41.
PASOLINI, Pier Paolo.
Drawings and Paintings.
Berkeley & San Francisco: University of California/Italian Institute of Culture, 1984.

First edition. 4to. 246 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Compiled and edited by Johannes Reiter and Giuseppe Zigaina. Fully-illustrated with 104 color reproductions.
$75

42.
PITTS, J. Martin.
Gymnopaediae.
LLandogo: Old Stile Press (1989).

First edition. 4to. [76 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Fine publisher’s decorated slipcase. One of 220 numbered copies SIGNED by Pitts. Silhouette images of boys who danced in tribute to Apollo on a cliff above the southern Aegean.
$100

43.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
Impending Navigation Bright: A Catch of Poems about the Shipping Forecast.
Edinburgh: Morning Star (1994).

First edition. Single long sheet folded to make ten panels, laid into a fine printed folder. Illustrated by Margot Sandeman. Poems by Finlay, Turnbull, Ransford, George Mackay Brown, Ian Stephen, Morgan, Peter Larkin, Richard Price, and Peter Dent. One of 274 (of 300) numbered copies. Under the Moon Series 1/2.
$35

44.
POUND, Ezra.
The Coward Surrealists Castigated.
[London: Eric Stevens] 1981.

First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of “less than 100” copies. First separate appearance of this essay which appeared originally in Contemporary Poetry and Prose in 1937. “THE INTELLECTUAL TIMIDITY OF THE PSEUDO – LUTIONISTS GIVE ME A PAIN IN THE NECK.” Gallup E2Zi.
$50

45.
POWELL, Roxie.
Dreams of Straw.
San Francisco: [Auerhhan Press] 1963.

First edition. [16 pp]. Very near fine in black yarn-bound printed wrappers. Fourteen poems with an introduction by Haselwood. One of 250 copies. Handset and printed letterpress by Haselwood and Charles Plymell. His first book. Auerhahn 28.
$45

46.
RADIGUET, Raymond.
Cheeks on Fire: Collected Poems.
London: Calder (1976).

First edition. 113 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a small wrinkle to crown of spine. Original French poems with facing translations by Alan Stone. Three page foreword by Radiguet (from the 1925 edition).
$45

47.
RAWORTH, Tom.
A Serial Biography.
London: Fulcrum (1969).

First edition. 94 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Long statement on this work Edward Dorn, printed on the rear cover. Raworth’s first novel.
$35

48.
RIDING, Laura.
Love As Love, Death As Death.
London: Seizin Press, 1928.

First edition. 64 pp. Fine in full buckram with gilt stamping to spine. The colophon reads, “175 numbered copies of this edition have been printed, and this is no.” The numeral “31” has been added in ink holograph, but also, “6 out of series.” The first book of the press, which perhaps explains the confusion here. From the library of Black Sparrow publisher John Martin, with his book plate inside the rear board.
$350

49.
ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain.
For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction.
NY: Grove (1965).

First US edition. 175 pp w/selected bibliography. Two stray ink dots to fore-edge, else very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Richard Howard. Includes separate chapters on Roussel and Beckett.
$35

50.
[ROUSSEL, Raymond]. Foucault, Michel.
Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1986.

First US edition. xxviii + 186 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wrinkles at base and crown of spine. Translated from the original French by Charles Ruas. Sixteen page introduction by John Ashbery.
$50

51.
SNYDER, Gary.
Riprap.
Ashland: Origin Press, 1959.

First edition. [34 pp]. Toning to extrems, else near fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label which has a small tear and crease. Snyder’s first book. A “Beat” highspot, up there with NAKED LUNCH, HOWL, and ON THE ROAD in importance and influence. Designed, edited, and published by Cid Corman. McNeil A1a.
$500

52.
SPICER, Jack.
After Lorca.
San Francisco: White Rabbit (1957).

First edition. 63 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover design by Jess. One of 500 copies printed by Joe Dunn. Spicer’s first book, and the second book of the press. Johnston A2. Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin’s copy, with his book ticket inside the rear cover.
$850

53.
STEVENS, Wallace.
The Auroras of Autumn.
NY: Knopf, 1950.

First edition. 193 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light toning to spine and a touch of edgewear. A collection of thirty-two new poems. Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. Edelstein A14.a.1.
$150

54.
[SURREALISM]. Jean, Marcel. ed.
The Autobiography of Surrealism.
NY: Viking (1980).

First edition. xxiii + 472 pp w/selected bibliography & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. A volume in “The Documents of 20th-Century Art” series. Selections from the work of predecesors (de Chirico, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Jarry, Vaché, Reverdy, Lautréamont) followed by broad range of writings by the major figures involved, from the initial stirrings of the movement to May ‘68.
$100

55.
VAN HORN, Erica and Simon Cutts.
Nearing Arcueil.
Limoges: Sixtus / éditions (2002).

First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies. Fifteen sequential color photographs of a quest to find Erik Satie’s house. Text both in English and French.
$20

56.
WEINER, Hannah.
A Journal Entry: of Hannah Weiner.
Providence: Diana’s Bimonthly (1975).

First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover by Nelson Howe. Entire issue of Diana’s Bimonthly Vol. III, No. 6 devoted to this work by Weiner. SIGNED by Weiner on the front free endpaper, “Hannah / I sign.”
$75

57.
WILLIAMS, C.K.
Helen.
Alexandria: Orchises Press/Press of the Nightowl, 1991.

First edition. [30 pp]. Fine in cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Printed by Dwight Agner. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Agner and Williams. A five part long poem.
$125

58.
WILLIAMS, Emmett.
the last french-fried potato and other poems.
NY: Something Else Press, 1967.

First edition. 14 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Six poems delighting in language. A “Great Bear” pamphlet.
$40

59.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
Shankum Naggum.
North Carolina: Friends of the Library/North Carolina Wesleyan College, 1979.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. Narrow 4to. [24 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams. Riffs inspired by the verbal landscape of North Carolina and County of Cumbria.
$75

60.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan and Brainard, Joe.
The gAy BCs.
Champaign: Finial Press, 1976.

First edition. Oblong 12mo. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poem by Williams, “In the Absolutely Innocent, Dead-Pan Manner of Kate Greenaway,” with drawings by Brainard, “In the Action Comix Manner,” though in this pairing, much more explicit than either model. This copy is designated “PRIVATE PROOF,” dated (16 March 79) and SIGNED by printer A. Doyle Moore. Additionally, INSCRIBED by Williams, “Richard’s / from Jonathan” and by Brainard, “For Richard with ‘nice party — yes?’ / and LOVE, Joe.”
$200

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