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61.
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (1987).

First edition. xvii + 237 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Robert Golla.
$35

62.
NIEDECKER, Lorine.
“Between Your House and Mine”: The Letters of Lorine Niedecker to Cid Corman, 1960 to 1970.

Durham: Duke University Press, 1986.

062

First edition. x + 261 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited by Lisa Pater Faranda, with her introduction.
$125

063

63.
NOTLEY, Alice.
Doctor Williams’ Heiresses.

Berkeley: Tuumba, 1980.

First edition. [28 pp]. Light toning to spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 numbered copies. The text of a lecture delivered by Notley at 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, on 12 February 1980. Tuumba 28.
$75

64.
O’HARA, Frank.
Early Writing.

Bolinas: Grey Fox (1977).

064

First trade paperback printing. 163 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by George Montgomery. Edited by Donald Allen. Poems written while at Harvard, together with the text of O’Hara’s only journal, composed in 1948–9. Smith A23a.
$75

065

65.
O’HARA, Frank.
Poems Retrieved.

Bolinas: Grey Fox Press (1977).

First trade paperback printing. xvi + 242 pp w/notes, index of titles & first lines. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Richard Moore. Edited by Donald Allen, with his introductory note. Poems discovered after the publication of the “Collected.” Smith A24a.
$75

66.
PARK, David with Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff.
Interiors and Places.

San Francisco: Hackett Mill (2015).

066

First edition. Oblong 8vo. [40 pp]. Fine in full cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front panel. Foreword by Francis Mill. Essay by John Seed. Fourteen color reproductions. Original exhibition announcement accompanies.
$45

067

67.
PERELMAN, Bob.
7 Works.

Berkeley: The Figures (1978).

First edition. 91 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover by Francie Shaw. One of 574 copies. INSCRIBED by Perelman on the half-title page, “for George / con muchas gracias / Bob Perelman.”
$45

68.
[PICTORIAL POETRY]. Klonsky, Milton. ed.
Speaking Pictures: A Gallery of Pictorial Poetry from the Sixteenth Century to the Present.

NY: Harmony Books (1975).

068

First edition. xvi + 333 pp w/biographical notes, index, & selected bibliography. Fine in very good dust jacket with sunning to spine and a few short tears. The self-proclaimed first anthology of picture-poems, from the 16th Century to the present.
$100

069

69.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
Eight Northwest Poets.

Portland: Portland Art Museum (1959).

First editions. Eight flyers, each folded three times vertically (10 ½ x 4 ¼ inches, closed). All near fine or better with a bit of discoloration to the Kizer volume, overall toning to the Stafford. The eight poets are John Haislip, Carol Hall, Kenneth O. Hanson, Robert Huff, Richard Hugo, Carolyn Kizer, William Stafford, and David Wagoner, each contributing a selection of poems with a cover image by a visual artist in the show, “Paitings and Sculptures of the Pacific Northwest.” For the collection:
$750

70.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Cannon, Steve. ed.
Jambalaya: Four Poets.

NY: Reed Cannon & Johnson [1976].

070

First edition. 117 pp. Very near fine in printed red wrappers. Introduction by Victor Hernandez Cruz. Poems by Cyn Zarco, Lorenzo Thomas, Thulani, and Ibn Mukhtarr Mustapha. Illustrated with drawings by Aaron Yava.
$50

071

71.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Levertov, Denise. ed.
Poems.

[Berkeley]: Cloud Marauder Press (1969).

First edition. [36 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers with some light soiling to the unprinted rear cover. Poems composed by students in Levertov’s poetry workshop at UC Berkeley in Winter and Spring quarters, 1969. “We Want the Park / Power and Peace to the People” printed inside the front cover. This copy SIGNED by Rae Armantrout, Dave Bullen, Don Cushman, Stephen Donelan, Katherine Gowen, Rochelle Nameroff, Jack Niles, Lee Rumsey, David Shaddock, Isak Shurin, Bill Snow, Arthur Weiner, and Vivian Wills.
$125

72.
[PRINCE, Richard]. Lawson, Thomas. ed.
REAL LIFE Magazine. No. 4.

