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$45.00[Berkeley]: Poltroon Press, 1985. First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in wrappers with integral illustrated dust jacket. Printed at the Visual Studies Workshop. Fully-illustrated with photographs of works, one pop-up element, and six image cards, housed in an envelope at the rear of the book.
$75.00NY: Gagosian Gallery (2019). First edition. 62 pp. Tiny bump to one lower corner, else fine in full black cloth with inset front cover image and full panel rear cover reproduction. No dust jacket, as issued. One fold-out plate. Essay, “At a certain distance (and from a certain angle)” by Russell Ferguson. Fully illustrated with color reproductions.
$200.00Fenian Head Centre Press 1966. 90 pp. Touch of foxing to top edge, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 900 numbered copies. The first-hand “drug issue” featuring work by Al Young, d.a. levy, John Sinclair, Ray and Bonnie Bremser, Clive Matson, Richard Krech, and many others. William Wantling’s 16 pp chapbook, “Heroin Haikus” present in the designated position at the rear of the volume.
$100.00NY & London: Gagosian, 2002. First edition. Folio. [76 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Introductory note by Vincent Fremont and “Notes on an Interview with Andy Warhol” by Benjamin H.D. Buchlow. Profusely illustrated.
$500.00NY & London: Phaidon (2002). First edition. 503 pp w/notes, abbreviations, indexes, & photograph credits. Three small pencil notes to first leaf, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards and matching publisher’s slipcase.
$125.00NY: Gagosian Gallery (1996). First edition. 8vo. 13 + [62 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Introductory essay, “Carnal Knowledge,” by Rosalind Krauss. Twenty-nine reproductions.
$150.00North Pomfret: Elysium Press, 2003. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 8vo. 10 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with morocco spine and pasted-on cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies on Somerset paper SIGNED by Reed. Reed’s thoughtful appreciation of a slightly earlier, “openly gay American poet, who offered no apologies for his confessional disclosures, and who used all experience, no matter how compromising as legitimate material for art.”
$20.00Sunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press (nd). First edition. Three panel folding card (4 7/8 x 7 inches, closed). Fine. Describes with work of the press together with endorsements and a three color reproduciton of “A Rock Rose” by Finlay and Richard Demarco.
$75.00Haverford: James S. Jaffe, 1989. First edition, numbered & signed issue. xii + 56 pp. Faint foxing along top edge, else fine in wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Introduction by Guy Davenport. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams and Davenport. “Apology” slip laid in. Together with Asphodel Books Catalogue 100: Jonathan Williams, and offering of 100 priced items by JW. For the pair:
$20.00Washington DC: Visual Press (1979). First edition. [24 pp]. Very good plus in stapled wrappers and very good integral dust jacket. One of 300 copies. Colored photographs of the Jargon Society publisher on the occasion of his 50th birthday.
$350.00Santa Barbara: Cadmus, 1979. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 12mo. 85 pp w/note. Fine in illustrated wrappers and fine unprinted glassine dust jacket. Translated from the original Arabic by Paul Bowles. Foreword by Gavin Lamberg, concluding note by Williams. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Choukri and Bowles.
$150.00Verona: 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.
$25.00NY: Gotham Book Mart Gallery, 1968. First edition. Single long sheet folded twice (6 x 9 inches, closed). Fine. Williams contributes a long work on Romano’s work. Black and white reproductions of paintings of Carson McCullers, WCW, and W.H. Auden by Romano.
$950.00Candia: John LeBow, 1997. First edition, deluxe issue, for friends. A 42 pp pamphlet (fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket), a twenty page hardcover photo album (fine in full cloth, no dust jacket, as issued), and an envelope of ephemera (all elements fine). The lot is housed in the fine publisher’s clamshell box with printed cover and spine labels. Laid into the pamphlet is a photographic print “for contributors and friends.” One of 15 (of 65) numbered copies for friends of the press, not offered for sale. This copy is SIGNED by Wilson, Di Prima, McClure, Baraka, Ashbery, Levertov, Broughton, Wakoski, Wieners, Clements, and Sanders, and is additionally INSCRIBED by Wilson, “For Burton Weiss, with thanks for all / the years of his friendship and support / across decades and continents, and with / love, / from / Bob W.”
$75.00NY: Groiler Club, 1997. First edition. Small 4to. xviii + 138 pp w/indexes. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label. Contributions by Harry Duncan, Dana Gioia, and K.K. Merker. One of 50 (of 100) hardcover copies. Illustrated. In addition to the bibliographical descriptions, Merker critiques the 106 primary books of the press to date.
$125.00Oakville: Robert Mondavi Winery, 1988. First edition. Oblong 8vo. [66 pp]. Small smudge on fore-edge, else fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed labels. No dust jacket, as issued. Illustrated by Margrit Biever. Printed in two colors by Peter Koch. One of 1000 copies. A collection of quotations about your favorite beverage. Reprinted at least four times in the trade edition.
$350.00Healdsburg: Hermes Free Press, 1977. First edition. [28 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers with ribbon place marker bound-in. One of the most provocative works by Holbrook Teter and Michael Meyers, a flip book that transforms the Christian cross into a Nazi swastika. The title page reads in full, “The Holy Bible / containing / The Same Old Thing / translated by wagging tongues / being the version set forth A.D. 1977 by / Anita Bryant, Dale Evans, / & John Briggs, Gadfly.”
$50.00San Francisco: Hermes Free Press (1972). First edition. 24mo. [4 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. “Energy Hustler Ro-Non-So-Te” rails against the “oil people.”
$1,250.00Madison: Health, Flame, and Aluminum Press (1969). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket with light sunning along the spine. “Written, illustrated, and printed by Michael Myers.” One of 60 numbered copies on Nideggen paper. Printed with the assistance of Walter S. Hamady. Poems, fully-illustrated with Myers’ instantly recognizable linoleum block prints. I believe this to be his second book, preceded by the 1968 EAST BAY MOON-beams. Myers would sooon move West, connect with Holbrook Teter, and create Zephyrus Image. See Johnston pp 17-18.