- 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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178. [HELL'S ANGELS]. REYNOLDS, Frank. Freewheelin Frank; Secretary of the Angels as told to Michael McClure. NY, Grove Press, 1967. 1st ed. Fine in like dust jacket, signed by photographer Larry Keenan. 85.00

The first book about the Hell's Angels by an Angel in his mid-twenties, as told to an outstanding poet/playwright. There is nothing quite like this book. Period. A beautiful copy of a book more often found tattered, when found.

179. HOLMES, John Clellon, The Horn. NY, Random House, 1958. 1st ed. Near fine in like dust jacket. Author's second book. 225.00

180. HOLMES, John Clellon. The Horn. NY, Random House, 1958. 1st ed. Near fine copy in supplied dust jacket with slight chipping to extremities, else very good. Inscribed & signed by Holmes: "For Aunt Molly - with all my love - John. August 1958." 485.00

Author's second book, based on the lives and times of Lester "Prez" Young and Charlie "Bird" Parker. Written largely at Holmes's house in Old Saybrook, CT, 1956, while listening to jazz records of the era. Explores the competitive world of black jazz musicians, many very talented but neglected, involved with drugs and alcohol, often badly exploited. Replete with hip patois. A wonderful association copy.

181. HOLMES, John Clellon. The Horn. NY, Crest Books, 1959. 1st pap.ed. S-307.

Light rubbing to paper wraps, bookstore rubber stamp, else a very nice copy, no spine crease, tight in wraps. 45.00

182. HOLMES, John Clellon. Nothing More To Declare. NY, Dutton, 1967. 1st ed. Errata slip laid in. Fine copy (previous owner's name at ffep) in like dust jacket. 85.00

Collected essays on Jay Landesman (Neurotica editor), Gershon Legman, popular culture, Beat Generation, Kerouac, Ginsberg, the movies, Lee Harvey Oswald, the sexual revolution, New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. A powerful collection of vintage Holmes.

183. HOLMES, John Clellon. Nothing More To Declare. L, Andre Deutsch, 1968. 1st Brit.ed. Different binding and dust jacket from U.S. ed. Fine in like dust jacket. 65.00

184. HOLMES, John Clellon. "Too Late Words To My Father." Four-page JCH poem printed in: New & Experimental Literature. Midland, TX, Texas Center for Writers Press, 1975. 1st pap. ed. 203p. This copy inscribed by Holmes at his poem. Fine in wraps. 75.00

185. HOLMES, John Clellon. Death Drag: Selected Poems 1948-1979. Pocatello, ID, Limberlost Press, 1979. 1st ed. One of 26 copies lettered and signed by the author on bound-in reddish/orange sheet, January 1980. Dedicated to Allen Ginsberg. Fine copy in printed gray wraps with B&W author photo at rear panel. 195.00

186. HUXLEY, Aldous. After Many a Summer. L, Chatto & Windus, 1939. 1st ed. Near fine in very good dust jacket. 300.00 Huxley's Hollywood novel in which biologists search for the secret of eternal life.

187. IRVING, John. The 158-Pound Marriage. NY, Random House, 1974. 1st ed. Fine in like dust jacket. 150.00 SOLD

Irving's third book, about Severin Winter, born in Vienna, who is a German professor and varsity wrestling coach at a New England university.

188. JOYCE, James. Letters of James Joyce. Edited, intro. by Stuart Gilbert. NY, Viking, 1957. 1st ed. 437p. Chronology of Joyce by Richard Ellmann. Rare B&W photo of Joyce family, Paris 1924, at frontispiece. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket. 85.00 SOLD

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189. KARP, Ivan C. Doobie Doo; A Novel. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1966.1st ed. 206p. Publisher's presentation edition, specially bound in pictorial boards with reproduction of color painting by Roy Lichtenstein of a woman crying (from his "Brad" series). Publisher's rubber stamp at front pastedown, letter from Nelson Doubleday reproduced at rear cover. Fine in illustrated boards (no dust jacket issued). 450.00

Credited as one of the first pop art novels. Ivan Karp (born 1926) was with the Leo Castelli Galleries from 1959-1969, and founder of the O.K. Harris Works of Art in 1969, which he still runs today at 383 West Broadway in the SOHO art district of New York City. A biographical sketch in The New Yorker of November 14, 1964, titled "Father of Pop Art," tells of Karp's discovering artists Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, etc. Calvin Tomkins's Off the Wall; Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time (Doubleday, 1980), has a B&W photo facing p.136 of Karp and Richard Bellamy at the Judson Church Gallery, late 1950s, photo credited to Fred McDarrah, and a splendid discussion of Karp at pp.173-179. A very important 20th century pop art novel, and quite scarce thus in publisher's edition.

