Search Results: Authors starting with W from Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix

Tampa, FL: David Wade, 1966. First Edition. Near fine.. Signed first edition of this scarce poetry anthology, with promo sticker featuring quotes from Allen Ginsberg and the New York Times affixed to front cover. OCLC locates four holdings. Wraps. 4to. Saddle-stapled wraps. Near fine. SIGNED by Wade and Dimitrios to front cover, dated 1973. Light trace of foxing to upper edge of front cover. Mild hints of rust soil to rear. Interior clean, bright throughout. Binding sound. Unpaginated.

Provincetown, MA: The Journal Press, 1946. First edition thus. Very good.. Paper resulting from experiments carried out with college students in the Psychology department of Sarah Lawrence College, reprinted as part of the series Genetic Psychology Monographs, 1946, 33, 3-70. Waehner, an Austrian artist, studied at the Bauhaus with Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky before fleeing to Vienna, Zurich, and ultimately New York following the Nazis' rise to power in the 1930s. During her time as a professor at Sarah Lawrence, she studied and published on art and psychology, attempting in this paper to gather data on line quality, subject preference, representation vs. abstraction, and other quantifiable aspects of free drawings as they might be correlated to artist personality, academic ability, background, and environment. Scarce in trade and rare signed, a significant link between psychology and abstract art - including Dadaism and Surrealism. Wraps. 8vo. Brown perfect-bound wraps. Chipping and small tears… Read More

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. Later printing. Very good.. Sixth printing of Wakoski's collection, originally issued by Black Sparrow in 1970. Wraps. 8vo. Blue wraps. Spine and edges lightly sunned; moderate edgewear and rubbing. Minor foxing/spotting to page block. Very good. 150pp.

New York: The World, 1970. First Edition. Good +.. The Poetry Project lit mag, this issue featuring contributions from Bruce Andrews, Glen Baxter, Ted Berrigan, Tom Clark, Andrei Codrescu, Allen Ginsberg, Larry Fagin, John Giorno, Alice Notley, Maureen Owen, Ron Padgett, and many others. Wraps. Tall 4to. Side stapled in printed wraps. Good plus to very good. Heavy wear to wraps' edges. Clean, unmarred throughout. Unpaginated.

New York: Angel Hair, 1967. First Edition. Very good.. Fourth issue of this important little magazine of the New York School. Contributions from Kenward Elmslie, Tom Clark, Cark Coolidge, Ron Padgett, Larry Fagin, Ted Greenwald and many others. Wraps. 4to. Publisher's red wraps. Very good. Edges creased, some fading and mild soil. Interior bright and clean with shallow crease to several pages. Unpaginated.

New York: The Poetry Project, 1968. First Edition. Very good +.. The Poetry Project lit mag, this issue featuring contributions from Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Bill Berkson, Ed Dorn, John Giorno, Frank O'Hara, Gerard Malanga, Max Jacob (tr. Michael Brownstein), Ray DiPalma, and many others. Wraps. Tall 4to. Side stapled in publisher's original wraps; printed recto only. A very good plus copy. Mild toning to wraps, moderate handling wear. Small spot of ink to one page; presumed printer's error. Otherwise clean throughout. Good and sound. Unpaginated. [Clay and Phillips 186-88].

Boston: Shambhala, 1996. First edition (stated). Near fine in near fine jacket.. Wide-ranging Beat anthology, with a foreword by Allen Ginsberg. Authors represented include Amiri Baraka, Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, and Joanne Kyger, in addition to the usual regulars (Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, Corso, Cassady, Ginsberg, Kerouac). 8.5'' x 5''. Original quarter black cloth with black boards. In original unclipped ($24.00) dust jacket. 376 pages. Minor edgewear.

Providence: Diana's Bimonthly, 1975. First Edition. Near fine.. #126 of 275 copies. Contains several short poems by Waldrop. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle stapled printed wraps. Near fine. Mild corner crease to front cover. Bright, clean throughout. Good and sound. [11] pp.

(Providence): Burning Deck, 1971. First Edition. Near fine in a very good + jacket.. First printing collection of poems by Keith Waldrop; this copy with a nice association between Waldrop and the Mikolowskis, who for over 40 years published letterpress mail-art and broadsides as the Alternative Press. Printed letterpress by Rosmarie Waldrop, in maroon and black inks throughout. Wraps. Square 16mo. Plain cream wraps in matching printed dust jacket. Near fine in a very good plus DJ. ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Waldrop at flyleaf to Ken and Ann Mikolowski of Ann Arbor's Alterative Press. Mild touches of soil to jacket at edges. Interior bright, crisp, and clean throughout. Good and sound. Unpagianted. No. 84 from an edition of 400 copies.

New York: Wittenborn and Company, 1969. First Edition. Near fine.. First printing of this collaborative work of visual poetry between Waldrop and Howe. This copy comes with a nice association with the Mikolowskis, who for over 40 years published letterpress mail-art and broadsides as the Alternative Press. 4to. Seventeen unbound sheets in envelope with title affixed. Near fine. PROOF and ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Waldrop at colophon, for Ken and Ann Mikolowski of Ann Arbor's Alternative Press (noting this as an "unbound and / somewhat defective proof / copy," not included in the edition of 100 copies). Light bumps to corners of envelope. Sheets bright, crisp, clean throughout.

