London: Trigram Press, ©1966. 200 copies, this one unnumbered (numbers 1-60 signed). The author's silkscreened calligraphy and decorations in several colors on stiff Evensyde paper. 2 leaves preliminaries and [32] double-thick pp. Plain yellow paper covers. housed in a cream-colored cloth and gold folder and those in a pasteboard slipcase..... More
Paris: Association internationale pour l'étude de Dada et du Surréalisme, 1966-1970. Nos. 1-4 (all published). Some plates and illustrations. Decorated paper covers. About 18.5 x 13.5 cm. Contributors include Michel Sanouillet, Michel Seuphor, Roger Shattuck, Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Janco, Georges Ribemont0-Dessaignes, Henryk Berlewi, Tristan Tzara, and many others. **No. 1..... More
Toronto: Editions Carrefour Alyscamps, 2019. 18/30 numbered copies, signed by the translator. 62 pls. & ills. (43 in color). [93] pp. Dark orange paper covers printed in black; dustjacket of decorated, dark brown, handmade paper with applied title label. Staple-bound. About 21.5 x 17 cm. This is the first publication..... More
Los Angeles: Astro Artz, 1982. MacAdams' piece is a lively, insider's account of Naropa Kerouac Conference that celebrated the 25th anniversary of the publication of On the Road. This Beat Generation event took place at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The article includes photos and comments of Lawrence Ferlinghetti..... More
New York: Alfred Stieglitz, 1903. Folder on Enfield watermarked laid paper, with facsimile of Maeterlinck's holograph letter on the first three pages and Sadakichi Hartmann's English translation on the fourth. About 29.3 x 20.3 cm folded. From the abstract to "Eduard Steichen and Maurice Maeterlinck: the symbolist connection," by Lucy..... More
[No place]: Michael McClure, 1965; San Francisco: [1967]. Poster: Blue and red on offwhite paper, with quotations from Norman Mailer, Kenneth Tynan, and Allen Ginsberg. 27.9 x 21.5 cm. Book: Glossy white cover with titling in blue and photos of Jean Harlow (front) and Billy the Kid (rear) in light..... More
Amsterdam, New York City. 1. Henri Michaux. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1964. Profusely illustrated (part color). [77] pp. Stiff, dark yellow cover. 27.4 x 18.4 cm. The catalogue describers 233 works. Near fine. 2. Henri Michaux: drawings 1950-1981. New York: David Nolan Gallery, 1984. 9 b/w plates. 19 pp. Decorated paper..... More
New York: David Nolan Gallery, 1984. 9 b/w plates. 19 pp. Decorated paper cover. 22.3 x 20.5 cm. Essay by Prudence Carlson. Michaux was a Belgian-born artist and poet. His travels as a young man in Asia and elsewhere influenced his later work, as did his experiences with LSD and..... More
Consigny [France]: Embers [Press], 1976. 250 copies. 3 plates (the first two may be a double-spread). [29] pp. Stiff, decorated gray-green paper covers. 23 x 15.8 cm (covers). The binding opens at the narrow edge and reads down the length of the page. Contains "Significance of the drawings" (under mescaline)..... More
California State University, Long Beach, 1981. Profusely illustrated with drawings in black or black and red by Robert Motherwell and photographs by Renate Ponsold, both accompanying quotations from Robinson Jeffers. Includes Jeffers' essay "Poetry, Gongorism and a Thousand Years." 1500 copies. Beautifully produced large, oversquare book in grey paper covers..... More
1961. Original expressionistic ink drawing, signed and dated 1961 in a minute hand. 19 x 13.4 inches / 48.2 x 34 cm. He and Geraldine Fitzgerald founded the Everyman theater of Brooklyn in 1967. Among his literary works and collaborations are the rock opera “Everyman and Roach” (1971), a musical..... More
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994. 166 + [6] pp. Black, white, and red paper covers. 16.6 x 12.7 cm. Light signs of handling. Warmly inscribed to the performance artist Barbara Turner Smith. **Free domestic shipping with direct order. More