190. KARP, Ivan C. Doobie Doo; A Novel. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1966.1st ed. 206p.Publisher's presentation edition, specially bound in pictorial boards with reproduction of color painting by Roy Lichtenstein of a woman crying (from his "Brad" series). Fine in illustrated boards (no dust jacket issued), signed and inscribed by Karp. 650.00

No copies were for sale. At copyright page: "This edition has been especially bound by Doubleday & Company, Inc., for presentation only." Publisher's rubber stamp at front pastedown, "Season's Greetings" slip laid in, letter from Nelson Doubleday reproduced at rear cover indicating publication date of January 7, 1966.

This copy includes addition of a January 1996 article in the Lexington, KY, Herald-Leader on the Centre College (Danville, KY) honorarium of Karp at the college, with an exhibition of his client artists. Also, a February 1996 article on the exhibit at Norton Center for the Arts, and a copy of the program.

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191. [KEROUAC]. Kerouac/Beat Bibliographic Checklists. Compiled/published by John Dinsmore & Associates, 1993. Twelve (12) pages, as desktop-published gatefold sheets, postpaid. 12.50

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) has been at rest for 30 years. Interest in & publishing about Kerouac & the Beat Generation have continued, however, and these checklists of primary & selected secondary materials are intended to plug some gaps as well as collect, in a single source, some of the most useful information from the 1950s to the present, primarily book-length material (much of it out-of-print).

There is a listing of the Kerouac first editions, based on Charters up through 1973, with later titles added, and a list of some recordings and videos; a bibliography section and an up-to-date selected checklist of books, primarily biographical or critical, on Kerouac and the Beat Generation, plus single issues of periodicals that featured Kerouac.

192. KEROUAC, Jack. On The Road. NY, Signet, 1958. 1st pbk.ed. Fine in wraps; only a tad of age shows. 155.00 SOLD Charters A2b. A stunningly beautiful, unread copy of this great Beat classic, seldom found thus any more.

193. KEROUAC, Jack. Lonesome Traveller. NY, Grove Press, 1970. 2nd U.S. ed. GP-681. Cover photo of JK by Robert Frank. Fine copy in like dust jacket. Charters A13c note. 75.00

194. [KEROUAC, Jack]. GIFFORD, Barry, & Lawrence Lee. Jack's Book; An Oral Biography. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1978. 1st ed. 399p. photos. index. B&W photos. Main character identity key. bibliog. Fine in like dust jacket. 55.00

Based on personal interviews of 35 individuals who were close to Kerouac and the Beat Scene, including Lowell residents from his early years. Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, John Clellon Holmes, Luanne Henderson (Neal Cassady's first wife), Carolyn Cassady, Al & Helen Hinkle, Gregory Corso, Malcolm Cowley, Peter Orlovsky, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Joyce Glassman, David Amram, Lenore Kandel, et al. Useful adjunct biography to Charters.

195. [KEROUAC]. HOLMES, John Clellon. Visitor: Jack Kerouac in Old Saybrook. California, PA, unspeakable visions of the individual, 1981. [no. 11]. oblong 12mo. [10] leaves in wraps with B&W photo of the author. This copy is one of 750 (the entire edition) signed by Holmes at the title page. Very fine. 85.00

Holmes (1926-1988) journal entries describing three Kerouac visits in 1957, 1962, and 1965, plus a fourth entry describing his emotions on hearing of Kerouac's death in 1969. A poignant document.

196. [KEROUAC, Jack]. Milewski, Robert J., et al, compilers. Jack Kerouac: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Sources, 1944-1979. Metuchen, NJ, Scarecrow, 1981. 1st ed. 225p. Scarecrow author bibliogs. no.52. B&W frontispiece drawing of youthful Kerouac by Bill Van Nimwegen. Near fine in cloth. 65.00

Reviews of Kerouac books films, articles on Kerouac, theses / dissertations, reviews of secondary works, creative works influenced by Kerouac, biographical chronology, etc. text of Last Will & Testament. Extensive index.

Kenneth Koch books illustrated by Larry Rivers

197. KOCH, Kenneth. When The Sun Tries To Go On. LA, Black Sparrow Press, 1969. Limited edition. 1/200 hard copies signed. by KK and Larry Rivers. Fine in like dust jacket. 400.00 SOLD

Written in 1953. illus. in color and B/W by Larry Rivers.. Dedicated to Frank O'Hara. In 1992 a bookseller called this the "best-designed Black Sparrow book" & priced it at 750.00.

198. KOCH, Kenneth. When The Sun Tries To Go On. LA, Black Sparrow Press, 1969. 1st paperback ed. Fine in wraps, 1/1,500 copies. illus. in color and B/W by Larry Rivers. 40.00

199. KOCH, Kenneth. Sleeping With Women. LA, Black Sparrow, 1969. 9p. Cover designed by Larry Rivers. Limited Edition of 450 numbered copies. 150 copies in hardcover and dust jacket, signed by KK (not signed by LR). 300 copies in wraps, signed by KK. This is no.111 of 300 copies in wraps, signed by KK. Slight soiling to front wrap, else near fine. 65.00

200. KOCH, Kenneth. I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry in a Nursing Home. NY, Random House, 1977. 1st ed. 259p. Fine in like dust jacket. 45.00

Color wraparound dust jacket illustration by Larry Rivers.

