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61.
NOTLEY, Alice.
Selected Poems of Alice Notley.

Hoboken: Talisman House (1993).
First trade paperback printing. 138 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover drawing by George Schneeman. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, dated (‘94) and signed by him at the conclusion of the text. INSCRIBED by Notley on the title page, “for Nathaniel / with admiration + / Best wishes in / beautiful Hoboken — / Alice Notley / April ‘94.” Notley has also penned her address on the verso of the last leaf.
$100
89797
62.
PAIK, Nam June.
New School Presents: Nam June Paik

[NY]: New School 1965.
3 ⅛ x 4 inch ticket, printed on recto only. Fine.
$45
87827
63.
[POCKET POETS]. Heneghan, Donald.
City Lights Pocket Poets Series 2005–2025.

Rockford: Maze Books, 2025.
First edition. 27 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Picking up where Heneghan’s earlier volume leaves off, accounting for the next twenty years of Pocket Poets, and a list of the expanded and anniversary editions. Publication postcard laid in.
$10
89796
64.
SCHMIDT, Arno.
Evening Edged in Gold. A FairytalefArse: 55 Scenes from the Cou/u/ntryside for Patrons of Erra/o/ta.

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1980).
First US edition. Folio. 215 pp w/table of contents. Bump to one upper corner, else near fine in full blue cloth with printed cover and spine labels. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated from the original German by John A. Woods. Winner of the National Book Award for Translation. A stunning production, the text appearing as typescript, with inserted illustrations, asides, and corrections.
$750
89751
65.
SELZ, Peter.
Funk.

Berkeley: University Art Museum/University of California (1967).
First edition. [60 pp]. Some faint foxing to the front cover and first leaf, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for this important show, featuring Bruce Conner, Roy DeForest, Manuel Neri, William T. Wiley, and others. Forty-four illustrations, several in color.
$100
89525
66.
SIMIC, Charles and William Wiley.
Little Unwritten Book.

[Salt Lake City: Susan Makov, 2005].
First edition. 18 ½ x 10 inch illustrated broadside, printed in three colors. Fine. One of 125 numbered copies SIGNED by Simic and Wiley. Elements in the illustration are hand-colored.
$85
30642
67.
[SITUATIONISM].
The Decline and Fall of the “Spectacular” Commodity-Economy.

(np): Frontier Press [1970].
First printing of this edition. 10 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Design by Ron Caplan. An essay on the riots in Watts that appeared originally in the Situationist International, December 1965.
$25
89769
68.
[SITUATIONISM]. Vaneigem, Raoul.
The Totality for Kids.

NY: Situationist International (nd).
First printing of this edition. 31 pp. Small corner crease to rear cover, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Translated from the original French by Christopher Gray and Philipe Vissac. The main text first appeared in Internationale Situationniset Nos. 7 and 8, 1962–1963.
$45
89742
69.
SORRENTINO, Gilbert.
New and Selected Poems 1958–1998.

Copenhagen & Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2004.
First edition. 411 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Presents his SELECTED POEMS 1958–1980 with 27 new poems and poem sequences published since 1980. For kicks I looked this one up online. There are a half dozen copies listed for $395 on up to $2,293.99. The $395 copy seems to be offered by an actual shop. I’m tempted to reach out to the other listers to see if they really do have a copy in stock, but then I suddenly get very tired.
$50
89681
70.
SPICER, Jack.
The Collected Books of Jack Spicer.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
First edition. 382 pp w/bibliography. Spine and extrems lightly sunned, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket with one short tear at a rear flap fold. One of 1000 hardcover copies. Edited by Robin Blaser with his commentary. “Compliments of the Publisher” slip laid in.
$125
89754
71.
STANFORD, Frank.
Land Surveyor, Planners & Consultants.

Fayetteville: Don L. Kemp [c. 1970s].
2 x 3 ½ inch commercial business card. Fine. Stanford worked as an unlicensed surveyor for several years, the experience informing his work, most directly in “Lament of the Land Surveyor.”
$200
89753
72.
[SURREALISM]. Hulten, Pontus. ed.
The Surrealists Look at Art.

Venice: Lapis Press (1990).
First US edition. 220 pp. Tiny bump to base of spine, else fine in illustrated cloth. One fold-out plate. No dust jacket, as issued. Introduction by Hulton. Writings by Eluard, Aragon, Soupault, Breton, and Tzara. Translated by Michael Palmer and Norma Cole.
$45
77262
73.
TAGETT, Richard.
Lucy.

South San Francisco: Manroot (1975).
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 4to. [18 pp]. Very near fine in Japanese-style sewn wrappers. Cover art by Jose Laffitte. Poems. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Tagett and Lafitte. New Poets Series #1.
$75
89782
74.
[TURRELL, James]. Brown, Julia. ed.
Occluded Front.

Los Angeles & Larkspur Landing: Fellows of Contemporary Art/Lapis Press (1985).
First trade paperback printing. 157 pp w/biography, bibliography, & photo notes/credits. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Designed by Jack W. Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press. Fully illustrated. Contributions by Craig Adcock, John Coplans, Turrell, and others.
$75
64413
75.
VAN HORN, Erica and Thomas Meyer.
Mending: four printed drawings by Erica Van Horn with poems by Thomas Meyer.

Clonmel: Coracle, 2011.
First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in full orange cloth with stamped spine and front cover with bound-in ribbon ties. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 80 numbered copies. Each of the drawings is laid in, numbered, and SIGNED by Van Horn.
$150
89775
76.
VONNEGUT, Kurt.
Cat’s Cradle.

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1963).
First edition. 233 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Superior copy of Vonnegut’s fifth book.
$2500
89776
77.
VONNEGUT, Kurt.
Mother Night.

NY: Harper & Row (1966).
First hardcover edition. vii + 202 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear to the top edge of the front panel, and some light rubbing to rear. Vonnegut contributes a introduction to this novel, published originally as a paperback in 1962.
$450
87405
78.
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.
Notebooks 1914–1916.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1979).
Second US edition. 140 pp w/index. Sticker removal evidence inside the front board, which offset a bit to the first blank leaf, else fine in fine dust jacket. The original German text with facing English translation by G.E.M. Anscombe, who edited this work with G.H. von Wright. The surviving notebooks that preceded the completion of his Tractatus, together with notes given to Russell in 1913 and others dictated to Moore in 1914, as well as extracts from Wittgenstein’s contemporary letters to Russell. Includes a new preface and notes, corrections, and photographs of Wittgenstein’s original work. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate inside the front cover.
$45
89762
79.
WOLFE, Bernard.
Memoirs of a not Altogether Shy Pornographer.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1972.
First edition. 312 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel. Piecework pornography at $2 a page for an Oklahoma millionaire...
$75
18095
80.
ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
LITTLE: a fragment for careenagers.

[Los Angeles]: Black Sparrow (1967).
First edition, second issue. 24 pp. Light toning to extrems, else near fine in sewn wrappers. One of [189] numbered copies SIGNED by Zukofsky. The second issue replaces sheets with printer errors. Morrow & Cooney 19b.
$50