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1 TRIOLET RARE BOOKS, ABAA P.O. Box 1821 San Luis Obispo, CA Tel: (302) NEW ARRIVALS, JULY 2017 WITH SELECTIONS FROM STOCK All items subject to prior sale and are guaranteed as described. For any return, please contact us within 10 days of receipt. Libraries may be billed according to their needs; deferred billing is available. Payment by check, wire transfer, PayPal, and credit cards accepted. California sales tax (if applicable) and shipping will be added. Further information or more detailed digital photographs of any item provided on request. 1. ACKER, Kathy, et. al. Empty Elevator Shaft 1 [all published?]. San Francisco: Empty Elevator Shaft, n.d. [c. 1973]. Side-stapled perfect-bound wrappers. Edited by Bruce Leary, with work by Larry Eigner, David Gitin, Charles Potts, Paul Mariah, Richard Tagett, Maria Gitin, Hunce Voelcker, Kirk Robertson, William Meissner, et al. Notable for early work by Acker, three prose poems originally published in Politics (1972). Empty Elevator Shaft apparently did not publish another issue, but did publish several titles under its imprint, all circa , including Acker s six-part I Dreamt I Became a Nymphomaniac in OCLC locates twelve holdings. $150

2 2. ACKER, Kathy. The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula. By the Black Tarantula. New York: TVRT, First trade edition. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. 91 pp. The first collected edition, following the self-published six-part version in Another edition was published by TVRT in 1978 in a smaller format. Minor surface wear, near fine. $ ADAM, Helen. The Queen o Crow Castle. Drawings by Jess Collins. [San Francisco]: White Rabbit Press, First edition. Unpaginated. String-sewn printed wrappers. Text lithographed from Jess holograph. A remarkably fresh, fine copy of one of the earlier White Rabbit imprints. Johnston A9. $ BEATTY, Paul. The White Boy Shuffle. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, First edition. 226 pp. Black paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Minor rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and top corners. Literary agency stamp of Frederique Porretta, Paris, on front free endpaper. The first novel by a major African-American novelist and poet, whose fourth novel The Sellout won the Man Booker Prize, the first American writer to do so. Inscribed by Beatty on the title-page. $200

3 5. BERRIGAN, Ted, Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard. Bean Spasms. New York: Kulchur Press, First edition. 202 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Corners a little bumped, some minor wear, but overall clean and bright. A classic of the New York School. Inscribed by Padgett to John Sladek (likely the science-fiction author) and dated in $ [BLACK ROCK PRESS]. Arthur Rimbaud. The Drunken Boat. [Reno]: Black Rock Press, First edition thus, one of 75 numbered copies. String-tied wrappers, paste-paper jacket with printed spine label. Woodcut vignette on title-page. Fine copy. An attractive edition of Rimbaud s poem in the Varese translation, printed by students at the University of Nevada Reno s long-standing letterpress, under the direction of Bob Blesse and John Balkwill. OCLC locates three holdings (UNR, UNLV, UU). $ BRATHWAITE, Edward Kamau. The Visibility Trigger. Leuven: Leuvense Schrijversaktie, First edition. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. 60 pp. Translated into French (with original English en face) by Maria-Francesca Mollica and Christine Pagnoulle; introduction by Maria-Francesca Mollica. Inscribed by Pagnoulle on the half-title. Minor handling wear to covers, near fine. An uncommon collection by the noted Barbadian poet. $150

4 8. [BREMER PRESSE]. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature. Munich: Printed by the Bremer Presse for Random House, , [2] pp. Quarter vellum over marbled printed boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. With the original unprinted red textured paper wrapper and matching slipcase. Printed by hand on Zanders handmade paper. 250 numbered copies (1-CCL) for Random House, New York, and 280 numbered copies (1-280) for the subscribers of Bremer Presse. Title and Initials designed by Anna Simons. Nr. ccxxxvii. Contemporary gift inscription on the front free endpaper, minor edgewear and spine browning to wrapper, slipcase a bit worn with small chip missing from the end of the spine, but overall quite nice, and uncommon with the wrapper and slipcase. $ BRETON, André. My Heart Through Which Her Heart Has Passed. Poems of Love and Desperation, Translated and prefaced by Mark Polizzotti. Paris and London: Alyscamps Press, First edition, proof copy. Stapled printed wrappers. 29, [3] pp. Minor handling wear to covers. Noted proof on front cover, with extensive revisions, corrections, and printer s notes throughout. The colophon notes that three hundred copies were to be printed. Several later revised editions appeared in 2001 and 2016, all are uncommon. $ COTTON, John. Extracts From the Lunacy Collector. [n.p.: n.d., c. 1970]. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets, cover printed letterpress with woodcut image. Some wear to covers, corners bumped. Scarce publication by the poet and publisher of Priapus Press. Originally published in Enigma 2, according to the cover. Inscribed by the author on the verso of the front cover to Ian Hamilton Finlay, dated OCLC finds two copies, Emory and BL. $150

