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  • A Day and Night at the Baths.
    RUMAKER, Michael.
    $125.00
    Bolinas: Grey Fox Press (1979). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 81 pp. Fine in full blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Rumaker. Young 3387*.
  • Gringos and other stories: A New Edition.
    RUMAKER, Michael.
    $75.00
    Rocky Mount: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press (1991). Second edition, numbered & signed issue. xi + 286 pp. Very near fine in full green cloth with copper lettering to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Design by Jonathan Greene. Introduction by Russell Banks, afterword by Robert Creeley. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Rumaker. Originally published by Grove Press in 1966.
  • Drawing & and Writing.
    RUPPERSBERG, Allen.
    $75.00
    NY: Christine Burgin (2014). First editions. 112 + 128 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket, and fine in illustrated wrappers, respectively. DRAWINGS includes an essay by Leslie Jones, AND WRITING, an introduction by Bill Berkson. For the pair:
  • Metro Plots.
    RUSCHA, Ed.
    $250.00
    Beverly Hills & NY: Gagosian Gallery (1998). First edition. [18 + 9 pp]. Fine in debossed boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Introductory essay by Dave Hickey. An elaborately-designed exhibition catalogue, reproducing 20 paintings and drawings.
  • Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles.
    RUSCHA, Ed.
    $1,250.00
    [Los Angeles]: Ed Ruscha, 1967. First edition. [44 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers with light sunning to spine. Droplet mark to front cover, else near fine in unprinted glassine dust jacket with a few short tears, tanning, and wrinkles along top edge. Aerial photographs by Art Alanis.
  • Royal Road Test.
    RUSCHA, Edward with Mason Williams and Patrick Blackwell.
    $500.00
    Los Angeles: Mason Williams and Edward Ruscha (1971). Third edition. [48 pp]. Faint dampstains inside front cover and to first blank leaf, else near fine in spiral-bound wrappers. A photo-documentary, captioned, of the destruction of a Royal Typewriter via being thrown from the window of a Buick at 90 mph.
  • In Good Faith.
    RUSHDIE, Salman.
    $20.00
    (np): Granta (1990). First US edition. 22 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of two essays by Rushdie, published by Granta shortly after the fatwah against him was issued.
  • Extra (Ordinary) People.
    RUSS, Joanna.
    $350.00
    NY: St. Martin’s (1984). First edition. 160 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket that is slightly mis-folded. Dated (3/22/86) and SIGNED by Russ on the title page. Includes her work “Souls,” which won the 1983 Hugo Award for best novella. Uncommon signed.
  • Erratic Facts.
    RYAN, Kay.
    $75.00
    NY: Grove Press (2015). First edition. 64 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Ryan. Her first post-Pulitzer collection.
  • Helsinki: Selected Poems of Pentti Saarikosi.
    SAARIKOSKI, Pentti.
    $125.00
    London: Rapp & Carroll (1967). First UK edition, numbered & signed issue. 48 pp. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a few small pressure dents to the front panel. Translations from the original Finnish by Anselm Hollo. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Saarikoski and Hollo.
  • Sony Outsider.
    SACHS, Tom.
    $125.00
    Santa Fe: SITE Santa Fe (1999). First edition. [34 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers and very near fine printed semi-opaque dust jacket with a small pale stain on the front cover. Essay by David Clemmer. Many color images and quotations from Sachs.
  • Space Program.
    SACHS, Tom.
    $450.00
    Beverly Hills: Gagosian Gallery, 2007. First edition. 4to. 278 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Exhaustive documentation of Sachs’ own space program. Hundreds of photographs, an essay by Arthur C. Danto, a conversation with Buzz Aldrin, Sachs, and Louise Neri, and more.
  • A Leg to Stand On.
    SACKS, Oliver.
    $250.00
    NY: Summit (1984). First edition. 222 pp. Nibbling to crown, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with corresponding wear and light sunning to spine. Dated (2/86) and INSCRIBED by Sacks.
  • Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder.
    SACKS, Oliver. M.D.
    $250.00
    Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California (1985). First printing of this expanded and updated edition. xx + 270 pp w/index. Nibble to crown of spine, else near fine in like dust jacket with corresponding loss and light sunning to the yellow spine lettering. Dated (2/86) and INSCRIBED by Sacks.
  • Réponses: The Autobiography of Francoise Sagan.
    SAGAN, Francoise.
    $35.00
    Godalming: Black Sheep Books (1979). First UK edition. 153 pp w/bibliography & notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by David Macey.
  • Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction.
    SALINGER, J.D.
    $450.00
    Boston: Little, Brown [1963]. First edition, third issue. 248 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with two small patches of rubbing to the spine (but no fade). The third issue, with the dedication page appearing after the copyright page, and “Seymore” for “Seymour” on page 173.
  • Cassada.
    SALTER, James.
    $20.00
    Washington DC: Counterpoint, 2000. Uncorrected proof. 206 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Salter's complete rewrite of his second book, THE ARM OF FLESH.