Providence: Burning Deck, 1975. First Edition. Fine in a fine jacket.. First printing of this collaborative book of poetry from the Waldrops. This copy comes with a nice association with fellow-travelers the Mikolowskis, who for over 40 years published letterpress mail-art and broadsides as the Alternative Press. Wraps. Oblong 32mo. Plain maroon wraps in matching printed dust jacket. Fine in like DJ. ASSOCATION COPY, INSCRIBED by both Waldrops at flyleaf, to Ken and Ann Mikolowski of Ann Arbor's Alterative Press. Bright, crisp, and clean inside and out. Unpaginated. No. 93 from an edition of 500 copies; printed letterpress in red and black inks.

Providence: Burning Deck, 1973. First Edition. Fine in a near fine jacket.. First printing of this collaborative book of poetry from the Waldrops. This copy comes with a nice association with fellow-travelers the Mikolowskis, who for over 40 years published letterpress mail-art and broadsides as the Alternative Press. Wraps. Oblong 32mo. Plain mustard-yellow wraps in matching printed dust jacket. Fine in near fine DJ. ASSOCATION COPY, INSCRIBED by both Waldrops at flyleaf, to Ken and Ann Mikolowski of Ann Arbor's Alterative Press. Minimal edgewear, toning to edges of jacket. Interior bright, crisp, and clean througout. Unpaginated. No. 82 from an edition of 500 copies; printed letterpress in blue and black inks.

Vancouver, BC: np, 1969. First Edition. Very good.. Scarce publication by these three Canadian artists. Consists mainly of appropriated xeroxed excerpts of texts by authors including Antonin Artaud, William S. Burroughs, Jean Toche, Alexander Trocchi, and Ad Reinhardt. Additionally, contains original text and/or image contributions by all three editors, and artists Bill Vazan and Laura West. Wall, Lunden, and Wallace exhibited together at the University of British Columbia in Feburary 1970. In a contemporary review of that show, Dennis Wheeler described FREE MEDIA BULLETIN as a "precursor" to the exhibition, and an "attempt... to establish a ground on which to build an education in an envelope filled with socio-aesthetic documents vital to each of the three artists." OCLC finds just six locations for any issues, only one of which is in the US: Oklahoma's Cameron University [!?]. Mentioned in Lippard, SIX YEARS, p. 110. 4to. 8.75" by 12" envelope printed on front, housing sixty-five 8.5" by 11"… Read More

Washington DC: Primitive, 1996. First Edition. Near fine.. First printing collection of verse by Wallace, issued as "number two in a Primitive chapbook series." Wraps. Square 8vo. Saddle-stapled wraps. Near fine with trace discoloration to wraps; hint of handling wear. Interior clean, sharp throughout. 20pp.

(Los Angeles): (Upper Limit Music), 1996. First Edition. Near fine.. First printing of this slim collection of verse by Wallace. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled wraps. Near fine with a bit of toning to upper edge of front cover. Else clean and sharp. [12] pp.

Wilmington, NC: Dennis M. Walsak, 1983. First Edition. Very good.. Artist's book designed to open on multiple axes, helically, and be read in multiple directions. Brief and enigmatic text over black and white images. Hardcover. 32mo. Grey cloth boards, accordion-fold binding. Light edgewear; faint marking to cover. Limited edition of 100 copies Very good.

Berkeley: As Is /So & So Press, 1978. First Edition. Very Good +.. Signed first printing, with an introduction by Maureen Owen. From an unnumbered edition of 500. Unpaginated. Paperback. 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. Very good plus. Light rubbing, edgewear. Else clean and sound throughout. Warmly inscribed and SIGNED by author Walsh to ffep.

Hanoi: Le Courrier du Viet Nam, 1971. First Edition. Very good.. Scarce North Vietnam propoganda published in the wake of the release of the Pentagon Papers. Coming the same year as Daniel Ellsberg's leak (which was published in June of that year), this represents an early and possible first official response to the revelations contained therein. From the introduction: "It is repugnant for honest people to believe that the government of a country with the reputation of the United States had for many years premeditated, prepared, and planned, down to the most minute details, a systematic aggression, a criminal war of genocide against a small people, a tiny country situated more than 10,000 kilometers from America's frontiers; to think that this government for many years has deliberately and knowingly lied to cover up the crime, to hide its plans and deceive the American people, the US Congress, and America's allies as well as its friends and supporters throughout the world" [translated from the… Read More

Washington DC: Jawbone, 1977. First Edition. Very good.. Published in an edition of 200 by DC poet Doug Lang. Ward's first published collection. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled in wraps. Very good. Toned at edges. Interior clean and bright. Unpaginated.

Elmwood, CT: Potes & Poets Press, 1992. First Edition. Near fine.. Collection of texts from the noted Language poet. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect bound pictorial wraps. Near fine. 95pp.