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St. Louis, CNI/CEI, 1963-1968. 7 issues of this magazine founded by Barry Commoner, which bore three different names in its publishing history. An incomplete run: Nuclear Information, August 1963; and Scientist and Citizen for May/June 1965; April and May 1966; January 1967; January/February and December 1968. A publication of the Committee for Nuclear Information, a non-governmental organization devoted to reducing the danger of nuclear war and informing the public of the dangers of nuclear technology. The first issue here was published during the Kennedy administration, the same month that the first Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed between the U.S., the U.K., and the Soviet Union, an effort that had been underway for more than eight years at that point. Commoner was one of the most well-informed and highly educated of the anti-nuclear activists at that time, and as a result he retains a unique place in the history of American environmentalism: when he died in 2012, the New York Times obituary characterized him as "a founder of modern ecology and one of its most provocative thinkers and mobilizers in making environmentalism a people’s political cause." Cover stains to the earliest issue; else the lot is near fine in stapled wrappers. [#035866] $350
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Buffalo, Presence Press, 1968. Four short untitled poems, of a sexual nature, by Acker, in the third issue of this "Magazine of the Revolution," edited by Dan Connell. We found several copies of the first issue of the magazine in OCLC, but no copies of this issue. Stained at the spine base; still near fine in stapled wrappers. Precedes Acker's first book by four years. [#035092] SOLD

NY, Crowell, (1969). A collection edited by Aldan, who was nominated for the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Between High Tides. Inscribed by Aldan in the year of publication, with a quote from the 11th century poem "Black Marigolds" and "in memory of race horses, with love." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a pending chip at the spine base. [#027326] $95
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Washington, DC, Island Press, (1993). A measured look at the "jobs vs. the environment" discussions of the time. Signed by the author. Also warmly inscribed in a different pen, but likely in the same hand, as Barker's is the only signature. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036519] $350
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Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1933. An early biography of Bartram, the naturalist, explorer, and writer, with particular attention paid to the influence of Bartram on literature (in America, this means Emerson, Thoreau, Thomas Holley Chivers, and Lafcadio Hearn). Fagin taught English at Johns Hopkins, and this copy is inscribed by the author: "To Professor Gilbert Chinard/ with grateful acknowledgments," in the year of publication. Chinard is also acknowledged in the book's Preface, "for first directing my attention to Bartram." A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a small stain at the front spine fold. Uncommon inscribed, and also in dust jacket. [#036638] $375
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(NY), New Rivers Press, 1974. The scarce hardcover issue of his second book, a collection of poetry. The total edition was 600 copies, of which only 200 were issued in cloth; 400 were issued in wrappers. Well-known these days as a writer of fiction and of essays on fiction, Baxter didn't publish his first novel until 1987, seventeen years after his first book (Chameleon) and thirteen years after this title. Inscribed by the author in 1982. Fine in a slightly rubbed, else fine dust jacket. [#911007] $650
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(Augsburg), Maro Verlag, (1997). The German language issue of the first separate appearance of a story that first appeared in the Georgia Review in 1979. Illustrated with woodcuts by Sophie Dutertre. Fine in self-wrappers, with a one sheet, four-page author/illustrator biographical supplement laid in, also illustrated by Dutertre. Uncommon. This copy is signed by Boyle. [#911383] $150
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NY, New York University, (2018). An examination of why the most forward-facing sector of the economy is the most backward in its relationship to women, and how to achieve "gender diversity," i.e. inclusion and equity. From the decade before the vilification of DEI. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036606] $200
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Ithaca, Ithaca House, (1971). The second book, and first regularly published volume, by this writer of Abenaki descent, who has carved out a unique place in contemporary American Indian literature as a publisher, poet, novelist, anthologist, storyteller and chronicler of traditional stories. Warmly inscribed by the author to his grandmother: "For Grandma/ For her birthday./ July 4, 1972/ Love,/ Sonny." Joseph "Sonny" Bruchac was raised by his grandparents, and his grandmother influenced his early love of reading. Some staining to front cover and some rubbing and surface peeling there. Very good in wrappers. A nice association copy. [#016536] $375
