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  • Battles in Spain: Five Unpublished Poems.
    VALLEJO, Cesar.
    $25.00
    Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1978. First edition. [14 pp]. Top edge untrimmed, else fine in printed wrappers. Translated from the Spanish by Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia. SIGNED by Eshelman and Barcia. Sparrow 65. Morrow & Cooney 290.
  • 3 Jazz Chants.
    VAN DEN HEUVEL, Cornelisza.
    $100.00
    NY: chantpress, 1962. First edition. 12mo. [28 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 225 numbered copies SIGNED by Van Den Heuvel. Poems, of a Beat sensibility, printed letterpress in Greenwich Village. Each cover individually decorated. Penned inside this cover is an advertisement for THE EO7 WILD WEST SHOW to be published in Fall ‘64.
  • Mending: four printed drawings by Erica Van Horn with poems by Thomas Meyer.
    VAN HORN, Erica and Thomas Meyer.
    $200.00
    Clonmel: Coracle, 2011. First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in full orange cloth with stamped spine and front cover with bound-in ribbon ties. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 80 numbered copies. Each of the drawings is laid in, numbered, and SIGNED by Van Horn.
  • The Mixed Men: An Interstellar Adventure.
    VAN VOGT, A.E.
    $250.00
    NY: Gnome Press (1952). First edition. 223 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with two short edge tears. Cover art by Ric Binkley. INSCRIBED by Van Vogt on the front free endpaper, “For Richard Wald / It developed that this / was a story women / could like - and you, / also, I hope. Best, / A. E. Van Vogt.”
  • Foresta Ultra Naturam.
    VANGELISTI, Paul. ed.
    $35.00
    San Francisco & Los Angeles: Red Hill Press, 1989. First edition. 159 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. “forest beyond nature”: verses and visuals by Emilio Villa, Giulia Niccolai, and Luciano Caruso. Original Italian with facing English translations by Pasquale Verdicchio, Ippolita Rostagno, and Paul Vangelisti. Invisible City 6.
  • The War at the End of the World.
    VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.
    $150.00
    London & Boston: Faber and Faber (1985). First UK edition. 568 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Spanish by Helen R. Lane. SIGNED by Vargas Llosa on the half-title page. A major novel by the Nobel winner.
  • The Archeology of the Mother.
    VEINSTEIN, Alain.
    $35.00
    Cambridge: Spectacular Diseases, 1986. First UK edition. 4to. 46 pp. Bumps to two corners, else near fine in sewn wrappers. Cover illustration by Denis Mizzi. Translated from the original French by Rosmarie Waldrop and Tod Kabza. Série d’écriture issue number one.
  • The Vico Collaboration.
    VICO, Gambattista, Denis Letbetter, Jack W. Stauffacher.
    $50.00
    San Francisco: Greenwood Press (2004). First edition. 62 pp. Small stain on rear cover, else very near fine in printed wrappers. Prints by Stauffacher photographed by Letbetter. SIGNED by Stauffacher on the title page.
  • Deep Foot and Deeper Foot.
    VIXEN, Richard M.
    $100.00
    Eugene: Avant-Garde Creations (1977). First editions. 124 + 135 pp. Two volumes, both small 4to, both very near fine in illustrated wrappers with a small light blemish to the cover of the first issue. For the pair:
  • The Rainbow Stories.
    VOLLMANN, William T.
    $125.00
    London: Andre Deutsch (1989). First edition. 541 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Vollmann on the title page. Precedes the US edition. One of 1250 copies printed.
  • Hocus Pocus.
    VONNEGUT, Kurt.
    $350.00
    NY: Hocus Pocus (1990). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 302 pp. Faint sunning to spine, else fine in full orange cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Vonnegut.
  • Fantastic Architecture.
    VOSTELL, Wolf and Dick Higgins.
    $200.00
    NY: Something Else Press [1970]. First US edition. [194 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. In addition to the shake-up proposed by the editors, includes historical and contemporary takes by a wide-range of figures including Schwitters, Cage, Beuys, Weiner, Filliou, and Spoerri. Fully-illustrated.
  • Confessional Poem to Free the Mind of Its Hang Ups and Keep the Underworld Free of Its Goofy Spirits.
    WAGNER, D.r.
    $35.00
    (np): Cat’s Pajamas Press, 1970. First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 200 copies. Front cover by Richard H. Geer, back cover by Wagner. A book made up largely of quotations from other writers (including two by d.a. levy) with connective tissue by Wagner. SIGNED by Wagner on the title page.
  • The Lost Carnival & other places.
    WAGNER, D.r.
    $20.00
    Death Crater: Molly Moon Press, 1969. First edition. 22 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. Poems printed letterpress in purple.
  • The Sirens in the Park and the Ribbons in the Hairs: Four from the Flesh.
    WAGNER, D.r.
    $20.00
    (np): Grande Ronde Press, 1968. First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover illustration by Barbara O'Connelly. One of 473 numbered copies SIGNED by Wagner.
  • Lardeau: Selected First Poems.
    WAH, Fred.
    $100.00
    Toronto: Island Press (1965). First edition. [52 pp]. Small mark on front panel, else near fine in staple and tape-bound wrappers. This title constitutes issue #4 of Victor Coleman’s Island magazine. INSCRIBED by Wah, “For Bill Hoffer / with appreciation / Fred Wah.”
