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  • Riprap.
    SNYDER, Gary.
    $250.00
    Ashland: Origin Press, 1959. Second edition. [34 pp]. Near fine in Japanese-style sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Snyder’s first book, this second edition actually published in 1960, with one typographical correction and the addition of “Crazy Horse Mason” to the dedication page.
  • The Old Ways: Six Essays.
    SNYDER, Gary.
    $125.00
    San Francisco: City Lights Books (1977). First edition. 96 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Snyder on the title page. Cook 121.
  • Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era.
    SOLNIT, Rebecca.
    $125.00
    San Francisco: City Lights (1990). First edition. 145 pp w/notes, bibliography, & index. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with light sunning to spine and a bump to base. The six artists are Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Jess, Jay DeFeo, George Herms, and Wally Hedrick. Foreword by Bill Berkson. Illustrated. Solnit’s first book.
  • mishaps, perhaps.
    SOLOMON, Carl.
    $75.00
    [San Francisco]: Beach Books, Texts & Documents (1966). First edition. 60 pp. Small bend to one lower corner, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph of Solomon by Jeffery Beach. Edited by Mary Beach with an introduction, “Flash for Carl Solomon,” by Claude Pélieu. Cook 59.
  • WORLDTHEATRE.
    SOLOMON, H. and Steve Balkin.
    $125.00
    NY: Cafe Au Go Go [1965]. First edition. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch flyer. Fine. Three Mondays in October featuring works by Erik Anderson, Andy Warhol, Dick Higgins, Balkin, Al Hansen, Yoko Ono, John Herbert McDowell, Diter Rot, Christo, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Charlotte Moorman, Alison Knowles, Liz Keen, and Takehisa Kosugi.
  • Picture Bride.
    SONG, Cathy.
    $75.00
    New Haven & London: Yale University Press (1983). First edition. xiv + 85 pp w/glossary. Fine in fine dust jacket. Foreword by Richard Hugo. Volume 78 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
  • Letters to Lady Ruth; Queen of the S.S. System, Board 46.
    SORCIC, James.
    $20.00
    Milwaukee: Gunrunner Press (nd). First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers.
  • Selected Poems 1958-1980.
    SORRENTINO, Gilbert.
    $75.00
    Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 268 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Sorrentino.
  • Steelwork: A Novel.
    SORRENTINO, Gilbert.
    $45.00
    NY: Pantheon (1970). First edition. 177 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Sorrentino’s second novel. McPheron A5.
  • SVLPICIAE ELEGIDIA / Elegiacs of Sulpicia.
    SORRENTINO, Gilbert.
    $350.00
    Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, 1977. First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 137 press-numbered copies on perusia paper. Six elegiacs, all that have survived from the 1st century b.c. poet Sulpicia, with Sorrentino’s facing versions. Hamady 79.
  • White Sail.
    SORRENTINO, Gilbert.
    $12.50
    Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow 1977. First trade paperback printing. 59 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Morrow & Cooney 270a.
  • Twenty-Five Years of It.
    SPACKMAN, W.M.
    $100.00
    [France]: Perros-Guirec, 1967. First edition. 31 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 250 copies. Spackman's second book, a collection of poems by the “Fabergé of novelists.”
  • Robinson.
    SPARK, Muriel.
    $350.00
    London: Macmillan, 1958. First edition. 185 pp. Spots of foxing along top edges, else near fine in like dust jacket. A nice copy of her second book. Three plane crash survivors encounter Robinson, the eccentric recluse who inhabits the island upon which they crashed.
  • Zeroglyphics:.
    SPATOLA, Adriano.
    $40.00
    Los Angeles: Red Hill Press (1977). First edition. [56 pp] w/notes & bibliography. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Afterwords by Renato Barilli and Giulia Niccolai. Translated by Giulia Niccolai and Paul Vangelisti. Red Hill/38.
  • Archaeology and Other Poems.
    SPEISER, Robert.
    $45.00
    NY: Columbia Review Press (1964). First edition. 4to. 47 pp. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art and internal illustrations by Jane Spiser. One of 300 numbered copies. The first in this series.
  • Descartes.
    SPENDER, Stephen.
    $75.00
    London: Steam Press (1970). First edition. Single large sheet folded twice, as issued (11 x 6 inches closed). Fine. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Spender. Designed and printed by Ralph Steadman. Steam Press Broadsheet No. 2.
  • A Book of Music.
    SPICER, Jack.
    $45.00
    San Francisco: White Rabbit Press 1969. First edition, first issue. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Fourteen poems, printed in two colors. Johnston A48.