5 11. [CUMMINGTON PRESS]. The Book of Job. From the King James Bible. Cummington: The Cummington Press, , [1] pp. Quarter calf over black silver-flecked boards, spine lettered in blind, with the original unprinted jacket. One of three hundred copies printed, illustrated with wood engravings by Gustav Wolf and a textual note by Alfred Y. Fisher. Jacket scuffed and stained with a couple of chips, book slightly rubbed at the head and tail of the spine but overall near fine. An elaborate edition and an early production of the press, the first Cummington book to be chosen by the American Institute of Graphic Arts for its Fifty Books of the Year. $ [CUMMINGTON PRESS]. The Messiah: Isaiah VIII & IX 1-6; Micah IV 3-5; Zechariah XIV [n.p.]: The Cummington Press, Single sheet, French-folded, [4] pp. Foxed, particularly on pps. [3-4]. Printed for Mr. and Mrs. Arno Werner, Christmas An uncommon bit of Cummington Press ephemera, linked to the great bookbinder, who lived not that far from the village of Cummington, MA. $ [DANIEL PRESS]. Pater, Walter. An Imaginary Portrait. Oxford: H. Daniel, First edition thus, one of 250 numbered copies. Original printed wrappers, glassine and slipcase. 61 pp. Spine slightly darkened, else a fine copy. Madan 33. First printed in Macmillan s Magazine, vol. 38 (1878), p. 313, it is here for the first time reprinted with loving care. $750

6 14. DICKEY, James. Into the Stone and Other Poems. In Poets of Today VII. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, First edition. 206 pp. Black cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and green, with the dust jacket. Minor darkening to spine, corners slightly rubbed. Dickey s true first book, a collection issued together with work by Paris Leary and Jon Swan. Review copy with slip laid in. $ DUNDY, Elaine. The Dud Avocado. London: Victor Gollancz, First edition. 272 pp. Red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Endpapers slightly browned, top edge a bit dusty, fore-edge slightly foxed. Jacket edgeworn with some closed tears and creases to the top edge and minor old stains. True first edition (published January 1958, the American edition was brought out by Dutton the following July, as per Dundy s autobiography). Dundy s first novel, a cult classic about a young American woman on the loose in Paris. Re-issued by the New York Review Books Classics series in $ EIGNER, Larry. Company. New Haven: Penny Poems, First edition. Broadside presenting Eigner s early poem, no. 166 in the Penny Poems series. Old burn mark near top edge, near fine. Five copies in OCLC. $ [EVERSON, William]. A Fragment for the Birth of God. [Oakland: St. Albert s College, 1959?]. Single sheet, folded. Text printed in terra-cotta with woodblock print in blue. Minor browning. Printed by Everson for the Christmas card for St. Albert s College in 1959; issued again in With another copy, never folded. Bartlett and Campo, A14. $75/the lot

7 18. [EVERSON, William]. William K. Stafford. The Achievement of Brother Antoninus. A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, First edition. 86 pp. Perfectbound printed wrappers. Some minor rubbing to the extremities. Inscribed by Everson to Don Allen, dated Bartlett and Campo, p. 96. $ another copy. Inscribed, for Madeline [Gleason] / with best wishes / Brother Antoninus. $ [EVERSON, William]. The City Does Not Die. By Brother Antoninus. Dedicated to Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco and Read out by the Author at the Ceremonies Commemorating the San Francisco Earthquake April Berkely: Oyez, First edition. [8] pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Fine copy. Inscribed for Ken & Pat [Carpenter] in belated praise of the finished Springing of the Blade, a superb feat of design and craftsmanship! Brother Antoninus May 9, Kenneth J. Carpenter was the founder of the Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada, Reno. Bartlett and Campo A32. $ EXLEY, Frederick. A Fan s Notes. New York: Harper & Row, First edition. 385 pp. Orange paper boards over lavender cloth backstrip, lettered and decorated in black and silver, with the dust jacket. Minor sunning to board edges, minor edgewear to jacket with a small nick on the front flap crease, small mark on lower edge. No fading to the spine, as is often seen. A nice copy of Exley s much-admired first book. $ FAST, Howard Melvin. Strange Yesterday. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, First edition. 273 pp. Full lavender cloth, lettered and decorated in black, with the dust jacket. Top edge spotted, head and tail of spine a bit discolored. The jacket has an inch chip on the top edge of the front panel, affecting the title lettering, and some minor chipping at the tail of the spine, front flap almost detached but holding. Fast s second book, which he later disowned as a half-assed, hysterical novel. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, to ---- / Merry Christmas / Happy New Year / / Howard. Scarce in any format, especially in jacket and inscribed. $1750

