• The Desert is the Only Way Out.
    MOORE, Abd al-Hayy,
    $25.00
    Santa Barbara: Zilzal Press, 1985. First edition. 31 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 175 (of 200) copies. A long poem. Abd Al-Hayy Moore, under his birth name Daniel Moore, published his first two books with City Lights.
  • The Chronicles of Akhira.
    MOORE, Abd Al-Hayy.
    $75.00
    Santa Barbara: Zilzal Press, 1986. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 63 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poetry illustrated with “typoglifs” by Karl Kempton. One of 10 lettered copies SIGNED by Moore and Kempton, with covers that have been trimmed, inked, and collaged.
  • Cold Drill 1991.
    MOORE, Bob. ed.
    $50.00
    Boise: Boise State University (1991). First edition. Small 4to. 179 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Tuli Kupferberg, Eduard Roditi, Michael McClure, Ira Cohen, Theodore Enslin, Carl Solomon, Philip Glass, Bill Bissett, and many others contribute. All inserted postcards present, as is the ‘Summer Marigolds’ CD, which features recordings of Paul Bowles reading both his own work, and that of Mohammed Mrabet.
  • Two Stories.
    MOORE, Brian.
    $75.00
    Northridge: Santa Susana Press, 1978. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 58 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Moore. Pairs “Preliminary Pages for a Work of Revenge” with “Uncle T.”
  • Laughing Buddha Weeping Sufi: Poems November 7, 2003 - January 10, 2004.
    MOORE, Daniel Abdal-Hayy.
    $40.00
    Philadelphia: Ecstatic Exchange, 2005. First edition. 104 pp w/list of poetic works. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Dated (10/23/06) and INSCRIBED by Moore, “for Diane / with old-time long-time / affection / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore.”
  • Idiosyncrasy & Technique: Two Lectures.
    MOORE, Marianne.
    $25.00
    Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1958. First edition. 27 pp w/notes. Fine in stapled wrappers in integral dust jacket with printed cover label. Designed by Adrian Wilson. James E. Phillips introduces this volume that pairs the Inaugural Ewing Lectures delivered by Moore at the University of California in October 1956. Abbott A15.
  • The Accented Syllable.
    MOORE, Marianne.
    $25.00
    NY: Albondocani, 1969. First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine dust jacket with printed paper cover label. One of 300 numbered copies on Hosho paper, of which 275 were for public sale. An essay on the art of poetry originally published in The Egoist in 1916 and not reprinted until this edition. Abbott A34.
  • Charlotte Moorman, cello with David Tudor, piano... in a program of works.
    MOORMAN, Charlotte and David Tudor.
    $45.00
    [NY]: (np) [1963]. First edition. 11 x 8 1/2 inch flyer. Fine. Moorman and Tudor perform works by Webern, Byrd, Brown, Childs, Corner, Feldman, Young, and Cage. The flyer features facsimiles of each composer’s signature.
  • Begegnung mit Korea.
    MOORMAN, Charlotte and Nam June Paik.
    $45.00
    Köln: Funkhaus 1980. First edition. 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inch flyer, printed in black on pale yellow paper. Near fine. Moorman and Paik open this three day event under the title, “Soirée Paik-Moorman.” Musik der Zeit I.
  • First London Concert.
    MOORMAN, Charlotte and Nam June Paik.
    $150.00
    London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1968. First edition. 7 3/4 x 15 1/2 inch sheet, folded diagonally as issued, together with a 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inch press release, printed in three colors. The larger sheet has a few light bends to the lower corner, the press release is fine.Announcement for the first London concert by the “far-out” cellist and the “composer, etc. from Korea,” and the press release, issued by the ICA for a second concert, added by popular demand. Paik and Moorman performed works by Beuys, George Brecht, John Cage, Takehisa Kosugi, Yoko Ono, James Tenney, and Paik, among others. For the pair:
  • Intermedia ‘68.
    MOORMAN, Charlotte and Nam June Paik.
    $125.00
    NY: John Brockman Associates, 1968. First edition. 17 x 11 inch poster. Fine. Moorman and Paik perform works by Beuys, Brecht, Cage, Feldman, Knowles, Kosugi, Ono, Paik, and many others.
