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1 | ACCONCI, Vito. Waterways: Four SalivaStudies. (np): Squintfucker Press [2001]. Firstedition. cd recording. Fine in original hand-paintedsleeve and slipcover. One of 500 copies with a spotof “spit” inside the front cover. Soundtrack ofAcconci’s 1971 video “Waterways: Four SalivaStudies” and a remix by “undo” entitled “VitoAcconci’s Undoing.” $35

2 | AKHMATOVA, Anna. Poems of Akhmatova.London: Collins & Harvill Press, 1974. First UKedition. 173 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dustjacket with one small tear and one small wrinkle.Original Russian poems with facing translations byStanley Kunitz with Max Hayward. Hayward addsa 23 page introduction to this collection,complimented by a six page note on the translationsby Kunitz. $22.50

3 | ANTIN, David. Definitions. (np). Caterpillar(1967). First edition. 38 pp. Near fine in spiral wire-bound printed cardstock covers. Designed byEleanor Antin to resemble a notebook. Blank pre-printed name and address portion filled-out byAndrei Codrescu. Caterpillar VI. $125


4 | ARTAUD, Antonin. 50 Drawings to MurderMagic. London, NY, Calcutta: Seagull Books (2008).First edition. 4to. xv + 82 pp. Fine in very near fine dustjacket. Translated from the original French by DonaldNicholson-Smith, edited and with a preface byÉvelyne Grossman. Drawings and texts from Artaud’slast 1948 notebook, reproduced in facsimile. $40

5 | BALDESSARI, John and Hans UlrichObrist. Hans Ulrich Obrist / John Baldessari.Köln: Walther König (2009). First edition. 104 pp.Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a tradepaperback original. Volume 18 in the ConversationSeries. Text of this exchange between Baldessariand Obrist, with illustrations. $20

6 | BARTLETT, Allison Hoover. The Man WhoLoved Books Too Much. NY: Riverhead Books(2009). First edition. 273 pp w/notes. Very near finein like dust jacket. SIGNED by Bartlett on the titlepage. SF Bay Area thief, and particularly book thief,John Gilkey profiled. $25

7 | [BATMAN GALLERY]. Foley, Jack. “O HerBlackness Sparkles!” The Life and Times of the BatmanArt Gallery San Francisco 1960-1965. San Francisco:3300 Press (1996). Second printing. 41 pp w/notes.Near fine in stapled wrappers. A complete history ofthis crucial short-lived gallery. Terrific center-section ofphotographs by James O. Mitchell. Home to McClure,Conner, Defeo, Herms, and a host of others.$27.50

8 | BOCKRIS, Victor. In America. (np): TelegraphBooks (1972). First edition. 26 pp. Fine in illustratedwrappers. Cover photograph of Bockris by AramSaroyan. Ten very short poems and eight briefdescriptive prose works titled “videotapes.” $35

9 | BRECHT, George. Chance-Imagery. NY: GreatBear/Something Else Press (1966). First edition. 15pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. A single essay onchance in the arts that appeared originally inCollage magazine. Three Great Bear pamphlet titleslisted on the rear cover. $35

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10 | [BRECHT, George]. Robinson, Julia. Events.Eine Heterospektive. A Heterospective. Köln: WaltherKönig (2005). First edition. 4to. 347 pp w/chronology& checklist of works. Fine in fine dust jacket. The firstcomprehensive volume on Brecht’s work. $125

11 | BROWN, Gaye L. ed. The Dial: Arts andLetters in the 1920s: An Anthology of Writingsfrom The Dial Magazine, 1920-29. Worcester:Worcester Art Museum (1981). First edition. 4to. 160pp w/index. Near fine in illustrated wrappers.Exhibition catalogue for this American modernistlandmark. Sherwood Anderson, T.S. Eliot,Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, andHart Crane, for a start, all published here. $20

12 | [CAGE, John]. John Cage: Musical Messages. LaJolla: Department of Music, UCSD, 1980. First edition.4to. [40 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers.Introduction byWill Ogden.Reproductions ofCage’s manuscriptcompositions. $45

13 | C A U S L E Y,C h a r l e s .Collected Poems1 9 5 1 - 1 9 7 5 .L o n d o n :Macmillan (1975).First edition. 289pp w/index offirst lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. At the time ofpublication, all of the poems that Causley wished tobe preserved, plus 23 new ones. $35