201. KOCH, Kenneth. The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951. NY, Random House, 1979. 1st ed. 81p. Fine in near fine dust jacket, and signed by KK. 50.00

Color wraparound dust jacket illustration by Larry Rivers.

202. KOCH, Kenneth. On The Edge; Poems. NY, Viking, 1986. 1st ed. Fine in like dust jacket. 45.00

Color dust jacket cover by Larry Rivers.

203. LAMANTIA, Philip. Selected Poems; 1943-1966. San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1967. 1st ed. 1st printing: 5,000 copies. 12mo. 6168 Fine in printed wraps. 95.00

The Pocket Poet Series no.20. The American surrealist poet's incredible stuff, in a small volume.

204. [LANGUAGE]. FLEXNER, Stuart Berg. I Hear America Talking; Illustrated Treasury of American Words & Phrases. NY, Van Nostrand / Reinhold, 1976. 1st ed. 4to. 505p. NF/NF 65.00

205. [LANGUAGE]. URDANG, Laurence, ed. Verbatim: The Language Quarterly. Essex, CT, Verbatim, 1979-1982. 4 vols. Quarter-bound brown cloth over beige boards. Advance Review Copy. Title in silver on spines, blind-stamped at covers. As new. 145.00

Reprint edition of volumes I-VI with index, covering 1974-1980.

206. LEYNER, Mark. I Smell Esther Williams. NY, Fiction Collective, 1983. 1st ed. Fine (white boards are clean!) in near fine dust jacket (short nick) with great B&W photo of youthful author. 200.00 SOLD

Leyner's scarce first book, twenty-six prose pieces of a wildly kaleidoscopic nature. Founded by Ronald Sukenick and others in 1974, the Fiction Collective is a nonprofit writers' co-op whose purpose is to publish serious fiction, often experimental, which was not accepted by commercial publishers. The Collective's books were issued in very modest printings. Other writers published include Clarence Major, Steve Katz, James Baker Hall, and Jonathan Baumbach.

207. LEYNER, Mark. My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist. NY, Harmony, 1990. quality paperback original. Fine in color-illustrated cartoon-style wraps. Small printing. 85.00

Author's scarce second book, a novel involving cyberpunk, hard-boiled detective stories, American popular culture. B&W author photo, blurbs by David Foster Wallace & Larry McCaffery.

208. LEYNER, Mark. Et Tu, Babe. NY, Harmony Books, 1992. 1st ed. Advance Review Copy with extensive publisher's materials laid in. As new in like dust jacket. 95.00

Author's third book, dust jacket blurbs by Tom Robbins ("zeitgeist frappé") and Jay McInerney ("a portrait of the artist as a flashbulb-tanned, narcotic-nourished, steroid-swollen, priapic monster").

209. _____ . As new in like dust jacket, signed in 1992. 95.00

210. _____ . Fine copy in like dust jacket. 55.00

210a. LISH, Gordon. My Romance. NY, Norton, 1991. 1st ed. F/F signed. 50.00

211. [LITTLE MAGAZINES]. McMILLAN, Dougald. Transition; The History of a Literary Era 1927-1938. NY, Braziller, 1976. 1st ed. 303p. Detailed list of contents of all issues. VF/VF 65.00

Lively study of Transition, probably the most important of American expatriate little magazines. Follows the development of European movements such as surrealism, expressionism, dadaism. Contributors included Hart Crane, Beckett, Joyce, Stein, Hemingway, Dylan Thomas.

Little Magazines

An eclectic list, mostly U.S. titles, sometimes exotic, listed in chronological order of publication.

212. Accent. vol.11, no.3 (Summer 1951). Urbana, IL. Fine 50.00 Frank O'Hara, three stories by James Schuyler (author's first pubn.).

213. Floating Bear. Diane di Prima and LeRoi Jones, eds. nos.1-37, 1961-1969. Hardbound facsimile pub. by Lawrence McGilvery, La Jolla, CA, 1973. Includes intro, notes, and supplement: "Intrepid no.20 / Floating Bear no.38." Over 600 sheets on 8-1/2" x 11" sheets. Fine hardback as issued, without dust jacket. 390.00

Rare in their original issue, these mimeo newsletters contained contributions from Burroughs, Kerouac, Ginsberg, McClure, Creeley, Chas. Olson, Frank O'Hara, Jno. Williams, Carl Solomon, John Weiners, Whalen, Lamantia, Selby. This set is seldom offered.

214. Location. NY. vol.I, no.1 (Spring 1963). Very good/pencil underlines/missing pp.73-80. 200.00 ed. Thomas B.Hess & Harold Rosenberg. Managing ed. Donald Barthelme.

Cover: Larry Rivers. Writings: Frank O'Hara/Rivers collaboration: "Life Among The Stones." nos.1, 3, 4, 6. Essay by Rivers.

