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61.
PURDY, James.
The Brooklyn Branding Parlors: Poems.
NY: Contact II Publications, 1986.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. [18 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems with color illustrations by Vissilis Voglis. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Purdy and Voglis.
$100
62.
PURDY, James.
Lessons & Complaints.
NY: Nadja [1978].
First edition, lettered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Pages uncut. A single poem by Purdy, with his cover art (reproduced on the title page). One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Purdy. The first book of the press.
$100
63.
RAINE, Kathleen.
Six Dreams and Other Poems.
London: Enitharmon Press, 1968.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. Small 4to. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Frontispiece illustration by Cecil Collins. Tipped-on wood engraving by Juliet Standing. One of 350 (of 450) numbered copies SIGNED by Raine. Halliwell 6.
$35
64.
REPS, Paul.
Picture-Poem Primer: 11 buddings.
NY: American Fabrics Publications [1964].
First edition. [56 pp]. Light toning to extrems, else near fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Eleven poems, 11 explanations, why poem, and a pre-face. Co-published with companies in Hong Kong and Japan.
$50
65.
ROREM, Ned with Frank O’Hara.
Four Dialogues for Two Voices and Two Pianos.
NY: Boosey & Hawkes (1969).
First printing of this edition. Folio. 63 pp. Some light foxing along the bottom edge of the front cover, light toning to rear cover, else near fine in stapled wrappers. front cover art by Joe Brianard. Rorem’s music with O’Hara’s text. See Smith D6a.
$125
66.
SAIJO, Albert.
Outspeaks: A Rhapsody.
Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1997.
First edition. 199 pp. Spine lightly sunned, else very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Elaborately INSCRIBED by Saijo to Michael [McClure], “Volcano Hi / 1997 / Michael / The First / poet to speak / Beast Language / Albert.”
$75
67.
SCALAPINO, Leslie.
The Line.
Buffalo: Meow Press (1994).
First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers with pasted-on cover image. One of 300 copies.
$35
68.
SCALAPINO, Leslie.
The Woman Who Could Read the Minds of Dogs.
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1976.
First edition. [68 pp]. Spine lightly sunned, else fine in printed wrappers. Two color drawing by Valerie Hardy. One of 750 copies. Sand Dollar 24.
$40
69.
SCHELLING, Andrew and Anne Waldman.
Caterina and The Countess of Dia.
Boulder: Rodent Press/Erudite Fangs (1995).
First trade edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 124 (of 150) copies. Though not called for, SIGNED by Schelling and Waldman on the title page. “from The Road to Ocosingo” and “from Iovis II.”
$35
70.
SCHELLING, Andrew and Anne Waldman.
Montane.
[Boulder]: Erudite Fangs (1999).
First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Cover calligraphy by Keith Abbott. One of 325 copies on Somerset laid paper. SIGNED by Schelling and Waldman with a new year greeting.
$45
71.
SCHELLING, Andrew and Anne Waldman.
Stone Struck.
(np): (np) (1993).
First edition. Folding card, 8 ½ x 5 ½ inches, closed. Near fine. Printed at Deluxe Printers in Kathmandu. One of 250 copies SIGNED by Schelling and Waldman.
$50
72.
SCHWITTERS, Kurt.
PPPPPP: Poems, Performance, Pieces, Proses, Plays, Poetics.
Cambridge: Exact Change, 2002.
First US trade paperback printing. xxxiii + 251 pp w/chronology & index of titles. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited and translated by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris. Dated (ii.ix.02) and warmly INSCRIBED by Rothenberg on the half-title page.
$40
73.
SNYDER, Gary.
Mountains and Rivers Without End.
Washington DC: Counterpoint (1996).
Uncorrected proof. viii + 165 pp w/notes. Spine lightly sunned, else fine in printed pale green wrappers. SIGNED by Snyder on the title page.
$75
74.
TORREGIAN, Sotère.
The Wounded Mattress.
Berkeley: Oyez, 1970.
First edition. 64 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Philip Lamantia. One of 250 hardcover copies, designed at Cranium Press.
$35
75.
WELCH, Lew.
Letters from Lew Welch.
Binley Woods: Beat Scene Press (2010).
First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 125 numbered copies. Letters to Kerouac, Snyder, Dave Haselwood, Don Allen, and Philip Whalen. Beat Scene Press Pocket Book Series Number 26.
$40
76.
WELCH, Lew. et al.
Benefit Poetry Reading.
San Francisco: Planning & Conservation League, 1969.
First edition. 4 x 7 inch illustrated card, printed letterpress in two colors. Fine. Benefit reading featuring Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Kenneth Rexroth, Jack Shoemaker, John Oliver Simon, Gary Snyder, and Lew Welch.
$50
77.
[WELCH, Lew]. Saroyan, Aram.
Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation.
NY: Morrow, 1979.
First edition. 128 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with faint sunning to spine. Dated (1/6/80) and INSCRIBED by Saroyan beneath a small drawing.
$45
78.
[WILLIAMS, Jonathan].
The Photographer’s Art: An Exhibition of Prints & Books on Photography.
Kent: Department of Special Collections/Kent State University Libraries, 1981.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 4to. [16 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover photograph of Jonathan Williams by Doug Moore. A 93 item exhibition checklist with a two page introduction by Williams. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Moore and Williams.
$100
79.
[WILLIAMS, Jonathan]. Jaffe, James S.
Jonathan Williams: A Bibliographical Checklist of his Writings, 1950–1988.
Haverford: James S. Jaffe, 1989.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. xii + 56 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Introduction by Guy Davenport. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams and Davenport. “Apology” slip laid in. A very useful book.
$75
80.
[ZEPHYRUS IMAGE]. Teter, Holbrook and Michael Myers.
Spirit Photography.
Daytona Beach: Zephyrus Image (1973).
First edition. Horizontal 16mo. [36 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. Found cuts of chairs and sofas and beds all miraculously empty of the various gurus photographed thereon, be it in the lounge and parlor, dining room, or bedroom. A press highspot. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope (very good plus, unevenly toned) belonging to an optical company, upon which Holbrook and Meyers printed, “Congratulations again, ZI, on a truly insightful outlook!” with the ZI mailing address on the verso.
$500