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81.
SASSOON, Siegfried.
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.

London: Faber and Faber (1930).
First trade edition. 334 pp. Slight lean to spine, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with small chips to tips of flap folds, light tanning to spine, and a pen stroke through the printed price on the front flap. The second volume of Sasson’s fictionalized autobiography, a classic of WWI fiction.
$125
84392
82.
SCHÖNHERR, Klaus. ed.
supervisuell 4.

Zürich: Klaus Schönherr (1969).
First edition. [8 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. An uncommon issue of a scarce avant-garde film magazine. While there is a contents page and list of contributors (Alfredo Leonardi, Wilhelm Hein, Raj Marbres, Dieter Meier, Thomas Alva, Jonas Mekas) and articles titles, the internal text is largely “blah blah blah” typed over and over again, occasionally interrupted by a few German or English phrases.
$200
84126
83.
[SCHWITTERS, Kurt]. Steinitz, Kate Trauman.
Kurt Schwitters: A Portrait from Life.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
First US edition. xxviii + 221 pp w/appendix. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a short tear to crown and fading to red ink on spine. Translations by Robert Bartlett Haas. Foreword by Elmer Belt. Introduction by John Coplans and Walter Hopps. Includes COLLISIONS, a science-fiction opera libretto in BANALITIES by Schwitters, Kate Trauman Steinitz, and other writings.
$45
84413
84.
SILLITOE, Alan.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

London: W.H. Allen, 1959.
First edition. 176 pp. Band of offsetting to first and last leaves, else very near fine in like dust jacket with two small marks to the rear flap fold. Sillitoe’s second book, a collection of short stories.
$250
84408
85.
[SITUATIONISM]. Cronin, Isaac and Terrel Seltzer.
Call It Sleep: A Videotape.

Berkeley: Isaac Cronin [c. 1982].
First edition. 24 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. “The first visual work produced in the United States which makes use of the situationist technique of detournement...” The 42 minute video is presented on the page in three columns: narration, visuals, music.
$40
84404
86.
[SITUATIONISM]. Vaneigem, Raoul.
The Revolution of Everyday Life.

London: Practical Paradise Publications (1975).
Second printing. 292 pp w/appendix. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by John Fullerton and Paul Sieveking. Published originally by Gallimard in 1967, this second UK printing happened four months after the first. See Ford 142.
$75
84433
87.
SNYDER, Gary. trans Han-Shan.
Cold Mountain Poems: Twenty-Four Poems by Han-Shan.

Portland: Press-22 (1970).
First edition. Oblong 8vo. [30 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Text reproduced from the calligraphy of Michael McPherson. One of 1000 numbered copies. McNeil A27a.
$100
83750
88.
STAFFORD, Jean.
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1970.
First UK edition. xi + 463 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a small sticker shadow. Stafford contributes an opening note to this collection of thirty stories, written between 1944 to 1968.
$50
74502
89.
STEGNER, Wallace.
Two Rivers.

Covelo: Yolla Bolly Press (1989).
First edition. xvii + 91 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to spine. Fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 200 (of 255) numbered copies. Stegner provides an introduction to this collection of seven short stories.
$125
84445
90.
STEIN, Gertrude.
How To Write.

Paris: Plain Edition [1931].
First edition. 395 pp. Some light foxing to fore-edge, else very near fine in paper-covered boards with printed spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. Wilson A17.
$500
84391
91.
STEWART, Harold.
By the Old Walls of Kyoto: A Year’s Cycle of Landscape Poems with Prose Commentaries.

NY & Tokyo: Weatherhill (1981).
First US edition. xxv + 463 pp w/index. Two small spots on bottom edge, else very near fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated with twenty-four woodblock prints in color. Twelve seasonal poem cycles in homage to Kyoto’s art, nature, and religion.
$45
6134
92.
THESEN, Sharon.
Radio New France Radio.

Vancouver: Slug Press, 1981.
First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies for public sale (of an entire edition of 211 copies), printed letterpress. Slug Pamphlet Poems One.
$30
84428
93.
THESEN, Sharon.
Sheet Music.

[Burnaby]: (np) (1982).
First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Eleven poems, issued as a text for English 102: Introduction to Poetry, Fall Semester.
$45
84444
94.
THOMPSON, David E. as “Davi Det Hompson.”
SO NU.

NY: Bound & Unbound, 1991.
First edition. 8 ¼ x 18 ½ inch sheet, printed in two colors. Fine with one vertical fold, as issued. One of 120 numbered copies SIGNED by Hompson. Original mailing envelope accompanies.
$150
84406
95.
WAKEFIELD, Dan.
New York in the 50s.

NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
First edition. x + 355 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Author photo laid in. Dated (5/28/92) and INSCRIBED by Wakefield, “To Herb Gold, / A friend in New York / in the Fifties who does me / the honor of introduction / in San Francisco in the / Nineties — with great / appreciation + admiration, / Dan Wakefield.” Gold is cited six times in the index.
$125
84430
96.
WEBSTER, Michael.
Reading Visual Poetry after Futurism: Marinetti, Apollinaire, Schwitters, Cummings.

NY: Peter Lang (1995).
First edition. xi + 197 pp. Fine in printed boards. No dust jacket, as issued. A chapter each to the figures mentioned in the title, with a generous selection of representative works at the rear of the volume.
$75
84431
97.
WELTY, Eudora.
Women!! Make Turban in Own Home!

[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press (1979).
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 13 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SINGED by Welty. First separate appearance of this article, which appeared originally in the November 1941 issue of Junior League Magazine in slightly different form.
$150
84425
98.
WHALEN, Philip.
Two Novels: YOU DIDN’T EVEN TRY and IMAGINARY SPEECHES FOR A BRAZEN HEAD.

Somerville: Zephyr Press (1985).
First trade edition. xiii + 250 pp w/biographical notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Paul Christensen. One of 300 (of 350) hardcover copies. Novels originally published 1967 and 1972, set in the Berkeley and San Francisco counterculture of the late 50s and early 60s.
$75
84417
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WILLIAMS, Diane.
This Is About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate.

NY: Grove Weidenfeld (1990).
First edition. 117 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket (a bit rubbed). Williams’ first work, a collection of forty-six short stories.
$35
84427
100.
ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
Barely and widely.

NY: C(elia) Z(ukofksy), 1958.
First edition. Oblong 12mo. 73 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. These twelve poems with a dedication are entirely reproduced from Zukofsky’s holograph, with Celia Zukofsky’s additions. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Zukofsky.
$150