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81. PRIME-STEVENSON, Edward. Those Restless Pilgrimages. [North Pomfret]: Elysium Press, 2002.
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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
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82. RAKOSI, Carl. Droles de Journal. West Branch: Toothpaste Press, 1981.
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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
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83. REDGROVE, Peter. Work in Progress 1968. London: Poet & Printer (1969).
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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
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84. [REXROTH, Kenneth]. Knabb, Ken. The Relevance of Rexroth. Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets. (1990).
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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
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85. REZNIKOFF, Charles. Testimony; the United States (1891–1900). NY: [Charles Reznikoff] 1968.
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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
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86. [ROUSSEL, Raymond]. Caradec, Francois. Raymond Roussel. London: Atlas (2001).
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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
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87. SALTER, James. Cassada. Washington DC: Counterpoint, 2000.
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Uncorrected proof. 206 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Salter’s complete rewrite of his second book, THE ARM OF FLESH. $20
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88. [SITUATIONISM]. The Decline and Fall of the “Spectacular” Commodity-Economy. (np): Frontier Press [1970].
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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
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89. SORRENTINO, Gilbert. White Sail. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow 1977.
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First trade paperback printing. 59 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Morrow & Cooney 270a. $12.50
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90. [SPICER, Jack]. Herndon, James. Everything As Expected. San Francisco: (np) 1973.
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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
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91. [STEGNER, Wallace]. Benson, Jackson J. Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work. NY: Viking (1996).
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First edition. xx + 472 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Benson on the title page. $20
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92. TORRANCE, Chris. Aries Under Saturn and Beyond. London: Ferry Press, 1969.
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First edition. 39 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Phil Moorsman. Poems. One of 374 (of 400) copies. $20
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93. [VAN HORN, Erica]. Kuhl, Nancy. The Book Remembers Everything: The Work of Erica Van Horn. Clonmel & NY: Coracle/Granary Books, 2010.
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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
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94. VOLLMANN, William T. Whores for Gloria. NY: Pantheon (1991).
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First US edition. 138 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition in hardcover, following the UK paperback original. $12.50
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95. WAGNER, D.r. The Lost Carnival & other places. Death Crater: Molly Moon Press, 1969.
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First edition. 22 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. Poems printed letterpress in purple. $15
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96. WAKOSKI, Diane. Greed: Parts 8, 9, 11. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.
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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
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97. WALDMAN, Anne. Blue Mosque. NY: United Artists, 1988.
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First edition. 59 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Louise Hamlin. A selection of travel pieces from 1967–1987. $25
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98. WILLIAMS, Jonathan. Amen Huzza Selah. Highlands: Jargon (1970).
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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
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99. WILLIAMS, William Carlos & Sanford, John. A Correspondence. Santa Barbara: Oyster Press, 1984.
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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
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100. WINTON, Tim. Minimum of Two and Other Stories. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson (1988).
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First UK edition. 153 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. $20
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