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Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow, 2001. Two comb-bound advance copies: one shot from typescript and printed on rectos only, 298 pp.; the second copy is typeset and printed on both sides of the page, 355 pp. Laid into the first copy is an earlier version of one included poem: "oh to be young in 1942!," here titled just "oh, to be young!" The poem is two pages, the first being ribbon copy. Photocopied emendations to the table of contents in the first copy, removing the titles of poems not included; penciled notes to the table of contents in the second copy. The first one has the limitation "2/3" and the publisher's initials, "JM," on the cover; the second one is also initialed, with the limitation "4/11." Each is fine with an acetate cover. From the collection of John Martin, publisher of Black Sparrow Press, which printed most of Bukowski's work for the last nearly 30 years of his life, and which was in turn supported by the success Bukowski had with his poetry and his fiction, which rewrote the boundaries of what was acceptable as art. [#033372] $1,250
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Houston, Arte Publico Press, 1984. Inscribed by the author in 1986. Fine in wrappers. [#914438] $150
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Porthenys, [Self-Published?], 1988. Copy #58 of 100. Inscribed by the author to Peter Matthiessen and with a typed letter signed laid in: "I found this one copy of this tiny book, and I thought to send it to you the night before our departure for the old world (well it's all old and new isn't it?). I hear that you had a similar experience to what these little poems speak out from..." Chaskey continues in the letter with more personal news. More than 100 words. Poet-farmer Chaskey was the longtime head of Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett, New York, in eastern Long Island, and is considered "the spiritual father of the community farming movement." His first full-length book, the influential This Common Ground, was published in 2005; this chapbook precedes that book by nearly two decades. Near fine in self-wrappers. [#032274] $150
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London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1974. Catalog of an exhibition in the Ideas Gallery of Whitechapel of poems by this avant garde writer, known as a practitioner of concrete and sound poetry, and in most of the poems in this exhibition as a collaborator with visual artists. Signed by the poet. Chopin also founded the literary journal Cinquiame Saison, which morphed into the journal OU in 1964, and published a record of sound poetry with each issue. Six pages; fine. [#035638] $250
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London, Secker & Warburg, (1983). The first British edition of the first Booker Prize-winning novel by the South African Nobel Prize-winning author. Tap to spine crown; else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#912381] $100
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NY, (Pynson), 1936. New Series, Volume 1, No. 3. A near fine copy in a preserved, if darkened, glassine dustwrapper. [#033617] $75
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(n.p.), National Book Foundation, (1997). An 8-page pamphlet printing an interview with DeLillo by Diane Osen, upon the publication of the BOMC edition of Underworld. Covers two questions on DeLillo's becoming a writer, and another dozen specific to Underworld itself. After his National Book Award for White Noise, and the string of great novels that followed, DeLillo was considered one of the great American novelists of the second half of the 20th century, with Underworld widely considered to be his masterpiece. Fine in stapled wrappers. [#036545] SOLD

Chicago, Open Court Publishing Company, 1925. The inaugural lecture in the Paul Carus Foundation Lecture Series, an ongoing series in which lectures are presented over three consecutive days in prominent sessions at a divisional meeting of the American Philosophical Association. John Dewey was a philosopher, psychologist and educator who was one of the founders of the pragmatism school of philosophy and was called by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy "arguably the most prominent American intellectual for the first half of the twentieth century." He founded the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools in 1896 to test his educational ideas; he became President of the American Philosophical Association in 1905; he was one of the founders of the New School for Social Research in 1919; and he was a member of the first Board of Directors of Hull House, among many other projects and accomplishments. His ideas helped shape the founding of Bennington College and Goddard College, and later Black Mountain College in North Carolina, which for a time became the nexus of the arts and education in the U.S. Experience and Nature is considered his most metaphysical book and, as such, his most important in tying together all of his ideas of philosophy and psychology and grounding them in nature and a model of how the human being grows and learns. Owner name of Robert Rothman, and several marginal marks in the text. A very good copy with some handling and spotting to the brown cloth, particularly on the spine. Uncommon in the first printing. [#034725] $375
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Jonesborough, (Earthborn Press), 1979. Published by Elihu Embree in Jonesborough, Tennessee in 1820, The Emancipator was the first newspaper in the U.S. solely devoted to the abolition of slavery. In this more recent incarnation, the topic is nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Includes an excerpt from the last issue (October 31, 1820), as well as a poem by Gary Snyder ("For the Children"). Original content by David Winship. 8 pages; edgeworn; very good in stapled wrappers. [#035718] $40
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[Boston], [Houghton Mifflin], [1997]. An advance copy, in the form of bound photocopied typescript (one story is typeset) of her first book, a collection of stories. 8-1/2" x 11". Tapebound; foxing and dustiness to covers. Near fine. [#035451] $45
