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81.
SEBALD, W.G.
Vertigo.

NY: New Directions (2000).

First US edition. 263 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original German by Micahel Hulse. Sebald’s first novel.
$35

82.
SHINOYAMA, Kishin.
Olele Olala.

Tokyo: Shueisha, 1971.

First edition. 4to. [272 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Shinoyama. Full-bleed color and b&w photographs documenting, well, as the publisher puts it, “Kishin Shinoyama & his mad crew challenged Brazil, the land of dazzling sex-craze at the other end of the Globe! Here! The Human Document of his bitter-comic struggle for 25 days!.” Parr & Badger Photobook III.
$350

83.
SNYDER, Gary.
Riprap.

Ashland: Origin Press, 1959.

First edition. [34 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Snyder’s first book. A “Beat” highspot, up there just after NAKED LUNCH, HOWL, and ON THE ROAD in importance and influence. Designed, edited, and published by Cid Corman. SIGNED by Snyder on the title page. McNeil A1a.
$1500

84.
STAFFORD, William.
Words in the Cold Air.

Salt Lake City: Western Slope Press, 1993.

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in full black cloth with pasted-on cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems by Stafford with two bound-in etchings by Mary Dryburgh. One of 50 numbered copies on Nideggen paper SIGNED by Stafford and Dryburgh.
$450

85.
STEIN, Gertrude.
Lucy Church Amiably.

NY: Something Else Press, 1969.

First US edition. 240 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 2000 copies printed. Originally published in Paris in 1930, and here first published in the US.
$45

86.
STEIN, Gertrude.
Money.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.

First edition, publisher’s copy. [26 pp]. Spine sunned, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with a gen-u-ine US dollar bill mounted to front cover. Fine acetate dust jacket. Foreword by John Martin, Barbara Martin, and Seamus Cooney. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page. Five short essays on money.
$300

87.
VAN HORN, Erica and Laurie Clark.
Docking Competitions 1991–95.

Docking: Coracle, 1995.

First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in full decorated cloth. One of 200 copies. Text by Van Horn with Clark’s drawings. Dated (1995) and INSCRIBED by Van Horn on the colophon page.
$40

88.
VAN HORN, Erica and Someone Else.
Scraps of an Aborted Collaboration.

Docking: Coracle (1994).

First edition. [18 pp]. Fine in decorated boards. One of 200 numbered copies. Original illustrated pages cut and accompanied by a new text. INSCRIBED by Van Horn on the colophon page.
$45

89.
VOSTELL, Wolf.
Berlin and Phenomena.

NY: Something Else Press, 1966

First edition. 14 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Translated by Laura P. Williams. 1000 copies printed. Ten titles listed on rear cover. Great Bear Pamphlet #9.
$20

90.
[WARHOL, Andy]. Malanga, Gerard (guest editor).
Film Culture 45.

NY: Film Culture (1967).

Summer. Small 4to. [64 pp]. Crease to lower front corner, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Guest-edited by Gerard Malanga, designed and produced by George Macunias. A Warhol-themed issue featuring film stills, interviews with members of his circle, and contributions by Mac Low, Wieners, Malanga, and many others.
$250

91.
WEINER, Hannah.
Written in / The Zero One.

Mooroolbark: Post Neo Publications (1985).

First edition. 4to. [28 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 350 numbered copies. “Written in a blank book called Homo Futurus by Barbara Rosenthal.”
$75

92.
WELCH, Denton.
When I Was an Art Student.

[North Pomfret]: Elysium Press, 1998.

First edition, lettered issue. [10 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed cover label in fine publisher’s slipcase. Frontispiece self-portrait by the author. One of 26 lettered copies on Alcantara paper. An excerpt from an early version of A VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, an autobiographical novel describing a serious bicycle accident Welch endured, and his subsequent recovery.
$450

93.
WELCH, Lew
On Out.

Berkeley: Oyez, 1965.

First edition. [44 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 500 copies printed by Graham Mackintosh. Frontis photograph of Welch by Jim Hatch. Inked date (Sept 3rd 65 SF) and ownership signature of Auerhahn Press poet Bill Deemer.
$75

94.
WIENERS, John.
The Hotel Wentley Poems: Original Versions.

San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1965.

First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers with faint tanning along spine. Cover and internal drawing by Robert LaVigne, front cover photograph by Jerry Burchard, photograph of Wieners on the rear cover by Wallace Berman. Inked date (July ‘68) and ownership signature of poet Bill Deemer on the first blank leaf.
$75

95.
WIENERS, John.
707 Scott Street for Billie Holiday 1959: The Journal of John Wieners.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1996.

First edition. 126 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. The first appearance of this 1958–1959 text, discovered in Wieners’ personal papers. Introductory texts by Lewis Warsh and Fanny Howe.
$75

96.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
Super-Duper Zuppa Inglese (and Other Trifles From the Land of Stodge).

Belper: Aggie Weston’s Editions, 1977.

First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine dust jacket. Text by Williams, drawings by Barbara Jones. One of 950 (of 1000 copies). Aggie Weston’s Editions I.
$20

97.
YOKOTA, Daisuke.
Vertigo.

[Tokyo & Hayama]: Newfave (2014).

First edition. Small 4to. 106 pp. Fine in decorated boards. One of 500 copies. Dated (2014) and SIGNED by Yokota on the front free endpaper. Shortlisted both for “Photobook of the year prize” at Aperture / Paris Photo PhotoBook Awards 2014, and the “Author Book Award” at The 2015 Book Awards, Arles.
$250

98.
YOSHIYUKI, Kohei.
Document Park.

Tokyo: Seven Sha, 1980.

First edition. Small 4to. Near fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket with the original wrap-around band (obi). Nice copy of this collection of secret photographs of nocturnal trysts, and the observers thereof, in Tokyo parks, taken with an infrared flash.
$750

99.
YOUNG, Noel. ed.
The Yes! Capra Chapbook Series 1–41 (complete).

Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1972–1977.

First editions, numbered & signed issue. All forty-one volumes in this excellent series. Some light foxing to extrems of a few, else all near fine or better in illustrated paper-covered boards. No dust jackets, as issued. SIGNED by Henry Miller (2), James Houston (2), Anais Nin, Faye Kicknosway, Lawrence Durrell, David Meltzer, Richard de Mille, Carlos Reyes, Andrei Codrescu, Diane Di Prima, Ross Macdonald, Barry Gifford, Ray Bradbury, Lynn Sukenick, Jack Hirschman, William Richardson, Peter Beagle, Victor Perera, Clayton Barbeau, Colin Wilson, Raymond Carver, Edwin Brock, William Nolan, Lee Hopkins, Jim White, Ursula Le Guin, Lyn Lifshin, Edouard Roditi, Lawrence Fixel, Robert Gover, Callista McAllister, William Benton, Jared Metz, Mohamed Hamri, Will Baker, Mark Vinz, Ray Russell, Edward Engberg, and Gene Detro. For the set:
$2250

100.
ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
It was.

[Koyoto]: Origin Press, 1961.

First edition. 132 pp. Near fine in full green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Unprinted glassine dust jacket present, but heavily chipped along spine and folds. One of 200 (of 250) copies handset and printed by the Genichido Press in Koyoto, Japan.
$125

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