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X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (Anthology) PORTER, Kenneth W., Kenneth Patchen, and others. Poems for a Dime [Number Three]: A Christmas Carol by Kenneth W. Porter. (Boston: John Wheelwright / Printed in the U. S. A. on the private press of a friend of the Socialist Party Sherry Mangan 1934). First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. 16mo. (20)pp. A light vertical tan mark on the front wrap, else near fine. Signed by Porter on the front wrap. A brief anthology of poems including three by Kenneth Patchen, preceding his first book. One number of a short-lived periodical that published just six issues. Very scarce. #93413... $175 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth. First Will & Testament. Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions (1939). First edition. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. One of 800 copies of the first edition. #107653... $100 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X PATCHEN, Kenneth. First Will & Testament. (New York: Padell 1948). Second edition and first edition thus, adding a new poem and a photograph of the author, the true first edition was published by New Directions in 1939. Slight offsetting to a terminal blank, else fine in nice, near fine dustwrapper with a little age-toning. Nicely Inscribed by the author to a close friend, with a poem and utilizing most of the front fly. A very attractive copy. #107654... $450

PATCHEN, Kenneth. First Will & Testament. (New York): Padell (1948). Second edition and first edition thus, adding a new poem and a photograph of the author. The true first edition was published by New Directions in 1939. Very fine in very fine dustwrapper. A superb copy. #747... $150 $105 (Anthology) Experimental Review. Number Three. September 1941. Woodstock, New York: Experimental Review 1941. Orange glazed wrappers. Slight flaking at the extremities, else a nice near fine copy of this short-lived and (as the title implies) experimental magazine with contributions from Kenneth Patchen, Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller, and three early appearances by the 21-year old Robert Duncan, who was living on a commune in Woodstock at the time of publication. Bertholf C22-24. #107511... $125 ANDERSON, Sherwood and others. Story: The Magazine of the Short Story, September - October 1941. New York: Story Magazine Inc. 1941. Wrappers. Slight rubbing, else an especially fine and fresh issue. The issue is devoted entirely to Sherwood Anderson, and contains a story by him, as well as pieces on Anderson by Waldo Frank, William Saroyan, Harry Hansen, Paul Rosenfeld, Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen, Marsden Hartley. James Boyd, Gertrude Stein, Thomas Wolfe, Ben Hecht, and others. #57810... $60

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth. The Journal of Albion Moonlight. (New York: Kenneth Patchen 1941). First edition, limited issue. Quarter red cloth and marbled papercovered boards. Fine in a lightly rubbed, else fine cardboard slipcase with printed spine label. Prospectus for the edition laid in, with statements by Patchen and Henry Miller, stating that: "The printing of this book was made possible by fifty people who paid ten dollars in advance for a copy of the signed, numbered, deluxe edition. Among these subscribers were Van Wyck Brooks, Maxwell Perkins, E.E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Stephen Vincent Benet, Paul Rosenfeld, John Peale Bishop, Waldo Frank, William Lescaze, Peter Monro Jack, John Slocum, James Laughlin, Louis Untermeyer, Julien Levy, and Sinclair Lewis." This is copy number 50 of the 50 subscribers' copies Signed by the author. A very uncommon issue sold by Patchen personally from his home. #107619...... $2,250 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Painted Patchen PATCHEN, Kenneth. The Dark Kingdom. New York: Harriss & Givens (1942). First edition. Stiff wrappers. Some offsetting to the wrappers from the nowlacking unprinted glassine dustwrapper, a fresh, very good copy in a lightly rubbed, near fine slipcase. One of 75 numbered copies Signed by the author, and with the front wrapper bearing a painting of an angel by Patchen. #278202... $3,000 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X PATCHEN, Kenneth. The Dark Kingdom. New York: Harriss & Givens (1942). First edition. Small owner label, several clippings affixed to rear blank leaves, and some offsetting to the first blank leaf, else a near fine copy in a slightly spine-tanned, very good plus dustwrapper. One of 775 copies. Very nicely Inscribed by the author: "for my friend Arthur at the beginning of the year 1943. Kenneth January first." Laid in is a prospectus for the book; a piece of scrap paper where Patchen has listed the titles of all his poems that appear in New Directions in Prose and Poetry with the publication date; and two copies one a ribbon copy, the other a carbon, of the review of this book by Kenneth Slade Alling, that appeared in Voices, A Quarterly of Poetry. #76902... $550

