61.
MORGAN, Edwin.
Gnomes.
Preston: Akros Publications (1968).

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 275 (of 300) copies. A collection of twelve concrete poems.
$50

62.
MYLES, Eileen and Anne Waldman.
Polar Ode.
NY: Dead Duke Books (1979).

First edition. 4to. [62 pp]. Extrems toned, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Steve Levine. One of 350 copies. A collaborative poem composed in NY, Boston, Cherry Valley, San Francisco, and Florida, and served up for a reading at ZU in NYC on 22 December 1978.
$75

63.
NATIONS, Opal L.
The Strange Case of Inspector Loophole.
Montreal: Véhicule Press (1977).

First edition. Square 16mo. 18 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. A short story.
$15

64.
O’GALLAGHER, Liam.
Fool Consciousness.
NY: United Artists, 1986.

First edition. 102 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. O’Gallagher contributes the cover art and internal illustrations to this grouping of three line statements, “THE AWSOME TRUTH / we may be obsolete / IN THIS FORM!”
$22.50

65.
PI.O. aka “nay nee.”
The Number Poems and other equations.
Melbourne: Collective Effort Press (2000).

First edition. 144 pp. Security label inside rear cover, else fine in printed wrappers. A long sequence of titled poems, each formed by an eleven line grid (approx 24 digits across) of numerals.
$35

66.
PLYMELL, Charles. ed.
NOW.
San Francisco: [Charles Plymell[ 1963.

First edition. [36 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Inaugural issue of three, with contributions by Plymell, Ginsberg, Alan Russo, McClure, Branaman, Thomas Jackrell, Bearden, Roxie Powell, Daniel Moore, Hoyem, J. Richard White, and Philip Whalen.
$250

67.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
Legend.
NY: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E/Segue (1980).

First edition. 4to. 243 pp. A few small spots to last few leaves and rear cover, else near fine in printed wrappers. Contributions by Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma, Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman. The only book to bear the l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e imprint.
$50

68.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Natchez, Meryl et al, trans.
Poems from the Stray Dog Café: Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Gumilev.
Berkeley: Hit & Run Press (2013).

First trade edition. 56 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Original Russian poems with facing translations by Meryl Natchez with Boris Wolfson and Polina Barskova. One of 100 copies.
$12.50

69.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Block, Friedrich W. et al, eds.
p0es1s: Ästhetik digitaler Poesie / The Aesthetics of Digital Poetry.
Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz (2004).

First edition. 335 + 64 pp. Two volumes, both folio, both fine in illustrated wrappers. A large collection of essays on the form, plus the original exhibition guide. For the pair:
$150

70.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Block, Friedrich W.
Transfutur: Visuelle Poesie aus der Sowjetunion, Brasilien und deutschsprachigen Ländern.
Kassel: Verlag Jenior & Pressler (1990).

First edition. 4to. 94 pp. Very near fine in glossy wrappers. Texts in German. Well-illustrated with many examples of the form.
$35

71.
POTOCKI, Count of Montalk.
Ayatollahs and Gurus.
Draguingnan: Mélissa Press [1979].

First edition. [8 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. A single poem, a return to form for Potocki’s press after “highly respectable gondoliers and not professional crooks from Dorchester prison” stole a protecting skylight exposing his Gordon platen to the elements.
$45

72.
POTOCKI, Count of Montalk.
Lammas Day.
Leicester: Toni Savage-New Broom Press, 1969.

First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Fourteen poems, illustrated with multi-colored prints by Rob Armstrong. Foreword by Potocki, objecting in part to a music programme on the radio, concluding, “I offered to record for them my Siamese Cat’s masterpiece called ‘Promenade on the Keyboard,’ which is really quite lovely compared with these artificial Hells of noise.”
$50

73.
POUND, Ezra.
Money Pamphlets by £.
London: Peter Russell (1950–1951).

Six volumes, all near fine in stapled wrappers. A full set issued by Peter Russell with the goal of making accessible to the English reader an introduction to the economic and political thought of Pound. For the set:
$450

74.
RAWORTH, Tom.
Heavy Light.
London: Actual Size Press (1984).

First trade printing of this edition (originally published in 1980). Horizontal 32mo. [48 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
$20

75.
[RENEGADE PRESS]. Katzman, Allan.
The Bloodletting: Poems.
Cleveland: Renegade Press (1964).

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 100 copies, printed by letterpress. Katzman’s second book, a collection of eight poems. Taylor & Horvath P-20.
$100

76.
[RENEGDE PRESS]. Keys, John.
Key’s: Poems.
Cleveland: Renegade Press (1964).

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 100 copies. A collection of nine poems. Taylor & Horvath P-26.
$150

77.
[RxArt].
Between the Lines: A Coloring Book of Drawings by Contemporary Artists.
NY: RxArt (2006).

First edition. 4to. [120 pp]. Light sticker removal mark to rear cover, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Two pages of color stickers by Ryan McGinness complete and intact. Contributing artists include Acconci, Baldessari, Calder, Crumb, Haring, Hopper, LeWitt, Longo, Mapplethorpe, Scharf, Warhol, Wegman, and many others.
$22.50

78.
SAROYAN, Aram.
O My Generation and Other Poems.
(np): Blackberry Books, 1976.

First edition. 43 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 750 copies. INSCRIBED by Saroyan, “For _____ / with affection / from Aram / Bolinas / 4/29/76.”
$35

79.
--.
Another copy.

Near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 750 copies.
$22.50

80.
SCHWARZ, Arturo.
Towards a Cold Poetic Image.
Milan: Gallery Schwarz (1967).

First edition. 30 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Essays (in Italian, French, and English) by Schwarz, Gillo Dorfles, and Daniela Palazzoli. Works by Arakawa, Baruchello, Bauermeister, Brecht, Fahlström, Reuterswärd, and Simonetti. Most of the pictured works have some text component.
$20

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