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81.
PRICE, Reynolds.
Lessons Learned: Seven Poems.

NY: Albondocani Press, 1977.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 19 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral marbled-paper dust jacket with printed cover label. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Price. Albondocani Press Publication No. 22.
$50

82.
[PUNK ROCK]. Faye, D.D. et al, eds.
Back Door Man No. 10.

Torrance: Back Door Man, 1977.

February. 24 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. KISS sticker present! Dictators, Pere Ubu, more.
$75

83.
[PUNK ROCK]. Faye, D.D. et al, eds.
Back Door Man #12.

Torrance: Back Door Man, 1977.

July-August. 26 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Iggy Pop on the cover, contributions by Lester Bangs and R. Meltzer. Pieces on the Sex Pistols, Iggy, and The Dictators.
$40

84.
[PUNK ROCK]. Saunders, Mike and Gene Sculatti. eds.
Brain Damage #1.

Hollywood: Brain Damage, 1974.

June. 15 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. “An Open Letter” from Wayne Davis laid in, explaining his departure from a critic’s group. Co-editor Saunders would later front The Angry Samoans. First and only issue. Articles on Unit 4+2, a heavy metal consumer guide, and a Lou Reed takedown.
$100

85.
[PUNK ROCK]. Fallout, B. and Howard Etc. eds.
Forget It! #2.

San Jose: Forget It! (1980).

First edition. 31 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. X interviewed, reviews of Devo and The Undertones live, Urgh! #1 (Cramps, Dead Kennedys, X), and lots of record reviews. An uncommon South Bay mag.
$50

86.
[PUNK ROCK]. Fallout, B. and Howard Etc. eds.
Forget It! #4.

San Jose: Forget It! [1980].

First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Long interview with the Plugz, reviews of B-52’s, XTC, Stiff Little Fingers, Black Flag (they make the Pistols look like the Dead), and lots of records reviews.
$50

87.
[PUNK ROCK]. [SMITH, Patti].
The Record Rag #11.

San Francisco: Aquarius Records, 1974.

Single large sheet folded twice. Very near fine. Published by the venerable San Francisco record shop. Early photo of Patti Smith on the cover, with the added quotation, “Oh Lord please don’t let me be understood.”
$35

88.
[PUNK ROCK]. Nobakht, David.
Suicide: No Compromise.

London: SAF Publishing (2005).

First edition. 223 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Weirdly uncommon docu-biography of the extreme synth-driven confrontationists Alan Vega and Martin Rev. Suicide was fixture at CBGB’s and Max’s Kansas City in the early days, and opened for The Clash on their 1978 British tour.
$150

89.
QUENEAU, Raymond.
One Hundred Million Million Poems.

Paris: Kickshaws (1983).

First English language edition. Small 4to. [36 pp]. Near fine in string-bound wrappers with a few light bends to one upper corner, and a small spot. One of 500 numbered copies on Arches paper. Foreword by John Crombie (who translated this volume), instructions for use by Queneau. Designed so that each line of each of the ten sonnets falls on a separate sheet, and thus can be turned in combination to equal the title.
$450

90.
RUSCHA, Edward.
Every Building on the Sunset Strip.

Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha, 1966 [1970].

Second edition (last sheet trimmed flush). 8vo. Slight toning to spine and rear cover, else fine in wrappers housing a single long accordion-fold sequence of glued sheets. Very near fine mylar-sided publisher’s slipcase with one tiny split. Less common in such condition. Ruscha’s famous photographic capture of both sides of the Strip.
$2000

91.
SNYDER, Gary with Wendell Berry and Carole Koda.
Three on Community.

Boise: Limberlost Press, 1996.

First trade edition. 66 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 800 copies. Though not called for in this issue, SIGNED by Snyder, Berry, and Koda.
$125

92.
SOLIAH, Kathleen writing as “Sara Jane Olson.”
Serving Time: America’s Most Wanted Recipes.

Sara Olson Defense Fund Committee, 1999.

First edition. 102 pp. Small stamp on bottom edge, else near fine in spiral-bound wrappers. INSCRIBED by Olson on the title page, “Best wishes / Sara Olson.”
$75

93.
TATE, James.
Deaf Girl Playing.

Cambridge: Pym-Randall Press, 1970

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Tate. A short story by the poet.
$45

94.
TYLER, Anne.
Your Place is Empty.

Concord: William B. Ewert, 1992.

First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 60 numbered copies on Rives paper SIGNED by Tyler. A short story that appeared originally in The New Yorker in 1976, and was selected for the 1977 BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES.
$150

95.
WAGNER, D. R.
The Lost Carnival & other places.

Death Crater: Molly Moon Press, 1969.

First edition. 22 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies, printed letterpress. INSCRIBED by Wagner to Douglas Blazek, “Doug: / This is one old one / from that fantastic time / D.R. Wagner / 02/01.”
$45

96.
[WARHOL, Andy]. Croland, David and Dagon James.
Lid No. 2.

(np): Waverly Press (2005).

Small 4to. [120 pp]. Small bend to one upper corner, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. All-Warhol issue, with contributions by Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey, and Billy Name among others.
$45

97.
WELCH, Lew.
Courses: No Credit No Blame No Balm.

San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1968.

First edition. Horizontal 48mo. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers of limp brown suede, with the title stamped in black on the front cover. Though there were to be 60 copies, fewer were actually produced as there was not enough suede for the covers. Welch’s least common book. Haselwood 16.
$750

98.
WILSON, Colin.
Adrift in Soho.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961.

First US edition. 229 pp. Near fine in very near fine dust jacket with a small ink price on front flap. A novel of young and old beatniks in London.
$50

99.
WRIGHT, Rebecca.
Elusive Continent.

NY: Telephone Books (1972).

First edition. 4to. [96 pp]. Bump to fore-edge, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with a corner crese to rear panel. Cover art and internal drawings by Denise Green. One of 300 copies. Poems.
$50

100.
[YIPPIES]. Krassner, Paul.
Yippie!

NY: Youth International Party [1968].

First edition. 11 x 8 ½ inch flyer, printed in two colors. Fine. “Yippie! / Chicago Aug 25-30” printed in red over hundreds of names, words, phrases defining the zeitgeist in blue. SIGNED by Krassner along the bottom margin.
$450

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