PATCHEN, Kenneth. The Teeth of the Lion. New York: New Directions (1942). First edition, hardcover issue. Poet of the Month series. Owner's label, clipping, and small picture of Patchen affixed to the front fly, else near fine in near very good dustwrapper that is splitting along the spine. Patchen has Inscribed the book on the pastedown to a close friend with a long poem, and noting that the first two lines of the poem appear nowhere else. The hardcover issue is uncommon, especially inscribed. #109916... $750 PATCHEN, Kenneth. The Teeth of the Lion. New York: New Directions (1942). First edition. Simultaneous wrappered issue in the Poet of the Month series. Stiff wrappers in dustwrapper. Very fine. Relatively common book in great condition. #738... $100 $70 PATCHEN, Kenneth. Cloth of the Tempest. New York: Harper and Brothers (1943). First edition. Bottom corners a bit bumped and slight offsetting to the half-title and facing page from a clipping, else near fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with some modest tanning, mostly on the spine. #107650...... $250

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X CHUMBLY, Harold A. It May Be Poetry. (No place - New York?): The Author 1943. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Owner label front fly, the text has pulled away from the wrappers, thus good only. Nicely Inscribed by the author. The book is accompanied by three manuscript poems by Chumbly: 1] a small, unsigned poem about Kenneth Patchen affixed to the inside of the front cover, 2] an approximately 15-line poem in pencil, signed by Chumly celebrating Patchen's Journal of Albion Moonlight, written on the verso of a 1945 memo about The National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practice Commission, on which Kenneth Patchen has made some notes - mostly addresses and phone numbers, and 3] a 12-line poem in ink entitled "Kitty", signed and dated by the poet in 1944. On the verso appears more notes by Kenneth Patchen, again names and addresses. The recipient of the book was a close friend of Patchen's and one imagines the recipient may have introduced the two poets. A scarce volume of pre-beat poetry, the author's first. OCLC locates only five copies. #88186...... $750 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X PATCHEN, Kenneth. Autograph Postcard Signed ("Kenneth"). Photo postcard of the Ralph Waldo Emerson home in Concord. Postmarked 5 May 1944. Slight offsetting on the message portion, else near fine. A chatty card from Patchen to a New Jersey friend mostly complaining about the heat in Concord, the likelihood he would be there for a month, and his thwarted intentions: "I came up to (among other things) drive the car: so the car broke down." #90473... $275

The Rarest Patchen? PATCHEN, Kenneth. An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air. Waldport, Oregon: Untide Press 1945. First edition, first impression. Wrappers with applied title piece. Some tape shadows to the wrappers, one staple pulled through, else a very good copy. The first printing of 1800 copies was rendered unfit for release through a printer's error. All were destroyed except for about 70 copies, which were distributed with the second impression, with no known differentiation. Eventually 23 copies of the 70 copies of the first impression came into Patchen's hand, and he created a limited edition of 11 copies, with a hand-lettered limitation page (where Patchen relates this sequence of events). This is copy number 2 of the 11, and is Signed by the author. Additionally Inscribed by the author: "for Arthur, a good human being whose friend I am proud to be. Kenneth. June 21, 1946." Ex-Arthur Sturcke. Beautifully printed small collection of poems printed in a conscientious objectors' camp. Rare. #278268...... $7,500 PATCHEN, Kenneth. An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air. Waldport OR: Untied Press 1945. Second impression (only 23 copies of the first impression survived and were designated as such in a handwritten limitation by the author). One of 1950 copies. Fine in wrappers. Beautifully printed small collection of poems printed in a conscientious objectors' camp. #63994... $150 PATCHEN, Kenneth. The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer. (New York): A New Directions Book (1945). First edition. Near fine with owner's name on front fly in very good minus dustwrapper with some loss to the spine ends, short tears on edges #292595... $80

