Buffalo: Student Book Shop, 1965. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. The second and final number of this littlemagazine, which ceased publication with it's second issue - a shame, given that this is a knockout issue, with contributions from Ed Dorn, Robert Creeley, Mac Hammond, John Wieners, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov... More
Durham: Basil Bunting Poetry Archive, 1989. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled in blue card wraps with illustrated dust jacket. One of a limited edition of 700 numbered copies. A text by Bunting on his most famous work, followed by a short note by Richard Caddel. Fine/fine. More
Newcastle upon Tyne: The Morden Tower Book Room, 1965. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. First separate edition of the work which originally appeared in Poetry in 1951. Fine. More
Paris: Eric Losfeld, 1971. First edition. Narrow 8vo, 155 pp, bound in illustrated wraps. Book ably and beautifully designed by the great Pierre Faucheux. The script of the 1971 Surrealist horror film, written by Buñuel, based upon the 18th century novel The Monk by Lewis, and directed by the great... More
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1974. 4to, single sheet of translucent glassine folded once to make four pages. Single issue of the remarkable periodical issued from the influential gallery run by Adriaan van Ravesteijn and Geert van Beijeren. Over the course of almost 20 years the gallery issued 156 of these... More
New York: John Weber Gallery, 1975. 17 x 22" sheet, folded three times. Offset printed on white coated paper stock. The poster announcement for this series of works performed by Sue Bailey, Joanne CAring, Peter Frank, Susan Heinemann, and Mark Levine, based upon choreography by Daniel Buren using 5 colors... More
Nova Scotia: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1973. Three 4 x 4 5/8" cards, offset printed on white card stock coated on recto. The three part announcement for this 1973 work by Buren, which stretched along three locations at 6152 Coburg Road - the mezzanine, the Anna Leonowens Gallery... More
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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... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. First American edition. 8vo, 535 pp, bound in grey cloth with black titles. No dust jacket. Translated from the German in English by Edward L. Minar, Jr. Includes chapters on Platonic and Pythagorean Number Theory, Pythagoras in the Earliest Tradition, Philolaus, Astronomy and Pythagoreanism... More
New York: Art Press, 1969. First edition. 4to, 25 [8] pp, mimeographed from typescript, holograph and drawing, and side-stapled into printed covers. Provenance: from the collection of the artist Athena Tacha. Contains Ian Burn's Xerox Piece, Adrian Piper's Untitled, Mel Ramsdens' Null Piece, Time Area and Blacnk for a Recording... More
Nevada: Black Rock City, 1996. Three issues, each an 8vo, [8] pp. including covers, saddle-stapled. Three consecutive issues of the periodical, issued on successive days in 1996. The periodical began the year prior "as a sort of irreverent survival guide and ended up mutating into, well, what you're now holding... More
London: The English Bookshop, 1965. Original pressing. 12" vinyl LP, Catalog no. LAGF 1. The scarce original pressing by the English Bookshop, preceding the ESP-Disk issue the following year in the US. The record features Burroughs himself reading excerpts from The Naked Lunch and Nova Express. Program notes in English... More
New York: Fuck You Press, 1964. First edition. 24mo, [12] pp, mimeographed from typescript and drawing. Covers illustrated with impeccable provocation and grace by Allen Ginsberg. The first separate edition of this section of the Yage Letters, which the "paranoid printers" of the City Lights edition in England refused to... More
New York: City Lights, 1963. First edition. 8vo, printed wraps. Signed by Allen Ginsberg in NYC and dated in 1964, the year following publication. Scarce with an early signature. Some light smudging and rubbing to wraps, else fine. More
Paris: Two Cities Editions, 1960. First edition. 8vo, 63 pp, printed wraps illustrated at back cover with drawings by Brion Gysin. One of 1000 copies printed. Burroughs' third book, and the first standalone publication to employ the cut-up technique as Gysin & co. envisioned it. Maynard & Miles A3a. Margins... More
New York: Grove Press, 1960. 8vo, [16] pp [incl. covers], saddle-stapled in wraps illustrated with a photograph of Burroughs. An advance excerpt of the text, here preceded by texts by Southern and Seldon on the work. The advance salvo of the shock to come. Some faint toning to margins, else fine. More
London: Atlas Press, 1995. First edition. 8vo. 63 pp. Wraps. One of a limited edition of 300 numbered copies. The Printed Head Vol.III, No. 6. Near fine with a sticker ghost to rear panel. More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1967. First edition. 4to, 167 pp, bound in full black cloth. Printed dust jacket. Near fine, with some minor toning to the top edge of the text block, in a very good dust jacket with some overall rubbing and some small, innocuous abrasions to rear panel. More
New York: [1954. 4 x 8 1/4", offset printed on recto; cream card stock. The original handbill for two performances by David Tudor in 1954 at Carnegie Hall. The first night notes that there will be performances of pieces by Earle Brown, Christian Wolff and John Cage. Though not mentioned... More
New York: [1954. 4 x 8 1/4", offset printed on recto; green card stock. The original handbill for two performances by David Tudor in 1954 at Carnegie Hall. The first night notes that there will be performances of pieces by Earle Brown, Christian Wolff and John Cage. Though not mentioned... More
Bronxville, NY: The Laughing Buddha Press, 1984. First edition thus. Narrow 8vo, ii, 49 pp, saddle-stitched in illustrated card wraps. One of a limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies. Translation of the author's terrific essay on the mystery novel, done into American by A. W. Sadler and Roberto Yahni. A.... More
Santa Monica: Cameron Parsons Foundation, 2015. First edition. 4to, 80 pp, bound in blue cloth with titles embossed in white and gray, and illustrated pastedown to front panel. No dust jacket as issued. Produced in conjunction with the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Fine. More
London: Fulgur Esoterica, 2014. First edition. 4to, 173 pp, bound in deep blue cloth pictorially stamped in black. Illustrated dust jacket. One of 1390 copies issued in cloth, out of a total edition of 1560. A beautifully designed book featuring poems, drawings, and diary entries, reproduced in facsimile from the... More
Oxford: Mandrake, 2011. Fine in wraps. More
London: Richards Press, 1951. First edition. 8vo, 230 pp, red boards titled in gilt. Photographically illustrated dust jacket. Very good, with a slight cock to the spine and some dustiness to top edge of text block, in a very good jacket that is darkened at spine and rather chipped at... More