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  • Nam June Paik September 11 - October 24.
    [PAIK, Nam June and Charlotte Moorman].
    $25.00
    Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1982. First edition. 9 x 4 inch printed card. Fine. Illustrated with Peter Moore’s photograph of V-yramid and Tom Haar’s photograph of Moorman playing Paik’s TV Cello while wearing TV Glasses.
  • Video Performance.
    [PAIK, Nam June and Charlotte Moorman].
    $50.00
    Lake Placid: Center for Music, Drama and Art [1976]. First edition. 20 x 12 1/2 inch poster, folded twice for mailing with a Nonprofit Org. postage stamp on the verso. Fine. Paik appeared on 3 August showing videotapes, and then on 7 August in performance with Moorman.
  • Fish Flies On the Sky.
    [PAIK, Nam June].
    $20.00
    NY: Bonino in Soho, 1976. First edition. 4 3/16 x 5 7/8 inch printed card. Fine.
  • Nam June Paik: The Grand Dada of Video.
    [PAIK, Nam June].
    $35.00
    NY: Electronic Arts Intermix (1982). First edition. Single large sheet folded twice (11 1/8 x 8 5/8 inches, closed). Fine. Front panel image, “Electronic Zen with Tri-Color Moon,” 1967, photograph by Bernard Gotfryd. Celebrating Paik’s association with the Howard Wise Gallery and Electronic Arts, announcing his one-man show at the Whitney (April 30-June 27), and the retrospective presented by WNET/CH 13, “On the Air,” featuring performances by Ginsberg, Kaprow, Cunningham, and Charlotte Moorman. Paik and Moorman both pictured.
  • Cantrills Filmnotes No. 20.
    [PAIK, Nam June]. Cantrill, Arthur and Corrine. eds.
    $20.00
    Melbourne: Cantrills Filmnotes, 1974. December. Oblong 8vo. 39 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Issue features an interview with Nam June Paik on his TV Opera, with stills from “Global Groove” on the front and back covers, and five internal pages.
  • The New Figurative Art of David Park.
    [PARK, David]. Mills, Paul.
    $35.00
    Santa Barbara: Capra Press (1988). First edition. 128 pp. Very near fine in glossy wrappers. Illustrated with color and b&w reproductions.
  • San Francisco Tribute to Kenneth Patchen.
    [PATCHEN, Kenneth].
    $85.00
    San Francisco: Auerhahn Press 1961. First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. In addition to a poem picture by Patchen, the full schedule is detailed. Kenneth Rexroth, Mike McClure, James Broughton, Jonathan Williams, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and many others participated.
  • Outsider 4 & 5.
    [PATCHEN, Kenneth]. Webb, Gypsy Lou & Jon. eds.
    $200.00
    Tucson: Outsider Press (1969). First edition, hardcover issue. 191 pp. Very near fine in illustrated paper-covered boards. Near fine delicate printed paper dust jacket with some wear to base of spine and tips of lower flap folds. One of 500 hardcover copies with a pressed flora picked “inside a mile of Geronimo’s grave.” Special 46 page section devoted to Patchen, with tributes by Antoninus, Ginsberg, Norse, Rexroth, Bern Porter, Ferlinghetti, and many others. Work also by Kaprow, Edson, Bukowski, Levertov, levy, Merton, Kryss, Mac Low, Kay Johnson, Ray Johnson, and many more.
  • A Utopia.
    [PENUMBRA PRESS]. Carlile, Phoebe with Lee Schwartzman.
    $35.00
    [Lisbon]: Penumbra Press (1983). First edition. [6 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 175 numbered copies on Frankfurt White paper. Carlile’s prose vision with two drawings by Schwartzman. A new year’s greeting from the Press.
  • Benefits for People’s Park.
    [PEOPLE’S PARK].
    $150.00
    Berkeley & San Francisco: People’s Park People [c 1969]. First edition. 11 x 8 1/2 inch flyer. Fine. Three events, featuring Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Country Joe and the Fish, and many others. Uncommon, as are many of these more humble announcements, less often kept than the psychedelic posters.
  • Spiyt th’words: Rereading Pettibon’s Twitter.
    [PETTIBON, Raymond]. Durbin, Andrew.
    $40.00
    NY: David Zwirner Books (2018). First edition. 102 pp w/list of works. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A number of color reproductions precede Durbin’s dissection of Pettibon’s prolific Twitter activity.
  • Charlie Hotel.