14 | CAVELL, Stanley. Cities of Words: PedagogicalLetters on a Register of the Moral Life. Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 2004. First edition. xi + 458pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Lectures linking“masterpieces of moral philosophy and classicHollywood comedies and melodramas to fashion anew way of looking at our lives and learning to livewith ourselves.” -from the jacket text. $25


15 | CAVELL, Stanley. The World Viewed:Reflections on the Ontology of Film. NY: Viking(1971). First edition. xv + 174 pp w/notes. Fine invery near fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Cavell,“For Gus, / in friendship / from Stanley / Berkeley,June 1977.” $75

16 | CLARK, Tom. Neil Young. Toronto: CoachHouse (1971). Second edition. 131 pp. Fore-edge ofthe front cover curled a bit, else near fine in printedwrappers. Cover art and internal illustrations byJoe Brainard. One of 1500 copies. SIGNED by Clarkon the front free endpaper with a short poem.Originally published in 1970 by Angel Hair in atotally different format. $45

17 | CRAWFORD, Stanley. Log of the S.S. TheMrs. Unguentine. NY: Knopf, 1972. First edition.109 pp. Fine in illustrated boards; no dust jacket, asissued. SIGNED by Crawford on the title page.Crawford’s third novel takes the form of a ship’slog kept by Mrs. Unguentine as her marriagetravels the world’s oceans. $45

18 | DANA, Robert. ed. Against the Grain:Interviews with Maverick American Publishers.Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (1986). Firstedition. xix + 258 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket.Illuminating talks with James Laughlin, HarryDuncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Martin,Daniel Halpern, Tree Swenson and Sam Hamill,Jonathan Williams, and David Godine. $20

19 | DAVENPORT, Guy. Goldfinch Thistle Star.[NY]: Red Ozier Press (1983). First edition. [16 pp]. Finein sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket.One of 155 (of 200) numbered copies on Nideggenpaper SIGNED by Davenport. Three poems byDavenport and his translation of a work by Cocteau.Drawings by Lachlan Stewart. $100

20 | [DEBUSSY, Claude]. Dietschy, Marcel. APortrait of Claude Debussy. Oxford & NY: OxfordUniversity Press, 1990. First edition. xvi + 254 pp


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w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Editedand translated from the French by WilliamAshbrook and Margaret G. Cobb. $45

21 | DEGUY, Michel. Given Giving: SelectedPoems of Michel Deguy. Berkeley: University ofCalifornia (1984). First edition. 189 pp. Fine in nearfine dust jacket with some light wear along topedge of front panel. Original French with facingtranslations by Clayton Eshleman. Introduction byKennth Koch. Review slip laid in. $45

22 | [DeLILLO, Don]. “Baghdad Towers West” inEpoch. Ithaca: Cornell University (1969). Vol. XVII,No. 3. Spring. Very near fine in printed wrappers.First appearance of this 23 page short storyby DeLillo. $45

23 | DI PRIMA, Diane. This Kind of Bird FliesBackward. NY: Totem (1958). First edition. 43 pp.Fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction byLawrence Ferlinghetti. Di Prima’s first book.Laid-in is a small tls from publisher Le RoiJones presenting this book, and detailingfuture publications. $250


24 | DIDI-HUBERMAN, Georges. Invention ofHysteria: Charcot and the PhotographicIconography of Salpetriere. Cambridge: MIT Press(2003). First US edition. xii + 373 pp w/index. Verynear fine in like dust jacket. Translated from theoriginal French by Alisa Hartz. $35

25 | DODGE, Jim. Ceremonies of Consolation.[Berkeley]: Tangram Press (2001). First edition. 9 x 6inch printed card. Fine. Two short poems by Dodge,one for Robert Sund and one for Ken Kesey. $35

26 | DREYER, Carl. Four Screenplays.Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press(1970). First US edition. 312 pp w/filmography.Fine in fine dust jacket. Foreword by Carl TheodorDreyer, introduction by Ole Storm. Collects LaPassion De Jeanne D’Arc, Vampyr, Vredens Dag,and Ordet. $50

27 | DUCHAMP, Marcel and Man Ray. MarcelDuchamp - Man Ray: 50 Years of Alchemy. NY:Sean Kelly Gallery(2004). First edi-tion. 125 pp withexhibition check-list. Fine in finedust jacket. Rib-bon place markerbound-in. Manycolor reproduc-tions with anintroduction bySean Kelly and anessay by ChrissieIles. $35

