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21.
[CHEZ PANISSE].
Zinfandel Nouveau Chez Panisse.

[Berkeley]: Chez Panisse, 1978.

First edition. 16 ½ x 8 inch broadside menu, letterpress printed in two colors. Fine. Menu for December 5 through 9, featuring a dinner to honor the winemakers Ken Drost and Craig Williams. The various prix fixe dinners top out at $20, with a fifth of Zin per couple.
$40

22.
COHEN, Ira.
6 Picks.

(np): Archetypal Images (1988).

First edition. Six 7 x 5 inch postcards held together with a printed wrap-around band. Fine. Cohen's photographs of David Rattray, Lucia Hwong, Vali Myers, Timothy Baum, Ching Ho Cheng, and Dame Margo Howard-Howard.
$20

23.
COOLIDGE, Clark.
Quartz Hearts.

San Francisco: This (1978).

First edition. 57 pp w/notes. Very good plus in printed wrappers. One of 474 (of 500) copies.
$45

24.
COOLIDGE, Clark. et al.
The Serpent Power.

Santa Monica: Vanguard Records [1993].

Longbox cd. Near fine in the original unopened longbox packaging. A promo issue, with a small hole punched in the lower edge. SIGNED by Coolidge on the front cover. Coolidge drummed for this Tina and David Meltzer-fronted group.
$100

25.
COOPER, Dennis.
Tiger Beat.

Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press, 1978.

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 200 copies. Thirteen poems. SIGNED by Cooper on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED, "for Joe from Dennis."
$450

26.
[CORACLE PRESS].
Coracle 1991 [cover title].

London: Coracle Press (1991).

[48 pp]. Very near fine in wrappers and like dust jacket. New publications and stock list, itself a bit of an artists' book, as well as a useful bibliographic reference.
$25

27.
CREELEY, Robert.
The Immoral Proposition.

[Highlands]: Jonathan Williams (1953).

First edition. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Six poems with artwork by René Laubies. One of 200 copies. A beautiful copy in the original decorated (unmailed) mailing envelope with backing board (near fine). Creeley's third book, issued as Jargon 8.
$1500

28.
CRUMB, R.
Early Jazz Greats: A Set of 36 Cards.

Newton: Yazoo Records (1982).

First edition. Thirty-six 3 ¾ x 2 ¾ inch cards housed in a two part illustrated box. Cards are fine, two sides of the box are sunned, else very near fine. Reproduces full-color images of the Greats by Crumb, with biographical notes on the versos. Much less commmon than the reprint issued in 2005.
$50

29.
DEEMER, Bill.
Poems.

San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1964.

First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in half-cloth and printed paper-covered boards. Lacks the unprinted buff dust jacket. One of 25 copies on mould made paper SIGNED by Deemer. His first book, and an uncommon issue of this Auerhahn title. Original prospecuts laid-in. Auerhahn 37.
$250

30.
DeFEO, Jay.
Defeo.

San Francisco: Hosfelt Gallery (2011).

First edition. Folio. [20 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Fifteen color plates. Texts by Todd Hosfelt and Stephanie Hanor.
$20

31.
DEMAND, Thomas with Andreas Gursky and Edward Ruscha.
Great Illusions.

Bonn & North Miami: Kunstmuseum/Museum of Contemporary Art (1999).

First edition. Horizontal 4to. 119 pp. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Reproductions of photographs by Demand, Gursky, and Ruscha.
$150

32.
DERRIDA, Jacques.
Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins.

Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press (1993).

First US edition. 4to. x + 141 pp. Fine in full black cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated from the original French by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Ness. Illustrated with color and b&w reproductions.
$100

33.
DONAGH, Rita and Richard Hamilton.
A Cellular Maze (cover tile): An INQUIRY through the Medium of ART aided by FILM & NEWS PHOTOGRAPHS into DIMENSIONS and HABITATION of Her Majest's Prison MAZE formerly LONG KESH Internment Camp in ANTRIM, one of the Nine Counties of ULSTER, Ancient Northern Province of IRELAND.

Londonderry: Orchard Gallery, 1983.

First edition. [8 pp]. Covers lightly rubbed, else very good plus in sewn wrappers. Donagh writes about her series of paintings based in part on Lough Neagh, paired with Hamilton's notes on politics and art. Dated (1.1.1984) and INSCRIBED on the verso of the second leaf, "for Kitaj and Sandra, love from Richard and Rita."
$50

34.
DROHOJOWSKA-PHILP, Hunter.
Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s.

NY: Holt (2011).

First edition. xxiv + 263 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. A breezy tour with a focus on the Ferus Gallery artists.
$20

35.
[DYLAN, Bob]. Pickering, Stephen.
Bob Dylan / The Band Tour 1974.

Capitola: Echo, Echo Limited (1974).

First edition. 56 pp. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. Illustrated with 43 photographs and drawings.
$50

36.
ESAM, John; Hollo, Anselm; Raworth, Tom.
Haiku.

London: Trigram Press (1968).

First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Cover and frontispiece from a painting by Kawashima. Designed and printed by Asa Benveniste and Paul Vaughan. One of 60 numbered copies SIGNED by Esam (A Strange Life), Hollo (17x17), and Raworth (My Son the Haiku Writer).
$75

37.
EVERSON, William.
Poems: MCMXLII.

Waldport: Untide Press (1944-45).

First edition. [40 pp]. Bend across the top and fore-edges, else very good in printed wrappers. One of 500 copies. Errata slip bound-in. Pasted to the second-to-last blank leaf is a short newspaper clipping, identified in black ink, "Seattle Times, Feb. 25, 1959" announcing a reading by Antoninus at the University of Washington. INSCRIBED by Everson on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed / for / Johnny Wittwer / Bill Everson / with great fervor!" Long-time Seattle pianist Wittwer is best known for accompanying poet Kenneth Patchen live and on record.
$200

38.
FINLAY, Ian Hamilton.
Honey by the Water.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.

First edition. 57 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Concrete poems, most nautical in subject matter, with an afterword by Stephen Bann. One of 1000 copies.
$35

39.
FINLAY, Ian Hamilton. ed.
Poor Old Tired Horse 23: TEAPOTH.

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press (nd).

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Designed by John Furnival with contributions by Max Weber, Theodore Enslin, Pierre Albert-Birot, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Eli Siegel, Gael Turnbull, George Mackay Brown, Edwin Morgan, and Ronald Johnson.
$50

40.
GORDON, Jaimy.
The Fall of Poxdown.

[Providence]: Hell Coal Press (1972).

First edition. [20 pp]. Some light fading to spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Hellcoal First Edition Series Vol. 1, No.1. Illustrations by James Aitchison. One of 300 (of 350) copies. Gordon's first book.
$200

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