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84904
81.
SACHS, Maurice.
Witches’ Sabbath.

NY: Stein & Day (1964).
First US edition. 315 pp w/glossary of persons. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Richard Howard. The first unabridged version of this autobiography in English. Young 3396*.
$50
32980
82.
SAROYAN, Aram.
Day & Night: Bolinas Poems.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1998.
First edition, lettered & signed issue. 226 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 20 lettered copies SIGNED by Saroyan with an original signed ink drawing, dated “7/25/98.”
$100
84967
83.
SCALAPINO, Leslie.
How Phenomena Appear To Unfold.

Elmwood: Potes & Poets Press, 1989.
First edition. 119 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Scalapino to her publisher at North Point Press, Jack Shoemaker, “For Jack / with great appreciation / Leslie.”
$75
84959
84.
SCHUYLER, James.
The Home Book: Prose and Poems, 1951–1970.

Calais: Z Press, 1977.
First edition. 97 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with light reading creases to spine. Cover art by Darragh Park. Edited by Trevor Winkfield. Dated (9/2/80) and INSCRIBED by Schuyler, “for Tom / all love, / Jim.” Young 3466.
$200
84998
85.
[SITUATIONISM]. Perlman, Fredy.
The Reproduction of Daily Life.

Kalamazoo: Black & Red (1969).
First edition. 20 pp. Corner crease to rear cover, else near fine in printed wrappers. “Capitalism is not simply the work you do for a boss who sells goods for a profit, it encompasses ever aspect of everyday life, and is reproduced by our conditioned responses to it.” Ford 202.
$40
85010
86.
[SITUATIONISM]. Zweifel, Stefan with Juri Steiner and Heinz Stahlhut. eds.
In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni: The Situationist International (1957–1972).

Zurich: JRP Ringier (2006).
First edition. 4to. 247 pp w/list of works. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with some light toning along top edge. An excellent exhibition catalogue, featuring color reproductions of ephemera.
$200
84978
87.
SNYDER, Gary.
No Nature: New and Selected Poems.

NY & San Francisco: Pantheon Books (1992).
First edition. xv + 390 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Snyder, “Gary Snyder / for David—.” Promotional flyer laid in.
$75
84988
88.
SOLNIT, Rebecca.
Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era.

San Francisco: City Lights (1990).
First edition. 145 pp w/notes, bibliography, & index. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with light sunning to spine and a bump to base. The six artists are Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Jess, Jay DeFeo, George Herms, and Wally Hedrick. Foreword by Bill Berkson. Illustrated. Solnit’s first book.
$125
84990
89.
SOLOMON, Carl.
mishaps, perhaps.

[San Francisco]: Beach Books, Texts & Documents (1966).
First edition. 60 pp. Small bend to one lower corner, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph of Solomon by Jeffery Beach. Edited by Mary Beach with an introduction, “Flash for Carl Solomon,” by Claude Pélieu. Cook 59.
$75
84981
90.
[SOUND POETRY]. Kern, W. Bliem.
MEDITATIONSMEDITATIONSMEDITATIONS: Selected Poems 1964–1973.

NY: New Rivers Press (1973).
First trade edition. [108 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Don Brewster. Postscript by Bernard Heidsieck. An uncommon title by this Sound Poetry practitioner.
$150
42905
91.
STEIN, Gertrude.
Reflection on the Atomic Bomb and How Writing is Written: Volumes I & II of the Previously Uncollected Writings of Gertrude Stein.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973 + 1974.
First editions. 164 + 161 pp. Both volumes fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed labels. Spines lightly tanned, else very near fine in printed white dust jackets. Each is one of 750 copies. Edited by Robert Bartlett Hass, who provides a preface to each volume. Morrow & Cooney 162b + 171b. For the pair:
$250
85007
92.
TATE, James.
Row With Your Hair.

San Francisco: Kayak (1969).
First edition. 88 pp. Wrinkle to crown, light toning to spine. In all, near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover and internal illustrations by Mel Fowler. One of 1000 copies printed by George Hitchcock. SIGNED by Tate on the second leaf. His second book.
$125
42095
93.
TROUPE, Quincy.
Snake-Back Solos: Selected Poems, 1969–1977.

NY: I. Reed Books (1978).
First edition. 79 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Dated (11/13/91) and INSCRIBED by Troupe, “To Jim: / here’s to the sound / rhythms of speech / of poetry / + the beauty we / feel dwelling there. / All the best / Quincy Troupe.”
$45
84678
94.
[TSCHICHOLD, Jan]. Doubleday, Richard B.
Jan Tschichold, Designer: The Penguin Years.

New Castle & Aldershot: Oak Knoll Press/Lund Humphries, 2006.
First edition. Small 4to. xxi + 218 pp w/bibliography & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Forewords by Alston W. Purvis and Alan Fletcher. Over 100 reproductions. Includes Tschichold’s own texts on his Penguin redesigns.
$45
84985
95.
WARD, David.
Something Like a Symphony (9:1:75).

London: Share Publications, 1975.
First edition. [22 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Ten “tracks,” each poem based on a different musical genre. Ward’s fourth publication.
$40
84984
96.
WHITE, Edmund.
Nocturnes for the King of Naples.

NY: St. Martin’s (1978).
First edition. 148 pp. Two tiny spots on top edge, else fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (June 1980) and INSCRIBED by White, “To Burton / Edmund White / San Francisco” with one small holograph correction.
$100
79601
97.
WILLIAMS, Emmett.
Sweethearts.

NY: Something Else Press (1967).
First US edition. [286 pp]. Light discoloration to top edge, else near fine in very good dust jacket with some shallow chipping along top edge, wear to base of spine, and light overall edgewear. Publisher’s price increase sticker to front flap. Cover image by Marcel Duchamp. Jacket flap text by Richard Hamilton. A solid copy of the less common hardcover issue of this concrete classic.
$250
85004
98.
WILLIAMS, Emmett. ed.
Anthology of Concrete Poetry.

NY: Something Else Press, 1967.
First edition. x + 342 pp w/biographies. Fine in very good plus dust jacket with light soiling and a toned spine. One of the earliest and most substantial international anthologies.
$350
84989
99.
WILLIAMS, John.
The Broken Landscape.

Denver: Alan Swallow 1949.
First edition. 35 pp. Very good plus in printed paper-covered boards. Lacks dust jacket. Ex-Library, from the Gotham West Frances Steloff Collection, with stamps to page edges and the base of one leaf, and the illustrated bookplate laid in. The first of two poetry books by Williams, author of the celebrated novel STONER. A volume in the New Poets Series. Scarce.
$250
85014
100.
ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
It was.

[Koyoto]: Origin Press, 1961.
First edition, numbered & signed issue. 132 pp. Fine in full green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Near fine unprinted tissue dust jacket. Handset and printed by the Genichido Press in Kyoto, Japan. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Zukofsky.
$450