28 | EKELÖF, Gunnar. Selected Poems of GunnarEkelöf. NY: Twayne (1967). First US edition. 109 pp.Fine in near fine dust jacket with a bit of rubbing tothe front cover. Translated from the originalSwedish by Muriel Rukeyser and Leif Sjöberg.Review slip laid-in. $25


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29 | EMPSON, William. Empson in Granta.Tunbridge Wells: Foundling Press (nd). First edition.90 pp. Fine in wrappers and integral marbled-paperdust jacket with printed cover label. One of 300numbered copies. Introduction by Eric Griffiths.Collects all the book, film, and theatre reviewscontributed by Empson to Granta 1927-1929. $35

30 | EMPSON, William. Milton’s God: RevisedEdition, Corrected , with Notes and an Appendix.London: Chatto & Windus, 1965. First printing ofthis edition. 320 pp w/appendix & index. Smallchip from the fore-edge of the last blank endpaper,else fine in very near fine dust jacket. $85

31 | FAGIN, Larry. I’ll Be Seeing You: Poems 1962-1976. (np): Full Court Press (1978). First edition.89 pp. Fine in nearfine dust jacket withlight wear to tipsof spine. $25

32 | [FISCHINGER,Oscar]. Moritz,William. OpticalPoetry: The Life andWork of OskarF i s c h i n g e r .Bloomington &I n d i a n a p o l i s :Indiana University Press (2004). First edition.246 pp w/bibliography & list of illustrations. Verynear fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jack-et, as issued. $50

33 | FORD, Charles Henri. ed. Blues: TheMagazine of New Rhythms. NY & London:Johnson Reprint Corporation (1967). First edition.Fine in full decorated cloth over boards. No dustjacket, as issued. Reprints the contents of Volume I(1-6) and Volume 2 (7-9) of this 1929-1930 magazine.The stellar list of contributors includes Boyle,Crosby, H.D., Jolas, Pound, Rexroth, W.C. Williams,Zukofsky, Bowles, and many others. $125


34 | FOUCAULT, Michel. Abnormal: Lectures atthe College De France 1974-1975. NY: Picador(2003). First US edition. xxvi + 374 pp w/index ofnotions and concepts, & names. Fine in fine dustjacket. Translated from the original French byGraham Burchell. $20

35 | FOUCAULT, Michel. Psychiatric Power:Lectures at the College De France 1973-74.London: Palgrave/Macmillan (2006). First UKedition. xxiv + 382 pp w/index of names & places.Fine in fine dust jacket. translated from the originalFrench by Graham Burchell. $30

36 | FRANK, Robert. Me and My Brother.Göttingen: Steidl (2007). First edition. 4to. 72 pp. Finein printed wrappers with cloth spine. No dust jacket,as issued. Facsimilie of the screenplay by RobertFrank, Sam Shepard, Allen Ginsberg, and PeterOrlovsky, with stills. DVD of the film accompanies ina pocket inside the rear cover, as issued. $30

37 | GREVILLE, Fulke. Selected Poems. London:Faber & Faber (1968). First edition. 159 pp w/index offirst lines. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dustjacket with one tiny tear and a smudge to rear panel.Edited with an introduction by Thom Gunn. A collec-tion of Greville’s shorter poems. $55

38 | HAACKE, Hans. Framing and Being Framed: 7Works 1970-75. Halifax & NY: Press of the NovaScotia College of Artand Design/NewYork University Press(1975). First edition.153 pp. Very near finein near fine dustjacket with some lightsoiling to the whiterear cover. Essays byJack Burnham andHoward S. Becker &John Walton. $150


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39 | [HAPPENINGS]. Calder, John. ed. NewWriters IV: Plays and Happenings. London:Calder and Boyars, 1967. First edition. 166 pp. Topedge dusty, erasure marks to first leaf. In all, verygood plus in like dust jacket with one short tear.Collects work by Jean-Jacques Lebel, E.C. Nimmo,Charles Marowitz, Ken Dewey, René de Obaldia,Allan Kaprow, and John Antrobus. $50

40 | HARTLEY, L.P. The Brickfield & TheBetrayal: Two Novels. London: Hamish Hamilton(1973). First edition. 193 + 313 pp. Fine in very nearfine dust jacket with a small corner crease to thefront flap. First paired printing of these twoconnected novels. $50

