BORGES, Jorge Luis. A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INFAMY. New York: Dutton,1972. Fine in Þne dust jacket with weak front hinge. Translated by Norman Thomas DiGiovanni. $20.00
BORGES, Jorge Luis. TANGO: ARAIZ/TAMPONE CON EL BALLET DELGRAN TEATRO DE GINEBRA.
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone,1984. Very good+ in pictorial
boards. Dialogo de Borges con escritor Roberto Alif ano. Fotographias de Pablo
Garcia Reinoso. $30.00
CLARK, Tom. STONES. Harper & Row, Very good in wraps. A collection of Clark’s
poems that are simply stated and directly effective. $5.00
COLCHIE, Thomas, editor. A HAMMOCK BENEATH THE MANGOES: STORIES FROM LATIN AMERICA.
NY: Dutton,1991. Fine in Þne dust jacket. Short Þction by Allende, Amado, Borges,
Cortazar , Marquez, Puig, and others. $15.00
CORTAZAR, Julio. A MANUAL FOR MANUEL. Pantheon, Very good in very good- dust
jacket with minor crinkling at the edges and a crease in the front ßap. Cortazar’s
Þrst political novel about a surreal world of Latin American exiles planning
to kidnap a top Latin American police ofÞcial, whose headquarters are in Paris.
$15.00
CORTAZAR, Julio. HOPSCOTCH. NY: Pantheon,1966. Near Þne in very good+ dust jacket
with small crease at the head and tail of spine, else nice and bright. $40.00
CORTAZAR, Julio. WE LOVE GLENDA SO MUCH AND OTHER TALES. NY: Pantheon,1983.
Near Þne in near Þne dust jacket. $25.00
DELILLO, Don. END ZONE. NY: Houghton Mifßin, 1972. Good+ in very good- dust
jacket with browning to inner ßyleafs, minor separation of rear ßy, and wear
to all corners of jacket. The author’s second novel. Signed by DeLillo.
$30.00
DELILLO, Don. THE NAMES. Brighton: Harvester, 1983. Near Þne in very good dust
jacket with lamination coming up on lower front and lower back of jacket. Signed
by DeLillo. $40.00
DUBUFFET, Jean. J. DUBUFFET. World House Galleries, Very good in wraps. The
catalog from a gallery exhibition in New York that took place from October 25
- November 26, 1960. Contains Anticultural Positions, which was presented at
a lecture given by Dubuffet in December 1951 at the Arts Club of Chicago. $8.00
DURAS, Margarite. SUZANNA ANDLER. John Calder, Near Þne in very good+ dust jacket.
This second collection of plays by Duras to appear in English include: Suzanna
Andler, La Musica, and L’Amante Anglaise. Translated from the French by
Barbara Bray. $10.00
FOREMAN, Richard. UNBALANCING ACTS: FOUNDATIONS FOR A THEATER. New York: Pantheon,
1992. First edition. Fine in Þne dust jacket. Includes Þve plays and four essays
on his methods of composition and direction. "Signed" by Foreman,
winner of the 1995 MacArthur "genius" Grant. $25.00
GASS, William H. THE WORLD WITHIN THE WORD. Knopf, Near Þne in very good dust
jacket with wear to top and bottom of spine. A collection of essays on writers
and writing, containing pieces on Gertrude Stein, Malcoln Lowry, and Proust,
as well as an essay titled The Ontology of the Sentence, or How to Make a World
of Words. $15.00
GREENE, Naomi. ANTONIN ARTAUD: POET WITHOUT WORDS. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1970. First edition. Fine in Þne dust jacket. Introduction by Janet Flanner.
$10.00
GROTJAHN, Martin, M.D. THE VOICE OF THE SYMBOL. Los Angeles: Mara, 1971. First
edition. Very good+ in near Þne dust jacket. Grotjahn explains the history and
function of the symbol in the affairs of man from classic Greek times to the
future. $10.00
GUNN, Thom. JACK STRAW’S CASTLE AND OTHER POEMS. NY: Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, 1976. First American edition. Very good+ in very good+ dust jacket with
minor soiling to spine. Some of the poems in this, Gunn’s sixth collection,
are set in England, where he grew up, and some in Northern California, where
he lived for twenty years. $10.00
GUNN, Thom. MOLY AND MY SAD CAPTAINS. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973.
