61.
[LITTLE MAGAZINES].
Transition Forty-Nine No. 5.
Duthuit, Georges. ed.
Paris: Transition Press (1949).

128 + [10] pp. Bend to front lower corner, else near fine in printed wrappers with a small abrasion. Cover art by Henri Matisse. Presents work by Eluard, Picasso, Jarry, Ponge, Char, Prévert, Du Bouchet, Mallarme, Beckett, and more.
$75

62.
[LITTLE MAGAZINES].
Vagabond 22: Prose.
Bennett, John. ed.
Ellensburg: Vagabond, 1975.

71 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Cindy Bennett. Works by John Bennett, Jerry Bumpus, Al Masarik, Stuart Dybeck, Steve Richmond, and others.
–SOLD– $15

63.
[MAYSLES, David and Albert]. Vogels, Jonathan B.
The Direct Cinema of David and Albert Maysles.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press (2005).

First edition. xvi + 219 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. A full consideration of the makers of GIMME SHELTER, GREY GARDENS, and RUNNING FENCE among other notable films.
$35

64.
McCLURE, Michael.
Essay on the Media.
(np): (np) [c. 1971].

First edition. 11 x 8 ½ inch broadside, printed in black on tan paper. Fine. Thirty-two numbered sentences, beginning: 1. Games Suck.
$35

65.
MELO NETO, Joao Cabral de.
A Knife All Blade or: usefulness of fixed ideas.
Camp Hill: Pine Press, 1980.

First US edition. 15 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Translated from the original Portuguese by Kerry Shawn Keys. One of 250 copies designed by Robert Bringhurst.
$45 –SOLD–

66.
MERRILL, James.
Short Stories.
Pawlet: Banyan Press 1954.

First edition 9 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and printed cover label. One of 210 numbered copies. Poems.
–SOLD– $750

67.
MICHELINE, Jack.
The World is Getting Better: Poems for Joe Ringo.
NY: Unoppressed Ink [c. 1962].

First edition. Single sheet folded into fourths to make a booklet. “25” inked to upper corner, else near fine. Two poems, Chicago: Rooming House and The Bronk: The Gang with the third poem, Everywhere, printed on the back panel. Work from I KISS ANGELS, issued separately courtesy of Interim Books.
$45 –SOLD–

68.
MILLS, Stuart.
Estuary.
London: Turret (1971).

First edition. Horizontal 16mo. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. A poem sequence illustrated with drawings by Gilbert Mason. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Mills. This happens to be copy #1, a presentation copy to noted collector Joseph Gold.
–SOLD– $75

69.
MONNIER, Jacques and Jacques Pajak.
Congé D’Épave.
Paris: Éditions de Beaune (1961).

First edition. [52 pp]. Faint foxing to top edge, else very near fine in printed wrappers and glassine. One of 488 numbered copies on vélin. A pleasing match of text and illustrations.
$55

70.
MORGAN, Edwin.
The Horseman’s Word: A Sequence of Concrete Poems.
Penwortham: Akros Publications (1970).

First edition. 12 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. A collection of ten poems, issued as Parklands Poets No. 5.
$30

71.
MUSTILL, Norman Ogue and Jacob Herman. eds.
VDRSVP #2.
San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press (1969).

First edition. Single large newsprint sheet folded three times, as issued. Very near fine. Contributions by Carl Solomon, A. Rooney & S. Beiles, Alan Ansen, Wolf Vostell, Allen Ginsberg, James Silver, Carl Weissner, Harold Norse, and several others.
$150

72.
NATAMBU, Kofi.
Sonnymoon for Us All (For the Greatest Saxophonist in the World: Sonny Rollins).
[Grindstone City]: Alternative Press [1989].

First edition. 11 ½ x 8 inch broadside, printed letterpress in two colors on goldenrod stock. Very near fine. Published originally as part of Alternative Press #16, and here offered separately.
$45

73.
NATIONS, Opal L.
10 glimpses from the Opal Americana.
London: Strange Faeces Press, 1971.

First edition. Tall 4to. [20 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Prose work. Great uncredited cover drawing of a very tired, or very stoned, Wile E. Coyote.
$50 –SOLD–

74.
[NEW YORK CITY STREET POLITICS].

Collection of over 250 handbills, cards, and flyers accepted by hand in front of City Hall on the way to work from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. Other than a few folds, all items are very near fine or better. Broad categories include animal rights, anti-war, civil rights, human/civil liberties, labor/unions, racketeering, religious/spiritual, the pleasure industry, and politics. Pictured here are just a few activist examples. A fascinating record of what drove some New Yorkers out onto the street, and how they went about pleading their cases. For the collection:
$1500

75.
NICHOL, B.P.
Door to Oz.
Toronto: Seripress, 1979

First edition. Ten 7 x 5 inch cards, housed in the publisher’s printed paper folder. All elements fine. One of 100 numbered copies (the entire edition) SIGNED by Nichol. A visual poem.
$100 –SOLD–

76.
NICHOL, B.P.
Love Affair.
Toronto: Seripress, 1979.

First edition. Seven 5 x 6 ½ inch cards, housed in the publisher’s printed paper folder. All elements fine. One of 100 numbered copies, the entire edition, SIGNED by Nichol. A visual poem.
–SOLD– $100

77.
NOTLEY, Alice.
165 Meeting House Lane aka Twenty-Four Sonnets.
NY: C Press (1971).

First edition. 4to. [54 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Printed by mimeograph with offset covers illustrated, front and back, by Philip Whalen. One of 250 copies. Notley’s first book.
$350 –SOLD–

78.
O’CONNOR, Philip.
Steiner’s Tour.
Paris: Olympia Press (1960).

First edition. 169 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine dust jacket. Cover illustration by Ronald Searle. Surrealist poet O’Connor’s first novel. Kearney 5.83.1.
–SOLD– $55

79.
[OLYMPIA PRESS].
The Stripteaser.
Paris: Olympia Press (1953).

First edition. [64 pp]. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Excerpts from forthcoming Olympia titles by Henry Miller (Plexus), De Sade (Justine, Bedroom Philosophers), John Cleland (Fanny Hill), and Georges Bataille writing as “Pierre Angelique” (Tale of Satisfied Desire). Kearney 3.1.1.
$50 –SOLD–

80.
PERCHIK, Simon and Lisa Corrine Davis.
Birthmark.
NY: Flockophobic Press, 1992.

First edition. Six loose sheets, printed on both sides, sandwiched between two distressed, colored, and labeled sheets of cardboard. All elements fine. Poems by Perchik with illustrations by Davis. Designed by A.S.C. Rower. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Perchik, Davis, and Rower.
$150

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