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

Vancouver BC, 1980. Flyer for the June 1, 1980 show at Vancouver's Arcadian Hall. "D.O.A. / U-J3RK5 / SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 8PM / ARCADIAN HALL (6th & MAIN) / GUESTS & FILMS / NO BOOZE/ALL AGES WELCOME / $4 ($3 WITH SKOOL CARD)". "At the Arcadian Hall, before we played we had to haul twenty old carpets from the attic to cover the beautiful hardwood dance floor so the punks didn't fuck it up." -- Joey Keithley, "Talk - Action = 0: An Illustrated History of D.O.A." Single sheet, 8.5'' by 5.5'' approx. unfolded. Black and white printed flyer. Minimal edgewear. Neat crease lines from folding into quarters. Very good plus.

n.p., 1991. First Edition. Very good +.. Self-published artist's book cataloging and illustrating a Pillow Book-like list of Daily Annoyances (e.g. . "Standing on a subway platform and bing intimidated by a man making rude gestures with his mouth. Loneliness."). Wraps. 24mo. Saddle-stapled wraps. Light edgewear. SIGNED and numbered 64 of an edition of 200 copies. Very good plus. [12]pp.

Atlanta: Pendulum Books Inc, 1968. Very good -.. Pulp erotica with numerous baroque flourishes. "He had no more reason for believing that after death came horror, anguish and the flames of Hell than for supposing that death was the key to a paradise of music, honey and wine." Philosophy soon gives way to flagellation and the like (specifically: "Fiery lust, incest, lesbianism, promiscuity--all were necessary..." Wraps. Mass market paperback. Dark green printed wraps. Moderate edgewear, light creasing and scuffing to edges and spine. Very good minus. 223 pages plus ads.

(London): (Strange Faeces Press), 1972. First Edition. Very good.. First printing of this poem sequence by Paterson and Larcomb, from Opal L. Nations' press. A nice association with the Mikolowskis, whose Detroit-based Alternative Press published letterpress mail-art editions for over 40 years. Wraps. 8vo. Side-stapled photographic wraps. Very good. ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Larcomb to Ken and Ann Mikolowski at colophon. Light foxing to exteriors of wrappers. Clean and unmarred throughout. [12] pp. From an edition of 200 copies.

Chicago: Newsstand Library Incorporated, 1959. very good -.. Lurid '50s pulp: swamp erotica with exclamation points. "The author senses the passions of his players--knows the tempers of the men, the ardence of their women. He lets them broil in the cauldrons of--DARK DESIRE." A Newsstand Library Magenta Book. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Pictorial wraps. Spine slightly cocked; moderate wear and rubbing to covers; light scuffing to spine ends. Faint foxing to endpapers; pages lightly toned. 189 pages plus ads. Very good minus.

Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1960. First Edition. Fine.. Sorrentino's first book, a collection of poems. With an introduction by Joel Oppenheimer and a cover designed by Fielding Dawson. Paperback. 8vo. Fine in stapled wraps with dustjacket. Trace toning to spine, else bright, clean, and sharp.

Munich: Schnell and Steiner, 1969. First Edition. Near fine.. A complete bound run, from 1964-1969 of this bi-monthly, German language academic journal on Christian art and art history. Generously illustrated throughout in black and white photographs, drawings, and diagrams. With an emphasis on architecture and iconography seen through an interdisciplinary lens, taking into account aspects of theology, aesthetics, philosophy and historical sciences. The journal, begun in 1947, continues to be published by Schnell and Steiner of Munich. Thoroughly indexed. 436pp., 442pp., 492pp., 515pp., 474pp., 432pp. Hardcover. 4tos. 6 uniform volumes, slipcased in pairs. Beige cloth hardcovers without jackets. Small title labels to upper spines, gilt numbering to lowers. Slipcases with light shelfwear. Books clean, sound.

Cincinnati: The Contemporary Arts Center, 1995. First edition. Fine.. Original exhibition catalogue, with an interview with the artist by curator King and a critical essay by Feld. 12'' x 9''. Original pictorial wrappers. 48 pages. Color plates with additional illustrations in black and white. Very slight edgewear.

