- CATALOGUE THIRTEEN -

MODERN FIRST EDITIONS AND SELECTED ART

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- CONTENTS -

Home | Page One - Items #1 - #97 (Amis - Bulgakov) | Page Two - Items #98 - #177 (Burroughs - Harrison) | Page Three - Items #178 - #281 (Hell's Angels - Patchen) | Page Four - Items #282 - #388 (Photography - Vollman) | Page Five - Items #389 - #480 (Vonnegut - Art) | Page Six - Items #481 - #521 (Jazz - Software)

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98. BURROUGHS, William S. The Naked Lunch. Pre-pub. excerpt. EVERGREEN REVIEW no.16 (1961). M&M C24. Fine in wraps. 35.00

99. BURROUGHS, William S. "Outskirts of the City." EVERGREEN REVIEW no.25 (July/August 1962). M&M C44. Covers lightly soiled, else near fine. 30.00

Short, stunning, homoerotic essay about "Operation Sense Withdrawal." Other pieces by Patsy Southgate, Paul Blackburn, Robert Coover, and Michael McClure ("Drug Notes").

100. BURROUGHS, William S. "A Distant Hand Lifted." CLEFT #2 (May 1964). Edinburgh, Scotland. M&M C74. Fine in original wraps. Quite uncommon. 45.00 SOLD

Opens: "Light house keeper as I am (parenthetically in a police man's bed sitter) I must in such pain expose certain darkroom pictures." Far out. Also this issue: Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jonathan Williams. Rear cover has prize-winning Guinness tankard winner's piece.

101. BURROUGHS, William S. "Who Is The Third That Walks Beside You?" ART & LITERATURE no.2 (Summer 1964). Fine in lightly soiled printed wraps with light tear at rear cover. 45.00

M&M C82. Difficult, important piece. Issue includes Raymond Roussel, Jane Bowles, Anthony Burgess, Harry Mathews, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Fairfield Porter, et al.

102. BURROUGHS, William S. The Ticket That Exploded. NY, Grove Press, 1967. 1st U.S. ed. (Originally pub. in Paris: 1962.) Small ownership stamp at front endpaper, else fine in like dust jacket with B&W author photo at rear panel. M&M A6b. 85.00

Facsimile holograph message by Brion Gysin. Special appendix ("the invisible generation") on experimental spliced tape techniques.

103. BURROUGHS, William S. The Wild Boys. NY, Grove Press, 1972. 1st ed. Neat ink signature at endpaper, else fine in price-clipped dust jacket with a short tear, slightly rubbed, else near fine. 175.00

First printing 5,600 copies. Now quite scarce. Maynard & Miles A20a.

104. BURROUGHS, William S. The Wild Boys. London, Calder & Boyers, 1972. 1st ed. About fine copy in like dust jacket, signed by Burroughs. Very uncommon. Maynard & Miles A20b. 250.00 SOLD

A book of illusions, written as a series of films of past, present, and future projected simultaneously on multiple screens.

105. BURROUGHS, Wm S. "Review of Inside Scientology." In: ROLLING STONE. no.120 (Oct.26, 1972), pp.66, 68. Lightly tanned at edges, else a near fine copy in wraps. M&M C341. 25.00

Lengthy book review (favorable) of R. Kaufman's Inside Scientology (Olympia Press), an exposé of L. Ron Hubbard's system. WSB was intrigued by Scientology, calling it "a model control system."

106. BURROUGHS, William S. "Ali's Smile." SIXPACK no.2 (August 1972). London. 4to. Cover B&W collages by Claude Pelieu. Fine in slightly soiled illustrated wraps. Very uncommon. 55.00

M&M C337. Feature article, reprinted from the rare original of 1971 (M&M A19). Issue also includes stuff by Jeff Nuttall (drawings), Eric Mottram, Carl Solomon, Claude Pelieu, Paul Blackburn, Charles Plymell, Bob Kaufman, and Jack Kerouac's "Someday You'll Be Lying."