Kenneth Koch, four chapters from The Red Robins. illus. by Larry Rivers. Robert Rauschenberg, "Random Order." Suite of B&W photos of his art projects. Saul Steinberg, "The Nose Problem." B&W drawings with text. Marshall McLuhan, "The Agenbite of Inwit." Essay. Willem de Kooning,

215. Locus Solus. Complete run of all five issues (nos.I-V) published, issued in four volumes: Locus Solus I (Winter 1961); Locus Solus II (Summer 1961) Collaboration Issue; Locus Solus III-IV (Winter 1962). Double issue of new poetry; Locus Solus V (Summer? 1962). All near fine to fine, in wraps. 300.00

216. Locus Solus. II (Summer 1961). Collaboration Issue. Near fine in wraps. 80.00

217. Locus Solus. III-IV (Winter 1962). Double Issue of new poetry. Ed. by John Ashbery. Near fine in wraps. 90.00

Contributors: LeRoi Jones, Bill Berkson, Larry Rivers (a rare early published occurrence of this artist's poetry), Diane Di Prima, Frank O'Hara, Paul Carroll, Daisy Aldan, Kenward Elsmslie, J.Schuyler, Gerard Malanga, James Merrill, J.Ashbery, B.Guest, K.Koch, et al.

218. Kulchur. vol.2, no.6 (Summer 1962). Very good (+) . 45.00 D.Levertov, Julian Beck/Living Theatre, Frank O'Hara, L. Zukofsky, Fielding Dawson, etc.

219. Kulchur. vol.2, no.8 (Winter 1962). Very good (+) . 45.00 Michael McClure, D.Levertov, A.Hollo, G.Sorrentino, Joe LeSueur, Fielding Dawson, etc.

220. Nomad/New York. no.10/11 [Autumn 1962]. London. Intro. by John Bernard Myers. Very good in wraps. 60.00

Special issue: Poets of the New York Avant-Garde. Includes Frank O'Hara, K. Koch, B. Berkson, B. Guest, K. Elmslie, J. Schuyler, J. Ashbery, G. Sorrentino, LeRoi Jones, D. DiPrima, J. Oppenheimer. Artists: Dine, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, Oldenburg.

221. Audit / Poetry. SUNY-Buffalo. August? 1964. VG 35.00 Special Frank O'Hara issue. 1,500 copies.

222. Intransit. The Andy Warhol-Gerard Malanga Monster Issue. Eugene, OR, Toad Press, 1968. 217pp. 4to. typeset (not typewriter). illus. with B&W (some tinted) photos. A very good copy in original printed wraps: light soiling, cheap paper lightly tanned, but a survivor of the Sixties! Somewhat fragile, a most uncommon item. 175.00 SOLD

"Monster" is understatement. This huge, late-60s compilation throws together a veritable who's who in poetry and prose, most of it vintage hip. From the East Coast: Daisy Aldan, John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Edwin Denby, Harry Fainlight, Charles Henri Ford, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Steve Katz, Gerard Malanga, Taylor Mead, James Merrill, Frank O'Hara, Ron Padgett, Diane di Prima, Lou Reed, Peter Schjeldahl, Ingrid Superstar, Anne Waldman, Andy Warhol, John Wieners. From the West Coast: Charles Bukowski, Larry Eigner, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth, Philip Whalen. Also: d.a. levy, Jonathan Williams, many others. A wild and woolly cast in a knock-em, sock-em, Blazing Sixties Special. An amazing spectrum of talent.

223. Angel Hair. no.6 (Spring 1969). 4to. Fine in wraps. 40.00 O'Hara, Berkson, Koch, Schuyler, Jim Carroll, Anne Waldman, etc.

224. Ephemeris. II (May 1969). San Francisco. Fine/wraps. 45.00 Six Frank O'Hara poems, memoir of Jack Spicer by the editor. Typewritten text, great format.

225. Adventures In Poetry. no.5 (Jan.1970). 4to.Fine. 45.00 Frank O'Hara, Bill Berkson, Joe Brainard, Anne Waldman, Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, et al.

226. The Ant's Forefoot. nos.7/8 (Winter/Spring 1971). Toronto, Coach House Press. Highly unusual format: Tall thin folio, 17" H x 5-1/4" W. 1,000cc. This copy lacks pp.8-9 and 44-45. Near fine in pictorial wraps. 55.00

Frank O'Hara, Bill Berkson, Jim Carroll, Ted Berrigan, et al.

227. Chicago. vol.2, nos.2/3 (Mar./Apr. 1972). Frank O'Hara, Bill Berkson, Jim Carroll, etc. Near fine in pictorial wraps. 40.00

228. Panjandrum. no.2/3 (1973). Double issue. Fine/wraps. 50.00 Homage to Frank O'Hara: D. DiPrima, L. Ferlinghetti, G. Hartigan, V. Warren, J. Button, J. Brainard, etc.

229. Big Sky no.5 (1973). Bolinas, CA. Bill Berkson, editor. Fine. 35.00 Stuff from James Schulyer, John Wieners, Bill Berkson, Aram Saroyan, Tom Clark, Ferlinghetti, Malanga, Anne Waldman, et al. Art by Joe Brainard.