8 23. FEIFFER, Jules. Cohn of Arc. New York: Kermit Bloomgarden, [n.d., c1975]. Heavy brad-bound wrappers, title and author stamped in blind on the front cover. [97] leaves, printed on rectos only. An early version of Feiffer s Tony-nominated play, eventually produced in 1976 under the title Knock Knock. Bloomgarden, the legendary Broadway producer, was not involved with the final production, so this draft is likely an earlier one. The text appears similar to the final published version. Feiffer wrote several plays and screenplays (Carnal Knowledge, among others), along with his ongoing illustrations and cartoons. $ [GAY RIGHTS]. Cutler, Marvin [pseud. W. Dorr Legg], ed. Homosexuals Today: A Handbook of Organizations and Publications. Los Angeles: ONE, Inc., First edition. 188 pp. Black buckram boards, printed in yellow. The landmark gay rights organization ONE began publishing a monthly magazine in Homosexuals Today is a scrapbook-like history and invaluable document of the early gay rights movement. Minor bump to head of spine, else fine. $ GOUDY, Frederic W. Types of the Past, Type Revivals: With a Few Words on Type Design in General. An Address at the New York Press Association Dinner, September 12, MCMXXXVI. Syracuse: School of Journalism, Syracuse University, First edition. String-sewn wrappers. Foreword by Howard Coggeshall, presentation by M. Lyle Spencer. Watermark portrait of Goudy on the front and rear flyleaves. One thousand copies handset and printed by Howard Coggeshall at his press in Utica. Very slight remnant of label removal from inside front cover, else fine. $ [GREENWOOD PRESS]. Ponge, Francis. From Notes for a Shell / Notes pour un coquillage Dix poèmes by Francis Ponge & Published by the Greenwood Press, with ten etchings by Elizabeth Quandt. Translation by Serge Gavrousky. Broadside. 10 x 12 ¾ inches. One of 30 copies, printed 28 October 1983 on Arches paper. Minor handling wear and soft creasing to extremities. No copies in OCLC. $ [HOGARTH PRESS]. Ainslie, Douglas. Chosen Poems. With a Preface by G.K. Chesterton. London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, First edition. 167, [1] pp. Original marbled boards, printed paper label on spine. Spine slightly faded and bumped at head and tail. Typed author s compliments slip laid in. Woolmer 83. $150

9 28. [HOURS PRESS]. Aldington, Richard. Last Straws. Paris: Hours Press, First edition. 61 pp. One of 700 copies, this copy unnumbered. Original marbled boards, printed labels on front board and spine. Spine label rubbed, head and tail of spine a bit chipped, some browning to endpapers. $ JEFFERIES, Richard. After London; or, Wild England. In Two Parts. Part 1. The Relapse into Barbarism. Part II. Wild England. London: Cassell and Company, First edition. 442, [10] pp. Original brown publisher s cloth, lettered and ruled in black, gilt, and blind. Spine gilt rubbed, some edgewear. An early post-apocalyptic novel, the book describes the ecological repercussions of an unspecified catastrophe. Jefferies was one of the great nature writers of his day, and his The Story of My Heart (1883) is a classic of spiritual examination and introspection. $ JONES, David. The Fatigue. Spoken by the Author. n.p.: Typescript. [12] legal leaves, printed on rectos only, pressure-bound in upper left corner. Typescript for a radio program, produced by Douglas Cleverdon, recorded March 10th, The title leaf is followed by a brief introduction by Jones wherein he describes the three sections of the poem. The text was published by Rampant Lions Press in 1965 for Jones seventieth birthday. An OCLC record exists for a sound recording dated October 15, 1964; there is no record for this typescript. $750

