Showing 1825–1856 of 1983 results
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$350.00San Francisco: Hermes Free Press (1971). First edition. [4 pp]. A bit rippled, but not discolored, else near fine in wrappers. “Model Statement in Defense of the Philosophers Personal Freedom Proposed by San Francisco Bay Area Prose Poets’ Phalanx.” Printed endorsements on the rear cover by Kesey, Ferlinghetti, McClure, Creeley, Ginsberg, Kandel, Nin, Watts, Lamantia, Berrigan, Krassner, Whalen, and a host of others. Uncommon.
$50.00San Francisco: Renaissance Press (1980). First edition. 299 + [48] pp. Light crease to rear cover, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. The distillation of Bryan’s attention to Leary during the 60s and 70s. The volume concludes with a suite of images, “one of the most interesting pictorial retrospectives yet put together on the sixties.” INSCRIBED by Bryan, “Luck not love, / John Bryan.” This book constitutes the 201st issue of Open City.
$125.00Cleveland: sevenflowerspress, (1967). First edition. Five leaves, side stapled. Fine. One of 250 copies printed by mimeograph. A letter originally published in the Poetry Newsletter. Taylor & Horvath P-144.
$50.00Kent: Kent State University Libraries, 1971. December. 36 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by levy, Mottram, Snyder, Atkins, Bergé, Blazek, Bukowski, Fox, Gildzen, Leed, Lowry, and Osterlund. Includes the first d.a. levy checklist, compiled by bookseller Jim Lowell (Asphodel Book Shop).
$75.00Cleveland: Free Lance Press, 1964. First edition. 26 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art and thirteen internal illustrations by d.a. levy. The Free Lance Press published levy's NORTH AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DEAD.
$125.00Ostfildern & NY: Hatje Cantz/Morgan Library & Museum (2011). First edition. 4to. 207 pp w/list of works cited. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Essays by Graham Bader, Clare Bell, Thomas Crow, and Margaret Holben Ellis and Lindsey Tyne. The first exhibition devoted to a group of about 50 large drawings created between 1961 and 1968.
$45.00Anchorage: Alaska Pacific University Press, 1980. First edition. 150 pp w/notes on authors & index. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Introduction by Gary H. Holthaus. Contributions by John Haines, Thomas LeDuc, Monroe Price, Walker Parker, Robert Durr, Margaret Murie, Joseph Meeker, William Kloefkorn, and Gary Snyder.
$250.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. First edition, signed issue. [192 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacket (rubbed). Bound collection of individual Sparrow issues, all SIGNED by the respective authors or translators: Larry Eigner, Robert Creeley, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Michael McClure, Tom Clark, Clayton Eshleman, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Kelly, Diane Wakoski, Gerard Malanga, Clayton Eshleman (as translator of Artaud), and Jerome Rothenberg. One of 50 copies.
$20.00New York: New Directions (1973). First edition. 184 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Bienek, Busch, Corman, Duncan, Edson, Rexroth, Roditi, Snyder, and others presented.
$25.00NY: New Directions (1971). First edition. 216 pp w/notes on contributors. Fine in fine dust jacket. Abish, Bly, Bronk, Duncan, Edson, Ferlinghetti, Charles Henri Ford, Levertov, Richard Meyers (Richard Hell), Rakoski, Snyder, and many others collected.
$150.00San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press (1982). First edition, signed hardcover issue. 193 pp. Fine in gilt lettered full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of an unstated limitation, thought to be 100, SIGNED by Leyland. Contributions by Robert Glück, Joseph Torchia, Ned Rorem, Allen Ginsberg, Will Inman, Oswell Blakeston, Jeffrey Beam, Joe Brainard, and many others.
$35.00NY: Reader’s Subscription (1959). First printing of this edition. 30 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Bryan’s ruling in favor of literary freedom via the case of D.H. Lawrence’s LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER.
$100.00NY: Nadada, 1965. First edition. 4to. 76 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Appearances by John Perreault, David Omer Bearden, Ray Johnson, Gerard Malanga, Ted Berrigan, Charles Henri Ford, Tristan Tzara, Aram Saroyan, Piero Heliczer, and many others.
$40.00Ivanhoe: Robert Kenny, 1974. [56 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies. First issue of this long-running Melbourne mag. John Jenkins, John Anderson, Kris Hemensley, John Tranter, and others contribute.
$45.00Woodstock: Shivastan Publishing, 2007. Guru Purnima. 22 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 333 numbered copies. Contributions by Gerard Malanga, Hetty Maclise, Taylor Mead, Thurston Moore, Billy Name, and many others. SIGNED by Mirabito on the colophon page.
$45.00NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Thames and Hudson (1986). First US edition. 237 pp w/index of works. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Two hundred and forty-four illustrations, 29 in color and 215 in duotone.
$25.00Stockton: Wormwood Books and Magazines, 1999. First trade edition. 47 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 565 (of 600) numbered copies. The Marvin Malone Festschrift, featuring a special section of his own poems, and an essay on the history of Wormwood. Three page essay on Malone by Peter Howard (Serendipity Books). Contributions by Bukowski, David Barker, Ron Koertge, Lyn Lifshin, Steve Richmond, and many other frequent contributors.
