefly inscribed by Clark Coolidge and Ron Padgett. One of 500 copies in illustrated wrappers. The Figures known primarily for publishing LANGUAGE poets: this publication an interesting juxtaposition on every page of Padgett's humorous brief "narratives" and Coolidge's word play. Terrific nonsense. A surprisingly uncommon book and quite scarce signed by both poets. Back cover toned along spine, still about very good. [12762] $65.00

29 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Pasternak, Boris. SEVEN POEMS. Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, Second Edition. Hand bound in Bradford Buckram fabric. A lovely Alan Brilliant/Noel Young production. Seven poems translated from the Russian by George Kline. Fine, with paper spine label; (issued without a dust jacket). [12855] $ Perse, St.-John. WINDS. New York: Pantheon/Bollingen XXXIV, First English Language Edition. Original cloth in dust jacket; 4to. 252 pp. Bilingual edition; Translated by Hugh Chisholm. Inscribed in French by Perse on the frst free endpaper: A Jean Ballard / affectueusement / St. John Perse / Washington, Dust jacket design by E. McKnight Kauffer. This bilingual edition of Perse s epic poem made his work available for the first time to the English-speaking reading public. Accompanying the poem are commentaries by Paul Claudel, Gaëtan Picon, Albert Béguin, and Gabriel Bounoure. St.-John Perse ( ) the authorial pseudonym of Alexis Leger was a noted French poet-diplomat. He was dismissed from the French Foreign Office following France s fall to Germany in May 1940 and subsequently was exiled to the United States, where he resided for much of the remainder of his life. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960, for the soaring fight and evocative imagery of his poetry. Slight offsetting to series title page; pictorial color dust jacket; light shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Rare signed. [13434] $ The recipient Jean Ballard ( ) was a French poet and author, as well as the founder and editor of the French literary journal Les Cahiers du Sud from 1925 to Pinsky, Robert. Samurai Song. Berkeley, CA: Hit & Run Press, First Separate Printing. Illustrated broadside (9 x 13 in.) with a single poem by Pinsky from his collection JERSEY RAIN, Illustration of a raku teacup by Davis Te Selle. Printed on a Vandercook 4 on Rives BFK White. Designed by Colored Horse Studio, Ukiah, CA. One of 25 copies signed by the poet, with 25 to the author and 50 not signed.fine.[13414] $50.00

30 109. ANOTHER COPY. One of 100 total copies; not signed. Fine. [13413] $ Ford, Jon; Alan Soldofsky, Joe Flower, Abbott, St6ve; Joyce Jenkins et al. (eds.). POETRY FLASH A Poetry Review & Literary Calendar for the West. Berkeley: Poetry Flash, items (plus a few duplicates). An incomplete run of mostly early issues of this Bay Area calendar and review of mostly poetry events. Interesting material with many events, advertised and covered (none more interesting than the SF MoMA 1975 joint reading/disaster of William Stafford and Bukowski - things did not go well); essays, reviews; photographs of poets and occasional poetry. Various formats including single sheet, legal size, mostly printed, all issues except the last four NOT printed on newsprint as were most from the 1980's, but photocopied (as were most posters of the era), often on colored paper. Issues: 4, 5, 7, 8,10, 11,13-18, 21-27, 29-30, 34-36, 38, 43, 45, 46, 51, 56, 59, 64, (includes insert to SF International Poetry Festival), 72, 94,100,102,103, 143, 145,150; and Fiction Monthly, Feb Some toning and wear, but very good. [13398] $ Rexroth, Kenneth. REXROTH READS! Thursday, December 18. San Francisco: SF MoMA, Photocopy poster for a Rexroth reading - "He has not read locally for six years"; 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Near fine. [13417] $ Salter, James. CASSADA. Washington DC: Counterpoint, First edition. 8vo. 208 pp. A substantially reworked version of his second novel THE ARM OF FLESH published originally in This copy signed (not inscribed) on the titlepage. Fine in fine dust jacket. [13367] $ Samore, Samuel W. Samuel W. Samore: An Abridged Curriculum Vitae. San Francisco: selfpublished, First Edition. Three 8 1/2" x 11" sheets photocopied on rectos only, stapled. Early work by the conceptual artist/photographer/filmmaker listing four "Long-Term Activities" and twelve "Performance Pieces". This seems to be the third of at

31 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p.29 least three issues (May & June 1974, April 1975) each signed and numbered and limited to 200 copies. The third page the artist's mailing list of 106 "notables", eg. Lippard, Sontag, Lewitt, Ruscha, Tom Wolfe, Duchamp, Richard Misrach (in Samore's hand). Sam Samore is probably best known for his "The Suicides" begun in 1973, large format photographs infuenced by Cindy Sherman, they portray the artist posed as a suicide. His work exhibited worldwide, he now lives in NYC. Minor creasing and wear, verso of last page toned, very good. Rare. [13399] $ Saunders, George W. A Lack of Order in the Floating Object Room, in NORTHWEST REVIEW Vol. 24, No.2. Eugene: The University of Oregon, First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 113 pp. This issue opens with the frst published story by George Saunders, a story he submitted for admission to the Syracuse Writing Program from which he received his MA in His first collection CIVILWARLAND IN BAD DECLINE was published a decade after this story was published. Always an important literary journal, this issue, also, includes an early Dean Young poem "Catalogues" as well as work by featured poet Madeline DeFrees. Spine a bit toned, else a fine copy.[13383] $ Schulz, Bruno. THE COMPLETE FICTION OF BRUNO SCHULZ The Street of Crocodiles, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. New York: Walker, First Edition. 324 pp.,with Originally published in Poland in 1937; this is the first US publication. Afterword by Jerzy Ficowski. Translated with preface by Celina Wieniewska. Fine in fine dust jacket. [13369] $ Shapiro, Karl. "There was that Roman Poet who fell in love at ffty-odd" [from] LIGATURE '68: A Cooperative Portfolio with 10 Midwestern Poets. Chicago: E. Hearne, Madison Park Press, Color woodcut (originally one of ten art prints from a portfolio) mounted on a leaf (folio) on which a related poem is printed. Figure of a woman in black and gold. One of twenty "artist