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth. Outlaw of the Lowest Planet. London: Grey Walls Press (1946). First edition. Selected and introduced by David Gascoyne. Preface by Alex Comfort. A small owner's label on the front fly, and some offsetting on the rear endpapers, else near fine in a modestly age-toned, near fine dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by Patchen to a close friend on his birthday in 1946. This title was only published in an English edition. #107656... $500 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth. Outlaw of the Lowest Planet. London: Grey Walls (1946). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Selected and introduced by David Gascoyne. Preface by Alex Comfort. This title was only published in an English edition. #278201...... $100 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth. Pictures of Life and Death. (New York: Padell 1946). First edition. Stiff wrappers in dustwrapper. Tape shadows on the first and last printed page from a jacket protector, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "for Arthur in hope that 1947 will be a 'good year' for his painting - as I know that all years are 'good' for those who are privileged to be his friend through them - Kenneth. February 1, 1947." #278266... $400

PATCHEN, Kenneth. Pictures of Life and Death. (NY: Padell 1946). First edition. Stiff wrappers in dustwrapper. As new. Superb copy. #748... $150 PATCHEN, Kenneth. Pictures of Life and Death. (New York: Padell 1946). First edition. Stiff wrappers in dustwrapper. Fine in edgeworn and rubbed, near very good dustwrapper. #96707... $25 Poetry Quarterly Spring 1946. London: The Grey Walls Press 1946. Wrappers. Slightly soiled, else near fine. This issue introduces Kenneth Patchen and David Gascoyne. #278684... $20

X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX An Unrecorded Variant? PATCHEN, Kenneth. Sleepers Awake. (New York: Padell / Kenneth Patchen 1946). First edition, black paper edition. A few small tape shadows on the boards from an old glassine protector, else near fine in white buckram without dustwrapper. Numbered and Signed by Patchen on a black label at the rear, as one of 148 copies of the "black label edition." 75 of the copies of this edition were bound in white buckram, with an original painting by the author tipped on to the front board. The additional 73 undecorated copies of the edition were bound in red buckram. This copy is a variant issue, although bound in white buckram, there is no evidence that it ever bore a painting. This is copy number 4. An attractive copy of a rare, if bibliographically confusing issue. Morgan A11a (an apparently unrecorded variant). #107608... $1,250 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth. Sleepers Awake. (New York): (Padell) (1946). First edition. Fine in dustwrapper with tanning to the white portions of the spine, but which is otherwise near fine. An attractive copy. #87393... $225 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X PATCHEN, Kenneth. They Keep Riding Down All the Time. (New York): (Padell) (1946). First edition. Fine in stiff wrappers in fine dustwrapper. An immaculate, as new copy. A fragile, short prose work. #869... $150 $105

ODETS, Clifford. Two Autograph Letters Signed to Kenneth Patchen. Two letters, the first is a three page (three sides of two quarto sheets) Autograph Letter Signed ("Clifford Odets"), dated 1 November 1946. By turns Odets deals with particulars and waxes philosophical: "Dear Patchen I'm glad you like the wallet, but don't put your soul in it, only trash & trifles." Later: "What do we want in this century? Connection with others is first, I think, and perhaps second is as near as possible the ideal sense of ourselves. Men, you know, commit suicide because that is the only way they can live!" Dealing with the loan of art works for Patchen's new home: "Rouault? I thought you might say Klee or Picasso. Of Rouault I will send you around Xmas... for a gift a framed etching of his from the Pere Ubu album... or a colored etching from his Circus plates. Of Klee you might have borrowed one of his watercolors. No worry for you they are insured... on my lousy grave they will write: 'Died of Insurance!'" Odets goes on to discuss the influence of his parents: "In me my father & dead mother fight for dominance, my father full of bourgeois cautions & forms, my mother shapeless, feelingful, generous & open. I muse upon who will win & I am sometimes exhausted by the struggle. I pray for mother! Again, adios, old creature, you have yourself undivided, & that is more than I can say for myself." Staple holes in the upper corner, cover sheet of the envelope tipped to the last page affecting no text, near fine. The second letter is a two page (both sides of a single quarto leaf) Autograph Letter Signed ("Odets"), dated 10 December 1946 on Loew's Studio letterhead: "I have sent you (two days ago) by parcel post, a framed Rouault etching, which I hope you'll enjoy. Noel, Noel what trash!" He goes on to mention: "Did I tell you that I recently acquired ten pages of the most important Walt Whitman manuscript extant?" He offers to send more art on loan, however he warns Patchen: "But if you write again like a querulous old lady, full of cautions, fears & perhapses, then I won't." Stapled in corner, folded as mailed, address portion of envelope (torn and repaired) accompanies the letter. Two content-full letters between important mid-century American authors. #275860...... $3,500

