81.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
Italian Poetry, 1960–1980: from Neo to Post Avant-garde.
Spatola, Adriano and Paul Vangelisti. eds.
San Francisco & Los Angeles: Invisible City (1982).

First trade paperback printing. 127 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
$25 –SOLD–

82.
ROBBINS, Tom.
Another Roadside Attraction.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1971.

First edition. 400 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Robbins on the second leaf. His first novel.
$1250

83.
ROBBINS, Tom.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.

First edition. 365 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. SIGNED by Robbins on the half-title page. His second novel, source of the 1994 Gus Van Sant film.
$950

84.
[RUSCHA, Edward. et al.].
Four Artists: Ruscha, Bengston, Alexander, Moses.
Akron: Akron Art Insititute (1972).

First edition. Inventively-designed exhibition catalogue, featuring work by Edward Ruscha, Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston, and Peter Alexander. Contents fine, separation along one edge of the sleeve. Each artist is represented by a color reproduction printed on a folder in which is housed another reproduction, a list of work in the exhibit, and a statement by/on the artist. These four wallets are then housed in a long pocketed accordion-fold clear plastic holder.
–SOLD– $350

85.
[SCHWITTERS, Kurt]. Themerson, Stefan.
Kurt Schwitters in England.
Gaberbocchus (1958).

First edition. 62 pp. Light wear to crown of spine, and bumps to upper corners, else near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Text by Themerson, reproductions of visual works by Schwitters, a selection of poems, photographs, and facsimile manuscript pages. The book itself is made up of differing paper stocks, with one pasted-in element, and a die-cut leaf.
$200 –SOLD–

86.
SILLIMAN, Ron.
BART.
Gloucester: Bezoar (1976).

Volume Four, Number Two (November). 4to. [10 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. An unmailed issue of Bezoar, devoted entirely to this work by Silliman. BART would not see publication as a book until 1982.
–SOLD– $50

87.
[SMITHSON, Robert].
Robert Smithson: Drawings.
NY: New York Cultural Center (1974).

First edition. 4to. 95 pp w/bibliographies. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Susan Ginsburg, essay by Joseph Masheck, and over one hundred illustrations, photographs, and reproductions.
$40

88.
SNYDER, Gary.
Two Logging Songs.
Berkeley: Serendipity Books, 1973.

First edition. 13 x 7 ½ inch broadside, printed in two colors on Curtis Tweedweave paper. Very near fine. Printed at the Arif Press for Serendipity on the occasion of the 1973 International Antiquarian Book Fair. McNeil A44.
$25

89.
STEADMAN, Ralph.
The Hunting of the Snark: Six Etchings.
London: Ralph Steadman 1975.

First edition. 12 ½ x 18 ½ inch portfolio housing eight loose sheets (title, colophon, and six individual etchings); tissues interleaved; black cloth-covered boards; title stamped in silver; portfolio lightly rubbed at extremities. All contents fine. Printed on 140 lb Green Mould Made H. P. Surfaced paper by White Ink Limited. One of 65 numbered copies SIGNED by Steadman on the colophon sheet, as well as on each numbered etching. This is #17.
$3500

90.
TAMBIMUTTU. ed.
Poetry London/Apple Magazine.
London: Poetry London/Apple Magazine (1979).

Volume 1, No. 1, numbered & signed issue. 112 pp. A few stray marks to front cover, else fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Front cover art by Graham Sutherland, rear cover art Ian Hamilton Finlay’s “le circus!!” Contributions by Durrell, Logue, Murdoch, Gascoyne (with illustrations by Sutherland), Dylan, Ginsberg, Leonard Cohen, and many others. Accompanying is a flexi disc of Ginsberg reading Plutonium Ode. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Tambimuttu and Graham Sutherland.
–SOLD– $150

91.
THOMAS, Dylan.
Twelve More Letters.
London: Turret Books (1969).

First edition, numbered issue. 4to. 19 pp w/appendix. Fine in full cloth with clear unprinted acetate dust jacket. Tipped-on frontis portrait of Thomas. One of 175 numbered copies.
$65 –SOLD–

92.
UPDIKE, John.
Five Poems.
Cleveland: Bits Press (1980).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn printed wrappers and near fine paper folder with twine ties. One of 50 (of 185) copies on Ann Carroll’s handmade paper SIGNED by Updike.
$200

93.
VEREY, Charles.
re a vow al.
London: Writers Forum (1971).

First edition. Tall 4to. [22 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Writers Forum ‘fours’ number two.
$75

94.
WAGNER, D.r. ed.
My Landlord Must Be Really Upset: a quarterly workers magazine.
Sacramento: Runcible Spoon [1970].

vol 1, no. 2. 4to. [42 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Blazek, Locklin, Wagner, Arthur Knight, Swanberg, Von Tersch, Zurbrugg, Thomas A. Clark, Depew and others appear. Stapled to this issue, inside a printed paper bag, is the chapbook NEED A DOZEN TOW BOYS? by Jim Stewart (as issued).
$35

95.
WELCH, Lew.
Sausalito Trash Prayer.
[San Francisco: Cranium Press] 1969.

First edition. 6 x 3 ½ inch illustrated card, printed in black on olive paper. Very near fine.
$30 –SOLD–

96.
WHALEN, Philip.
The Diamond Noodle.
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1980.

First edition, signed issue. 131 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 100 copies SIGNED by Whalen who has “sealed” the text in ink holograph, “Begun at Berkeley 27: I: 56.”
–SOLD– $85

97.
WHALEN, Philip.
Some of These Days: Poems.
San Jose: Desert Rose Press, 1999.

First edition. 4to. [52 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 250 (of 300) copies on old Curtis paper. Printed in two colors by Clifford Burke, hand bound by Martha Little. A beautiful presention of these poems.
$100 –SOLD–

98.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
Polycotyledonous Poems.
Stuttgart: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1967.

First edition. Single large sheet, printed on one side and folded into eighths. Fine. A collection of six poems and a statement by Williams on the genesis of these works. Futura 15.
$30

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.
$450

100.
ZEND, Robert.
Arbormundi: 16 Selected Typescapes.
Vancouver: blewointmentpress (1982).

First edition. 4to. Sixteen loose sheets laid into a printed folder. Internal contents fine, folder is lightly bumped with some light toning. One of 500 numbered copies. Despite being called for to be signed, this copy is not, and I’ve not encountered one that is.
–SOLD– $85

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