81.
SATIE, Erik.
A Mammal’s Notebook: Collected Writings of Erik Satie.
London: Atlas Press (1996).

First edition. 206 pp w/bibliography. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited by Ornella Volta. Translations by Antony Melville. Atlas Arkhive Five.
$35

82.
SCHAFFF, D.S.S. ed.
The Yale Literary Magazine: New Poetry 1963.
New Haven: Yale Literary Society, 1963.

Volume CXXXI, Numbers 3 & 4. April. 64 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Olson, Creeley, Ashbery, Wieners, Hollander, Jones, Duncan, Burroughs, Meltzer, Dorn all appear. Editor Schaff begins the issue with “Some Statements on Projective Verse,” a response to Olson’s pamphlet.
$100

83.
SHONTING, Chris.
Keepers of the Change.
Melbourne: Heavytime (2013).

First edition. 4to. [56 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Metal practicioners Natur and Occulta’s North American East Coast Tour, captured by Shonting both on stage and during the less exciting moments between gigs. One of 200 numbered copies.
$35

84.
SINCLAIR, Iain.
Flesh Egges & Scalp Metal: Selected Poems, 1970–1987.
London: Paladin/Grafton Books (1989).

First edition. 165 pp w/index. Light bend to lower corner of the front cover, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Sinclair on the first leaf.
$35

85.
SOHM, H. ed.
Happening & Fluxus: Materialien.
Köln: Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1970.

First edition. [336 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Stuffed with photographs of events and reproductions of ephemera.
$45

86.
STEIN, Gertrude.
Why Are There Whites to Console, A Portrait of Janet.
[NY]: Aloe Editions, 1973.

First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 74 (of 100) numbered copies. A portion of the complete “Why are there Whites to Console,” printed in two colors. Wilson A74.
$75

87.
THALES.
A Valorium Edition of the Entire Extant Works of Thales!
NY: Fuck You / Press (1964).

First edition. 4to. [4 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Introduction by Aristotle (in Greek) and the “works” by “the famous Milesian poet philosopher, physicist, astronomer mathematician, cosmologist, Urstoff-freak, absent-minded professor, & madman.” Someone had to do it.
$75

88.
TÓIBÍN, Colm.
The Empty Family: Stories.
London: Viking (2010).

First edition. 214 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Tóibín on the title page. Nine stories.
$35

89.
TUTUOLA, Amos.
Ajaiyi and His Inherited Poverty.
London: Faber and Faber (1967).

First edition. 234 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. Jacket design by Alan Howard. Tutuola’s fifth novel.
$45

90.
VAN HORN, Erica and Simon Cutts.
Modern Dutch Interiors.
[Clonmel]: Coracle (2014).

First edition. Oblong 32mo. [36 pp]. Fine in full cloth with decorative inset cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 150 numbered copies. Dutch envelope interiors, clipped and mounted to be seen through windows cut through the preceding page.
$45

91.
VEINSTEIN, Alain.
The Archeology of the Mother.
Cambridge: Spectacular Diseases, 1986.

First UK edition. 4to. 46 pp. Bumps to two corners, else near fine in sewn wrappers. Cover illustration by Denis Mizzi. Translated from the original French by Rosmarie Waldrop and Tod Kabza. Série d’écriture issue number one.
$35

92.
WEISS, Jason.
Writing at Risk: Interviews in Paris with Uncommon Writers.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (1991).

First edition. xv + 213 pp w/bibliography of works in English. Fine in fine dust jacket. E.M. Cioran, Julio Cortazar, Brion Gysin, Eugène Ionesco, Carlos Fuentes, Jean-Claude Carrière, Milan Kundera, Nathalie Sarraute, and Edmond Jabès interviewed. Review slip accompanies.
$50

93.
WILLIAMS, Charles.
Taliessin Through Logres.
London: Oxford University Press (1969).

Second edition. 96 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Williams’ long Arthurian poem sequence.
$45

94.
WILLIAMS, Emmett.
Sweethearts.
Stuttgart: Edition Hansjörg Mayer (1967).

First edition. [288 pp]. Light soiling to covers and faint reading crease to spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. One of 500 numbered copies. Designed as a flip book, offering variations on the position of, and the letters in, the word “sweethearts.”
$150

95.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
Glees Swarthy Monotonies Rince Cochon & Chozzerai for Simon: Poems 1979.
Roswell: DBA Editions 1980.

First edition. 4to. 87 pp. Near fine in strip-bound wrappers. One of 128 numbered and assigned copies. This one belonged to Ronald Johnson, and is INSCRIBED by Williams, “#52 / RJ’s / from JW / with Love / Highlands / 1980.” Jaffe 124.
$150

96.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
Strung Out With Elgar On A Hill.
Urbana: Finial Press, 1970.

First edition. Oblong small 4to. [30 pp]. Fine in full decorated red cloth. Ribbon place-marker bound in. Illustrated with drawings by Peter Bodnar. One of 101 numbered copies on Rives paper, handbound by Mary Ellen Chapdu. One of the finest presentations of Williams ’ work. Jaffe 64.
$350

97.
[WILLIAMS, Tennessee]. Laughlin, James. ed.
New Directions 14: New Directions in Poetry and Prose.
NY: New Directions (1953).

First edition. xvi +408 pp. Very good plus in like dust jacket with overall edgwear and a few small chips. SIGNED by Williams at his short story contribution, “The Coming of Something to the Widow Holly.” Also work by Ashbery, Char, Ginsberg, Katue, Lamantia, Michaux, Patchen, and many others.
$200

98.
WILLIAMSON, Mick.
Some Memorials: The Photo-diaries of Mick Williamson.
Clonmel: Coracle, 1999.

First edition. 12mo. 48 pp. Fine in full cloth with an inset cover illustration. One of 500 numbered copies. Introduction by Simon Cutts. A few of the half-million images taken by British photographer Williamson since 1975.
$35

99.
[WIRE].
Wire and Ex Lion Tamers.
San Francisco: I Beam [1987].

14 x 8 ½ inch flyer, printed in green on pale blue paper. Fine. Wire tribute band Ex Lion Tamers, known for performing Wire’s debut LP, Pink Flag, straight through, were booked by the band to open for Wire on their US tour, thus satisfying the folks in the audience who wanted to hear older tunes, and freeing the band to concentrate on the newest material. A testament to Wire’s good nature.
$45

100.
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.
Notebooks 1914–1916.
NY: Harper & Brothers (1961).

First US edition. v + 131 pp w/appendixes. Light foxing to endpapers and page edges, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. The original German text with facing English translation by G.E.M. Anscombe who edited this work with G.H. von Wright. The surviving notebooks that preceded the completion of his Tractatus, together with notes given to Russell in 1913 and others dictated to Moore in 1914, as well as extracts from Wittgenstein’s contemporary letters to Russell.
$75

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