Fine Literature with Beats, Bukowski & the Counterculture

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Date of the auction: 18.03.2021

Lot number 4
Yugen: issues 4,5,6 and 7 Kerouac and others

5 volumes. (8vo) illustrated wrappers. 4 issues of LeRoi Jones' influential poetry journal featuring...

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Lot number 414
Works of Herman Wouk, one inscribed

5 volumes. Some cloth with jackets, some wrappers. Various Editions. With a typed, signed letter by...

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Lot number 413
Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads Vol. 2 First State 1800

Volume 2 of 2 volumes. [4], 247 pp. 16x9 cm (6x4"), period tree calf, gilt-decorated spine with...

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Lot number 55
With two Ginsberg presentation copies for Lynd Ward

Includes: Moloch broadside on French Rives paper, printed in black and red, illustrated with woodcut...

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Lot number 343
Windhover Press Robert the Devil 1 of 50 copies

Translated by W.S. Merwin from an anonymous French Play of the XIV Century. With wood-engravings by...

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Lot number 394
William Trevor novella with Paul Hogarth illustrations

Illustrations by Paul Hogarth. (8vo) quarter black cloth over red cloth boards, gilt spine titles...

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Lot number 37
William S. Burroughs X-Ray Man broadside signed 1/178

Three-color broadside (red, blue & purple on white background). Silkscreen print with small embossed...

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Lot number 269
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying First Issue

Beige cloth, dust jacket. First Edition, First Issue. Faulkner's stream-of-consciousness novel, with...

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Lot number 300
Will James Cow Country 1927

xii, 242 pp. Illustrated with dozens of full-page drawings, including frontispiece, by James...

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Lot number 408
Who Fears the Devil?

(8vo) original black cloth, gilt spine titles; pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. 2000 copies...

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Lot number 61
Weldon Kees Poems 1947-1954 signed

(8vo) cloth-backed decorative boards, paper spine label, wraparound printed band. First Edition...

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Lot number 132
Welcome to World War III: Avengers / Mutants / Dils

20 copies. Xerox concert broadside. 43.1x28 cm (17x11"). Three formative bands of the late 1970's SF...

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Lot number 141
We Got Power #4

28x21.4 cm (11x8½"), saddle-stitched wrappers. We Got Power was an early 80's fanzine covering the...

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Lot number 219
Waiting for Godot 1st ed in jacket

Yellow cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First English Edition. First English edition of Beckett's...

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Lot number 403
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, 1st ed in dj

(8vo) original blue cloth lettered in gilt, publisher's jacket. First Edition, First Printing...

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Lot number 399
Updike's On Literary Biography 1/500 signed

(12mo) original blue leather-backed cloth, glassine jacket. No. 131 of 500 copies. First Edition...

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Lot number 220
Unrevised proof of Bellow's Pulitzer Prize novel

530 pp. Original yellow wrappers. The text of this unrevised proof differs in important respects...

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Lot number 30
Unicorn Folio Series Three, Nos. 1-2 1969

Two large portfolios (Folio) 51x33 cm (20x13"), with illustrated covers, containing loose...

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Lot number 32
Unicorn Folio Series One sets 2-4 1967

Three large portfolios (Folio) 51x33 cm (20x13"), with illustrated covers and paper cover labels...

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Lot number 33
Unicorn Broadsheet Series I & II 1/25 copies

Includes 24 broadsides of various sizes, and a few pieces of Unicorn Book Shop ephemera; housed in a...

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Lot number 415
Uncle Tom's Children in French, signed

Text in French. Translated into French by Marcel Duhamel. (12mo) original wrappers printed in black...

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Lot number 68
Two works inscribed by Ken Kesey

Two volumes. First Editions. Includes: Perry, Paul. On the Bus The Complete Guide to the Legendary...

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Lot number 301
Two works by Will James

Includes: Cowboys North and South. Illustrated with drawings by Will James throughout. Original...

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Lot number 89
Two works by Kenneth Patchen

2 volumes. Cloth, dust jackets. Includes: Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer. Very good or better. Second...

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Lot number 78
Two works by Jack Micheline - signed, original art

Two volumes. First Edition. Includes: Skinny Dynamite. Pictorial wrappers. Signed at the half-title...

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Lot number 66
Two works by Jack Kerouac

2 volumes. Cloth and boards, dust jackets. First Editions. Includes: Desolation Angels. Jacket...

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Lot number 196
Two works by Charles Bukowski

2 volumes. Cloth-backed illustrated boards, spine labels, acetate jackets. Each is one of 750...

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Lot number 29
Two titles by Richard Brautigan

Two volumes. Includes: Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970. Jacket with mild toning, early price...

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Lot number 85
Two signed works by Harold Norse

2 volumes. Wrappers. First Editions. Beat Hotel. First Trade Edition. San Diego: Atticus Press...

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Lot number 359
Two signed limited first editions by Philip Roth

2 volumes. Cloth with slipcases. First Editions. Includes: Zuckerman Unbound. No. 193 of 350 signed...

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