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$75.00Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame (1979). First edition. 12 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. A stellar line-up: Allen Ginsberg, David Mamet, William Gaddis, Romulus Linney, Larry McMurtry, Hilda Morley, John Frederick Nims, Ishmael Reed, and Robert S. Fitzgerald. Most writers pictured, with examples of their work.
$25.00San Francisco: (np) 1973. First edition. [76 pp]. Near fine in glossy printed wrappers. Illustrated with 21 plates, most of them color collages by Fran Herndon. A memoir of poet Jack Spicer.
$22.95Santa Barbara: Joshua Odell Editions, 2018. First edition. xxxi + 104 pp w/index. Fine in full green cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Steele provides a terrific introduction to this thorough accounting of his published works. New, at publication price:
$20.00NY: Viking (1996). First edition. xx + 472 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Benson on the title page.
$150.00Austin: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin (1974). First edition. 240 pp w/index. Very near fine in decorated full cloth. Lacks unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. Still the reigning bibliography.
$125.00NY: D.A.P. (2012). First US edition. Oblong 8vo. 263 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Small “Autographed Copy” sticker on front cover. Essays by Charlotte Cotton, Jonathan Lethem, Constance M. Lewallen, Carter Ratcliff, and Thomas Wagner. SIGNED by Mandel on the half-title page.
$45.00Seattle: Seattle Art Museum (1990). First edition. Small 4to. 39 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with a touch of sunning to the upper corner of the front cover. Color and b&w images.
$250.00Santa Fe: Soundings Press, 1984. First edition. 4to. 297 pp w/appendixes. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover design by Alison Knowles. In addition to works by Tenney, there are contributions by Garland, Malcolm Goldstein, Carolee Schneeman, and Philip Corner. SIGNED by Tenney on the title page.
$350.00Seattle & London: University of Washington Press for the SF Museum of Modern Art (1985). First trade paperback printing. 4to. 207 pp w/exhibition history & bibliography. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Thiebaud on the front free endpaper, “all the best / W. Thiebaud.”
$125.00Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1974. First US edition, numbered & signed issue. 47 pp. A few tiny scuffs to spine and fore-edge, else near fine in illustrated paper-covered boards that have some faint tanning along top edge. Illustrated with drawings by Caitlin Mackintosh. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Wilson. This edition includes a seven page “Note on Tolkien” not in the UK edition. Yes! Capra Chapbook Series #20.
$40.00[Brussels]: Les Disques du Crépuscule, 1984. First edition. 22 1/2 x 11 3/4 inch illustrated poster, featuring a Kawahara photograph of Tong hoisting a television. One horizontal fold, some faint scattered foxing. In all, very good plus.
$20.00Iowa City: Friends of The University of Iowa Libraries, 1982. April. 66 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Features Michael Peich’s essay on the Toothpaste Press and a checklist for the first twelve years of press production, beginning in 1972.
$750.00Milan: Multhipla Edizioni (1979). First edition. Folio. 222 pp w/bibliography & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Near fine publisher’s slipcase, with some light wear along the bottom edge. One of 1500 numbered copies. Introductory text by Roland Barthes, in French and English and Italian translation. Many tipped-on plates.
$20.00Clonmel & NY: Coracle/Granary Books, 2010. First edition. 122 pp w/ chronology of books & cards. Fine in illustrated boards; no dust jacket, as issued. Fully illustrated with color reproductions. A terrific examination of Van Horn’s work, in an appropriate format.
$45.00[Berkeley]: Poltroon Press, 1985. First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in wrappers with integral illustrated dust jacket. Printed at the Visual Studies Workshop. Fully-illustrated with photographs of works, one pop-up element, and six image cards, housed in an envelope at the rear of the book.
$75.00NY: Gagosian Gallery (2019). First edition. 62 pp. Tiny bump to one lower corner, else fine in full black cloth with inset front cover image and full panel rear cover reproduction. No dust jacket, as issued. One fold-out plate. Essay, “At a certain distance (and from a certain angle)” by Russell Ferguson. Fully illustrated with color reproductions.
$200.00Fenian Head Centre Press 1966. 90 pp. Touch of foxing to top edge, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 900 numbered copies. The first-hand “drug issue” featuring work by Al Young, d.a. levy, John Sinclair, Ray and Bonnie Bremser, Clive Matson, Richard Krech, and many others. William Wantling’s 16 pp chapbook, “Heroin Haikus” present in the designated position at the rear of the volume.