230. Big Sky. no.6 (1973). Bolinas, CA. Bill Berkson, editor. Fine. 35.00 Double issue with stuff from Schulyer, Ron Padgett, Edwin Denby, Kenward Elmslie, Anne Waldman, Fielding Dawson, Larry Fagin, Aram Sarayon, et al.

231. Big Sky. no.10 (1976). Bolinas, CA. Bill Berkson, editor. Fine. 35.00

Stuff from Federico Garcia Lorca, Kenneth Rexroth, Berkson, Keith Abbott, Philip Whalen, Fielding Dawson, Allen Ginsberg, et al.

232. Tracks: A Journal of Artists' Writings. vol.1, no.1 (November 1974). NY, MSS Information Corp. XLIB copy with single unobtrusive stamp, else near fine in stiff wraps. 50.00

Contains Frank O'Hara & Larry Rivers, "Surprising J. A." [John Ashbery]. Also: Robt. Indiana, Robt. Motherwell, Sol Lewitt, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, etc.

233. Iowa Review. vol.6, nos.3-4 (Summer-Fall 1975). 250p. Robert Coover: Fiction Editor. T. C. Boyle: Asst. Fiction Editor. Near fine in wraps. 30.00

C. Molesworth on Frank O'Hara, "The Angela Carter Show" by Coover.

234. 432 Review. no.5 (March/May 1977). tall 4to. Fine. 45.00 Frank O'Hara: "Lament and chastisement: a travelogue of war and personality." Entire issue devoted to this prose piece.

235. American Poetry Review. vol.6, no.3 (May-June 1977). Folded newsprint tabloid. Near fine. 30.00

Frank O'Hara: 17 previously unpublished poems, plus lengthy article on FOH by Marjorie Perloff.

236. Big Sky. Bolinas, CA, nos.11/12 (Feb./March 1978). 224p. Bill Berkson, & Joe LeSueur, eds. Fine in cream wraps. 70.00

Special issue of Big Sky: Homage to Frank O'Hara. 1,500cc. Scarce.

237. _____ . Berkeley, Creative Arts Book Co., 1980. reprint ed. 224p. Fine in white wraps. 45.00

238. O-Blek. no.5 (Spring 1989). NY, Garlic Press. Fine. 30.00

Contains Frank O'Hara/Kenneth Koch collaboration. Also: John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, Bill Berkson.

239. Gettysburg Review. vol.3, no.4 (Autumn 1990. Fine. 15.00

Article on A Clockwork Orange, 2 articles on Donald Barthelme, postmmodern lit, plus other fiction, essays, poetry.

240. Mississippi Review. Spring 1993. Fine, cover price. 12.00

Short Story Issue. Contributions by Donald Barthelme, Madison Smartt Bell, Stephen Dixon, Pam Houston, Thom Jones, Gordon Lish, etc. (End Little Magazines)

241. MATHEWS, Harry. Trial Impressions. Providence, Burning Deck, 1977. 1st ed. 1/950 copies. Fine in illustrated wrappers. 60.00

Scarce volume of poetry by Mathews. Cover by Keith Waldrop.

242. MAMET, David. Reunion/Dark Pony. NY, Grove, 1979. 1st ed. Evergreen Book E-728. Fine in wraps. 20.00 SOLD

243. MAMET, David. Goldberg Street. NY, Grove Press, 1985. 1st ed. Evergreen Book E-979. Fine in wraps. 20.00 SOLD

243a. McCLANAHAN, Ed. A Congress of Wonders. Wash., D.C., Counterpoint, 1996. 1st ed. As new in like dust jacket. Signed. 30.00

244. [McCLURE, MICHAEL]. WILSON, Robert A. Michael and the Lions. NY, Phoenix Bookshop, 1980. 1st ed. 12mo. Limited edition of 300 copies. Final & suppressed states, both as new. 55.00

Account of Wilson's 1966 trip to visit Michael & Joanna McClure for Christmas in San Francisco. B&W portrait of McClure. Final state: yellow printed wraps over off-white leaves, signed by Wilson at title page. Suppressed state: yellow printed wraps over yellow leaves, inscribed by Wilson, verso of front wrapper: "Suppressed because of defective printing in title and uneven inking".

245. McCLURE, Michael. Scratching the Beat Surface. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1982. 1st ed. Fine in like dust jacket. 25.00

246. McINERNEY, Jay. Story of My Life. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. 1st ed. As new in dust jacket. 25.00

McLUHAN, Marshall, ed. Explorations; Studies in Culture & Communication. Univ. of Toronto.no.1 (1953) - no.9 (1959). 1,000 copies each number. "Big Picture" essays by top talent.

247. Explorations no.2 (April 1954). Whole issue: 167p. NF/wraps. 55.00

Contains McLuhan's essay, "Media as Art Forms," which includes his first published speculation about television.

