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catalog #90

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81.
STOKES, Telfer.
Foolscrap.

London: Weproductions, 1973.

First edition. [160 pp]. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Photographs arranged under several general titles, oft not-immediately indicative of the sequence.
$35

82.
STOKES, Telfer.
Young Masters and Misses.

NY: Museum of Modern Art 1984.

First edition. [118 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Texts about and photographs of architecture.
$20

83.
STOKES, Telfer and Helen Douglas.
MIM.

Yarrow: Weproductions, 1986.

First edition. [122 pp]. Fine in stiff wrappers beneath textured printed wallpaper. Texts and images with a number of extra wallpaper leaves at rear of volume.
$45

84.
SUND, Robert.
This flower!

La Conner: Great Blue Herron Society 1982.

First edition. Horizontal 24mo. [16 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. Designed and printed by Peter Koch at the Black Stone Press. One of 200 copies SIGNED by Sund on the colophon page. This copy is additionally INSCRIBED by Sund, “To Fred Brunke / with pleasure / meeting again / SD February 19 1983.”
$75

85.
TAYLOR, Kent.
Night Physics.

Caracas: 48th Street Press, 2014.

First edition. 11 x 8 ½ inch broadside. Fine. One of 20 numbered copies (the entire edition) SIGNED by Taylor.
$35

86.
TYSON, Matthew.
Observance One, Two, Three, Four, & Five.

(np): Imprints (1992).

First editions. A set of five hand-printed folios, each with a watercolor illustration. All numbers fine. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Tyson in each folio. For the set:
$125

87.
TYSON, Matthew and Gervais Jassuad.
Suite No. 5: Porphyrogenese “Sailing to Byzantium”.

(np): Charles Gledhill (1989).

First edition. [14 pp]. 14 ½ x 22 inch accordion-fold book with removable binding that allows the book to fold outwards or to be read traditionally. Complex cloth cover over boards. There is a small pale pink stain to one cover, else fine. Red text and black image on Somerset White textured paper. One of 30 numbered copies SIGNED by Tyson and Jassuad.
$550

88.
[VISUAL POETRY]. Byrum, John and Crag Hill. eds.
CORE: A Symposium on Contemporary Visual Poetry.

Mentor & Mill Valley: Generatorscore Press (1993).

First edition. 4to. 156 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributors include Michael Basinski, Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, Dick Higgins, Karl Kempton, Steve McCaffery, Karl Young, and many others who both respond to a standard questionnaire, and/or include original work.
$45

89.
WALDMAN, Anne.
Holy City.

[NY]: (np) (1971).

First edition. Single large sheet, folded once (10 ¼ x 7 1 8 inches, closed). Fine. Cover art by George Schneeman. One of 200 copies. SIGNED by Waldman and INSCRIBED by Schneeman, “For Michael.”
$75

90.
WATERS, Alice with Bob Carrau and Patricia Curtan.
Fanny at Chez Panisse.

NY: HarperCollins (1992).

First edition. 4to. 133 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a faintly sunned spine. Cover art and internal illustrations by Ann Arnold. This copy is SIGNED or INSCRIBED by Arnold (with a full page drawing), Waters, Carrau, Curtan, and Fanny.
$150

91.
WEINER, Hannah.
Clairvoyant Journal 1974 March–June Retreat.

Lenox: Angel Hair Books (1978).

First edition. Small 4to. [62 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph of Weiner by Tom Ahern. One of 724 (of 750) copies.
$50

92.
WEINER, Hannah.
The Fast.

NY: United Artists Books, 1992.

First edition. 43 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Anne Tardos. The first of four early journals, beginning in 1971 and culminating in her CLAIRVOYANT JOURNAL (composed in 1974, published in 1978).
$45

93.
WEINER, Hannah.
A Journal Entry: of Hannah Weiner.

Providence: Diana’s Bimonthly (1975).

First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Entire issue of Diana’s Bimonthly Vol III, No 6 dedicated to this work by Weiner.
$75

94.
WELCH, Lew.
I Saw Myself / A Ring of Bone...

(np): (np) 1982.

First edition. 11 x 8 ½ inch braodside. A few shallow impressions to top center of the sheet, else very near fine.
$35

95.
[WELLES, Orson]. Lyons, Gellert. eds.
Chimes at Midnight.

New Brunswick & London: Rutgers University Press (1988).

First edition. x + 340 pp w/filmography & selected bibliography. Fine in decorated full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. The continuity script, relevant interviews, reviews, and commentaries.
$125

96.
[WILD HAWTHORN PRESS].
New Publications—Autumn 1971.

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971.

First edition. 12mo. [4 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poem/Prints, Postcards, cards (folding), Booklets and Leaflets, and a short check-list of Finlay works from other publishers.
$25

97.
WINKLER, Michael.
An Artist’s Statement.

(np): (np) (1986).

First edition. Single large sheet folded once (8 ½ x 11 inches, closed). Fine. One of 500 numbered copies printed at the Omega Press, Philadelphia. Each word in Winkler’s text is put through an image generator: a circle with each letter of the alphabet a point around its edge, a line then drawn from each letter point to form a design. Interesting!
$25

98.
[WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig]. Brand, Gerd.
The Essential Wittgenstein.

NY: Basic Books (1979).

First US edition. xxv + 182 pp w/index of citations & references. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original German with an introduction by Robert E. Innis.
$45

99.
WRIGHT, James.
Two Citizens.

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1973).

First edition. 59 pp. Top edge a little dusty, else fine in very near fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Wright on the half title page, “for Alfred Kazin / with admiration – / Jim Wright / Feb. 21, 1977.”
$150

100.
ZELEVANSKY, Paul.
The Case for the Burial of Ancestors.

NY: Zartscorp, VSW & WSP (1981– 1991).

First edition. 123 + 126 + 168 pp. All three books fine in decorated boards (each a different design) in publisher’s slipcase. An ambitious and intriguing work. Stamps and computer disc present. One of only seven numbered sets in slipcase, (slipcase numbered, with Converse-shod footprint, each book numbered and SIGNED by Zelevansky).
$750

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