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth. See You in the Morning. New York: Padell (1947). First issue. Fine plus in fine dustwrapper with a little soiling and one internal brown paper repair. A lovely copy. #746...... $175 $122.50 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth. What Is the Beautiful?. Rosemont PA: The Ahab Press 1947. First separate edition, reprinted from Cloth of the Tempest. Small octavo. One page folded to make four. Fine in original unprinted mailing envelope, which has a little offsetting at the edges. Very scarce. #76714... $300 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X PATCHEN, Kenneth. CCCLXXIV Poems. (New York: Padell 1948). First edition, limited issue. A book bound up from the sheets of three other books published by Padell. The Morgan bibliography calls for a black linen binding, this is a possible variant, in gray linen binding. Modest offsetting to a blank page at the rear from a clipping, else fine in a lightly edgeworn, near fine blue buckram dustwrapper custom-made by the author's wife, with an applied paper label, and titled in hand by Patchen on the spine. Tipped-in label designating this as copy #41 of 126 numbered copies Signed by the author. A very uncommon issue sold by Patchen personally from his home. #107615... $1000

PATCHEN, Kenneth. Cloth of the Tempest. (New York: Padell 1948). Second edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of internal repairs on the rear panel, with a little bleedthrough from the tape used. Warm, nearly full-page "painted" Inscription in several colors by the author on the half-title, dated in the year of publication, and referring to his poem "Mohammed" on page 19. #79794... $750 (PATCHEN, Kenneth) EATON, Gail. Kenneth Patchen: A First Bibliography. Denver: Compliments of Alan Swallow, Publisher 1948. First edition. 12mo. One leaf folded to make four pages. Date inked onto the first page, else fine. A scarce and ephemeral little pamphlet listing Patchen's publications up until that time. OCLC locates no copies. #110214...... $100 PATCHEN, Kenneth. The Dark Kingdom. New York: (The Author / Harriss & Givens) (1948). Second edition. Slight offsetting to one terminal blank from a clipping, still fine in age-toned fine dustwrapper. One of 775 copies. Very nicely Inscribed by the author with a poem to a close friend, using most of the first blank leaf. #107655... $450

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X PATCHEN, Kenneth. To Say if You Love Someone. Prairie City, Illinois: Decker Press (1948). First edition, first issue in off-yellow cloth with black lettering ruled in purple on the front board, in blue dustwrapper lettered in gold and black (not mentioned in the Morgan bibliography), with the first issue price and "Duke University" on the front flap. Very fine in very fine dustwrapper, an immaculate copy. According to Morgan, Decker printed a total of about 200 copies of this title, about 20 of these were the first issue. After Patchen had received a couple of copies, Decker mysteriously disappeared, his car found abandoned. His disappearance was never solved. Several years later Patchen was offered the remaining copies by the state comptroller, which he paid for and received. Morgan notes a first issue pink and purple dustwrapper with red and blue lettering, and a later issue green dustwrapper with black lettering. This is considered the rarest issue of any Patchen book. We have heard of only one other copy of the first issue offered for sale in recent years. Morgan A17a. #751... $3,500 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X PATCHEN, Kenneth. To Say if You Love Someone. Prairie City, Illinois: Decker Press (1948). First edition, "later state gift edition." Boards in a purple and pink floral dust jacket with red and blue lettering, and a $2 "Gift Edition" price. The jacket has been neatly affixed to the boards, and appears as if it might have been issued that way. A near fine copy. One of about 200 copies issued of this title, in various issues and states. After Patchen had received a couple of copies, Decker mysteriously disappeared, his car found abandoned. His disappearance was never solved. Several years later Patchen was offered the remaining copies by the state comptroller, which he paid for and received. Morgan notes this pink and purple dustwrapper with red and blue lettering. #107625... $1000 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X PATCHEN, Kenneth. Red Wine and Yellow Hair. New York: New Directions 1949. First edition. Offseting to the endpapers and flaps from a pamphlet laid in, else about fine in a modestly soiled, near fine dustwrapper. A checklist of Patchen's books laid in. Inscribed by Patchen to a close friend in the year of publication, with a painting of a purple tree. #76901...... $750

