21.
EISENSTEIN, S.M.
On the Composition of the Short Fiction Scenario.
London: Methuen (1988).

First UK edition. 61 pp. Price sticker on rear cover, else near fine in printed wrappers. Translated by Alan Y. Upchurch with an introduction by Jay Leyda. Eisenstein’s lectures on turning a short story into a filmscript.
$15

22.
[EISENSTEIN, Sergei]. Barna, Yon.
Eisenstein.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (1973).

First edition. 287 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. The first major critical biography.
$25

23.
[EISENSTEIN, Sergei]. Leyda, Jay and Zina Voynow.
Eisenstein at Work.
NY: Pantheon Books/Museum of Modern Art (1982).

First edition. 4to. xiii + 161 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Ted Perry. Illustrated with production photos, film stills, and Eisenstein’s own notes and sketches.
$25

24.
FARMER, John Allen.
The New Frontier: Art and Television 1960–65.
Austin: Austin Museum of Art, 2000.

First edition. 4to. 99 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Reproductions of work by Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Lee Friedlander, George Maciunas, Robert Rauschenberg, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Garry Winogrand, and many others.
$45

25.
FELLINI, Federico.
Fellini on Fellini.
NY: Delacorte (1976).

First US edition. 180 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Italian by Isabel Quigley. Preface by Christian Strich.
$25

26.
FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence.
Populist Manifesto (For Poets with Love).
San Francisco: Cranium Press (1975).

First edition. 18 x 12 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. SIGNED by Ferlinghetti. Printed by Vernon Chadwick, Jr.
$75

27.
[FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence]. Wolberg, Joe.
Unpopulist Manifesto.
San Francisco: Golden Mountain Press (1975).

First edition. Single large sheet folded twice to make a booklet (9 x 6 inches, closed). A few specks to rear cover, else near fine. Composed contra Ferlinghetti’s exhortation for poets to come out of their closets, Wolberg says, “stay in there!”
$40

28.
FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence.
Spirit of the Crusades.
London: Bernard Stone and Raymond Danowski, 1991.

First edition. 11 ⁷ ⁄ 8 x 8 ¼ inch broadside, printed in black on gray paper. Fine. One of a number of broadsides printed at Stone’s Turret Bookshop.
$45

29.
FINLAY, Alec.
Football Moon.
Edinburgh & Gateshead: Morning Star/Baltic (2002).

First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 750 copies. Poems and illustrations by Finlay with type by Jon Harker.
$20

30.
FINLAY, Alec. ed.
Notebook: Mesostic Laboratorium: Poems Composed on the Names of Scientists.
(np): Platform Projects/Morning Star/Science Learning Center North East, 2007.

First edition. [64 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and very near fine dust jacket with printed cover label. Largely blank pages with the mesostics running along the bottom edges, “seeMs rAther fulL, This cHock-a-block hUman houSe / Thomas Malthus (1766–1934).” Finlay, Ken Cockburn, Tom Shakespeare, and students from various poetic workshops contribute.
$20

31.
FISHER, Roy and Tom Phillips.
Correspondence.
London: Tetrard Press (1970).

First edition. Single large sheet folded once (11 ⁷ ⁄ 8 x 10 inches, closed). Fine. One of 450 (of 500) copies. Fisher’s poem facing Phillips’ artwork.
$50

32.
FORD, Charles Henri.
THE HALF-THOUGHTS the distances of pain.
NY: Prospero (1947).

First edition. 16mo. [12 pp]. Short splits to paper at base and crown of spine, else near fine in decorated paper-covered boards. SIGNED by Ford across the colophon statement, and additionally INSCRIBED, “To Dear Alvin [Colt] / from Baba /Christmas / 1948.” Illustrated with a drawing by Dmitri Petrov, who also designed this book. The colophon calls for 20 copies signed by both Ford and Petrov, this is likely an out-of-sequence copy. Prospero Pamphlet No. 1.
$200

33.
FRIEDBERG, Anne.
Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern.
Berkeley: University of California (1993).

First edition. 287 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Friedberg “explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences...anticipate contemporary pleasures provided by cinema, video, shopping malls, and emerging ‘virtual reality’ technologies.” The first sustained account of the cinema’s role in postmodern culture. — from the flap.
$45

34.
GOLDSMITH, Kenneth.
Traffic.
Los Angeles: Make Now, 2007.

First edition. 115 pp. Tiny nick to base of front cover, small wrinkle to rear. In all, near fine in illustrated wrappers. Dated (N.Y.C. Oct 2007) and INSCRIBED by Goldsmith, in part, “Alternate Side Suspended Today.” One day in the life of NYC traffic.
$45

35.
GOODING, Mel and Julian Rothstein. eds.
Dr. Clock’s Handbook.
London: Redstone (2006).

First edition. 168 pp w/index. Very near fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Introduction by Andrey Kurkov. Contributions by Ballard, Glen Baxter, Borges, Filliou, Kafka, Perec, Pessoa, Polke, Prince, Ruscha, and many others. Erratum slip laid in.
$25

36.
HOGAN, Micheal.
Risky Business.
Lewiston: Great Raven Press, 1977.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 28 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Hogan. From the biographical statement, “A civil rights activist in the Sixties, Hogan spent over nine years in a maximum security prison in Arizona where he is presently incarcerated for forgeries of Supreme Court decisions releasing several state prisoners.”
$200

37.
JOHNSON, Ronald.
A Line of Poetry a Row of Trees.
Highlands: Nantahala Foundation/Jonathan Williams, 1964.

First edition, limited issue. [80 pp]. Near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems illustrated with drawings by Thomas George. One of 50 copies comprising the “Author’s Edition.” Printed at the Auerhahn Press. Jargon 42. See Auerhahn 35.
$450

38.
[KRACAUER, Siegfried]. Koch, Gertrud.
Siegfried Kracauer: An Introduction.
Princeton: Princeton University Press (2000).

First edition. xii + 137 pp w/index. Fine in full black cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated by Jeremy Gaines.
$25

39.
LARKIN, Philip.
The Whitsun Weddings: Poems..
NY: Random House (1964).

First US edition. 46 pp. A few small spots of foxing along the top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket that has some light toning to extrems. Bloomfield A7b.
$100

40.
LEVERTOV, Denise.
Summer Poems/1969.
Berkely: Oyez (1970).

First edition. [16 pp]. Touch of foxing along spine, else very near fine in paper-covered boards and cloth spine with printed label. One of 50 numbered copies on Tovil paper SIGNED by Levertov.
$200

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