61.
[NICHOL, bp]. McElroy, Gil. ed.
St. Art: The Visual Poetry of bp Nichol.
Charlottetown: Confederation Centre Art Gallery & Museum (2000).

First edition. 4to. 79 pp w/biography & list of works. Small bump to one upper corner, else very near fine in printed wrappers. Illustrated. Contributions by Paul Dutton, Barbara Caruso, and McElroy.
$35

62.
ORTIZ, Simon.
Song, Poetry and Language — Expression and Perception.
Tsaile: Navajo Community College Press, 1977.

First edition. 12 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. “A Statement on Poetics and Language.” Issued as Occasional Papers, Vol. III (Music and Dance Series) No. 5. An uncommon title by Ortiz, reprinted at least once.
$125

63.
PETERS, Robert L.
The Little Square Review Number 2: Fourteen Poems by Robert L. Peters.
Santa Barbara: Little Square Review, 1967.

Spring. 31 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Peters, John Ridland (editor), Kate Barnard (contributing artist), Bill Horton (printer), and S. Friedrich (typographer).
$40

64.
PETERSEN, Will.
Kazuraki.
(np): Will Petersen (1975).

First edition. 4to. vii + 27 pp. Near fine in side-stapled and taped wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Edition calls for 200 numbered copies; this one unnumbered, but INSCRIBED by Petersen, “For Michael / May ‘82 / Will.” Below the copyright notice is a rubber-stamped po box address (for Petersen).
$75

65.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Roberts, Bill. ed.
Bottle 5: Broadsides.
Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press [2007].

First edition, deluxe signed issue. Nineteen letterpress printed broadsides laid into a folder. All elements fine. Contributors are: David Barker, justin.barrett, Charles Bukowski, Dave Church, Christopher Cunningham, John Dorsey, Dan Fante, Amanda Fleming, S.A. Griffin, Robert Head, Tom Kryss, Jake Marx, Hosho McCreech, Ann Menebroker, Robert Miltner, Owen Roberts, Larry Smith, Marc Snyder, Kent Taylor, Jeffrey H. Weinberg. One of 40 copies SIGNED by all living contributors, and with a signed numbered print of the cover illustration affixed to the front of the folder. New, at publication price:
$150

66.
POUND, Ezra.
Oro E Lavoro alla memoria di Autrelio Baisi Rapallo.
Rapallo: Tip. Moderne (Canessa), (1944).

First edition. 22 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Entire text in Italian. From the library of Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin, with his book ticket inside the ear cover. Gallup A52a.
$850

67.
POUND, Ezra and Alberto Luchini. trans.
Confucio: Ta S’eu Dai Gaku Studio Integrale.
Rapallo: Scuola Tipografica Orfanotrofio Emiliani, 1942.

First edition. 29 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Original Chinese with Italian translations by Pound and Luchini. The first issue, on watermarked paper. Gallup B46.
$450

68.
RADCLYFFE-HALL, Marguerite.
A Sheaf of Verses: Poems
London: John and Edward Bumpus, 1908.

First edition. xi + 113 pp. Very near fine in full red cloth with gilt decoration. Her third collection of poems, preceding her first novel for many years. THE WELL OF LONELINESS, her best known book, was published in 1928.
$750

69.
REXROTH, Kenneth.
One Hundred Poems from the French.
Cambridge: Pym-Randall, 1972.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 100 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Rexroth. Work by Artaud, Bosquet, Char, Daumal, Goll, Leiris, Queneau, and several others in Rexroth’s English translation.
$125

70.
RICHTER, Gerard.
Paintings.
NY: Marian Goodman Gallery/Sperone Westwater 1987.

First edition. Small 4to. [48 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Essays by Anne Rorimer and Denys Zacharopoulos. Color reproductions of 40 abstract paintings.
$75

