21.
CÉSAIRE, Aimé.
Discourse on Colonialism.
NY & London: Monthly Review (1972).

First US edition. 72 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. The first appearance in English of this essay, followed by an interview with Césaire, and preceded by Robin D.G. Kelley’s introduction, “A Poetics of Anticolonialism.” Translation by Joan Pinkham.
$45

22.
COLETTE.
The Cat.
NY: Farrar & Rinehart (1936).

First US edition. 164 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a small chip and internal closed tear to the rear panel, toning to spine, and three short edge tears to the front panel. Translated from the original French by Morris Bentinck. Decorated with illustrations by Susanne Suba.
$150

23.
CONNER, Bruce.
Assemblages, Paintings, Drawings, Engraving Collages 1960–1990.
Santa Monica: Michael Kohn Gallery (1990).

First edition. Small 4to. [28 pp w/exhibition list & bibliographies]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introductory statement by Dennis Hopper, interview with Conner by Robert Dean, and fifteen reproductions (including cover image). Gallery’s compliments slip laid in.
$75

24.
CONNER, Bruce.
Inkblot Drawings Engravings Collages.
Los Angeles: Kohn Turner Gallery, 1997.

First edition. [32 pp w/exhibition list & bibliographies]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Twelve reproductions including the cover image. Interview with Conner by Michael Kohn.
$45

25.
CREWS, Judson.
Inwade to Briney Garth.
Taos: Este Es Press (1960).

First edition. [50 pp]. Fine in printed comb-bound wrappers. Poems with drawings of nudes by Eric Gill.
$40

26.
DEBORD, Guy.
The Society of the Spectacle.
London: Practical Paradise Publications (1977).

First printing of this revised translation. [56 pp]. Light bend to one lower corner, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Errata slip present. Ford p.91.
$75

27.
DORN, Edward.
Gunslinger.
Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1989.

First edition. xviii + 200 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. New critical introduction by Marjorie Perloff. A facsimile of the 1975 Wingbow Press edition.
$50

28.
[DUCHAMP, Marcel]. Matisse, Paul.
Marcel Duchamp, Notes.
Paris: Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (1980).

First edition. Folio. xvii + [221 pp]. Fine in full cloth and matching publisher’s slipcase. Preface by Pontus Hulten. One of 1000 numbered copies. Full-color reproductions of Duchamp’s notes, grouped into “Infrathin,” “The Large Glass,” “Projects,” and “Word Plays.” Texts in French and English translation.
$500

29.
EQUI, Elaine.
Shrewcrazy: Poems.
[Los Angeles]: Little Caesar (1981).

First edition. 41 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Jack Skelley. Bold internal drawings by Steven E. Giese. Her fourth collection of poems.
$40

30.
[FARBER, Manny].
Manny Farber
La Jolla: La Lolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1978.

First edition. 72 pp w/bibliography. Fine in wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket. Preface by Sebastian Adler. Essay by Amy Goldin. Illustrated with b&w reproductions.
$35

31.
FINN, Julia.
Voices of Negritude with an Anthology of Négritude poems translated from the French, Portuguese and Spanish.
London & NY: Quartet (1988).

First edition. 246 pp w/notes & index. Pages toned (cheap paper) else very near fine in like dust jacket. A history and anthology.
$35

32.
GIBSON, Ralph.
Deja-Vu.
NY: Lustrum (1973).

First edition. 4to. [52 pp]. Crease to lower corner of rear cover, else near fine in printed wrappers with light wear to spine. Forty-five b&w images. Gibson’s second book, which is also the second in his “Black Trilogy,” from his own press.
$85

33.
GUNN, Thom.
The Fair in the Woods.
Oxford: Sycamore Press (1969).

First edition. Single sheet folded twice to make six panels. Fine. One of 500 copies. Sycamore Broadsheet 6. H&G A11.
$30

34.
HIGGINS, Dick.
Amigo: A Sexual Odyssey.
Barton: Unpublished Editions, 1972.

First edition. [48 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Deckle page edges. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Higgins. Poetry. Young 1794*.
$200

35.
JABÈ, Edmond.
A Share of Ink: A Selection from ‘Je Batis Ma Demeure.’
London: Menard Press, 1979.

First UK edition. 46 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Translated from the original French by Anthony Rudolf, with his introduction. This volume is also is the Journals of Pierre Menard No. 5.
$35

36.
JESS.
The Four Seasons & Other Paste-Ups with various texts assembled by the artist.
NY: Odyssia Gallery, 1980.

First edition. Oblong 8vo. [32 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Sixteen reproductions, including the cover image, in color and b&w, along with various texts (from Heraclitus, to E. Nesbit, to Vonnegut) selected by Jess.
$35

37.
JESS.
Jess: Paintings and Paste-Ups.
NY: Tibor De Nagy Gallery (2008).

First edition. Small 4to. [46 pp]. Small pencil name on title page, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Text by Peter Selz. Fully-illustrated with color reproductions, including terrific photographs of the Duncan/Jess house as endpapers.
$35

38.
JESS.
Paste-Ups.
NY: Tibor De Nagy Gallery (2009).

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Exhibition catalogue. Introduction by Michael Duncan. Nineteen works reproduced in full color, with a chronology and list of solo exhibitions. Original illustrated exhibition announcement accompanies.
$45

39.
[JESS].
Jess aka Tricky Cad.
NY & San Francisco: Odyssia Gallery/John Berggruen Gallery, 1989.

First edition. [36 pp w/biography, exhibition list, & checklist]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Essay by Madeleine Burnside. Seventeen color reproductions, in addition to the covers.
$45

40.
[JESS].
Lyn Brockway, Harry Jacobus, and Jess: The Romantic Paintings.
Palo Alto & Belmont: Palo Alto Cultural Center/Weigand Gallery (1990).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 46 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Exhibition catalog illustrated in color and black & white. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Brockway, Jess, and Jacobus.
$75

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