10 31. JONG, Erica. Fear of Flying. Promotional Packet for the Signet/New American Library Paperback Edition. New York: New American Library, Glossy folder with Erica Jong sticker on front cover. Minor browning to folder, a few acidic sheets within. Contains the following materials: stapled pamphlet, Free Preview Chapter of Fear of Flying, signed by Jong on the front cover; glossy 5x7 photograph of the author; two-page biography of Jong, typed on NAL letterhead; seven-page collection of reviews, typed on NAL letterhead; copies of reviews from New York magazine, the New York Post, the Voice Literary Supplement (by Molly Haskell), and the New Yorker (by John Updike). An interesting contemporary collection of materials related to Jong s classic first novel, which has sold over 20 million copies. $ KAUFMAN, Bob. Abomunist Manifesto. San Francisco: City Lights Books, First edition. Single sheet, folded into sixths, with front cover serving as title-page. Small old mark on upper corner of front cover, else about fine. The first book by the enigmatic African-American Beat affiliate, published September 1959 in an edition of 1000 copies, predating his second publication Second April by one month, according to Cook. Cook 17. $ KWAN, Moon. A Chinese Mirror: Poems and Plays. Introduction by Manly Hall. Los Angeles: The Phoenix Press, First edition. 68, [1] pp. Tan cloth spine over paper boards, lettered in red on the front board and spine. Minor toning to board edges, slight foxing to cloth. Interior clean and tight. Uncommon collection of poems and two short plays, to which George Sterling wrote the introduction (Mattila B77). $ MATHEWS, Harry. The Human Country: New and Collected Stories. Normal: Dalkey Archive Press, First edition. 186 pp. Original glossy perfect-bound printed wrappers. Fine copy. A major collection by the oracular master. Signed on the half-title. $ MATSON, Clive. Mainline to the Heart. Kerhonkson, NY: Poets Press, First edition, hardcover issue. String-sewn and bound into full red cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board. Introduction by John Wieners. Drawings by Erin Matson. Minor darkening to the spine, else fine. Matson s first book. According to Peter Howard s penciled notes within, only twenty copies were thusly bound. $500

11 36. MAZER, Ben. White Cities. Cambridge: Barbara Matteau Editions, First edition. 53 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Fine copy of the poet s first book, signed on the half-title. $75 MICHAEL MCCLURE TYPESCRIPTS The following photo-mechanically reproduced typescripts were owned by Dr. William King ( ), playwright, painter, set designer, director and theatre historian. King wrote the entry on Michael McClure in The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America (Gale Research: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 16, 1983). 37. MCCLURE, Michael. The Beard. [n.p.]: Michael McClure, Photomechanically reproduced typescript. [4], 1-80 pp. Printed on rectos only, stapled in upper left corner, dated Notes and corrections throughout, notes and drawing on title-page (all in reproduction). A screenplay of McClure s notorious play. In a brief introduction on p. [4] McClure writes, The filmscript is a translation of the play (particularly in opening shots) into a comicbook-like heroism of person. Underground film style had been utilized in the inclusion and insertion of shots relating emotionally and intuitively to the drama. (Apples, rats, lions, children, etc.) Camera instructions and other film-specific directions throughout differentiate this text from that of the play. One copy found in the McClure papers at the Bancroft Library. $ MCCLURE, Michael. The Derby. [n.p.]: Michael McClure, [n.d., c. 1974]. Photo-mechanically reproduced typescript. 131 pp. Loose-leaf 8 ½ x 11 inch sheets, printed on both recto and verso, three-hole punch at left edge. Stamp of Sterling Lord Agency, New York, on title-sheet (in reproduction). Notes and corrections throughout (in reproduction), some highlighting, presumably by Dr. King. According to the catalog record at UNC-Chapel Hill, written for production at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco in OCLC locates six copies in varying forms. $ MCCLURE, Michael. Minnie Mouse and the Tap-Dancing Buddha. [n.p.]: Michael McClure, [n.d., c. 1975]. Photo-mechanically reproduced typescript. 51 pp. Loose-leaf 8 ½ x 11 inch sheets, printed on both recto and verso, three-hole punch at left edge. Some highlighting, presumably by Dr. King, but no major notes or corrections. A version of this play was self-published in an edition of twenty copies by McClure in 1975 along with The Pink Helmet in Two Plays. [together with:] Another copy. This copy printed on rectos only, loose-leaf sheets, with different title-page ( Buddah for Buddha, hand-corrected), inscribed This copy for Bill King / Michael along with a drawing of a mouse. Extensive notes and corrections throughout, and in addition to the 51 pages as in the previous copy, this contains extra pages inserted: 6A, 14A, 17A, 20A, 22A, new page 26, 26A, new page 28, 28A, new page 30, mid-page 35 [two pages], 40A, new page

