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61.
[MAIL ART]. Crane, Michael and Mary Stofflet, eds.
Correspondence Art: Source Book for the Network of International Postal Art Activity.

San Francisco: Contemporary Arts Press, 1984.

First edition. xxi + 522 pp w/index. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. The first comprehensive anthology offering a historical overview, primary documentation, and reproductions of works produced by the artists. Uncommon.
$150

62.
MALANGA, Gerard.
can it be, the 22nd already...

(np): Éditions Objets Trouvés, 1994.

First edition. Small folio. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers, laid into an unprinted white folder (near fine) as issued. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Malanga (along with four proofs, the entire edition). The fourth in a series of mailings produced by Malanga under this imprint.
$200

63.
MALANGA, Gerard.
Cinéma parlant / Talking Pictures.

(np): Gerard Malanga (1993).

First edition. 4to. [97 pp]. Very near fine in screw-bound stamped red wrappers. SIGNED by Malanga on the title page. One of 75 numbered copies. A screenplay.
$125

64.
McCLURE, Joanna.
Extended Love Poem.

Berkeley: Arif Press, 1978.

First edition. 33 pp. Fine in paste paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 100 copies on Imago handmade paper. Eleven poems.
$75

65.
MELO NETO, Joao Cabral de.
der hund ohne federn.

Stuttgart: Max Bense & Elisabeth Walther (1964).

First German edition. 16mo. [24 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Afterword by Haroldo de Campos. Text all in German. Rot Text #14.
$75

66.
MEYER, Ursula.
Conceptual Art.

NY: Dutton, 1972.

First edition. xx + 227 pp. A few light reading creases to spine, else near fine in printed wrappers; a trade paperback original. Works by Acconci, Baldessari, Dibbets, LeWitt, Nauman, Perreault, Ruscha, Weiner, and many others collected.
$40

67.
MYLES, Eileen.
Skies: Poems.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 2001.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 213 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Myles. This is copy #1.
$75

68.
O’NEILL, Dan.
Odd Bodkins.

(np): (np) (c. 1965).

First edition. Horizontal 64mo. [140 pp]. Trivial soiling to rear cover, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Art Hoppe introduces this first collection of cartoons by O’Neill. Dated (3/3/66) and SIGNED by O’Neill inside the front cover. Uncommon. OCLC locates only 1 copy.
$450

69.
OLDENBURG, Claes.
Injun.

NY: Claes Oldenburg, 1962.

First edition. 28 x 22 inch poster, printed in two colors on heavy stock. Near fine with a faint dampstain along left edge. Published to advertise the performance of Oldenburg’s INJUN at The Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts. Uncommon.
$3500

70.
OLDENBURG, Claes.
Stars: A Farce for Objects.

Baltimore: Claes Oldenburg [1963].

First edition. 28 ½ x 22 inch poster, printed in four colors on heavy stock. Shallow wrinkle to top edge, else near fine. Promotional poster for this performance at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art.
$3500

71.
OLDENBURG, Claes.
The Store.

NY: Claes Oldenburg [1961].

First edition. 27 x 22 inch poster printed in two colors on light cardstock. Trivial soiling and toning, faint dampstain along right-hand edge; in all, near fine. Advertising poster for the store Oldenburg ran for the month of December in 1961. Uncommon.
$5500

72.
OLSON, Charles.
Charles Olson Reads from Maximus Poems IV, V, VI.

NY: Folkways (1975).

First edition. Corners lightly tapped, else fine. Still sealed. Produced, edited and recorded by Barry Miles. Cover photograph of Olson by Gerard Malanga. Folkways Records FL 9738.
$125

73.
[PALACE OF THE LEGION OF HONOR].
Illusionism & Tromp L’Oeil.

San Francisco: Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1949.

First edition. Small 4to. 78 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards with die-cut front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. Foreword by Thomas Carr Howell, essays by Jermayne MacAgy, Alfred Frakenstein, and Douglas MacAgy. Illustrated with b&w reproductions.
$35

74.
[PARIS 1968 MAY]. Kahn, Gilbert.
Paris a brule.

Paris: Del Duca/Paris Jour (1968).

First edition. 4to. Small ownership label to first leaf, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Photographs by Pierre Juillet, Christian Joubert, and Michel Hermans. Street-level action.
$40

75.
[PEOPLE’S PARK].
Telegraph Avenue Liberation Front Manual.

[Berkeley]: TALF, 1969.

First edition. Single sheet folded once to make a booklet. Fine. The first of at least a half-dozen issues. In addition to a statement of purpose by the editors on the rear cover, the issue presents a poem by Ariel, advice on medical essentials one should carry to a protest, and statements of dissatisfaction.
$35

76.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Lucie-Smith, Edward. ed.
The Liverpool Scene: Recorded Live Along the Mersey Beat.

London: Donald Carroll (1967).

First edition. Horizontal 8vo. 80 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards; no dust jacket, as issued. Statement by Allen Ginsberg on the rear cover, “Liverpool is at the present moment the centre of the consciousness of the human universe.” Photographs of and poems by Roger McGough, Pete Brown, Adrian Henri, Brian Patten, Spike Hawkins, Henry Graham, and Mike Evans. Accompanying this copy is an invitation for the publication party, to which is affixed two pinback buttons promoting the book.
$100

77.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Rosener, Ann. ed.
Sunday Collection: Thirty twentieth-century poems about Sunday.

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.
$60

78.
POND, Mimi.
Half Off.

Berkeley: Rebis Press (1981).

First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Bound in clear flexible plastic, pink fishnet, and bathing cap. Stories by Pond with illustrations. Designed, printed, and bound by Pond with Betsy Davids. One of 115 numbered copies on Rives SIGNED by Ponds and Davids.
$150

79.
[POUND, Ezra].
Ezra Pound at Seventy.

Norfolk: New Directions [1956].

First edition. 32mo. [12 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers (a bit rubbed). Cover portrait of Pound by [Sheri] Martinelli. Contributions by Auden, cummings, Eliot, Hemingway, Macleish, Martins, Marianne Moore, Norman H. Pearson, Spender, Edith Sitwell. Concludes with a list of Pound titles then in print. INSCRIBED on the title page by Sheri Martinelli, “To MS from SM.”
$45

80.
RAGLUS, Jeff.
Jeff Raglus Fine Art Sticker Pack.

[Melbourne: Jeff Raglus, 2012].

First edition. Thirteen bold stickers in the original printed string-tied Kraft paper envelope. Fine. One of 450 numbered copies SIGNED by Raglus on an enclosed “Certificate of Ownership” card. Raglus is an active musician, painter, and member of the Mambo Design team.
$50

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