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(n.p.), (n.p.), 1988. A 120-page screenplay by Ford for a 1991 film adaptation that he did from stories in his collection Rock Springs. Signed by Ford. An unknown number of copies were produced, but Ford signed seven of them at a reading in 1990. Photo-reproduced sheets on 3-hole paper. In this copy, page 120 was typed on a different typewriter than the first 119 pages. Bound in a flexible blue binder; fine. The film was directed by Michael Fields and starred Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, Sam Shepard and Valerie Perrine. [#911202] $1,000
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NY, Julian Messner, (1963). Soil, forests, waterways, and wildlife: Harrison writes with the hope that "the mistakes of the fathers will never be repeated by their sons and daughters." Illustrated with photographs. Owner name in pencil; near fine in a very good, spine-faded and price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon in jacket. [#036530] $125
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Boston, New York Graphic Society, (1976). Highwater was one of the controversial figures in the field of Native American literature. He claimed to be of Blackfeet/Cherokee heritage, but critics disputed that and saw it as yet another case of exploitation of Native Americans -- in this case, Native American heritage and ethnicity itself, and the "authenticity" that comes with it -- by self-promoting whites. For nearly 30 years, though, "Highwater" -- his real name was Jackie Marks -- wrote extensively on American Indian culture and was one of the most visible promoters of Native American interests. He won awards for his writing and his other works, including some from Native American organizations and tribes. His ethnicity may have been a sham -- it was -- but for a time he was an important contemporary literary voice dealing with matters of Native American culture and heritage, with a hefty dose of self-promotion folded in. His writing was prolific, and his books -- on Native American painting, dance, and other subjects -- filled voids left by other writers and became landmarks in their fields. This title, Song From the Earth, an introduction to American Indian painting, and The Sweet Grass Lives On, a subsequent volume that introduced 50 contemporary American Indian artists, together helped launch the trend in collecting contemporary Indian art, and reviving memory of such artists as "the Kiowa Five," from the early 20th century, as well as promoting more contemporary artists. Inscribed by the author. Near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket worn at the corners and spine extremities. [#016662] $60
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NY, Ballantine/Del Rey, (1978). The hardcover issue. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916291] $150
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(Reston), National Association for Girls and Women in Sport, (1991). A comprehensive history of the first hundred years of women's basketball, ending at what now appears to be the cusp of a new era: post-Title-IX, with women's professional leagues on the horizon, and the superstars of that era firmly fixed in the pantheon (with some still acting as commentators and analysts today, if not still playing). Warmly inscribed in 2000 by co-editor Joan Hult. Only issued in wrappers. Near fine. [#036568] $200
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(1980-1981). Three autograph letters signed (two on personal stationery; one written inside a card) to fellow writer Jay Neugeboren, praising his recent story in The Atlantic and his current novel. Kaplan is especially taken with the Jewishness of Neugeboren's work: "I think it's very rare to find such a daring, honest, wonderful story that is a genuinely Jewish story in a national magazine. (First of all, I think very few stories of that description are being written)....you've captured an attitude, a spirit in this story that except for the very early immigrant writers (& some of them were primitive so not "art") that has been either unknown or buried in the mainstream of American Jewish fiction." All items fine. [#012866] $40
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Chelsea, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, (1988). Winner of the 1989 John Burroughs Medal. Inscribed by the author on the title page. As the title suggests, not just a book about birds, but also about how to observe them. With a foreword by the 1971 Burroughs Medal winner, John K. Terres. Nonauthorial gift inscription on the first blank, to the same recipients as Kilham's inscription. A fine copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with several internally tape-mended edge tears. [#036438] $275
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NY, John Wiley & Sons, 1917. A thorough, state-by-state survey of enactments of the legislatures of the 48 states and by the Federal Congress regarding the conservation and administration of forest resources. Tipped in at the front hinge is the cover of a Cornell University bulletin on the topic of forest legislation, and this bulletin has been inscribed by Kinney to William Heritage. For three decades, Kinney was engaged in forestry and conservation activities for the Bureau of Indian Affairs; Heritage worked for the Department of the Interior's Indian Service. Heritage's ownership signature appears in the book, which is near fine, without dust jacket, likely as issued. [#036535] $500
