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81.
PRIME-STEVENSON, Edward.
Those Restless Pilgrimages.

[North Pomfret]: Elysium Press, 2002.

First edition. 17 pp. Fine in stiff wrappers and fine pale green paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 50 numbered copies, of which ten were for private use. Edited, with an introduction by Tom Sargant. Burton Weiss wrote: travel pieces by a gay American writer born in 1858 who lived most of his adult life in Europe, where he published two groundbreaking books under the pseudonym “Xavier Mayne”: IMRE: A MEMORANDUM (Naples, 1906), the first sympathetic and explicitly gay novel by an American, and THE INTERSEXES (1908), the first separately published study of homosexuality by an American.
$125

82.
RAKOSI, Carl.
Droles de Journal.

West Branch: Toothpaste Press, 1981.

First trade edition. [32 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 1500 copies on Curtis Tweedweave paper. Twenty numbered poems, printed in two colors.
$12.50

83.
REDGROVE, Peter.
Work in Progress 1968.

London: Poet & Printer (1969).

First edition. 52 pp w/corrections to the text. Corners very lightly bumped, else fine in printed paper-covered boards. Introduction by D.M. Thomas. One of 400 copies.
$25

84.
[REXROTH, Kenneth]. Knabb, Ken.
The Relevance of Rexroth.

Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets. (1990).

First edition. 88 pp w/notes, bibliographical remarks, & index. Fine in printed wrappers; a trade paperback original. The political significance of Rexroth by the well-known translator of Situational International texts.
$10

85.
REZNIKOFF, Charles.
Testimony; the United States (1891–1900).

NY: [Charles Reznikoff] 1968.

First edition. 206 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. An earlier portion of this sequence, 1885–1890, was published by New Directions/San Francisco Review in 1965.
$35

86.
[ROUSSEL, Raymond]. Caradec, Francois.
Raymond Roussel.

London: Atlas (2001).

First US edition. 366 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the French by Ian Monk. The biography of Roussel (1877–1933), author of NEW IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA and other baffling works.
$24.95

87.
SALTER, James.
Cassada.

Washington DC: Counterpoint, 2000.

Uncorrected proof. 206 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Salter’s complete rewrite of his second book, THE ARM OF FLESH.
$20

88.
[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

89.
SORRENTINO, Gilbert.
White Sail.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow 1977.

First trade paperback printing. 59 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Morrow & Cooney 270a.
$12.50

90.
[SPICER, Jack]. Herndon, James.
Everything As Expected.

San Francisco: (np) 1973.

First edition. [76 pp]. Near fine in glossy printed wrappers. Illustrated with 21 plates, most of them color collages by Fran Herndon. A memoir of poet Jack Spicer.
$25

91.
[STEGNER, Wallace]. Benson, Jackson J.
Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work.

NY: Viking (1996).

First edition. xx + 472 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Benson on the title page.
$20

92.
TORRANCE, Chris.
Aries Under Saturn and Beyond.

London: Ferry Press, 1969.

First edition. 39 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Phil Moorsman. Poems. One of 374 (of 400) copies.
$20

93.
[VAN HORN, Erica]. Kuhl, Nancy.
The Book Remembers Everything: The Work of Erica Van Horn.

Clonmel & NY: Coracle/Granary Books, 2010.

First edition. 122 pp w/ chronology of books & cards. Fine in illustrated boards; no dust jacket, as issued. Fully illustrated with color reproductions. A terrific examination of Van Horn’s work, in an appropriate format.
$20

94.
VOLLMANN, William T.
Whores for Gloria.

NY: Pantheon (1991).

First US edition. 138 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition in hardcover, following the UK paperback original.
$12.50

95.
WAGNER, D.r.
The Lost Carnival & other places.

Death Crater: Molly Moon Press, 1969.

First edition. 22 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. Poems printed letterpress in purple.
$15

96.
WAKOSKI, Diane.
Greed: Parts 8, 9, 11.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 50 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Wakoski. Morrow & Cooney 145b.
$30

97.
WALDMAN, Anne.
Blue Mosque.

NY: United Artists, 1988.

First edition. 59 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Louise Hamlin. A selection of travel pieces from 1967–1987.
$25

98.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
Amen Huzza Selah.

Highlands: Jargon (1970).

First edition. [44 pp]. Near fine in wrappers and integral dust jacket with fine clear acetate dust jacket. Preface by Louis Zukofsky. One of 700 copies. Jargon 13 (a).
$30

99.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos & Sanford, John.
A Correspondence.

Santa Barbara: Oyster Press, 1984.

First edition. 53 pp. Fine in wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Foreword by Paul Mariani. Both sets of letters, with Sanford’s commentary.
$20

100.
WINTON, Tim.
Minimum of Two and Other Stories.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson (1988).

First UK edition. 153 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
$20

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