12 45, 45A, new page 46, 46A, 49A, 49B. Extra pages are typed in a different font. $ MCCLURE, Michael, and James Douglas Morrison. Saint Nicholas. Film Treatment based on The Adept by Michael McClure. [Los Angeles: Kwik Script Service, n.d., c. 1971]. Photo-mechanically reproduced typescript. 74 pp. Printed on rectos only, stapled in upper left corner. [together with:] St. Nicholas. An approach for a film by Michael McClure and Jim Morrison, based on The Adept, a novel by Michael McClure. Photo-mechanically reproduced typescript. 12 pp. Printed on rectos only, stapled in upper left corner. A legendary rarity, McClure and Morrison s unpublished collaboration. The twelve-page approach lays out the plot and background ideas of the story: We want to make a film about modern American reality. We re trying to get a film going. And the film will be for everyone. And it will enrich and enlighten the human being because it is about today. The film will be about objects and about places, people and faces, airports, deserts, dust, dope, death, vision. OCLC locates one copy of the script only, not the Approach, at the Bancroft. $ MERRILL, James. Undergraduate Comment. In Amherst Graduates Quarterly, Vol. XXXIII, no. 2, February 1944, Perfect-bound printed wrappers. An early Merrill appearance, writing about campus life at Amherst circa Minor surface wear, near fine. Hagstrom and Morgan C36. $ MERRILL, James. Eight Bits. Key West: no publisher, First edition, one of one hundred copies printed (none of which were for sale). Single sheet, folded and laid into an unprinted green wrapper. Old stain ring and stain damage to upper edge of each leaf, a good copy of a rare item. Inscribed by Merrill on the title-page with love. Hagstrom and Morgan A64. $750

13 43. MEYERSTEIN, E[dward] H[arry] W[illiam]. A Letter to a Naturalist. Maidstone (Kent): no publisher, Single sheet broadside, printed in two columns. One of fifty numbered copies printed, reprinted from the Kent Messenger, March 23rd, Single old fold line, overall near fine. Inscribed by the author in his miniscule hand at the top left corner, dated Easter $ MYLES, Eileen. Chelsea Girls. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, First edition. 276 pp. Blue cloth backstrip over printed paper boards, printed spine label, publisher s acetate jacket, as issued. One of one hundred numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine copy. 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 present about sexual violence, class, hook-up culture and a past from which those narratives were often secret or hidden. A landmark publication. $ NOYES, Alfred. The Loom of Years. London: Grant Richards, First edition. 115 pp. Quarter parchment over gray paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. Minor cover wear and rubbing to corners, endpapers browned. Noyes first book (with a triolet!). $ PLATH, Sylvia. Million Dollar Month. Surrey: The Sceptre Press, [12] pp. Stapled printed wrappers. One of 150 numbered copies. Fine copy. A poem written by Plath in the early 1950s, when she was a student at Smith College. $ [POUND, Ezra]. Banerjee, R.D.K. Formality and Intimacy in the Cantos of Ezra Pound. Hyderabad, Side-stapled wrappers. Off-print, vol. II, no. 2, American Studies Research Centre, Hyderabad, India. Inscribed by the author to modernist critic Harry Levin on the front cover. Minor rust stains from staples. OCLC locates one copy, at the Beinecke. $75

14 48. ROSENBERG, Isaac. Youth. London: I. Narodiczky, Printer, First edition, one of about 100 copies printed. Printed wrappers, single stapled. [18] pp. The second book, selfpublished and barely financed, by the great war poet. Some old staining to lower edge, rubbed at spine, tiny chip missing from top edge of cover. Still, a very good copy of a fragile and scarce survival. Rosenberg published Youth in the spring of 1915; driven by poverty, unemployment, and a lack of recognition for his work, he enlisted in October 1915 and was killed near Arras on April 1, In The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell considered Rosenberg s Break of Day in the Trenches and Dead Man s Dump to be the greatest poems of the war. $ RYAN, Kay. Erratic Facts. New York: Grove Press, First edition. 64 pp. Yellow paper boards over blue cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Head and tail of spine a bit bumped, slight edgewear to jacket. Kay Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her new and selected poems The Best of It, and in September 2011 was named a MacArthur Fellow. Signed on the title-page. $ SAUNDERS, George. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. Stories and a Novella. New York: Random House, First edition. 179 pp. Copper paper boards over navy cloth backstrip, spine lettered in copper, with the dust jacket. Unobtrusive crease to lower edge of front jacket panel, else a fine copy. The first book by one of contemporary literature s brightest lights. Briefly inscribed by Saunders on the titlepage. $ SCHUBERT, David. Initial A. New York: Macmillan, First edition. Publisher s 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 slight chipping at the head of the spine, small nick to the center of the spine panel, front corner flaps clipped with new price printed. Issued simultaneously in hardcover and wrappers, both are scarce, particularly the boards issue. $450