  • Konzerte Zur Ausstellung ‘Sehan Um Zu Hören.’
    MOORMAN, Charlotte and Nam June Paik.
    $40.00
    Dusseldorf: Städtische Kunsthalle, [1975]. First edition. 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inch flyer, printed in black on white paper. Fine. Stamped “Beginn jeweils 20 Uhr” in blue ink along the bottom edge. Both Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik are featured artists, along with Peter Roggenkamp, Giuseppe Chiari, and Mauricio Kagel.
  • Mixed Media Opera.
    MOORMAN, Charlotte and Nam June Paik.
    $150.00
    NY: Norman J. Seaman, 1968. First edition. 17 x 8 1/2 inch two-sided poster for this event at New York’s Town Hall. Fine. Illustrated with a collage by Jim McWilliams. TOGETHER WITH a folded (9 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches, closed) program with the details of the performance and biographies of Moorman and Paik. For the pair:
  • Moorman and Paik at Ohio State University.
    MOORMAN, Charlotte and Nam June Paik.
    $35.00
    Lima: Ohio Sate University, 1969. First edition. 11 x 8 1/2 inch flyer. Very near fine. Program for this performance by Moorman and Paik, including works by Kosugi, Cage, Ono, Paik, Brecht-Tenney, and others.
  • The Experimental Intermedia Foundation First Intermedia Art Festival Performance Series.
    MOORMAN, Charlotte and Nam June Paik.
    $125.00
    NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1980. Flyer and two-page press release for this event at the Guggenheim. Both 11 x 8 1/2 inches, both fine. Also, a stiff printed card folded three times (9 x 4 inches, closed) with original mailing envelope. Both items fine.Moorman and Paik to perform works by Paik (including Concerto for TV Cello), Kosugi, Christiansen, Ono, and Beuys. For the lot:
  • Bochumer Kunstwoche 2 invitation.
    MOORMAN, Charlotte.
    $50.00
    Bochum & Dortmund: Ruhr Park (1973). First edition. Folding invitation card (4 1/8 x 8 1/4 inches, closed), together with a program (8 1/4 x 6 inches, closed). Both items fine. In addition to “oldtime jazz,” this festival features Allan Kaprow’s “Happening für Kinder,” Moorman’s “Fernseh-Cello,” and Wolfgang Stoerchle “Video-Aktion mit Publikum,” and Sladek’s “Pantomime.” For the pair:
  • Charlotte Moorman back to Wiesbaden.
    MOORMAN, Charlotte.
    $35.00
    Wiesbaden: Museum Wiesbaden (1989). First edition. Single sheet folded once (8 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches, closed). Fine. Program for Moorman’s performances of Cut Piece by Yoko Ono, Variation of a theme by Saint-Saëns by Nam June Paik, and Infiltration, “Hommage für Cello’’ von Joseph Beuys, in addition to instrumental music by Takehisa Kosugi.
  • Charlotte Moorman will perform...
    MOORMAN, Charlotte.
    $25.00
    [NY]: (np) 1967. First edition. 3 x 5 1/2 inch card, printed on recto only. Fine. Announcement for Moorman’s appearance on the Tonight Show to perform John Cage’s 4’ 1.1499” for a String Player.
  • Charlotte Moorman, cellist, performs on WBAI.
    MOORMAN, Charlotte.
    $25.00
    NY: WBAI-FM, 1965. First edition. 4 1/2 x 6 inch card, printed in black on heavy newsprint. Fine. Moorman to perform John Cage’s 26’ 1.1499” for a String Player on WBAI’s day of live broadcasting.
  • Projekt ‘74.
    MOORMAN, Charlotte.
    $45.00
    Köln: Kunsthalle Köln/Kölnischer Kunstverein 1974. First edition. 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inch flyer. Fine. Schedule of events for this impressive festival. Moorman appears the opening night. Philip Glass, Acconci, Dan Graham, Yvonne Rainer, Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, Michael Snow, Jack Smith, Rebecca Horn and many others participate either in person or via their screened or performed work.
  • Essays.
    MORGAN, Edwin.
    $45.00
    Cheadle: Carcanet New Press (1974). First edition. 299 pp w/index. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket.
