81.
SPICER, Jack.
Billy the Kid.
Dublin: New Writers’ Press (1969).

First Irish edition. [16 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers glued into a printed blue dust jacket. Contents printed letterpress. One of 150 copies. An uncommon edition of this Spicer poem, published originally by Robert Duncan and Jess’ Enkidu in 1959, later by Oyster (‘75), and Fourbis (‘90, in French).
$45

82.
STAFFORD, William.
West of Here.
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press (1981).

First edition. 8 x 4 ³ ⁄ 8 illustrated broadside. Fine. One deckle edge. One of 290 copies on Nideggen paper, printed letterpress.
$25

83.
STANFORD, Frank.
Arkansas Bench Stone.
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975.

First edition. 32 pp. Corner crease to front cover and first two leaves, else near fine in printed wrappers. Stanford’s fifth book, a collection of sixteen poems. Illustrated with two drawings and a photograph of a painting, all by Ginny Crouch Stanford.
$450

84.
STANFORD, Frank.
Ladies from Hell.
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1974.

First edition. 38 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Seventeen poems, illustrated with nine drawings by Ginny Crouch Stanford. The second published collection of poems.
$750

85.
STANFORD, Frank.
Shade.
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975.

First edition. 49 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Stanford’s fourth published collection of poems. Known for embellishing his bibliography, this volume identifies itself as a “second edition” (it isn’t, the first never having been published). Ginny Crouch Stanford contributes four drawings.
$750

86.
STANFORD, Frank.
The Singing Knives.
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1971.

First edition. 56 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art (reproduced on the title page), and portrait drawing of Stanford by Ginny Crouch. His first book, a collection of twenty-three poems.
$850

87.
SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES.
Illusions of Shameless Abundance Degenerating into an Uninterrupted Sequence of Hostile Encounters.
San Francisco: SRL [1989].

First edition. 14 ½ x 22 ½ inch illustrated poster. Fine. As if their giant menacing machines were not enough, this show featured twenty stacked pianos set alight.
$100

88.
[TUTTLE, Richard]. Cutts, Simon.
Palpa for Richard Tuttle.
London: Victoria Miro (1987).

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. The large front panel conceales the the tiny narrow booklet (6 ½ x 2 inches) printing Cutts’ poem in tribute.
$75

89.
VALOCH, Jiri.
Letters from Brno.
Clonmel: Coracle, 2010.

First edition. [22 pp w/notes]. Fine in sewn wrapper and integral printed dust jacket. Typewriter poems to accompany letters to Charles Verey.
$25

90.
THE WEIRDOS.
Destroy All Music b/w A Life of Crime and Why Do You Exist?
Los Angeles: Bomp Records 1977.

7 inch single. Fine in near fine sleeve. First single.
$75

91.
THE WEIRDOS.
We Got the Neutron Bomb b/w Solitary Confinement.
[Los Angeles]: Dangerhouse [1978]

7 inch single. Fine in near fine sleeve. Second release by this early LA punk band.
$100

92.
WELCH, Lew.
I Sometimes Talk to Kerouac When I Drive.
Portland: Yes! Press, 1971.

First edition. 6 x 7 inch broadside, printed in black on olive paper. Fine.
$45

93.
WELCH, Lew.
Inflation.
[Portland]: Yes! Press, 1970.

First edition. 11 x 5 inch broadside. One deckle edge. Fine.
$45

94.
WELCH, Lew.
Redwood Haiku & Other Poems.
San Francisco: Cranium Press, 1972.

First edition. [20 pp]. Light sunning along spine, else near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 250 copies printed by Clifford Burke and Nancy Lehman. Cover drawing by Magda. Ten poems.
$150

95.
[WELCH, Lew]. Upton, Charles writing as “Skip.”
For Lew.
(np): (np) (nd).

First edition. 8 ¼ x 5 ⁵ ⁄ 8 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine.
$25

96.
WHALEN, Philip.
Prolegomena to a Study of the Universe & Other Prose Takes.
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 2014.

First edition. 63 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Whalen’s “takes” with photographs by Tinker Greene and an Introduction by Kevin Power. Alastair Johnston concludes this volume with an Afterword. New, at publication price:
$15

97.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan and John Furnival.
An Arabesk for Frederick Delius at the Year’s End.
Buffalo: University Libraries, 1981.

First edition. Single stiff sheet folded once to make a card. Fine. A portrait by Furnival with Williams’ text. Christmas Broadside second series, number three. INSCRIBED by Williams, “for Don [Allen] / Jonathan Williams.” Original mailing envelope present.
$45

98.
[WILSON, Robert]. Brecht, Stefan.
The Theatre of Visions: Robert Wilson.
Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp (1978).

First edition. 441 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with a bump to the crown of spine. The first book in Brecht’s “The original theatre of the City of New York. From the mid-60s to the mid-70s.”
$35

99.
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.
Philosophical Remarks.
NY: Harper & Row / Barnes & Noble Import Division (1975).

First US edition. 357 pp w/corrigenda for German text. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited from Wittgenstein’s posthumous writings by Rush Rhees, translated into English by Raymond Hargreaves and Roger White.
$75

100.
WRIGHT, C.D.
Terrorism.
Fayetteville: Lost Roads, 1979.

First edition. 48 pp. A tiny spot inside front cover and to first page, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Wright’s third collection of poems, issued as Lost Roads 13.
$150

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