61.
MEAD, Taylor.
On Amphetamine and In Europe: Excerpts from the Anonymous Diary of a New York Youth Volume Three.
NY: Boss Books (1968).

First edition. 251 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Uncommon in such crisp condition.
$350

62.
MEKAS, Jonas.
To Petrarca.
Paris: Éditions dis voir (2009).

First edition. 61 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. CD present in a clear envelope inside front cover. Color reproductions of drawings, photos, and correspondence from Mekas to accompany a sound diary drawn from his archives. Originally broadcast on radio France Culture 29 June 2003.
$75

63.
MEKAS, Jonas. ed.
Film Culture 44.
NY: Film Culture (1967).

Spring. Small 4to. 78 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. This issue features an interview with Peter Kubelka by Mekas, Markopoulos on “The Film-Maker as Physican of the Future,” Carl L. Belz on three films by Bruce Conner, and Thomas Kent Alexander on “San Francisco’s Hipster Cinema.”
$35

64.
MILLER, Henry.
Gliding into the Everglades and Other Essays.
Lake Oswego: Lost Pleiade Press (1977).

First edition. 76 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. Six essays including, “On Seeing Jack Nicholson for the First Time.” One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Miller. Shifreen & Jackson A207a.
$125

65.
MILLER, Henry.
The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder.
San Francisco: Greenwood Press, 1955.

First edition. 39 pp. Fine in stiff wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Typography by Jack Werner Stauffacher, illustrations by Gordon Cook. One of 500 copies. Jackson & Shifreen A66a.
$100

66.
MILLER, Henry.
The Waters Reglitterized: The Subject of Water Color in Some of its More Liquid Phases.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1973.

Variant second edition, numbered & signed issue. 53 pp. Fine in full cloth with pasted-on cover and spine labels. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 285 numbered copies SIGNED by Miller. Slight variation to the spine label in this issue. Shifreen & Jackson A80c.
$125

67.
MOORE, Thurston.
Alabama Wildman.
Sudbury: Water Row Press, 2000.

First edition. 111 pp. Fine in illlustrated paper-covered boards in publisher’s slipcase (which is very good only with a few scuffs) as issued. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Moore, with a SIGNED “punk poems for poets w/penny” broadside laid in. Poems and prose.
$150

68.
MOTTRAM, Eric.
Elegies.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Galloping Dog Press, 1981.

First edition. 4to. 100 pp w/resources. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Peter Donnelly. One of 400 copies.
$30

69.
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
The Strange Library.
London: Harvill Secker (2014).

First UK edition. [84 pp]. Fine in decorated boards with an envelope pasted onto the front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated from the original Japanese by Ted Goossen.
$20

70.
PAZ, Octavio.
Stanzas For An Imaginary Garden.
Tuscaloosa: Parallel Editions / University of Alabama, 1990.

First edition. [26 pp]. Fine in decorated boards. Translated from the original Spanish by Eliot Weinberger. Illustrated with two wood engravings by John DePol. One of 75 numbered copies on dampened Frankfurt mouldmade paper SIGNED by Paz, Weinberger, and DePol.
$1000

71.
PEREC, Georges.
The Art and Craft of Approching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise.
London & NY: Verso (2011).

First US edition. 80 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by David Bellos.
$15

72.
[PEREC, Georges]. Burgelin, C.
Georges Perec.
(np): Editions Du Seuil (1998).

First edition. 251 pp. Fine in glossy printed wrappers. Illustrated with photographs. Text in French. Volume 4 in the Les Contemporains series.
$25

73.
PETTIBON, Raymond illustrates Jim Thompson.
South of Heaven.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2010.

First printing of this edition (originally published in 1967). [232 pp]. Fine in full black cloth with die-cut labels to covers and spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Pettibon adds forty-four drawings, printed on red paper, throughout the text. One of 400 numbered copies on Gemran mouldmade Schiller paper SIGNED by Pettibon. New, at publication price:
$500

74.
PRINCE, Richard.
4 X 4 / Four by Four.
Tokyo: Korinsha (1997).

First edition. 4to. 87 + [18] pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Eighty-eight full-color reproductions, an essay on Prince by Taka Kawachi, and an excerpt from a 1992 interview with Prince by Larry Clark. Much less common than the PowerHouse edition, which this Japanese edition precedes.
$450

75.
[RAY, Nicholas]. Eisenschitz, Bernard.
Nicholas Ray: An American Journey.
London & Boston: Faber and Faber (1993).

First US edition. xx + 599 pp w/index. Pages toned (cheap paper) else very near fine in like dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Tom Milne.
$35

76.
ROLFE, Frederick writing as “Baron Corvo.”
The Armed Hands and Other Stories and Pieces.
London: Cecil & Ameila Woolf, 1974.

First edition, numbered issue. 137 pp w/notes. Fine in full cloth and very near fine clear acetate dust jacket. Near fine publisher’s slipcase that is lightly rubbed. One of 200 numbered copies on Basingwerk Parchment paper.
$125

77.
ROLFE, Frederick writing as “Baron Corvo.”
Letters to James Walsh.
London: Bertram Rota, 1972.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 58 pp w/notes. Fine in full green cloth with gold stamping. Fine clear unprinted acetate dust jacket. Introduction and notes by Donald Weeks. One of 26 letttered copies SIGNED by Weeks. “With Compliments” from the Press slip laid in.
$200

78.
ROT, Dieter.
246 Little Clouds.
NY: Something Else Press, 1968.

First edition. [176 pp]. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with three short closed edge-tears.
$250

79.
RUSCHA, Ed.
Course of Empire: Paintings by Ed Ruscha.
Ostfildern-Ruit: Haatje Cantz (2005).

First edition. 64 pp. Fine in horizontal printed wrappers. Published for the 51st Venice Biennale. Text by Joan Didion, Frances Starck, Donna De Salvo, and Linda Norden. Ten color reproductions.
$75

80.
[SCHWITTERS, Kurt]. Stadtmüller, Klaus.
I Build My Time: Columns, Grottos, Niches.
Clonmel: Coracle, 2001.

First edition. 73 pp w/notes. Fine in full red cloth with black stamping to spine and front cover. Pictorial endpapers. No dust jacket, as issued. A collage by Stadtmüller, built on texts by Schwitters. One of 500 copies.
$55

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