Search Results: Titles starting with B from Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix

[New York]: [Boke Press], 1965. First Edition. Near Fine.. First edition of the first of many published Brainard/Elmslie collaborations, a nice copy. Wraps. 4to. Tape-bound side-stapled mimeo wraps. Some rust stains and faint toning to wraps. Else clean, sharp and tight. One of 500 copies. This one of 450 unnumbered copies.

[New York]: [Multiples, Inc.], 1970. First printing. Fine.. First edition of Ruscha's eleventh book, featuring one bespoke baby (his own) and many mass-produced commercial cakes. BABYCAKES was originally issued by Goodman's imprint as part of the boxed portfolio set Artists and Photographs, with a catalogue and works by 18 other contemporary artists (Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and others). Despite the cover's uncharacteristic soft pastels and textures, the book's photographs are in black and white, as austere as frosted cakes ever are. The pictured baby, at a stated 15 lbs 8 oz, weighs double the largest cake shown, or approximately 70 Hostess cinnamon rolls. Photographs by Elizabeth Claman, Sid Felson, Jerry McMillan, Danna Ruscha, and Ed Ruscha. 7.25'' x 6''. Original robin's-egg blue wrappers with pink satin ribbon tie and green flocked lettering. Black and white photographic illustrations. [52] pages. Ribbon frayed at one end, very slight wear to corners. Else… Read More

(Mondeville, France): (Illusion Production), 1980. First edition. Near fine in fair box.. Uncommon avant-garde synth & "guitare fuzz" 7'' single by Joël Hubaut & Manou + Déficit des Années, with the original elaborate packaging and mail-art inserts. 7'' x 7''. Text in French with some German and English. White cardboard box with red and white paper labels. 7'' x 7'' cover illustration present but detached from cover. Contains: 1. 7'' vinyl record in original paper sleeve. 2. 2'' x 3'' card printed with an invitation to a third world war. 3. (6)-page accordion-folded leaflet printed in red on pink paper. 4. Single sheet, illustrated and printed recto and verso, titled "ACTIVITIES DE RECHERCHE SUR DIAGRAMMES DE K," folded as issued. 5. 11'' x 14.5'' art print on computer printout paper, folded as issued. Outer cardboard packaging scuffed and bent, with cover art detached as described; internal contents about fine.

(Kobe, Japan): (CIRA-Nippon), 1978. First Edition. Very good +.. Issue of this Japanese anarchist (self-described "libertarian") journal, discussing the connections between the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin and the Japanese anarchist Ōsuki Sakae. OCLC notes a copy at the University of Leeds. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. Very good plus. Light toning and small dot of soil to front cover. Interior clean and bright throughout. 50pp.

Otisville, NY: Birch Brook Press, 1987. First Edition. Near fine.. Collection by the founder of Pulpsmith, in which many of these poems were previously published. A vital figure in the small press movement, Smith was also awarded PEN International's Lucille Medwick Award in 1976, "for his poetry, his commitment to human values, and his achievements as an editor." Hardcover. Oblong 24mo. Orange cloth boards. No jacket as issued. Very light edgewear. Typeset by hand and "printed with a Miehle V-50 letterpress on 80 lb. Mohawk Vellum stock in Superior Ink's Marvel Black." Near fine.

(Zurich): (Scalo Verlag), 2005. First Edition. Very good +.. Collection of photographs of balls taken by the avant-garde Swiss photographer Jakob Tuggener, which he originally arranged into a maquette for a book that was never published, published on the occasion of the traveling exhibition of the same name in Switzerland. This edition, based on the maquette, is true to his wish for a "pure photo book without text," with critical essays only in the included booklet. An impressive work of the European photographic avant-garde. Hardcover. Tall 4to. Gilt-paper-covered boards with photo print to front. 30-page, 8vo. accompanying booklet of English text laid in. A very good plus, ex-library copy, with stamps to front and rear pastedowns, and no other markings. Light bumps to edges of boards, else unmarred, clean and sharp overall. Unpaginated.

