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$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):
$200.00NY: Transition, 1936. Fall. 216 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Joan Miró. In addition to Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” prints work by Dylan Thomas, Mondrian, Klee, Matisse, Moholy-Nagy, Cartier-Bresson, Hugo Ball and Huelsenbeck on Dada, and a discussion on “painting and reality” with Aragon, Léger, and Le Corbusier.
$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.
$25.00NY: Emily Harvey Gallery [1990]. First edition. 6 1/4 x 4 3/8 inch illustrated card. Fine. Portrait of a toddler Moorman with a stuffed dog heralds this exhibition. Together with an 11 x 8 1/2 inch flyer detailing all aspects of this event. For the pair:
$75.00Cambridge: Center for Advanced Visual Studies 1981. First edition. 17 x 10 1/2 inch two-sided poster, folded three times for mailing (4 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches, closed). Fine. Charlotte Moorman’s “Sky Kiss” scheduled as part of the “Sky Events” on day two. TOGETHER WITH: a single 11 x 8 1/2 inch sheet with the details for Film and Video Showings organized by Betsy Connors. TOGETHER WITH: a program for the Conference, five 11 x 8 1/2 inch sheets, stapled upper left. All elements fine. For the three:
$75.00Upper Galilee: Regional Council/Tel Hai College (1980). First edition. [132 pp]. Diagonal crease to a few early leaves, 3” strip torn from one margin (not effecting text), bends to several middle corners. In all, very good in printed wrappers. Full program for this event, four pages featuring Moorman, with three b&w photographs. Texts in Hebrew and English. TOGETHER WITH a 24 pp program (fine, text in Hebrew) and a folding map with calendar of events insert. For the lot:
$25.00NY: The Kitchen, 1973. First edition. 11 x 8 1/2 inch illustrated flyer. Fine. A component of the second Annual Video Arts Festival which ran the length of May at the Kitchen.
$35.00Blackburn: b b bks (nd). First edition. 48 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Photographs, poems, charts, and collages by Tina Morris and Dave Cunliffe with excerpted materials by Carolee Schneemann, John Grigg, Luise Davis, and others. “A literary and sociological study of the human beast’s monstrous crimes against other animal species.” Mimeograph flyer for available BB Bks laid in.
$100.00NY: Leo Castelli Gallery (1994). First edition. Folio. [64 pp]. Fine in wrappers and fine printed tissue dust jacket. A sharp copy of this fragile retrospective. Illustrated. Two large fold-out color plates.
$650.00Norfolk: New Directions, 1936. First edition. 16mo. [16 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. The first book of the press, issued as “New Directions Pamphlets, Number One.” In his introductory note the publisher, James Laughlin, names the author, “the first American surrealist writer.” More than half a century later, in his afterword to Andrews' posthumous THE SURREALIST PARADE (New Directions, 1990), Laughlin recalled that “Wayne became my friend at Harvard...about 1935” and “the original 'Pianos' was...printed in an edition of 300 copies by the Vermont country printer who did the Harvard Advocate. But its unusual aroma quickly pervaded Harvard Square, and it was necessary to rush out a second printing.” WITH: the second printing of this work, bound in red wrappers as issued, adding the subtitle, “A Surrealist Shortstory,” and with the rear cover entirely reset with different text. Near fine. For the pair:
$125.00Monterey: Monterey Peninsula College 1969. First edition. Twenty-one 10 x 8 inch sheets laid into a printed folder. All elements very near fine or better. Printed at the Cranium Press. Previously known as “e.g.” Nolan took over editorship of the campus literary magazine, and changed the name to “The Brand New Testament” and then to “Dog Bite.” Uncommon.
$50.00San Francisco: Headstone Press (1972). First edition. 40 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by Ferlinghetti, Bukowski, Codrescu, and several others. This issue features an interview with Harold Norse by the editor, along with eight poems. INSCRIBED by Norse inside the front cover, “This copy for Doug Blazek / hang in during Kali Yuga / by the toenails, old friend / Hal Norse / San Francisco 5/xii/72.”
$200.00Metuchen: Fire!! Press (1982). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 48 pp. The text block has pulled from the covers a bit, otherwise near fine in stapled wrappers. Together with a 4 pp flyer (printing essays on the history of Fire!! by Nugent and Thomas H. Wirth). A facsimile of this magazine, originally published in 1926. The contributors, many of whom were on the editorial board, included Bruce, Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, and several others.
$75.00Aldershot & Burlington: Ashgate (2007). First edition. xviii + 232 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker best known for his collaborations with Peter Greenaway and the soundtrack album to Jane Campion’s film THE PIANO.
$25.00Bolinas: Big Sky, 1988. Third edition, revised and corrected. Small 4to. 223 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Black & white photographs and reproductions throughout. Originally issued as Big Sky 11/12. Contributions by Berrigan, Feldman, Ashbery, Rorem, Wieners, Brainard, Southern, Ginsberg, Olson, Malanga, Cage, Baraka, and many others.
$45.00San Francisco: Arion Press, 1990. First edition. 24 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. An essay entitled “Air and Such,” with a Glossary of Notes on Incidental References, Quotations, and Allusions in Order of Appearance in the Poem. Publisher’s note by Andrew Hoyem.
$150.00Corte Madera: Gingko Press (1994). First US edition. Folio. [42 pp w/bibliography]. Near fine in wrappers. A profusely color illustrated exhibition catalogue. The go-to designer, particularly for indie LPs, in late 80s - early 90s. Pixies, Unrest, Breeders, Lush, all your favorites.
$75.00Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (2017). First edition. xi + 252 pp w/notes, glossary, bibliography, & index. Fine in decorated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Robert J. Bertholf and Dale M. Smith. Briefly INSCRIBED by Smith on the title page.
$150.00North Vancouver: Capilano Review, 1979. First edition, numbered & signed issue 100 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket that is sunned along the spine and extrems. One of 100 numbered copies on Mojave Matte paper SIGNED by Marlatt and Ondaatje. Prints a generous selection from Ondaatje’s “Running in the Family,” (which differs greatly from the eventually published text), together with Daphne Marlatt’s “In the Month of Hungry Ghosts.”
$75.00Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1975. First edition. 789 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Inked ownership signature of Wormwood Review editor Marvin Malone on the front cover. The first volume of this epic presentation. Illustrated.
$25.00Berkeley: (np) 1997. First trade edition. 31 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 450 (of 500) copies. Designed by Graham Mackintosh and Dave Bohn. A useful reference, especially for print runs.
$25.00Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1982. First edition. 9 x 4 inch printed card. Fine. Illustrated with Peter Moore’s photograph of V-yramid and Tom Haar’s photograph of Moorman playing Paik’s TV Cello while wearing TV Glasses.
$50.00Lake Placid: Center for Music, Drama and Art [1976]. First edition. 20 x 12 1/2 inch poster, folded twice for mailing with a Nonprofit Org. postage stamp on the verso. Fine. Paik appeared on 3 August showing videotapes, and then on 7 August in performance with Moorman.