61.
MERCHANT, Paul. ed.
MPT4. Modern Poetry in Translation: Greece.
NY: Grossman (1968).

First US edition. [48 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light toning to spine and extrems. Merchant introduces and translates George Seferis, Andreas Embiricos, Oddyseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos, Takis Sinopoulos, and Eleni Vakalo.
$35

62.
MICHAUX, Henri.
Telegram From Dakar: A Poem.
NY: Red Ozier Press, 1986.

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. A single poem, translated from the original French by Serge Gavronsky. Title page drawing by Ken Botnick. One of 140 copies SIGNED by Gavronsky. Peich 71.
$35

63.
[MOHOLY-NAGY, László]. Passuth, Krisztina.
Moholy-Nagy.
NY: Thames & Hudson (1985).

First US edition. 446 pp w/notes, bibliography, list of illustrations, & index. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with faint sunning to spine. Two-hundred and fifty-two illustrations, of which 42 are in color. Includes extracts from Moholy-Nagy’s letters, diaries, and reminiscences, as well as critical commentaries on his work.
$85

64.
[MOLLET, Baron].
Album Mémorial en souvenir de Sa Magnificence le Baron Mollett.
Paris: College de Pataphysique (1965).

First edition. 28 pp. Near fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket. Text in French. Illustrated with twenty-eight b&w photographs.
$50

65.
MORGAN, Edwin.
emergent poems.
Stuttgart: edition hansjörg mayer, 1967.

First edition. Single large sheet folded four times (9 ½ x 6 ¼ inches, closed). Near fine. Six concrete poems.
$125

66.
NORSE, Harold.
Sniffing Keyholes.
San Francisco: synaesthesia press (1998).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 9 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers Designed by Johnny Brewton, with his illustration. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Norse. First separate appearance of this excerpt from BEAT HOTEL, with an introduction, slightly revised, that appeared previously in MEMOIRS OF A BASTARD ANGEL. synaesthesia press chapbook series number 9.
$125

67.
O’DOHERTY, Brian.
Object and Idea: Art Critic’s Journal 1961–1967.
NY: Simon & Schuster (1967).

First edition. 250 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to crown and extrems. Inked ownership signature of R.B. Kitaj on the first leaf, “Kitaj.” Briefly INSCRIBED to him by O’Doherty, “For Ron / —Brian.”
$85

68.
OLIVEIRA, Nathan.
Variations in Time: Monotypes and Monoprints.
San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (1997).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 63 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Lorenz Eitner. Essay, “Monotypes and Monoprints, 1980–1997” by Giovanna Bertazzoni. One of 1250 numbered copies SIGNED by Oliveira. Color and b&w reproductions.
$125

69.
PASAMANIK, Luisa.
El &aAcute;ngel Desterrado.
Buenos Aires: Editorial La Mandrágora (1962).

First edition. 44 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Carlos Alonso. Dated (1969) and INSCRIBED by Pasamanik, “To the editor / Marvin Malone / wishing to know your magazine / ‘The Wormwood Review,’ / with friendship / Luisa Pasamanik” with the additional of a mailing address in Argentina.
$45

70.
PASAMANIK, Luisa.
The Exiled Angel.
Los Angeles & Fairfax: Red Hill Press, 1973.

First edition. Narrow 4to. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers with Press address correction stamp. A long poem, translated by Jack Hirschman with his introductory note. Dated (Dec. 3, 2006) and INSCRIBED by Hirschman inside the front cover.
$35

71.
PATCHEN, Kenneth.
Red Wine & Yellow Hair.
NY: New Directions (1949).

First edition, painted issue. 64 pp. Near fine in boards with gilt-stamped cloth spine. Patchen’s original cover painting has some surface chipping, due to the pigments used, but otherwise is a strong example for this title. While the construction of the book conforms to the painted issue, it does not have the signed and numbered colophon sheet. See Morgan A18b.
$850

72.
PERELMAN, Bob.
Braille.
NY: Ithaca House (1975).

First edition. 61 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Francie Shaw. Rear cover endorsement by Anselm Hollo. Short poems.
$25

73.
PRINCE, Richard.
Women.
Los Angeles & Ostfildern-Ruit: Regen Projects/Hatje Cantz Verlag (2004).

First edition, first issue. [176 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Catalogue/artist’s book produced on the occasion of his exhibition at Regen Projects.
$150

74.
REED, Jeremy.
Elegy for Senta.
(np): Privately printed, 1985.

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with printed paper label. One of 110 copies printed at the Tragara Press for the author and Enitharmon Press SIGNED by Reed. Halliwell A20.
$35

75.
REXROTH, Kenneth.
Natural Numbers: New and Selected Poems.
NY: New Directions (1963).

First edition. 119 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Rexroth’s own selection.
$40

76.
RICH, Adrienne.
The Meaning of Our Love for Women Is What We Have Constantly to Expand.
Brooklyn: Out & Out Books, 1977.

First edition. 8 pp. Light toning along fore-edge, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Out & Out Pamphlet No. 1. Much less common than the second printing.
$85

77.
ROBERSON, Ed.
Just In: World of Navigational Challenges: New and Selected Work.
Jersey City: Talisman House (1998).

First edition. 144 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Poems from 1970 to current work in progress.
$35

78.
ROSENBERG, David.
Blues of the Sky: Interpreted from the Ancient Hebrew Book of Psalms.
NY: Angel Hair Books (1974).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. [88 pp]. Corners lightly bumped, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by George Schneeman. One of 26 numbered copies SIGNED by Rosenberg and Schneeman.
$150

79.
RUSCHA, Ed.
Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass.
Edward Ruscha, 1968.

First edition. [58 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers and near fine unprinted glassine dust jacket with toning to spine and light wear to top edge. Color photographs of swimming pools, erratically distributed among blank pages, and concluded by a clear broken glass on a blue background.
$850

80.
[RUSCHA HOMAGE]. Maranda, Michael.
twentysix gasonline stations, 2.0.
Parasitic Ventures Press (2009).

First edition. [52 pp]. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Ruscha’s original subjects using only images from the internet.
$35

TO ORDER: please email maser@detritus.com or phone 510-524-8830.