Jeff Maser, Bookseller

    Member of ABAA - United States

    Artists' Books Avant-Garde Books Ephemera Literary Magazines Literature: Beat Poetry

My partner Andrea Latham and I have been selling books from our Berkeley address since 2002. In addition to maintaining a browsable space by appointment, we issue a “new arrivals” list monthly (ask to be added). While we have fine books in most fields, poetry and literary magazines are our deepest stock. Looking forward to seeing you in Melbourne, after a ten year absence!

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Highlights
Marcel Duchamp: A Retrospective Exhibition.
$1000
Pasadena: Pasadena Art Museum, 1963. First edition. 4to. [56 pp]. Near fine in wrappers and very good printed clear acetate dust jacket that has four thumb-nail sized chips (none of which affect the printing on the front panel). Also known by the cover text, “by or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy.” Designed by Duchamp.
RUSCHA, Ed. 4 x 6: Zeichnungen von Edward Ruscha.
$1750
Münster: Westfälischer Kunstverein (1986). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [72 pp]. Fine in full blue cloth with silver stamping to spine and front panel. Essay by Marianne Stockebrand in German and English translation. Twenty-four full color reproductions. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Ruscha.
SNYDER, Gary. The Fudo Trilogy.
$1225
Berkeley: Shaman Drum, 1973. First edition, numbered & signed issue. Small 4to. [24 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. Printed in four colors at the Cranium Press. Collects “Spel Against Demons,” “Smokey the Bear Sutra,” and “The California Water Plan.” Illustrated with woodcuts by Michael Corr. One of 108 numbered copies SIGNED by Snyder and Corr. McNeil A46a.
STEIN, Gertrude. How To Write.
$700
Paris: Plain Edition [1931]. First edition. 395 pp. Some light foxing to fore-edge, else very near fine in paper-covered boards with printed spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. Wilson A17.
THOMAS, Dylan. In Country Sleep and other poems.
$10500
NY: New Directions (1952). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 34 pp. Fine in full cloth with gold stamping to spine and front panel. Very near fine in publisher’s slipcase with pasted-on cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. Tipped-on title page portrait of Thomas by Marion Morehouse. One of 100 numbered copies on Stoneridge paper SIGNED by Thomas. Six poems, including “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.”
WALLACE, David Foster. The Broom of the System.
$2750
NY: Viking (1987). First edition. 467 pp. Corner crease to front free endpaper, else fine (with expected page toning) in fine dust jacket. Wallace’s first book.
AUSTER, Paul. Paul Auster’s New York.
$300
NY: Henry Holt (1997). First edition. 97 pp. Some faint foxing to top edge, else fine in decorated boards with ribbon place maker. No dust jacket, as issued. Preface by Luc Sante. Photographs by Frieder Blickle. INSCRIBED by Auster on the half-title page, “For Jack - / in Chicago / of all places! / with love- / Paul.”
[BALLARD, J.G.]. Vale & Andrea Juno. eds. Re/Search No. 8/9: J.G. Ballard.
$500
San Francisco: Re/Search Publishing (1984). First edition. 4to. 171 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Collects interviews, fiction, non-fiction, bibliography, and more. SIGNED by Ballard opposite the contents page. Uncommon thus.
BECKETT, Samuel. The Unnamable.
$2150
London: Calder & Boyars (1975). First UK edition. 132 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated by Beckett from his original French text. The first separate publication of this novel in the UK. SIGNED by Beckett on the title page.
GOREY, Edward. L’Heure Bleue.
$500
(np): Fantod Press (1975). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [32 pp]. A few spots of foxing to fore-edge and faintly to endpapers, else near fine in illustrated wrapper. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Gorey. Illustrations in black, white, and blue, with Gorey’s short texts.
GUNN, Thom. The Menace.
$200
South San Francisco: Manroot (1982). First edition, lettered & signed issue. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Illustrated with drawings by J.J. Hazard. One of 26 lettered copies on Strathmore SIGNED by Gunn and Hazard. A long poem. Original prospectus accompanies. Hagstrom & Bixby A32.