TRIOLET RARE BOOKS, ABAA P.O. Box 1821 San Luis Obispo, CA 93406-1821 www.trioletrarebooks.com Tel: (302) 345-3397 Email: trioletrarebooks@gmail.com NEW ARRIVALS, MAY 2018 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 digital photographs of any item provided on request. 1. AKHMATOVA, Anna. Northern Elegies. Somerville: Firefly Press, 1985. First edition thus. Bilingual edition, translated by Nicholas Fersen. First edition of these translations. [32] pp. String-sewn printed wrappers. One of 250 copies printed. Some sunning to spine, near fine. An uncommon edition, OCLC locates three copies (West Point, Lilly, Williams). $125 2. BERKSON, Bill. Saturday Night. New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1961. First edition. Berkson s first book, one of 300 copies printed. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. 35 pp. Minor toning to covers and spine, near fine or better. Not to be confused with the more common Sand Dollar reprint of 1975. $250 3. BLY, Robert. Point Reyes Poems. Fairfax, CA: Jungle Garden Press/Floating Island Publications, 1989. First edition thus. First printing of this new edition. Sewn stiff wrapper over plain wrapper, printed cover label. One of 110 copies printed,
signed by Bly. Foreword by Michael Whitt. Fine copy. $150 4. BURROUGHS, William S.; Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, and Sinclair Beiles. Minutes to Go. [n.p.]: Beach Books, 1968. First edition thus, following the Paris edition of 1960. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. 63 pp. This edition has a collage by Claude Pelieu on p. [2] which is not included in the original edition. Slight bump to lower corner, else fine. Maynard & Miles A3b. $125 5. COBBING, Bob. Five Visual Poems. London: Writers Forum (Folder Number Nine), 1971. First edition. Five loose sheets, plus cover sheet, laid into a manila envelope with cover sheet pasted on. Signed by Cobbing on the envelope. Envelope shows minor handling wear, still about fine. Uncommon. $250 6. CORSO, Gregory. Mind Field. Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1989. First edition. Stiff card covers with dust jacket. 56 pp. Some wear to jacket. $50 7. CREELEY, Robert, and Joe Brainard. The Class of 47. New York: Bouwerie Editions, 1973. First edition. [16] pp. Glossy stapled wrappers. Text by Creeley, illustrated by Brainard. One of 100 numbered copies, of a total edition of 200 copies. Slight toning to covers, near fine or better. $125 8. DAVENPORT, Guy. The Lark. New York: Dim Gray Press, 1993. First edition, one of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author. 15 pp. Full gray linen, paper label on spine, with printed dust jacket on handmade Japanese paper. Four fullpage illustrations by Davenport. Extremely minor wear to jacket, near fine or better. A somewhat uncommon Davenport item. Crane A40. $275 9. DAWSON, Fielding. Thread. London: Ferry Press, 1964. First edition, one of 600 copies printed. 20 pp. Stapled wrappers with collage by Dawson on the front cover, blurb by Creeley on the back. A short prose piece. Covers a bit rubbed, creasing at spine. $50 10. DEHARME, Lise. Cahier de Curieuse Personne. Paris: Éditions des Cahiers Libres, 1933. First edition. 98 pp. Printed wrappers. Spine cracked, front cover neatly detached. A fragile production. One of 300 numbered copies, printed on Ingres Rose. Portrait frontispiece of the author by Valentine Hugo. Inscribed by Deharme on the front free endpaper to Rosamond Bernier, the American art critic, pour
Peggy Riley / qui a des yeux comme les étangs dans les forêts / Lise Deharme. (Bernier, born Rosamond Margaret Rosenbaum, divorced Lewis Riley in 1943.) Lise Deharme (1898-1979), the great Surrealist and la dame au gant of Breton s Nadja. This is her third book, a collection of poems. OCLC finds eight copies. $750 11. DE SAINT PHALLE, Niki. Story Book. The Devouring Mothers. London: Gimpel Fils, 1972. First edition. [28] leaves. Stab-stitched with rough cord, stiff board covers. Color reproductions of illustrations with manuscript captions. Boards lightly toned and slightly bowed. Signed on the first sheet by the author. $1250 12. DUNCAN, Robert. The Cat and the Blackbird. San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1967. First edition, one of 500 copies printed. 