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SMITH, Artemis.
Odd Girl.

NY: Beacon (1959).
First edition. 187 pp. Slight lean to spine, one page corner-creased. In all, near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of three pro-lesbian novels by Smith, together with THE THIRD SEX and THIS BED WE MADE.
$75
84083
82.
SNYDER, Gary.
Earth Verse.

[Eugene]: Knight Library Press, 2000.
First edition. 12 inch square illustrated broadside, printed in three colors. Fine. Professionally framed. Brush design by Marilyn Reaves. One of 100 numbered copies on handmade jute-fiber paper SIGNED by Snyder.
$350
83964
83.
[SNYDER, Gary]. Han-Shan.
Selected Han-Shan Poems for Hippie Reading.

Kalimpong: C.M. Chen (1970).
First edition. 48 pp. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Chen’s translation of poems by Han-Shan with supporting analysis, and a generous selection of interesting letters to Chen by readers. Printed on the front cover is the statement, “A Gift by / The Buddhist Hippies Leader / Ven. Gary Snyder / CALIFORNIA / U.S.A.” Snyder is mentioned in the text as having translated Han-Shan poems. An uncommon survivor documenting the call of the East to the hippie youth of the West. Three small illustrated slips picturing Buddhist images laid in.
$250
83961
84.
STEPHEN, Ian.
Broad Bay: Poems and Photographs.

Edinburgh: Morning Star Publications, 1997.
First trade edition. [22 pp w/list of vessels, fish, & places]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 450 (of 500) copies.
$45
84047
85.
STEWARD, Sam.
Original ink drawing.

(1957).
10 x 7 inch drawing in black ink of a sailor on board. Dated (5–29–57) and SIGNED by Steward on the verso. A classic image by poet, novelist (as Phil Andros), artist, professor, and tattooist (as Phil Sparrow) Steward.
$750
69048
86.
STRAND, Mark.
18 Poems from the Quechua.

Cambridge: Halty Ferguson, 1971.
First edition. 29 pp. Fine in full cloth with gilt stamping to front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. INSCRIBED by Strand on the front free endpaper to Peter [Everwine], “for Pete / whose work I / admire / from / Mark Strand.”
$150
83962
87.
THOMPSON, John.
Book of Dreams.

NY: Walter Bachner (1977).
First edition. [200 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson. In addition to Thompson’s intricate line drawings, events significant to the counterculture, births and deaths of creatives, and paranormal activities are noted.
$50
68687
88.
[THOMPSON, John]. John Thomson.
Dead Flowers.

Berkeley: Undermine Press, 1968.
First edition. Small 4to. [16 pp]. Some light scattered foxing, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems with trippy illustrations. One of 500 copies. Printed by Richard Krech and John Oliver Simon at Noh Directions Press. Printed dedication to the memory of Scott Coles.
$75
73907
89.
WALDMAN, Anne.
Corset: Emma Goldman / in memory, Kathy Acker.

[Naropa: Anne Waldman, 2009].
First edition. 4to. 4 pp. Bump to the outside upper corner, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Dated (Naropa 2009) and INSCRIBED by Waldman with a lip print.
$75
84074
90.
WALDMAN, Anne.
One Inch of Love Is An Inch of Ashes.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Special Collections Library, 2002.
First edition. 16 x 9 ¾ inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Produced on the occasion of the symposium and exhibit, “Makeup on Empty Space: A Celebration of Anne Waldman.” One of 400 copies printed by Wesley B. Tanner at Passim Editions. Ginsberg visits Waldman in a dream.
$50
63344
91.
WARHOL, Andy.
Cowboys and Indians.

San Francisco: John Berggruen Gallery, 2001.
First edition. 4to. 40 pp w/list of works. Near fine in printed wrappers. Essay by Bill Berkson. Twenty color and b&w reproductions.
$45
71603
92.
WHALEN, Philip.
Further Notice / Ulteriori notizie.

Fondazione Franco Beltrametti/Josef Weiss Edizioni (2004).
First edition, deluxe numbered issue. 45 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine integral printed dust jacket. Original poems in English with facing Italian translations by Giulia Niccolai and Anna Ruchat. Frontis woodcut illustration by Donald Guravich. One of 12 numbered copies SIGNED by Guravich at his illustration.
$125
71722
93.
WHALEN, Philip.
Some of These Days: Poems.

San Jose: Desert Rose Press, 1999.
First edition. 4to. [52 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers with light bumps to corners. One of 250 (of 300) copies on old Curtis paper. Printed in two colors by Clifford Burke, hand bound by Martha Little. A beautiful presentation of these poems.
$75
84079
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WIENERS, John.
A New Book from Rome.

Lowell: Bootstrap Press, 2010.
First edition. 158 pp. Fine in gilt-decorated boards with bound-in ribbon place marker. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 258 numbered copies. Wieners’ journal from July 1969 to January 1970. All five bits of printed ephemera laid in, as issued.
$125
84045
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WIENERS, John.
Youth.

NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1970.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with integral printed dust jacket and pasted-on cover label. One of 26 lettered copies on Fabriano paper SIGNED by Wieners. No. 10 in the Phoenix Book Shop Oblong Octavo Series.
$200
84072
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[WILLIAMS, Tennessee]. Windham, Donald.
As if... A personal view of Tennessee Williams.

Verona: Sandy Campbell, 1985.
First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 116 pp. Very light bump to upper outside corners, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Six internal illustrations with a reproduction of a small collage by John Digby on the front cover. Near fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 50 numbered copies on Fava paper SIGNED by Windham.
$150
84061
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WILSON, Colin.
Hesse, Reich, Borges: Three Essays.

Philadelphia: Leaves of Grass Press (1974).
First edition. 78 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Wilson on the title page. Review slip laid in.
$50
84073
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WINDHAM, Donald.
Stone in the Hourglass.

Verona: Sandy Campbell, 1981.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 153 pp w/note. Fine in illustrated wrappers and fine publisher’s slipcase. Cover art from a collage of printed papers by Fritz Bulman. Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. One of 50 numbered copies on Magnani paper SIGNED by Windham.
$200
84049
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WOLFE, Michael.
In Morocco.

Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles 1980.
First edition. 39 pp. Very near fine in wrappers and integral illustrated dust jacket. One of 400 copies. Title page photograph by Penny Pillatt. Dated (Oct. 3. 1980) and INSCRIBED by Wolfe, “For Leslie, / Thanks for the party; / there’s no place like home. / Love, Michael.” Wolfe’s third book, a journal of his 1979 visit to Morocco, from smoking kif to dining with Paul Bowles.
$45
78074
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WRIGHT, James.
The Green Wall.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957.
First edition. xix + 93 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to tips of flap folds, and base and crown of spine. Foreword by W.H. Auden. Wright’s first book, issued as the 53rd volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
$250