81.
[PUNK ROCK]. Kester, Marion with Peter Belisto and Bob Davis.
Street Art: The Punk Poster in San Francisco 1977–1981.
San Francisco: Last Gasp (1981).

First edition. 4to. 128 pp w/notes & readings. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with some light rubbing and a crease to lower corner of front cover. One hundred and twenty-six posters reproduced. One of the best, and earliest, books on the subject.
$100

82.
REVERDY, Pierre.
Selected Poems.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (1991).

First edition. 173 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Poems selected by Mary Ann Caws, translated by John Ashbery, Patricia Terry, and Caws, and edited by Timothy Bent and Germaine Brée. The original French works with facing English.
$35

83.
REVERDY, Pierre translated by Kenneth Rexroth.
Selected Poems.
NY: New Directions (1969).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. xiii + 78 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in full cloth and very near fine decorated publisher’s slipcase. t.e.g. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Original French poems with facing English translations by Rexroth, with his introduction. One of 150 numbered copies on Utopian paper SIGNED by Rexroth.
$125

84.
RUSCHA, Ed.
Early Graphic Work 1960–1977.
Santa Monica: Griffin (2008).

First edition. 11 x 8 ½ inch exhibition announcement. Fine. Printed on cardstock, the front is a reproduction of a 1962 lithograph, with details of the show on the verso.
$55

85.
[RUSCHA, Ed]. Parks, Van Dyke.
Dreaming of Paris b/w Wedding in Madagascar (Faranaina).
[Los Angeles]: Bananastan Records (2011).

First edition. 7” 45 rpm single. Fine in original shrinkwrap. Front and rear cover art by Edward Ruscha.
$20

86.
SANDERS, Ed.
Still Thirsting for Peace: An Interview.
Binley Woods: Beat Scene Press (1916).

First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 125 numbered copies. First separate appearance of this interview with Sanders, conducted by Kevin Ring. Originally published in Beat Scene 17 (1993). Illustrated.
$30

87.
SCIASCIA, Leonardo.
One Way or Another.
Manchester & NY: Carcanet (1987).

First edition. 103 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Italian by Sacha Rabinovitch. A political thriller “with the riddling symmetries of a story by Borges.”
$40

88.
SCIASCIA, Leonardo.
The Wine-Dark Sea.
Manchester: Carcanet (1985).

First UK edition. 142 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket that has light toning to extrems, and a US$ price sticker to the front flap. Thirteen tales of detection, in the mafia milieu, translated from the original Italian by Avril Bardoni.
$25

89.
SIMS, George.
A Life in Catalogues.
Philadelphia: Holmes Publishing, 1994.

First edition. 158 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 650 copies. Chapters on Charlotte Mew, Cyril Connolly, Ernest Dowson, and others.
$60

90.
SIMS, George.
Some Cadences: Poems Written in 1945.
(np): (np) 1960.

First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 75 numbered copies. Laid in is an apc from bookseller Sims, in part presenting this copy.
$45

91.
SOUTHERN, Terry.
The Journal of THE LOVED ONE: The Production Log of a Motion Picture.
NY: Random House (1965).

First edition. Small 4to. [114 pp]. Bump to upper and lower corners, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Text by Southern, fully-illustrated with photographs by William Claxton.
$45

92.
SPICER, Jack. ed.
J no. 5.
[San Francisco: Jack Spicer, 1959].

4to. [30 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Fran Herndon. Larry Eigner, Richard Brautigan, Mary Murphy, D.D., Kay Johnson, Ron Loewinsohn, George Stanley, Robert Duncan, Richard Duerden, Sheila Roche Harmon, Jack Spicer, Wm a. berryman, and William R. Allen appear within.
$250

93.
VACHÉ, Jacques and André Breton.
War Letters.
London: Atlas Press (1993).

The Printed Head Volume III, Number 1. 63 pp w/appendix & notes. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 250 (of 300) numbered copies. Translated from the original French and edited by Paul Lentil. Vaché’s work, with four introductory essays by Breton.
$45

94.
VALE, V. ed.
REsearch 1–3.
San Francisco: REsearch (1980–1981)

First editions. The first three newsprint tabloid issues of REsearch which, beginning with number 4/5 (a special on Willams S. Burrough and Throbbing Gristle), became a series of books. Light toning to extrems, a few tiny tears at the folds. In all, a near fine trio, much less common than Search & Destroy. Post-punk to S&D’s punk, these feature DNA, Monte Cazazza, Zev, Kathy Acker, SPK, Flipper, J.G. Ballard, Sun Ra, Factrix, and more. For the three issues:
$450

95.
VAN DEN HEUVEL, Cornelisz A.
EO7 or (christ should have carried a pearl-handled revolver).
NY: Chantpress, 1964.

First edition. 16 mo. [48 pp]. Spine tanned, else near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 80 numbered copies SIGNED by Van den Heuvel. Poems, printed letterpress.
$100

96.
WEINER, Lawrence.
If in Fact There Is a Context.
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz (2011).

First edition. 16mo. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. 100 Notes — 100 Thoughts No. 008.
$20

97.
WEISHAUS, Joel with Arthur Okamura.
Ox Herding: A Reworking of the Zen Text.
San Francisco: Cranium Press (1971).

First edition. [32 pp]. Fine printed sheets housed in a portfolio of paper-covered boards with cloth ties. Text by Weishaus, eight mounted block prints (touch of foxing to the edges of some prints) by Okamura. One of 750 copies printed by Clifford Burke and Holbrook Teter.
$100

98.
weiss, ruth.
Blue in Green.
San Francisco: Adler Press (1960).

First edition. [16 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Mel Weitsman. SIGNED by weiss on the title page. Fourth book by this undersung Beat poet
$125

99.
[WILLIAMS, Tennessee]. Choukri, Mohamed.
Tennessee Williams in Tangier.
Santa Barbara: Cadmus, 1979.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 12mo. 85 pp w/note. Fine in illustrated wrappers and fine unprinted glassine dust jacket. Translated from the original Arabic by Paul Bowles. Foreword by Gavin Lamberg, concluding note by Williams. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Choukri and Bowles.
$350

100.
WOOLF, Douglas.
Future Preconditional: A Collection by Douglas Woolf.
Toronto: Coach House, 1978.

First edition, lettered issue. 92 pp. Fine in full green cloth with printed spine label. Issued in a paper bag (near fine) that has been rubber stamped with the author name and title. One of 26 lettered copies with an original holograph poem by Woolf, housed in another printed paper bag, bound-in at the rear of the volume.
$200

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