$100.00NY & London: Gagosian, 2002. First edition. Folio. [76 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Introductory note by Vincent Fremont and “Notes on an Interview with Andy Warhol” by Benjamin H.D. Buchlow. Profusely illustrated.
$500.00NY & London: Phaidon (2002). First edition. 503 pp w/notes, abbreviations, indexes, & photograph credits. Three small pencil notes to first leaf, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards and matching publisher’s slipcase.
$125.00NY: Gagosian Gallery (1996). First edition. 8vo. 13 + [62 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Introductory essay, “Carnal Knowledge,” by Rosalind Krauss. Twenty-nine reproductions.
$150.00North Pomfret: Elysium Press, 2003. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 8vo. 10 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with morocco spine and pasted-on cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies on Somerset paper SIGNED by Reed. Reed’s thoughtful appreciation of a slightly earlier, “openly gay American poet, who offered no apologies for his confessional disclosures, and who used all experience, no matter how compromising as legitimate material for art.”
$20.00Sunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press (nd). First edition. Three panel folding card (4 7/8 x 7 inches, closed). Fine. Describes with work of the press together with endorsements and a three color reproduciton of “A Rock Rose” by Finlay and Richard Demarco.
$75.00Haverford: James S. Jaffe, 1989. First edition, numbered & signed issue. xii + 56 pp. Faint foxing along top edge, else 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. Together with Asphodel Books Catalogue 100: Jonathan Williams, and offering of 100 priced items by JW. For the pair:
$20.00Washington DC: Visual Press (1979). First edition. [24 pp]. Very good plus in stapled wrappers and very good integral dust jacket. One of 300 copies. Colored photographs of the Jargon Society publisher on the occasion of his 50th birthday.
$350.00Santa Barbara: Cadmus, 1979. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 12mo. 85 pp w/note. Fine in illustrated wrappers and fine unprinted glassine dust jacket. Translated from the original Arabic by Paul Bowles. Foreword by Gavin Lamberg, concluding note by Williams. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Choukri and Bowles.
$25.00NY: Gotham Book Mart Gallery, 1968. First edition. Single long sheet folded twice (6 x 9 inches, closed). Fine. Williams contributes a long work on Romano’s work. Black and white reproductions of paintings of Carson McCullers, WCW, and W.H. Auden by Romano.
$75.00NY: Groiler Club, 1997. First edition. Small 4to. xviii + 138 pp w/indexes. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label. Contributions by Harry Duncan, Dana Gioia, and K.K. Merker. One of 50 (of 100) hardcover copies. Illustrated. In addition to the bibliographical descriptions, Merker critiques the 106 primary books of the press to date.
$125.00Oakville: Robert Mondavi Winery, 1988. First edition. Oblong 8vo. [66 pp]. Small smudge on fore-edge, else fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed labels. No dust jacket, as issued. Illustrated by Margrit Biever. Printed in two colors by Peter Koch. One of 1000 copies. A collection of quotations about your favorite beverage. Reprinted at least four times in the trade edition.
$350.00Healdsburg: Hermes Free Press, 1977. First edition. [28 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers with ribbon place marker bound-in. One of the most provocative works by Holbrook Teter and Michael Meyers, a flip book that transforms the Christian cross into a Nazi swastika. The title page reads in full, “The Holy Bible / containing / The Same Old Thing / translated by wagging tongues / being the version set forth A.D. 1977 by / Anita Bryant, Dale Evans, / & John Briggs, Gadfly.”
$50.00San Francisco: Hermes Free Press (1972). First edition. 24mo. [4 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. “Energy Hustler Ro-Non-So-Te” rails against the “oil people.”
$1,250.00Madison: Health, Flame, and Aluminum Press (1969). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket with light sunning along the spine. “Written, illustrated, and printed by Michael Myers.” One of 60 numbered copies on Nideggen paper. Printed with the assistance of Walter S. Hamady. Poems, fully-illustrated with Myers’ instantly recognizable linoleum block prints. I believe this to be his second book, preceded by the 1968 EAST BAY MOON-beams. Myers would sooon move West, connect with Holbrook Teter, and create Zephyrus Image. See Johnston pp 17-18.