48 pp. Spiral-bound card stock wrappers. Illustrations throughout by Jess [Collins]. Some mild cover wear, corners slightly bumped. Bertholf A23. Johnston, White Rabbit, A40. $125 13. EIGNER, Larry. Ronald King, ill. Earth Birds. Forty Six Poems Written Between May 1964 and June 1972. Guildford: Circle Press, 1981. First edition. Unprinted wrappers with integral jacket, French flaps. One of 150 copies of the regular edition, illustrated with six plates designed by Ronald King and printed relief in one color. Just about fine. $75 14. FINLAY, Ian Hamilton. Glasgow Beasts, an a Burd: Haw, an Inseks, an, aw, a Fush. London: Fulcrum Press, 1965. Fifth edition. [32] pp. Unprinted stapled wrappers with printed dust jacket. Woodcut illustrations by John Picking and Pete McGinn. A groundbreaking (Oxford DNB) bestiary written in Scottish dialect, with charming illustrations. Fifth edition overall, the first Fulcrum edition, printed offset from the first edition. Some edgewear, especially to top edge of jacket. Murray 3.3. $75 15. FINLAY, Ian Hamilton. The Dancers Inherit the Party. London: Fulcrum Press, 1969. First Fulcrum edition, adding poems not present in the earlier Migrant Press editions. 48 pp. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. The source of much controversy, as Finlay was displeased that Fulcrum presented the book as a first edition despite earlier editions having been published. He sued the publisher and won the case, the financial obligations leading to the dissolution of the press. Jacket a bit rubbed, with some edgewear. Murray 3.2. $100 16. FINLAY, Ian Hamilton, and Gordon Huntly. A Sailor s Calendar. A Miscellany. New York: Something Else Press, 1971. [18] leaves, printed on the recto only, interleaved with tissue. Bound with three metal rings. Some minor cover wear, slight rust marks at rings. Murray 3.40. $250 17. FINLAY, Ian Hamilton. Ian Gardner, drawings. From An Inland Garden. [Dunsyre, Lanark], Scotland: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971. First edition, one of 300 copies numbered and signed by Finlay. [12] pp. Sewn wrappers with heavy card cover, printed dust jacket. Fine copy. Murray 3.43. $150
18. FRANZEN, Jon[athan], and Kathy Siebert. The Fig Connection. Woodstock, IL: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1977. First edition. 48 pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Franzen s first published work, a farce about Isaac Newton and Russian spies, written in collaboration with a classmate at Webster Groves High School. Its sale, for one hundred dollars, encouraged the 17-year-old Franzen to consider a career as a writer. Fine copy. $200 19. FROST, Robert. Dedication. The Gift Outright. Presented on the Steps of the Nation s Capitol in Washington, D.C. as Part of the Inaugural Ceremonies. January the Twentieth 1961. New York: Spiral Press, 1961. First edition thus. Printed paper boards. Boards slightly bowed, some foxing to endpapers. One of five hundred numbered copies printed. Typography by Joseph Blumenthal, presidential eagle seal cut in wood by Fritz Kredel. Contains Frost s Dedication and The Gift Outright, read at John F. Kennedy s inauguration, along with Kennedy s inaugural address. A beautiful and fairly uncommon Frost item. Crane A40. $500 20. GOLDSMITH, Kenneth. Day. Great Barrington: The Figures, 2003. First edition. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. 836 pp. One of 750 copies printed. Goldsmith s notorious appropriation of the New York Times issue of September 1, 2000. Some minor wear to corners. $125 21. GRENIER, Robert. Dusk-Road Games. Cambridge: Pym-Randall Press, 1967. First edition. 72 pp. Full black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. One of 350 copies in boards, of a total edition of 1000, this copy unnumbered. Jacket edges toned, some foxing to fore-edge and top edge. The first book by the noted poet. $250 22. HAY, Auriol. Images. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1920. First edition. 