81.
ROLFE, Frederick writing as “Baron Corvo.”
The Venice Letters: A Selection.
London: Cecil Woolf, 1966.

First edition. 64 pp. Fine in full green cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Chosen, edited, and with an introduction, notes and epilogue by Cecil Woolf. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Woolf. In lieu of a promised offprint from the appearance of these letters in Art & Literature, Woolf extracted the pages from issues himself, had them bound, and issued them thus.
$300

82.
SNOW, Dash.
Love Roses.
NY: Karma (2011).

First edition. [312 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Black and white action photographs of gallery attendees passing through a beaded curtain.
$45

83.
SNYDER, Gary.
Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers without End.
London: Fulcrum (1967).

First UK edition. 47 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Snyder on the title page. McNeil A11d.
$150

84.
SPELLMAN, A.B.
Four Lives in the Bebop Business.
London: Macgibbon & Kee (1967).

First UK edition. xiv +241 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Poet Spellman considers Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Nichols, and Jackie McLean.
$40

85.
SPICER, Jack.
My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer.
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (2008).

First edition. xxxi + 465 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian.
$40

86.
STEVENS, Wallace and Kurt Seligmann.
A Primitive like an Orb: A Poem.
[NY]: Gotham Book Mart, 1948.

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn bright green wrappers, one of three possible variant covers. Stevens’ poem, with two drawings by Seligmann. A “Prospero pamphlet.” One of 500 copies on Etruria and Zebu papers designed and printed at the Banyan Press. Edelstein A13.
$150

87.
TÓIBÍN, Colm.
The Story of Night.
London: Picador (1996).

First UK edition. 312 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (12.9.96) and SIGNED by Tóibín on the title page.
$45

88.
TOURNIER, Michel.
The Erl-King.
London: Collins, 1972.

First UK edition. 318 pp w/notes. Slight lean to spine, else fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Barbara Bray. The first unanimous choice for the Prix Goncourt.
$35

89.
VIDAL, Gore.
A Thirsty Evil: Seven Short Stories.
London: Heinemann (1958).

First UK edition. 127 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to crown. SIGNED by Vidal on the half-title page.
$250

90.
WAKOSKI, Diane.
Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons.
Mount Horeb: Perishable Press, 1969.

First edition. Oblong 16mo. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 190 (of 250) copies on hand-made Shadwell paper. Hamady 24.
$125

91.
WHALEN, Philip.
Severance Pay: Poems 1967–1969.
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1970.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 51 pp. Touch of sunning along top edge, else very near fine in patterned paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Whalen. Writing 24.
$125

92.
WHITMAN, Walt.
Autobiographia or the Story of a Life.
NY: Charles L. Webster & Col., 1892.

First edition. vii + 205 pp. Very near fine in full decorated cloth. Frontis photograph of the Whitman home in Camden, NJ with tissue guard. Selections from Whitman’s prose writings, as edited by Arthur Steadman for the “Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series.”
$125

93.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
The Lucidities: Sixteen in Visionary Company.
London: Turret Books, 1967.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. Small 4to. [32 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with tipped-on drawings by John Furnival. One of 100 numbered copies on Glastonbury laid white paper SIGNED by Williams.
$100

94.
[WILLIAMS, Jonathan]. Jaffe, James S.
Jonathan Williams: A Bibliographical Checklist of his Writings, 1950–1988.
Haverford: James S. Jaffe, 1989.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. xii + 56 pp. Faint foxing along top edge, else fine in wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Introduction by Guy Davenport. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams and Davenport. “Apology” slip laid in. Together with Asphodel Books Catalogue 100: Jonathan Williams, an offering of 100 priced items by JW. For the pair:
$75

95.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee.
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.
NY: New Directions (1950).

First edition, signed limited issue. 148 pp. Fine in pattered paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped vellum spine. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase with printed label. One of 500 copies SIGNED by Williams.
$350

96.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos & Sanford, John.
A Correspondence.
Santa Barbara: Oyster Press, 1984.

First edition. 53 pp. Fine in wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Foreword by Paul Mariani. Both sets of letters, with Sanford’s commentary.
$20

97.
WOOLF, Virginia.
Reviewing.
London: Hogarth Press, 1939.

First edition. 31 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers (most copies were sewn). Concluding note by Leonard Woolf. The fourth Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlet. Kirkpatrick A24a.
$150

98.
WRIGHT, James.
The Green Wall.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957.

First edition. xix + 93 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with a sliver of toning along top edge. Foreword by W.H. Auden. Wright’s first book, issued as the 53rd volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
$450

99.
YATES, Frances A.
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1964).

First US edition. xiv + 466 pp w/index. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket that has some rubbing and a few surface scratches. Illustrated. Another landmark work by the author of THE ART OF MEMORY.
$150

100.
ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
“A” – 14.
London: Turret Books (1967).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 61 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with toned spine. One of 250 (of 275) numbered copies SIGNED by Zukofsky.
$125

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