107. [BURROUGHS]. MAYNARD, Joe, and Barry Miles. William S. Burroughs: A Bibliography, 1953-73; Unlocking Inspector Lee's Word Hoard. Charlottesville, Univ. Press of Virginia, 1978. 1st ed. 2,000cc. 242p. Fwd. WSB. Intro. A. Ginsberg. As new in cloth boards without dust jacket, as issued. 75.00

Over 600 entries: books, pamphlets, anthologies, periodicals, foreign editions, and interviews. B&W photos of dust jackets.

108. CARROLL, Jim. Organic Trains. NJ, Penny Press, 1967. 1st ed. 17p. mimeo. stapled wraps. Fine interior with very good cardboard cover, signed by Carroll at inside front cover. 650.00 SOLD

Author's first book, in pbk. only, printed in a very small edition.

109. CARROLL, Jim. Living at the Movies. NY, Grossman Publishers, 1973. 1st paperback ed. (also appeared in a now rare HC edition). Near fine in color wraps designed by Larry Rivers. 125.00

Street poetry by Jim, some of his best.

110. CARROLL, Jim. Living at the Movies. NY, Grossman Publishers, 1973. 1st ed. Fine in like dust jacket (price-clipped). Very scarce hard copy in jacket edition. Signed 6/96 by Carroll at Ann Arbor. 400.00

Wraparound color dust jacket illustration by Larry Rivers. B&W photo of the 22-year-old poet

111. CARROLL, Jim. The Basketball Diaries; Age 12-15. Bolinas, CA,Tombouctou, 1978. 1st ed. A Lamplighter Book. paperback original only. Fine in original wrappers with rear cover blurbs by Wm. S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Patti Smith. 285.00 SOLD

Preface by Tom Clark. B&W cover photo of long-haired JC in black high school basketball outfit. Won Random House 1970 Award (19 YOA). Coming of age in NYC mid-60s counterculture / drug culture / Kerouac / Frank O'Hara. Basis of 1996 film starring Leonard DiCaprio.

112. CARROLL, Jim. The Book of Nods. NY, Viking, 1986. 1st ed. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in brown printed wraps. 125.00

Short prose & poetry by street-smart young New York poet/writer and rock musician (Catholic Boy; Dry Dreams), author of the underground cult classic, The Basketball Diaries.

113. [CINEMA]. SITNEY, P. Adams, ed. Film Culture; The New American Cinema through the pages of its foremost film journal. London, Secker & Warburg, 1971. 1st Brit.ed. 438p. Fascinating 16-page B&W photo insert. Fine in like dust jacket. 55.00

Highly important collection of articles from the influential avant garde film journal, Film Culture. Mekas, Youngblood, Maciunas, Brakhage, Vogel, Tyler, McClure, Geldzahler, etc.

114. [CINEMA]. TYLER, Parker. Underground Film; A Critical History. NY, Grove Press, 1969. 1st ed. 249p. plus 32p. B&W photo insert. Fine in like dust jacket (price-clip). 65.00

By the first critic to write seriously about the early Underground filmmakers. Includes six-page filmography of the films important in the passage from avant garde to Underground, 1915-1966. Superb.

114. [CINEMA-EXPERIMENTAL]. BRAKHAGE, Stan. Metaphors On Vision. NY, Film Culture, 1963 [1964]. 1st ed. 4to. [79]p., [9] leaves of B&W plates. Bound in semisoft tan cardboard wrappers impressed with unusual zigzag relief pattern. Cover diecut reveals left eye of Brakhage. Slight snag at edge of one page, light tanning to cheap paper, else a fine copy. 175.00 SOLD

Author's first book. Transcript of an interview of Brakhage conducted in spring 1963. Landmark discussion of Brakhage's views on film, particularly mythopoeic film. Brakhage (b. 1933), one of the most influential and prolific avant garde film makers of the American "underground," began this collection of pieces in 1960 simultaneously with his filming and subsequent editing of the film Dog Star Man, which was completed in 1965.