35 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Yapped edges a little rubbed with some creasing. Auriol Camilla Sharlia Blanche Hay (1893-1930) was the descendant of a long line of Scottish nobility. She was known for hosting soirees, dances, readings and parties at her Mayfair home, with her husband Sir James Allan Horne. Their son Alistair became a noted historian. Despite the title the poems do not seem affiliated with the contemporaneous imagist(e) movement. OCLC locates nine copies, with none in America. $250 23. HOLLO, Anselm. Survival Dancing. Boulder: Rodent Press, 1995. First edition. Stapled wrappers with cardstock cover printed letterpress. One of 125 copies thus (of a total edition of 150, of which 25 were hand-sewn, numbered and signed). Fine copy. $75 24. HOWE, Susan. Hinge Picture. New York: Telephone Books, 1974. First edition. One of 300 copies. Side-stapled printed wrappers. The first book by an author the Poetry Foundation has called an idiosyncratic, important, and increasingly influential American poet. Published by Maureen Owen, whom
Howe had met at a workshop at St. Marks. Very slight oxidation to staples and toning to covers, still just about fine. $950 25. JONAS, Stephen. Transmutations. London: The Ferry Press, 1966. First edition. [63] pp. Unprinted wrappers with dust jacket. Drawings by Basil King. Introduction by John Wieners. Attractively printed at the Goliard Press. An interesting and somewhat neglected African-American poet. Although based in Boston his was the first book published by White Rabbit Press. Some rubbing and handling wear to covers. $125 26. JUSTICE, Donald. The Old Bachelor and Other Poems. Miami: Pandanus Press, 1951. First edition. [8], 10, [6] pp. Hand-sewn blue wrappers, printed title label on front cover. One of 240 copies, hand-set and printed by Preston H. Dettman. Some edgewear and surface wear to covers, very minor old staining, contents clean. The very rare first publication by an important American poet, preceding his first regularly published book The Summer Anniversaries by nine years. Despite the limitation, quite scarce; OCLC locates eleven copies. $3500 27. KAVAN, Anna. The House of Sleep. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1947. First edition. 223 pp. Gray cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in black and blind, with the dust jacket. Some minor browning to rear jacket panel, tiny chip to head of jacket at rear panel spine, but overall a very sharp and clean example, rare in a decent jacket of any kind. A semi-autobiographical novel of unhappy childhood and night shadows, by one of the more unsung modernist writers of the twentieth century. Published in England the following year as Sleep Has His House, the title by which it is still in print. $350 28. KEROUAC, Jack. Scattered Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1971. First edition. 76 pp. Photographically illustrated perfect-bound wrappers. Some browning and rubbing to covers. Pocket Poets number 28. The first printing is uncommon. Cook, Pocket Poets, pp. 72-73. $100 29. [KIEFER, Anselm]. Götz Adriani, ed. The Books of Anselm Kiefer 1969-1990. New York: George Braziller, 1991. First edition. Original rough gray cloth, lettered in black, with the dust jacket. 378 pp. First English translation, by Bruni Mayor. Texts by Götz Adriani, Peter Schjeldahl, Tony Stoos and Zdenek Felix. Book about fine with some minor spotting to top edge, jacket has some minor scuffs, slight edgewear, and a small stain on the top edge. A beautiful production. $600 30. KOLLER, James. The Dogs & Other Dark Woods. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1966. First edition. 33 pp. Printed paper covered boards, cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. Of a total edition of 1000 copies, this is one of 26 specially bound numbered copies signed by Koller. Writing 10. $100
31. KOOSER, Ted. A Dry Winter Letter to Friends. Santa Barbara: Great Granny Press, 1976. First edition. Postcard poem, printed letterpress as Great Granny s No. 1, edited by M. Truman Cooper. A fairly early Kooser publication. Fine copy. $75 32. LAMANTIA, Philip. Destroyed Works. San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962. Second edition, i.e. first trade edition, one of 1250 copies, following a hardbound edition of fifty copies. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Cover collage by Bruce Conner. Some handling wear, slight foxing. Johnston, Auerhahn, 18. $150 33. MATSON, Clive. Mainline to the Heart. New York: Poets Press, 1966. First edition. 