61.
SMITH, Patti.
mon vieux lucien.
[NY: Gotham Book Mart c. 1973].

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 8 ½ x 12 inch illustrated broadside. Fine. One deckle edge. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Smith.
$1000

62.
SMITH, Tracy K.
Life on Mars: Poems.
Minneapolis: Graywolf Press (2011).

First edition. 75 pp w/notes. Fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Smith on the title page. Her Pulitzer Prize winning third collection of poems. Smith is currently serving as Poet Laureate of the United States.
$250

63.
SNODGRASS, W.D.
Heart’s Needle.
NY: Knopf, 1959.

First edition. 61 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. His first book of poems, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
$100

64.
SNYDER, Gary.
Three Worlds, Three Realms, Six Roads.
Marlboro: The Griffin Press [1968].

First edition. Small 4to. [20 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Poems printed in three colors with illustrations by Ken McCullough and calligraphy by Hironobu Nishiyama. One of 200 copies on Curtis Rag paper. Uncommon. Selections from Mountains and Rivers without End. McNeil A19.
$200

65.
STANFORD, Frank.
The Singing Knives: Poems.
Fayetteville: Lost Roads, 1979.

Second edition, second printing. 59 pp. Page edges lighty foxed, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover screen by David Hurley. In addition to adding two poems not in the original edition, this second printing concludes with four page biography of Stanford by C.D. Wright (uncredited).
$100

66.
STOPPARD, Tom.
Rock ‘n’ Roll.
London: Faber and Faber (2006).

First revised edition. xxii + 118 pp w/list of sources. Fine in fine dust jacket. Stoppard contributes a fourteen page introduction to this revised edition, not in the paperback first edition. This is also the first hardcover appearance of this title.
$75

67.
STRAND, Mark.
The Continuous Life: Eighteen Poems.
Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1990.

First edition. Folio. [68 pp]. Fine in wrappers with printed spine label. Two woodcut illustrations by Neil Welliver. One of 225 numbered copies on Windhover paper. Printed in two colors by Kim Merker and Don Howell. Berger 97.
$200

68.
[SURFING]. Finnery, Ben R. and James D. Houston.
Surfing: The Sport of Hawaiian Kings.
Rutland & Tokyo: Tuttle (1966).

First edition. 110 pp w/notes & bibliography. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A beautiful copy.
$150

69.
TATE, James.
The Oblivion Ha-Ha: Sixty Poems.
Boston: Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown (1970).

First edition. 92 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a light wrinkle at the crown. SIGNED by Tate on the front free endpaper. His second trade publication. Uncommon in such bright condition.
$125

70.
[THOMPSON, Hunter H.]. Shoaf, Eric C.
Gonzology: A Hunter S. Thompson Bibliography.
Charlotte: Cielo Publications, 2018.

First edition. 202 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Preface by William McKeen. A thorough round up of HST’s published output. New, at publication price:
$25

71.
VEGA, Alan as “Alan Suicide.”
Art-Rite Special #13.
NY: Art-Rite (1977).

First edition. [20 pp]. Three short tears to fore-ege of three internal leaves, one small chip and one two inch shallow chip to bottom edge of rear cover, otherwise near fine in illustrated wrappers. “We dedicate this issue to the average American in search of excitement.” Images of sex, rock ‘n’ roll, and horse racing, assembled by Vega, ½ of the band Suicide.
$75

72.
VENTURI, Robert.
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.
NY & Chicago: Museum of Modern Art/Graham Foundation (1966).

First edition. 135 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some light edgewear and a few trivial marks. Introduction by Vincent Scully. 350 illustrations. The Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture 1.
$75

73.
WAPLINGTON, Nick.
A Good Man’s Grave is his Sabbath.
[Los Angeles]: Deadbeat Club/Little Big Man Gallery [2016].

First edition. 4to. [40 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and very near fine stiff silkscreened cardstock cover. One of 400 copies. Riot images from Surf Pro 1986 juxtaposed with UK punk scenes. SIGNED by Waplington. Deadbeat Club #32.
$75

74.
WARHOL, Andy.
Philip’s Skull.
NY: Gagosian (1999).

First edition. 16mo. [56 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Rupert Burgess, introduction by Robert Rosenblum, afterword by Frank Moore. Thirteen color reproductions from the 1985 sequence based on CAT-scan films of Philip Niarchos’ head.
$200

75.
WEISS, Ruth.
LIGHT and other Poems.
San Francisco: Peace & Pieces Foundation (1976).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 56 pp. Fine in wrappers. Cover art and frontispiece drawing by Paul Blake. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Weiss and Blake.
$45

76.
WELTY, Eudora.
A Sweet Devouring.
NY: Albondocani Press, 1969.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 150 (of 176) numbered copies on English Hayle paper SIGNED by Welty. First separate appearance of this autobiographical work about reading, which appeared originally in Mademoiselle in 1957. Albondocani Press Publication No. 7.
$350

77.
WIENERS, John.
Chinoiserie.
San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1965.

First edition. Oblong 16mo. [20 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers with a faint dampstain along spine and bottom edge. One of [100] copies on Tovil paper. A most elegant presentation of this short poem. Haselwood 3.
$350

78.
[WIENERS, John]. Corbett, William. et al, eds.
Pressed Wafer Broadsides for John Wieners.
[Cambridge]: Pressed Wafer, 2000.

First edition. Fifty-two 11 x 8 ½ inch broadsides, all fine, housed in a fine portfolio. One of only 26 lettered copies (the entire edition) presenting unsigned broadsides by Ed Dorn and Robert Duncan, and the other broadsides all SIGNED by each contributor: John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Edward Barrett, Jim Behrle, Bill Berkson, Daniel Bouchard, Clark Coolidge, William Corbett, Robert Creeley, Tim Davis, Jim Dunn, Kenward Elmslie, Elaine Equi, Larry Fagin, Michael Franco, Michael Friedman, Merrill Gilfillan, Peter Gizzi, Michael Gizzi, John Godfrey, Barbara Guest, Thom Gunn, Jim Harrison, Lee Harwood, Stratis Hariaras, Fanny Howe, Susan Howe, August Kleinzahler, Joanne Kyger, Gerrit Lansing, Frank Lima, Bernadette Mayer (signed via thumbprint), Gail Mazur, Nathaniel Mackey, Askold Melnyczuk, Charles North, Rod Padgett, Michael Palmer, Andrew Schelling, Charles Simic, James Tate, Joseph Torra, Paul Violi, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, Dara Wier, Elizabeth Willis, John Yau, and Geoffrey Young.
$2500

79.
WILLIAMS, C.K.
Elegy for an Artist.
Princeton: Typography Studio, 2001.

First edition. Oblong 8vo. [18 pp]. Fine in stiff sewn wrappers with integral marbled paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. Illustrated with four tipped-on illustrations by Bruce McGrewn (full-color reproductions of his watercolors). One of 120 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams.
$150

80.
WILLIAMS, C.K.
Lies.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969.

Uncorrected proof. 62 pp. Very near fine in comb-bound wrappers. Promotional flyer taped inside the front cover. Williams’ second book.
$750

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