1.
AFFELDER, Jessie. ed.
International Artists' Books Show.
Chicago: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1981.

First edition. 28 pp. Light toning along spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Essays by Affelder, Michael Day, and Janice Snyder with a checklist of exhibited titles and eight b&w photographs.
$25

2.
[ANDERSON, Lindsay]. Graham, Allison.
Lindsay Anderson.
Boston: Twayne, 1981.

First edition. 171 pp w/index. Small bookseller stamp to front free endpaper, else very near fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Illustrated.
$45

3.
ARMANTROUT, Rae.
Extremities.
Berkeley: The Figures, 1978.

First edition. 43 pp. Light tanning to spine and discoloration to rear panel, else near fine in printed wrappers. One of 500 copies. Armantrout's first book.
$50

4.
ARMSTRONG, Robert.
Men in Pairs.
Berkeley: Thorpe Springs Press (1976).

First edition. [16 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Twenty found photographs with Armstrong's captions. Animal-skinned cavemen to three-piece-suited businessmen mano-a-mano.
$20

5.
BARNES, Djuna.
Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts.
Normal: Dalkey Archive (1995).

First printing of this edition (originally published in 1936). xxvi + 319 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Edited by Cheryl J. Plumb. A restoration of the "intended" novel, with extensive critical apparatus.
$25

6.
[BECKMANN, Max]. Schulz-Hoffmann, Carla and Judith C. Weiss. eds.
Max Beckmann Retrospective.
Saint Louis & Munich: Saint Louis Art Museum/Prestel Verlag (1984).

First edition. 4to. 482 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
$55

7.
BERKSON, Bill.
Saturday Night: Poems 1960-1961.
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1975.

First printing of this new revised edition (originally published by Tibor De Nagy in 1961). [48 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Norman Bluhm. This edition contains additional new poems, and some corrections and editions. Sand Dollar 18.
$25

8.
[BERMAN, Wallace].
All is Personal: the art of Wallace Berman.
London: Camden Arts Centre, 2008.

First edition. [8 pp]. Tiny bump to one upper corner, else fine in stiff illustrated wire-bound wrappers. File Note #34. A short essay by Kristine McKenna with six illustrations, including a shot of a full run of Semina.
$20

9.
[BERMAN, Wallace].
Wallace Berman Retrospective.
Los Angeles: Fellows of Contemporary Art, 1978.

First edition. 4to. 118 pp. Light wear to spine, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. A terrific retrospective, with many color and b&w reproductions, along with essays by Robert Duncan and David Meltzer, a foreword by Hal Glicksman, and an interview with Walter Hopps. A chronology, catalogue of the exhibition, and bibliography concludes the volume.
$50

10.
BLOCH, Ernst.
The Principle of Hope (Three Volume Set).
Cambridge: MIT Press (1986).

First US edition. 1420 pp w/glossary of foreign terms & name and title index. Three volumes, all fine in very near fine dust jackets in publisher's very near fine slipcase. Translated from the original German by Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice, and Paul Knight. Bloch's encyclopedic attempt to chronicle man and nature's orientation towards an improved future via social and technological improvement.
$250

11.
BONNEFOY, Yves.
L'enseignement et l'example de Leopardi.
Bordeaux: William Blake & Co. Edit. (2001).

First edition. 48 pp w/bibliographic note. Fine in printed wrappers. Dated (16 16 Juillet 2005) and INSCRIBED by Bonnefoy to an American poet.
$45

12.
[BRAKHAGE, Stan]. Kessler, Charles.
Stan Brakhage.
[San Francisco]: Charles Kessler (1954).

8 x 10 inch b&w print. Slight waviness to edges, else very near fine. Terrific straight-ahead portrait of the twenty-one year old filmmaker. Kessler's holograph label affixed to verso.
$50

13.
BRANDT, Bill.
Shadow of Light: A collection of photographs from 1931 to the present.
London: Bodley Head (1966).

First edition. 4to. [152 pp]. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Cyril Connolly introduces this collection of 128 photographs. Notes by Marjorie Beckett on the five groupings: London Before the War, Northern Towns during the Depression of the Thirties, Black-out Nights of the London Blitz, Portraits, and Landscapes and Nudes.
$750

14.
BRETON, André; Char, René; Éluard, Paul.
Ralentir Travaux.
Cambridge: Exact Change, 1990.

First edition. 52 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translations by Keith Waldrop. Poems written in collaboration in 1930 while the three were together in Avignon.
$35

15.
BRETON, André. ed.
This Quarter: Surrealist Number.
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1932.

Volume 5, Number 1. 208 pp. Light foxing to page edges and endpapers, else very near fine in printed wrappers with only minimal wear to yapped edges. Pages unopened. Breton guest-edited this landmark issue, featuring the usual suspects: Beckett (as a translator), Bunuel, Char, Di Chirico, Crevel, Dali, Duchamp, Eluard, Tanguy, Tzara, and more.
$350

16.
BURROUGHS, William S.
The Best of William Burroughs from Giorno Poetry Systems.
NY: Giorno Poetry Systems (1998).

First edition. Four cds housed in publisher's cloth-covered clamshell LP box with pasted-on inside and outer cover labels. Accompanying [60 pp] book, present as issued. Bit of rubbing inside box lid, tiny tear to backing slots for the cds, else all elements fine. Recordings from all periods of Burroughs' career from JUNKIE to THE CAT INSIDE. The book is very well-illustrated with photographs of Burroughs, and features text by Giorno, David Gates, and Burroughs.
$100

17.
[BURROUGHS, William S.]. Cook, Ralph.
William S. Burroughs: The Hombre Invisible.
San Diego: Atticus Books (1981).

First edition, limited & signed issue. [56 pp]. Fine in sewn illustrated wrappers. Issued as Atticus Books Catalogue Eight, this list of 360 fully-described items for sale has a foreword, "The Future of the Novel," by Burroughs. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Burroughs.
$400

18.
CHAVOYA, C. and Rita Gonzalez. eds.
ASCO: A Retrospective, 1972-1987.
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz (2011).

First edition. 432 pp. Fine in decorated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Fully-illustrated retrospective of this Chicano performance and conceptual art group from East Los Angeles.
$50

19.
[CHEZ PANISSE].
Chez Panisse Celebrates 1976 Gold Rush Zinfandel.
Berkeley: Chez Panisse Cafe and Restaurant, 1976.

First edition. 17 x 10 ¾ inch broadside, printed letterpress in two colors. Fine. Menu for November sixteenth through twentieth, 1976. Five prix fixe selections in black surrounded by a border design of repeated ZIN FAN DELs.
$55

20.
[CHEZ PANISSE].
Nouveau Zinfandel Chez Panisse.
[Berkeley]: Chez Panisse, 1979.

First edition. 17 x 8 ¼ inch broadside menu, letterpress printed in two colors. One tiny smudge, else fine. Menu for the first week of December, 1979. A good week to have haunted the restaurant.
$50