  • Hedyphagetica: A Romantic Argument.
    WAINHOUSE, Austryn.
    $125.00
    Paris: Collection Merlin/Olympia Press, 1954. First edition. 217 pp. Near fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket with lightly toned spine. One of 1020 numbered copies. Kearney & Carroll 2.4.1.
  • Letters from Al-Demi.
    WAINIO, Ken.
    $40.00
    Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles, 1982. First edition. 78 pp w/key to the hieroglyphics. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with a bit of foxing to top edge. One of 300 copies. Dated (6/16/82) and INSCRIBED by Wainio to David [Meltzer], “For David / via the trans-Californian / egyptian arch - Best / Ken Wainio.”
  • New York in the 50s.
    WAKEFIELD, Dan.
    $125.00
    NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First edition. x + 355 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Author photo laid in. Dated (5/28/92) and INSCRIBED by Wakefield, “To Herb Gold, / A friend in New York / in the Fifties who does me / the honor of introduction / in San Francisco in the / Nineties - with great / appreciation + admiration, / Dan Wakefield.” Gold is cited six times in the index.
  • MX1 & MX2: Looking for Beethoven in Las Vegas and 
Three Political Poems.
    WAKOSKI, Diane and Lawrence Fixel.
    $75.00
    NY: Red Ozier Press [1983]. First editions. 4 + 4 pp, each in a printed folder. All elements fine. One of 200 and 150 copies SIGNED by Wakoski and Fixel respectively. Peich 49 & 51. For the pair:
  • George Washington's Camp Cups.
    WAKOSKI, Diane.
    $55.00
    Madison: Red Ozier (1976). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 (of 150) numbered copies on Frankfurt Cream SIGNED by Wakoski. Peich 4.
  • Greed: Parts 8, 9, 11.
    WAKOSKI, Diane.
    $30.00
    Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 50 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Wakoski. Morrow & Cooney 145b.
  • Overnight Projects With Wood: A Poem.
    WAKOSKI, Diane.
    $65.00
    Madison: Red Ozier Press (1977). First edition. 16mo. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Title page collage by Steve Miller. One of 170 numbered copies SIGNED by Wakoski. Peich 7.
  • The Fable of the Lion & The Scorpion.
    WAKOSKI, Diane.
    $25.00
    Milwaukee: Pentagram Press (1975). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. title page drawing by Tom Montag. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Wakoski. A short prose work, with a moral.
  • Blue Mosque.
    WALDMAN, Anne.
    $25.00
    NY: United Artists, 1988. First edition. 59 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Louise Hamlin. A selection of travel pieces from 1967-1987.
  • One Inch of Love Is An Inch of Ashes.
    WALDMAN, Anne.
    $50.00
    Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Special Collections Library, 2002. First edition. 16 x 9 3/4 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Produced on the occasion of the symposium and exhibit, “Makeup on Empty Space: A Celebration of Anne Waldman.” One of 400 copies printed by Wesley B. Tanner at Passim Editions. Ginsberg visits Waldman in a dream.
  • Ceci n’est pas Keith - Ceci n’est pas Rosmarie: Autobiographies.
    WALDROP, Keith and Rosmarie.
    $20.00
    Providence: Burning Deck, 2002. First edition. 93 pp. Fine in glossy wrappers. Cover photographs by Walt Odets. Illustrated with photographs. The Waldrops take turns from early memories to 1997.
  • In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women.
    WALKER, Alice.
    $300.00
    NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1973). First edition. 138 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to the bottom edge of the front flap. Long endorsement on the front flap by June Jordan. Her fourth book.
  • While love is unfashionable...
    WALKER, Alice.
    $35.00
    [Berkeley]: Moe’s Books, 1984. First edition. 11 7/8 x 7 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. A poem from her collection REVOLUTIONARY PETUNIAS, here presented as a gift for the New Year. Printed by Wesley Tanner.
  • Beast is a Wolf with Brown Fire.
    WALLENSTEIN, Barry.
    $75.00
    Brockport: BOA Editions, 1977. First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 55 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems with illustrations by Julien Alberts. Foreword by M.L. Rosenthal. One of ten numbered copies SIGNED by Wallenstein, Alberts, and Rosenthal, and with the poem “Snake” penned by Wallenstein opposite the colophon page. New Poets of America Series Vol. 2.
  • Wedge: An Aesthetic Inquiry.
    WALLIS, Brian and Phil Mariani. eds.
    $125.00
    NY: Wedge (1982). Summer. 71 pp. Spine lightly toned, else fine in printed wrappers. Contributors include Acker, Jenny Holzer, Robert Longo, Jon Hendricks, and several others, including an interview with Joseph Beuys by Art Papier. The GAAG multiple by Henricks and Toche is present and sealed in the internal pasted-on envelope.
  • Extracts from THE COMPLEAT ANGLER.
    WALTON, Isaac and Charles Cotton.
    $50.00
    Hanborough: Parrot Pieces, 1988. First edition. [36 pp]. Light sunning to spine, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards (light taps to lower corners). Illustrations and lettering throughout by Wilton Priestner. One of 70 (of 95) numbered copies SIGNED by Priestner.