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81.
[PATCHEN, Kenneth]. Eaton, Gail.
Kenneth Patchen: A First Bibliography.

Denver: Alan Swallow [c. 1948].

First edition. Single sheet folded once to make a booklet. Very near fine. Covers fourteen “A” items from 1936 to 1948.
$50

82.
PFEIFFER, Ulrike. ed.
Der Fröhliche Tarzan Nr. 1.

Köln: Rolf-Eckart John 1970.

4to. [122 pp]. Staples pulling from front cover (but not detached) else near fine in illustrated wrappers with a short tear to fore-edge of several late leaves. One of 600 copies. Presents the work of Americans Blackburn, Bukowski, Fagin, Giorno, Padgett, Perrault, Saroyan, Waldman, along with Vrozier, Huidobro, MacSweeney, Pfeiffer, Schwitters, Apollinaire and many others, almost all in German translation.
$100

83.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
H&.

Hove: Caliban Press, 1970.

First edition. [28 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers and near fine integral printed dust jacket with some light marks on rear cover. Contributions by Lee Harwood, Peter Riley, Ted Kavanagh, Jim Duke, Jeff Keen, and Barry MacSweeney. One of 350 copies.
$40

84.
[PRINCE, Richard]. Spector, Buzz. et al, eds.
WhiteWalls: A Magazine of Writing by Artists #4.

Chicago: WhiteWalls (1980).

First edition. 62 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Presents a prose work titled, “from Moving by Wading More Than Swimming.” Prince’s second appearance in WhiteWalls, and fourth periodical appearance overall.
$150

85.
RAHMMINGS, Keith.
Printouts.

Needham: Potes & Poets Press, 1981.

Second edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 300 copies, after an edition of 100 copies published in 1979. Concrete poems.
$35

86.
RIMBAUD, Arthur.
A Season in Hell.

Norfolk: New Directions [1940].

Second edition. 103 pp w/note. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly edge worn. Rimbaud’s original work with Schwartz’s facing English translation. A complete revision of the first edition. The second volume in the New Classics Series.
$50

87.
SPICER, Jack.
Rabbits Do Not Know What They Are.

[Minneapolis]: Bieler Press, 1986.

First edition. 13 x 10 inch illustrated broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. An aphorism by Spicer, printed in an edition of 250 copies.
$50

88.
STEVENS, Peter.
Leaves from Falling Trees.

London: Writers Forum, 1969.

First edition. [56 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Front and rear cover photographs by Hans Bruggeman. Poems, issued as Writers Forum Poets #27.
$75

89.
SYMONS, Scott.
Combat Journal for Place D’Armes: A Personal Narrative.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart (1967).

First edition. 279 pp. Very near fine in decorated boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Designed to resemble a commercial blank journal. Housed in a pocket inside the front boards are eleven printed items to accompany the text. Symons’s first novel. Young 3738*.
$55

90.
[TANNING, Dorothea]. Merrill, James.
Nine Lives.

NY & Kripplebush: Nadja, 1993.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 10 pp. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label. Fine illustrated dust jacket. Cover art by Dorothea Tanning. One of 26 lettered copies on Arches and Stonehenge paper SIGNED by Merrill and Tanning.
$450

91.
TAYLOR, William C.
“Watts” Upsurge: A Communist Appraisal.

Los Angeles: Communist Party of Southern California [C. 1965].

[4 pp]. Ink note in upper front corner, else very good in stapled wrappers. The text of a radio address by Taylor, along with a statement, “What was the Position of the Communists on the Events?” and the 17 August 1965 editorial from The Worker on Watts.
$17.50

92.
[THREE PENNY PRESS]. Fles, John.
Lawrence Lies Crucified.

Studio City: Three Penny Press (1959).

First edition. 22 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Five poems with a concluding statement about the press by Grover Haynes. Fles was both a managing editor of the Chicago Review, and later assisted with the suppressed issued of the Review retitled Big Table.
$50

93.
[THREE PENNY PRESS]. Haynes, Grover. ed.
I Fringled a Gnu.

Studio City: Three Penny Press (1959).

First edition. [24 pp]. Small price stamp to front cover, else very near fine in stapled wrappers and integral illustrated dust jacket. Preface by editor Haynes for these poems by Vahan Gregory, W.M. Lacy, John Fles, and Cardiff G.
$45

94.
WALDROP, Rosmarie.
Cornell Boxes.

Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books, 2001.

First edition. 20 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. A contemplation of eight Joseph Cornell boxes, issued as Seeing Eye Books Series V, Book 2.
$25

95.
[WARHOL, Andy].
Campbell’s Soup Boxes.

Los Angeles & Van Nuys: Michael Kohn/Martin Lawrence Limited Editions (1986).

First edition. 35 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Essay by Michael Kohn. Noodle Soup, Chicken Noodle Soup, Chicken Rice Soup, Onion Mushroom Soup (all with color reproductions), the text of a discussion between Warhol, Kohn, and Martin S. Blinder, and a complete catalogue of this series, begun by Warhol in September of 1985 and completed in June, 1986.
$40

96.
WEINER, Hannah.
Code Poems: from the International Code of Signals for the Use of All Nations.

Barrytown: Open Book/Station Hill Press (1982).

First edition. [30 pp]. Light rubbing along spine, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems and performance pieces. “cut spin & pin” insert present.
$50

97.
WIENERS, John.
Idyll.

[Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1968].

First edition. 14 x 11 ¼ inch illustrated broadside, printed in three colors. One deckle edge. Fine. Issued originally as part of Unicorn Series Two, number two, as well as some separately.
$50

98.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
In the Azure over the Squalor: Ransackings & Shortenings.

(np): Otis Editions, 1984.

Second edition. 39 pp w/index. Fine in velo-bound wrappers. Cover art from a painting, “Baseball Player,” by Juanita Rogers. This text based on the Jordan Davies limited edition published a year earlier, with the addition of an index and a dozen textual variants. One of 50 numbered copies INSCRIBED by Williams. Jaffe 147.
$75

99.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
A Wee Tot for Catullus.

[Nailsworth]: Moschatel Press [1975].

First edition. Horizontal 64mo. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Dated (1974) and INSCRIBED by Williams on the front jacket flap, “a / little vintage joy juice / for / James / from / Lord Bent / Corn Close 1974.” Jaffe 86.
$50

100.
ZYBERT, Richard.
Notebook on Time.

San Francisco: Marginal Press (1981).

First edition. [56 pp]. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A photo- illustrated history and meditation both on parents, and on being a son.
$40

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