71.
RIVERA, Bob.
Aphrodite Changing.
San Francisco: Hoddypoll Press, 1974.

First edition. 4to. [20 pp]. Fine in stab-bound illustrated wrappers. One of 300 copies. What appears to be a single long poem, dated November, 1969, lower east side. Young 3304.
$45

72.
ROBERTS, Keith.
Winterwood and Other Hauntings.
Morrigan Publications, 1989.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 182 + xii pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase. Illustrations by Roberts, with an introduction by Robert Holdstock. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Roberts and Holdstock. This issue includes a bonus short story, “The Event,” not in the trade edition.
$125

73.
ROLFE, Fredrick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary aka Baron Corvo.
Frederick William Rolfe ‘Baron Corvo.’ Born in London, July 1860 Died in Venice, October 1913 [Cover title].
(np): Privately Printed for A.T.B. (1926).

First edition. Small folding card (5 ¼ x 3 ½ inches, closed). Fine. One of 50 copies. On the verso of the cover are four lines by William Blake, opposite a photographic portrait of Rolf, dated c. 1890. Together with a similar memorial for the 50th anniversary of his death, with the caption title, “Reprinted from The Times / October 25, 1963 / in Memoriam,” with a six line tribute to Rolfe. One the verso is printed, “One of fifty-three copies printed / for friends of Corvo in February 1964”. For the pair:
$125

74.
ROTHENBERG, Jerome. ed.
Revolution of the World: A New Gathering of American Avant-Garde Poetry 1914–1945.
Boston: Exact Change [1997].

First printing of this edition (originally published in 1974). xxvii + 259 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Work by Walter Conrad Arensberg, Bob Brown, Duchamp, Else von Freytag-Loringhoven, Mina Loy, Harry Crosby, Eugene Jolas, and may others, with Rothenberg’s “Pre-Face.” INSCRIBED by Rothenberg to David [Meltzer], “for David / with love — / in the year of / our reprints / Jerry / 23.vii.98.”
$45

75.
SANDY, Stephen.
Mary Baldwin: Poems.
Cambridge: (np) 1962.

First edition. 8 pp. Near fine in sewn wrappers. Five poems, printed at the Dolmen Press. Sandy’s first book.
$75

76.
SAPPHO.
Fragmenta Nova.
Berkeley & Brookston: Arif Press/Officina Chartaria Twinrocker 1981.

First edition. Folio. [18 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Hand-colored frontis by Cheryl Miller. One of 100 copies. Text entirely in Greek and Latin. Note on the text by Guy Davenport accompanies, as part of the original 8 pp prospectus. Six newly identified fragments to be added to the 1955 Oxford University Press Sappho edition.
$350

77.
[SITUATIONISM].
On the Poverty of Student Life [cover title].
Berkeley: point-blank! [c. 1970s].

First printing of this edition. 27 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. “FREE” stamped in red ink on the front cover. Student life “considered in its economic, political, psychological, sexual and, particularly intellectual aspects, and a modest proposal for its remedy.”
$45

78.
[SITUATIONISM]
The Poor & The Superpoor [cover title].
NY: Create Situations [c. 1970s].

First printing of this edition. 46 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Essay published previously in the International Situationiste in 1967, with an appendix on class struggles in Algeria.
$25

79.
[SITUATIONISM].
The State and Counter-Revolution: what is not to be done.
Berkeley: Negation [c. 1970s].

First edition. 22 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated. Concludes with a mention of People’s Park, which “has become just another junkie-infested rat-hole amid the shoddy commodity wasteland of Berkeley’s hip petty-bourgeoisie.”
$35

80.
SNODGRASS, W.D.
Six Minnesinger Songs.
Providence: Burning Deck (1983).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. [46 pp w/notes]. Light sunning along spine, else very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 26 lettered copies on Barcham Green Charter Oak paper SIGNED by Snodgrass. Music and lyrics in Snodgrass’ English translation.
$75

TO ORDER: please email maser@detritus.com or phone 510-524-8830.