  • The Hunters.
    SALTER, James.
    $125.00
    Washington DC: Counterpoint (1997). First edition. 233 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Salter contributes a new preface to his 1956 novel. Dated (7/24/97) and SIGNED by Salter on the title page.
  • Message Bringer Woman.
    SANCHEZ, Carol Lee.
    $75.00
    [San Francisco]: Taurean Horn Press (1977). First edition. 90 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Sanchez, design by George Mattingly. One of 750 copies. Dated (10/77) and INSCRIBED by Sanchez to Lucy and George Mattingly.
  • Hymn to the Rebel Cafe.
    SANDERS, Edward.
    $200.00
    Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1993. First edition, publisher’s copy. 194 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Sanders. Laid-in to this copy are three short ALSs from Sanders to John and Barbara Martin relating to his pleasure with, and the reception of, this book.
  • Mary Baldwin: Poems.
    SANDY, Stephen.
    $75.00
    Cambridge: (np) 1962. First edition. 8 pp. Near fine in sewn wrappers. Five poems, printed at the Dolmen Press. Sandy’s first book.
  • A Fall from Grace.
    SANFIELD, Steve.
    $45.00
    Berkeley: Aldebaran Review 1976. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [18 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 33 numbered copies SIGNED by Sanfield. A collection of poems, issued as Aldebaran Review 22.
  • Herencia Del Humo: La Historia De Bonnie Y Clyde.
    SANTAMARIA, Alberto.
    $75.00
    Lloreda de Cayón: Carmichael Alonso, 2002. First edition. Oblong 8vo. 33 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Twelve poems about the famous American outlaw duo. One of 120 numbered copies. Text in Spanish.
  • Fragmenta Nova.
    SAPPHO.
    $350.00
    Berkeley & Brookston: Arif Press/Officina Chartaria Twinrocker 1981. First edition. Folio. [18 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Hand-colored frontis by Cheryl Miller. One of 100 copies. Text entirely in Greek and Latin. Note on the text by Guy Davenport accompanies, as part of the original 8 pp prospectus. Six newly identified fragments to be added to the 1955 Oxford University Press edition.
  • Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing.
    SARTON, May.
    $100.00
    NY: Norton (1965). First edition. 220 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Not well received upon publication, Sarton’s ninth novel was later embraced as a classic. Young 3423.
  • The Old-Fashioned Snow: A Story.
    SARTON, May.
    $150.00
    Concord: William B. Ewert, 1992. First edition, signed hardcover issue. [20 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Very near fine unprinted vellum paper jacket with one short tear. One of 25 copies on Strathmore Pastelle paper SIGNED by Sarton. A 1946 short story that appeared originally in Collier’s.
  • How Phenomena Appear To Unfold.
    SCALAPINO, Leslie.
    $75.00
    Elmwood: Potes & Poets Press, 1989. First edition. 119 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Scalapino to her publisher at North Point Press, Jack Shoemaker, “For Jack / with great appreciation / Leslie.”
  • Ambassador of Loss.
    SCARROTT, Michael pseudonym for A.S.T. Fisher.
    $350.00
    London: Fortune Press (1955). First edition. 175 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with shallow chipping to base and crown of spine, and wear to tips of flap folds. Illustrations by B.H. Surie. Young 3443*.
  • Bumpers.
    SCHLESINGER, Kyle. ed.
    $49.95
    Cuneiform Press (2011). First edition. Twelve 4 1/2 x 14 inch crack-and-peel bumper stickers, housed in a box with printed labels. All elements fine. Works by David Abel, Bill Berkson, Johanna Drucker, Craig Dworkin, Michael Gizzi, Michael Gottlieb, Ted Greenwald, Dorothea Lasky, Hoa Nguyen, Tom Raworth, Kit Robinson, and Carolee Schneemann. New, at publication price:
  • Futura 17: 576 köpfig.
    SCHMIDT, Wolfgang.
    $75.00
    [Stuttgart]: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1967. First edition. Single large sheet folded four times, as issued (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, closed). Fine. Images of faces printed in a partial checkerboard fashion, some in black ink, others blind.
  • supervisuell 4.
    SCHÖNHERR, Klaus. ed.
    $200.00
    Zürich: Klaus Schönherr (1969). First edition. [8 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. An uncommon issue of a scarce avant-garde film magazine. While there is a contents page and list of contributors (Alfredo Leonardi, Wilhelm Hein, Raj Marbres, Dieter Meier, Thomas Alva, Jonas Mekas) and articles titles, the internal text is largely “blah blah blah” typed over and over again, occasionally interrupted by a few German or English phrases.
  • A Likely Lad.
    SCHULDT.
    $35.00
    Köln: Walther König (1980). First edition. [262 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. A repeated image of a standing figure, the text along the bottom edge differing with each. “The Lad is dedicated to Re who taught me how interesting the stamp was that had been sitting on my window sill for four years.”