Showing 1985–2016 of 2028 results
-
$25.00San Francisco: (np) 1973. First edition. [76 pp]. Near fine in glossy printed wrappers. Illustrated with 21 plates, most of them color collages by Fran Herndon. A memoir of poet Jack Spicer.
$40.00Arachne’s Muse Foundation (1983). First edition. 67 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cornell contributes an introduction to this collection. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Cornell. Work by Siv Cedering, Judy Grahn, Mary Oliver, Sylvia Plath, Charles Simic, William Stafford, James Wright, and many others.
$22.95Santa Barbara: Joshua Odell Editions, 2018. First edition. xxxi + 104 pp w/index. Fine in full green cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Steele provides a terrific introduction to this thorough accounting of his published works. New, at publication price:
$20.00NY: Viking (1996). First edition. xx + 472 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Benson on the title page.
$150.00Austin: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin (1974). First edition. 240 pp w/index. Very near fine in decorated full cloth. Near fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket with a short tear to one flap fold. Introduction by John R. Payne. Still the reigning bibliography. SIGNED by Goldstone at the conclusion of his preface. Tower Bibliographical Series Number Thirteen.
$125.00NY: D.A.P. (2012). First US edition. Oblong 8vo. 263 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Small “Autographed Copy” sticker on front cover. Essays by Charlotte Cotton, Jonathan Lethem, Constance M. Lewallen, Carter Ratcliff, and Thomas Wagner. SIGNED by Mandel on the half-title page.
$250.00London: The Surrealist Group in England, 1936. September. Small 4to. 18 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Texts in English and French. Issued shortly after the International Surrealist Exhibition held in London from 11 June to 14 July 1936. Ten b&w reproductions.
$35.00Winters: Konocti Books (1974). First edition. Single long sheet folded twice (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, closed). Fine. Poems memorializing SLA members Camilla Hall and Patricia “Mizmoon” Soltysik, killed in the 1974 shoot-out with LA police.
$45.00Seattle: Seattle Art Museum (1990). First edition. Small 4to. 39 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with a touch of sunning to the upper corner of the front cover. Color and b&w images.
$250.00Santa Fe: Soundings Press, 1984. First edition. 4to. 297 pp w/appendixes. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover design by Alison Knowles. In addition to works by Tenney, there are contributions by Garland, Malcolm Goldstein, Carolee Schneeman, and Philip Corner. SIGNED by Tenney on the title page.
$150.00Milwaukee: Hal Leonard (1993). First US edition. 1136 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase. Scores for every song written and recorded by The Beatles, transcribed from the original recordings.
$250.00Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum. (1976). First edition. Small 4to. 117 pp w/errata. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Thiebaud, “For Shirley [heart] Thiebaud 1977.” Illustrated flyer for an appearance by Thiebaud in Stockton laid in.
$50.00San Francisco & Seattle: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/University of Washington Press (1985). First edition. 4to. 207 pp w/exhibition history & bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket.
$350.00Seattle & London: University of Washington Press for the SF Museum of Modern Art (1985). First trade paperback printing. 4to. 207 pp w/exhibition history & bibliography. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Thiebaud on the front free endpaper, “all the best / W. Thiebaud.”
$40.00[Brussels]: Les Disques du Crépuscule, 1984. First edition. 22 1/2 x 11 3/4 inch illustrated poster, featuring a Kawahara photograph of Tong hoisting a television. One horizontal fold, some faint scattered foxing. In all, very good plus.
$20.00Iowa City: Friends of The University of Iowa Libraries, 1982. April. 66 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Features Michael Peich’s essay on the Toothpaste Press and a checklist for the first twelve years of press production, beginning in 1972.
$45.00New Castle & Aldershot: Oak Knoll Press/Lund Humphries, 2006. First edition. Small 4to. xxi + 218 pp w/bibliography & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Forewords by Alston W. Purvis and Alan Fletcher. Over 100 reproductions. Includes Tschichold’s own texts on his Penguin redesigns.
$75.00Los Angeles & Larkspur Landing: Fellows of Contemporary Art/Lapis Press (1985). First trade paperback printing. 157 pp w/biography, bibliography, & photo notes/credits. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Designed by Jack W. Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press. Fully illustrated. Contributions by Craig Adcock, John Coplans, Turrell, and others.
$20.00Clonmel & NY: Coracle/Granary Books, 2010. First edition. 122 pp w/ chronology of books & cards. Fine in illustrated boards; no dust jacket, as issued. Fully illustrated with color reproductions. A terrific examination of Van Horn’s work, in an appropriate format.
$150.00(np): Comune di Venezia/Marsilio Editori (1989). Second printing (issued one month after the first). Square 4to. 420 pp. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. Near fine publisher’s decorated slipcase with one short split to the cloth on one edge. Maps and a complete visual record, via birds-eye color photographs, of the entire city of Venice. Texts in Italian and English.
$125.00NY: Grossman, 1971. First trade paperback printing. Small 4to. 160 pp. Covers lightly rubbed, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers with a small corner crease to the rear panel. An encounter with Robert Capa’s IMAGES OF WAR inspired Jury to communicate his own experience, and that of his fellow soldiers.
$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.
$200.00(np): Fenian 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.
$25.00Stockton: Wormwood Review Press, 1972. First trade edition. [27 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 800 numbered copies. Entire issue devoted to Jon Edgar Webb (The Outsider, Loujon Press). Contributions by Malone, Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Marcus Grapes, and Jon Edgar Webb.
$35.00Albuquerque: Desert Review Press (1963). First edition. Single sheet folded once (8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches,closed). Two staple holes along spine, else fine. Features Whalen’s poem “World Out of Control.” Also work by Cashion and Margaret Avison.
$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.
$150.00Vancouver: William Hoffer 1984. First Canadian edition 58 pp. Fine in full Coromandel silk over boards with printed cover and spine labels. No dust jacket, as issued. Designed by Robert Bringhurst. One of 90 (of 110) numbered copies on Carlyle Japan paper. Translated from the original German by Greve, with his Afterword. Originally published in Germany in 1903. Publications of the F.P. Greve Seminar Number One.
$50.00NY: Oxford University Press, 1983. First US edition. ix + 268 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his embossed ownership stamp on the first leaf.