PATCHEN, Kenneth. Red Wine and Yellow Hair. New York: New Directions (1949). First edition. Very fine in like dustwrapper, a superb copy of this collection of poetry. #752... $275 PATCHEN, Kenneth. Red Wine and Yellow Hair. New York: New Directions 1949. First edition. Extremities a little bumped, near fine in a lightly age-toned, very good dustwrapper with a shallow chip at the crown, and some small tears. #273663... $85 PATCHEN, Kenneth. See You in the Morning. (London): Grey Walls Press (1949). First English edition. Fine in very good or better dustwrapper with some offsetting on the rear panel and rear endpapers. #108253... $85 PATCHEN, Kenneth. Arrivederci a domani. Un romanzo di amore e di fede Prima edizione italiana [See You in the Morning]. Torino: Einaudi 1950. First Italian edition. Cloth with thick card wrappers with an illustration by Patchen. Faint tape shadows on the boards from an old mylar protector, else near fine. Scarce. #110213...... $100

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ROSENBERGER, Francis Coleman edited by. American Sampler A Selection of New Poetry. Iowa City, Iowa: The Prairie Press (1951). First edition. Very good in a very good dustwrapper. Includes work by Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Mark Van Doren, Genevieve Taggard, Langston Hughes, Theodore Spencer, Kenneth Patchen, Richard Wilbur, others. #302044... $40 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X EMERSON, Richard Wirtz and Frederick Eckman, edited by (William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, and Kenneth Patchen). Golden Goose Series Three No. 2. Columbus, Ohio: Golden Goose Press 1951. First edition. Octavo. Fresh and bright in illustrated wrappers except for light fold that extends from front to rear wrap near fine. Poetry magazine that includes an eight-page transcript from a radio program with an interview discussion with William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, Kenneth Patchen, Henry Rago and Leslie Woolf Hedley. #324207... $125 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X PATCHEN, Kenneth. Fables and Other Little Tales. Karlsruhe / Baden: Jonathan Williams 1953. First edition. Self-wrappers as issued. Offsetting to front fly from clipping, chip at the crown (present, but detached), else very good. One of 450 copies. Issued as Jargon 6. #109095... $85

PATCHEN, Kenneth. The Famous Boating Party. New York: New Directions (1954). First edition. Very fine in very fine dustwrapper. A spectacular copy. #755... $250 PATCHEN, Kenneth and Frank Bacher. A Surprise for the Bagpipe Player to Miriam Being a Collection of 18 Poems with decorations and drawings reproduced through Silk Screening from the original MS. pages of Kenneth Patchen. (No place: Privately Printed) 1955. First edition. Folio. Silk screened portfolio with decoration by Patchen. Laid in are eighteen silk screened broadside poems reproducing Patchen's decorated manuscript copies. Additionally this set has a presentation Inscription from Patchen dated in 1956 on a smaller slip of Japanese paper. Light wear to the edges of the portfolio, creases to the edges of a few of the broadsides, near fine. Most of the broadsides have small labels on the verso stating that these broadsides were produced in editions of 200 copies each, but reportedly fewer sets were compiled due to loss in the printing process. Patchen, working at his home with printer Frank Bacher, hand-prepared the edition in the summer of 1955. Complete sets are exceptionally uncommon. #92471... $6,000