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, signed on the half-title. According to Peter Howard s penciled notes within, only twenty copies were thusly bound. $350 34. MERWIN, W. S. Japanese Figures. Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1971. First edition, wrappers issue, one of 250 signed and numbered copies (another 125 copies were bound in boards). [12] pp. Sewn wrappers. Printed by the Grace Hoper Press. Fine copy. $75 35. [OLSON, Charles]. Jonathan Williams. Charles Olson / Black Mountain 1951. Large scale portrait photograph, approximately 12 x 11 ½ inches, matted and framed, total size 21 ½ x 19 ½ inches. Classic image of the Big Man seated at a table, pen in hand, towel over shoulder, wicker jug and ashtray. Signed and titled by Williams below the image. Not examined out of frame; minor water stain to lower edge of mat, probably not affecting print. $600
36. PATCHEN, Kenneth, Charles Bukowski, Jim Morrison, et. al. The Mount Alverno Review. A Quick Anthology of West Coast Verse. Los Angeles: Licorice Paper/Peace Press, 1971. First edition, all published. [32] pp. Stapled wrappers. Edited by Michael C. Ford. Dedicated to Kenneth and Miriam Patchen. Some minor wear to covers. $75 37. [PICASSO, Pablo]. Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Zwemmer Gallery from May the 20th until June the 20th 1936. Oil Paintings, Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings and Etchings. London: Zwemmer Gallery, 1936. First edition. Illustrated stapled wrappers. [8] pp. Attractive early catalogue of a Picasso show, printed letterpress on white, blue and yellow paper, with two mounted plates, listing 57 items. Front and rear cover sheets foxed on both sides. $250 38. [PICASSO, Pablo]. Paul Eluard. A Pablo Picasso. Genève: Éditions des Trois Collines, 1944. First edition. 168, [12] pp. Red printed wrappers. Illustrated with one mounted color plate, 96 black-and-white plates on coated paper, and numerous drawings in the text. Spine faded, edges and corners a bit rubbed. Inscribed by Eluard, pour Rosamond / ce livre où les yeux du peintre sont ouverts à chaque page et entre toutes les pages lignes, / très affectueusement, / Paul Eluard. A nice homage, the book contains portraits of Picasso when he was young and reproductions of his work, interspersed with poems and text by Eluard. Rosamond Bernier was an American writer and art critic who went to Paris at the end of World War II on a short assignment for Vogue magazine and ended up staying for over twenty years. In 1955 she founded L Oeil, which, under her editorship, quickly became one of the world s leading art magazines. She was an integral part of the Parisian art world and a close friend of Picasso s as well as many of the other major European artists of the day (her memoir of the period, Matisse, Picasso, Miro as I Knew Them, was published in 1991). $2000 39. PONSOT, Marie. True Minds. San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1956 [i.e. 1957]. First edition. 32 pp. Staple-bound wrappers, printed wraparound label pasted on. Slight foxing to covers, slight bump to heel of spine. Internally clean and tight. Pocket Poets number 5. Published in January 1957, several months after Ginsberg s Howl, this book is generally considered the rarest of the Pocket Poets series. 500 copies were printed. Cook, Pocket Poets, pp. 23-24. $600 40. POUND, Ezra. Plaint. Clinton, NY: Alexander Hamilton Press, Hamilton College, 1972. First edition thus. [12] pp. Printed blue wrappers tied with cord. A keepsake to mark the opening of the New Library of Hamilton and Kirkland Colleges, Sept. 10, 1972, printed by Mark Holmes Walpole, Class of 74, Spring, 1972. One of 350 numbered copies. Very slight sunning at spine, about fine. Gallup E2z. $75 41. ROSENBERG, Isaac. Youth. London: I. Narodiczky, Printer, 1915. First edition,