248. Explorations no.7 (March 1957). Whole issue: 156p. (some pages missing). Lightly rubbed, else near fine in stiff paper wraps. 45.00

Contains McLuhan's essay, "The Effect of the Printed Book on Language in the 16th Century." Also: Robt. Graves, Gershon Legman.

249. [McLUHAN, Marshall]. "Marshall McLuhan: Culture Becomes Show Biz." In: ROLLING STONE, no.70 (Nov.12, 1970). Whole issue: 48p. Lightly tanned, else near fine in wraps. 20.00 Report on McLuhan appearance at San Francisco State University. Also: interview of Janis Joplin's father, interview of Grace Slick, "open letter" to Dr. Timothy Leary from Ken Kesey. Vintage issue.

250. MICHELINE, Jack. River of Red Wine. NY, Troubador Press, 1958. 1st ed. 12mo. 38p. Intro. by Jack Kerouac. Slight wear & small smudge at front cover, else fine in original wraps with B&W photo of Micheline at inside rear cover. Signed by Micheline. 325.00 SOLD

Street poet / painter Micheline's delightful first book, featuring poetry such as: "Greenwich Village your Sicilian streets are not as wild as they used to be. The last of the Bohemians is dead." The language of Kerouac's intro (Charters B5) adds a great punch to a great small book. Highly uncommon.

251. MICHELINE, Jack. Third Rail (1) O' Harlem. n.p., n.p., 1961. 1st ed. Poem printed on single large sheet folded vertically to form four pages. Inscribed to poet George Montgomery by Micheline in 1963. From the estate of Montgomery. Dampstain, paper slit horizontally on one sheet, else very good (-). 425.00

"O' Harlem your streets of ebony and bone / the orange moon weeps tears" begins this wonderful poesy from the master of the street. Rare.

252. [MILLER, Henry]. Wickes, George, ed. Henry Miller and James Laughlin; Selected Letters. NY, Norton, 1995. 1st ed. 304p. Uncorrected Proof. Very fine in lettered wrappers. 55.00 SOLD

The record of a remarkable author/publisher relationship, 1935-1979 (Miller died in 1980). The letters in this volume are fascinating, providing a rich background on literary matters of this time period.

253. MORGAN, Seth. Homeboy. NY, Random House, 1990. 1st ed. Small first printing. Fine in like dust jacket. 85.00

Author's first (and only) book. Born New York City 1949, death by motorbike shortly after publication. Drug use, sordid sex, prostitution, pornography, crime, and prison life are themes encountered in this fascinating story. Plot and characters are well-drawn. But it is language (eye-popping range of vocabulary, plus first-hand knowledge of American "street" slang) and style (tight, action-oriented, fast-moving) which are the "stars" of this first novel.

254. [NEW YORK CITY]. BIRMINGHAM, Stephen. Life At The Dakota. NY, Random House, 1979. 1st ed. Near fine in like dust jacket. 40.00 SOLD

Social history of the renowned Dakota apartment house located at the corner of West 72nd Street and Central Park West.

255. (NEW YORK CITY). KAPLAN, Peter B., photographer, with Paul Goldberger & Thomas E. Norton.

High on New York. NY, Harry Abrams, 1986. 1st ed. 128p. Full color photos. Fine in like dust jacket. 55.00 SOLD

Spectacular and often unusual views from the heights of Manhattan. E.g., p.1, Statue of Liberty, from torch looking down, at night; p.2, Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan at night, with fireworks; title pages, midtown East Side early morning over East River from Brooklyn by air, U.N. building reflecting sunlight on the river; pp.24-25, fishbowl lens shot north from top of Empire State; p.26, vertical view down to street from top of Empire State; p.56, aerial shot of CPS and CPW, from Plaza Hotel around Columbus Circle up to the Dakota; pp.68-69, lower Manhattan from top of Woolworth during ticker tape parade, with dramatic view of approaches to Brooklyn Bridge; p.81, Empire State and Chrysler from together, from atop Queensboro Bridge at sunrise; p.98, Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan, aerial shot of winter, snow, at early morning; p.122, Kaplan high atop Empire State on antenna; "Moon Over Manhattan" shot of workmen atop TV antenna on World Trade. Breath-grabbing book!

255a. [NEW YORK CITY]. McDARRAH, Fred. Greenwich Village. NY, Corinth Books, 1963. 1st ed. Text & B&W photographs by McDarrah. Fine in wraps. 75.00

Includes a two-page map of the Village.

255b. [NEW YORK CITY]. GRUEN, John. The New Bohemia: The Combine Generation NY, Shorecrest, 1966. 1st ed. 183p. Frontis. collage by Larry Rivers. 50 B&W photos by Fred McDarrah. Street map of East Village. Inscribed at the title page by Gruen and McDarrah. Rare thus. 225.00

On-the-scene discussion of the emergence of New York's "underground" East Village in the Sixties, focusing on developments in the arts and literature. Fascinating.