    [PETTIBON, Raymond]. The Solvents.
    $25.00
    Bradenton:Refuge Records (1995). First pressing. Fine 7” single in a very good folded sleeve that is lightly toned and has some wear along the top edge. Pettibon’s work first appeared on a 7” single in 1979 (Black Flag’s Nervous Breakdown).
  • Order of Appearance.
    [PHOTOGRAPHY]. Jacoy, Jim.
    $60.00
    [Oakland]: TDW Books (2017). First edition. 4to. [84 pp]. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Color photographs, 1977-1980 in San Francisco, most of folks in and around the Mabuhay Gardens punk scene. Though not called for in this issue, SIGNED by Jacoy. New, at publication price:
  • Picabia.
    [PICABIA]. Borràs, Maria Lluïsa.
    $250.00
    London: Thames & Hudson (1985). First UK edition. 4to. 549 pp w/bibliography. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Illustrated with 1153 images, 226 of which are in color.
  • Painting the Clouds. J. Martin Pitts (1939-2002): a book of his images with a transcript of his last journal.
    [PITTS, J. Martin]. McDowall, Nicholas. ed.
    $75.00
    Llandogo: Old Stile Press (2002). First edition. [84 pp]. Fine in full orange cloth with gold stamping to spine and front cover. Fine printed paper vellum dust jacket. Introduction by Chris Newett. Pitts’ linocuts, printed in several colors, paired with texts. One of 150 numbered copies on Somerset Book paper SIGNED by Newitt and McDowall.
  • Saul Marks and the Plantin Press: The Life & Work of a Singular Man.
    [PLANTIN PRESS]. Marks, Lillian.
    $150.00
    Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1980. First edition. xxi + 194 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Lillian Marks.
  • City Lights Pocket Poets Series 1955-2005.
    [POCKET POETS]. Heneghan, Donald H.
    $25.00
    NY: Groiler Club, 2005. First edition. 47 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Catalogue for this exhibition of items from the Heneghan collection, including the first 56 pocket poets volumes.
  • Cold Mountain Press Poetry Post Card Series Two.
    [POEMCARDS].
    $75.00
    Austin: Cold Mountain Press (1974). First edition. Ten 5 x 6 1/2 inch poemcards, all fine, housed in a folded broadside presenting a section from THE ENDLESS SHORT STORY by Ron Sukenick. Occasional illustrations by Rochelle Holt, Gretchen Reed, and the “old fisherman.” Work by Gregory Orr, Frances Thronson, Ryan Petty, Joseph Bruchac, Kabir translated by Robert Bly, Diane Wakoski, Allen Ginsberg, Wendell Berry, Michael Delp, and Douglas Blazek.
  • Cold Mountain Press Poetry Post Cards.
    [POEMCARDS].
    $75.00
    Austin: Cold Mountain Press (1973). First edition. Ten 6 1/2 x 5 inch letterpress poemcards, all fine, housed in a folded broadside presenting Robert Bly’s translation of Neruda’s poem “Ode to Some Yellow Flowers.” Work by James Tipton, William Stafford, Peter Wild, Linda Pastan, Donald Hall, Ray Lindquist, John Haines, Thomas F. Sexton, Denise Levertov, and Terry Stokes.
  • Eight Northwest Poets.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
    $750.00
    Portland: Portland Art Museum (1959). First editions. Eight flyers, each folded three times vertically (10 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches, closed). All near fine or better with a bit of discoloration to the upper corner of the Kizer volume, and some toning to Stafford. The eight poets are John Haislip, Carol Hall, Kenneth O. Hanson, Robert Huff, Richard Hugo, Carolyn Kizer, William Stafford, and David Wagoner, each contributing a selection of poems with a cover image by a visual artist in the show, “Paitings and Sculptures of the Pacific Northwest.” For the collection:
  • No Known Pattern: Twelve Poems.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
    $150.00
    Louisville: American Voice, 1989. First edition. [64 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with sewn binding. One of 50 numbered copies (the entire hardcover edition) on Iyo paper. A poem each by Peggy Steele, Denise Levertov, Sandra McPherson, Ruth Whitman, Gwen Head, Jo Carson, Jane Wilson Kaufman, Ann Kilkelly, Catherine Sutton, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and George Ella Lyon.
  • Selected Language Poems.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
    $45.00
    Chengdu: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House, 1993. First edition. 178 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Chinese translations by Ziqing Zhang and Yunte Huang, followed by English originals by Charles Bernstein, Hank Lazer, and James Sherry.
