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41.
[POUND, Ezra].
Ezra Pound at Seventy.

Norfolk: New Directions [1956].

First edition. 32mo. [12 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers (a bit rubbed). Cover portrait of Pound by [Sheri] Martinelli. Contributions by Auden, cummings, Eliot, Hemingway, Macleish, Martins, Marianne Moore, Norman H. Pearson, Spender, Edith Sitwell. Concludes with a list of Pound titles then currently in print.
$15

42.
RAWORTH, Tom.
A Serial Biography.

London: Fulcrum (1969).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 94 pp. Fine in full cloth and very near fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket with a small corner crease to one flap. One of 100 numbered copies on grey glastonbury antique laid paper SIGNED by Raworth.
$100

43.
SAROYAN, Aram. ed.
Lines 2.

NY: Aram Saroyan, 1964.

4to. 37 pp. Very good plus in side-stapled wrappers with a lower corner crease and light overall soiling. Cover art by Joe Brainard. Works by Padgett, Berrigan, Grenier, Ceravolo, Kolman, Veitch, and many others.
$50

44.
SCOBIE, Stephen.
Airwaves, Sealevel, Landlock.

Toronto: Seripress (1978).

First edition. Single printed leaf laid into stiff printed card covers. Very slightly rubbed, else fine. One of 100 copies SIGNED by Scobie.
$35

45.
SEGALEN, Victor.
Stelae.

Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press (1969).

First edition. 95 pp w/note. Very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. Nathaniel Tarn’s English translations followed by the original French poems. Unicorn French Series Volume Nine.
$45

46.
SILLIMAN, Ron.
Ketjak.

San Francisco: This (1980).

First edition. 93 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 774 (of 800) copies.
$50

47.
SNYDER, Gary.
For Philip Whalen d. 26 June 2002.

[Berkeley]: Tangram, 2002.

First edition. 11 x 7 7 8 inch broadside, printed in two colors “on various papers.” Fine. One of 200 copies.
$50

48.
SPICER, Jack.
Berkeley in a Time of Plague.

Bekeley: Arif Press (1974).

First edition. 11 ½ x 9 ¼ inch broadside, printed in three colors. Fine. One of 150 copies printed at the Arif Press by Alastair Johnston. There are two points of issue with this title (with or without mention of Johnston in the colophon) but no priority has been established.
$125

49.
STAFFORD, William.
Late, Passing Prairie Farm: A Poem.

Northampton: Main Street Inc, 1976.

First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. A poem with two engravings by Barry Moser. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Stafford and Moser. Additionally, Moser has SIGNED at each engraving.
$500

This is one of 80 Stafford titles as part of a collection to be found HERE.

50.
TZARA, Tristan.
Cosmic Realities Vanilla Tobacco Drawings.

Todmorden: Arc Publications, 1975.

First edition. [34 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. One of 485 (of 500) copies. Original French poems with facing English translations by Lee Harwood.
$35

51.
[UNTIDE PRESS]. Everson, William.
Poems: MCMXLII.

Waldport: Untide Press (1944–45).

First edition. [40 pp]. Tiny spot to top edge of rear cover, else very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 500 copies. Errata slip bound-in. Bartlett & Campo A8.
$100

52.
[UNTIDE PRESS]. Everson, William.
The Residual Years: Poems, 1940–1941.

Waldport: Untide Press (1944).

First edition. [32 pp]. Internal pages fine, printed wrappers near fine with some light chipping to edges and uneven toning. One of 330 copies SIGNED by Everson on the colophon page. Bartlett & Campo A7.
$200

53.
[UNTIDE PRESS]. Everson, William.
The Waldport Poems.

Waldport: Untide Press, 1944.

First edition. [30 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems with illustrations by Clayton James. One of 975 copies on Linweave paper. Bartlett & Campo A5.
$100

54.
[UNTIDE PRESS]. Everson, William.
War Elegies.

Waldport: Untide Press, 1944.

First edition. [34 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers, glued into printed covers (lightly sunned along spine). One of 975 copies printed letterpress. Illustrations by Kemper Nomland Jr. In this new edition, the title of Elegy IV has been changed to “London Address, February 1941” and “Lay I in the Night” added as Elegy V. Bartlett & Campo A6.
$75

55.
[UNTIDE PRESS]. Everson, William.
X War Elegies.

Waldport: Untide Press, 1943.

First edition. [20 pp]. Light toning and edgewear to extrems, else near fine in printed wrappers. Poems with illustrations by Kemper Nomland Jr., printed by mimeograph. Bartlett & Campo A4.
$450

56.
[UNTIDE PRESS]. Patchen, Kenneth.
An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air.

Waldport: Untide Press (1944).

First edition, second printing. [40 pp]. Light tanning along spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers with wrap-around label. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s inspiration for the design of his long-running City Lights “Pocket Poets” series. The first printing was almost entirely destroyed shortly after production. Morgan A8b.
$75

57.
[WEATHER UNDERGROUND].
Osawatomie No. 1.

Eugene: Jack Rabbits Womens Printshop, Water Buffalo Print Collective, Red Dragon Print Collective, Spring, 1975.

4to. 31 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. A later edition, issued by public sympathisers.
$40

58.
[ZEPHYRUS IMAGE]. Myers, Michael.
Dr. Spokane’s Soporific.

[San Francisco: Zephyrus Image, c. 1973–1976].

First edition. 48mo. [58 pp]. Some discoloration to the front cover, else near fine in stapled wrappers. A flip book classic: sheep jumping a fence. Cover lettering and interal drawings by Myers. Issued as a Christmas offering. See Johnston p. 193.
$125

59.
ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
Collected Fiction.

Elmwood Park: Dalkey Archive (1990).

First edition. 311 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Foreword by Gilbert Sorrentino, afterword by Paul Zukofsky.
$25

60.
ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
I’s (pronounced eyes).

NY: Trobar (1963).

First edition. Horizontal 32mo. 40 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. A collection of eleven poems, issued as number 4 in the Trobar Books series. One of 350 copies.
$100

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