1.
[AIDS ACTIVISM]. Pappas, Les. ed.
The Works: Drugs, Sex, & AIDS.
San Francisco: San Francisco AIDS Foundation (1987).

First edition. 35 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Instructional illustrated stories by Winthrop Prince, Lloyd Dangle, and Rich Hack.
$45

2.
AUDEN, W.H.
A New Year Greeting.
[NY]: Scientific American (1969).

First edition. 16mo. [16 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. A single poem, inspired by Auden’s reading of an article in Scientific American. Illustrated by Thomas Prentiss. Bloomfield and Mendelson A64.
$75

3.
BENNETT, John M.
JERKS.
Woodinville & Columbus: Laughing Bear/Luna Bisonte Prods, 1980.

First edition. Eight poems and seven drawings printed on sixteen uniform 11 x 8 ½ inch sheets, which are housed in a printed envelope. All items fine.
$45

4.
[BERMAN, Wallace]. Kugelberg, Johan. ed.
Semina 1955–1964 Art Is Love Is God.
NY: Boo-Hooray (2013).

First edition. 174 pp. Fine in glosssy illustrated wrappers. One of 700 copies. Essay by Adam Davis. Color reproductions of all the printed elements from every issue of Semina.
$125

5.
BLAINE, Julien.
engrenage.
Woodchester: Openings Press, 1966.

First edition. 10 ½ x 8 inch card, printed in two colors. Very near fine. Plakat 7.
$45

6.
BLAKE, Nayland.
Bay Area Conceptualism: Two Generations.
Buffalo: Allwalls, 1989.

First edition. 39 pp. Small reference library stamp inside rear cover (no other markings), else very near fine in glossy printed wrappers. Essays by Blake and Renny Pritikin. Illustrated with photographs of exhibitions. Bacher, Dashiell, Fox, Fryling, Ireland, Kos, Marioni, and Winet & Crane exhibited.
$35

7.
BOWIE, David.
Isolar 2.
San Francisco: Winterland Productions (1978).

First edition. Folio. [20 pp]. Tabloid newsprint, very near fine. Program for Bowie’s 1978 world tour, known also as the Low/Heroes World Tour. The center spread is an illustrated discography of major releases, the rest devoted to large color and b&w photos of Bowie.
$150

8.
BOWLES, Paul.
Two Years Beside the Straight: Tangier Journal 1987–1989.
London: Peter Owen (1990).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 80 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Illustrated with previously unpublished photographs. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles.
$200

9.
BRAKHAGE, Stan.
Film Culture 30: Metaphors on Vision.
NY: Film Culture (1963).

4to. [84 pp]. Fine in unprinted corrugated covers with a small circular cut-out in the front panel. Lacks the partial printed dust jacket. Entire issue devoted to work by Brakhage. Design by George Maciunas.
$150

10.
BRATHWAITE, Edward Kamau.
Word Making Man: Poem for Nicholas Guillen in Xaymaca.
Mona: Savacou Cooperative (1979).

First edition. Two sheets, presenting this poem in both English and Spanish (translation by J.R. Pereira) laid into a printed folder. One short edge tear, else all near fine. Published in this format for Carifesta 79 in Havana, Cuba. Dated (1982) and SIGNED by Brathwaite.
$125

11.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard.
Five Poems.
[Berkeley]: Serendipity Books 1971.

First edition. 11 x 17 inch broadside, or “wideside” as called here, printed in two colors. Fine. Issued by Serendipity Books on the occasion of the NYC International Antiquarian Book Fair in 1971. Dated (April 2, 1971) and SIGNED by Brautigan. Uncommon thus.
$450

12.
[BRECHT, George and Robert Watts]. ed.
Yam Festival.
NY, 1963.

First editon. Two 8 ½ x 11 inch sheets, printed in purple on the rectos. Fine. Program for this night-long event. Paul Zukofsky, Yvonne Rainer, Charlotte Moorman (who helped organize the event), Joseph Byrd, Max Neuhaus, and others performed works by John Cage, Christian Wolff, Morton Feldman, Edgar Varese, Philip Corner, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
$250

13.
BRECHT, Stefan.
Poems.
San Francisco: City Lights (1978).

First edition. 110 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Arthur Tress. Pocket Poets Series #36.
$35

14.
BRINGHURST, Robert.
Tzuhalem’s Mountain: a sonata in three movements.
Lantzville: Oolichan Books, 1982.

First edition. 4to. 37 pp w/notes. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 224 (of 250) numbered copies SIGNED by Bringhurst.
$125

15.
[BROADSIDES]. Stefanik, Ernest and Cis. eds.
Rook Folios: First Series.
Derry: Rook Press (1976).

First edition. Twelve 11 x 8 ½ inch broadsides and a title sheet, all housed in a near fine printed folder. Each broadside is illustrated by William Lint. SIGNED by William Heyen, Czeslaw Milosz, Paul Zimmer, Jon Anderson, Sandra McPherson, Daniel Halpern, Gerald Costanzo, Mark Halperin, Ed Ochester, James Tate, William Stafford, and Frederick Morgan on their respective works.
$225

16.
[BROADSIDES].
Ruby Editions Portfolio 3: Gianni Bertini, Jonathan Williams, Krzysztof Wodiczko.
Toronto: Wallrich Books (1976).

First edition. Three 15 x 11 inch broadsides, all fine, together with a printed title sheet. Fine publisher’s printed folder. The set designed by Henri Chopin. Each broadside is one of 100 numbered copies SIGNED respectively by Bertini, Williams, and Wodiczko.
$400

17.
BUNTING, Basil.
Ode II/2.
London: Fulcrum Press (1965).

First edition. Illustrated card, the two outside edges folding to meet in the middle (5 ½ x 4 ¼ inches, closed). Fine. Printed by the Goliard Press.
$55

18.
CANTRILL Arthur and Corrine. eds.
Cantrills Filmnotes Double Issue No. 21, 22.
Melbourne: Cantrills Filmnotes, 1975.

April. Horizontal 8vo. 72 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by Jas Duke, Gregory Markopoulos, Stan Brakhage, and many others.
$35

19.
[CASSETTE COMPILATION].
From Brussels With Love
Brussels: Les Disques Du Crépuscle (1980).

First edition. Black label cassette is fine, as is the clear plastic envelope. Twelve page, 7 x 7 inch booklet with one paper insert is very good plus. One of the great cassette compliations. Thomas Dolby, Harold Budd, The Durutti Column, Martin Hannett, Brian Eno (interview), A Certain Ratio, Dome, and many others contribute. TWI007.
$35

20.
CAVELL, Stanley.
In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism.
Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press (1988).

First edition. xiii + 200 pp w/bibliography & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Lectures from 1983–1986.
$35

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