  • 10 Poets 10 Poems.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Bradbury, O.G. ed.
    $35.00
    London: Graphix Press/Ealing School of Art (1971). First edition. [56 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies on Glastonbury Antique Laid paper, designed by Christopher Belson and Christopher Wellington, and printed letterpress. The ten poets are W.H. Auden, Charles Causley, Laurence Durrell, Ted Hughes, Ted Jones, Christopher Logue, W.S. Merwin, Louis Simpson, J. Wain, and Eric W. White.
  • Poetry at the Edge: Five Contemporary California Poets.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Campbell, Carolee. ed.
    $200.00
    San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2014. First edition. 49 pp. Fine paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Illustrated with two photographs by Campbell, who also designed this book. One of 300 numbered copies on Zerkall Frankfurt paper SIGNED by contributors Joseph Stroud, Kay Ryan, Gary Young, Martha Ronk, and Michael Hannon.
  • Modern Italian Poets.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Guenther, Charles . trans.
    $50.00
    San Francisco: Inferno Press [1961]. First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Translations of poems by Betocchi, Carrieri, De Libero, Fassolo, Fiorentino, Parranchi, Fisi, Sharbaro, Solmi, Valeri, and Quasimodo. The work of each poet is preceded by a short biography. Inferno Press Editions #32.
  • Four Ukrainian Poets.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Luckyj, S.N. ed.
    $25.00
    Quixote, 1969. Spring. 83 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Edited by Luckyk, with his introduction. Translations by Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak and Danylo S. Struck. Original Ukranian poems with facing English Translations. Ivan Drach, Vitaliy Korotych, Lina Kostenko, and Vasyl Symonenko presented.
  • Bookmark Poems.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Nangle, Julian. ed.
    $35.00
    [Dorcheser]: Words Press, 2015. First edition. Twelve 8 1/4 x 2 1/4 inch bookmarks. Fine. A bookmark per poet, most printed in two colors. New poems by Brian Patten, Wendy Cope, Jeremy Reed, Iain Sinclair, Roger McHough, Ruth Fainlight, A.F. Harrold, Jenny Joseph, David Harsent, Lachlan Mackinnon, Michael Horowitz, and Andrew Motion.
  • Bottle 3: Broadsides.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Roberts, Bill. ed.
    $125.00
    Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press (2005). First edition, lettered & signed issue. Twenty 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch broadsides laid into a printed folder. Fine. First appearance of Bukowski's poem, "Coffee and Babies." Also work by Henry Denander, S. A. Griffin, Richard Krech, Gerald Locklin, and others. One of 26 lettered sets SIGNED by all contributors, excepting Bukowski.
  • Sunday Collection: Thirty twentieth-century poems about Sunday.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Rosener, Ann. ed.
    $60.00
    Woodside: Occasional Works, 1995. First edition. 54 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and printed spine label. One of 100 numbered copies on Rives paper. Poems on Sunday by Gioia, Young, Bishop, Auden, Riding, Stevens, Larkin, Berryman, Eliot, Bowers, Clampitt, Levertov, Walcott, Snyder, Rich, Olds, Graves and many others. A wonderful collection, both in form and content. Original prospectus accompanies.
  • The Blue Moustache; Some Futurist Poems.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Stefanile, Felix. trans.
    $75.00
    New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press (1980). First edition. 58 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. Fine publisher’s cardstock slipcase. One of 100 copies on Magnani rag paper. Poems translated from the original Italian by Stefanile, with his introduction. Wrok by Altomare, Buzzi, Cavacchioli, D’Alba, Folgore, Govoni, Lucini, Manzella-Frontini, Marinetti, Palazzeschi, and Soffici.
  • The Kilpeck Anthology.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Storhaug, Glenn. ed.
    $30.00
    Madley: Five Seasons Press, 1981. First edition. Small 4to. 53 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems by Adcock, Halsey, Heaney, B.S. Johnson, Merchant, Mottram, Turnbull, and others. Illustrations by Furnival, Halsey, Nuttall, and more.
  • Peacocks and Poets.
    [POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Wadsworth, Clifford. et al, eds.
    $75.00
    Northampton: Northampton Literature Group (1971). First edition. 4to. 22 pp. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Nina Carroll. One of 100 numbered copies. Poems by competition winners and participants, together with the work of invited poets.