Paris: Collectif Génération, 2009. The most inventive book it has ever been my privilege to offer. No. 4 of 12 copies, numbered and signed by artist and author on colophon inside final gathering. 5 gatherings in folder. This tour de force is "constructed" out of BFK Rives and consists of..... More
New York: Hawk’s Well Press (nos. 1 & 2 only; thereafter by the editors), 1965-1968. 4 issues (all published) featuring Paul Blackburn, Anselm Hollo, Jackson Mac Low, Diane Wakoski, Ted Berrigan, George Brecht, Carolee Schneeman, Carol Bergé, Robert Bly, Charles Bukowski, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Allan Kaprow, Gary..... More
Paris: Editions d’Art Charles Moreau, 2002. Livre d'artiste. Copy HC 11/15 signed by author & artist, with a separate suite of 10 lithographs in black & warm brown & protective tissues, all in a matching cloth clamshell box. Total edition is 500 in three different versions: 15 copies with double..... More
San Diego: Brighton Press, 2008. Livre d'artiste. 2/40 copies signed by poet and artist. 6 closely related geometric images protected with glassine guarad sheets. The images echo in mirrored pale tan on glassine guard sheets protecting the facing text. 24 stiff pp. in leporello within black paper covers with the..... More
London: Tetrad Press, 1992. Livre d'artiste. 4/100 copies signed by author and artist. 6 leaves in stiff paper covers with stiff translucent drafting paper jacket. About 35 x 26.8 cm. "Published… to coincide with the exhibition "Three British Book Artists: Finlay, Phillips, Tyson" at the Mandeville Gallery of the University..... More
Paris: Alyscamps Press, 2019. 25 copies signed by the publisher. 20 illustrations (8 in color). [43] pp. Stiff, decorated paper covers, with dustjackete of handmade paper. 21.6 x 13.8 cm. 2 copies: 16/30, dark-green paper with gilt decoration; 17/30, dark-blue with gilt decoration. Please specify the copy preferred. Roman Jakobson..... More
Paris: Alyscamps Press, in association with Michael Neal, Cayeux-sur-Mer, France, 2018. No. 23 of 25 copies signed by the publisher. 21 illustrations. 41 + [21] pp. Stiff, decorated paper covers. 21.6 x 13.4 cm. "These poems were written as a response to lines by Artaud contained in his Cahiers de..... More
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, (1995). 9 illustrations. xxii + 186 pp. Black cloth with dustjacket. 25.3 x 17.3 cm. Essays on art, film, and writing. Fine/fine. **Free domestic shipping with direct order. More
Oxford: Counterpoint Publications, [1944-1945]. Complete set. Volume 1 is undated, but OCLC assigns a date of 1944. Vivid cover by Gerald Wilde. Many illustrations, including two plates in color. Unpaginated [60 pp.] 28.4 x 22.1 cm. Includes contributions by George Barker, Paul Nash, Lawrence Durrell, Walter de la Mare, Roy..... More
New York: Louis Carré, 1949. 4 bw plates (including cover; 1 doublespread). Unpaginated [8 pp.]. 23 x 14.3 cm. Decorated paper covers. Stevens writes of Gromaire's work: "[It is] endowed with the strength that comes from participation in life's struggle, things not of the School of Paris, but of some..... More
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San Diego State University Press, 1981. Pamphlet, printed in brown on white vellum and cream cover stock. [8] pp. Decorated covers. 21.5 x 13 cm. Performed November 6-7, 10-14, 1981. Includes lists of the cast and musicians and Mack Owens' "Director's note." Stoppard's 2-page "Author's note" provides his own fascinatng..... More
Ambert d'Auvergne, France: Richard de Bas Moulin de Papier, 1979. Broadside 32.4 x about 25.2 cm. Printed on handmade paper that incorporates small leaves, blossoms, and seeds. Left edge deckle. Only one record in OCLC, at Western Michigan University, which describes a box of 18 items, all samples from the..... More
New York: Noonday Press; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992 (6th printing). Paper covers with painting by the poet. [xii] + [516] pp. 21.6 s 15.5 cm. Inscribed on the half-title by the then-newly minted Nobel laureate, "To the unknown reader, Derek Walcott, 93." Two small spots on the half-title. iSBN..... More
