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Liège: Éditions Dynamo, 1968. First edition. Original wrappers. Fine. [18] pp. Sewn printed wrappers, glassine jacket. Published as Brimborions no 168. Of a total edition of fifty-one copies, this is one of forty numbered copies on velin, initialed by the publisher, Pierre Aelberts. A brief essay on Kafka. OCLC locates three copies in America, Binghamton, Lilly, Beinecke.

Oxford: Counterpoint Publications, 1945. 47, [3] pp. String-sewn printed wrappers. Covers rubbed with edgewear, slight chipping and some creasing. Uncommon collection of Kafka's tales. Includes On the Gallery; The New Barrister; Jackals and Arabs; A Message From the Emperor; Worries of a Family Man; Eleven Sons; An Old Manuscript; Fratricide; The Law; The Next Village; A Dream; A Visit to a Mine; A Report to the Academy; and The Country Doctor.

New York: Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1951. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. One of only 500 copies printed. Drawings by Rene Bouche. [16] pp. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers, as issued, with some minor edgewear. Scarce.

New York: Grove Press, 1956. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. A paperback original (there was also a hardcover edition of fifteen copies published with an original drawing by Larry Rivers). 61 pp. Erratum slip pasted in on inside front cover. Tiny hole on lower corner of front cover and half-title, else a fresh, clean copy. Kallman's first regularly published book.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. First edition. Fine/near fine. First edition of the first book by the well-regarded author of The Liars' Club. The jacket is price-clipped, else fine. The hardcover edition is uncommon.

London: Gordon Fraser, 1979. First edition. 136 pp. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, with the dust jacket. Slight sticker ghost on the front free endpaper, else about fine. Profusely illustrated with images from Kauffer's posters, book illustrations, theatre design, along with a checklist of Kauffer's published work.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959. First edition. Near fine. 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.

Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1960. First edition. 140 pp. Edited and with a preface by Donald Justice. Quarter Oasis leather over Japanese paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, and front board lettered in blind. One of 180 copies on Rives Light, of a total edition of 200 copies. Some minor discoloration to boards and slight rubbing to head of spine, near fine. Small publisher's printed prospectus laid in. Berger 8.

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1943. First edition. 48 pp. Green cloth spine over green decorated paper boards, printed spine label, no dust jacket as issued. Lower corners and spine slightly rubbed, near fine. Neat bookplate on front pastedown of C.G. Wallis, poet and translator. Kees' first book, published in an edition of 300 copies, as number 3 of the Colt Press Poetry Booklets series. Gillane and Niemi A.I.1.

Amsterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1945. First edition thus. Original Wraps. Very Good +. Sewn signatures in marbled wrappers, printed label on front cover. Edges a bit rubbed, especially at the spine, minor abrasions to lower edge of front cover. Gorgeously printed by Enschede for Balkema during the Occupation.

New York: New Directions, 1998. First English language edition. 118 pp. Gray boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Translated by Michael Henry Heim, who has signed this copy on the title-page. Fine copy.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989. First English language edition. 199 pp. Rose paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Some minor toning to jacket, top and fore-edges slightly foxed. Translated by Michael Henry Heim, who has signed this copy on the title-page.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. First English language edition. 135 pp. Dark gray paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in red, with the dust jacket. Some minor handling wear to jacket, still about fine.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. First English language edition. 274 pp. Tan paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in red, with the dust jacket. Fine copy.

London: Faber and Faber, 1991. First English language edition. 318 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Some handling wear, spine a little creased and rubbed at the head and tail. Pages browning a bit. Foreword by Stanley Kubrick, introduction by Kieślowski. The screenplays for ten hour-long films by one of the great masters of cinema.

Wilmington, DE: The Wilmington Poetry Society, 1946. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Stapled wrappers. 15 pp. An offprint from Two Appearances by Alison Kimball and Susan Sharp Adams, winner of the Third Biennial Book Award from The Wilmington Poetry Society. A copy of the cover illustration by Andrew Wyeth is mounted on the inside front cover. Foreword by Henry Seidel Canby. Alison Kimball (Bradford) served as Delaware's Poet Laureate in 1961. Scarce, WorldCat locates only one copy (University of Delaware).

San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 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.

Denver: The Ally Press, 1975. First edition, limited issue. [8] pp. Sewn printed wrappers, French flaps. Some toning to spine, else a fine copy. One of 50 signed and numbered copies, of a total edition of 200. An early publication by the future U.S. poet laureate. Laid in is a postcard reproducing the second poem, "So This is Nebraska," printed by the Pentagram Press in Milwaukee, advertising his collection Not Coming To Be Barked At in 1976.

Wichita Falls, 1966. Single sheet serial publication, edited by Jon Bracker. Certainly one of Kooser's earliest appearances, and possibly one of his first solo publications, published three years before his first book, Official Entry Blank. The series is well-represented institutionally but individual issues are scarce, particularly this one by a future US poet laureate.

Santa Barbara: Great Granny Press, 1976. First edition. no binding. Fine. Postcard poem, printed letterpress as Great Granny's No. 1; edited by M. Truman Cooper. A fairly early Kooser publication. Fine copy.