NY: REAL LIFE Magazine (1980).

072

Summer. 31 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributions by Lawson, Ross Skoggard, Joseph Bishop, Jennifer Bolande, Don MacPherson and Paul Taylor, Jim Bradley, Laurie Simmons, Barbara Kruger, Richard Baim, and Richard Prince’s prose work, “Menthol Pictures.”
$150

073

73.
[PRINCE, Richard writing as “Fulton Ryder.”]. Lawson, Thomas. ed.
REAL LIFE Magazine No. 7.

NY: REALM LIFE, 1981.

Autumn. 36 pp., Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Louise Lawler. Corrected page for Morgan’s piece laid in. Contributions by Thomas Lawson, Malcolm Kesslman, Mitchell Kriegman, Paul McMahon, Michael Powell interviewed by Laura Cottingham and Richard Martin, Susan Morgan, Mike Roddy, Jenny Bolande, David Robbins, Douglas Blau, Richard Howorth, Robin Peck, Eric Bogosian, and “Pissing on Ice” by Fulton Ryder (Richard Prince).
$125

74.
[PUNK ROCK]. Caffeine, Jean. ed.
New Dezezes 1 & 2.

San Francisco: Jean Caffeine (1977).

074

[30 + 24 pp]. First issue has a tiny spot on front cover, else fine. Second issue has some foxing to last leaf and rear cover, else near fine. One of the earliest and best SF zines. Dils, Crime, Avengers, record reviews, The Screamers, Nuns and more. Photographs by James Stark. That’s the first issue. The second features an interview with Paul Weller of The Jam, Dils, Jimmy Wilsey (Avengers), photos, and news (pretty funny). Only two issues published. For the pair:
$500

075

75.
QUASHA, George.
Somapoetics: Book One.

Fremont: Sumac (1973).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 113 pp w/glossary. Fine in fine dust jacket. Preface by Robert Kelly. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Quasha.
$75

76.
QUASHA, George.
Word-Yum: Somapoetics 64–69 Seventh Series.

Village Station: Metapoetics Press (1975).

076

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [24 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Cut marbled paper cover design by Susan Quasha. One of 137 numbered copies SIGNED by Quasha. Dated (26 October 75) and INSCRIBED by Quasha, “For Clayton + Caryl, with love, George / Rokeby Farm / Berrytown.” Quasha has penned a eight page poem on the title page.
$75

077

77.
RAWORTH, Tom and Val.
From the Hungarian.

(np): (np) [c. 1973].

First edition. 4to. [40 pp]. Toning to extrems, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. As described by Tom Raworth, “Three poems of mine had been translated into Hungarian, a language of which we know nothing: we translated them back one morning. Three of each, with a break between each set of three: and no peeking: line by line. May 9th. 1973. It looks a lot like Europe.” Uncommon.
$150

78.
[ROLFE, Frederick]. Weeks, Donald.
Rolfe without Frederick.

Edinburgh: Tragara Press (1983).

078

First edition. 19 pp. Very near fine in wrappers. One of 110 numbered copies. The tenth in a series of of monographs relating to the life of Frederick William Rolfe. Weeks went on to publish a biography of Rolfe, CORVO: SAINT OR MADMAN? This monograph concentrates on the life of one of Rolfe’s brothers, Captain Percy H. Rolfe of the British Merchant Service.
$45

079

79.
[ROYAL CHICANO AIR FORCE].
One More Canto.

[Sacramento]: Royal Chicano Air Force (1978).

First edition. [28 pp]. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers, a bit rumpled. Poems by Jose Antonio Burciaga, Oscar Travino, Bernice Zamora, Katrina Zamora, Juan Felipe Herrera, Javier Pacheco, Irma Rangel, Francisco Santana, and Jose Montoya with a short essay on Mexican music by Prof. Senon Valadez. A program for a night of Chicano Poetry and Music at the Reno Club.
$75

80.
RUSCHA, Ed.
Photographs.

Beverly Hills: Gagosian (2003).

080

First edition. 59 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Seven products, twenty five apartments, three palm trees, six rooftops, and one arial view.
$150

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