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81.
SPICER, Jack.
The Red Wheelbarrow.

[Berkeley]: Arif Press, 1971.

First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 500 copies designed and printed by Wesley Tanner. Original two color printed prospectus accompanies.
$45

82.
STEIN, Gertrude.
Money.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.

First edition, numbered issue. [26 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with US dollar bill mounted to front cover. Fine acetate dust jacket. Foreword by John Martin, Barbara Martin, and Seamus Cooney. One of 100 numbered copies. Morrow & Cooney 164.
$200

83.
TAYLOR, Elizabeth.
Palladian.

NY: Knopf, 1947.

First US edition. 240 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Taylor’s second novel.
$200

84.
[TOOLS]. Tuttle, Edward F. ed.
The Tool as Object.

Los Angeles: Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1976.

First edition. Small 4to. [40 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 1900 copies printed at the Poltroon Press. Sixteen b&w photographic plates.
$25

85.
WALLACE, David Foster.
The Broom of the System.

NY: Viking/Penguin Books (1987).

Uncorrected proof. 463 pp. Fine in printed blue wrappers. The uncommon advance copy of Wallace’s first book. Precedes the simultaneously published cloth and paperback first editions, as well as the advance reading copy. One of the scarcest items in the Wallace canon.
$7500

86.
WALSH, Zack.
Points in Time.

Los Angeles: Press Baza (1963).

First edition. [40 pp]. Light toning along spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 numbered copies. Poems with two b&w reproductions of artworks, from the press of Robert Alexander (Temple of Man).
$27.50

87.
WEIL, James L.
After All, Aleksis, Perfectly Yours, There Was, To Her Hand, Uneasy, Uses.

New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press (1969–1977).

First editions. Seven 4 x 3 inch chapbooks by Weil, each fine in wrappers and integral dust jackets, some with pasted on cover labels. Printed in editions ranging from 100 to 500 copies, printed either at Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, or Genichido in Kyoto. For the collection:
$200

88.
WELCH, Denton.
I Left My Grandfather’s House.

London: Alison & Busby (1984).

First printing of this edition (originally published in 1958). 156 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Introduction by Michael De-La-Noy.
$45

89.
WELTY, Eudora.
Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace.

Jackson: Mississippi Historical Society, 1975.

First edition. 27 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 1000 copies on Linweave Text paper. A paper read by Welty at the annual dinner meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society in Jackson on 7 March 1975.
$75

90.
WHALEN, Philip.
notebooks (1957–1966).

NY: Nijinsky Suicide Health Club (2009).

First edition. 4to. [24 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 150 copies.
$40

91.
WHALEN, Philip.
Prose [Out] Takes.

[Berkeley]: Poltroon Press, 2002.

First edition. Oblong 32mo. [18 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 260 copies.
$50

92.
WIENERS, John.
Kidnap Notes Next: Selected Notebook Entries 1988–1999.

Boston: Pressed Wafer, 2002.

First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers.
$25

93.
WIENERS, John.
A New Book from Rome.

Lowell: Bootstrap Press, 2010.

First edition. 158 pp. Fine in gilt-decorated boards with bound-in ribbon place marker. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 258 numbered copies. Wieners’ journal from July 1969 to January 1970. Five bits of printed ephemera laid in, as issued.
$125

94.
[WILDE, Oscar]. Willis, John.
Oscar Wilde and the Antipodes.

Fairfield: John H. Willis (2002).

Second edition, expanded, numbered issue. 49 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Dated (1 March 04) and SIGNED by Willis on the title page. While Wilde never made the long journey, Willis here does a thorough job making connections between Wilde, his circle, and Australia.
$35

95.
[WILDE, Oscar]. Wratislaw, Theodore.
Oscar Wilde: A Memoir.

London: The Eighteen Nineties Society, 1979.

First trade edition. 21 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Foreword by John Betjeman, introduction and notes by Karl Beckson. One of 450 (of 500) numbered copies. Errata slip present.
$45

96.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
Horny & Ornery: Poems of Solace in Desolate Times.

Scaly Mountain: The Press of Otis the Lamed-Vovnik Skywinding Farm, 1994.

First edition. 4to. [44 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Introduction by James Laughlin. One of 225 (of 250) numbered copies SIGNED by Williams. This copy is inscribed.
$75

97.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
Long Taters: Jonathan Williams’ Quote Book 1994.

Scaly Mountain: The Press of Otis the Lamed-Vovnik Skywinding Farm, 1996.

First edition. 4to. 37 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and illustrated dust jacket. The last of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams.
$75

98.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
Quantulumcumque: Sub-Aesthetic Poems.

Asheville: French Broad Press, 1991.

First edition. 4to. [36 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 300 copies. Poems with a drawing by James McGarrell. INSCRIBED by Williams on the colophon page to Gus Blaisdell, “Love / to / Gus / from / Jonathan.”
$75

99.
[WILLIAMS, Jonathan and Fielding Dawson]. Alpert, Barry. ed.
Vort #4.

Silver Spring: Barry Alpert, 1973.

Vol. 2, No. 1. 4to. 112 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by Dawson, Creely, Byrd, Williams, Eigner, Kelly, Ronald Johnson, Mottram, and others. INSCRIBED by Alpert on the first leaf, “Dear Jonathan, Hope you like this issue. Does the lower half of your body indeed make an appearance on page 92. For now, Best, Barry.”
$45

100.
WOOLF, Virginia.
A Haunted House and Other Short Stories.

NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1944).

First US edition. vi + 148 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with shallow chipping to base and crown of spine, and a short tear to rear panel. Leonard Woolf contributes a foreword. Kirkpatrick A28b.
$75

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