$125.00Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou/Seuil (1998). First edition. 4to. 257 pp w/biography & list of illustrations. Fine in fine dust jacket.
$35.00Seattle: McKettner Publishing (1985). 4to. 20 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One-time issue dealing with marijuana literature, culture, and history through poetry, songs, newspaper clippings, posters, ads, and graphics. Work by Kupferberg, Wanda Coleman, Ron Androla, and many others.
$1,750.00Los Angeles & Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow (1973-1978). First editions. Six volumes, all fine in full cloth with printed cover labels and fine unprinted acetate dust jackets. Each one of the 72 issues of Sparrow here in the first printing, and SIGNED by each author if alive at the original publication date. Signing contributors include Bukowski, Creeley, Antin, Oates, Eigner, McClure, Hawkins, Malanga, Bowles, Mrabet, Sorrentino, Corman, Coleman, Rakosi, Everson, Roditi, and many others from the Black Sparrow stable. For the set:
$35.00NY & Boston: Mariner Books (2026). First edition. x + 447 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. An excellent and entertaining life of a friend. The novels, the prizes, the movies are all here, connected by McMurtry’s love of books. SIGNED by Streitfeld. New, at publication price:
$75.00Hayes, Minneapolis, & San Francisco: Fort Hayes Kansas State College/Henry Miller Literary Society/Michael Hargraves. 1961 & 1980. First editions. 52 + 32 + 21 pp. Three volumes, all near fine or better in stapled wrappers. The Hayes volume is SIGNED by the bibliographer, Esta Lou Riley, the Henry Miller Society is one of 1000 numbered copies, the Hargraves includes a useful discography. For the trio:
$40.00Ellensburg: Vagabond Press (1981). First edition. 4to. 93 pp w/Miller chronology. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Contributions by Jack Saunders, Alfred Perlès, Norman Mailer, Curt Johnson, Bennett, Charles Campbell, Noel Young, Erica Jong, Gerda Penfold, Dennis Lynds, Jerry Bumpus, John Krich, Jim Oren, Gary Allan Kizer, and Jan Kerouac. Erotic woodcuts by Richard Denner. Also issued in paperback, this is the first issue of this short-lived periodical.
$75.00Ann Arbor & Glen Arm: Shifreen & Jackon (1993). First Japanese edition. xxi + 1022 pp w/index. Fine in full blue cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Text entirely in English. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by the Japanese translator Ria Atage, with a holograph colophon statement. English translation of this statement laid in.
$250.00Nijmegen: Henk van Gelre (1961-1966). Seven issues, all near fine or better in stapled wrappers, all either 22 or 26 pp. Illustrated. Contributions by Robert Fink, Joseph Delteil, Karlheinz Deschner, Georges Simenon, Daniel A de Graaf, J. Rives Childs, Antoine Denat, William White, Hilaire Hiler, Noel Young, the editor, and many works by Miller. Laid into #3 is a typed aerogramme dated 1962 letting the recipient know that issue #2 is long sold out “I’m short hundreds of copies” and making suggestions of American bookstores who may have a copy still. For the run:
$1,250.00NY & Paris: Rizzoli & Daniel Lelong (1989-2001). First editions. Five volumes, all 4to, all fine in fine dust jacket, vols 1-3 in cardstock slipcases. Texts in English. Miró created three original woodcuts for this edition, one printed on the cover of each volume, and two each internally. For the set (shipping at cost):
$50.00Paris: College de Pataphysique (1965). First edition. 28 pp. Near fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket. Text in French. Illustrated with twenty-eight b&w photographs.
$35.00NY & Wesleyan: Mary Ryan/Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, 1994. First trade edition. Oblong 32 mo. 45 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers and fine printed vellum jacket. Introductory poem and essay by Monette, together with poems by Rückert, Helprin, Brooke, Yourcenar, Cavafy, Auden, Joyce, and many others. Illustrated with color reproductions.
$125.00NY: Walton H. Rawls, 1967. First edition. 128 pp w/glossary & index. Small pale stain on bottom edge, else near fine in two-part cloth with pasted-on cover label. Lacks unprinted glassine dust jacket. Illustrated. Moore contributes a brief foreword to this book by the curator of the Park. SIGNED by Lancaster and Moore on the title page. Abbott B41.
$20.00Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia (1976). First edition. Single long sheet folded three times to make a booklet (8 1/4 x 6 inches, closed). Fine. Moorman and Paik presented a series of performances in Adelaide over the five days of the Festival. Peter Moore’s photograph of Moorman performing “Concerto for Cello and Videotapes” reproduced within.
$35.00Cambridge: Massachuetts Institute of Technology, 1983. Fall. [100 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Fall semester subject guide. Introduction “Scale, Sky and Technical Art: A Conversation with Otto Piene” by Robert Russett. Most of the book devoted to photographs and biographies of the staff, but three of the described photographs are of Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik at “Sky Art Conference ‘82,” which ties into the introduction.
$40.00Linz: Linzer Veranstaltungsgesellschaft (1982). First edition. 48 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated program of events for the Ars Electronica festival, featuring the “Sky Art Conference.” Texts in German and English. Charlotte Moorman performed “Sky Kiss.” B&w photograph of Moorman in performance, and additionally with Jerome Wiesner, Otto Piene, and Nam June Paik.