Santa Cruz: The Balloon Newspaper, 1970. First Edition. Near fine.. Eighth issue of this collaborative art-comic newspaper, which ran from 1969 to c. 1972. Consisting largely of humorous, scatological, and pornographic comics, often without words; the authors (after the fourth issue using pseudonyms Futzie Nutzle, Spinny Walker, and henry humble), drew the paper together sitting around a draft table. Aarons and Roth do not include the "Coo Coo..." sheet in their description of BALLOON 8. They also note that Ray Johnson (a contributor to BALLOON No. 6 and correspondent with the editors), later "adopted" the Coo Coo [...] Company "as one of his many motifs," and in doing so participated in what appears to have been a loose, fictional group "operat[ing] along the lines of an isolated and indigenous West Coast Fluxus." Rare. OCLC locates only four locations for any issues. [IN NUMBERS pp. 90-5]. 4to. Two sheets folded in quarters (unfolded, each 21" by 15" approx), printed recto and verso. With… Read More

West Branch, IA: The Toothpaste Press, 1976. First Edition. Very good +.. Inscribed first printing, with a charming association between Kornblum (presumed spouse of Allan Kornblum, proprietor of Toothpaste Press) and the Mikolowskis, who for over forty years published letterpress-printed chapbooks, mail art, and broadsides from Michigan. Printed from Plantin type on Ragston paper, in an edition of 425 copies. Cover by Dave Maurice. Wraps. 32mo. Stringbound pictorial wraps. Very good plus. ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Kornblum to blank opposite title page, with original drawing of a car next to a horizon, for Ken and Ann Mikolowski of Ann Arbor's Alternative Press. Book shows mild touches of foxing to wraps, trace yellowing. Interior bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. [14] pp.

Sacramento: Runcible Spoon, 1969. First Edition. Near fine.. First edition of this poetry chapbook from Blazek, with illustrations throughout by "Thorne." From Don Cauble's press. 8vo. Pictorial wraps. Trace rubbing and handling wear to rear, else fine. Interior bright, clean. Unpaginated.

Garden City: Blue Ribbon Books, 1943. Good +.. Early collection of the first "Barnaby" comic strips, beginning with "Episode One: Mr. O'Malley Arrives". This copy signed and dated (November 24, 1945) by Eldon Dedini, cartoonist for Playboy and The New Yorker. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown faux-leather boards, no jacket. Light edgewear and soil to boards. Faint staining/scuffing to spine. Ownership signature to ffep. Touches of soil to endpapers; interior otherwise unmarked. Good plus. 361pp.

(San Diego): (Greenleaf Classics), 1968. First Edition. Very good +.. Sleaze novel telling the story of a rich couple on their honeymoon in Europe. "What price would the Duvalles have to pay to lease these two young bodies for a round of fun and games all over the sultry, shameless Riviera?" Wraps. 12mo. Pictorial wraps. Very good plus. Light toning and rubbing to wraps. Clean throughout if mildly toned. 224pp.

Rochester: Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, 1903. First Edition. Very good +.. Catalog of contest-winning photographs, "Being a Collection of the Photographs Which Received Awards in the Three Thousand Dollar Quarter Century Photographic Competition Which Closed October First Nineteen Hundred Three" Competition judged by Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., C. Yarnall Abbott, and William F. James. With texts by Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Myra Wiggins, Jos. N. Pearce, Curtis Bell, Nellie Coutant, and Louis Fleckenstein, all of whom are represented among the featured photographers. Photo credits identify photographer and title as as well as the particular Bausch & Lomb lens used. Wraps. 4to. Black textured paper wraps with original photo (by Harry Contant) mounted to front cover. Hand-sewn binding. Wear and a few small tears to outer edges. Light foxing throughout. Pages toned. Very good plus.

New York: The Bawl Street Journal Corporation, 1965. First Edition. Very good.. Long-running, WSJ-parodying newspaper published by a New York investment bankers' club. Contains a wide variety of industry in-jokes and New Yorker-esque cartoons, some of which are perhaps only comprehensible to bankers. Still, the paper offers a unique, interesting, and bitingly sardonic perspective on the financial industry circa 1965, full of direct send-ups of Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, and many then-prominent Wall Street executives. Folio. Folded newspaper (2 sheets, [8] pp). Several small holes at folds on front page. Vertical crease to front. A bit toned overall, otherwise very good.

