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81.
SANDERS, Ed.
Poem from Jail.

San Francisco: City Lights (1963).

First edition. 27 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers that are lightly toned along the spine. Sanders’ first book, a nine-part poem from the Montville State Jail. Cook 42.
$45

82.
SCHNEEMAN, Paul.
Out Will Return.

(np): Open Window Books (1978).

First edition. 4to. [26 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Eleven poems, assembled as a senior year project at Trinity School. One of 150 copies, produced at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project.
$125

83.
SNYDER, Gary.
Ripples on the Surface.

[Berkeley]: Pantheon/Black Oak Books, 1992.

First edition. 16 ¼ x 7 ½ inch illustrated broadside, printed in two colors. A poem from Snyder’s NO NATURE, printed by Okeanos Press on the occasion of Pantheon opening a new West Coast office.
$45

84.
[SOMBRE REPTILES PRESS]. Estrin, Jerry.
A Book of Gestures.

Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles, 1980.

First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 300 copies. Illustrated endpapers printed letterpress. Poems.
$35

85.
SOMMER, Frederick with Stephen Aldrich.
The Poetic Logic of Art and Aesthetics.

Stockton: Carolingian Press, 1972.

First edition. [36 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. A sequence on words and images, followed by “Words spoken in memory of Richard Nickel at a Gathering of his Friends” by Sommer.
$20

86.
[SOUND RECORDINGS]. Arto/Neto.
Pini, Pini.

Paris & NY: ZE Records (1978).

Fine 12 ep in fine printed sleeve. Words and music by S. Neto and Arto Lindsay. Recorded at Blank Tape Studio NYC August 1978.
$35

87.
[SOUND RECORDINGS].
The Industrial Records Story 1976–81.

London: Illuminated Records (1984).

Fine LP in a very near fine jacket. Cover art by D. Henderson, cover design by Genesis P Orridge. Liner notes by Terry Gold.
$45

88.
[SOUND RECORDINGS]. New Order.
Movement.

Manchester: Factory Records 1981.

Fine LP in very near fine jacket and printed inner sleeve. Fact. 50. New Order’s first LP, sporting inconic Peter Saville cover art, based on an Italian Futurist poster.
$35

89.
SPICER, Jack.
The Ballad of the Dead Woodcutter.

[Berkeley]: Arif Press [1972].

First edition. Single sheet folded twice to make a 3 ½ x 6 inch booklet. Fine. Printed in two colors on mould made paper. A twelve line poem.
$45

90.
STEWARD, Samuel M.
Love Poems: Homage to Housman.

Boyes Hot Springs: Manroot, 1984.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [44 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Poems, twenty of which first appeared in Der Kreis, with Steward’s preface. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Steward.
$125

91.
SUSSEX, Tommy.
Our Sincere Toils.

[Melbourne]: Bloom Publishing (2015).

First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of smaller number (of 200) copies accompanied by a full-color two-sided poster. Photographs of protests in Kiev and rural Ukraine during the initial actions of February 2014.
$45

92.
THOMAS, R.S.
Later Poems: A Selection.

London: Macmillan (1983).

First edition. 224 pp w/indexes of titles & first lines. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Poems from 1972–1982, published on the occasion of Thomas’ 70th birthday, including work completed beyond his SELECTED POEMS 1946–1968, and presenting 43 new poems.
$45

93.
VAN HORN, Erica.
Folded Napkins.

[Clonmel]: Coracle (2006).

First edition. 16mo. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies. A sequence of drawings of folded napkins, each fold designating a particular place-setting.
$25

94.
WAKOSKI, Diane. ed.
Dream Sheet.

NY: [Hard Ware] 1965.

First edition. Single large sheet folded four times (5 ½ x 8 ½ inches, closed). Near fine. Contributions by La Monte Young, Harry Lewis, Jerome Rothenberg, Jackson Mac Low, George Brecht, Ruth Krauss, Ken Irby, and many others.
$75

95.
WHALEN, Philip.
T/O.

San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1967.

First edition. Horizontal 48mo. [28 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers with two pasted-on paper cut-outs. One of [80] copies, printed letterpress. Haselwood 13.
$500

96.
WILEY, William T.
The Sayings of Lout Sue.

Brahmaputra: Wizdumb Gate Press [1974].

First edition. [48 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. An excellent miniature produced by Zephyrus Image. Cover art by Michael Myers. “Lout Sue Sez, ‘Steal innards to concrete.’”
$150

97.
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.
Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology Vols I & II.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1980).

First US editions. 218 + 143 pp w/indexes. Lower corners very lightly tapped, else both volumes are fine in very near fine dust jackets. Edited by G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. Von Wright and Von Wright and Heikki Nyman, respectively. Translated from the original German by Anscombe, C.G. Luckhardt, and M.A. E. Aue. After finishing his Philosophical Investigations in 1945, Wittgenstein worked on the philosophy of psychology from 1946–1949. For the pair:
$200

98.
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.
Wittgenstein’s Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics Cambridge, 1939.

Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1976.

First UK edition. 300 pp w/index. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small sticker shadow to the front flap and a tiny edge tear. Thirty-one lectures edited by Cora Diamond from the notes of R.G. Bosanquet, Norman Malcolm, Rush Rhees, and Yorick Smythies.
$125

99.
YOSHIOKA, Kou.
Okinawa 69–70.

Tokyo: Sashin Ichigun, 1970.

First edition. Small 4to. 149 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with light toning to spine. A visual chronicle of the protests against the occupation of Okinawa by the US military.
$150

100.
YOUNG, Karl.
Five Kwaidan in sleeve pages.

Tucson: Chax Press, 1986.

First edition. [52 pp]. Light bend to one upper corner, else fine in Japanese-style sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 165 numbered copies on Nideggen and Chiri papers. The “sleeve pages” are sealed along the top and bottom edges, but open at the end for reading the text therein.
$35

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