15 52. SNYDER, Gary. Riprap. Ashland: Origin Press, First edition. [17] leaves, bound double-folded and sewn Japanese-style. Patterned paste-paper wrappers, printed cover label. Some fading and occasional mild wear along the extremities, with a few small nicks to the edges of the title label. This copy belonged to Japanese-American painter Matsumi Kanemitsu, with his ink address stamp to the copyright page and a concluding leaf. Kanemitsu s cover art graced Charles Olson s Projective Verse, published by Totem Press the same year. Snyder s landmark first book, published in an edition of 500 copies, designed and edited by Cid Corman, subsidized and distributed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights. McNeil A1. $ [EDWARD W. TITUS, AT THE SIGN OF THE BLACK MANIKIN]. Saine, Uc. Homer Rignaut, trans. The Legend of Ermengarde. Paris: Edward W. Titus, Original wrappers with printed dust jacket overlaid and folded, as issued. One of 250 numbered copies (of a total edition of 270 copies) on Montial Gris Rose handmoulded paper. Some browning to wrapper with an old stain mark on the rear cover and a bit of edgewear. Top edge uncut. Purportedly a translation from the Provençal; see Ford, Published in Paris, p. 144, who noted its weak verse and strong ribaldry. $100

16 54. VERLAINE, Paul. Parallèlement. Paris: Léon Vanier, First edition. 116 pp. Full brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt, original wrappers not retained. Spine darkened, some old staining to boards. Slightly overopened in spots, but firm and tight overall. The poem Chasteté bound into some copies after the contents is not present here. Verlaine s last major collection, gathering older and more recent work, representing his struggles both religious and erotic, including the lesbian sonnets Les Amies, originally published under a pseudonym in $ [WILLIAMS, William Carlos]. William Carlos Williams and the American Scene, Whitney Museum of American Art, December 12, February 4, Poems by William Carlos Williams selected by Dickran Tashjian [cover title]. [New York]: [Whitney Museum of American Art], Stapled wrappers. [11] pp. A brief selection of poems to accompany the landmark exhibition, likely a handout to visitors. OCLC locates five copies. Laid in are the original folded exhibition brochure and a single-sheet Guide to New York City Murals, prepared in conjunction with the exhibition. $ ZÜRN, Unica. Hexentexte. Zehn Zeichnungen und Zehn Anagramm-Texte. Mit Einem Nachwort von Hans Bellmer. Berlin: Galerie Springer, [1954]. First edition. One of one hundred numbered copies, of a total edition of 140 copies. String-tied black wrappers, printed label on front cover. Slightly musty, else a fine copy. The extremely rare first book by this noted Surrealist writer and artist. Unica Zürn ( ) is best known for her novels and drawings, and is inevitably associated with her partner Hans Bellmer, with whom she lived a life of poverty, mental torment, and amour fou, intertwining artistic creation and a role as artistic subject, as Bellmer used her as a living model progressing from his doll images. Zürn endured schizophrenic episodes, long spells in mental hospitals, and finally

17 commited suicide by throwing herself from her sixth-floor window in Paris in After their meeting in 1953, Bellmer suggested she experiment with automatic drawings and anagrams. In 1954, she published this small, mysterious book of Witches Writings reproducing ten drawings and anagrams, with a short postscript on anagrams by Bellmer. The work harks to the Surrealists and outsider art, but also forward to concrete poetry and the Oulipo in its restrictive use of language and words. WorldCat locates only two copies, at the Beinecke and Winona State (Dorothea Tanning s copy), and only three copies are located in European libraries (Pompidou, Deutsche Literaturarchiv Marbach, Universität zu Köln). A rare and beautiful work. $2500