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth and Frank Bacher. Glory Never Guesses to Miriam Being a Collection of 18 Poems with decorations and drawings reproduced through Silk Screening from the original MS. pages of Kenneth Patchen. [cover title]: Glory Never Guesses & Other Pages. (No place: Privately Printed) 1955. First edition. Folio. Silk screened portfolio with decoration by Patchen. Laid in are eighteen silk screened broadside poems reproducing Patchen's decorated manuscript copies. A little sunning along the spine of the portfolio, creases to the edges of a few of the broadsides, near fine. Most of the broadsides have small labels on the verso stating that these broadsides were produced in editions of 200 copies each, but reportedly fewer sets were compiled due to loss in the printing process. Patchen, working at his home with printer Frank Bacher, hand-prepared the edition in the summer of 1955. Complete sets are exceptionally uncommon. #92467... $5,000 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX BEYE, Holly. XVI Poems: A Sampler. San Francisco: the Print Workshop 1955. First edition. Fine in stiff wrappers and fine dustwrapper. Blurbs by Kenneth Patchen and Kenneth Rexroth. Inscribed by the author: "To my dear, dear friend and mentor With love! Holly Beye. 11/23/87." #88357... $65 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth. Hurrah for Anything: Poems and Drawings. Highlands, North Carolina: Jonathan Williams 1957. First edition. Fine in stiff wrappers with affixed dustwrapper as issued. Issued as Jargon 21. Signed by the publisher. #312091... $85

PATCHEN, Kenneth. When We Were Here Together. (Norfolk CT): New Directions (1957). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A superb copy of this volume of poetry. #46043... $150 $105 GOLL, Yvan. Jean Sans Terre. London: Thomas Yosseloff (1958). First English edition, from American sheets. Preface by W.H. Auden. Drawings by Eugene Berman, Marc Chagall, and Salvardor Dali. Critical Notes by Louise Bogan, Clark Mills, Jules Romains, and Allen Tate. Translations by Bogan, Babette Deutsch, Galway KInnell, W.S. Merwin, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams and others. Preface by W.H. Auden. Drawings by Eugene Berman, Marc Chagall, and Salvardor Dali. Critical Notes by Louise Bogan, Clark Mills, Jules Romains, and Allen Tate.Translations by Bogan, Babette Deutsch, Galway Kinnell, W.S. Merwin, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams and others. Offsetting to facing blank pages, thus near fine in fine dustwrapper. #109294... $75 A Painted Patchen PATCHEN, Kenneth. Poem-Scapes. Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams 1958. First edition. Octavo. Ruth Witt-Diamant's copy, with her ownership signature on the front free endpaper. Fine. One of 75 numbered copies "prepared & painted" by Patchen, with his painted Signature and limitation on the rear endpapers. Patchen's paintings depict a bearded man with a dog or a wolf on the front board, and a man dancing beneath the moon on the rear board. Nicer images than usual for a "Painted Patchen." Jargon 11. #89794...... $4,000

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth. Poemscapes. Highlands, North Carolina: Jonathan Williams 1958. First edition. Selfwrappers over cardboard as issued. Fine. Signed by publisher Jonathan Williams. Issued as Jargon 11. A lovely copy. #309116... $100 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth. Poemscapes. Highlands, North Carolina: Jonathan Williams 1958. First edition. Selfwrappers over cardboard as issued. Near fine with some soiling to the wrappers. Issued as Jargon 11. #279739... $75 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth. A Poem for Xmas [Christmas]. [No place: The Author 1960]. First edition. Handset and printed by John H. Thomas. One leaf folded to make four pages. Tiny tear, else about fine. Laid in is a slip signed in red marker: "Season's Greetings, Miriam & Kenneth Patchen," presumably in Miriam's hand. A single poem, "To Give Us Each a Love," issued as a holiday greeting. Scarce. #110216... $125 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X PATCHEN, Kenneth. Because It Is: Poems and Drawings by Kenneth Patchen. (New York: New Directions Books 1960). First edition. Near fine, lightly soiled in wrappers. #105805... $22

PATCHEN, Kenneth. The Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen. San Francisco: City Lights Books (1960). First edition. Red boards stamped in blue. Fine. One of 300 hardcover copies, issued without dustwrapper. A very uncommon issue. #104301...... $750 HANNA, Charles Shahoud. Damascus Road #1. (Allentown, PA: Damascus Road 1961). First edition. Octavo. 84pp. Near fine with a tear at the foot of the spine, touch of toning and some nicks to the extremities. Contributors include Denise Levertov, Louis Zukofsky, Pablo Neruda, Kenneth Patchen, Allen Ginsberg, Anselm Hollo, and many others. #322948...... $25 (Anthology) LANDESMAN, Jay Irving and Gershon Legman, editors. Neurotica. New York: Hacker Art Books 1963. First edition, the first collected edition of an influential literary periodical, published between 1948 and 1951. Top corners bumped, darkening in the gutters, a very good or better copy in about good dustwrapper that is chipped and faded at the spine. Advance Review Copy, so stamped on the front fly, and additionally Inscribed by editor Landsman to author James Jones and his wife Gloria: "To Jim and Gloria, Hoping this is the most expensive $12.00 work on your shelves still 'love' after all these years 1972(?). Jay." An influential and avantgarde quarterly literary journal, this anthology includes work by Kenneth Patchen, Leonard Bernstein, Henri Michaux, Marc Brandel, and others. #92460... $275