256. [NEW YORK SCENE]. GRUEN, John. The Party's Over Now: Reminiscences of the Fifties -- New York's Artists, Writers, Musicians, and Their Friends. NY, Viking Press, 1972. 1st ed. 282p. illus. Fine in like dust jacket. 75.00

Wonderful recounting of this era, by a New York critic who was part of the scene and who knew all the players back then: Jackson Pollock, Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, the de Koonings, Ned Rorem, Jack Gelber, John Ashbery, Sidney Janis & Betty Parsons, Bill Berkson, Edward Albee, the Cedar Bar scene, etc.

257. [NEW YORK SCENE]. FRIEDMAN. B.H. Circles. NY, Fleet Publishing, 1962. 1st ed. Fine in very good (+) dust jacket. 45.00

Author's first novel, set in the contemporary art world of New York City & the Hamptons during the Fifties.

258. [NEW YORK SCENE]. ROREM, Ned. The New York Diary of Ned Rorem. NY, Braziller, 1967. 1st ed. 218p. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price clipped) with slight wear at spine extrems. 75.00 Author's second diary in the series, covering 1955-1961. Beau monde adventures in musical, literary, and artistic circles on both sides of the Atlantic, by the noted gay composer. B&W photos. Eye openers!

259. [NEW YORK SCENE]. RUSSELL, Howard Lewis. Rush To Nowhere. NY, D.Fine, 1988. 1st ed. As new in like dust jacket. Small first printing. 45.00

Author's first book, the hilarious adventures of a young Alabama adman/writer ("Dancer") starting out career in New York City. Terrific first novel by a talented young author . Superb attention to details about living and "making it" in contemporary Gotham.

260. [NEW YORK SCENE]. RUSSELL, Howard Lewis. Iced Tea & Ignorance. NY, D.Fine, 1989. 1st ed.

Advance Review Copy . As new in like dust jacket, and signed. 40.00 Author's second book, a New Age "gothic idyll" set in the South.

261. _____ . Trade ed. As new in dust jacket. 30.00

262. [NEW YORK SCENE]. SUKENICK, Ronald. Down and In; Life in the Underground. NY, Morrow/Beech Tree, 1987. 1st ed. B&W photos. Very fine in like dust jacket. 45.00

Sukenick's story of the underground culture in America, as it grew out of the old Greenwich Village bohemia-- hipsters, rock 'n' rollers, punks, has-beens, artists, intellectuals, etc. Double-page street map of the Village at front and rear endpapers. Kool & fascinado.

263. [NEW YORK SCENE]. WALLOCK, Leonard, ed. New York Culture Capital of the World 1940-1965. NY, Rizzoli, 1988. 1st ed. 4to. 292p. index. bibliog. 300+ illus. (80 full color). As new with raucous Red Grooms painting on dust jacket cover. 125.00

Panoramic survey of the era which saw an explosion of activity in literature, the visual arts, architecture, music, dance, theatre.

264. [NEW YORK SCHOOL]. BERKSON, Bill. Enigma Variations. Bolinas, CA, Big Sky, 1975. 1st ed. Cover & drawings by Philip Guston. Published in an edition of 1,000 copies. Fine copy in stapled wrappers, inscribed by Berkson to poet Larry Fagin. 45.00

265. [NEW YORK SCHOOL]. MACHIZ, Herbert, ed. Artists' Theatre; Four Plays. NY, Grove Press, 1960. 1st Evergreen ed. E-221.Near fine in original paper wraps. 45.00

Four of 16 original plays produced off-Broadway by Artists' Theatre in NYC, 1953-1955. "Try! Try!" by Frank O'Hara, "The Heroes" by John Ashbery, "The Bait" by James Merrill, and "Absalom" by Lionel Abel. An important collection of avant-garde theatre, with B&W cast photos included for each play.

266. [NEW YORK SCHOOL]. Poets of the Cities: New York & San Francisco 1950-1965. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts/Pollock Galleries, Southern Methodist Univ., Dutton, 1974. 1st ed. oblong 8vo. 175p. bibliog. biographies. Exhibition catalogue 1974-75. Near fine in lightly rubbed wraps (was no hardcover edition). 65.00

Assemblage. "Artists and Poets 1950-1965" by Robt. Creeley. "The Beat Poets" by John Clellon Holmes. B&W/color illustrations of art, artists, poets: Pollock, Rauschenberg, de Kooning, Kline, Rivers, Grooms, Nevelson, Dine, Oldenburg, Johns, Frank O'Hara, Jack Kerouac. Remarkable study of art, music, jazz, literature.