41 | HAWKINS, Bobbie Louise. Fifteen Poems.Berkeley: Arif Press, 1974. First edition, signed issue.[34 pp]. Very near fine in string-bound, paper-covered boards with pasted-on cover label. One of26 copies SIGNED by Hawkins. $50

42 | [HEARTFIELD, John]. Kahn, Douglas. JohnHeartfield: Art and Mass Media. NY: Tanam Press,1985. First edi-tion. 149 ppw/notes. Finein fine dustjacket. Thirty-three photo-graphs andreproductinspunctuate thistreatment ofH e a r t f i e l d ’ swork in thecontext of themass media ofhis time, andjuxtaposes thatwith the posi-tion of the con-temporary situation. Scarce in hardcover. $150


43 | HEJINIAN, Lyn. My Life. Los Angeles: Sun &Moon (1987). First printing of this edition (originallypublished in 1980). 115 pp. Fine in very near fine dustjacket with a corner-crease to the front flap. Expandedfrom the first edition to add eight new sections, eachcorresponding to an additional year of life. $35

44 | [HITCHCOCK, Alfred]. Sullivan, Jack.Hitchcock’s Music. New Haven & London: YaleUniversity Pres (2006). First edition. xix + 354 ppw/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. The first book tofully explore the essential role of music inHitchcock’s films. $20

45 | HULTEN, Pontus. ed. The Surrealists Look atArt. Venice: Lapis Press (1990). First US edition. 220pp. Fine in illustrated boards; no dust jacket, asissued. Writings by Eluard, Aragon, Soupault,Breton, and Tzara. Translated by Michael Palmerand Norma Cole. $25

46 | [JOY DIVISION]. Marinoni, Gigi. ed. JoyDivision: All the Lyrics. Rome: Stampa Alternativa(1997). First edition. 86 pp. Light damp-stain to onelower corner, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrap-pers. Accompanied by a four track cd (You’re NoGood for Me, Komakino, Incubation #1, andIncubation #2). The complete lyrics in English andItalian translation, illustrated with artwork byAndrea Chiesi. $25

47 | K A N D I N S K Y,Wassily and FranzMarc. eds. The BlaueReiter Almanac. NY:Viking (1974). Firstprinting of this edition(originally publishedin 1912). 296 ppw/notes, bibliography,& index of names. Verynear fine in like dustjacket. “New Documentary Edition,” edited andwith an introduction by Klaus Lankheit. $75


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48 | KEYS, John. Hammersmith Poems. London:Trigram Press (1972). First trade paperbackprinting. 45 pp. Near fine in glossy illustratedwrappers. Poems printed letterpress onto heavygray stock. Preface by Anselm Hollo, long coverendorsement by Jeff Nuttall. Keys’ first fullcollection, preceded by several chapbooks, one ofwhich was published by d.a. levy. $20

49 | [KLEIN, Yves]. Noever, Peter and FrancoisPerrin, eds. Air Architecture. Ossstfildern-Ruit:Hatje Cantz (2004). First edition. 4to. 143 pp. Fine inillustrated wrappers. Eighty-three color and b&wreproductions. $125

50 | KOCH, Kenneth. Thank You and OtherPoems. NY & London: Grove/Evergreen (1962).First edition. 95 pp. Fine in glossy printedwrappers; a trade paperback original. The firstsubstantial collection of Koch’s poems. $50

51 | KRAUSS, Rosalind. “A Voyage on the NorthSea”: Art in the Age of the Post-MediumCondition. NY: Thames & Hudson (2000). First USedition. 64 pp w/notes & list of illustrations. Fine inglossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperbackoriginal. A heavily-illustrated treatment of artmedium via the various works of MarcelBloodthaers. A weirdly-uncommon book. $75


52 | [LARKIN, Philip]. Thwaite, Anthony. ed.Larkin at Sixty. London: Faber & Faber (1962).First edition. 148 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket.Contributions by Kingsley Amis, RobertConquest, Alan Bennett, Clive James, SeamusHeaney, and many others. Illustrated with a dozenb&w photographs. $35

53 | LAVIN, S.R. Cambodian Spring: Nine Poems.Deerfield: Heron Press, 1973. First edition. [24 pp].Bumps to two corners, else near fine in sewnwrappers. One of 300 copies. Frontispieceillustration by Bruce Chandler. $25

