e-catalog #127
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91076
61.
[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Witkin, Joel-Peter.
Joel-Peter Witkin.

Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press (1985).
First edition. Square 4to. [120 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a bit of edgewear. SIGNED by Witkin on the title page. The first monograph.
$250
75911
62.
[PUNK ROCK]. Colver, Edward.
Blight at the End of the Funnel.

Santa Ana & San Francisco: Grand Central Press/Last Gasp (2006).
First trade paperback printing. Folio. 198 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Colver captured many of the defining images of the Los Angeles punk rock scene.
$150
90968
63.
[PUNK ROCK]. Gorsegners, Manda. ed.
Ancient Artifax.

Brooklyn & Boston: Radio Raheem Records (2024).
Second edition. 241 pp. Fine in decorated boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One fold-out plate. Full color reproductions of ephemera from the punk scene, with commentary by a multitude of involved musicians.
$45
75912
64.
[PUNK ROCK]. Mullen, Brendan with Roger Gastman.
Live at the Masque: Nightmare in Punk Alley.

Corte Madera & Los Angeles: Gingko Press/R77 (2007).
First edition. Folio. 324 pp. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. A fully illustrated documentation of this notorious LA venue, ground zero for the nascent punk scene.
$200
90964
65.
RAWORTH, Tom. ed.
Outburst 1.

London: Tom Raworth (1961).
First edition. [52 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Errata slip laid in. Contributions by Heliczer, Turnbull, Levertov, Snyder, Olson, Dorn, Logue, Creeley (a review of NAKED LUNCH), and many others.
$125
90965
66.
RAWORTH, Tom. ed.
Outburst 2.

London: Matrix Press, 1963.
First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by Douglas Woolf, Paul Blackburn, Philip Whalen, Leroi Jones, Allen Ginsberg, Piero Heliczer, ruth weiss, Gregory Corso, and many others.
$150
90966
67.
RODGERS, Bruce.
The Queens’ Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon.

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972).
First edition. 265 pp w/index & bibliography. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Douglas Mount. Over 12,000 entries. The first commercial dictionary of gay slang.
$125
91070
68.
RUSCHA, Ed.
Psycho Spaghetti Westerns.

Beverly Hills: Gagosian Gallery (2011).
First edition. 5 ½ x 9 inch exhibition announcement. Fine. Printed on thick cardstock, housed in the original printed mailing envelope.
$40
91030
69.
SETH, Vikram.
from A SUITABLE BOY.

Berkeley: Black Oak Books, 1993.
First edition. 7 x 9 ½ inch illustrated broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Designed and printed at Okeanos Press. An excerpt from the novel, produced on the occasion of his reading at the shop. Though not called for, SIGNED by Seth.
$45
91077
70.
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
Siouxsie and the Banshees 2012.

Romford: Anabas Products Limited, 1980.
First edition. 18 ⅛ x 24 inch poster. Very near fine. Uncommon poster featuring a live shot of Siouxsie flanked by Steven Severin and John McGeoch.
$250
91063
71.
SNOW, John.
Contrasts: Poems.

London: Fuller d’Arch Smith, 1971.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. [20 pp]. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Snow. First book of poems by the fast bowler.
$75
91054
72.
SNYDER, Gary.
This Present Moment: New Poems.

Berkeley: Counterpoint (2015).
Advance reading copy. 59 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. At the time of publication, the first collection of new poems by Snyder since DANGER ON PEAKS (2004).
$40
90957
73.
[SPICER, Jack]. Straus, David Levi and Hollander, Benjamin. eds.
Acts 6: A Book of Correspondences for Jack Spicer.

San Francisco: Acts (1987).
First edition. 4to. 105 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributions from Duncan, Spicer, Thomas Meyer, Jonathan Williams, Michael McClure, Kevin Killian, Ron Silliman, Michael Palmer, Holt Spicer, Robin Blaser, and many others.
$75
91071
74.
VIDAL, Gore.
Elect Gore Vidal United States Senator.

Studio City: Gore Vidal for U.S. Senate [1982].
First editions. Single sheet folded once (11 x 8 ½ inches, closed) together with a 3 ½ x 7 ¾ inch crack-and-peel sticker. Both items fine. Uncommon ephemera from Vidal’s failed campaign. For the pair:`
$100
90933
75.
WELCH, Lew.
The Song Mt. Tamalpais Sings.

Berkeley: Sand Dollar (1970).
Second edition, first printing. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Magda. Designed by Clifford Burke. Originally published as Maya Quarto Five, this reissue adds three poems not in the earlier edition. Sand Dollar/3.
$50
71607
76.
WHALEN, Philip.
Goddess.

[San Francisco]: Don Carpenter, 1964.
First edition. 10 ¾ x 7 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. One of 125 copies printed by the Auerhahn Press for Don Carpenter. A less common item from the Press.
$125
91060
77.
WHALEN, Philip.
Highgrade: Doodles, Poems.

(np): Coyote’s Journal (1966).
First edition. 4to. [62 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Entire text reproduced from Whalen’s original holograph manuscript. INSCRIBED by Whalen inside the front cover, “This copy is for / Michael & JoAnn McClure / with love from Phil / 8: II : 66.”
$250
8543
78.
WRIGHT, James.
Leave it to the Sunlight.

Durango: Logbridge-Rhodes (1981).
First edition, numbered issue. 17 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 22 numbered copies for the Press’s “Limited Edition” series, on Classic Text in handmade paper wrappers. A collection of ten poems.
$75
90878
79.
[ZEPHYRUS IMAGE]. Myers, Michael.
Ford.

San Francisco: Zephyrus Image [1970].
First edition. 10 x 5 ⅝ inch illustrated broadside, printed in two colors. Very near fine. Myers amazing linoleum block print, his calling card revealed to Holbrook Teter, who instantly recognized Myer’s talent and sense of humor. The first item to bear the ZI imprint.
$450
91075
80.
[ZEPHYRUS IMAGE]. Myers, Michael and Holbrook Teter.
Gary Snyder Brand Pine Nuts.

[San Francisco: Zephyrus Image, 1975].
First edition. Foldover letterpress printed label stapled to close a clear plastic bag (6 ¾ x 4 ⅛ inches overall). Fine. Created by ZI to secretly slip onto the racks at convenience stores. Most copies had actual pine nuts, this copy has two pieces of lead type. Uncommon.
$500