61.
NEUHAUS, Max with Philip Corner and James Tenney.
An Evening of the Music of the Avant-Garde.
Chicago: Susan L. Popkin/University of Chicago/Max Neuhaus [1965].

First edition. Folding card (5 ½ x 8 ½ inches, closed). Very near fine. Neuhaus, Corner, and Tenny perform works by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel, and John Cage.
$35

62.
PAIK, Nam June.
Electronic Video Recorder.
[NY]: Cafe Au Go Go, 1965.

First edition. 11 x 8 ½ inch flyer. Fine. Paik’s breakthrough event during which he played his ‘Pope’ tape on a borrowed portable video recorder. In addition to details on the time and place of the performance, Paik recounts the development of his idea to combining television and video tape. “As collage technic replaced oil-paint, the cathode ray tube will replace the canvass.”
$100

63.
[PARK, David]. Mills, Paul.
The New Figurative Art of David Park.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press (1988).

First edition. 128 pp. Very near fine in glossy wrappers. Illustrated with color and b&w reproductions.
$35

64.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Morice, Dave.
The Cutist Anthology.
Iowa City: Happy Press 1979.

First edition. [46 pp]. Fine in side-stapled illustrated wrappers. Samuel F. Romular introduces this anthology of poems and drawings. “Cute, Cuter, Cutist.” — from the lost Cutist Manifesto. Morice’s “Dr. Alphabet” business card accompanies.
$45

65.
PRINCE, Richard.
Richard Prince.
München: Sammlung Goetz (2004).

First edition. 168 pp w/publications, exhibition checklist. Very near fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Texts by Prince, Rainald Schumacher, Ralph Rugoff, and Katharina Vossenkuhl.
$125

66.
QUENEAU, Raymond.
Odile.
Elmwood Park: Dalkey Archive (1988).

First US edition. iii + 117 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the French with an introduction by Carol Sanders. Life in 1930s Paris, originally published in 1937.
$35

67.
[REDON, Odilon]. Black, Candice. ed.
I am the First Consciousness of Chaos: The Black Album.
Solar Books (2010).

First printing of this edition. 208 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited by Black, with her introduction. Two hundred and fifty illustrations by Redon, with texts by Redon, Huysmans, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Poe, and others.
$40

68.
ROSEN, Kenneth. ed.
The Man to Send Rain Clouds: Contemporary Stories by American Indians.
NY: Viking (1974).

First edition. xiv + 178 pp. Lower corners tapped, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrations by R.C. Gorman and Aaron Yavva. Contributions by Leslie Silko, Simon J. Ortiz, Anna Lee Walters, Joseph Little, R.C. Gorman, Joseph Little, Opal Lee Popkes, and Larry Littlebird and the members of Circle Film.
$75

69.
[RUSCHA, Ed]. McMillan, Jerry.
Picturing Ed: Jerry McMillan’s Photographs of Ed Ruscha 1958–1972.
Santa Monica: Craig Krull Gallery/Smart Art Press, 2004.

First edition. [80 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Forty-five photographs of Ruscha, followed by “Jerry Talks about Ed.”
$35

70.
SINCLAIR, Iain.
The Gold Machine Beats... a Jungle Death Photo Album.
Warwickshire: Beat Scene Press (2021).

First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 125 numbered copies SIGNED by Sinclair.
$45

71.
SLEATER-KINNEY.
Get Up b/w By the Time You’re Twenty-five.
Olympia: Kill Rock Stars (1998).

Fine 7” single in fine single-fold picture sleeve. Design and illustration by Nikki McClure. Sleater-Kinney’s fourth single. KRS 337.
$25

72.
SMITH, Clark Ashton.
Prince Alcouz and the Magician.
[Glendale]: Roy A. Squires, 1977.

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 190 numbered copies on handmade Amatruda paper. A very early short story by Smith. Original printed paper mailing envelope, and larger cardstock mailer, accompanies.
$75

73.
SMITH, William Jay.
The Stork: A Poem Announcing the Safe and Happy Arrival of Gregory Jay Smith.
NY: [William Jay Smith] 1954.

First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. A four line poem beneath a typewritten image of a stork carrying a child. A beautiful and uncommon birth announcement.
$125

74.
[SNYDER, Gary]. McCord, Howard.
Some Notes to Gary Snyder’s MYTHS & TEXTS.
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1971.

First trade edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED on the colophon page by the publisher, “for Arthur / a constant / beginning / Jack Shoemaker.” Sand Dollar 4.
$35

75.
VAN VOGT, A.E.
Destination: Universe! An Anthology of Science-Fiction.
NY: Pellegrini & Cudahy (1952).

First edition. xv + 295 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine and three short edge tears. INSCRIBED by Van Vogt on the front free endpaper, “Here are my best / shorter stories, / with my best / wishes for Richard / Wald / A E van Vogt.”
$125

76.
[WALKER, Alice].
For Your Consideration: The Color Purple.
Los Angeles: Warner Brothers (1985).

First edition. [42 pp]. Very near fine in wrappers with die-cut cover illustrations. Color stills from the film for each of the 19 nominations.
$50

77.
WESTALL, Robert.
Demons and Shadows: The Ghostly Best Stories of Robert Westall.
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1993).

First edition. 264 pp w/notes on first publication. Fine in fine dust jacket. Includes the first appearance of “Graveyard Shift,” not previously published.
$75

78.
WIENERS, John.
Selected Poems.
NY: Grossman, 1972.

First US edition. 125 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Printed and bound in the UK. The first substantial collection of Wieners’ poems.
$45

79.
[ZEN]. Kubose, Gyomay M.
Zen Koans.
Chicago: Henry Regnery (1973).

First edition. xiii + 274 pp w/index. Light foxing along top edge, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine, and a small inked price to the front flap. Original sumie illustrations by Ryozo Ogura. Uncommon in hard cover.
$125

80.
[ZEN]. Schloegl, Irmgard. trans.
The Wisdom of the Zen Masters.
NY: New Directions (1976).

First US edition. xiv + 80 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Christmas Humphreys. Poet David Meltzer’s copy, with his small drawing and date (13:V:82) on the front free endpaper.
$75

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