81.
[RUSCHA, Ed]. Rowell, Margit.
Ed Ruscha: Photographer.
Göttingen & NY: Steidl/Whitney Museum of American Art (2006).

First edition. 183 pp w/index. Two pale droplet marks to cover, else fine in full red decorated cloth with inset cover image. No dust jacket, as issued. Foreword by Adam D. Weinberg. Illustrated. A full treatment of this aspect of Ruscha’s production.
$100

82.
SALTER, James.
The Hunters.
Washington DC: Counterpoint (1997).

First edition. 233 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Salter contributes a new preface to his 1956 novel. Dated (7/24/97) and SIGNED by Salter on the title page.
$125

83.
SCHLESINGER, Kyle. ed.
Bumpers.
Cuneiform Press (2011).

First edition. Twelve 4 ½ x 14 inch crack-and-peel bumper stickers, housed in a box with printed labels. All elements fine. Works by David Abel, Bill Berkson, Johanna Drucker, Craig Dworkin, Michael Gizzi, Michael Gottlieb, Ted Greenwald, Dorothea Lasky, Hoa Nguyen, Tom Raworth, Kit Robinson, and Carolee Schneemann. New, at publication price:
$49.95

84.
[SCHNEEMAN, George]. Berkson, Bill.
George Schneeman.
NY: CUE Art Foundation, 2003.

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Eleven color reproductions with statements by Schneeman and Berkson.
$20

85.
[SCHNEEMAN, George]. Berkson, Bill.
George Schneeman in Italy.
San Francisco: Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 2011.

First edition. 36 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Curated by Berkson,with contributions by Katie Schneeman, Ron Padgett, Grazia Della Terza, Stefano Tesi, and an Autobiographical Statement and Note on Landscape by George Schneeman. Twenty-six reproductions and photographs. Berkson contributes an introduction.
$25

86.
SPATOLA, Adriano.
Zeroglyphics:.
Los Angeles: Red Hill Press (1977).

First edition. [56 pp] w/notes & bibliography. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Afterwords by Renato Barilli and Giulia Niccolai. Translated by Giulia Niccolai and Paul Vangelisti. Red Hill/38.
$45

87.
SPOERRI, Daniel.
an anecdoted topography of chance (Re-Anecdoted Version).
NY: Something Else Press, 1966.

First trade paperback printing. 214 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. “Done with the help of his very dear friend Robert Filliou and Translated from the French, and further anecdoted at random by their very dear friend Emmett Williams with One Hundred Reflective Illustrations by Topor.”
$35

88.
STANFORD, Frank.
The Singing Knives.
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1971.

First edition. 56 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art (reproduced on the title page), and portrait drawing of Stanford by Ginny Crouch. Stanford’s first book, a collection of twenty-three poems.
$2000

89.
STANFORD, Frank.
The Singing Knives: Poems.
Fayetteville: Lost Roads, 1979.

Second edition, second printing. 59 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover screen by David Hurley. In addition to adding two poems not in the original edition, this second printing concludes with four page biography of Stanford by C.D. Wright (uncredited).
$150

90.
STRAYER, Jeff.
Five Books: Decisions, Intentions, Portrait of an Unknown Lady, Still Life with Fruit, Wine, Audiotape and Projections, and Untitled No. 5.
Chicago: A Chicago Book (1981 & 1982).

First editions. Five small books, all near fine or better in stapled wrappers. Each copy is SIGNED by Strayer. Several contain clipped in, or stapled in elements, ranging from slides, to a plastic bag containing dried wine, to audio tape fragments, to a bit of broken glass. For the collection:
$125

91.
TAGGART, John.
Peace on Earth.
Berkeley: Turtle Island Foundation, 1981.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 77 pp. Fine in full cloth with gold lettering to cover and spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Printed at the Toothpaste Press. One of 50 numbered copies on Fabriano Ingres paper SIGNED by Taggart.
$75

92.
THESIGER, Wilfred.
Arabian Sands.
NY: Viking (1984).

First US printing of this reissue. 347 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket, with a closed tear to the base of the front flap. Includes all the original photographs of the 1959 edition. Thesinger adds a new preface to this account of his years in the Empty Quarter.
$45

93.
TRANSTRÖMER, Thomas.
Selected Poems 1954–1986.
NY: Ecco (1987).

First edition. xii + 190 pp. Slight lean to spine, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with wear to base and crown of spine, and tips to flap folds. Edited by Robert Hass, with his introduction. Translations by Robert Bly, Robin Fulton, May Swenson, Samuel Charters, John F. Deane, Joanna Bankier, Eric Sellin, and others. SIGNED by Tranströmer on the front free endpaper.
$150

94.
VIXEN, Richard M.
Deep Foot and Deeper Foot.
Eugene: Avant-Garde Creations (1977).

First editions. 124 + 135 pp. Two volumes, both very near fine in illustrated wrappers with a small light blemish to the cover of the first issue. For the pair:
$100

95.
WAGONER, David.
A Guide to Dungeness Spit.
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press (1975).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [11 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 60 numbered copies SIGNED by Wagoner. Graywolf Pamphlet Series I.
$75

96.
WALDMAN, Anne.
Baby Breakdown.
NY & Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1970).

First edition. 115 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Cover photograph by Joe Brainard. Long jacket flap text by Ted Berrigan. “Half the population of America is under 25, and Anne Waldman, at the age of 25, is a star.” Review slip laid in.
$125

97.
WALLIS, Brian and Phil Mariani. eds.
Wedge: An Aesthetic Inquiry.
NY: Wedge (1982).

Summer. 71 pp. Spine lightly toned, else fine in printed wrappers. Contributors include Acker, Jenny Holzer, Robert Longo, Jon Hendricks, and several others, including an interview with Joseph Beuys by Art Papier. The GAAG multiple by Henricks and Toche is present and sealed in the internal pasted-on envelope.
$125

98.
[WILSON, Robert A.]. Wilson, Bob with Kenneth Doubrava and John LeBow. eds.
The Phoenix Book Shop: A Nest of Memories.
Candia: John LeBow, 1997.

First edition, deluxe issue, for friends. A 42 pp pamphlet (fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket), a twenty page hardcover photo album (fine in full cloth, no dust jacket, as issued), and an envelope of ephemera (all elements fine). The lot is housed in the fine publisher’s clamshell box with printed cover and spine labels. Laid into the pamphlet is a photographic print “for contributors and friends.” One of 15 (of 65) numbered copies for friends of the press, not offered for sale. This copy is SIGNED by Wilson, Di Prima, McClure, Baraka, Ashbery, Levertov, Broughton, Wakoski, Wieners, Clements, and Sanders, and is additionally INSCRIBED by Wilson, “For Burton Weiss, with thanks for all / the years of his friendship and support / across decades and continents, and with / love, / from / Bob W.”
$950

99.
WILSON, S. Clay.
Murder.
[San Francisco: Zephyrus Image c. 1972].

First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. “Reading time 10 minutes 5 seconds.” Wilson’s inimitable drawings with some collage work. An uncommon item by Wilson, printed at the Rip Off Press.
$200

100.
[WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig]. Ambrose, Alice. ed.
Wittgenstein’s Lectures: Cambridge, 1932–1935.
Totowa: Roman and Littlefield (1979).

First US edition. xi + 225 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a corner crease to rear flap and and a small chip at crown. From the notes of Alice Ambrose and Margaret Macdonald.
$55

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