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61.
[PERISHABLE PRESS]. Duncan, Robert.
Six Prose Pieces.

[Madison]: Perishable Press (1966).
First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in full cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to the front panel. One of 50 (of 70) copies on paper made by hand from linen and cotton rags. Though not called for, INITIALED by Duncan on the title page. A Perishable high spot. Bertholf A21a. Hamady 6.
$2000
57960
62.
[PERISHABLE PRESS]. Hamady, Laura Evans.
Quotables from 1978.

Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, 1979.
First edition. [10 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of [150 numbered copies. “Faithfully recorded and published not as belated greetings for anything but as food doesn’t get hungry, so is the genius in our children that is never at a loss for words.” Hamady 93.
$100
57601
63.
[PERISHABLE PRESS]. Hamady, Walter.
One Day to Sintra & Back.

Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, 1970.
First edition. [12 pp]. Light bump to base of spine, else very near fine in sewn wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket. Title page drawing by Bartolameu Dos Santos. One of 100 copies on Shadwell paper SIGNED by Hamady. Hamady 38.
$125
13629
64.
[PERISHABLE PRESS]. Olson, Toby.
The Brand: A Five Part Poem.

Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, 1969.
First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 140 copies (of which 77 were for sale). Hamady 29.
$75
6931
65.
[PERISHABLE PRESS]. Olson, Toby.
Doctor Miriam.

Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press (1977).
First edition. [38 pp]. Fine in wrappers very near fine blind-stamped dust jacket. Illustrations by Sondra Freckelton and Jack Beal. One of 144 press numbered copies on Perusia paper SIGNED by Olson. Hamady 80.
$100
63607
66.
[PERISHABLE PRESS]. Stafford, William.
Eleven Untitled Poems.

[Madison]: Perishable Press 1968.
First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and very near fine dust jacket that is lightly toned at the extrems. One of 250 numbered copies on Medway and Shadwell papers. Hamady 16.
$200
36755
67.
[PERISHABLE PRESS]. Thayler, Carl.
The Drivers.

Mount Horeb: Perishable Press [1969].
First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 130 copies for public sale out of an edition of 220. Printed in hand-set Palatino on Shadwell paper. Title page picture after an etching by Jack Damer. Hamady 23.
$45
70754
68.
POUND, Ezra.
A Visiting Card.

London: Peter Russell 1952.
First UK published edition. 38 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. “Printed in England” penned along the bottom edge of the rear cover. Published originally in Italian in 1942, this translation by John Drummond. From the library of Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin, with his ownership label. The first attempt at an edition in England burned up in a fire but for five (charred) copies. Gallup A50c.
$75
84429
69.
RAVEN, Simon.
The English Gentleman: An Essay in Attitudes.

London: Anthony Blond (1961).
First edition. 187 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art by Osbert Lancaster. A history of the decline English Gentleman, “a casulty in the first world war” and downhill from there. Young 3210*.
$75
84432
70.
RAWORTH, Tom.
Clean & Well Lit: Selected Poems 1987–1995.

NY: Roof Books (1996).
First edition. 106 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Endpapers decroated with Steve Lacy’s score to a text by Raworth “Absence.”
$35
84401
71.
RAWORTH, Tom.
Nicht Wahr, Rosie?: Miscellaneous poems 1964–69.

Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1979.
First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in wrappers and very near fine integral printed dust jacket.
$35
84405
72.
[RED ARMY FACTION]. Grossman, A.
State-Fetishism: some remarks concerning the Red Army Faction.

NY: (np) [c. 1970s–80s].
First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Published originally as a pirate edition of Le Monde diplomatique in 1977. “The RAF was beaten because it fought on the state’s own terms.”
$75
84447
73.
[RENEGADE PRESS]. Albrecht, Eric K.
[Untitled] aka OH4286AW.

Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965.
First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover by Dave Williams. Polluted Lake Series 3.
$125
84449
74.
[RENEGADE PRESS]. Cornillon, Susan oppelman.
Susan Under John Poem.

Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965.
First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in side stapled wrappers. Printed letterpress. Polluted Lake Series 10.
$150
84403
75.
[RENEGADE PRESS]. dagmaR.
Shadows over Lake Erie.

Cleveland: Renegade Press [1965].
First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Three visual works. Polluted Lake Series 12.
$200
84448
76.
[RENEGADE PRESS]. Salaman, Russell.
Conflict in Sonata Form.

Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1965.
First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. A single poem printed letterpress. Polluted Lake Series 5.
$200
84423
77.
RICH, Adrienne.
Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law: Poems, 1954–1962.

NY & Evanston: Harper & Row (1963).
First edition. 71 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with faint toning to spine. Rich’s third collection.
$150
76128
78.
RICHTER, Gerhard.
Gerhard Richter 1988/89.

Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen 1989.
First edition. 166 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Texts by Wm Crouwel, Karel Schampers, Anna Tilroe, and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh in Dutch and English. Color and b&w plates.
$75
83164
79.
RUSCHA, Ed.
Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles.

[Los Angeles]: Ed Ruscha, 1967.
First edition. [44 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers with light sunning to spine. Droplet mark to front cover, else near fine in unprinted glassine dust jacket with a few short tears, tanning, and wrinkles along top edge. Aerial photographs by Art Alanis.
$1250
84297
80.
[RUSCHA, Ed]. Müller, Christian.
Ed Ruscha: Los Angeles Apartments.

Basel & Göttingen: Kunstmuseum Basel/Steidl (2013).
First edition. 160 pp w/notes, biography, & catalogue of exhibited works. Fine in full green cloth with black lettering to spine and front panel, and an inset cover illustration. No dust jacket, as issued. An elaborate well-illustrated exhibition catlaogue.
$150