one of about 100 copies printed. [18] pp. Printed wrappers, single stapled. The second book, self-published 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. $1250 42. SAROYAN, Aram, ed. Lines. Whole number 4. March 1965. New York: 1965. Side-stapled illustrated wrappers. Contains work by Padgett, Brainard, Veitch, Malanga/Warhol, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and others. Clay & Phillips pp. 210-11 ( among the most elegant of all the 1960s mimeograph magazines ). Some toning to covers, top corner slightly bumped, still quite a nice copy. $150 43. SPICER, Jack. After Lorca. With an Introduction by Federico Garcia Lorca. [San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1957]. First edition. 63, [2] pp. Original stapled wrappers, with a cover design by Jess. Slight soiling and wear to covers, minor browning to the spine, slight crease through center, but overall fairly clean. According to the colophon, typed on an Olivetti Lexikon 80 by Robert Duncan in an edition of five hundred copies, of which twenty-six were deluxe. Joe Dunn, who founded the press at the suggestion of Spicer, produced the first ten White Rabbit titles surreptitiously over the course of ten months while operating an AM Multilith press for Greyhound Bus Lines in San Francisco. The first book, now becoming quite scarce, by a poet whose stature has risen significantly since his death in 1965. Johnston, White Rabbit, A2. $850 44. SPICER, Jack. Billy the Kid. Stinson Beach, CA: Enkidu Surrogate, 1959. First edition. [16] pp. Printed stapled wrappers. One of 750 copies. Illustrated by Jess, one of a handful of titles issued by him and Robert Duncan under their Enkidu Surrogate imprint, distributed by White Rabbit. Slight sticker ghost to inside front cover, else fine. $100 45. SPICER, Jack. The Heads of the Town up to the Aether. San Francisco: Auerhahn Society, 1962. First edition, one of 750 copies printed. 111 pp. Perfectbound wrappers, lettered in black and decorated in blue. Lithographs by Fran Herndon. About fine. Johnston, Auerhahn, 21. $450 46. SPICER, Jack. Language. San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1965. First edition. 66 pp. Original printed wrappers. Spicer s last book to be published in his
lifetime (published June 10, Spicer died August 17). 66 pp. A fine copy of a fragile book, and scarce thus. Johnston, White Rabbit, A30. $250 47. SPICER, Jack. Book of Magazine Verse. San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1966. First edition, one of 1500 copies printed. Printed wrappers. A collection of poems submitted to magazines, organized according to which magazine rejected them and printed on different paper stocks. Minor handling wear, near fine or better. Johnston, White Rabbit, A33. $75 48. [SPICER, Jack, et. al.] Chapson, Jim, James Liddy, and Bill Siverly, eds. Nine Queen Bees. Zero Issue (Summer 1970) [all published]. Honolulu: 1970. 58 pp. Glossy perfect-bound printed wrappers. Uncommon one-shot journal, includes five poems by Jack Spicer, two by John Wieners, and other work from Lewis Ellingham, George Stanley, and others. Minor surface wear, extremities foxed. $125 49. SPICER, Jack. The Red Wheelbarrow. [Berkeley]: Arif, 1971. First edition, one of 500 copies printed. [28] pp. Sewn wrappers. Printed letterpress in three colors. Original letterpress card announcement laid in. Slight toning; fine copy. $75 50. TATE, James. The Torches. Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1968. First edition. Full linen. One of 30 numbered copies bound by Donald Rojo in an original fabric by Joe & Anna Burgess and signed by Tate; there were also 1030 copies bound in wrappers & 250 in boards in the edition. Fine copy. A later revised edition was published in 1971. $350 51. WIENERS, John. Ace of Pentacles. New York: James F. Carr and Robert A. Wilson, 1964. First edition, wrappers issue. 72 pp. Slight toning to covers, near fine. $50 52. WIENERS, John. Hotels. New York: Angel Hair, 1974. First edition, one of 500 copies printed. [10] pp. Stapled wrappers. Cover illustration by Gordon Baldwin. Transcribed from tape of reading at The Poetry Project, St. Marks Church-in-the- Bowery, New York City, February 13, 1974, and from author s manuscripts. Minor toning to covers, near fine or better. $50 53. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. New York: Random House, 1945. First edition. 124 pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt and blocked in black, with the dust jacket. Photo frontispiece. Top edge dusty, some minor toning to endpapers. Jacket shows some uneven fading and edgewear, minor chipping at corners, but overall fairly clean and nicer than usually seen. $750