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81.
ROETHKE, Theodore.
Words for the Wind.

London: Secker & Warburg 1957.
First edition. 200 pp. A few spots of foxing to top edge, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Precedes the US edition. His second title to be published in the UK.
$200
83628
82.
RULE, Jane.
The Desert of the Heart.

Cleveland & NY: World (19c4).
First US edition. 224 pp. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with wear to base and crown, a small tear, and some rubbing and a small sticker on the rear panel. INSCRIBED by Rule on the front free endpaper. Her first novel.
$350
83627
83.
RUMAKER, Michael.
Gringos and other stories: A New Edition.

Rocky Mount: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press (1991).
Second edition, numbered & signed issue. xi + 286 pp. Very near fine in full green cloth with copper lettering to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Design by Jonathan Greene. Introduction by Russell Banks, afterword by Robert Creeley. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Rumaker. Originally published by Grove Press in 1966.
$75
63897
84.
RUSHDIE, Salman.
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981–1991.

London: Granta/Penguin Books (1991).
First edition. 432 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Rushdie on the title page.
$50
83619
85.
SALINAS, Luis Omar.
Crazy Gypsy: Poems.

(np): La Raza Studies F.S.C., 1970.
First edition. 87 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a slender corner crease to front flap and vertical crease to rear flap. Poems by Salinas with illustrations by Tony Perales and John Sierra. Foreword by Eliezar Risco Lozada and Guillermo Martinez.
$45
83683
86.
SALTER, Mary Jo.
Lost Originals: Poems.

Chestertown: Literary House Press, 2013.
First edition. 20 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Title page engraving hand-tinted. One of 150 numbered copies on Brockway paper SIGNED by Salter.
$75
83672
87.
SARTON, May.
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing.

NY: Norton (1965).
First edition. 220 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Not well received upon publication, Sarton’s ninth novel was later embraced as a classic.
$100
13476
88.
STAFFORD, William.
The Rescued Year.

NY: Harper & Row (1966).
First edition, first issue. 81 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket that is slightly misfolded. The less common first issue of this title, with the printed $3.95 price on the front flap, and an untrimmed fore-edge. INSCRIBED by Stafford, “All the best to Tom! / —Bill Stafford / Sept ‘66.”
$250
83520
89.
STEFANI, Mario.
No Other Gods.

London: Kouros Press (1982).
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 35 pp. Fine in full cloth with gilt stamping to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Housed in the publisher’s slipcase, together with a leaflet and proofs of the linocuts (in chemise). Fifty-five Uranian poems translated from the original Italian by Anthony Reid. Linocut illustrations by J. Martin Pitts. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Stefani and Pitts.
$500
83670
90.
[SUMMERS, Montague]. Smith, Timothy d’Arch.
Montague Summers: A Bibliography.

Wellingborough: Aquarian Press (1983).
First printing of this revised and corrected edition. 170 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Foreword by Father Brocard Sewell. Illustrated. Smith’s own copy, with his bookplate inside the front cover.
$45
83669
91.
THOMAS, R.S.
The Minister.

Newton: Montgomeryshire Printing Co. (1953).
First edition. 24 pp. Staples a bit rusty, else near fine in stiff wrappers and very good plus dust jacket with closed tear to the front cover extending from the top flap fold. Thomas’ uncommon third book, a single long poem.
$850
68295
92.
TREVOR, William.
Miss Gomez and the Brethren.

London: Bodley Head (1971).
First edition. 291 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Publisher’s price sticker on the front flap. Trevor’s fifth novel.
$150
83685
93.
WARSH, Lewis.
A Place in the Sun.

NY: Spuyten Duyvil, 2009.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 37 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover and internal illustrations by Pamela Lawton. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Warsh and Lawton.
$45
58012
94.
WEINER, Hannah.
The Fast.

NY: United Artists Books, 1992.
First edition. 43 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Anne Tardos. The first of four early journals, beginning in 1971 and culminating in her CLAIRVOYANT JOURNAL (composed in 1974, published in 1978).
$45
83636
95.
WEISS, Ruth.
One More Step West Is the Sea.

San Francisco: Mel and Ruth Weitsman (1958).
First edition. [58 pp]. Toning to extrems, small mark on rear panel. In all, near fine in illustrated wrappers with stapled and taped spine. INSCRIBED by weiss on the last leaf, “To Mimi / to everyone / a city / at sometime — / love / ruth.” Her first book.
$450
83673
96.
WIENERS, John.
Nerves.

London: Cape Goliard (1970).
First edition. [78 pp]. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to base. First collection of poems by Wieners to be published in the UK. Young 4105.
$50
74601
97.
WIENERS, John.
Selected Poems 1958–1984.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1986.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 317 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Faint smudge on front cover, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine clear acetate dust jacket. Edited by Raymond Foye with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Wieners, Ginsberg, and Foye.
$150
83668
98.
[WILD HAWTHORN PRESS].
The Wild Hawthorn Press: New Publications — Autumn 1971.

Lanark: Wild Hawthorn Press. (1971).
First edition. A six pp catalogue of new publications and a folding three panel promotional item for the Press, both fine. Housed in the original mailing envelope (very good plus, been through the mail) with the press address stamped on the verso, hand-addressed to Robert Duncan.
$50
83703
99.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
Five from Up T’Dale.

Dentdale: Finial Press, 1974.
First edition. Five 15 ¼ square illustrated broadsides, together with a title sheet/essay, housed in a printed paper portfolio. All elements fine. Designed by A. Doyle Moore. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams.
$750
83682
100.
[ZEPHYRUS IMAGE].
Spiritual Photography.

Daytona Beach: Zephyrus Image (1973).
First edition. Horizontal 16mo. [36 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. Found cuts of chairs and sofas and beds all miraculously empty of the various gurus photographed thereon, be it in the lounge and parlor, dining room, or bedroom. A high spot for the press, both in concept and execution. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope belonging to an optical company, upon which Holbrook and Teter printed, “Congratulations again, ZI, on a truly insightful outlook!”
$450