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San Francisco: [Auerhahn Press], 1961. First edition. [8] pp. Paper wrappers, sewn with red yarn. Folded once, some minor handling wear. Program for an event held January 29, 1961, at the Marines' Memorial Theatre, to raise funds for treatments of Patchen's illness. Readings by Rexroth, McClure, Broughton, Jonathan Williams, Whalen, Ferlinghetti, et. al., jazz, and songs. Program printed by the Auerhahn Press. Morgan M25. Johnston, Auerhahn, 9.

Karlsruhe / Baden / Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1953. First edition. 131 pp. Unprinted perfect-bound wrappers with dust jacket. Jacket spine browned with some toning and minor chipping to head and tail, some browning to endpapers offset from jacket. Jargon 6. Morgan A21a.

New York: New Directions, 1966. First edition. Rebound by Patchen with an original watercolor/gouache binding. Most of Patchen's special painted bindings were created within numbered editions; this book is a unique copy bearing a particularly lovely painting.

Boston: William J. Margolis, 1961. First edition. [36] pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Covers toned with some minor soiling. Only issue of this little magazine. Contains a six-page reproduction of Patchen's picture-poems, along with work by Stuart Z. Perkoff (on Aleister Crowley), James Boyer May, and others. See Semina Culture, p. 210; not in Clay & Phillips.

Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams, 1958. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated stiff card wraps. One of 325 copies in the regular issue. Slight foxing to top edge. Morgan A28d.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953. First American edition. xiv, 206 pp. Faux-marbled paper boards, black spine, with the dust jacket. Jacket toned, old tape reinforcement to verso of jacket head and tail of spine. The final novel by the great Italian novelist and poet. Translated by Marianne Ceconi. Introduction by Paolo Milano.

[Easthampton]: Pennyroyal Press, 1975. First edition. [36] leaves, unbound as issued, laid into a chemise housed in a clamshell box. A couple of small minor scuffs to box, contents fine. One of forty copies printed. Six wood engravings by Anne O'Connor with texts "freely edited from the 1871 edition of Johnson's Natural History." With an additional suite of the wood engravings printed on Moriki, as issued. Composition, printing, and wood engravings by Anne O'Connor. This copy signed by O'Connor and inscribed "for Gray," likely Gray Parrot. Pennyroyal 10. Moser notes, "Annie O'Connor was so precocious at printing, I allowed her to use the Pennyroyal imprint on this handsome little book she did as a senior project at Williston Academy." O'Connor also composed the text for the Pennyroyal books Eve, Singing and Carnal Lent. Although assigned an OCLC number (4675563), no copies located.

Munich: Prestel, 2001. First edition. 192 pp. Dark blue cloth boards, spine lettered in light blue, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to upper edge of rear jacket panel, slight yellowing to page edges. Profusely illustrated. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland. Inscribed by the author on the title-page to Lyn [Keinholz, Los Angeles arts advocate].

San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Quarter cloth over paper-covered printed boards, paper label on spine. 32 pp. One of 150 copies printed. The eleventh book of the Peregrine Press, printed by Henry Evans. Scattered minor foxing, especially to preliminaries.

Mexico: Poesie et Révolution, 1945. First edition. [32] pp. Original printed wrappers. Acidic paper browned, some minor handling wear. One of 1000 copies on bouffant.

Torrance, CA: Hors Commerce Press, 1965. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good +. First edition of Perret's second book, one of 200 copies printed. Introduction by Alan Sillitoe. [27] pp. Original stapled wrappers. Scattered foxing to covers and preliminaries, corners a bit creased. An unsung poet who died young, Perret was just beginning to make his name upon his death in 1965 at the age of 35. In her introduction to the memorial volume on Perret published by Poésie Vivante, Rosemarie Wells-Marie notes of future scholars of Perret's work, "What 'label' will they give Christopher, to what 'school' will they attach his poetry, romantic and realistic, intimate and social, born of so rich a blood and so eventful a life?

Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1998. First edition. Full red cloth, lettered in white on the front board and the spine, with the dust jacket. Top edge of jacket a little rubbed. A gorgeous monograph, long out of print, published to accompany an exhibition in Hamburg and Rotterdam. Picabia's "output during the last twenty years before his death bears witness to the restless vision of an artist who was not willing to bow to the dictates of any single style, preferring instead a spirited, ironic, provocative visual language which regarded stylistic change and variation as a crucial principle of artistic and spiritual creativity.

London: Zwemmer Gallery, 1936. First edition. Illustrated stapled wrappers. [8] pp. Attractive 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.

Berkeley: Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, 1994. First edition. Original wrappers. Near fine. 52 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Covers slightly rubbed, near fine. A discussion between the poet and the artist about their collaborative process while working an edition of Dante's Inferno, published as Occasional Paper no. 2. Illustrated throughout with Mazur's beautiful monotypes.

London: Cecil Palmer, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First edition. 56 pp. Stiff boards with black paper jacket affixed, as issued, printed label on front board. Front board slightly bowed, spine slightly sunned, minor foxing to preliminaries. The first book by this undersung British poet (1897-1992), who wrote in traditional meter and rhyme. She was a friend to C.S. Lewis, and her work was admired by Larkin and Yeats. Uncommon.

Verona: Privately Printed by Gabriel Rummonds, 1971. First edition. Tan paper boards, lettered in red on the front board, publisher's cardboard slipcase. Slipcase shows some minor handling wear, book fine. One of 80 numbered copies, signed by the authors. Ten poems in Italian, French, English, and Latin by Max [Paolo] D'Arpini and ten aphorisms in Italian by Bruno Corridori. With a linocut by Ger van Dijck and a woodcut by Mirek [Miroslav Zahradka]. A very early Rummonds/Plain Wrapper publication.

Surrey: The Sceptre Press, 1971. Original wrappers. Fine. [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.

San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1966. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. [48] pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Very slight rubbing to spine, else a fine, fresh copy. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. The first book by one of the more unsung members of the Beat Generation, the publisher of Cherry Valley Editions and the printer of Zap Comix #1.

New York: Doubleday, 2008. First edition. 206 pp. Tan boards over green backstrip, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tial of spine, else fine. Pollock's first book, a collection of stories. A no-holds-barred writer who spent thirty years working in a paper mill before publishing his first book.

New York: Macmillan, 1917. First edition. 320, [8] pp. Publisher's deep blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front board and the spine. Corners and head and tail of spine rubbed, slightly overopened at title-page and first signature. Old minor stain to pp. 250-51. An attractive copy of the first novel to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, in 1918.