61.
[NICHOL, bp]. McElroy, Gil. ed.
St. Art: The Visual Poetry of bp Nichol.
Charlottetown: Confederation Centre Art Gallery & Museum (2000).

First edition. 4to. 79 pp w/biography & list of works. Small bump to one upper corner, else very near fine in printed wrappers. Illustrated. Contributions by Paul Dutton, Barbara Caruso, and McElroy.
$35

62.
ORTIZ, Simon.
Song, Poetry and Language — Expression and Perception.
Tsaile: Navajo Community College Press, 1977.

First edition. 12 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. “A Statement on Poetics and Language.” Issued as Occasional Papers, Vol. III (Music and Dance Series) No. 5. An uncommon title by Ortiz, reprinted at least once.
$125

63.
PETERS, Robert L.
The Little Square Review Number 2: Fourteen Poems by Robert L. Peters.
Santa Barbara: Little Square Review, 1967.

Spring. 31 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Peters, John Ridland (editor), Kate Barnard (contributing artist), Bill Horton (printer), and S. Friedrich (typographer).
$40

64.
PETERSEN, Will.
Kazuraki.
(np): Will Petersen (1975).

First edition. 4to. vii + 27 pp. Near fine in side-stapled and taped wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Edition calls for 200 numbered copies; this one unnumbered, but INSCRIBED by Petersen, “For Michael / May ‘82 / Will.” Below the copyright notice is a rubber-stamped po box address (for Petersen).
$75

65.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Roberts, Bill. ed.
Bottle 5: Broadsides.
Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press [2007].

First edition, deluxe signed issue. Nineteen letterpress printed broadsides laid into a folder. All elements fine. Contributors are: David Barker, justin.barrett, Charles Bukowski, Dave Church, Christopher Cunningham, John Dorsey, Dan Fante, Amanda Fleming, S.A. Griffin, Robert Head, Tom Kryss, Jake Marx, Hosho McCreech, Ann Menebroker, Robert Miltner, Owen Roberts, Larry Smith, Marc Snyder, Kent Taylor, Jeffrey H. Weinberg. One of 40 copies SIGNED by all living contributors, and with a signed numbered print of the cover illustration affixed to the front of the folder. New, at publication price:
$150

66.
POUND, Ezra.
Oro E Lavoro alla memoria di Autrelio Baisi Rapallo.
Rapallo: Tip. Moderne (Canessa), (1944).

First edition. 22 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Entire text in Italian. From the library of Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin, with his book ticket inside the ear cover. Gallup A52a.
$850

67.
POUND, Ezra and Alberto Luchini. trans.
Confucio: Ta S’eu Dai Gaku Studio Integrale.
Rapallo: Scuola Tipografica Orfanotrofio Emiliani, 1942.

First edition. 29 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Original Chinese with Italian translations by Pound and Luchini. The first issue, on watermarked paper. Gallup B46.
$450

68.
RADCLYFFE-HALL, Marguerite.
A Sheaf of Verses: Poems
London: John and Edward Bumpus, 1908.

First edition. xi + 113 pp. Very near fine in full red cloth with gilt decoration. Her third collection of poems, preceding her first novel for many years. THE WELL OF LONELINESS, her best known book, was published in 1928.
$750

69.
REXROTH, Kenneth.
One Hundred Poems from the French.
Cambridge: Pym-Randall, 1972.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 100 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Rexroth. Work by Artaud, Bosquet, Char, Daumal, Goll, Leiris, Queneau, and several others in Rexroth’s English translation.
$125

70.
RICHTER, Gerard.
Paintings.
NY: Marian Goodman Gallery/Sperone Westwater 1987.

First edition. Small 4to. [48 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Essays by Anne Rorimer and Denys Zacharopoulos. Color reproductions of 40 abstract paintings.
$75

