Search Results: Titles starting with C from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

New York: Boke Press, [1966]. 11 inches. [108] pp. plus both covers printed recto and verso, all illustrated. Stiff pictorial wrappers, stapled. Mild wear and light toning in covers, small marginal stain on rear cover. Near fine. The second and final issue of the comics mimeo publication bridging the work of the first and second generations of the New York School poets, with art by Joe Brainard (except, it is noted, "Pat" : "Pat is totally a collaboration."). Clay and Phillips, p. 164.

Brooklyn: Clown War, 1980. 5 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches. [16] pp., containing four illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers, saddle-stapled. Fine. Nine poems by leading member of the second generation of the New York School of poets, Ted Berrigan (134-1983), published in Bob Heman's CLOWN WAR series. The cover and contents contain five illustrations reproduced from Jan Vredeman de Vries's architectural work, PERSPECTIVE, first published in Leiden in 1604 and 1605. One of 500 copies. Clay & Phillips, p. 269 (CLOWN WAR series). Fischer, p. 25.

Boston: The Berkeley Press, 1919. First Edition. [1919]. [2],12 pp. Original blue wrappers, stitched, printed cover label. Near fine. A short history of William Caslon and Calson Oldstyle type, by Boston's Berkeley Press, with a brief description and advertisement of the press's services. Scarce, with OCLC listing five copies.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. [12],654,[1] pp. Publisher's cloth-backed paper over boards in original dust jacket. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Boards bumped and lightly scuffed at head and tail, jacket worn at extremities, with minor chipping at head of spine panel, lightly scratched in rear panel. Very good in a good dust jacket. The autobiography of journalist, novelist, dramatist, and propagandist Ben Hecht, whom Pauline Kael called "the greatest American screenwriter," with accounts of Chicago, Hollywood, pre-war Germany, and the Zionist insurgency against the U.K. in Mandatory Palestine.

[San Marino, California]: [Huntington Library], 1939. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. [20] pp. Color gift-wrapping tissue over paper wrappers, side-stapled, letterpress label on front cover. 1939 Christmas Seal stamp below colophon. Small stains and light toning and wear in tissue, tiny stain at fore-edge of first three leaves, else near fine. Fourth issue of the annual Huntington Library Christmas party keepsake journal, which ran from 1936 to 1970. The running joke of the present issue was economic anixiety, with a dedication "to the proposition that just maybe perhaps it might possibly be better if this economy thing doesn't reach too far into the reading of proof" and the limitation statement, "This 'economy number' of the Quarterly was printed (sic) in 100 copies, from pie-eyed type" (the "sic" presumably refers to the mimeograph production of the booklet). Contents include a "Dead End Kids" take on the Three Bears, humorous poetry, jokes, and a crossword puzzle. Scarce, with OCLC… Read More

New York: Adventures in Poetry, Coach House South, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 135,[6] pp.Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers moderately rubbed, light creasing in upper-outer corner of front wrapper, else near fine. Published in a limited edition of 750 copies. "Larry Fagin notes that he published this book with David Rosenberg, who was then an editor at Coach House Press (Toronto). Rosenberg was living in New York at the time, hence the listing for Coach House Presss on the colophon. Compiler's collection inicludes the manuscript for this book, a paperback cowboy novel that Berrigan altered by 'writing through' in different-colored inks. According to Fagin, Berrigan used a copy of TWENTY NOTCHES by Max Brand. The front cover ... is a self-portrait of Berrigan ... the rear cover is a picture of a cheeseburger that has been cut out of a magazine and pasted down. Alice Notley adds, Ted liked the idea of 'the range' being a stove and proceeded from there" - Aaron Fischer, TED BERRIGAN… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1874. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 26 pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stitched. Purple inkstamp of the Purple Collection on front wrapper. One-inch cosed tear at head of front wrapper, early tidestains and toning throughout, else very good. Uncommon treatise on medical education and certification. Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa (1838-1908) was a prominent American physician and medical educator, serving from 1863 to 1882 as Professor of Diseases of the Eye and Ear at the University of the City of New York. In 1869, he helped found the Manhattan Ear, Ear and Throat Hospital. OCLC records seven copies.

New York: Hand Set & Printed by Michael Martin & David Lewis, apprentices at Uranian Press N.Y.C., 1960. Bifolium, [4] pp., with 2 inserted leaves (printed rectos only), all 12 x 9 inches, printed in red and black on brown paper. Light wear at edges, 1 3/4- inch crease in outer edge of first leaf, else near fine. The existential manifesto of the Uranian Press, presenting the original basis of Tyler's integrative vision of art, life, creativity, and journeys through forms of consciousness. Its main text, printed in three pages on a bifolium, is supplemented with two broadside inserts, one of which introduces the manifesto: In this this paper Creativity is to be understood in the sense of a Self Documented life work toward a more fully integrated individual, able to bridge consciousness between these states, & impart the result in a symbol system seeking to evolve self transcendence to the point of holding in consciousness the knowledge of unity with the universe. From his decision to leave Chicago in… Read More

[New York?]: Poetry on Films, Inc., 1970. First Edition. 11 inches. [2],61,[1] pp. Photographic covers, side-stapled. Pink and blue tissue endpapers. Light wear to covers and minor soiling to rear cover. Very good to near fine. One of 474 copies in the trade edition (of 500 copies total). A series of 61 "poemworks" Gerard Malanga composed chiefly on May 10, 1970 at Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, in the presence of Cristina. The final eight poems were written on May 11 and 12, en route to and upon arrival in New York City. When Malanga published the work two months later, he dedicated it "to cristina who continues to make everything possible." But, Cristina remains a mystery - she appears to be Cristina Miller of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, home of Andrew Wyeth, but beyond this and her dazzling effect on Malanga little is known. One poem in the series, "the world #19," records Malangas ecstatic reaction to the latest issue of the mimeo associated with St. Marks Poetry Project as he lay in bed with… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1960.Pp. 523-532 plus 4 plates containing 11 images (4 color). Original printed wrappers, side-stapled. Light rust marks near staples and light fading at wrappers' fold, else fine. Offprint from THE SMITHSONIAN REPORT FOR 1959, providing a brief history of the discovery and study of viruses and recent developments in the understanding of what a virus is, how viruses may be classified, genetic study, and virus diseases and recovery from them. The illustrations include schematic representations of virus activity, theoretical diagrams of DNA structures (including the recently-discovered double helix), and several examples of microscopic photography, including a color image of infected HeLa cells (the cell line developed from the cancer cells of Johns Hopkins cancer patient Henrietta Lacks in the early 1950s).