Mount of Olives
Calgary: housepress, 2000. First edition. One of a limited edition of 70 handbound and numbered copies. Oblong 64mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Superb collection of experimental texts - fine. More
Calgary: housepress, 2000. First edition. One of a limited edition of 70 handbound and numbered copies. Oblong 64mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Superb collection of experimental texts - fine. More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1953. First edition. 8vo, 142 pp, bound in publisher's original full black cloth titled in blue at the spine. A satirical novel involving the misadventures of three Englishmen in the mountains of Central Asia. 'Mr. Sisson hasused an elaborate fantasy to to help make his point that..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1929. 32mo, 156, [4] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 94a, third noted variation. One of the longest of the pocket books. Very good with fading to the wraps, some pages stil uncut, with the first opened a little roughly. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, [1923]. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 349, likely a first printing, in the first noted state for both contents and wrapper. As well as the excellent title essay, it also includes the texts "El Dorado," "The English Admirals," and "Child's Play." Some minor fraying to spine ends else..... More
Cummington, MA: The Cummington School, 1941. First edition. 4to, single sheet folded once to make a four-pager. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A rare early prospectus for the Utopian educational project, which was started by Katherine Frazier and devoted to creative collaboration in the fine arts, and whose alumni..... More
Amsterdam: Gaberbocchus Press / Turret Press / De Harmonie, 1988. 8vo, unpaginated, illustrated wraps. A reprint of the book originally published by Themerson's own Gaberbocchus Press in 1954. Themerson's superb illustrations to quotes by an eclectic group of writers, from Bertrand Russell to Gaston Bachelard to Kierkegaard to Wittgenstein. Near..... More
London: Editions Poetry London Limited, 1950. First edition. 12mo, 12 pp, bound in illustrated boards. A remarkable children's story about Peddy Bottom, who "knew that he was Peddy Bottom, but men all thought that there was something doggy about him, while dogs all thought that there was something human about..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1975. First edition, hardcover issue. 8vo, 127 [1] pp, bound in grey boards titled in gilt, in the publisher's original dust jacket printed in two colors. Illustrated with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Crown slightly pushed, else fine, in a near fine dust jacket that is slightly toned..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1967. 8vo, 65 pp, bound in white wraps printed in two colors, and illustrated by Franciszka Themerson. A reprint of the novel first published in a hardcover edition by Gaberbocchus in 1951. Near fine with some faint scratches to wraps and a single small spot of soiling..... More
London: Editions Poetry London, 1949. First edition. 8vo, 92 pp, bound in the publisher's original black cloth titled in gilt, and in the original dust jacket illustrated by Franciszka Themerson. The first edition of Themerson's first novel, the story of a three legged man on a roller skate, and and..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1965. First edition thus. 8vo, 111 pp, bound in typographically designed wraps printed in two colors. The first Gaberbocchus edition (revised) of Themerson's first novel, the story of a three legged man on a roller skate, and and the book which introduced the concept of Semantic Poetry..... More
San Francisco: Anderson Valley Advertiser, 1995. First edition. 4to, 24 pp, comb bound in card covers. A "preview" edition, published in advance of the trade edition. Includes a preface by Bruce Anderson, the owner of the AVA, in which he advances the theory that the letters were the work of..... More
[London]: Sigma, [1964]. 8 x 13" sheet, mimeographed from typescript on recto only. With a brief manuscript note similar to Trocchi's hand. This issue of the Sigma Project takes the form of a subscription form, with a prospectus explainging the project which begins "The Sigma Folio is an entirely new..... More
[London]: Sigma, nd [c. 1965]. 8 x 13", two sheets mimeographed from typescript on rectos only and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. Single issue of Trocchi's Situationist-influenced periodical, a key artists' periodical of the era. This issue lays out Trocchi's proposal for an international project holding company..... More
N.p. Project Sigma, 1964. First edition. Foolscap format, two sheets mimeographed from typescript, the first on light blue paper stock, and the second on white paper stock. Stapled once at the upper left hand corner. This installment of Project Sigma offers a text, largely on Nietschze, and concludes with notice..... More
Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1957. First edition. 12mo, viii, 61 pp, bound marbled boards backed in yellow linen with black titles. Title, initial, and printer's device on colophon printed in red. One of 250 numbered copies printed by letterpress at the Dolmen press, the first 50 copies being hand-colored and signed..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 1322, first noted variation, in a wrapper variation possibly not noted by Gibbs - this has the small union device with the numeral 1, but is in blue wraps, rather than the orange called for by Gibbs. Near fine with some light..... More
Anvers: Complexe, c. 1968. Oblong 8vo, 70 pp, side-stapled and backed with black cloth tape. Illustrated in black and white. Text in French. Debut issue of this student little magazine of art and literature edited by a young André Versaille, who would later take the name - based upon the..... More
Paris: Éditions du Méridien, 1942. First edition. 8vo, 77 pp, printed wraps. One of the 200 numbered copies (there were also 3 copies on Alfa Mousse). The rare first edition of this unique novel by the eccentric Romanian Surrealist, a dreamlike narrative about a heart transplant who receives the heart..... More
[Santa Rosa]: [Black Sparrow press], [1986]. Large format printing block, metal mounted on a sheet of plywood, approximately 11 1/2" x 6 1/2." The original printing block for the rotational celestial design of the double title page of The Books of Saturn. A unique artifact from one of the..... More