115. [COMPUTER LORE]. KAWASAKE, Guy. The Macintosh Way. Chic., Scott, Foresman, 1990. 2nd print. 209p. Fine in near fine dust jacket, signed. 25.00

First book by the iconoclastic Macintosh evangelist.

116. COOVER, Robert. Pricksongs & Descants. NY, Dutton, 1969. 1st ed. This copy signed by Coover on label at front endpaper. Fine in lightly-soiled, near fine dust jacket with small tear. 155.00

Author's third book, his first collection of short pieces.

117. CREELEY, Robert. The Gold Diggers. Palma de Majorca, Divers Press, 1954. 1st ed. 12mo. 1/500 copies. Rear wrapper slightly damp stained, spine bottom bumped, else very good in wraps. 175.00

Very early Creeley. Eleven powerful short stories, from The Kenyon Review, Origin, New Directions, etc.

118. CREELEY, Robert. The Gold Diggers. Palma de Majorca, Divers Press, 1954. 1st ed. 12mo. 1/500 copies. Near fine in very good wrappers (somewhat soiled & discolored), signed by Creeley. 350.00

119. CRUMB, R., & His Keep-on-Truckin' Orchestra. "River Blues" and "Wisconsin Wiggles." Milwaukee, Krupp Comic Works, 1972. Ten-inch 78 RPM recording, on Ordinary Record no.5000. Vintage 78, fine condition in slightly soiled original printed paper Ordinary record sleeve. This is 2nd pressing, 1973. 85.00

R. Crumb's cartoons were published in the underground press during the Sixties into the Nineties. He is presently a globally recognized artist; there was a retrospective exhibition of his works in New York in 1995. This is a delightful example of his musical side, with vocals (and whistlin') by Crumb, accompanied by guitar, banjo, fiddle, and bass.

CyberPunk Literature

With the appearance of William Gibson's Neuromancer in 1984, a new departure in postmodern literature began. Confined until recently to a narrow audience in the science fiction genre, Cyberpunk's time has clearly arrived. With the recent explosion of public interest in the "Information Highway" and related "cyberspace" issues and concerns, Cyberpunk Literature is rapidly capturing new audiences.

120. [CYBERPUNK]. GIBSON, William. Neuromancer. NY, Ace, 1994. Tenth anniv. ed. of author's first book, first U.S. trade hardcover ed. As new in like dust jacket, signed by Gibson. 75.00 SOLD

A high spot in twentieth-century innovative writing, quintessential ground zero of cyberpunk literature. Dense. Very dense.

121. [CYBERPUNK]. GIBSON, William. Mona Lisa Overdrive. London, Gollancz, 1988. 1st ed. The correct first edition. Very fine in like dust jacket. 95.00

Third & final novel in the Cyberspace Trilogy.

122. _____ . Very fine in like dust jacket, and signed. 135.00

123. [CYBERPUNK]. GIBSON, William. Mona Lisa Overdrive. NY, Bantam, 1988. 1st U.S. ed. Very fine in like dust jacket, signed by the author. 80.00

124. [CYBERPUNK]. GIBSON, William, & Bruce Sterling. The Difference Engine. London, Gollancz, 1990. 1st ed. Very fine in like dust jacket, signed by Sterling. The correct first edition. 95.00

Set in Industrial Revolution London, 1855. Deals with Charles Babbage and his development of the first "Analytic Engine" computer.

