81.
SNYDER, Gary.
Myths & Texts.
NY: New Directions (1978).

First edition. 54 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. The book is the first issue, with Snyder misspelled “Synder” on spine, but the jacket, corrected, is the second issue. SIGNED by Snyder on the title page.
$75

82.
[SNYDER, Gary]. McNeil, Katherine.
Gary Snyder: A Bibliography.
NY: Phoenix Bookshop, 1983.

First edition. 247 pp w/index. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Still the reigning work. Phoenix Bibliography VIII.
$25

83.
[SOMBRE REPTILES PRESS]. Beausoleil, Beau.
Aleppo: Poetry.
Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles, 1984.

First edition. [44 pp]. Fine in two-part cloth binding with printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of only 35 hardcover copies.
$125

84.
[SOMBRE REPTILE PRESS]. Gray, Darrell.
The New Conventionalism: Observations on a mode of Contemporary American Poetry.
Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles, 1979.

First edition. [20 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers with some light wear along the bottom edge of the rear cover. One of 150 copies. Gray reflects on the contemporary poetry scene, after revisiting his student days during the New Critical era.
$40

85.
[SOMBRE REPTILES PRESS]. Gray, Darrell translates Phillipe Mignon.
Ruby Port: The Food Poems of Phillipe Mignon.
Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles, 1979.

First edition. 45 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine integral dust jacket. One of 350 copies. Sombre Reptiles/5.
$40

86.
[SOMBRE REPTILES PRESS]. Moriarty, Laura.
2 Cross Seizings.
[Berkeley]: Sombre Reptiles, 1980.

First edition. Folio. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Poetry by Moriarty with color prints by M.A. Hayden. One of 50 hardcover copies printed letterpress on Mohawk Superfine and Kozo Special papers. SIGNED by Moriarty and Hayden on the colophon page.
$250

87.
[SOMBRE REPTILES PRESS]. Peters, Robert.
Celebrities: In Memory of Margaret Dumont Dowager of the Marx Brothers Movies (1890–1965).
[Berkeley]: Sombre Reptiles, 1981.

First edition. [8 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Two leaves fold out in six panels. One of 140 copies on Rives BFK paper. Poems and illustrations printed in more than a half dozen colors.
$75

88.
[SOMBRE REPTILES PRESS]. [Ratch, Jerry].
Celine.
[Berkeley]: Sombre Reptiles, 1981.

First edition. Narrow 4to. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 26 copies. Following the title page: a red dot, “nasturtium!,” and a short diagonal green line, all letterpress-printed, one item per page. I leave it to you to interpret this text. However, it is nice work in line with all Sombre Reptiles.
$45

89.
[SOMBRE REPTILES PRESS]. Ratch, Jerry.
Chairman: A Sequence of Poems.
Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles, 1982.

First edition. Oblong 8vo. [18 pp]. Pasted-on illustrated cover label. One of 130 copies. A poem sequence with illustrations from papercuts made at the Yangchow Arts & Crafts Factory in China.
$45

90.
[SOMBRE REPTILE PRESS]. Ratch, Jerry.
Chaucer Marginalia.
Berkeley & Bolinas: Sombre Reptiles/Tombouctou Press, 1979.

First edition. [76 pp]. Fine in wrappers and near fine illustrated dust jacket. One of 200 (of 250) copies. A beautifully-produced text, with small designs and ornaments printed letterpress in at least five colors.
$35

91.
[SOMBRE REPTILES PRESS]. Wainio, Ken.
Letters from Al-Demi.
Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles, 1982.

First edition. 78 pp w/key to the hieroglyphics. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with a bit of foxing to top edge. One of 300 copies. Dated (6/16/82) and INSCRIBED by Wainio to David [Meltzer], “For David / via the trans-Californian / egyptian arch — Best / Ken Wainio.”
$40

92.
[SOPHOMORE LITERARY FESTIVAL]. Siems, Larry.
Sophomore Literary Festival 1979.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame (1979).

First edition. 12 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. A stellar line-up: Allen Ginsberg, David Mamet, William Gaddis, Romulus Linney, Larry McMurtry, Hilda Morley, John Frederick Nims, Ishmael Reed, and Robert S. Fitzgerald. Most writers pictured, with examples of their work.
$75

93.
STEIN, Gertrude.
Wars I Have Seen.
NY: Random House (1945).

First edition. 259 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Stein’s memoir of life during Occupation, and after. Wilson A38a.
$150

94.
[TWOMBLY, Cy]. Lambert, Yvon.
Catalogue Raisonné Volume VI 1973–1976.
Milan: Multhipla Edizioni (1979).

First edition. Folio. 222 pp w/bibliography & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Near fine publisher’s slipcase, with some light wear along the bottom edge. One of 1500 numbered copies. Introductory text by Roland Barthes, in French and English and Italian translation. Many tipped-on plates.
$750

95.
VEITCH, Tom.
Literary Days: Selected Writings.
NY: Lorenz & Ellen Gude 1964.

First edition. 4to. 21 pp. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art and one small internal drawing by Joe Brainard. One of 200 numbered copies. Though not called for, SIGNED by Veitch on the colophon page. The first published collection of Veitch’s writings, and the first of a series of “C” Press publications featuring the work of new writers.
$100

96.
WEIL Simone.
The Iliad or The Poem of Force.
Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1973.

First printing of this edition. 44 pp w/note on Simone Weil. Near fine in full red cloth with printed spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. Preface by George P. Elliott. Translated by Mary McCarthy. One of 150 copies on Crown & Sceptre handmade paper. Berger 57.
$125

97.
WELCH, Denton.
When I Was an Art Student.
[North Pomfret]: Elysium Press, 1998.

First edition, numbered issue. [10 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and inset printed cover label. Frontispiece self-portrait by the author. One of 100 numbered copies on handmade Alcantara paper. An excerpt from an early version of A VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, an autobiographical novel describing a serious bicycle accident Welch endured, and his subsequent recovery.
$200

98.
WHALEN, Philip.
Monday in the Evening 21: VIII: 61.
Milan: Serigrafia Pezzoli (1963).

First edition. 4to. 19 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs of Whalen by Ettore Sottsass Jr, printed on two fold-out leaves. Entire text reproduced from Whalen’s holograph manuscript. One of 291 (of 309) numbered copies.
$200

99.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee.
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume 2.
NY: New Directions (1971).

First edition. 591 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. SIGNED by Williams on the front free endpaper. Collects THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE, SUMMER AND SMOKE, THE ROSE TATTOO, and CAMINO REAL.
$350

100.
WOLF, Christa.
The Fourth Dimension: Interviews with Christa Wolf.
London & NY: Verso (1988).

First US edition. xxvii + 137 pp w/bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated by Hilary Pilkington with an introduction by Karin McPherson. Promotional flyer accompanies. Wolf discusses the origins and inspirations for her best known books
$35

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