81.
SHERE, Jim.
Some Concrete Poems.
(np): (np) 1967.

First edition. 24mo. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Eleven works, including the covers and title page.
$35

82.
SHERROD, Tony. ed.
Mithrander.
San Francisco: (np) [c. 1963].

[28 pp]. Upper corners occasionally creased, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Only issue published. Contributions by Dale Landers, Paul Blackburn, Jerrold Greenberg, James Alexander, Lewis Ellingham, John Allen Ryan, Philip Whalen, Link, and Tony Sherrod. Cover art by Graham Mackintosh.
$45

83.
[SITUATIONISM].
The Decline and Fall of the “Spectacular” Commodity-Economy.
(np): Frontier Press [1970].

10 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. An essay on the riots in Watts that appeared originally in the Situationist International, December 1965.
$45

84.
[SOMETHING ELSE PRESS]. Higgins, Dick.
The Arts of the New Mentality: Catalogue 1967–1968.
NY: Something Else Press (1967).

First edition. 16mo. 49 pp w/index of titles. Tiny nicks to base of front cover and top edge of rear, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Higgins contributes “Forethoughts” to this descriptive catalogue of not only SEP titles, but also a selection of imported items (German Avant-Garde Imports, Italian Art Posters, Object Books, Spanish Imports, etc). Good stuff.
$40

85.
[SURREALISM].
Surrealist Research & Development Monograph Series 1–10.
Chicago: Radical America/Black Swan, 1971–1977.

First editions. Ten volumes, each near fine or better in stapled wrappers. Works by Franklin Rosemont & Schlechter Duvall (The Apple of the Automatic Zebra’s Eye), Stephen Schwartz (Hidden Locks), Benjamin Paul Blood (The Poetical Alphabet), Paul Garon (Rana Mozelle), Leonora Carrington (Down Below), Paul Nougé (Music is Dangerous), Peter Manti (Fair Game), Toyen (Specters of the Desert), Joseph Jablonski (In a Moth’s Wing), and Nancy Joyce Peters (Its in the Wind). For the set:
$300

86.
[SURREALISM, CHICAGO]. Rosemont, Franklin. et al, eds.
The Forecast Is Hot! Tracts & Other Collective Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States 1966–1976.
Chicago: Black Swan Press, 1997.

First edition. 276 pp w/index. Fine in gilt-stamped boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited with introductions and notes by Franklin Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont, and Paul Garon.
$45

87.
[VENTURI, Robert and Denise Scott Brown]. Stadler, Hilar and Martino Stierli with Peter Fischli.
Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
Kriens & Frankfurt: Museum im Bellpark/Deutsches Architekturmuseum (2009).

First English edition. 192 pp. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. Color photographs taken during the study period that resulted in LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS.
$50

88.
VEREY, Charles.
Bo Heem E Um 3: An Explosion without a Fuse.
Sherborne: Bo Hee E Um (1968).

[12 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket. Entire contents of this issue of Bo Hee E Um devoted to this work by Verey. Edited by Thomas A. Clark.
$20

89.
[VERTOV, Dziga]. Petric, Vlada.
Constructivism in Film. THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA: A Cinematic Analysis.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1987).

First edition. xii + 325 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. A thorough thematic and formal analysis of Vertrov’s masterpiece, illustrated with over 450 frame enlargement reproductions and over 80 figures.
$100

90.
VOSTELL, Wolf.
Futura 22: de coll age aktions text.
[Stuttgart]: Edition Hansjšrg Mayer, 1967.

First edition. Single large sheet folded four times, as issued (9 ½ x 6 ¼ inches, closed). Fine. A concrete text.
$50

91.
[VOSTELL, Wolf]. Axelson, Lori. ed.
Wolf Vostell.
Los Angeles & Berlin: LAICA/Ars Viva!, 1980.

First edition. 48 pp. One rear corner lightly bent, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Exhibition catalogue with sixty-four b&w photographs and reproductions. Foreword by Robert L. Smith.
$50

92.
WALLACE, David Foster.
Girl With Curious Hair.
NY: Norton (1989).

First edition. 373 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket that is lighty rubbed. Wallace’s second book, a collection of short stories.
$35

93.
[WARHOL, Andy].
Andy Warhol, Cinema.
Paris & NY: Musée national d’art moderne au Centre Georges Pompidou/Museum of Modern Art, 1990.

First edition. 264 pp w/filmography. Fine in die-cut illustrated wrappers. A terrific catalogue, with a good portion of the pages cut in half, thus creating several internal flipbooks. Texts in French.
$200

94.
[WARHOL, Andy]. Lazarov, Melissa. et al, eds.
Rorschach Paintings.
NY: Gagosian Gallery (1996).

First edition. 8vo. 13 + [62 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Introductory essay by Rosalind Krauss. Twenty-nine reproductions.
$100

95.
WARSH, Lewis and Clark, Tom.
Chicago: for Edwin Denby.
Bolinas: Angel Hair, 1969.

First edition. 4to. [8 pp]. Near fine in wrappers with two small marks on front cover. Printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem. This copy conforms to the large paper hors commerce issue (of where there were 4 lettered copies total) with hand colored initial capitals, but this copy is not lettered.
$125

96.
[WEINER, Lawrence]. Bari, Bartomeu. ed.
Show (&) Tell: The Films & Videos of Lawrence Weiner.
Gent: Imschoot, uitgevers (1992).

First edition. 4to. 148 pp. Near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. A catalogue raisonné.
$65

97.
WELCH, Denton.
A Last Sheaf.
London: John Lehman, 1951.

First edition. 239 + [8 pp]. Two upper corners lightly tapped, else near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Introduction by Eric Oliver, who edited this collection of short stories, sketches, poems, and a small selection of reproductions of Welch’s paintings.
$200

98.
WIENERS, John.
Playboy aka We were there! A Gay Presence at the Democratic Convention.
[Boston]: Good Gay Poets [c. 1972].

First edition. 4to. [26 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers with light wear to yapped edges. SIGNED by Wieners on the title page, with his cross-outs of “Miami” and “1972” which he replaced in holograph with “Miami” and “1972.”
$125

99.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
My Quaker-Atheist Friend (Who Has Come to This Meeting-House Since 1913) Smokes & Looks Out Over the Rawthey to Holme Fell:.
[London]: Larry & Ruby Wallrich (1975).

First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover photograph of Basil Bunting by Jonathan Williams. Drawing of Briggflatts by Ian Gardner, the whole designed by Asa Benveniste. Published as a 1975 New Year’s greeting by Larry and Ruby Wallrich. A single poem by Williams.
$20

100.
YOUNG, La Monte and Marian Zazeela.
Dream Music.
NY: (np) [c. 1964].

14 x 8 ½ inch mimeographed flyer to announce a performance, for the first time in New York City, of Gong Contests and THE TORTOISE DRONING SELECTED PITCHES FROM THE HOLY NUMBERS FOR THE TWO BLACK TIGERS, THE GREEN TIGER AND THE HERMIT. Uneven toning overall, several old folds; very good plus. Explanatory notes for these two works, the second seeing Tony Conrad and John Cale joining Young and Zazeela. An uncommon ephemeral item, with the original mailing envelope addressed to Jackson MacLow.
$150

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