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX The Outsider Vol. 1, No. 3. New Orleans: Loujon Press 1963. First edition. The third issue of this shortlived but influential periodical. Wrappers illustrated with photo of Charles Bukowski. Some modest browning to the page, and a diagonal crease on the front wrap, very good. Contributions by William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Robert Creeley, Jean Genet, Gary Snyder, Kenneth Patchen, and many more. Seemingly the scarcest issue of the magazine. #321204... $350 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX BERNER, Jeff editor. Stolen Paper Review 3. San Francisco: Robert C. Spaan 1965. First edition. Near fine in lightly soiled wrappers. Contributors include George Hitchcock, Paolo Soleri, Michael Cookinham, Kenneth Patchen. #313740... $25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth. Hallelujah Anyway. (New York): A New Directions Book (1966). First edition. Illustrated glossy covers. Fine in fine dustwrapper. #292602... $45 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X PATCHEN, Kenneth. [Broadside]: 1967 Before the Bells of This New Year Ring. (No place): Kenneth Patchen 1967. Broadside. Approximately 9" x 12.5". Folded in quarters. Near fine. From First Will & Testament (revised). Scarce. OCLC locates a single copy, at Yale. #278283... $300

PATCHEN, Kenneth. But Even So. (New York): New Directions (1968). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper except for the date of publication written on front panel and front flap. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. #279741... $75 PATCHEN, Kenneth. But Even So. (New York): New Directions Book (1968). First paperback edition, issued simultaneously with the hardcover. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Advance Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid in. #318777... $25 PATCHEN, Kenneth. Selected Poems. London: Jonathan Cape (1968). First edition (no comparable U.S. edition). Fine in fine dustwrapper (priceclipped, with a publisher's price sticker). #278199...... $50 (PATCHEN, Kenneth, Charles Bukowski and others). The Outsider 4 & 5. Tucson: Loujon Press 1969. First Edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with small chips and a small tape shadow on the rear flap. Complete with all publisher inserts. A nice copy of the final issue of this short lived magazine, a double issue. Includes a 46-page tribute to Kenneth Patchen, with contributions by Bukowski, d. a. levy, Larry Eigner, Allen Ginsberg and many more. #76892...... $250

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth. The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen. (New York): New Directions (1970). Second printing. Wrappers. Near fine. Inscribed by the author: "for Arthur from his long-time and devoted friend, Kenneth. 27 Jan 71." Patchen died less than a year later. #278627... $275 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX PATCHEN, Kenneth). Hallelujah Anyway! A Kenneth Patchen Exhibition. Grand Forks: University of North Dakota at Grand Forks Art Gallery 1974. First edition. Stapled self-wrappers. Modest agetoning and foxing to front wrap, very good or better. #89595... $60 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX DETRO, Gene. Patchen: The Last Interview: Number Forty: Capra Chapbook Series. Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1976. First edition. 12mo. 31pp. Number forty only. Foreword by Miriam Patchen. Afterword by Henry Miller. Fine in card covers. #281966... $50 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X PATCHEN, Kenneth. Patchen's Lost Plays: Don't Look Now and The City Wears a Slouch Hat. Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1977. First paperback edition. Edited by Richard G. Morgan. Fine in wrappers. #76429... $10

SMITH, Larry. Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America. (No Place): Bottom Dog Press 2000. First edition. Illustrated. Minimal wear thus near fine in glossy wrappers. #274327... $195 PATCHEN, Kenneth. The Artist's Duty. (Sacramento, CA: 24th Street Irregular Press 2002). First edition of this miniature chapbook, the approximate dimensions of a matchbook. Wrappers. Fine copy. Poems-For-All No. 127. With sticker laid in. Only one copy listed on OCLC. #96900... $50

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