32 proof" copies, all signed by the artist Max Kahn; not signed by the poet. "Seventy copies were made... Of the fifty signed and numbered copies, forty-nine were made available for purchase." Handset and printed by John Michael of Acorn Press. The poem was published in Shapiro's volume WHITE-HAIRED LOVER in Max Kahn was a leading American lithographer and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; he was a WPA artist and his work is in many leading Museums. 26 x 23 1/2 inches (print 20 x 15). Fine copy. [13428] $ See cover for Max Kahn woodcut tipped to printed leaf 117. Shaugnessy, Brenda. SO MUCH SYNTH. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, First Edition. Signed by the poet on the title page. Book mark from DC bookstore where she signed the book laid in. Fourth book by one of our finest poets in mid-career. Uncommon signed. Fine copy in fine dust jacket.[13411] $ Simic, Charles. CHICAGO REVIEW, Winter, Volume 13, Number 4. Chicago: The University of Chicago, First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 158 pp. The suppressed issue, the editors having left and the contents published as BIG TABLE 1 in the Spring of 1960, when UC administrators objected to the contents especially excerpts from NAKED LUNCH by Burroughs. Contents here include the frst two published poems of Charles Simic "My Brother in the Garden" and "Death in the Family", and signed by him at his contribution. Work by Duncan, Rothenberg, Stanley Elkin and others. Wear at edges, still very good. [13375] $ Singer David [Brother Philip]. poster for SECRET OF THE ANDES. Bolinas, CA: Leaves of Grass Press, [1976]. First Edition. Two posters/prospectus for a book by Brother Philip with illustrations by David Singer best known for his Fillmore rock posters ( ). Legal-size paper (one tan, one yellow) printed in black. Singer did twelve illustrations for the book. One very good, edges creased one about fine. [13402] For the pair: $50.00

33 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Singer, David. "The Poster" [exhibition postcard]. San Francisco: The Poster, First Edition. Postcard for the opening reception for an exhibition of posters and other work by David Singer at The Poster gallery. Notable in that the exhibition was in 1971, and Singer is best known for the posters he created for Bill Graham: 66 rock posters from 1969 to Singer is notable for his use of collage. Like most of Singer's posters, printed by Tea Lautrec Litho. Black and white collage. Small stain, mostly not noticeable because of the black image. [13400] $ Schuyler, James. FIREPROOF FLOORS OF WITLEY COURT: English Songs and Dances by James Schuyler. West Burke, VT: Janus Press, First Edition. Orange wrappers with silver moon decoration, printed in two colors with double-page cut-out endpapers; 8vo. One of 150 copies. "...designed, handset in Monotype Times Roman, printed, torn, cut, and bound by Claire Van Vliet at the Janus Press on and of Kozu, Fabriano and Canson paper. The endpapers are the topiary gardens of Levens Hall, Westmorland, England. This is copy no 85." Back cover lightly sunned along the front edge, else fine, unopened. [12944]$1, Claire Van Vliet's work has been heavily collected for over 50 years, well before she won an early MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 1989, with many institutions subscribing. This title particularly elusive in the trade Spiegelman, Art. THE COMPLEAT MISTER INFINITY. San Francisco: San Francisco Comic Book Co., First Edition. 10 pp., oblong stapled. An early minicomic, reportedly printed on a möbius strip; printed by the same publisher (a comic bookstore) in the same year as the first issue of Crumb's Mr. Natural. Early Spiegelman and likely his first comic that was not self-published. Quite scarce especially as this is, signed by the artist (and dated ). Very good. [13381] $150.00

34 123. Spiegelman, Art. MAUS A Survivor's Tale. New York: Pantheon, First Edition. Original Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 159 pp. Signed by the artist. The first edition was published in trade paperback only. A book that probably more than any other brought critical acceptance to the graphic novel genre. Spiegelman has been generous with his signature, but this first edition is difficult to find signed in collectible condition. Wear to the edges, but still very good, and quite fine internally. [13382] $ Spiegelman, Art. MAUS II: A Surviver's Tale and Here My Troubles Began. New York: Pantheon, First Edition. Cloth-backed covers in illustrated dust jacket; 8vo. 136 pp. Signed by the artist on the title page. After this volume was published the author/artist won a special Pulitzer Prize in Minor manufacture defect at spine, else fine in a priceclipped else fine dust jacket. [13394] $ Spiegelman, Art. META MAUS. New York: Pantheon, First Edition. Cloth-backed illustrated covers; large 8vo. 299 pp. w/ index and DVD. Signed by the artist on the title page. A look inside the classic history/graphic novel. This volume published 25 years after the first volume was published. Difficult to find signed. A fine copy published without a dust jacket. [13395] $75.00 Art Spiegelman began MAUS in 1973, the complete work would win a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and along with his work with RAW and Pantheon bringing new energy and critical acceptance to the graphic novel and comic art.