41.
RICH, Adrienne.
Twenty-One Love Poems.
Emeryville: Effie’s Press (1976).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. [28 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed front cover. Designed and printed by Bonnie L. Carpenter. Composition at Spring Creek. One of 26 lettered copies on Curtis rag paper SIGNED by Rich. A key work by Rich, and one of her most beautifully-produced limited editions.
$1250

42.
RIDDELL, Mrs. J.H.
Weird Stories.
London: Home and Van Thal, 1946.

First edition. viii + 164 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a few short edge-tears. Introduction by Herbert Van Thal. “These are stories with the authentic thrill and chill and we challenge the most sophisticated modern reader to read them alone at night without fear.” Charlotte Riddell was a prolific Irish-born novelist and short story writer, and owner/editor of St. James Magazine during the 1860s.
$100

43.
ROSSI, Matti.
The Trees of Vietnam.
Mexico City: El Corno Emplumado (1966).

First edition. 21 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Cover design by Sylvia de Swann. Translated into English from the original Finnish by Anselm Hollo. colección la llave vol. I.
$25

44.
ROTHENBERG, Jerome.
The Gorky Poems / Poemas A Gorky.
Mexico: Ediociones El Corno Emplumado, 1966.

First edition. 61 pp w/contents. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Rothenberg’s original English poems with facing Spanish translations by Sergio Mondragón. colección acuario vol. ix.
$40

45.
[SF BAY AREA RAVE SCENE].
Rave Cards.
[c. 1992–1993].

Collection of 81 cards, flyers, and stickers produced to advertise raves, dance parties, or sympathetic businesses in the SF Bay Area. Almost all full-color, two-sided, some offering an address for the event, others providing just a phone number. A transitional time-period, where the scene was just starting to be normalized (and seriously monetized). For the collection:
$750

46.
SILLIMAN, Ron.
Tjanting.
Berkeley: Figures (1981).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 213 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Silliman. Fibonacci, meet prose poetry.
$250

47.
SILVA, Ludovico.
Tenebra.
Mexico City: Ediciones El Corno Emplumado (1964).

First edition. 69 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Original Spanish poems with facing English translations by Margaret and Sergio Mondragón. Illustrated with drawings by Julius Tobias. Colección acuario, Vol. III.
$75

48.
SNELLING, O.F.
Rare Books and Rarer People.
London: Werner Shaw (1982).

First edition. x + 256 pp w/index. Some foxing along the top edge, else near fine in fine dust jacket. One of the best books about the rare book trade, via the London auction scene.
$45

49.
[STEELE, Timothy]. Hagstrom, Jack W.C. and Joshua S. Odell.
Timothy Steele; A Bibliography 1957–2018.
Santa Barbara: Joshua Odell Editions, 2018.

First edition. xxxi + 104 pp w/index. Fine in full green cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Steele provides a terrific introduction to this thorough accounting of his published works. New, at publication price:
$22.95

50.
SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES.
Illusions of Shameless Abundance Degenerating into an Uninterrupted Sequence of Hostile Encounters.
San Francisco: SRL [1989].

First edition. 14 ½ x 22 ½ inch illustrated poster. Fine. As if their giant menacing machines were not enough, this show featured twenty stacked pianos set alight. Photographs by 6th Street Studio.
$100

51.
TAUS, Roger.
Trophies of the Sun / Trofeos Del Sol.
Mexico City: Ediciones El Corno Emplumado (1964).

First edition. 47 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Original Spanish poems with English translations by Luci Sabugal. Illustrated with drawings by eleven different artists. Colección acuario, vol. II.
$35

52.
THOMAS, R.S.
Collected Poems 1945–1990.
London: J.M. Dent (1993).

First edition. xi + 548 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Massive collection by the Welsh poet and Anglican priest who achieved a substantial readership for his later collections.
$75

53.
TRUESDALE, C.W.
In the Country of a Deer’s Eye — En El Pais Del Ojo De Vanado.
Mexico: El Corno Emplumado Coleccion Acuario, 1966.

First edition. 111 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Drawings by Judith Gutierrez. Original poems in English with facing translations by Otto-Raul Gonzalez. colección acuario, vol. x.
$25

54.
VACCARI, Franco.
Strip-Street.
Paris: Agentzia (1969).

First edition. [106 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. One of 500 copies, issued as Agentzia 21. Vaccari’s text profusely accompanied by b&w photographs of street graffiti.
$350

55.
WELCH, Denton.
Dumb Instrument: Poems and Fragments.
London: Enitharmon Press, 1976.

First edition. 59 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited with an introduction and notes by Jean-Louis Chevalier. Illustrated with decorations by Welch. One of 600 (of 660) copies on Glastonbury Coloured Antique paper.
$75

56.
WHALEN, Philip.
Goof Book for Jack Kerouac.
[Guerneville]: Big Bridge Press (c. 2001).

First edition. 29 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A long illuminated 1961 letter from Whalen to Kerouac.
$25

57.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
In the Field at the Solstice: Seven Epitaphs for His Friends.
Champaign: Finial Press, 1976.

First edition. Eight 8 ½ inch square sheets laid into an unprinted red folder. All elements fine. Paul Goodman, Kenneth Patchen, “Dick Nickel,” Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Charles Olson, Stefan Wolpe, Walter Loewenfels memorialized. One of 103 copies. Jaffe 101.
$100

58.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
The Patagonian Declaration of Independence.
[Urbana: Bill Desmond, 1971].

First edition. [4 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers with a touch of wear along the spine. Typeset and printed by Bill Desmond, a student of A. Doyle Moore’s. A survivor, one of 25 copies. Jaffe 66.
$200

59.
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.
Lectures on Philosophical Psychology 1946–47.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1989).

First US edition. xv + 348 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. The notes of P.T. Geach, K.J. Shah, and A.C. Jackson who attended Wittgenstein’s last lectures at Cambridge. Shortly after these sessions, Wittgenstein resigned his Chair in order to write the Philosophical Investigations.
$125

60.
ZORN, John. ed.
Arcana: Musicians on Music.
NY: Granary Books/Hips Road, 2000.

First edition. 377 pp w/list of recommended listens. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Contributions by Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, Mike Patton, Mike Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Z’ev, Zorn, and many others.
$35

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