81.
RADIGUET, Raymond.
Count d’Orgel’s Ball.
Hygiene: Eridanos Press (1989).

First printing of this edition. xv + 174 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Jean Cocteau. Translated from the original French by Annapaola Cancogni. Eridanos Library 15.
$35

82.
REZNIKOFF, Charles.
By the Well of Living and Seeing & The Fifth Book of the Maccabees.
NY: [Charles Reznikoff] 1969.

First edition. 109 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. One of a number of privately-published books by Reznikoff.
$35

83.
REZNIKOFF, Charles.
Testimony; the United States (1891–1900).
NY: [Charles Reznikoff] 1968.

First edition. 206 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. An earlier portion of this sequence, 1885–1890 was published by New Directions/San Francisco Review in 1965.
$45

84.
[RICHTER, Gerhard].
Gerhard Richter: March 1985.
NY: Marian Goodman/Sperone Westwater (1985).

First edition. [28 pp]. Very near fine in wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Benjamin H.D. Buchlock contributes an introductory essay to this exhibition catalogue which features color reproductions of fifteen works.
$35

85.
[SERENDIPITY BOOKS]. Johnston, Alastair M.
Serendipitous Books: A Memoir of Peter B. Howard.
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 2014.

Second edition, first revised state. 41 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Ian Jackson. Words by two who knew Peter well.
$15

86.
SHER, Gail.
Cops.
[Albany]: Little Dinosaur (1988).

First edition. [50 pp]. Fine in Japanese-style string-bound wrappers. One of 225 (of 250) copies. Briefly INSCRIBED by Sher on the title page. A poem sequence
$35

87.
SPICER, Jack.
The Red Wheelbarrow.
Berkeley: Arif Press, 1971.

First edition, numbered issue. [28 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 25 numbered copies with a frontispiece hand-colored and SIGNED by Wesley Tanner.
$500

88.
SPOERRI, Daniel.
an anecdoted topography of chance (Re-Anecdoted Version).
NY: Something Else Press, 1966.

First trade paperback printing. 214 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. “Done with the help of his very dear friend Robert Filliou and Translated from the French, and further anecdoted at random by their very dear friend Emmett Williams with One Hundred Reflective Illustrations by Topor.”
$35

89.
STANFORD, Frank.
The Light the Dead See: The Selected Poems of Frank Stanford.
Fayetteville & London: University of Arkansas Press, 1991.

First edition. xv + 111 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited, with an introduction by Leon Stokesbury. Ginny Crouch Stanford’s painting “The Light the Dead See” reproduced on the front cover.
$50

90.
STANFORD, Frank.
The Literature: Preview.
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas (1970).

First edition. 56 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with some light discoloration to rear panel. As well as being associate editor, Stanford contributes four poems: Elegy for My Father, Remembering the Odor in the Jewish Dentist’s House, The Gospel Bird, and The Albino. Memorable too, for the contributors’ note section, “Frank Stanford: an undergraduate Frank thinks, ‘most of the people in this book, and most of the people in this school, are tight-assed honkies.’”
$125

91.
VIRILIO, Paul.
The Art of the Motor.
Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press (1995).

First US edition. 168 pp w/index. Very near fine in stamped boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated from the original French by Julie Rose.
$40

92.
VIRILIO, Paul and Claude Parent.
Architecture Principe 1966 and 1996.
Besancon & Santa Monica: Les Éditions de L’Imprimeur/Form Zero Editions (1997).

First edition. 192 + xxvii pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by George Collins. A facsimile of the nine issues of 1966 and the tenth and last issue of 1996.
$50

93.
WELCH, Lew.
How I Work as a Poet & Other Essays / Plays / Stories.
Bolinas: Gray Fox Press, 1973.

First trade paperback printing. viii + 139 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Edited and with an introduction by Donald Allen.
$35

94.
WELCH, Lew.
Not the Bronze Casket But the Brazen Wing.
Berkeley: Sand Dollar [1970].

First edition. 4 ¼ x 7 ¼ inch postcard. Fine. Publication annoucement for their expanded edition of THE SONG MT TAMALPAIS SINGS.
$20

95.
WELCH, Lew.
Wobbly Rock.
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1960.

First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Welch’s first book, a long poem with a drawing by Robert LaVigne. One of 500 copies. SIGNED by Welch inside the front cover.
$500

96.
WHALEN, Philip.
Nobody listening to You? Stop yakking.
San Francisco: Philip Whalen, 1965.

First edition. 11 x 8 ½ inch flyer. Very near fine. The text continues, “If we STOP Everyone will know: We want peace & quiet & liberty for all.” A general plea for “Gentle Thursday” with additional advice: stay home from school, don’t buy or sell anything, don’t do anything... Lepper p. 420.
$50

97.
WIENERS, John.
Ace of Pentacles.
NY: James F. Carr & Robert A. Wilson, 1964.

First trade edition. 72 pp. Small smudge to fore-edge, else near fine in gilt-stamped blue cloth, lacking the unprinted tissue dust jacket. Wieners’ second book. Between the poems “The Pool of Light” and “The Windows of Waltham” this copy is INSCRIBED by Wieners to the publisher of his first book of poems, Dave Haselwood, “To Dave and / Rhine Castle wine, / love, John / John 1965.” The second “John” has been crossed-out. Laid in is the printed label from bottle of Paul Masson Rhine Castle wine. Wieners’ inscription is below the line, “O Switzerland, O Schön castle, o land across / the Rhine.”
$200

98.
[WIENERS, John]. Temple, John.
Source of Desire: On John Wieners’ ‘Cocaine.’
[Oeudeghien]: Frasnes-lez-Anvaing, 2013.

First edition. 34 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Additional “notes” sheet accompanies as issued.
$20

99.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
Aggie Westons No. 18: Ten Photographs.
Belper: Stuart Mills (1982).

First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Entire issue devoted to Williams’ b&w portrait photographs of Olson, Du Plessis Gray & Oppenheimer, Creeley & Rice, Lou Harrison, Duncan, Patchen, Rexroth, Finlay, Joyce’s gravestone, and Bunting.
$30

100.
WINTON, Tim.
Minimum of Two and Other Stories.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson (1988).

First UK edition. 153 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
$20

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