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61.
MOMADAY, N. Scott.
Angle of Geese and Other Poems.

Boston: David R. Godine (1974).
First edition. 28 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Dated (1978) and INSCRIBED by Momaday on the title page, “for Calvin Israel / with every good wish / N. Scott Momaday.” Number 5 in the first Godine chapbook series.
$75
87127
62.
MOMADAY, N. Scott.
Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, The Moon in Two Windows.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press (2007).
First edition. ix + 177 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Two plays (one for children) and a screenplay, all published here for the first time. SIGNED by Momaday on the title page.
$125
87269
63.
NEWBY, Eric.
A Small Place in Italy.

London: HarperCollins (1994).
First edition. 210 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (May 3, 1994) and SIGNED by Newby on the title page. Newby’s account of he and his wife acquiring I Castagni, the process of fixing it up, and life among the locals as the only expats.
$75
87275
64.
OLIVER, Mary.
Blue Pastures.

NY: Harcourt Brace & Company (1995).
First edition. 122 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with a small corner crease to the front flap. Fifteen prose works.
$100
87277
65.
OLIVER, Mary.
A Poetry Handbook.

NY: Harcourt Brace (1994).
First edition. 130 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Oliver spells out how to build a poem. Not issued in hardcover, uncommon in fine condition.
$35
87166
66.
PAMUK, Orhan.
Silent House.

London: Faber and Faber (2012).
First edition. 334 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Turkish by Robert Finn. SIGNED by Pamuk on the title page.
$75
87279
67.
PATCHEN, Kenneth.
Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer.

San Francisco: City Lights Books (1958).
First printing of this edition (originally published in 1945). 235 pp. Slight lean and toning to spine, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Ray Johnson. Date (58) and inked ownership signature of Wormwood Review editor Marvin Malone inside front cover. Morgan A7d. Cook 9.
$50
66517
68.
PATCHEN, Kenneth.
They Keep Riding Down All the Time.

NY: Padell (1946).
First edition. 32 pp. Fine in unprinted stapled wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Cover art by Patchen. A short prose work by the poet. Morgan A14.
$55
87098
69.
[PEOPLE’S PARK].
Benefits for People’s Park.

Berkeley & San Francisco: People’s Park People [c. 1969].
First edition. 11 x 8 ½ inch flyer. Fine. Three events, featuring Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Country Joe and the Fish, and many others. Uncommon, as are many of these more humble announcements, less often kept than the psychedelic posters.
$150
87368
70.
PLATH, Sylvia.
Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices.

London: Turret Press, 1968.
First edition. Small 4to. 22 pp. Fine in full cloth with gild lettering and illustration on the front cover. Fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. Introductory note by Douglas Cleverdon. Frontispiece and initial linocuts by Stanislaw Gliwa. One of 150 (of 180) numbered copies on mould made, wove paper.
$400
87363
71.
PORTER, Bern.
Waste Maker 1926–1961.

Somerville: Abyss (1972).
First edition. [304 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Printed dedication to Kenneth Patchen and Bob Brown. Found and concrete poems. Uncommon.
$150
87263
72.
QUENEAU, Raymond.
Zazie.

NY: Harper & Brothers (1960).
First US edition. 198 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with sunning to title lettering on spine. Translated from the original French by Barbara Wright, the original French title being ZAZIE DANS LE MÉTRO.
$50
87027
73.
RAWORTH, Tom.
Common Sense.

[Healdsburg]: Zephyrus Image (1976).
First edition. [40 pp]. Fine spiral-bound pocket notebook with printed covers, bound along the top edge. Poems by Raworth, illustrated with zinc portraits and a Michael Myers print. A wonderfully designed and uncommon collection of poems. INSCRIBED by Raworth on the colophon page.
$350
87371
74.
STRAVINSKY, Igor and Robert Craft.
Expositions and Developments.

London: Faber and Faber (1962).
First edition. 168 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrated. A third volume of conversations, that includes two previously unpublished works (a song of 1917, and an anthem of 1962).
$75
87168
75.
[SURREALISM]. Nadeau, Maurice.
The History of Surrealism.

NY: Macmillan (1965).
First US edition. 351 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a small crease to front flap. Translated from the original French by Richard Howard. Introduction by Roger Shattuck. Includes a number of key Surrealists texts.
$40
87391
76.
TUTUOLA, Amos.
The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town.

London & Boston: Faber and Faber (1981).
First edition. 205 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Tutuola’s seventh book, his first after a fourteen year gap.
$100
87404
77.
VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.
The War of the End of the World.

London: Faber and Faber (1985).
First UK edition. 568 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Spanish by Helen R. Lane. SIGNED by Vargas Llosa on the half-title page. Major novel by the Nobel winner.
$150
87388
78.
WHALEN, Philip.
The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen.

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (2007).
First edition. xli + 871 pp w/appendixes & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited by Michael Rothenberg. Foreword by Gary Snyder. Essay by Leslie Scalapino. All the collected and previously uncollected poems, in chronological order (1947–1997).
$150
87378
79.
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.
Wittgenstein’s Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics Cambridge, 1939.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1976.
First US edition. 300 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Cora Diamond, with her preface. Thirty-one lectures from the notes of R.G. Bosanquet, Norman Malcolm, Rush Rhees, and Yorick Smythies.
$150
87170
80.
WOLVERTON, Basil.
Common Types of Barflyze.

Altadena: Wolverton Enterprises (1974).
First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction by Dr. Robert Slobbert, beginning, “Possibly you have heard that Basil Wolverton’s brain is so small that he uses a pencil sharpener to cut his hair.” Thirty-two bold portraits.
$40