First American edition of MOLY. Very good+ in very good dust jacket with browning
to top edge, and closed tear to bottom front of jacket. In My Sad Captains (1961),
Gunn experiments with syllabic-metric verse, and in MOLY, he contrasts the black
roots of the moly plant with its white ßower, which becomes a metaphor for opposites.
$10.00
GUNN, Thom. PASSAGES OF JOY. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982. First American
edition. Very good+ in near Þne dust jacket. The title is from a poem by Samuel
Johnson "The Vanity of Human Wishes": "Time hovers o’vr,
impatient to destroy/And shuts up all the Passages of Joy." In this volume,
Gunn is concerned with both the experience of joy and its loss. $10.00
HANNAH, Barry. CAPTAIN MAXIMUS. NY: Knopf, 1985. Near Þne in near Þne dust jacket.
A collection of short stories that carry the principle of obliterating the divisions
between classes of things into the realm of subjects, taking bits from the author’s
own life and blending it with the "life" literary notoriety has attributed
to him. Signed by Hannah. $20.00
HANNAH, Barry. HEY JACK!. NY: Dutton Lawrence, 1987. Fine in Þne dust jacket.
A novel that portrays the love, craziness and despair of the inhabitants of
a small town in rural Mississippi. Signed by Hannah. $25.00
HANNAH, Barry. HIGH LONESOME. NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. Uncorrected
advance proof. Very good- in wraps with small stain on fore-edge. A collection
of short stories that includes tales of ardent voyeurs, killers, and lovers
desperate for sanctuary beyond good and evil, written in a darkly comic and
Þercely tragic style that provides insight into the fabric of American life.
$10.00
IGNATOW, David. AGAINST THE EVIDENCE: SELECTED POEMS,1934-1994. Wesleyen, Fine
in wraps with review material laid-in. The poet has brought together poems from
different decades, overlooking the time in which they were written. $10.00
IGNATOW, David. FACING THE TREE. Atlantic-Little, Brown, Very good in wraps
with review slip laid-in. The eighth collection of poems by this master of plain,
authentic speech. $6.00
IGNATOW, David. THE ANIMAL IN THE BUSH: POEMS ON POETRY. Slow Loris Press, Very
good in wraps. Bookplate on the inside front cover states it is "From the
Collection of Theodore Wilentz," and states "sold Poet’s House."
One of 1,000 copies printed. A collection of poems about poetry and the poet.
$5.00
IGNATOW, David. THE NOTEBOOKS OF DAVID IGNATOW. Swallow, Very good in good dust
jacket with large chip missing from the front bottom near spine. Bookplate on
the front free-endpaper states it is "From the Collection of Vladamir Ussachevsky,"
and states "sold Poet’s House." Ignatow’s notebooks contain
observations, daily experiences, considerations of poetic craft, discussions
of other writers, meditations and confessions. Edited and with an introduction
by Ralph J. Mills, Jr. $15.00
IGNATOW, David. THE ONE IN THE MANY: A POET’S MEMOIRS. Wesleyen, Fine in
Þne dust jacket. Bookplate on the inside front cover states it is "From
the Collection of Poet’s House," and states "sold Poet’s
House." Contains memoirs by a poet who spent time with William Carlos Williams,
Louis Zukovsky, James Wright, and Paul Blackburn among many others. Inscribed
by Ignatow on the title page. $15.00
IGNATOW, David. WHISPER TO THE EARTH. Atlantic-Little,Brown, Very good in wraps.
Bookplate on the inside front cover states it is "From the Collection of
Eve Merriam," and states "sold Poet’s House." On the title
page is Merriam’s signature. A collection of poems that are about the way
men and women, living and dead, communicate to one another about the absurdity
of the world we live in. $5.00
KAKUZO, Okakura. THE BOOK OF TEA. Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1958. Third printing.
Near Þne in slightly sunned paper-covered slipcase. This book perhaps holds
a key to the understanding of Eastern ideas and ways. $10.00
KAWABATA, Yasunari. SNOW COUNTRY AND THOUSAND CRANES. Knopf, Very good in very
good- dust jacket with ownership stamp on all fore-edges as well as the front
free endpaper. Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, which was
the occasion of this special edition of his only two novels, up to that time,
in print in English, translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker.