125. [CYBERPUNK]. GIBSON, William, & Bruce Sterling. The Difference Engine. NY, Bantam, 1991. 1st U.S. ed. Very fine in like dust jacket, signed by Gibson & Sterling. 115.00 SOLD

126. _____ . Very fine in like dust jacket, signed by Gibson at title page and dated by him "1855." 95.00

127. _____ . Advance Reading Copy: "Uncorrected Page Proofs." Fine in glossy pictorial wraps, with dust jacket, unsigned. 95.00

128. _____ . Very fine in like dust jacket, unsigned. 65.00

129. [CYBERPUNK]. GIBSON, William. Virtual Light. NY, Bantam Books, 1993. 1st ed. Very fine in like dust jacket. Signed. 90.00

130. _____ . Fine in like dust jacket. 55.00

131. DAVENPORT, Guy. Do You Have A Poem Book On E. E. Cummings? Penland, NC, Jargon Society, 1969. 1st ed. (1,000 copies). Jargon 67. Laid in is card: "Sure," dated and signed by the author. Early Davenport. Fine in wraps. 75.00

132. _____ . Fine in pictorial wraps by author. 50.00

133. DAVENPORT, Guy. Jonathan Williams, Poet. Cleveland, OH, Asphodel Books, 1969. 1st ed. Frontispiece sepia drawing of Williams by Davenport. Jacket cover bears 1967 sepia photograph of Williams by Ralph Eugene Meatyard. This copy boldly inscribed by Williams. Very good (plus) copy in plain wraps. Scarce. 100.00

134. DAVENPORT, Guy. The Drummers of the Eleventh Devonshire Fusilliers. SF, North Point Press, 1990. 1st ed. As new in dust jacket. 30.00

135. [DEAN, JAMES]. DALTON, David. James Dean, The Mutant King. SF, Straight Arrow Books, 1974. 1st ed. B&W photos. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket, near fine. 55.00

Well-researched biography, probably the most comprehensive and detailed concerning this elusive subject. Born February 8, 1931, in Marion, Indiana. Death by auto wreck September 30, 1955, at Cholame, California, four days before Rebel Without A Cause was first released. Includes list of Dean's television appearances.

136. DE BERNIERES, Louis. The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts. L, Secker & Warburg, 1990. 1st ed. Very fine in like dust jacket, and inscribed to Dinsmore at title page in 1990. 300.00

The correct first edition of the author's first book. First printing of only 2,500 copies. Gorgeous wraparound color dust jacket.

137. DE BERNIERES, Louis. The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts. NY, Wm. Morrow, 1990. 1st U.S. ed. Very fine in like dust jacket with quality color illustration different from the Brit. 125.00

137a. DE BERNIERES. Louis. Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord. L, Secker & Warburg, 1991. 1st ed. 279p. 1st printing: 2,000cc. Fine in like dust jacket, inscribed to Dinsmore at title page. 175.00

137b. DE BERNIERES, Louis. Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord. NY, Wm. Morrow, 1991. 1st U.S. ed. Very fine in like dust jacket, signed by the author. 125.00

137c. DE BERNIERES, Louis. Labels. L, One Horse Press, 1993. 34p. Limited edition of 2,000cc signed & numbered by the author. As new in self-wraps with publisher's wraparound band. 125.00

138. DE BERNIERES, Louis. The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman; A Novel. NY, Wm. Morrow, 1994. 1st U.S. ed. As new in like dust jacket. 100.00 Author's third book, and scarcest (seldom seen), a continuation of his first two. Incredible writer, living in London.

139. DE BERNIERES, Louis. Captain Corelli's Mandolin. L, Secker & Warburg, 1994. 1st ed. 437p. 1st printing: 2,750cc. Very fine in apparently first state cream boards, with burgundy endpapers, in like dust jacket. Inscribed to Dinsmore at title page in 1995. 900.00

139a. DE BERNIERES, Louis. Corelli's Mandolin. NY, Pantheon Books, 1994. 1st U.S. ed. As new in pictorial wraps, in publisher's cardboard slipcase. Signed in 1994. 100.00

An uncommon version of this book, which was previously published in London. Marvelous color cover art work.

140. DOBYNS, Stephen. A Boat Off the Coast. NY, Viking, 1987. 1st ed. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in printed wraps, with name "Fran" (Fran Lebowitz's copy) in pencil at cover. 45.00

141. DOBYNS, Stephen. The Wrestler's Cruel Study. NY, Norton, 1993. 1st ed. Very fine in like dust jacket. 35.00

Novel concerning three wrestling brothers, Prime Rib, Prime Rate, Prime Time. Blurb by Stephen King.