54 | LAX, Robert. TheCircus of the Sun. NY:Journeyman Books(1969). First edition. [58pp]. Fine in illustratedwrappers. Poems withinternal drawings byEmil Antonucci, whoalso designed theoverall book. Coverphotograph by CharlesHarbutt. $100

55 | LEVERTOV, Denise and Edward C. DimockJr. trans. In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali.London: Jonathan Cape (1968). First UK edition. 91 ppw/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dimock contributesan introduction to this volume as well. $40

56 | [LITERARY ANTHOLOGY]. Casey, Kevin.ed. Winter’s Tales from Ireland 2. London: Gill andMacmillan (1972). First edition. 174 pp. Two lowercorners lightly bumped, else very near fine in likedust jacket. Stories by Trevor, O Faoláin, McLaverty,Healy, Hogan, McGahern, and others. $15

57 | [LITERARY ANTHOLOGY]. Lehmann,John. ed. Coming to London. London: PhoenixHouse (1957). First edition. 176 pp. Top edge dusty,else near fine in very good plus, clipped and re-priced


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(in US$) jacket. William Plomer, Leonard Woolf, V.S.Ptitchett, Elizabeth Bowen, Christopher Isherwood,William Sansom, Rose Macaulay, and others recalltheir first experience of London. $30

58 | LOWRY, Malcolm and Jonathan Cape. Lettersbetween Malcolm Lowry & Jonathan Cape aboutUNDER THE VOLCANO. [London: JonathanCape, 1967]. First edition. [32 pp]. Near fine in stapledwrappers. A letter from Cape to Lowry, and Lowry’s31 pp reply, both preceding, and directly affecting, thepublication of Lowry’s major novel. $75

59 | LOY, Mina. Insel. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow,1991. First edition. 196 pp w/appendixes. A few tinyspots to top edge, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label.Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited by Elizabeth Arnold,with a foreword by Roger L. Conover. Designated“Author’s Copy” on the colophon page. A long prosepiece, one of several “fugitive” works composed byLoy, and the first to see publication. $125

60 | LOY, Mina. The Last Lunar Baedeker.Highlands: Jargon Society, 1982. First edition. 334 pp.Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced byRoger L. Conover with a Note by Jonathan Williams.The complete poetry (much not before published)together with tracts on feminism, manifestos, andother significant documents. $125

61 | [MALANGA, Gerard].Cooper, Dennis. ed. LittleCaesar #4. Los Angeles:Little Caesar (1977). 57 pp.Light toning along spine,else near fine in illustratedwrappers. Cover photo-graph of Keith Richard byMalanga, whose poems,along with an interview, fillthe middle 33 pages of thisissue. Work also by Brainard, Jim Carroll, SteveRichmond, and many others. Early issues of thismag are decidely uncommon. $75


62 | MERWIN, W.S. SelectedTranslations 1948-1968.NY: Atheneum, 1968. Firstedition. xiv + 176 pp. Finein near fine dust jacket.Merwin contributes a threepage forward to this sub-stantial selection, rangingfrom an anonymous 20 BCEgyptian poet, to a 1967Joseph Brodsky poem. $85

63 | [MINGUS, Charles]. Coleman, Janet andAl Young. Mingus/Mingus: Two Memoirs.Berkeley: Creative Arts, 1989. First edition. 164 pp.Fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrated with 28b&w photographs. $20

64 | MINKOFF, George Robert. Bibliography ofthe Black Sun Press. Great Neck: G.R. Minkoff,1970. First edition. 4to. [xiv] + 58 pp w/index. Finein full decorated cloth over boards. No dust jacket,as issued. Introduction by Caresse Crosby. Errataslip laid in. $25

65 | MINTZ, Marilyn D. The Martial Arts Films.Rutland & Tokyo: Tuttle (1983). First printing of thisedition (originally published in 1978). 243 ppw/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Illustratedwith 225 photographs throughout the text, whichseeks to define and illuminate the genre. $17.50

66 | MORGAN, Edwin. From Glasgow to Saturn.Manchester: Carcanet Press (1968). First edition. 96pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with the “Poetry BookSociety Choice” wrap-around band. A collection ofover fifty poems. Uncommon in cloth. $45