Snow Country was hailed by Donald Keene (professor ofJapanese at Columbia University)
as "a work of beauty and strangeness, one of the most distinguished and
moving of the Japanese novels to have appeared in this country." $10.00
KELLY, Robert. THE SCORPIONS. NY: Doubleday & Co., 1967. First edition.
Near Þne in near Þne dust jacket with minor soiling. The poet’s Þrst novel…
a strange fairy tale involving an occult New York psychiatrist, and the book’s
hero Kelvin, who lives in his Rolls Royce and travels to Ft. Lauderdale in search
of the Scorpion people. Review copy with "Compliments of Doubleday &
Co." stamped on the front Paste-down, as well as laid-in complimentary
card, signed by Kelly. $20.00
MACHADO, Antonio. TIMES ALONE: SELECTED POEMS OF ANTONIO MACHADO. Middletown,
CT: Wesleyan University, 1983. Uncorrected proof. Very good+ in wraps with light
stain in upper left front corner. The poems of the Spanish poet, Antonio Machado,
chosen and translated by Robert Bly. Bilingual edition. Machado’s poetry
is inspired by the landscape and history of Spain, with deep spiritual imagery.
Signed by Bly. $30.00
MARUYA, Saiichi. RAIN IN THE WIND. NY: Kodansha, 1990. First American edition.
Fine in Þne dust jacket. Four stories by this writer described by Anthony Burgess
as "a revealer of inner essences, a universal voice." One of the stories
centers on the possibility of the narrator’s father having once shared
a drink on a rainy day with the famous Japanese poet, Santoka. The story includes
many translations of Santoka’s haiku, translated by Dennis Keene. "The
morning bath/water swiftly overßows/me in it" - Santoka $15.00
NOBOKOV, Vladimir. NABOKOV’S QUARTET. NY: Phaedra, 1966. First edition.
Very good+ in very good- dust jacket with slight staining to jacket on spine
top and wear of yellow on front of jacket along with previous owner signature
on front free endpaper. Variant b with white endpapers. Four stories, two of
which were previously unpublished. $10.00
ORNSTEIN, Robert E. THE MIND FIELD. NY: Grossman, 1976. First edition. Fine
in near Þne dust jacket. Ornstein’s main subject here is consciousness.
He evaluates its practitioners and products. His argument extends to the psychiatric
profession, as well as to meditation, parapsychology, shamanism, and other "awareness
systems." $10.00
PAZ, Octavio. CONVERGENCES: ESSAYS ON ART AND LITERATURE. San Diego: Harcourt,
Brace, Jovanovich,1987. Fine in Þne dust jacket. Translated by Helen Lane. $20.00
PROFFER, Carl R., editor. LETTERS OF NIKOLAI GOGOL. University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, 1967. First edition. Near Þne in very good+ dust jacket. Gogol’s
letters "reveal his superstitions, his passionate concern for Russia, his
views on art and literature, and his struggles with Russian censors." $10.00
REXROTH, Kenneth. AMERICAN POETRY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Herder & Herder,
Very good+ in good+ dust jacket. A work of re-experiencing the poems themselves…a
controvesial new look at a number of the more standard authors - Stevens, Sandburg,
Frost, Williams, and Jarrell. $10.00
REXROTH, Kenneth. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL. Doubleday, Very good+ in good dust
jacket with chipping to extremities. A Þne self-portrait ofthis poet, painter,
man of letters, translator (of Greek, French, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese
poetry), and social critic. $15.00
REY ROSA, Rodrigo. DUST ON HER TONGUE. London: Peter Owen,1989. Fine in Þne
dust jacket. Translated by Paul Bowles. Short stories reminicent of Borges and
Garcia Marquez. $12.00
REY ROSA, Rodrigo. THE PELICARI PROJECT. London: Peter Owen,1991. Fine in Þne
dust jacket. Translated by Paul Bowles. An ingenious and chilling fable from
this Guatemalan writer. $12.00
RUBENS, Robert, editor. VOICES. London: Michael Joseph, 1963. First British
edition. Very good in very good- dust jacket with fading to spine, general edge
wear, and small chip to top corner of rear ßap. A collection of short stories
by John Rechy, Jean Rhys, Terry Southern, Patick White, and others. $8.00
SAKUTARO, Hagiwara. FACE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD. Tuttle, Fine in Þne dust
jacket. Sakutaro is generally recognized asone of the best Japanese poets to
have emergedsince the war. Translated by Graeme Wilson, with paintings by York
Wilson. "Sad in the ailing earth,/ Tongue-tender with despair,/ Green moves
through grief’s grimace;/And, sick and lonely, there/In the gloom of the
underworld,/At the bottom of the world, a face." - Hagiwara Sakutaro $15.00
SANTOS, Rosario, editor. AND WE SOLD THE RAIN … Peterborough: Ryan,1989.
