81.
[RUSCHA, Ed].
Ed Ruscha: Photographer.
Göttingen & NY: Steidl/Whitney Museum of American Art (2006).

First edition. 183 pp w/index. Fine in full red decorated cloth with inset cover image. No dust jacket, as issued. A full treatment of this aspect of Ruscha’s production.
$125

82.
SARTRE, Jean-Paul.
Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions.
London: Methuen (1962).

First UK edition. 95 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Philip Mairet. Preface by Mary Warnock.
$45

83.
SINCLAIR, Iain.
Radon Daughters: A voyage, between art and terror, from the Mound of Whitechapel to the limestone pavements of the Burren.
London: Jonathan Cape (1994).

First edition. 458 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Sinclair on the title page.
$45

84.
[SPIEGELMAN, Art]. Zwigoff, Terry. ed.
Funny Aminals.
San Francisco: Apex Novelties (1972).

First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. In addition to work by Crumb, Shary Flenniken, Justin Green, Bill Griffith, Jay Lynch, and Michael McMillan, this issue presents the first appearance of Spiegelman’s MAUS. A long talk with his father after showing him this strip inspired four days of conversation which provided the groundwork for Spiegelman’s triumph.
$150

85.
STOKES, Telfer.
Foolscrap.
London: Weproductions, 1973.

First edition. [160 pp]. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Photographs arranged under several general titles, oft not-immediately indicative of the sequence.
$35

86.
TODOROV, Tzvetan.
The Poetics of Prose.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press (1977).

First US edition. 272 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Richard Howard. New foreword by Jonathan Culler.
$45

87.
[TRAKL, Georg]. Graziano, Frank.
Georg Trakl: A Profile.
Durango: Longbridge-Rhodes (1983).

First edition. 127 pp. Fine in full black cloth. No dust jacket, as issued.
$40

88.
[TREE BOOKS].
The Book of Noah.
Berkeley: Tree, 1975.

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Translated by Jack Hirschman. Printed at the Membrane Press. Tree Texts: 1.
$35

89.
[TREE BOOKS]. Codrescu, Andrei.
For Max Jacob.
Berkeley: Tree Books (1974).

First edition. [20 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Printed at the Membrane Press.
$25

90.
[TREE BOOKS]. Drachler, Rose.
Burrowing In, Digging Out.
Berkeley: Tree Books, 1974.

First edition. 45 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Poems.
$45

91.
[TREE BOOKS]. Frank, Yakov.
Sayings of Yakov Frank.
Berkeley & Oakland: Tree/Tzaddikim 1978.

First edition. 36 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Translated by Harris Lenowitz. One of 500 copies. Issue Number 6 of Tree.
$45

92.
[TREE BOOKS]. Grossiner, Richard.
from the Book of the Cranberry Islands. Section XIII of Chapter 7: The Provinces.
(np): Tree Books (1971).

First edition. [12 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Designed at the Christopher Press, hand-set and printed by G.E. Albers. One of 175 copies.
$35

93.
[TREE BOOKS]. Hirschman, Jack.
Aur Sea.
Berkeley: Tree, 1974.

First edition. Oblong 16mo. [60 pp]. Fine in wrappers and very near fine illustrated dust jacket. Cover collage by John Brandi.
$25

94.
[TREE BOOKS]. Jabès, Edmond.
Elya.
Berkeley: Tree, 1973.

First edition. 89 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers from flaps, else fine in wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Introduction by Rosemarie Waldrop, who also translated this volume from the original French.
$35

95.
[TREE BOOKS]. Mernit, Susan.
The Angelic Alphabet.
Berkeley: Tree, 1975.

First edition. [56 pp]. Fine in wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Poems.
$25

96.
[TREE BOOKS]. Willems, J. Rutherford.
Opening the Cube.
Berkeley: Tree, 1975.

First edition. [68 pp]. Light offsetting to endpapers and covers, else fine in fine illustrated dust jacket. Poems.
$20

97.
[TREE BOOKS]. Worms, Eleazer of.
Three Tracts.
Berkeley: Tree, 1975.

First edition. [32 pp w/notes]. Faint offsetting to covers, else fine in stapled wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. “The Book of Prophecy,” “The Book of Words,” and “from: Hokmath Ha-’Egoz,” Translations by Jack Hirschman and Alexander Altmann. Tree Text 2.
$30

98.
WILMER, Valerie.
As Serious As Your Life: The story of the new jazz.
London: Alison & Busby (1977).

First edition. 296 pp w/biographies, bibliography, & index. Corners lightly tapped, else near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. The amazing innovations of Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, and others considered in the broader cultural and social context.
$150

99.
WILSON, S. Clay.
The Art of S. Clay Wilson.
Berkeley: Ten Speed Press (2006).

First edition. 4to. xvii + 154 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Wilson on the title page. Contributions by R. Crumb, Mark Pascale, John Francis Putnam, Charlie Plymell, Geoffrey Young, and Bob Levin. Proceeds from the sale of this book go to the S. Clay Wilson Special Needs Trust.
$75

100.
YEATS, William Butler.
A Tower of Polished Black Stones: The Early Versions of the Shadowy Waters.
Dublin: Dolmen (1971).

First edition. 4to. 70 pp. Corners lightly tapped, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Illustrations by Leonard Baskin and drawings by Yeats. Arranged and edited by David R. Clarke and George P. Mayhew. Dolmen Editions XI.
$85

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