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61.
POUND, Ezra.
A Lume Spento and Other Early Poems.

NY: New Directions (1965).
First edition. 128 pp w/bibliographic note & index of titles and first lines. Fine in illustrated paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped cloth spine. Fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. Pound contributes a brief foreword. Gallup A83a.
$45
70285
62.
POUND, Ezra translates Confucius.
The Unwobbling Pivot & The Great Digest.

[Norfolk]: Pharos, 1947.
First edition. 52 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. “With notes and commentary on the text and the ideograms, together with Ciu Hsi’s ‘Preface’ to the Chung Yung and Tseng’s commentary on the Testament.” The fourth and final issue of Pharos. Gallup A58a.
$200
87497
63.
REICHARDT, Jasia. ed.
Cybernetic Serendipity: the computer and the arts.

London: Studio International 1968.
First trade paperback printing. Folio. 104 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A special issue of Studio International. Illustrated. Laid into this copy is a schedule of special events, and two flyers describing tapes 5, 6, 7, 8 of Cybernetic Serendipity Music (wrinkles along bottom edge of one sheet).
SOLD
87472
64.
REZNIKOFF, Charles.
Family Chronicle.

London: Norton Baily/Human Constitution (1969).
First edition. 311 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. First appearance of this long prose work by the poet, the story of his parents Sarah and Nathan Reznikoff.
$75
87571
65.
REZNIKOFF, Charles with Uriah Z. Engelman.
The Jews of Charleston: A History of an American Jewish Community.

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1950.
First edition. xii + 343 pp w/index. Top edge sunned, else fine in fine dust jacket with one short edge tear. From the collection of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate. A history of the Jewish residents of “Charles Town” from 1750 to the year of publication.
$150
87449
66.
RICHTER, Gerhard.
66 Zeichnungen Halifax 1978.

Köln: Walter König (1997).
First trade edition. [156 pp]. Very near fine in wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Texts by Gerhard Storck. A sequence of pencil drawings.
$200
87460
67.
ROBERSON, Ed.
To See the Earth Before the End of the World.

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (2010).
First edition. 161 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One hundred and twenty new poems.
$75
87496
68.
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]. Near fine in side-stapled wrapper with a small patch of white-out on the verso of the unprinted rear panel. Cover art by George Schneeman. One of 26 numbered copies SIGNED by Rosenberg and Schneeman.
$150
87500
69.
[RUSCHA HOMAGE]. Tabuchi, Eric.
Twentysix Abandoned Gasoline Stations.

Paris: Florence Loewy, 2008.
First trade edition. Twenty-seven 6 x 7 ½ inch illustrated cards, all fine, housed in a near fine slipcase with a few light pressure dents to the front panel. One of 474 (of 500) copies. Various Small Books p. 286.
$40
87416
70.
[SNYDER, Gary].
Ryosen-An Zendo Practice.

Kyoto: First Zen Institute of America in Japan (1960).
First edition. 12 pp w/glossary. Near fine in stapled wrappers with a small snag and corner crease to lower edge of rear cover. Written entirely by Snyder anonymously for distribution at the temple. One of 500 copies for use in the Zendo. Uncommon. McNeil A3.
$500
87466
71.
SNYDER, Gary.
Passage Through India.

San Francisco: Grey Fox Press (1983).
First trade paperback printing. xi + 100 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Allen Ginsberg.
$45
7598
72.
SPICER, Jack.
A Book of Music.

San Francisco: White Rabbit Press 1969.
First edition, first issue. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Fourteen poems, printed in two colors. Johnston A48.
$45
87464
73.
SPICER, Jack.
Language.

San Francisco: White Rabbit Press (1965).
First edition. 66 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers with light toning to the rear cover. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh. Johnston A30.
$200
87495
74.
[SURREALISM].
International Surrealist Bulletin No. 4.

London: The Surrealist Group in England, 1936.
September. Small 4to. 18 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Texts in English and French. Issued shortly after the International Surrealist Exhibition held in London from 11 June to 14 July 1936. Ten b&w reproductions.
$250
87488
75.
[THIEBAUD, Wayne]. Cooper, Gene.
Wayne Thiebaud: Survey 1947–1976.

Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum. (1976).
First edition. Small 4to. 117 pp w/errata. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Thiebaud, “For Shirley [heart] Thiebaud 1977.” Illustrated flyer for an appearance by Theibaud in Stockton laid in.
$250
87448
76.
THOMAS, Dylan.
In Country Sleep and other poems.

NY: New Directions (1952).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 34 pp. Fine in full cloth with gold stamping to spine and front panel. Very near fine in publisher’s slipcase with pasted-on cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. Tipped-on title page portrait of Thomas by Marion Morehouse. One of 100 numbered copies on Stoneridge paper SIGNED by Thomas. Six poems, including “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.”
$7500
87485
77.
TZARA, Tristan.
ARC Pamphlet No. 3: A Poem Sequence by Tristan Tzara.

Gilligham: ARC (1969).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems translated by Lee Harwood with a brief concluding biographical note. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Harwood.
$75
87573
78.
WIENERS, John.
Asylum Poems (For My Father).

(np): Press of the Black Flag Raised (1969).
Second edition (preceded by the Angel Hair edition). Eighteen loose sheets housed in a manila folder with title sticker. Internal contents fine, envelope near fine, addressed to Ron Loewinsohn. A piracy, issued as “Press of the Black Flag Raised #1.” See Lepper p. 425.
$150
87450
79.
WRIGHT, Jay.
Music’s Mask and Measure.

Chicago: Flood Editions (2007).
First edition. 56 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. A sequence of poems in five “equations.”
$50
87565
80.
YATES, Frances A.
The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1979).
First edition. x + 217 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Yeats examines the Christian interpretation of the Jewish mystical tradition.
$150