67 | MORGAN, Edwin. Rites of Passage: SelectedTranslations. Manchester: Carcanet New Press(1968). First edition. 190 pp w/glossary of Scotswords. Pages lightly toned, else fine in fine dustjacket. From four Anglo-Saxon works to Haroldo De


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Campos, Morgan takes on Voznesensky, Pasternak,Quasimodo, Montale, Leopardi, Garcia Lorca,Michaux, Brecht, Gomringer, Braga as well. $35

68 | [NIEDECKER, Lorine]. Williams,Jonathan. ed. Epitaphs for Lorine. Penland:Jargon Society, 1973. First edition. [42 pp]. Fine inwrappers and near fine dust jacket. One of 1000copies for private distribution. Introduction byWilliams with contributions by Ammons, Bunting,Corman, Dorn, Finlay, Ginsberg, Levertov, Oppen,Reznikoff, and others. $35

69 | NOTLEY, Alice. Homer’s Art. Canton:Institute of Further Studies (1990). First edition. 23pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Two poems, a shortessay, and “White Phosphorus.” Curriculum of theSoul #9. Review slip laid-in. $45

70 | O’BRIEN, Darcy. Reflections on Literature andthe Law. Tulsa: McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa,1987. First edition. 27 pp w/notes. Fine in sewnwrappers. McFarlin Library Keepsake 11. An essay oncrime, censorship, and literature by the author of theterrific novel A Way of Life Like Any Other. $25

71 | PARRA, Nicanor. Poems and Antipoems. NY:New Directions (1967). First edition. 149 pp. Fine infine dust jacket. OriginalSpanish poems by theChilean Parra, withfacing translations byAlegría, Felinghetti,Ginsberg, Laughlin,Levertov, Merton,W.S. Merwin, Rachal,William CarlosWilliams, and MillerWilliams (who editedthis volume). $55


72 | P A T C H E N ,Kenneth. Picturesof Life and Death.NY: Padel (1946).First edition. 32 pp.Fine in saddle-stitched wrappersand near fine dustjacket with a shortinternally-mendedtear to rear cover.A fresh bright copywith great Patchencover art. MorganA13. $75

73 | [PHOTOPLAY EDITIONS]. Petaja, Emil.Photoplay Edition. San Francisco: Sisu Publishers(1975). First edition. 189 pp. Very near fine inillustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Awell-illustrated introduction to the genre, with abibliography of photoplay editions published1914-1974. $12.50

74 | [POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Levertov,Denise. ed. Poems. [Berkeley]: Cloud MarauderPress (1969). First edition, limited & signed issue.[36 pp]. Light toning to the rear cover, else nearfine in stapled wrappers. Poems composed bystudents in Levertov’s poetry workshop at UCBerkeley in Winter and Spring quarters, 1969. Thisis one of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Levertovand eight of her students. “We Want the Park /Power and Peace to the People” printed inside thefront cover. $150

75 | [POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Wagner, D.r. ed.Telegrams from Central Control: A Pseudo-Anthology of solidified chickenfat Thorazinebustickets mantric high freak pulverized papyruspuke prayers cement boilers vector analysis pastel


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animals RA smiles. Niagara Falls: press: today:niagara, 1966. First edition, limited issue. [24 pp].Fine in stapled wrappers. Prints d.a. levy’s “frm:THE EGYPTIAN STROBOSCOPE #4a.” Also workby EKA, Wagner, Blazek, Bloom, Baxter, Taylor, andothers. One of 50copies which “con-tain photographs orother inserts,” in thiscase an originalfound photograph ofa woman in bathingdress. Laid-in is anals from Wagner pre-senting this book anddetailing a few futurepublications. $150

76 | PONGE, Francis.The Voice of Things.NY: McGraw-Hill(1972). First US edition. 190 pp w/bibliography. Finein fine dust jacket with a tiny corner crease to frontflap. Translated from the French and with anintroduction by Beth Archer. $55

77 | PROUST, Marcel. On Reading Ruskin. NewHaven & London: Yale University Press (1987). Firstedition. liii + 173 pp. Fine in very near fine dustjacket. Prefaces to La Bible d’Amiens and Sésame et lesLys with selections from the notes to the translatedtexts. Translated and edited by Jean Autret, WilliamBurford, and Phillip J. Wolfe. Introduction byRichard Macksey. $35