267. NIN, Anais. The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Volume Three 1923-1927. San Diego, HBJ, 1983. 1st ed. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Fine in wraps. 50.00

268. NIN, Anais. The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Volume Four 1927-1931. San Diego, HBJ, 1985. 1st ed. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Fine in wraps. 50.00 SOLD

Poet's First Book Advance Copy, Illustrated and Signed by Larry Rivers

269. O'HARA, Frank. A City Winter & Other Poems. NY, Tibor de Nagy Gallery Editions, 1951 [1952]. Small 4to. 13p. Advance Copy. Smith A1. About fine. 2,150.00

Published in a total edition of 300 copies illustrated with two B&W drawings by Larry Rivers. Twenty numbered copies (1-20) were bound in boards, printed on Japanese Kochi paper, each containing as frontispiece an original drawing by Larry Rivers. 280 copies were bound in decorated paper wrappers, of which 130 copies numbered 21-150, the remaining 150 copies unnumbered (?). This copy lacks the decorated wrappers with label described by the bibliographer. The original endpapers, which are slightly soiled, serve as wrappers. This is one of the very few Advance Copies furnished to O'Hara and Rivers for their use, specially signed by Larry Rivers at title page.

Illustrated and Signed by Larry Rivers

270. O'HARA, Frank. Second Avenue. NY, Totem Press/Corinth Books, 1960. 1st ed. 15p. Cover drawing by Larry Rivers. 1,000cc. Stiff saddle-stapled paper wrappers. Originally written in 1953. Smith A5. Issued in four states, all states present in this collection. 1st printing, red on black, printed label at cover. This copy is additionally signed by Larry Rivers. Near fine. 750.00

271. _____. 2nd printing, pink. This copy is additionally signed by Larry Rivers. Near fine. 550.00

272. _____. 3rd printing, black/gray half-tones, ZIP code at title. Near fine. 95.00

273. _____. 4th printing, black/gray half-tones, no ZIP code, price $1.25. Near fine. 95.00

274. O'HARA, Frank. Lunch Poems. San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1964. [1965]. 1st ed. 74p. 1,500cc. Pocket Poet series no.19. Contains "The Day Lady Died." Smith A8. Near fine in wraps. 225.00

275. O'HARA, Frank. Love Poems (Tentative Title). NY, Tibor de Nagy Gallery Editions, 1965. 1st ed. 30p. 500cc. Smith A9. Fine in wraps. 225.00

276. [O'HARA, Frank]. In Memory of My Feelings; A Selection of Poems by Frank O'Hara. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1967. 4to. [218]p. Limited edition of 2,500 numbered copies. This is copy no.297, from the library of New York conductor Leonard Bernstein. Issued in slipcase, unbound, in half natural linen and half gray laid paper over boards, brown lettering at spine. Fine copy in slipcase which is faded and slightly soiled. 325.00

Edited by Bill Berkson. Illustrated with brown and black drawings by 30 artists, including Joe Brainard, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Lee Krasner, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers. Smith A13.

277. O'HARA, Frank. The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara. Donald Allen, ed. NY, Knopf, 1971. 1st ed. 586p. Intro. by John Ashbery. 2,377cc issued, of which 1,512cc with dust jacket portrait of nude FOH by Larry Rivers, later suppressed and replaced with a printed dust jacket. This copy has the first state dust jacket with the Larry Rivers nude portrait of FOH. Near fine copy in like dust jacket. Smith A15. 350.00

277a. O'HARA, Frank. The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara. Donald Allen, ed. NY, Knopf, 1971. 1st ed. 586p. Indexes. Intro by John Ashbery. Brief chronology of FOH. Fine copy in price-clipped 2nd state dust jacket with minor chipping at spine extremities, else near fine with large B&W photo of FOH by Kenward Elmslie at rear panel. For the first edition, 2,377 copies were published: 1,512 copies with the suppressed Larry Rivers dust jacket, and an additional 865 2nd state copies in lettered jacket cover (consequently, more scarce thus). Contains over FOH 500 poems covering late 1940s to poet's death in 1966. Monumental compilation by the editor of the watershed New American Poetry (1960). 175.00

278. (O'HARA, Frank). PERLOFF, Marjorie. Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters. NY, Braziller, 1977. 1st HC ed. 234p. bibliog. illus. Near fine in like dust jacket with B&W cover photo of O'Hara by Kenward Elmslie. 60.00

Brilliant critical biography by an academic scholar at the University of Southern California.

279. O'HARA, Frank. Selected Plays. NY, Full Court Press, 1978. 1st ed. 1,000cc. Intro. by Joe LeSeuer. Fine in like dust jacket. 55.00

280. O'HARA, Frank. Standing Still and Walking in New York. Donald Allen, ed. Bolinas, CA, Grey Fox Press, 1983. 2nd printing (1st pub.1975). 184p. Fine copy in wraps with B&W cover photo of FOH and Larry Rivers. 45.00

281. PATCHEN, Kenneth. Sleepers Awake. NY, Padell Book Co., 1946. 1st trade edition (there was a limited edition in same year). Very good in gray boards titled on spine in gold, neat small previous owner's signature, in very good dust jacket lightly chipped at top and bottom edges, another chip at base of spine, with light sunning. A nice copy of this typographically interesting novel, signed by Patchen at ffep. 350.00

Characterized by multi-sized types, a completely different novel written in a fascinating way by this master poet.

JOHN DINSMORE

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