e-catalog #031, also known as...
catalog #101

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1.
[ANTI-SOVIET]. Swann, Ingo. ed.
What Will Happen to You When the Soviets Take Over.

Belmont: Starform (1980).

First edition. 4to. xv + 244 pp w/bibliography. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with a light corner wrinkle to the rear cover. INSCRIBED by Swann on the front free endpaper. From Auto Workers to Yoga Instructors, Swann let’s you know what’s in store... Uncommon.
$200

2.
ARRABAL, Fernando.
Pic-Nic on the Battlefield.

Columbus: Nomad Press, 1983.

First edition. Horizontal 8vo. [32 pp]. Very near fine in printed paper-covered boards. Printed letterpress in three colors, and illustrated with multi-colored woodcuts by Sidney Chafetz. The original Spanish play, with Barbara Wright’s facing English translation. One of 45 numbered copies (the entire edition) on handmade paper SIGNED by Chafetz.
$250

3.
[ARTISTS PERIODICALS]. Alatalo, Sally and Ray Martin.
du.da. vol. 3, no. 4..part 1.

Chicago: Sally Alatalo (1987).

[12 + 12 pp]. Two pamphlets, each near fine in stapled wrappers, together with a razor and plastic comb, as issued, in a ziplock plastic bag. Alatalo juxtaposes her text with photographs of female hair styles, while Martin’s work, “barberous,” pairs his text with advertising images of men shaving.
$45

4.
AUSTER, Paul.
Why Write?

Providence: Burning Deck (1996).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 58 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Auster. Six short essays and a series of photographs of Jon Kessler’s Word Box scuplture that employs text by Auster.
$125

5.
BATAILLE, Georges.
Guilty.

Venice & San Francisco: Lapis Press, 1988.

First US edition. 161 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Bruce Boone, with an introduction by Denis Hollier. “...combines the genres of fiction, memoir, and meditation in a philosophical interrogation of man’s entrapment within desire.” —from the jacket flap.
$40

6.
BERGÉ, Carol.
Timepieces.

Union City: Fault Publications (1977).

First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Prose works with cover art and internal illustrations by Susan Seeley Hay. Dated (‘79) and INSCRIBED by Bergé, “For Dick Higgins, / great artist + / innovator — / w/admiration / Carol Bergé.”
$40

7.
BERLIN, Lucia.
Angels Laundromat: Short Stories.

Berkeley: Turtle Island Foundation, 1981.

First trade paperback printing. 86 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers with a pale stain to upper portion of front cover. Rear cover endorsement by Ed Dorn. Six stories: The Musical Vanity Boxes, Mama and Dad, El Tim, A Foggy Day, Maggie May, and the title story. Cover art and internal illustrations by Michael Shannon Moore.
$200

8.
BERLIN, Lucia.
Phantom Pain: Sixteen Stories.

Bolinas: Tombouctou Books (1984).

First edition. 114 pp. Light reading crease and discoloration to spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. Berlin’s fourth book. SIGNED by Berlin on the half-title page.
$350

9.
BERNSTEIN, Dennis and Warren Lehrer.
French Fries: A New Play.

Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop (1984).

First edition. 4to. 99 pp. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in decorated boards. Designed and photo-typeset by Lehrar employing at least 25 different fonts and heaps of pop culture images. One of 700 numbered copies SIGNED by Bernstein and Lehrer.
$200

10.
BOGAN, Louise.
A Final Antidote: from the Journals of Louise Bogan.

Omaha: Cummington Press, 1991.

First edition. 56 pp. Fine in full cloth with printed cover label. Fine unprinted blue dust jacket, with a window cut through the spine to reveal the title. Edited by William Maxwell and Charles McGrath. Etching (numbered and signed) by Priscilla Steele. One of 220 numbered copies on Arches Ingres paper. First separate appearance of these journal entries, first published in a 1978 issue of The New Yorker.
$75

11.
BROWN, Bob.
1450–1950.

NY: Jargon/Corinth (1959).

First printing of this reissue. 66 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. A new edition of this work, with additions, which was originally published by the Black Sun Press in 1929.
$35

12.
[THE BUFFALO NINE].
The Buffalo Nine.

Buffalo: Buffalo Nine Defense Committee [c. 1970].

First edition. [16 pp]. Light toning to edges, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Pamphlet presenting the history of, and the then-current status of the “Buffalo Nine,” preceding their second trial.
$45

13.
BURNS, Jim.
My Sad Story and other poems.

(np): New Voice (1967).

First edition. [20 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Twenty-six poems, printed by mimeograph. New Voice Pamphlet 3.
$35

13a.
__. Another copy.
First edition. [20 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Burns. New Voice Pamphlet 3.
$45

14.
BURROUGHS, William S.
The Book of Breeething.

Berkeley: Blue Wind Press, 1980.

Second edition, numbered & signed issue. Horizontal 16mo. [82 pp]. Fine in full maroon cloth with gold stamping to spine and front cover. Text and conception by Burroughs with illustrations by Robert F. Gale. One of 175 numbered copies SIGNED by Burroughs.
$500

15.
CAREY, Steve.
The Lily of St. Mark’s.

(np): “C” Press (1978).

First edition. 4to. [62 pp]. Light toning along spine, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art and frontispiece portrait of Carey by George Schneeman. One of 250 copies.
$125

16.
CHAR, René.
Leaves of Hypnos.

NY: Mushinsha/Grossman (1973).

First US trade paperback printing. [264 pp]. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Cid Corman. Entries from a poetic journal, dated 1943–1944, and dedicated to his close friend Albert Camus.
$35

17.
CHOO, Danny.
Otacool: Worldwide Otaku Rooms.

Tokyo: Kotobukiya (2009).

First edition. 128 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine dust jacket with original obi. Full color photographs of devoted collectors, their collections, and the spaces they inhabit together.
$20

18.
[COMPLETE RUNS]. Shore, Jay. ed.
Santa Cruz Times: A Contemporary News Medium 1: 1 – 2: 42 (complete).

Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz Times (1973–1974).

Sixty-eight tabloid issues, each folded once as issued. All near fine or better. An uncommon complete run of this local free paper with feature stories on outlaw motorcyclists, the gonorrhea epidemic, food co-ops, cable tv, true facts about heroin, the hip dentists, and the like. Literary contributors include Williams S. Burroughs Jr and Allen Ginsberg. For the run:
$850

19.
CONNER, Bruce.
Untitled lithograph #102.

[San Francisco: Bruce Conner] (nd).

First edition. Small printed image, printed on heavy stock and tipped onto a stiff unprinted card (6 ¾ x 3 7 8 inches) along with a typed title sheet. Fine plexiglass case. One of 90 numbered copies SIGNED by Conner on the verso of the print.
$650

20.
COOLIDGE, Clark.
A Geology.

Elmwood: Potes & Poets Press, 1981.

First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by Coolidge on the front free endpaper to Gus Blaisdel, “For Gus / part of ‘the 500’ / Love / Clark.”
$100

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