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New York: The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2015. First edition. Five volumes. Stapled printed wrappers. Comprises: Kathy Acker: Homage to Leroi Jones (ed. Gabrielle Kappes). Jean Sénac: The Sun Under the Weapons, Correspondence & Notes from Algeria (Parts I & II) (ed. Kai Krienke). Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos & Notebooks from Turkestan (ed. Zohra Saed). William S. Burroughs: The Travel Agency is on Fire (ed. Alex Wermer-Colan). A fine set.

Berkeley: Oannes, 1963. First edition. Fine. First edition, one of 500 numbered copies printed. Stiff wrappers with attached printed dust jacket. Printed on textured brown paper. 110 pp. A two-act ballad opera set in San Francisco in 1906. Slightest rubbing to head of spine, still a fine copy.

Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 52 pp. Full light-green cloth, lettered in blind, with the dust jacket. One of 500 copies printed. Signed by Adams on the half-title. Fine copy.

Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2000. Second edition. Full tan cloth, spine lettered in black, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of jacket spine, slight yellowing to lower edge, else fine. The second edition of this classic photobook, first published in 1974. Texts in German by Heinz Liesbrock, John Szarkowski, Thomas Weski, and Robert Adams. Roth pp. 226-227. Parr & Badger II, p. 25.

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1979. First edition. 582 pp. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled, jacket a bit toned and slightly rubbed at the head of the spine. Illustrated with over 250 line drawings by Moser. Signed by Moser on the title-page.

Somerville: Firefly Press, 1985. First edition thus. Near fine. 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).

Madrid: Afrodisio Aguado, S.A., 1964. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good +. First edition of this later collection by the esteemed Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, which also included Federico García Lorca and Vicente Aleixandre. 112 pp. Original printed wraps, with a cover illustration by the author. Slight edgewear and a bit of surface rubbing, but overall a very clean copy of a fragile production.

New York: Random House, 1969. First edition. 281 pp. Black cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board and spine with red gilt publisher's device on the spine, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine, previous owner name to front free endpaper, jacket shows a bit of rubbing to the corners, spine folds, and head and tail of spine. A very attractive copy of Angelou's classic first book.

Paris: Olympia Press, 1953. 110, [10] pp. Plain white wrappers with printed dust jacket folded on, as issued. Jacket extremities rubbed, small nick to fore-edge of last three leaves. An uncommon early Olympia Press publication, published June 1953. Kearney notes, "A translation, reportedly by Richard Seaver, of Les Exploits d'un Jeune Don Juan, an erotic novel that was first published at Paris in 1905 or 1906 by Elias Gaucher. Although generally credited as an original work by Guillaume Apollinaire, it is actually a word-for-word translation by the poet of Kinder-Geilheit, Geständnisse eines Knaben (Berlin: 1891)." Kearney 1.4.1.

New York: Doubleday, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. First edition in English of these early stories. Yellow boards over black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. 183 pp. Some edgewear, offsetting to rear endpapers. Jacket has a few closed tears, edgewear and slight chipping to top edge. Translated by Rémy Inglis Hall, who has warmly inscribed the book on the front free endpaper.

Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1985. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First complete British edition of Padgett's translations of Apollinaire's stories. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, with the dust jacket. 139 pp. Book near fine with some rubbing at the head of the spine; jacket a bit toned with some minor edgewear, particularly at the spine. Signed by Padgett on the title-page.

A fontfroide, bibliothèque artistique & littéraire, 1985. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition, one of 845 copies on vergé teinté, of a total edition of 900. Original printed wrappers. Published by Gilbert Boudar, Pierre Caizergues, and Michel Décaudin, with presentation and notes by Pierre Caizergues. Portrait frontispiece of Apollinaire by Max Jacob. Previously unpublished poetry. Top edge uncut. Slight foxing to top edge, some slight edgewear, but overall near fine or better.

Berkeley: Arif Press, 1978. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near fine. [16] pp. Blue cloth boards, printed label on spine, with the dust jacket. Hand-illuminated initial letter in gold on first text page. Typeset and printed by Jerry Reddan at the Arif Press, as noted in Peter Howard's hand. Of a total edition of 350 copies, this is one of 25 copies bound in boards. Slight edgewear to top edge of jacket, else fine. [together with:] another copy, this one of 325 copies in sewn wrappers with dust jacket.

Berkeley: Atelos, 1998. First edition. Fine. First edition, one of 1,000 copies printed, of this memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. A fine copy in wrappers, as issued, with a slight bit of shelfwear at the bottom edge. Signed by Armantrout on the title-page.

Paris: Galerie Simon, 1923. First edition. [16] pp. Original printed wrappers. One of 100 copies (of 112 printed), signed by Artaud and the illustrator Elie Lascaux. Hint of wear to head and tail of spine, mild offsetting to endpapers, near fine or better. Artaud's first book, a collection of surrealist poems. Published by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, the great gallerist who also produced attractive limited editions of works by Gertrude Stein, Max Jacob, Tristan Tzara, and others, with illustrations by Leger, Picasso, Gris, Masson, and others. Though he is better known for his contributions to the theatre, these "shreds I have managed to snatch from complete nothingness," reminiscent of Poe, Rimbaud, and Baudelaire, are nonetheless marked by the uniqueness of Artaud's vision. As John Ashbery said of him, "he was a mystic endowed with an almost Jamesian sense of precision in analyzing his turbulent states of mind." The critic Maurice Saillet said of the poems in this collection, "they breathe a… Read More

New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1970. First edition. Side-stapled wrappers, photographically illustrated front cover. One of 65 copies printed, called to be numbered and signed, this copy neither signed nor numbered. Fine copy. Kermani A18.

London: Bloomsbury, 2000. First U.K. edition. 525 pp. Black boards, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Mild rubbing to head and tail of spine, slight wear to jacket corners and extremities. Signed and dated 28.9.2000 by Atwood on the title-page. Winner of the Booker Prize.

New York: The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1973. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition. One leaf, folded. Program for Auden's memorial service, with readings of his poems by Robert Penn Warren, Galway Kinnell, Muriel Rukeyser, Richard Wilbur, William Meredith, Richard Howard, and Ursula Niebuhr. Music by Benjamin Briten with text by Auden was also performed. Slight browning, else fine. A scarce bit of Auden ephemera.

San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2006. First edition. Five volumes, printed perfect-bound wrappers, in publisher's slipcase. I. Diane Arbus II. The Countess de Castiglione III. Peter Hujar IV. Irving Penn V. Etcetera. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York 30 August-16 September 2006 and the Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco 5 October-25 November 2006. Some rubbing to box, volumes fine.