Fine in Þne dust jacket. Contemporary Þction from Central America. Stories by
Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Arturo Arias, Sergio Ramirez, Pedro Rivera, Carmen Naranjo,
and others. $15.00
STEINER, Wendy. EXACT RESEMBLANCE TO EXACT RESEMBLANCE: THE LITERARY PORTRAITURE
OF GERTRUDE STEIN. New Haven: Yale University, 1979. Second Printing. Near Þne
in very good+ dust jacket. An examination of Stein’s writing through the
lens of her literary portraiture. $15.00
STEWARD, Samuel. DEAR SAMMY: LETTERS FROM GERTRUDE STEIN AND ALICE B. TOKLAS.
Boston: Houghton Mifßin, 1977. First edition. Near Þne in very good+ dust jacket.
Correspondence between Stein, Toklas, and a young American professor of English,
which spans 30 years. $15.00
STEWART, Allegra. GERTUDE STEIN AND THE PRESENT. Cambridge: Harvard University,
1967. First edition. Near Þne in very good dust jacket with closed tear to rear.
This book attempts to understand Stein’s thought in light of major intellectual
trends of this century, with a detailed analysis of Geographical History of
America, Tender Buttons, and Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. $20.00
TOKUTOMI, Kenjiro. FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW. Pegasus, Very good+ in very good
dust jacket with crinkling to head and tail of spine and scratches to front
lamination. Inßuenced by Dickens’ David CopperÞled, this became one of
the most popular novels of modern Japan after its publication in 1901. Translated
by Kenneth Strong. $15.00
VARGAS LLOSA, Mario. AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER. NY: Farrar, Straus &
Giroux,1982. Very good+ in very good dust jacket with a small tear at the top
of the back panel and a small chip at the head of spine. $25.00
VARIOUS. THE SILENT ZERO, IN SEARCH OF SOUND. Grossman, Good+ without dust jacket,
with some of the front cover worn off in a spot, and some faint crayon marks.
Some (zen inspried) crayon marks on the front free endpaper. This is an anthology
of Chinese poems from the beginning through the sixth century, translated by
Eric Sackheim, with tipped-in calligraphy by Ch’enYung-Sen. Contains a
collection of notes of translation at the end titled, Put Anything You Like.
Signed by Sackheim. $15.00
WALDROP, Keith & Rosmarie. A CENTURY IN TWO DECADES: A BURNING DECK ANTHOLOGY
1961 - 1981. Burning Deck, Very good in wraps. A Þne collection of eclectic
poetry by writers like Robert Creeley, Louis Zukofsky, Jackson Mac Low, Harry
Mathews, W. D. Snodgrass, Larry Eigner, and others. $8.00
WALSER, Robert. ROBERT WALSER REDISCOVERED: STORIES, FAIRY-TALE PLAYS AND CRITICAL
RESPONSES. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, 1985. First edition. Fine in Þne
dust jacket. This book contains some of Walser’s stories, poems, and plays;
translated from the German by various translators, as well as critical writings
by Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Martin Walser
and others. $20.00
WILSON, Edmund. APOLOGIES TO THE IROQUOIS. London: William H. Allen, 1960. First
edition. Near Þne in very good+ dust jacket. Wilson records his adventures in
exploring the Iroquois world, its politics, its ceremonies and personalities.
Also including a piece by fellow New Yorker writer, Joseph Mitchell, called
"The Mohawks in High Steel." $20.00
WURLITZER, Rudolph. NOG. NY: Random House, 1968. First edition. Very good+ in
good dust jacket with large chip missing from top of spine and a small spot
of color rubbed off. The author’s Þrst novel, with comparisons to Thomas
Pynchon’s V. $8.00
ZUKOFSKY, Louis. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Grossman, Very good in very good- price-clipped
dust jacket with soiling to top front of jacket. To poetic personal statements,
Zukovsky’s wife Celia contributed musical settings. $10.00