142. [DRUGS]. LEARY, Dr. Timothy. L.S.D. NY, Pixie Records, 1966. 12" LP record. CA-1069. Fine record in like sleeve and cardboard album case, in double clear plastic wraps. 225.00 Front cover bears psychedelic yellow and purple mandala. One of Leary's earliest albums, recorded at Milbrook. Discusses effects of LSD, the determinents of set and setting, the subversive nature of the drug. Large B&W photo of Leary on album case. Very difficult to find original recordings of this nature. Fascinado.

143. [DRUGS]. LUDLOW, Fitz Hugh. The Hasheesh Eater. San Francisco, Level Press, 1975. 4to. [225]p. Softbound. 1st ed. thus. Presentation copy inscribed in 1975 to Robert Hawley. Illustrated by Satty. Full page B&W frontispiece photo of Ludlow. Note card printing a Satty color illustration ("Kisses") laid in. Near fine. 300.00

The first full-length study of the psychological states and physiological effects of psychoactive drug use in American literature, written by a 20-year-old college student. Complete and unabridged text, supplemented with an introduction, chronology, bibliography, bio-critical data, and pictorial materials from the archives of the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library.

144. [DRUGS]. MICHAUX, Henri. The Major Ordeals of the Mind; and the Countless Minor Ones. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. 1st U.S.ed. Transl. Richard Howard. Fine in like dust jacket. 60.00

Account of the author's extensive drug experiments, originally published in France in 1966. This eminent French poet and essayist explored the world of drugs with scientific intent for six years, stopping the experiments when he felt he had reached the limits of exploration.

EVERGREEN REVIEW. NY, Grove Press. INDIVIDUAL ISSUES. Digest size (8vo), all in original wraps.

145. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.3 (1957). Fine in wraps. 40.00 Frank O'Hara. Cover: B&W photo of Jackson Pollock with Model A Ford.

146. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.5 (Summer 1958) Fine. 50.00 "The Case of James Dean" plus B&W cover photo of Dean. Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape; first appearance. John Rechy's first published story; Jack Kerouac on "spontaneous prose;" poetry by Robert Creeley, Philip Whalen, Denise Levertov, Edward Dorn, and Kenneth Koch, plus Charles Olson prose piece. Great issue.

147. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.6 (Autumn 1958). Near fine. 40.00 Frank O'Hara, R. Creeley, G. Snyder, M. McClure, J. Rechy.

148. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.7 (Winter 1959). VG (+) 35.00 Frank O'Hara, K.Koch, J.Schuyler, Thelonious Monk, et al.

149. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.9 (Summer 1959). NF 40.00 Frank O'Hara, S. Beckett, H. Miller, T. Southern, S. Krim, C. Olson.

150. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.10 Nov.-Dec. 1959). NF 40.00 First issue as bi-monthly. J.Rechy, S.Beckett, H.Miller, Ginsberg .

151. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.12 (Mar-Apr. 1960). NF 30.00 Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, author's first play, first appearance.

152. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.14 (Sep.-Oct. 1960). NF 30.00 S. Beckett, P. Whalen. Jazz: Charlie Parker.

153. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.15 (Nov.-Dec. 1960). NF 30.00 Beckett, K. Koch, L. Ferlinghetti, LeRoi Jones.

154. EVERGREEN REVIEW. v.5, no.16 (Jan-Feb.1961) NF 30.00 W. S. Burroughs, excerpt: Naked Lunch (still unpub. in US), P. Goodman, Growing Up Absurd .

155. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.17 (Mar.-Apr.1961). NF 30.00 H. Miller, Jonathan Williams, Lew Welch. Jazz: Duke Ellington.

156. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.18 (May-Jun.1961). VG 25.00 B. Behan, J. Genet, L. Ferlinghetti, A. Ginsberg. Jazz: Horace Silver.

157. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.19 (July-Aug. 1961). NF. 30.00 J. Rechy, excerpt from City of Night, L.Rivers/F. O'Hara.

158. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.20 (Sep.-Oct. 1961). NF 25.00 P. Bowles, W. S. Burroughs, M. McClure, R. Creeley.

159. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.21 (Nov.-Dec. 1961). NF 25.00 German Scene issue: H. Arp, G. Grass, H. Böll.

160. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.23 (Mar.-Apr. 1962). NF 25.00 H.Miller /Tropic on trial, Robt. Coover. Jazz: Modern Jazz Quartet.

161. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.24 (May-Jun.1962). NF 25.00 J. Rechy, 1st chap. City of Night, L. Ferlinghetti, Frank O'Hara

161a. EVERGREEN REVIEW. v.6, no.25 (Jul.-Aug. 1962) VG 25.00 W. S. Burroughs, excerpt from Novia Express [sic], Robt. Coover, M. McClure

162. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.27 (Nov./Dec. 1962) NF. 25.00 Samuel Beckett's Words and Music; first appearance.

163. EVERGREEN REVIEW. no.28 ( Jan.-Feb. 1963) NF. 25.00 A. Artaud, J. Oppenheimer Jazz: G. Mulligan & P. Desmond

164. FARINA, Richard. Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone. NY, Random House, 1969. 1st ed. Foreword by Joan Baez. Owner blindstamp, else fine in like dust jacket (price clip). 65.00 SOLD

Collects shorter writings, stories, poems, essays and song lyrics. Fariña (1936-1966) was killed in a motorcycle accident near Carmel, CA, two days after publication of his zany first book, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me. His wife, Mimi, is Joan Baez's sister, and Thomas Pynchon, a Cornell Univ. classmate, was best man at their wedding. Pynchon dedicated Gravity's Rainbow to Fariña.

165. [FAULKNER, WILLIAM]. WILSON, Robert A. Faulkner On Fire Island. NY, Phoenix Bookshop, 1979. 12mo. [iv],7,[i]. Limited edition of 250 copies, hors commerce. Brief author inscription (Wilson) at title page. As new in printed wraps. 50.00

Account of his discovery of the manuscript of Faulkner's first novel, Soldier's Pay. Facsimile of page from holograph poem, "Adolescence."

166. [FOOTBALL]. TARKENTON, Fran. Murder at the Super Bowl. NY, Morrow, 1986. 1st ed. Fine in like dust jacket. 35.00

Gridiron murder mystery, by the legendary Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants quarterback. Large B&W photo of the author.

167. [GAY FICTION]. CARPENTER, Don. Hard Rain Falling. NY, Harcourt, Brace, World, 1966. 1st ed. Advance Reading Copy. Fine in printed tan wraps. Signed by the author. Very uncommon. 300.00

Author's first book. Unquestionably aggressive, written in a rough vernacular, an eye-popping novel about youth living on the tough edge of life, set in Oregon! Not for the timid reader.

168. [GAY FICTION]. FORD, Charles, & Parker Tyler. The Young and Evil. NY, Arno, 1975. reprint from 1st ed. (Paris, Obelisk, 1933, when Ford was 21). Fine in cloth binding, no dust jacket. 125.00

First book for both gay writers, which became a very important gay novel. Includes slang of the era. A classic.

169. [GAY FICTION]. KRAMER, Larry. Faggots. NY, Random House, 1978.1st ed. Fine in like dust jacket. 275.00

New York author's first novel, the story of four days in the life of Fred Lemish which takes him to the bars, baths, streets, discos, and "meat racks" of New York and Fire Island. Graphic, shocking detail. Large B&W photo of author at rear dust jacket panel.