78 | [PROUST, Marcel]. Karpeles, Eric.Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to INSEARCH OF LOST TIME. NY: Thames &Hudson (2008). First US edition. 352 pp w/notesand index of paintings & painters. Fine in fine dustjacket. Illustrated with 206 reproductions, 196 ofwhich are in full color. $35


79 | PUSHKIN, Alexander and MikhailLermontov. Narrative Poems by Alexander Pushkinand by Mikhail Lermontov. NY: Random House(1983). First edition. xxv + 144 pp. Fine in fine dustjacket. Introduction by Kyril FitzLyon. Translated fromthe original Russian by Charles Johnston. $35

80 | RAWORTH, Tom. Emptily. Great Barrington:The Figures (1994). First edition. [20 pp]. Near finein stapled wrappers. One of 300 copies. A long poemwith drawings by Suzanne McClealland. $20

81 | [RENOIR, Jean]. Sesonske, Alexander. JeanRenoir: The French Films 1924-1939. Cambridge& London: Harvard University Press, 1980. Firstedition. xii + 463 pp. Very near fine in like dustjacket. “According to the great director himself, thisis the authoritative book on the films of JeanRenoir.” - from the jacket. $30

82 | REXROTH, Kenneth. trans. PierreReverdy. Selected Poems. NY: New Directions(1969). First edition, limited & signed issue. 78 ppw/index of titles & first lines. Fine in full cloth andvery near fine decorated publisher’s slipcase. t.e.g.Original French poems with facing translations byKenneth Rexroth. Printed at the Stinehour Press.One of 150 numbered copies on Utopian paperSIGNED by Rexroth. $125

83 | REYNOLDS, Tim. Que. Cambridge: HaltyFerguson (1971). First edition, limited & signedissue. 58 pp. Fine in full linen over boards withprinted spine label. Very near fine clear acetate dustjacket. One of 150 numbered copies on Fabrianotext paper SIGNED by Reynolds. A collection of sixpoem sequences and sections. $100

84 | RICE, Shelley. ed. Inverted Odysseys: ClaudeCahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman. Cambridge:MIT Press (1999). First edition. 4to. 168 pp w/index ofnames. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. 56 colorand b&w plates. Essays by Gumpert, Lippard,Mekas, Mooney, Rice, and Solomon-Godeau. $40


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85 | [RUSCHA, Ed]. McMILLAN, Jerry.Picturing Ed: Jerry McMillan’s Photographs of EdRuscha 1958-1972. Santa Monica: Craig KrullGallery/Smart Art Press, 2004. First edition.[80 pp]. Finein illustratedw r a p p e r s .F o r t y - f i v ephotographs ofR u s c h a ,followed by“Jerry Talksabout Ed.” $50

86 | SAMPERI, Frank. The Prefiguration: PoemsNY: Mushinsha/Grossman (1971). First edition.Narrow 4to. [124 pp]. Small erasure mark on firstleaf, else very near fine in like dust jacket. One of500 numbered copies, the entire hardcover edition.Collects seven earlier collections: Song Book, OfLight, Branches, Ferns, Morning and Evening, Crystals,and So Close. $50

87 | SCALAPINO, Leslie. O and Other Poems.Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1976. First edition. [20 pp].Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 350 (of376) copies designed and printed by WesleyTanner. Scalapino’s first book, issued as SandDollar / 21. $75

88 | SCHNEIR, Walter. ed. Telling it Like it Was:The Chicago Riots. NY: Signet (1969). First edition.159 pp. Light toning inside covers else fine inillustrated wrappers. Contributions by Burroughs,Styron, Breslin, Hayden, Genet, Ginsberg, HoffmanKrassner, Southern, and several others. $20


89 | SERRA, Richard. Drawings and Etchingsfrom Iceland. NY: Matthew Marks Gallery (1992).First edition. [92 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacketwith a short closed tear to the top edge of the rearpanel. Thirty-two reproductions prefaced by aninterview with Serra by Mark Rosenthal. $40

90 | SNYDER, Gary. Earth Verse / Verso a la Tierra.(np): [Jim Normington] 2008. First edition. 11 x 8 1/2inch illustrated broadside. Fine. One of 50 copiesprinted on the occasion of Snyder’s 78th birthday. Atthe bottom in the translator’s holograph, “translatedby Jim Normington.” SIGNED by Snyder. $75

