21.
CONNELL, Evan S. and Robert Therrien.
Mesa Verde.
NY: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1992.

First edition. Tall 4to. [24 pp]. Fine in full vellum, stamped in gold. Very near fine publisher’s clamshell case. Binding by Claudia Cohen. Connell’s text with an original watercolor and an etching by Therrien. One of 105 (of 150) numbered copies SIGNED in full by Connell and inititaled by Therrien. The tenth book in the Artists and Writers Series.
$1000 –SOLD–

22.
COTTON, John and Heinke Jenkins.
Priapus #7: Poems and Linographics by John Cotton and Heinke Jenkins.
Berkhamsted: Priapus, 1966/1967.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. Small 4to. 15 pp. Offsetting to verso of rear cover else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 20 numbered copies SIGNED by Cotton. Fourteen poems with seven illustrations (including the cover art).
$50

23.
CREELEY, Robert and Ted Berrigan.
Think of Anything.
[NY]: Hard Press (1977).

First edition. 5 ³ ⁄ 8 x 4 ½ inch card, printed in black on yellow paper. An uncommon poemcard.
$75 –SOLD–

24.
CROSBY, Harry.
Shadows of the Sun: The Diaries of Harry Crosby.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977.

First edition. 304 pp w/notes & index-glossary. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 1300 copies. Illustrated with 12 pp of photographs.
$55

25.
CUMMING, Robert.
The Weight of Franchise Meat.
Orange County: Robert Cumming 1971.

First edition. [16 pp]. Horizontal 12mo. Some light discolorations to front cover, else near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. A+W, Big Boy, Buddy’s, Burger King, Carl’s Jr. Denny’s, Heinz, Jack in the Box, McDonald’s, and Punky’s best get put to the scales in this series of b&w photographs. Parr & Badger v. 2, pp 146-7.
$750 –SOLD–

26.
CUTTS, Simon.
odéon océon.
London: Coracle Press, 1982.

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers, laid into a stiff hardcover folder (also fine). One of 200 copies. Visual and concrete poems.
–SOLD– $25

27.
DE KOONING, Willem.
Ten Works 1936–1974.
NY: Paul Thiebaud Gallery – New York, 2005.

First edition. [42 pp]. Fine in full yellow cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Ten full-color reproductions, with an essay by Donald Kuspit. Published on the occasion of the 2005 opening of the Paul Thiebaud Gallery in NY. Publisher’s compliments slip laid in.
$35

28.
DENNER, Richard.
Word.
Ketchikan: D-Press (1968).

First edition. 12mo. [12 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. One of a series of small books published by Denner combining tipped-on print illustrations with a short text. SIGNED by Denner in pencil on the front free endpaper.
–SOLD– $45

29.
DUNN, Joe and Jess.
The Better Dream House.
San Francisco: White Rabbit (1968).

First edition. [32 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art and collage illustrations throughout by Jess. 1000 copies printed. Johnston A41.
$45 –SOLD–

30.
EATON, Manford L.
Bio-Music.
Barton: Something Else Press, 1974.

First edition. 32mo. 65 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a paperback original. According to the bibliography, c. 500 copies printed. The preface opens, “Bio-Music... is a class of electronic systems that use biological potentials in feedback loops to induce powerful, predictable, repeatable, psysiological/psychological states which can be elegantly controlled in real time.”
$25

31.
EVANS, Walker.
American Photographs.
NY: Museum of Modern Art (1938).

First edition. 198 pp. Near fine in full black cloth with some light wear to base and crown of spine. Spine label is toned, and a bit worn in one corner. Lacks dust jacket. Errata slip present. Lincoln Kirstein provides a concluding essay. Roth 101, Parr & Badger.
$350

32.
FAGIN, Larry and Anne Waldman writing as “The Little Red Hen.”
The Little Red Hen.
(np): Little Red Hen Press (1970).

First edition. 4to. [8 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 40 (of 50) copies. SIGNED by Fagin on the title page.
–SOLD– $200

33.
FAULKNER, William.
Idyll in the Desert.
NY: Random House 1931.

First edition. 17 pp. Sunning and wear along spine and upper edges, else very good plus in paper-covered boards with printed spine label. Neat inked ownership name to front free endpaper, lacks the unprinted glassine dust jacket. One of 400 numbered copies SIGNED by Faulkner. The first appearance of this short story.
$850

34.
FEDERMAN, David.
After Spicer.
(np): Mother Asphodel (1966).

First edition. 48mo. [12 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. An almost miniature presentation of this poem by Federman, nicely printed in two colors.
$20

35.
FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence.
Brainwashed Poet.
San Francisco: Sore Dove (2007).

First edition. Two 5 x 4 inch sheets housed in a labeled folder with an elastic closure. All elements fine. Ferlinghetti’s poem, paired with an original painting by publisher Soheyl Dahi. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Ferlinghetti and Dahi. Picketpocket Poem & Art Series Number One.
$75 –SOLD–

36.
FINCH, Peter.
Antarktika.
London: Writers Forum (1973).

First edition. [20 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. A concrete poem, issued as Writers Forum ‘fives’ number 3.
–SOLD– $45

37.
FINCH, Peter.
Beyond the Silence.
Cardiff: Vertigo, 1970.

First edition. [12 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Concrete poems, some of which appeared earlier in Quickest Way Out, Stereo Headphones, Pause, sld, and tEXt.
$15

38.
FISHER, Allen.
Bavuska Or The Rub; The Rubber Or Gretta’s Bust; the rubble/rubato/rubbing/rubbish/rubicund/rubric: random selections from Allen Fisher’s simultaneous novels.
London: Big Venus (1969).

First edition. 19 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of a half-dozen or so titles published by Big Venus, in addition to the four issue run of their eponymous little mag.
$40

39.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Mind Writing Slogans.
Boise: Limberlost Press, 1994.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [18 pp]. Fine full red cloth with pasted on cover and spine labels. Fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Ginsberg. Eighty-four short slogans by Ginsberg and a host of others from Kerouac to Chuang Tzu.
$200

40.
GIOIA, Dana.
Daily Horoscope.
[Iowa City]: Windhover Press (1982).

First edition. [20 pp]. A hint of sunning along spine, else fine in wrappers with printed spine. Linoleum cut frontis by Thomas Kovacs. One of 225 copies on Windhover paper. Gioia’s first book.
–SOLD– $100

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