41.
[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. Fifteen works reproduced in color.
$35

42.
ROREM, Ned.
The New York Diary.
NY: Braziller (1967).

First edition. 218 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with two tiny edge-tears and a light fade to spine. Composer Lou Harrison’s copy, with his bold inked initials on the front free endpaper.
$35

43.
ROSNOW, Ralph L. and Gary Alan Fine.
Rumor and Gossip: The Social Psychology of Hearsay.
NY/Oxford/Amsterdam: Elsevier (1976).

First edition. viii + 166 pp w/references & index. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. Rather than just idle chatter, this study posits that, “Talk is not cheap: Rumor and Gossip are precious commodities in the marketplace of social exchange.”
$50

44.
SHARPLESS, Jack.
Presences of Mind: The Collected Books of Jack Sharpless.
Frankfort: Gnomon (1989).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. xi + 107 pp. Touch of faint foxing to page edges, abrasion to rear cover, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Edited by Ronald Johnson with his introduction. Afterwords by Guy Davenport and Jonathan Williams. Poems. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Johnson, Davenport, and Williams.
$125

45.
[SMITHSON, Robert]. Holt, Nancy. ed.
The Writings of Robert Smithson: Essays with Illustrations.
NY: New York University Press, 1979.

First edition. 4to. 221 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket that has toned with age. Introduction by Philip Leider. Designed by Sol LeWitt. Over two hundred illustrations.
$200

46.
SOMMER, Frederick.
All Children are Ambassadors.
Nazraeli Press (1992).

First ediiton. [16 + 16 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and very near fine publisher’s slipcase. Sommer’s text, in English and German translation, accompanying thirty illustratons.
$50

47.
SOMMER, Frederick.
Cut-Paper: Photographs by Frederick Sommer.
Mountain View: Artichoke Editions (1998).

First edition. Square 16mo. Long accordion-fold sheet bound between boards. Fine in clear slipcase with printed spine label. Bound together with Frederick Sommer Makes a Cut Paper: Photographs by Jonathan Clark. Though the colophon states that 950 copies were printed at The Stinehour Press, only about 350 copies were actually produced due to a bindery error.
$150

48.
SOTO, Gary.
Where Sparrows Work Hard.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh (1981).

First edition. 65 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Soto’s third collection of poems.
$75

49.
STANFORD, Frank.
Constant Stranger.
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1976.

First edition. 48 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Twelve poems. Though there is a listing of eight other titles by Stanford printed opposite the half-title page, only five had actually appeared, making this his sixth published collection.
$500

50.
STANFORD, Frank.
You: Poems.
Fayetteville: Lost Roads, 1979.

First edition. 49 pp. Small blemish on front cover, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Richard Albertine. Thirty poems, the second posthumous publication. Lost Roads 15.
$350

51.
STAUFFACHER, Jack Werner.
Janson: A Definitive Collection.
San Francisco: Greenwood Press, 1954.

First edition. Horizontal 12mo. [66 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped vellum spine and inset pasted-on cover label. Fine clear unprinted acetate dust jacket. One of 350 copies on French Rives paper. Dated (7 Sept 2001) and SIGNED by Stauffacher on the colophon page.
$200

52.
[TATLIN, Vladimir]. Milner, John.
Vladimir Tatlin and the Russian Avant-Garde.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1983.

First edition. Small 4to. viii +252 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a light sticker scar to the front panel. The first major biographical and critical work on the foremost Russian constructivist published in the West. Illustrated with 269 b&w images.
$50

53.
TURNBULL, Gael.
A Winter Journey.
Durham: Pig Press, 1987.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 29 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Poems with illustrations by Pamela Scott. One of 30 numbered copies SIGNED by Turnbull and Scott.
$45

54.
WAKOSKI, Diane.
The Purple Finch Song.
[Mt. Horeb]: Perishable Press, 1972.

First edition. 14 6 ⁷ ⁄ 8 inch illustrated broadside. Fine. One of 97 copies on purple finch paper.
$45

55.
WALEY, Arthur.
The Real Tripitaka and Other Pieces.
London: George Allen and Unwin (1952).

First edition. 291 pp w/references & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Waley’s study of the real and historic Tripitaka, the pilgrim upon whom the novel MONKEY was based, together with a few translations, original stories and “...that strange story Mrs. White.”
$45

56.
WHALEN, Philip.
Highgrade: Doodles, Poems.
(np): Coyote’s Journal (1966).

First edition. 4to. [62 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Entire text reproduced from Whalen’s original holograph manuscript.
$75

57.
WIENERS, John.
Invitation.
(np): Unicorn Press (nd).

First edition. Single sheet folded twice and pasted into boards with printed cover label. Fine. One of 220 numbered copies SIGNED by Wieners.
$45

58.
WILBUR, Richard.
Pedestrian Flight: Twenty-One Clerihews for the Telephone.
[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press (1981).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 26 lettered copies on Arches paper SIGNED by Wright. Answering machine messages, and a few drawings, composed for Stuart Wright by Wilbur. “Stuart Wright / Has a tap on his phone-line tonight. / Since you are being recorded, / Try not to say anything sordid.”
$90

59.
[WILLIAMS, William Carlos]. Wagner, Linda Welshimer.
Interviews with William Carlos Williams: “Speaking Straight Ahead.”
NY: New Directions (1976).

First edition. xix + 108 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Wagner. Three full interviews, followed by a sequence of “Dialogues” (on Modern Poetry, on Ezra Pound, on Rhyme, etc), and concluding with Gael Turnbull’s memoir of a 1958 visit with WCW, and WCW’s essays, “How to Write” and “The American Idiom.”
$40

60.
[WINDHOVER PRESS]. Berger, Sidney E.
Printing & the Mind of Merker: A Bibliographical Study.
NY: Groiler Club, 1997.

First edition. Small 4to. xviii + 138 pp w/indexes. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label. Contributions by Harry Duncan, Dana Gioia, and K.K. Merker. One of 50 (of 100) hardcover copies. Illustrated. In addition to the bibliographical descriptions, Merker critiques the 106 primary books of the press to date.
$75

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