91 | STEIN, Gertrude. Selections. Berkeley:University of California (2008). First edition. vii + 347pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. JoanRetallack edits and introduces this generous selection,which concludes with a gathering of contemporarydocuments relating to Stein’s work. $45

92 | SYNGE, John M. A Happiness in Shops. NewRochelle: James L. Weil (1983). First edition. [8 pp].Near fine in sewn wrappers. A 1908 statement bySynge on poetry, followed by an afterword by Weil.One of 50 “keepsake” copies, printed on MagnaniRag Paper. Laid-in is a small typed presentationcard from Weil. $35

93 | TRANSTRÖMER, Tomas. Citoyens. Knotting:Sceptre Press (1974). First edition. [8 pp]. Fine instapled wrappers. A single poem, translated from theoriginal Swedish by Robin Fulton. One of 150numbered copies. $35

94 | VIRILIO, Pau. Warand Cinema: The Logisticsof Perception. London &NY: Verso (1989). First edi-tion in English. vii + 95 ppw/notes. Fine in fine dustjacket. A reading and analy-sis of the interdependenceof cinema and warfare. $85


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95 | WAGNER, D.r. The Footsteps of the ReturningKing that have been lost to us for such a long timeit seems like they never were and Other Poems.Sacramento: Runcible Spoon (1968). First edition.[16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Text reproducedfrom Wagner’s holograph. One of 26 lettered copiesSIGNED by Wagner. Appropriately, this is copy “M”and INSCRIBED by Wagner to Marvin Malone,editor of The Wormwood Review, “Malone / TheFootsteps of the Returning King / are those of thestar and the old chest / in the attic and the drippingof the / dripper who fauceted his way into it. / love,/ D.r. Wagner / 1/1/68.” Accompanied by a long tlsfrom Wagner to Malone on the verso of a Runciblepublication announcement. $125

96 | WALDMAN, Anne. Beat Roots. Boulder: HotWhiskey Press (2006). First edition. [40 pp]. Fine inJapanese-style string-bound wrappers. Cover artand seven internal illustrations by GeorgeSchneeman. One of 240 (of 250) copies. Short proseworks, most name-checking Beat figures. $25

97 | WANTLING, William. ed. The Triangle: AStudent Literary Magazine of Illinois StateUniversity. Normal: English Department (1968).Volume 7. 63 pp. Very near fine in illustratedwrappers. Wantling edits this issue of the magazine,contributes four poems, an excerpt from a novel-in-progress, and introduces one student’s work. $20

98 | WARHOL, Andy. Andy Warhol’s Index (Book).NY: Random House, 1967. First trade paperbackprinting. Small 4to. [72 pp]. Very near fine inillustrated wrappers. Original price sticker,“$4.95/Andy/Warhol/Peel Off,” still attached tofront cover. 1. Castle pop-up, fine. 2. red accordion stillsqueaks. 3. Bi-plane, fine. 4. Chelsea Girls disc onsping, fine. 5. Polyhedron, fine, string attached at bothends. 6. Lou Reed record, fine, attached. 7. Triple-pagenose fold-out, fine. 8. Hunt’s Tomato Paste can pop-up, fine. 9. Andy Warhol tabs, all present and fine. 10.Ballon, degraded, as usual, partially fusing the twofacing pages with some offsetting. A sharp, tight copy.Parr/Bader II, Roth 101. $850


99 | [WEIMAR]. Kardish, Laurence. WeimarCinema, 1919-1933: Daydreams and Nightmares.NY: MoMA (2010). First edition. 224 pp. Fine inglossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperbackoriginal. The bulk of the edition is a list ofWeimar films, with production details, stills,and summaries. $35

100| WHIGHAM, Peter. The Crystal Mountain.Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1970. First edition, limited &signed issue. [32 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Apoem with three illustrations by Chuck Miller. Oneof 50 numbered copies on Tovil paper SIGNED byWhigham and Miller. Sand Dollar 2. $65

101| [WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig]. Falck, Colin.The Review No. 18. London: The Review 1968. 68pp. Near fine in illus-trated wrappers.Colin Falck con-tributes a 16 pageessay, “Wittgensteinand Poetry.” $20

102| ZUKOFSKY, Louis. “A” 13-21. London:Jonathan Cape (1969). First edition. 256 pp. Fine invery near fine dust jacket. $75


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