  • Sovpoems.
    MORGAN, Edwin.
    $75.00
    Worcester & Ventura: Migrant [1961]. First edition. 32 pp. Shallow bend to one upper corner, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Morgan’s translations of Brecht, Neruda, Pasternak, Tsvetayeva, Mayakovsky, Martynov, and Yevtushenko, with his introduction. Laid-in is a mimeographed sheet with additions and corrections to the translations, and detailing the output of the Press. Uncommon thus.
  • The Rip Off Review of Western Culture No 2.
    MORIARTY, J. David and Robert Follett. eds.
    $40.00
    San Francisco: Ripoff Press (1972). August-September. 64 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Victor Moscoso. Long feature on Dennis Hopper, “Acting Strange: Hopper’s Nickelbag Medicine Show Comes to Dime Box.” Hunter S. Thompson’s FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS reviewed. Work by S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton, and many others.
  • 2 Cross Seizings.
    MORIARTY, Laura.
    $250.00
    [Berkeley]: Sombre Reptiles, 1980. First edition. Folio. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Poetry by Moriarty with color prints by M.A. Hayden. One of 50 hardcover copies printed letterpress on Mohawk Superfine and Kozo Special papers. SIGNED by Moriarty and Hayden on the colophon page.
  • The Cat’s Meow.
    MORRIS, Wright.
    $150.00
    Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975. First edition, numbered & signed issue. Small 4to. 25 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine clear acetate dust a jacket (two tiny chips). One of 125 numbered copies SIGNED by Morris with his original photograph print (of a cat meowing) as a frontis.
  • The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s.
    MORRISON, Blake.
    $45.00
    Oxford: Oxford University Press (1980). First edition. x + 326 pp w/notes, select bibliography, & index. Pages lightly toned (cheap paper) else fine in fine dust jacket. Larkin, Amis, Davie, Enright, Gunn, Wain, Jennings, and others corralled.
  • Devil in a Blue Dress.
    MOSLEY, Walter.
    $350.00
    NY: Norton (1999). First edition. 219 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (5/21/90) and INSCRIBED by Mosley to Robert Campbell (who contributed the lead endorsement printed on the front flap), “The thought of your Los Angeles and mine goes through my mind now and then. Like jazz from different decades showing off their similar but distant strains. Thank you so much for reading my book and your generosity. Walter Mosley.”
  • Shelter Island & The Remaining World.
    MOTTRAM, Eric.
    $55.00
    London: Turret Books (1971). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. 15 pp. One upper corner lightly tapped, else very near fine in sewn wrappers and printed dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Mottram. This is copy #1, additionally INSCRIBED by Mottram, “for Joseph Gold.” Tall Turret #1.
  • Shelter Island & The Remaining World.
    MOTTRAM, Eric.
    $45.00
    London: Turret Books (1971). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. 15 pp. One upper corner lightly tapped, else very near fine in sewn wrappers and printed dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Mottram. Tall Turret #1.
  • O Cidadán: Poems.
    MOURE, Erín.
    $35.00
    Toronto: House of Anansi (2002). First edition. 141 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Moure on the title page, “for Leslie [Scalapino] / with great respect / and affection / Erin Moure / 10 Sept. 02 / Berkeley.” Third book in a trilogy with A FRAME OF THE BOOK and SEARCH PROCEDURES.
  • Alyawarra Music: Songs and society in a central Australian community.
    MOYLE, Richard M. with Slippery Morton.
    $100.00
    Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1986. First edition. 4to. 271 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. 7” vinyl recording present. Music of the Alyawarra, living to north-east of Alice Springs. Nearly 200 songs transcribed. Illustrated with photographs, musical examples, and notations.
  • The Disrobing: Sex and Satire.
    MURDOCH, Royal.
    $125.00
    San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press (1982). First edition, hardcover lettered issue. 111 pp. Fine in gilt-stamped paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. Edited by Winston Leyland, with his introduction. One of 26 lettered copies, the entire hardcover edition, with the long poem, “Ode for the Unforgotten,” laid in, as issued. Poems, aphorisms, journal selections, and part of an unfinished autobiographical novel.