81.
[PUNK ROCK]. Holstrom, John. ed.
Punk #10.
NY: Punk Publications (1977).

First edition. Folio. [34 pp]. Tabloid, near fine. Opens with a selection of photos from the benefit for Punk at CBGBs. Interviews with Brian Eno and Twiggy. Tour photos of Blondie and Iggy Pop. Great issue.
$75

82.
[PUNK ROCK]. Holstrom, John. ed.
Punk #11.
NY: Punk Publications (1977).

First edition. Folio. [32 pp]. Tabloid, near fine. John Cale, Crime, and Paul Simonon of the Clash interviewed. Dead Boys, Dictators profiled. Amusing punk paper doll cut-out section.
$75

83.
QUENEAU, Raymond.
Exercises in Style.
London: John Calder (1979).

Second UK edition, second distributed in the US. 197 pp. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. The US issue of this title, with a distributor’s US$ price sticker on the front flap, a New Directions sticker on the title page and rear cover. New Directions also distributed the first UK edition by Gaberbocchus Press in 1958.
$45

84.
SINCLAIR, Iain and Marc Atkins.
Lights Out for the Territory: 9 Excursions in the Secret History of Lodon.
London: Granta Books (1997).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 386 pp w/acknowledgements & select bibliography. Fine in full cloth with pasted-on cover photograph (an original handprint) and gilt stamping to spine. Illustrated with drawings and photographs by Marc Atkins. Fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Sinclair and Atkins.
$125

85.
SINCLAIR, Ian and Marc Atkins.
Liquid City.
London: Reaktion Books (1999).

First edition. 223 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Heavily illustrated with b&w photographs by Marc Atkins. SIGNED by Atkins and Sinclair on the title page. A continuation of LIGHTS OUT FOR THE TERRITORY, focusing on London’s eastern and south-eastern quadrants.
$75

86.
SMITH, William Jay.
Typewriter Birds.
NY: Caliban Press, 1954.

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 390 (of 300) numbered copies SIGNED by Smith. Terrific short poems with corresponding illustrations created by typewriter.
$75

87.
SNYDER, Gary.
North Pacific Lands & Water: A Further Six Sections.
Waldron Island: Brooding Heron Press, 1993.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [30 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems with illustrations by Bill Holm. One of 274 (of 300) copies on Domestic Etching paper SIGNED by Snyder.
$400

88.
SOMMER, Frederick.
The Music of Frederick Sommer: Drawings in the Manner of Musical Scores.
Tucson: Nazraeli Press/Chris Pichler (2000).

First edition. 4to. Sixteen 12 x 9 ½ leaves housed in a cloth portfolio. cd present. One of 500 numbered copies. Performed by Stephen Aldrich and Walton Mendelson.
$75

89.
TRUCK, Fred.
Camping Out.
Des Moines: Cookie Press (1975).

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Truck’s English translations of multi-colored chance glyph arrangements.
$45

90.
TRUCK, Fred.
Tangerine Universe in 3 Refrains.
Des Moines: Cookie Press (1975).

First edition [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems via globular parts, sumi-e, and English translation.
$45

91.
TRUNGPA, Chögyam.
Mudra.
Berkeley & London: Shambala, 1972.

First US edition. 105 pp w/glossary of terms. Very near fine in like dust jacket with a small indent to front panel. Songs and spontaneous poems in Tibetan and English, along with a presentation of the Nine Yanas of Buddhism, an illustrated commentary on the Zen Oxherding pictures, and more.
$45

92.
UNGARETTI, Giuseppe.
Life of a Man.
NY: New Directions (1958).

First US edition. xiv + 160 pp w/bibliography. Top edge lightly foxed, else very near fine in illustrated paper-covered boards with near fine unprinted glassine dust jacket and fine printed wrap-around band. Ungaretti’s original Italian poems with facing English translations by Allen Mandelbaum, who also contributes an introduction.
$75

93.
VOSTELL, Wolf and Dick Higgins.
Fantastic Architecture.
NY: Something Else Press [1970].

First US edition. [194 pp]. Two lower corners very lightly tapped, else fine in very near fine dust jacket. In addition to the shake-up proposed by the editors, includes historical and contemporary takes by a wide-range of figures including Schwittters, Cage, Beuys, Weiner, Filliou, and Spoerri. Fully-illustrated.
$150

94.
[WARHOL, Andy]. Antin, David and Jerome Rothenberg. eds.
Some/thing 3.
NY: David Antin & Jerome Rothenberg (1966).

First edition. [80 pp]. Faint toning to extrems, else fine in printed wrappers. All perforations on both the front and rear covers intact. In addition to the Warhol cover, presents work by Bukwoski, Philip Corner, Ginsberg, Higgins, Jess, Levertov, Malanga, and many others.
$1000

95.
WASSON, R. Gordon.
Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality.
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1968).

First trade edition. xiii + 380 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with some light edgewear and faint tanning to spine. Near fine publisher’s cardstock slipcase. Illustrated with 22 color plates, ten b&w illustrations, and four maps and charts.
$350

96.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
Aggie Westons No. 18: Ten Photographs.
Belper: Stuart Mills (1982).

First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Entire issue devoted to Williams’ b&w portrait photographs of Olson, Du Plessis Gray & Oppenheimer, Creeley & Rice, Lou Harrison, Duncan, Patchen, Rexroth, Finlay, Joyce’s gravestone, and Bunting. Dated (June 1993) and INSCRIBED by Williams to Lou Harrison and Bill Colvig, “signed 42 years after the photograph / Love to / Lou and Bill / Jonathan / Corn Close.”
$50

97.
WITKOVSKY, Matthew S. ed.
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph 1964–1977.
New Haven & London: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press (2011).

First edition. 4to. 264 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with 115 color and 187 black-and-white images. An excellent consideration of the role of photography within conceptual art.
$200

98.
WOODCOCK, George.
Imagine the South.
Pasadena: Untide Press (1947).

First edition. [44 pp]. Toning along spine and light edgewear, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Designed and decorated by Wilfred Lang. Illustrated prospectus accompanies. “Imagine the South was accepted for publication in March 1945, but the volume then in the press was not published until May, 1946. There followed a strenuous year of moving twelve hundred miles south and constructing and equipping a press house.”
$125

99.
WRIGHT, Franz.
No Siege is Absolute: Versions of René Char.
Providence: Lost Roads 1984.

First edition. 39 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Early book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Lost Roads 24.
$125

100.
ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
“A.”
Berkeley: University of California (1978).

First edition. 826 pp w/index of names & objects. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine. The first complete edition.
$125

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