Oakland: Mills College Tape Music Center, 1969. First edition. 15 x 18" wax paper bag with illustrated paste-down to front panel, containing nine broadsides and a metal badge. A great assemblage produced by the San Francisco Tape Center in 1969. The contents are Roger Pritchard, "Death Piece # 98.6," Anthony Gnazzo...
Gent, Belgie: Imschoot, 1989. First edition. One of only 30 numbered and signed copies bound in cloth. 8vo, 80 pp, bound in full green cloth. Printed green dust jacket. Artist's book based on the original portfolio of 27 photographic prints. The subject of each photograph appears to be a flower...
Coventry: Analytical Art Press, 1971-72. 8vo, 66, 31 pp, each issue saddle-stapled in printed wraps. Though not denoted as such, from the library of Athena Tacha. A complete run of this periodical which was the predecessor for Art & Language, published while Rushton and Pilkington were both first year students...
Denver: H. O. Wagner, 1963. Two volumes, each an 8vo bound in rust red cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt. No dust jackets as issued. A reprint of the fifth edition of the work which was first published in 1889, but here expanded with additional material. Lower tips bumped...
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1965. First edition. 4to, 160 pp, bound in boards woodblock by Robert Lavigne printed in color, and back in vellum with titled stamped in gilt. Illustrated with a frontipiece portrait of Olson by Kenneth Irby. Letterpress prospectus for the title laid in. In the original unprinted...
The Artist, 1981. 4 1/8 x 5 7/8," collage on postcard. Verso with a handwritten message from Pelieu to John Pages, signed Claude. A superb and early mail art collage by Pelieu, with an autograph note signed to John Pages with superb content. Pelieu submits the collage for Page's magazine...
New York: The Poetry Project, 1967. First edition. 8vo, photographically illustrated wraps. Excellent issue, with contributions from Robert Creeley, Joel Sloman, Fred Dorn, Robert Kelly, Dan Clark, Scott Cohen, Anne Waldman, Clayton Eshleman, Jim Brodey, Ted Berrigan, Jack Marshall,Jerrold Greenberg, Ray Bremser, Sam Abrams, Robert David Cohen, Murray Mednick, Charles...
Oxford: The Fantasy Press, 1954. First edition. 8vo, 122 pp, bound in gilt-stamped wine-dark cloth, in dust jacket. Illustrated with a tipped-in frontispiece photographic portrait. Introduction by Charles Wrinch. With an ALS from the mother of David Raikes laid in concerning the book. First edition of this posthumous collection of...
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First edition. Lettered issue, one of 26 copies signed by Dorn, and specially handbound in Buckskin with printed title label to front panel. Laid into this copy is a sheet titled by hand in red ink "Proof Sample of 12 pt. Caslon for "Gunslinger"...
Berkeley: Oyez, 1965. First regularly published edition, preceded by a privately distributed mimeographed edition. Inscribed by the author at the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Ariel Parkinson, printed in sepia on glassine sheets. A gorgeously designed book from Oyez, and a superb collection of poems. fine.
Providence: Burning Deck, 1981. First edition thus. Paperback. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Letterpress printed dust jacket. One of a limited edition of 500 copies. Association copy, inscribed by Middleton to R.B. Kitaj. Crease and a bit of rubbing to crown, else fine.
Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1933. First edition. One of 200 copies signed by Wheelwright and reserved for subscribers. 8vo, 87 pp, bound in scarlet cloth stamped in silver foil. The author's first commercially published book. Near fine, with some light toning and a bit of dustiness to the top edge, in...
[Plombière-les-Dijon]: Ulysse, fin de siècle, 1994. First edition thus. 8vo, 77 pp, bound in french card wraps printed in two colors. One of a limited edition of 600 copies. Translated into French by Serge Gavronsky and François Dominique. A beautifully translated and designed book. Fine.
Various Places: 1970's-80's. Though strands and antecedents of the Anti-Psychiatry Movement stretch back to the dawn of psychiatry, the social upheavals of the 1960’s and 70’s spurred an explosion of interest in the subject, which soon led to an explosion of underground publishing by members of the movement, aided by.....
np: Scarlet Imprint, 2013. First edition. 8vo, 214 pp, bound in gilt-stamped cloth. No dust jacket as issued. One of a limited edition of 750 copies. "Serpent Songs is an anthology of the voices of Traditional Craft: the words and works of those who remain untamed, cunning folk, exorcists, pellars...
Oxford: Mandrake, 2011. Fine in wraps.
York Beach, ME: The Teitan Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 72 pp. Bound in full black cloth titled in silver at the spine, and housed in a black dust jacket reproducing a photograph of Parsons. One of a limited, numbered edition of 418 copies, this an early copy (no...
New York: The Vanishing Rotating Triangle Press, 1973. First edition. 4to, perfect bound in wraps. Translated into English by Frances LeFevre. An excellent collection of poems by the poet best known for his association with the Dyn group, and a scarce book from Leandro Katz and Ted Castle's excellent press...
Paris: Editions Klincksieck, 1971. 8vo, 805 pp, printed wraps. Text in French. Includes bibliography and index. Very good with some moderate foxing to wraps, prelims, and edges to text block, distributors rubberstamp inside front cover, and small and tasteful bookshop label (from W.N. Schors).
np: I.H.O. Books, nd. 4to, 173 pp, illustrated wraps. Offset printed in three colors. Profusely illustrated. Near fine with light curling to the tips.
Cardiff: Second Aeon, 1971. First edition. Paperback. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Near fine with some faint toning to wraps.
Chicago: Black Swan Press, 1969. First edition. 8vo., saddle-stapled wraps. First separate US edition, published by the Chicago Surrealist imprint. Fine.
np: 1957. Provenance: acquired by Peter Howard of Serendipity Books from Robert Creeley. The immensely talented Laubies was a visual artist associated at different times with the Tachisme, Art Informel, and Nuagisme movements. He was also the first translator of Ezra Pound into French, and it was Ezra Pound who...
Los Angeles: c/o The Woman's Bldg, nd. 17 1/2 x 22 1/2" poster, offset printed. An amazing poster issued from the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, which opens a sort of dialogue in text matched to a series of photographs of two hands putting on and taking off an elbow...
New York: Something Else Press, 1966. 21 1/4 x 29" poster, offset printed in blue and light blue on white paper stock. Addressed and franked to the artist and musician Dan Lauffer. A poster mailer for the short-lived gallery run by the press, documenting the two exhibitions. Machine-folded several times...
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