71.
RIVERA, Bob.
Aphrodite Changing.
San Francisco: Hoddypoll Press, 1974.

First edition. 4to. [20 pp]. Fine in stab-bound illustrated wrappers. One of 300 copies. What appears to be a single long poem, dated November, 1969, lower east side. Young 3304.
$45

72.
ROBERTS, Keith.
Winterwood and Other Hauntings.
Morrigan Publications, 1989.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 182 + xii pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase. Illustrations by Roberts, with an introduction by Robert Holdstock. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Roberts and Holdstock. This issue includes a bonus short story, “The Event,” not in the trade edition.
$125

73.
ROLFE, Fredrick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary aka Baron Corvo.
Frederick William Rolfe ‘Baron Corvo.’ Born in London, July 1860 Died in Venice, October 1913 [Cover title].
(np): Privately Printed for A.T.B. (1926).

First edition. Small folding card (5 ¼ x 3 ½ inches, closed). Fine. One of 50 copies. On the verso of the cover are four lines by William Blake, opposite a photographic portrait of Rolf, dated c. 1890. Together with a similar memorial for the 50th anniversary of his death, with the caption title, “Reprinted from The Times / October 25, 1963 / in Memoriam,” with a six line tribute to Rolfe. One the verso is printed, “One of fifty-three copies printed / for friends of Corvo in February 1964”. For the pair:
$125

74.
ROTHENBERG, Jerome. ed.
Revolution of the World: A New Gathering of American Avant-Garde Poetry 1914–1945.
Boston: Exact Change [1997].

First printing of this edition (originally published in 1974). xxvii + 259 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Work by Walter Conrad Arensberg, Bob Brown, Duchamp, Else von Freytag-Loringhoven, Mina Loy, Harry Crosby, Eugene Jolas, and may others, with Rothenberg’s “Pre-Face.” INSCRIBED by Rothenberg to David [Meltzer], “for David / with love — / in the year of / our reprints / Jerry / 23.vii.98.”
$45

75.
SANDY, Stephen.
Mary Baldwin: Poems.
Cambridge: (np) 1962.

First edition. 8 pp. Near fine in sewn wrappers. Five poems, printed at the Dolmen Press. Sandy’s first book.
$75

76.
SAPPHO.
Fragmenta Nova.
Berkeley & Brookston: Arif Press/Officina Chartaria Twinrocker 1981.

First edition. Folio. [18 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Hand-colored frontis by Cheryl Miller. One of 100 copies. Text entirely in Greek and Latin. Note on the text by Guy Davenport accompanies, as part of the original 8 pp prospectus. Six newly identified fragments to be added to the 1955 Oxford University Press Sappho edition.
$350

77.
[SITUATIONISM].
On the Poverty of Student Life [cover title].
Berkeley: point-blank! [c. 1970s].

First printing of this edition. 27 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. “FREE” stamped in red ink on the front cover. Student life “considered in its economic, political, psychological, sexual and, particularly intellectual aspects, and a modest proposal for its remedy.”
$45

78.
[SITUATIONISM]
The Poor & The Superpoor [cover title].
NY: Create Situations [c. 1970s].

First printing of this edition. 46 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Essay published previously in the International Situationiste in 1967, with an appendix on class struggles in Algeria.
$25

79.
[SITUATIONISM].
The State and Counter-Revolution: what is not to be done.
Berkeley: Negation [c. 1970s].

First edition. 22 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated. Concludes with a mention of People’s Park, which “has become just another junkie-infested rat-hole amid the shoddy commodity wasteland of Berkeley’s hip petty-bourgeoisie.”
$35

80.
SNODGRASS, W.D.
Six Minnesinger Songs.
Providence: Burning Deck (1983).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. [46 pp w/notes]. Light sunning along spine, else very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 26 lettered copies on Barcham Green Charter Oak paper SIGNED by Snodgrass. Music and lyrics in Snodgrass’ English translation.
$75

TO ORDER: please email maser@detritus.com or phone 510-524-8830.