61.
ROLFE, Frederick aka Baron Corvo.
Frederick Rolfe and The Times 4–12 February 1901.
Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1977.

First edition. [26 pp]. Fine in wrappers and near fine integral dust jacket. One of 175 numbered copies on Glastonbury antique laid paper. Donald Weeks contributes an introduction to these letters by Rolfe, mailed to The Times after the death of Queen Victoria.
$35

62.
ROSS, Kristin.
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture.
Cambridge: MIT Press (1995).

First edition. 261 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Ross examines the decade bookended by Dien Bien Phu and the mid-1960s.
$30

63.
RUCKER, Rudy. et al, eds.
Semiotext(e) SF: Volume V, Issue 2 (#14).
NY & Brooklyn: Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia (1989).

384 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Contributions by Ballard, Hakim Bey, Burroughs, William Gibson, Bruce Stirling, and many others.
$35

64.
SANDERS, Ed.
The Poem Beginning.
[Minneapolis]: Bookslinger Editions, 1983.

First edition. 13 ¹ ⁄ 8 x 9 ¾ inch broadside, printed in two colors. A few small specks, else very near fine. One of 90 numbered copies SIGNED by Sanders. Printed at The Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger Editions on the occasion of Sanders’ reading at the Walker Art Center.
$50

65.
SCHNITZER, Luda and Jean and Marcel Martin, eds.
Cinema in Revolution: The Heroic Era of the Soviet Film.
NY: Hill & Wang (1973).

First US edition. 208 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to crown of spine. Translated with additional material by David Robinson. Fully-illustrated.
$20

66.
SEMPRUN, Jorge and Alain Resnais.
La guerre est finie.
NY: Grove (1967).

First US edition. 192 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Text by Semprun for the film by Resnais. Translated by Richard Seaver.
$35

67.
SHERMAN, Eric and Martin Rubin.
The Director’s Event: Interviews with Five American Film-Makers.
NY: Atheneum, 1970.

First edition. vii + 200 pp w/list of films & film distributors. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Budd Boetticher, Peter Bogdanovich, Samuel Fuller, Arthur Penn, and Abraham Polonsky interviewed.
$20

68.
SNYDER, Gary.
Regarding Wave.
Iowa City: Windhover Press (1969).

First edition. 45 pp. Very near fine in full cloth with gold stamping to spine and front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 280 numbered copies on Shogun paper SIGNED by Snyder. McNeil A23. Berger 36.
$250

69.
[STERNBERG, Josef von]. Baxter, John.
The Cinema of Josef von Sternberg.
London & NY: A. Zwemmer & A.S. Barnes (1971).

First edition. 192 pp w/notes. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Dated (March 1972) and INSCRIBED by Baxter inside the front cover.
$20

70.
STRINDBERG, August.
A Witch.
Venice: Lapis Press (1991).

First US edition. [38 pp]. Near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated by Mary Sandbach. The first translation into English of this 1890 novel.
$20

71.
STURGES, Preston.
Five Screenplays.
Berkeley: University of California (1985).

First edition. vii + 848 pp. Faint foxing to page edges, else near fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited, with an introduction by Brian Henderson. Collects THE GREAT McGINTY, CHRISTMAS IN JULY, THE LADY EVE, SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS, and HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO.
$45

72.
[SURREALISM]. Hulten, Pontus. ed.
The Surrealists Look at Art.
Venice: Lapis Press (1990).

First US edition. 220 pp. Fine in illustrated boards; no dust jacket, as issued. Writings by Eluard, Aragon, Soupault, Breton, and Tzara. Translated by Michael Palmer and Norma Cole.
$25

73.
[SURREALISM]. Jean, Marcel. ed.
The Autobiography of Surrealism.
NY: Viking (1980).

First edition. xxiii + 472 pp w/selected bibliography & index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. A volume in “The Documents of 20th-Century Art” series. Selections from the work of predecesors (de Chirico, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Jarry, Vaché, Reverdy, Lautréamont) followed by a broad range of writings by the major figures involved, from the initial stirrings of the movement to May ‘68.
$35

74.
[THERRIEN, Robert]. Müller, Christian. ed.
Arbeiten auf Papier / Works on Paper.
Basel & Zürich: Kunstmuseum Basel/Scheidegger & Spiess (2008).

First edition. 4to. 190 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Texts in English and German. Forty-eight color plates.
$50

75.
TODOROV, Tzvetan.
Introduction to Poetics.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (1981).

First US edition. xxxii + 83 pp w/index. Fine in printed boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated from the original French by Richard Howard. Introduction by Peter Brooks. Theory and History of Literature, Volume 1.
$40

76.
TRAVEN, B.
The Night Visitor and Other Stories.
London: Allison & Busby (1983).

First UK edition. 235 pp. Price sticker shadow inside front board, else near fine in very near fine dust jacket. Ten of Traven’s best short fictions.
$35

77.
VIRILIO, Paul.
Strategy of Deception.
London & NY: Verso (2000).

First edition in English. 82 pp. Fine in full stamped cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated from the original French by Chris Turner.
$20

78.
[VIRILIO, Paul]. Armitage, John. ed.
Virilio Live: Selected Interviews.
London: Sage Publications (2001).

First edition. xii + 218 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. Twelve interviews.
$45

79.
[WARHOL, Andy]. Meyer-Hermann, Eva. ed.
Andy Warhol: A Guide to 706 Items in 2 Hours 56 Minutes.
Rotterdam: NAi Publishers (2008).

First edition. [176 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for this show encompassing all aspects of Warhol’s life and work. Thirty-one films, 1 clouds-installation, 40 screen tests, 6 videos, 42 television episodes, 23 drawings, 42 paintings, 21 boxes, etc...
$35

80.
[WELLES, Orson]. Benamou, Catherine L.
IT’S ALL TRUE: Orson Welles’s Pan-American Odyssey.
Berkeley: University of California (2007).

First edition. xvi + 400 pp w/notes, bibliography, & index. Fine in full black cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. A complete treatment of what was to be Welles’ third film for RKO following CITIZEN KANE and THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, but never completed.
$65

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