  • Collected Poems 1945 - 1946.
    SPICER, Jack.
    $45.00
    [Berkeley]: Oyez/White Rabbit (1981). First facsimile edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Originally produced in an edition of one copy, given by Spicer to Josephine Miles. Original prospectus accompanies. Johnston A63.
  • The Collected Books of Jack Spicer.
    SPICER, Jack.
    $450.00
    Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975. First edition, publisher’s copy. 382 pp w/bibliography of first editions. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label (lightly faded). Very near fine acetate dust jacket with a small chip and tear to spine. Near fine publisher’s slipcase. Edited and with a commentary by Robin Blaser. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Blaser.
  • Mythology & Meatballs: A Greek Island Diary/Cookbook.
    SPOERRI, Daniel.
    $45.00
    Berkeley: Aris Books (1982). First trade paperback printing. 238 pp w/bibliography & notes. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by L. John Harris. Spoerri records every detail of his time on the island of Symi, with a digression on the tradition of meatballs.
  • An Unfamiliar Country: 25 Poems.
    STACTON, David.
    $250.00
    Swinford: Fantasy Press [1953]. First edition. 36 pp. Near fine in saddle-stitched wrappers with integral printed dust jacket (light tanning and some minor wear to extrems). Two small corrections to the text in Stacton’s hand. His first book.
  • The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford.
    STAFFORD, Jean.
    $50.00
    London: Chatto & Windus, 1970. First UK edition. xi + 463 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a small sticker shadow. Stafford contributes an opening note to this collection of thirty stories, written between 1944 to 1968.
  • Tuft by Puff.
    STAFFORD, William.
    $250.00
    Mount Horeb: Perishable Press, 1978. First edition. [26 pp]. Spine sunned, else very near fine in full blue cloth. Poems with illustrations by Elizabeth Coberly. One of 240 numbered copies. Hamady 88.
  • Arkansas Bench Stone.
    STANFORD, Frank.
    $1,500.00
    Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975. First edition. 32 pp. Some light wear along top edge, else very near fine in printed wrappers. Stanford’s fifth book, a collection of sixteen poems. Illustrated with two drawings and a photograph of a painting, all by Ginny Crouch Stanford.
  • Crib Death.
    STANFORD, Frank.
    $250.00
    [Tucson]: Ironwood Press (1978). First edition. 55 pp. Light rubbing to spine and extrems, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. The first posthumous collection of Stanford’s verse. Thirty poems.
  • Hidden Water: From the Frank Stanford Archives.
    STANFORD, Frank.
    $20.00
    Nashville: Third Man Books (2015). First edition. xv + 200 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Edited by Michael Wiegers and Chet Weise. Preface by Wiegers. “Frank Stanford (1948-1978): An Appreciation” by Steve Stern. A wealth of previously unseen material, with many items reproduced in facsimile.
  • the battlefield where the moon says I love you: a poem.
    STANFORD, Frank.
    $950.00
    Fayetteville & [Seattle]: Lost Roads/Mill Mountain Press 1977. First edition. 542 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Stanford’s epic poem begun as a teen and worked on and off for years. Issued as Lost Roads 7-12. Though there is an assigned isbn for a hardcover edition of this title, one was not produced.
  • The Singing Knives: Poems.
    STANFORD, Frank.
    $150.00
    Fayetteville: Lost Roads, 1979. Second edition, second printing. 59 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover screen by David Hurley. In addition to adding two poems not in the original edition, this second printing concludes with four page biography of Stanford by C.D. Wright (uncredited).
  • What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford.
    STANFORD, Frank.
    $50.00
    Port Townsend: Copper Canyon (2015). First edition. xvi + 747 pp w/index of titles. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Introduction by Dean Young. Editor’s note by Michael Wiegers. In addition to the published work, this collection adds unpublished manuscripts, uncollected poems, drafts, and fragments, and uncollected prose.
  • Gulf.
    STEFANS, Brian Kim.
    $25.00
    NY: Object Editions/poetscoop, 1998. First edition. 4to. 103 pp. Fine in side-stapled wrappers.
  • How To Write.
    STEIN, Gertrude.
    $500.00
    Paris: Plain Edition [1931]. First edition. 395 pp. Some light foxing to fore-edge, else very near fine in paper-covered boards with printed spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. Wilson A17.
  • Ida: A Novel.
    STEIN, Gertrude.
    $250.00
    NY: Random House (1941). First edition. 154 pp. Foxing along top edge and along edges of boards and spine, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Wilson A36a.