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(n.p.), Grand Street, (n.d.). Offprint from the literary journal Grand Street, inscribed by the author to Pauline Kael, "with gratitude, respect, admiration, and _____ (fill in the blank)" and dated January, 1991. Klawans was the longtime film reviewer for The Nation, winner of a National Magazine Award for his reviews, and author of Film Follies: Cinema Out of Order and Left in the Dark, a collection of reviews. Slight wear; near fine in stapled wrappers. [#034560] $50
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(London), Golden Handshake, (1996). Inscribed by the author to Robert Stone and his wife: "Sorry we missed each other. Maybe next time. Anyway/ Much love/ Fran/ P.S. Check out p. 60 I think that's one I owe to Bob." The poem on page 60 is entitled "California of the Mind." Fine in wrappers. [#033795] $60
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Richmond, Tiger of the Stripe, 2006. Inscribed by the author to Robert Stone and his wife: "two of the good buddies of all time." Stone gets a mention in the text. Fine in wrappers. [#033744] $100
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Sulphur, Abbott, 1908 [1909]. A collection of tales that appears to be an autobiographical novel written by a Chickasaw woman, but is, according to Marable and Boylan's A Handbook of Oklahoma Writers [Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939], authored by the publisher, Aaron Abbott. Title page states 1908; printed letters on verso dated 1909. Chipping to spine ends; creasing to rear cover; a very good copy in the darker tan covers. [#036331] $250
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(n.p.), (New Directions), (1962). One of 8000 copies in wrappers of Merton's meditation on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Inscribed by Merton: "For Doris/ from Tom." Doris Dana and Merton met in 1966, having been introduced by Dana's godfather, Jacques Maritain. Dana visited Merton at the Gethsemani monastery twice in 1967, and the two maintained a correspondence until Merton died in December, 1968. Foxing to covers, and a creased bump to the spine crown; very good in wrappers. Mailing label from the Abbey of Gethsemani, made out to Dana in Merton's hand is included. There was a signed limited edition of this title done -- 500 copies -- which is uncommon now; signed copies of the trade edition are considerably scarcer, especially with a good association as this one has. [#035855] $1,500
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(Toronto), McClelland & Stewart, (1996). An advance copy, in the form of comb-bound galleys, typeset but reproducing several holograph corrections. Her third book, first novel, which was first published in Canada, and only in wrappers. Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian Prize for Fiction, the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Prize. Signed by the author. 9" x 11". Fine. [#915362] $650
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Buenos Aires, Santiago Rueda, (1960). The first Argentine edition of Tropic of Capricorn. A very good copy in self-wrappers, inexpertly tape-repaired at the hinges and folds. [#017180] $40
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(London), Andre Deutsch, (1960). Second printing of the first book by this Trinidadian author of Indian descent, who came to be regarded as one of the giants of contemporary English literature, and the most astute, if acerbic, Western commentator on Third World issues. Naipaul won the Booker Prize for his collection In a Free State and numerous other literary awards over the course of his 40-year writing career. Bookplate of poets Barbara Howes and William Jay Smith front pastedown; foxing to endpages and page edges; pencilled marginal markings; spine slant; very good in a near fine, second impression dust jacket with a vertical fold at the spine. [#018689] $95
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NY, Dodge Publishing, 1911. A six-page photographic calendar (for 1912) depicting scenes from Peabody's "The Piper," (with the added attribution "As I saw it played/Louise Hurlbut Mason.") Photographs by Byron. Ribbon-tied; 14" x 11". The calendar is a 4" x 2" inset accessible from all inner pages. Gift inscription on rear cover; modest foxing. Very good. [#035621] $125
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Washington, DC, Island Press, (2001). A biography of Gifford Pinchot: conservationist, first chief of the U.S. Forest Service, and Governor of Pennsylvania. Signed by Miller. Mild foxing to the edges of the text block, else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036557] $200
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(n.p.), (n.p.), 1961/1962. Mimeographed typescripts of two one-act plays, which were collected in his 1962 volume entitled Children is All. Inscribed by Purdy on the title page of Cracks to the poet Quentin Stevenson "with the sincere admiration of James" and additionally signed, James Purdy. Purdy was a controversial author whose works explored gay themes at a time when this was taboo; his popularity and critical reception suffered as a result, but many of his more celebrated contemporaries considered him a genius and a great writer, among them being Tennessee Williams (who wrote a blurb for the book publication of Children is All); Edward Albee (who produced Purdy's play Malcolm); and Gore Vidal, who called him "an authentic American genius" and wrote in the New York Times article entitled "James Purdy: The Novelist as Outlaw" that "Some writers do not gain wide acceptance because their work is genuinely disturbing. Purdy is one of them." As best we can determine, OCLC lists only two copies of the former typescript and one of the latter in institutional collections. Another collection lists "photocopies" of these two plays, but these productions predate plain paper photocopying. Children is All (1961) runs 41 pages; Cracks (1962) runs 16 pages. Each is near fine; stapled in the upper left corner. Scarce works by a writer Jonathan Franzen called "one of the most undervalued and underread writers in America." [#031486] $1,500
