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61.
SAMPERI, Frank.
Of Light.
(np): Will Peterson (1965).
First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. An elegant presentation of Samperi’s poems, printed in Kyoto.
$35
62.
[SAN FRANCISCO ZEN CENTER]. Reps, Paul.
Sit In: What It Is Like.
San Francisco: Zen Center (1975).
First edition. [38 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Text and brushwork by Reps. A less common publication from the famous Zen Center.
$75
63.
SMITH, Harry. et al.
The Word and Beyond: Cosmologists of the World.
NY: The Smith 1982.
First edition. 399 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with some light edgewear. Essays by Richard Morris, Harry Smith, Dick Higgins, and Donald Phelps. INSCRIBED by Smith on the first leaf, “for Robert Franklin, / Appreciatively / Harry Smith / 10/25/90.”
$45
64.
SNYDER, Gary.
When To Not.
Kendrick: Two Magpie Press (1981).
First edition. 10 x 13 ½ inch illustrated broadside, printed letterpress in two colors. Fine. One deckle edge. Graphic by Lin Colson. Single poem, originally published in the magazine Upriver Downriver #4 in 1980.
$50
65.
SNYDER, Gary and Michael Mundy.
Tree Song / Dogwood, Forest — Yosemite.
San Francisco: James Linden, 1986.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. Two leaves housed in a printed paper folder and envelope. All elements fine, but for a pale mark on the rear cover. Designed and printed by Peter Rutledge Koch. Single poem by Snyder paired with an original photographic print by Mundy. One of 50 (of 226) numbered copies on Arches Cover paper SIGNED by Snyder and Mundy.
$250
66.
SPICER, Jack.
My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer.
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (2008).
First edition. xxxi + 465 pp w/chronology, notes, bibliography, and index of titles & first lines. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate inside the front cover, and some scattered light pencil marginalia.
$40
67.
SPICER, Jack.
The Tower of Babel: Jack Spicer’s Detective Novel.
Hoboken: Talisman House (1994).
First trade paperback printing. 169 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Afterword by Lew Ellingham and Kevin Killian. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his signature and date (94) on the second half-title page.
$35
68.
STRINDBERG, August.
From an Occult Diary: Marriage with Harriet Bosse.
London: Secker & Warburg (1965).
First UK edition. 160 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Torsten Eklund, with his introduction and notes. Translated from the original Swedish by Mary Sandbach, with her additional notes and appendix. Strindberg’s last diary, beginning in 1896 and covering his tumultuous marriage to Harriet Bosse.
$35
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SWENSEN, Cole.
On Walks.
Brooklyn: Belladonna* (2013).
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 15 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Thirteen dated prose entries. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Swensen. Belladonna* #153.
$75
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SWENSEN, Cole.
Thy Versailles.
[Boise]: Free Poetry (2006).
First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Vol. 2, No. 1 of Free Poetry devoted to this collection by Swensen. Uncommon.
$40
71.
TRANSTRÖMER, Tomas.
Baltics.
Berkeley: Oyez, 1975.
First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in full rust-colored cloth with gilt stamping to front panel and spine. No dust jacket, as issued. A long poem, translated from the original Swedish by Samuel Charters, with his introduction. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh.
$75
72.
VIDAL, Gore.
A Thirsty Evil: Seven Short Stories.
NY: Zero Press, 1956.
First edition. 154 pp. Light blemish to first leaf, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with faint toning to spine and a small tear to crown. SIGNED by Vidal on the title page. Young 3937*.
$125
73.
WELCH, Lew.
Redwood Haiku.
[San Francisco: Cranium Press, c. 1972].
First edition. 4 x 5 inch card. Fine. Printed letterpress. Lepper p. 417.
$20
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WHALEN, Philip.
The Diamond Noodle.
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1980.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 131 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art by Frances Butler. One of 100 copies SIGNED by Whalen who has “sealed” the text in ink holograph, “Begun at Berkeley 27: I: 56.”
$150
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WIENERS, John.
A Book of Prophecies.
Lowell: Bootstrap Press (2007).
First edition. 134 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. A journal by Wieners, some portions reproduced in facsimile, containing poems, lists (including the pages-long “Poets I Have Met”), and notes. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his embossed stamp on the half-title page.
$45
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WIENERS, John.
Conjugal Contraries & Quart.
Madras & NY: Hanuman Books, 1987.
First edition. 16mo. 61 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine dust jacket. Two prose pieces. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his embossed stamp on the half-title page. Hanuman 13.
$85
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WIENERS, John.
The Hotel Wentley Poems: Original Versions.
San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1965.
Second edition. [24 pp]. Light tanning to spine, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover and internal drawing by Robert LaVigne, front cover photograph by Jerry Burchard, photograph of Wieners on the rear cover by Wallace Berman. INSCRIBED by Wieners beneath his portrait on the rear cover, “To Rich Tagett from John Wieners June 12th 1968 / on the occasion of San Francisco Renaissance.” Wieners has also added “To Rich” below the LaVigne drawing of him on the 8th page.
$350
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WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.
Prototractatus: An Early Version of Logico-Philosophicus.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1971).
First edition. Small 4to. 256 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with very light sunning to spine. Edited by B.F. McGuinness, T. Nybert, and G.H. von Wright, with a translation by D.F. Pears and B.F. McGuinness, historical introduction by Wright, and a facsimile of Wittgenstein’s manuscript.
$100
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WRIGHT, C.D.
String Light: Poems.
Athens & London: University of Georgia Press (1991).
First trade paperback printing. 62 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Laid into this copy is a review slip, a promotional flyer, and note from the press designating this a “paperback original,” though there was a limited unjacketed cloth edition for the library market.
$75
80.
ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
“A” 1–12.
Garden City: Paris Review Editions/Doubleday, 1967.
First edition. xvi + 267 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a bit of wear to base and crown of spine. Jacket collage by Alex Gotfryd. Introduction by Robert Creeley. Third book overall, and first volume of poetry published by Paris Review Editions.
$45