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61.
NORSE, Harold.
Beat Hotel.
San Diego: Atticus Press (1983).
First trade edition. 76 pp. Small erasure to first leaf, else very good plus in illustrated wrappers with a few spots to rear cover. Forewords by William S. Burroughs and Carl Weissner. INSCRIBED by Norse on the first leaf, “for Bob Kaufman / & Lynne / with Love / Harold Norse.”
$150
62.
NOTLEY, Alice.
Songs for the Unborn Second Baby.
Lenox: United Artists (1979).
First edition. [56 pp]. Two sticker shadows to rear cover, else near fine in printed wrappers. Small inked ownership name inside front cover. Covers illustrated by George Schneeman. One of 750 copies.
$75
63.
NOTLEY, Alice.
Waltzing Matilda.
NY: Kulchur Foundation (1981).
First edition. Small 4to. 122 pp. Small ink ownership name inside front cover, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by George Schneeman. Errata slip present.
$75
64.
OLSON, Charles.
Projective Verse.
NY: Totem Press (1959).
First edition. 14 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers that are lightly toned. Cover art by Matsumi Kanemitsu. Erratum slip present. Olson’s landmark essay, and one of the most attractive books from the press.
$250
65.
OLSON, Charles.
Stocking Cap: A Story.
[San Francisco]: Donald Allen, 1966.
First edition. 15 pp. A few minor spots of foxing, else near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 copies on mould-made paper, printed in two colors by Grabhorn-Hoyem. A prose work by Olson, published originally in the Montevallo Review in 1951.
$125
66.
ONDAATJE, Michael.
Secular Love.
Toronto: Coach House Press (1984).
First edition. 126 pp. A bit of light discoloration to top edge, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Ondaatje on the title page.
$125
67.
PAZ, Octavio.
Marcel Duchamp or The Castle of Purity.
London: Cape Goliard, 1970.
First UK edition. [52 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Spanish by Donald Gardner. Title page silhouette Duchamp self-portrait without flaw. Includes a color reproduction of The Bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even, and on the rear cover, Fluttering hearts.
$200
68.
PAZ, Octavio.
Stanzas For An Imaginary Garden.
Tuscaloosa: Parallel Editions / University of Alabama, 1990.
First edition. [26 pp]. Fine in decorated boards. Translated from the original Spanish by Eliot Weinberger. Illustrated with two wood engravings by John DePol. One of 75 numbered copies on dampened Frankfurt mouldmade paper SIGNED by Paz, Weinberger, and DePol. Paz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature this same year.
$750
69.
[PETTIBON, Raymond]. Durbin, Andrew.
Spiyt th’words: Rereading Pettibon’s Twitter.
NY: David Zwirner Books (2018).
First edition. 102 pp w/list of works. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A number of color reproductions precede Durbin’s dissection of Pettibon’s prolific Twitter activity.
$40
70.
PINGET, Robert.
No Answer.
London: John Calder (1961).
First UK edition. 151 pp. Offsetting to endpapers, else very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to crown. Translated from the original French by Richard N. Coe. Pinget’s fifth novel, but the first to appear in English translation.
$75
71.
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Roberts, Bill. ed.
Bottle 3: Broadsides.
Dover: Bottle of Smoke Press (2005).
First edition, lettered & signed issue. Twenty 8 ½ x 5 ½ inch broadsides laid into a printed folder. Fine. First appearance of Bukowski’s poem, “Coffee and Babies.” Also work by Henry Denander, S. A. Griffin, Richard Krech, Gerald Locklin, and others. One of 26 lettered sets SIGNED by all contributors, excepting Bukowski.
$125
72.
PRINCE, Richard.
3rd Place: A Children’s Colouring Book.
London & Köln: Serpentine Gallery/Koenig Books (2008).
First edition. 4to. [80 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Reproductions of black and white figurative line drawings.
$75
73.
PRINCE, Richard.
Inside World.
NY: Kent/Westreich (1989).
First edition. 4to. [88 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. An artist’s book by Prince, juxtaposing works by Artschwanger, Brauntuch, Picabia, Polke, Man Ray, Richter, Sherman, Warhol, and Prince.
$150
74.
ROLFE, Frederick William writing as “Baron Corvo.”
Letters to Harry Bainbridge.
London: Enitharmon Press, 1977.
First edition, numbered deluxe issue. 47 pp w/appendix & index. Fine in original two-part cloth binding and fine clear acetate dust jacket. t.e.g. Edited with an introduction by Miriam J. Benkovitz. One of 45 numbered copies on Basingwerk Toned Parchment paper.
$150
75.
ROUBAUD, Jacques.
Some Thing Black.
Elmwood Park: Dalkey Archive Press (1990).
First US edition. 144 + 17 plates. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Rosmarie Waldrop. Photographs by Alix Cleo Roubaud. Laid into this copy, on her letterhead, is a holograph note from Waldrop presenting this copy to a friend.
$35
76.
RUSCHA, Ed.
Various Small Fires and Milk.
[Los Angeles]: Edward Ruscha, (1970).
Second edition. 36 pp. Fine in printed wrappers and very good plus unprinted glassine jacket with light wear and few shallow chips to the top edge. Photographs of fifteen fires and a tall glass of milk.
$400
77.
RUSCHA, Ed.
They Called Her Styrene.
London: Phaidon (2000).
First edition. Horizontal 16mo. [584 pp]. Some light rubbing to spine, else very near fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. The best collection of word drawings, all reproduced in color. SIGNED twice by Ruscha, on the top edge and inside the front cover.
$500
78.
RUSCHA, Edward.
Edward Ruscha.
Lyon: Octobre Desats, 1985.
First edition. 142 pp w/chronologie. Very near fine in printed self-wrappers. Two fold-out plates. Introduction by Thierry Raspail, an essay by Peter Schjeldahl, and a 1985 interview. Texts in French and English. Illustrated. SIGNED by Ruscha on the first leaf. “Compliments of the Artist” slip laid in.
$450
79.
SANDERS, Ed.
The Toe Queen Poems.
NY: Fuck You/Press [1964].
First edition. 4to. 14 pp. Light bend to one corner and faint toning to extrems, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers with a diagonal crease to the rear cover. Poems with a foreword by “Consuela.” Total Assault on the Culture!!
$125
80.
SMART, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth’s Garden: Elizabeth Smart on the Art of Gardening.
Toronto: Coach House (1989).
First edition. 77 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited by Alice Van Wart, with her introduction. Three essays on gardening, followed by Smart’s gardening journals.
$75