170. GELBER, Jack. The Apple. NY, Grove Press, 1960. 1st ed. Evergreen Original E-291. Light underlines, very good (+) in wraps. 25.00

171. [GINSBERG]. MORGAN, Bill, & Bob Rosenthal. Best Minds; A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg. NY, Lospecchio Press, 1986. 1st ed. 311p. Copy 186 of 200 copies of the Limited Edition, signed by Morgan & Rosenthal. Black cloth, with no dust jacket, as issued. As new, inscribed from Morgan to JD. 100.00

A Festschrift with comments by many contributors such as Kathy Acker, David Amram, John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, William S. Burroughs, Elaine de Kooning, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ted Joans, Jack Kerouac, Jack Micheline, Terry Southern, and Kurt Vonnegut. Monumental!

172. GIRODIAS, Maurice, ed. The Olympia Reader; Selections From Traveller's Companion Series. NY, Grove Press, 1965. 1st ed. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket. 55.00

Monumental anthology of modern letters. Numerous B&W illus.

173. GOOCH, Brad. Scary Kisses. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. 1st ed. Author's first novel. Fine in like dust jacket. 30.00

174. GOVER, Robert. One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding. NY, Grove Press, 1962. 1st U.S. ed. Author's first book. Owner name at endpaper. Fine with two variant dust jackets, also fine. 55.00

174a. GRAVES, Robert. Watch the Northwind Rise; A Novel. NY, Creative Age Press, 1949. 1st U.S. ed. Pub. in Great Britain under the title "Seven Days in New Crete." F/NF(pc). 100.00

175. GREEN, Jack. Fire the Bastards! Normal, IL, Dalkey Press, 1992. 1st ed. Intro. by Steven Moore of Dalkey Press. Fine copy in like dust jacket. 25.00

Scorching attack on the book-review media using the critical reception of Willian Gaddis's 1955 novel The Recognitions as a case study (the original reviews were overwhelmingly negative). B&W author photo at rear flap.

175a. GROGAN, Emmett. Ringolevio; A Life Played For Keeps. Boston, Little, Brown, 1972. 1st ed. 498p. B&W photos. Fine copy in full color wraparound dust jacket designed by Larry Rivers (U. S. map), near fine. 95.00

Autobiography of Grogan (1942-1978), a flower-child revolutionary who grew up in New York, then moved to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district in the late 1960s and was founder of The Diggers. Title from children's street game. Book is referred to in Rivers' autobiography, What Did I Do? (pp.100-101). Grogan also wrote a novel, Final Score.

175b. GROGAN, Emmett. Ringolevio; A Life Played For Keeps. London, Heinemann, 1972. 1st Brit. ed. 498p. B&W photos. Fine copy in full color wraparound dust jacket designed by Larry Rivers (U. S. map), near fine. Binding differs from 1st U. S. ed. 75.00

175c. GROGAN, Emmett. Final Score. NY, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1976. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket; crease at rear jacket flap. 60.00

First novel by Grogan (1942-1978), a flower-child revolutionary who grew up in New York, then moved to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district in the late 1960s and was founder of The Diggers and author of Ringolevio (1972), a book about that scene. Final Score deals with New York underworld capers and high jinks.

176. _____ . Advance Reading Copy. Fine in wraps. 95.00

177. HARRISON, Jim. Just Before Dark; Collected Nonfiction. Clark City, Mont., Clark City Press, 1991. 1st ed. Very fine in like dust jacket. 65.00

A startlingly marvelous book of essays and articles, based on Harrison's years of writing for Esquire, Antaeus, Sports Illustrated, The Psychoanalytic Review, plus some works never published before. There are three sections: "Food" deals with years of hunting and fishing in the wild, and the preparation of same, including the selection and serving of fine wines; "Travel and Sport" includes a notable essay, "A Plaster Trout in Worm Heaven"; and "Literary Matters" includes comments on Hemingway's Nick Adams Stories, Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard, and a lot more. Illustrated by Russell Chatham (CHAY thum). Wonderful B&W photo of the author at rear panel of dust jacket. Superb gift item.

JOHN DINSMORE

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