81.
POUND, Ezra.
A Selection of Poems.
London: Faber and Faber (1940).

First edition. 80 pp. A few small scattered spots of foxing, and some offsetting to endpapers, else very near fine in like dust jacket with one tiny closed tear to bottom edge of rear panel. A “Sesame Book.” From the collection of Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin, with his ticket inside the rear cover. Gallup A48.
$100

82.
[ROUSSEL, Raymond]. Ford, Mark.
Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press (2001).

First US edition. xxviii + 312 pp w/index. Pages lightly toned, else near fine in fine dust jacket. Foreword by John Ashbery. “Wealthy on a vast scale, he took two world tours during which he hardly left his hotel rooms.” Revered by many of his contemporaries as one of the great French writers.
$25

83.
RUSCHA, Ed.
Ed Ruscha.
NY: Karma/Gagosian, 2014.

First edition. Oblong 8vo. Corners lightly tapped, else fine in decorated full cloth. Still in original shrinkwrap.
$75

84.
RUSCHA, Ed.
Ed Ruscha Paintings aka “Porch Crop.”
NY: Gagosian (2002).

First edition. [52 pp]. Very near fine in full royal blue cloth with inset cover image. No dust jacket as issued. Introductory essay by Adam Gopnik, “Bones in the Ice Cream.” Seventeen color reproductions of mountain and book paintings, three of which are fold-outs.
$250

85.
SEBOLD, Alice.
The Lovely Bones: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown (2002).

First edition. 328 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Sebold. Her first novel, source of the Peter Jackson film.
$35

86.
SEBOLD, Alice.
Lucky.
NY: Scribner (1999).

First edition. 254 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Sebold on the title page. Her first book.
$75

87.
SIMMS, Colin.
Parflèche.
Swanse: Galloping Dog Press, 1977.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. Oblong 8vo. [38 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover by Peter Hodgkiss. Poems written while on travels in the USA and Scotland. One of 10 numbered copies SIGNED by Simms.
$75

88.
STAFFORD, William.
Tuned in Late One Night.
Old Deerfield & Dublin: Deerfield/Gallery Press (1978).

First edition. [10 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Stafford. Two poems, with illustrations by Timothy Engelland.
$75

89.
STEIN, Gertrude.
Ida: A Novel.
NY: Random House (1941).

First edition. 154 pp. Foxing along top edge and along edges of boards and spine, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Wilson A36a.
$250

90.
STEWARD, Samuel.
Original artwork.
1951, 1953.

15 ½ x 7 ⅛ inch multi-color image of a young man wearing only a bracelet and blue jeans, reclining on a pier. Dated and signed twice, “Sam Steward 1953 / Steward 1951” within the dark edge of the pier, and also dated (6-4-51) on the verso. A less common work in color by poet, novelist, professor Steward who later, under the name “Phil Sparrow” turned tattooist, eventually becoming the official go-to artist for the Hells Angels.
$750

91.
THOMSON, Rupert.
This Party’s Got to Stop: A Memoir.
London: Granta (2010).

First edition. 263 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Thomson on the title page. His first work of non-fiction, occasioned by the death of his father and subsequent convergence of three brothers, dad’s old pills, and an eventual falling-out.
$35

92.
[TWOMBLY, Cy]. Serota, Nicholas. ed.
Cycles and Seasons.
NY: Tate Modern/D.A.P. (2008).

First US edition. 4to. 269 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Several fold-out plates. Essays by Nicholas Cullinan, Tacita Dean, and Richard Shiff. A career retrospective.
$250

93.
VICUNA, Cecilia.
Instan.
[Berkeley]: Kelsey St. Press (2002).

First trade edition. [88 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Delicate poem-drawings.
$45

94.
WALKER, Alice.
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women.
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1973).

First edition. 138 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to the bottom edge of the front flap. Long endorsement on the front flap by June Jordan. Her fourth book.
$300

95.
WARE, Chris.
The ACME Novelty Library.
NY: Pantheon (2005).

First edition. Folio. 108 pp. Fine in illustrated boards. Original wrap-around band present. Dated (2005 A.D.) and SIGNED by Ware.
$75

96.
WHITEHEAD, Colson.
The Intuitionist.
NY: Anchor/Doubleday (1999).

First edition. 255 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Whitehead’s first book, set among the warring factions in the department of Elevator Inspectors.
$100

97.
WOLFF, Robert Paul with Barrington Moore, Jr. and Herbert Marcuse.
A Critique of Pure Tolerance.
Boston: Beacon Press (1969).

First printing of this edition (originally published in 1965). vi + 123 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. For this edition, Marcuse has added, “Postscript 1968,”
$75

98.
WOOLF, Virginia.
The Captain’s Death Bed and other Essays.
NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1950).

First edition. viii + 248 pp. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a tiny tear to the base of spine. Leonard Woolf contributes an introductory note. Kirkpatrick A30a.
$85

99.
WRIGHT, Jay.
The Homecoming Singer: Poems.
NY: Corinth, 1971.

First trade paperback printing. 95 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. His first major collection of poems.
$45

100.
YOUNG, Gary.
Wherever I Looked: Poems.
Los Angeles: Robin Price, 1993.

First edition. Oblong 18mo. [22 pp]. Fine in stiff printed wrappers. Poems by Young with woodcut illustrations by Mary Allan. Type composition, design,a and printing by Robin Price. One of 85 numbered copies SIGNED by Young, Allan, and Price.
$125

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