Gloucester, MA: Bezoar, 1981. First Edition. Very good.. Issue of the periodical BEZOAR, featuring the first section of Bayliss' work PROLOGOS. Bezoar was issued between 1975 and 1981 by a number of editors including Fred Buck, Thorpe Feidt and Paul Kahn in a number of different formats and iterations. This issue was mailed to DC poet Doug Lang. [Clay and Phillips, 265]. Wraps. 4to. Six leaves stapled at top left corner. Very good. Mild toning and edgewear. Folded for mailing. Else clean and bright.

New York: Kulchur Press, 1967. First Edition. Near fine in original acetate jacket.. Scarce hardcover issue of this collaboration by Berrigan and Padgett, illustrated by Joe Brainard, mostly composed between 1962 and '65. Individual pieces are unattributed in the text, though credits note several contributions from other artists and writers, notably Gerard Malanga and Peter Orlovsky, and "Peter Schjeldahl says he wrote parts of WHAT THE THUNDER SAID. He didn't." From Lita Hornick's great press, includes Berrigan's fictional "interview" with John Cage. A fragile book, this is an exceptional example. 9.75'' x 7.25''. Original color pictorial boards. In original acetate jacket. Trace shelfwear at extremities. Tiny scuff to two preliminary pages. Else clean, bright, and sound.

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.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960. First edition. Very good +.. First City Lights issue of the San Francisco literary mag, the brainchild of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, and John Kelly. Originally conceived as a weekly newsletter for the North Beach literary scene, the first issue of BEATITUDE was issued in April 1959. Though it quickly abandoned that schedule, the little mag soon became an important outlet for beat literature and is now one of the defining publications of the early mimeo revolution. As Bob Kaufman put it: "Designed to extoll beauty and promote the beatific life among the various mendicants, neo-existentialists, christs, poets, painters, musicians, and other inhabitants and observers of North Beach." Originally printed out of the Bread and Wine Mission run by Congregationalist minister Pierre Delattre (who also published in the magazine), BEATITUDE included the work of its founders, as well as Jack Kerouac, Michael McClure, and numerous other notable San Francisco poets and… Read More

nd: np, 1970. Very good.. Anthology of labor-themed poems. Wayman was interested in the paucity of poems about work, even in so-called socialist anthologies like the PENGUIN BOOK OF SOCIALIST VERSE, so he set out to assemble this collection. Contributors include Pablo Neruda, Charles Smic, Gary Snyder, Joe Rosenblatt, Al Purdy, Philip Levine, and more. Wraps. Small 4to. Photographic wraps. Very good. Light toning to wraps. Some mild foxing to pages here and there, but mostly clean and unmarked throughout. Binding sound. Unpaginated.

(Santa Cruz): (Greenhouse Review Press), 1981. First Edition. Very good +.. Inscribed first edition of an early small-run book of verse from Santos, with a nice association, presented to his father. Wraps. Small slim 4to. Paper wraps with French flaps. Very good plus or better. ASSOCIATION COPY. INSCRIBED by Santos at title page, to his father: "For Dad and Lucia / with my love, / Rod." Light touches of soil to wraps. Interior bright, clean throughout. Unpaginated. One of 275 copies.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. First edition. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. Signed first printing of Olga Broumas's first collection of poetry, a celebration of lesbian eroticism that blazed a trail for future poets - in the scarce hardcover issue. BEGINNING WITH O, Olga Broumas's first book of poetry, earned the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1977. The Poetry Foundation notes that Broumas's work "attempts to create a lesbian language attentive to the experiences of women"; this collection swirls with Sapphic eroticism, into which Broumas weaves her personal encounters and experiences alongside broader reflections on life and womanhood. BEGINNING WITH O was simultaneously issued in paperback and hardcover, though the hardcover is significantly scarcer, especially signed. 8'' x 5''. Original green cloth boards. Original unclipped ($6.95) pictorial dust jacket. 74 pages. Signed by Broumas, "With flowers," to title page. Jacket with mild soil, faint circular staining to front.… Read More