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  • The Captain’s Death Bed and other Essays.
    WOOLF, Virginia.
    $85.00
    NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1950). First edition. viii + 248 pp. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a tiny tear to the base of spine. Leonard Woolf contributes an introductory note. Kirkpatrick A30a.
  • Rising, Falling, Hovering.
    WRIGHT, C.D.
    $50.00
    Port Townsend: Copper Canyon (2008). First edition. viii + 97 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Briefly INSCRIBED by Wright on the title page.
  • Xionia.
    WRIGHT, Charles.
    $125.00
    Iowa City: Windhover Press (1990). First edition. 4to. 38 pp w/notes. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. One of 250 copies on Iyo handmade Japanese paper SIGNED by Wright. Berger 98.
  • No Siege is Absolute: Versions of René Char.
    WRIGHT, Franz.
    $125.00
    Providence: Lost Roads 1984. First edition. 39 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Early book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Lost Roads 24.
  • A Reply to Matthew Arnold
    WRIGHT, James.
    $20.00
    Durango: Logbridge-Rhodes (1981). First edition. 19 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 478 (of 500) copies on Classic Text. Nine poems.
  • Leave it to the Sunlight.
    WRIGHT, James.
    $75.00
    Durango: Logbridge-Rhodes (1981). First edition, numbered issue. 17 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 22 numbered copies on Classic Text in handmade paper wrappers. A collection of ten poems.
  • The Green Wall.
    WRIGHT, James.
    $450.00
    New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First edition. xix + 93 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with a sliver of toning along top edge. Foreword by W.H. Auden. Wright’s first book, issued as the 53rd volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
  • The Green Wall.
    WRIGHT, James.
    $250.00
    New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First edition. xix + 93 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to tips of flap folds, and base and crown of spine. “1593” inked on rear cover, but not obtrusive. Foreword by W.H. Auden. Wright’s first book, issued as the 53rd volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
  • Music’s Mask and Measure.
    WRIGHT, Jay.
    $50.00
    Chicago: Flood Editions (2007). First edition. 56 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. A sequence of poems in five “equations.”
  • Wind Blown Cloud Poems.
    WYATT, Bill.
    $35.00
    Sutton: Broadsheet, 1969. First trade edition. 32 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. Collection as a whole dedicated to d.a. levy, as well as several individual poems.
  • The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age.
    YATES, Frances A.
    $150.00
    London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1979). First edition. x + 217 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Yates examines the Christian interpretation of the Jewish mystical tradition.
  • A Good School: A Novel.
    YATES, Richard.
    $100.00
    NY: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence (1978). First edition. 178 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Young 4252.
  • The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays.
    YEATS, William B. and Lady Gregory.
    $150.00
    NY: Macmillan, 1908. First edition. xiii + 210 pp Very near fine in full dark blue cloth with elaborate gilt decoration along spine. t.e.g. Collects THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS, CATHLEEEN NI HULIHAN, and THE HOUR-GLASS. Wade 73.
  • Wherever I Looked: Poems.
    YOUNG, Gary.
    $125.00
    Los Angeles: Robin Price, 1993. First edition. Oblong 18mo. [22 pp]. Fine in stiff printed wrappers. Poems by Young with woodcut illustrations by Mary Allan. Type composition, design,a and printing by Robin Price. One of 85 numbered copies SIGNED by Young, Allan, and Price.
  • Common or Garden Gods.
    YOUNG, Ian with Richard Phelan.
    $100.00
    Scarborough: Catalyst (1976). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 79 pp. Fine in two-part cloth biding with printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems by Young, one co-written with Richard Phelan, and one by Phelan on his own. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Young and Phelan. Young 4257*.
  • To Dream Kalapuya.
    YOUNG, Karl.
    $25.00
    St. Paul: Truck Press (1977). First edition. 32mo. [64 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Briefly INSCRIBED by Young to Ron Silliman. One of 700 copies printed and bound by Young himself at the Membrane Press.
  • Music of La Monte Young
    YOUNG, La Monte.
    $150.00
    NY: Judson Hall (1962). First edition. Single long sheet folded twice (3 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches, closed). Fine. Flyer for this performance of the music of Young by LaMar Alsop, William Schoen, and Charlotte Moorman.
  • Adonis García: A Picaresque Novel.
    ZAPATA, Luis.
    $250.00
    San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press (1981). First edition, lettered & signed issue. 208 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated from the original Spanish by E.A. Lacey with his concluding note. Introduction by José Joaquín Blanco. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Zapata and Lacey. Young 4277a*.
  • Middle Ground.
    ZILINSKY, Ursula.
    $75.00
    Philadelphia & NY: Lippincott (1968). First edition. 192 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a small scuff and short tear to rear panel. Laid into this copy is a TLS from a Lippincott editor presenting this copy to Kay Boyle. Young 4279*.
  • “A” - 14.
    ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
    $125.00
    London: Turret Books (1967). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 61 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine. One of 250 (of 275) numbered copies SIGNED by Zukofsky.
  • Some Time.
    ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
    $450.00
    Stuttgart: Jonathan Williams, 1956. First edition. [70 pp]. Gentle bend to upper corner, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers, bound in the Japanese style. Lacks unprinted acetate jacket. Issued as Jargon 15, in a regular edition of 300 copies. LZ's 6th publication. SIGNED by Zukofsky on the first leaf in red ink, with the additions, “1956? / with [...] / London 5/26/69.”
  • Empty Elevator Shaft.
    [ACKER, Kathy]. Leary, Bruce. ed.
    $45.00
    San Francisco: Empty Elevator Shaft Press [c 1973]. 63 pp. A few light spots to front cover, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Three prose poems by Acker, along with work by Eigner, Gitin, Potts, Mariah, Voelcker, and many others. The first and only issue.
  • The Allen Press Bibliography mcmlxxxi produced by hand with art work, sample pages from previous editions.
    [ALLEN PRESS]. Allen, Lewis M.
    $75.00
    San Francisco: Book Club of California (1985). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1981). Folio. 114 pp w/index. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 750 copies. Additions to date, including a checklist of ephemera.
  • Tel Hai 80 Contemporary Art Meeting.
    [ANDERSON, Laurie. et al].
    $20.00
    Upper Galilee: Regional Council/Tel Hai College (1980). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Listed participants include Giancarlo Politi, Germano Celant, Alice Aycock, Laurie Anderson, Allan Kaprow, Vito Accconci, and several others. Text entirely in Hebrew.
  • Beyond Words: Artists’ Books.
    [ARTISTS’ BOOKS].
    $40.00
    Sewanee: University Art Gallery (2006). First edition. 63 pp. Some light soiling to unprinted front cover, else very near fine in wrappers. One of 500 copies. A profusely color illustrated exhibition catalogue.
  • Artspace Books (complete set).
    [ARTSPACE].
    $500.00
    San Francisco: Artspace Books (1992-2006). First editions. Fifteen volumes, all fine in illustrated boards (exceptions noted below). A vibrant series of prose works paired with art in a (mostly) uniform format. The contributors : David Wojnarowicz, Dennis Cooper & Nayland Blake (bump to lower corners), Jim Lewis & Jack Pierson (light band of sunning to rear cover), Klaus Kertess & Nan Goldin, Carlo McCormick & Tony Labat, A.M. Homes, Guillermo Gómez-Pena & Enrique Chagoya, Zoe Leonard & Cheryl Dunye, Moody, Steinke, Oates, Morrow & Gregory Crewdson (lower corners tapped), Dave Hickey & John Defazio, Ben Marcus & Matthew Ritchie (price sticker on rear cover), Heidi Julavits & Jenny Gage, Jonathan Raymond & Justine Kurland, Rebecca Solnit & Stefan Kürten, and the volume ARTSPACE WAS, ARTSPACE IS. For the collection:
  • Conversations with Auden.
    [AUDEN, W.H.]. Griffin, Howard.
    $45.00
    San Francisco: Gray Fox Press (1981). First edition. 120 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with two short tears. Transcriptions of eight conversations dated from the late 1940s and early 1950s when Auden was living on Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village.
  • Francis Bacon.
    [BACON, Francis]. Gowing, Lawrence and Sam Hunter.
    $45.00
    NY & Washington DC: Thames and Hudson/Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1989). First edition. 4to. 187 pp w/select bibliography. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Forward by James T. Demetrion. Ninety-six illustrations, including 83 color plates and 10 fold-outs. Published on the occasion of Bacon’s 80th birthday, and a major retrospective in the US.
  • J.G. Ballard: The First Twenty Years.
    [BALLARD, J.G.]. Goddard, James and David Pringle. eds.
    $35.00
    Hayes: Bran’s Head Books (1976). First trade paperback printing. 76 + [24 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Illustrated by Carol Gregory. Contributions by Aldiss, Pringle, Moorcock, Watson, and Peter Linnett. The volume concludes with a bibliography by John Carnell, with an introduction by Ballard.
  • Re/Search No. 8/9: J.G. Ballard.
    [BALLARD, J.G.]. Vale & Andrea Juno. eds.
    $350.00
    San Francisco: Re/Search Publishing (1984). First edition. 4to. 171 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Collects interviews, fiction, non-fiction, bibliography, and more. SIGNED by Ballard opposite the contents page. Uncommon thus.
  • Homage to George Barker on his Sixtieth Birthday.
    [BARKER, George]. Heath-Stubbs, John and Martin Green. eds.
    $75.00
    London: Martin Brian & O’Keeffe (1973). First edition. 93 pp w/bibliography. Fine in full cloth and matching publisher’s slipcase. One of 250 (of 275) numbered copies. Contributions by Gascoyne, Ginsberg, Liddy, Geoffrey Hill, Peter Levi, C.H. Sisson, and many others.
  • Photography at the Bauhaus.
    [BAUHAUS]. Fiedler, Jeannine. ed.
    $150.00
    Cambridge: MIT Press (1990). First US edition. 4to. 362 pp w/appendixes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Over 400 images drawn from the Bauhaus-Archiv, a wealth of essays, and documentary biographies of every Bauhaus photographer.