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NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1934. Owner name and blindstamp front flyleaf; a solid but handled copy. Very good, without dust jacket. [#036108] $85
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London, Cassell & Company, 1894. Reproductions of seven photographs depicting the "seven ages" of life as described in Shakespeare's As You Like It. There were earlier volumes published on this same theme, but this may be the first publication to use photographs (rather than engravings). Disbound, with contemporary gift inscription. A fair copy, with all plates and both covers present; large lower corner chip to the front cover and some marginal insect damage, not affecting the photographs. Five copies found in OCLC. [#035619] $175
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NY, Schirmer, (1918). Folk songs collected in the Southern Appalachians. A good copy in tanned wrappers with insect damage to the covers. [#036179] $65
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Sevenoaks, (Privately Published), 1967-1968. Sisson writes to Edith Heal, author of William Carlos Williams/I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet, which was published in the U.K. in 1967. Sisson shares his thoughts on Williams, and on Heal's book, and transmits to her two chapbooks of his own work, which are included here: Roman Poems and The Discarnation. The letter is two pages, with hand corrections, and is signed by Sisson. Folded; near fine. The chapbooks are near fine in stapled wrappers. [#035888] SOLD

NY, Dutton, (1987). A review copy of this collection of poetry. Mild age toning to pages, else fine in a fine dust jacket, with review slip, author photo and promotional pages laid in. [#916868] $100
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NY, Simon & Schuster, (1970). "The amazing story of the fight to unionize the United States Army." First paperback edition. Owner name; near fine. [#035954] $65
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NY, Heritage Press, (1936). Apparent first Heritage edition. Illustrated with 150 reproductions of Van Gogh's work. Owner name; spine label chipped; near fine in pictorial boards. No dust jacket or slipcase, perhaps as issued. [#035955] $40
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NY, Quantuck Lane Press, (2007). Inscribed by the author to Robert Stone, who provides a brief foreword: "Thank you for being such a kind first reader -- I appreciate your support!" Fine in a fine dust jacket, which has a blurb by Stone on the rear panel that is excerpted from his foreword. [#033781] $125
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Amherst, Shanachie Press, 1980. A limited edition of a poem by Tate which first appeared in The New American Poetry Review. Of a total intended edition of 135 copies, this is Copy "F" of ten lettered copies reserved for Tate and for the artist, Stephen Riley, and signed by both of them. With etchings and engravings by Riley, each of these lettered and signed by the artist. Riley was a promising artist in the 1970s known for his fantasy illustrations, here accompanying Tate's surrealist poetry. Reportedly, most of the intended edition was never printed, and it's possible that only the 10 author's and artist's copies and 25 Roman-numeraled copies were actually produced. Loose sheets, 11-1/4" x 15", fine, laid into a near fine slipcase. An attractive fine press production, and one of the rarest pieces by the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet. [#033654] $2,500
$1,875

San Francisco, Spinsters/Aunt Lute, (1988). In 1983, Karen Thompson's life partner, Sharon Kowalski, was injured by a drunk driver and left unable to move and only minimally able to communicate. Kowalski's father was appointed sole guardian and contrary to his daughter's wishes, he denied Thompson all visitation rights. This is the story behind the 8-year legal battle that Thompson waged to bring Kowalski home, in what became a landmark case for both the gay rights movement and the disability rights movement. Inscribed by Thompson: "___, Thanks for your support for Sharon & me." Near fine in wrappers. [#035013] SOLD

NY, Knopf, 1963. His second collection of poems. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a near fine, spine-sunned dust jacket with creasing to the base of the spine. [#912067] $300
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(Toronto), (Aya Press), (1982). Number 407 of 500 numbered copies signed by Jane Urquhart and by Tony Urquhart, the artist. 18-3/8" x 4-3/4". This is the second issue, in gray cloth. Pages uncut; two very slight corner taps; else fine. [#914603] $150
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(NY), Farrar Straus, (1948). A historical romance. Waters' second collaboration with Branch, after River Lady. Waters is better known for his novels and nonfiction about the American Southwest, and in particular Native Americans, than for his historical fiction collaborations with Branch. Handling apparent to boards, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with shallow edge chipping. [#035048] $100
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(n.p.), (n.p.), ca. 2009. A spiralbound mock-up of a book of selected poems, with photocopied selections from, apparently, seven of her previous books. Some pages reproduce copyeditor's marks. Such a selection was issued by Wave Books in 2009. Last few pages creased, with a small (coffee?) stain. Otherwise about fine. Unmarked, but from the author's library. Scarce, possibly unique. [#034480] $250
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