(Great Barrington, MA): The Figures, 2003. First edition. Near fine.. First edition of Kenneth Goldsmith's epic conceptual poem DAY, inscribed in year of publication to Anne Tardos and Jackson MacLow. DAY is arguably Goldsmith's most famous (many would say infamous) book: a precise transcription of every word from one day's issue of the NEW YORK TIMES. As Goldsmith himself described the project: "I am spending my 39th year practicing uncreativity. On Friday, September 1, 2000, I began retyping the day's NEW YORK TIMES, word for word, letter for letter, from the upper left hand corner to the lower right hand corner" (rear cover). One of the founding documents of conceptual poetry, the eight-hundred-plus-page book took more than six months of full-time effort and resulted in a work that "insists on appropriation, a strategy well established in music and visual art, as an important literary possibility" (Raven). Inscribed to two Fluxus artists and experimental writers who helped pave the way both for… Read More

(Great Barrington, MA) [and] [Kenmore, NY]: The Figures [and] "BlazeVOX", 2009. First edition. Very good plus.. Signed limited edition artist's book, appropriating a first edition of Kenneth Goldsmith's epic conceptual poem DAY. A book that plays not only with appropriation, but with ideas of edition and bibliography. On its most obvious level, Johnson here takes Goldsmith's words and work as his own (something Goldsmith himself has been accused of), but in effect additionally alters the original edition size, de facto reducing it to 600 copies (from 700), and thereby rendering the book's colophon wrong. While BlazeVOX sells DIY kits of the same stickers (so you can convert your own copy of Goldsmith's book - although it has itself become rather scarce), this is part of an entirely new issue created by Johnson himself. A brilliant work of not only of appropriation (one that would soon be echoed by Richard Prince's CATCHER IN THE RYE) and conceptual poetry, but of conceptual bibliography. 10'' x… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner, 1972. First Edition. good +.. First edition of this verse collection from the noted poet, with cover design by Robert Indiana. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Some toning to wraps and dampstains at front panel and spine. Interior clean and bright. Tight. About very good.

Odense, Denmark: Kunsthallen Brandts Kaledefabrik, 1993. First edition. Near fine.. Original exhibition announcement program (brochure and press release), illustrated on front and back covers with images from Hendricks' "Brian Buczak Memorial Boxes" series. With press release (in Danish) from Karsten Ohrt, director of Kunsthallen Brandts Kaledefabrik. Originally mailed to Ken and Ann Mikolowski of Detroit's Alternative Press. . 8.25'' x 8.25''. Bifold brochure with printed sheet laid in, in white envelope as originally mailed.

New York: The Junior Museum of Modern Art, 1970. First Edition. Very good -.. This is a calendar of past events. The days on it are the days of the Happenings. They were days off. People played." Record, calendar-style, of Kaprow's happenings and performance pieces, with photographs of each event. A valuable document and uncommon signed. Wraps. Folio. Newsprint self-wrappers. Stapled along the top edge. Pages toned, as common. Some darkening to edges of cover. Moderate wear. Else clean and sound. About very good. SIGNED by Kaprow to front cover below his picture.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944. First Edition. Very good plus in a very good minus jacket.. Christie's first and only historical mystery, a forerunner of what was to become a flourishing subgenre. Set in a murder-filled Thebes, Egypt of 2000 B.C. Hardcover. Octavo. Blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. Minor bumping to boards. Jacket scuffed, with several chips and tears to edges and jacket folds. Ownership signature to front free endpaper.

(New York): Folklore Center, 1966. First Edition. Near fine.. Striking flyer for a Jan. 31st, 1966 reading by poet, actor, photographer and Warhol associate Gerard Malanga at Izzy Young's Folklore Center. Beautifully designed (almost certainly by Malanga himself) with two stills of Malanga and Debbie "High School Drop-Out" Caen taken from Andy Warhol's 1965 screentest of the pair (ST37), described on the flyer of a "'stillie' from Andy Warhol's BLACK TIE." Caen was Malanga's girlfrend at the time and the title subject of the poems, a series which remained unpublished until Malanga's NO RESPECT: NEW & SELECTED POEMS 1964-2000 (Black Sparrow).OCLC finds no copies, though Callie Angell locates one in a Warhol "time capsule" at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburg (#79). A scarce and handsome literary survival from the height of Factory-era NYC. Oblong 4to. offset broadside, 8.5" x 11". Printed recto only. Folded three times for mailing, mild toning. Else near fine. Recently archivally framed in unfinished… Read More

New York: Tanam Press, 1979. First Edition. thus. Near fine.. Sontag's reading of excerpts from her story, written in April and May of 1973 and published as part of a longer collection in 1978. With striking, unattributed album cover art. The first release from Tanam Press, founded in 1979 by Reese Williams. LP. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album, no. TC 1537. Vinyl near fine. Toning to protective sleeve. Album cover very good, with light scuffing and rubbing.

Van Nuys, CA: Renegade, Inc, 1968. First Edition. Good +.. The Bizarre True-Life Story Of A "Normal" Woman Who Suddenly Discovered She Was Attracted To Other Women!" Standard erotic sleaze with an epigraph from Baudelaire's Femmes Damnees and an introductory claim that "Ann Summerhill" is a pseudonym for a 36-year-old "authoress" whose work "is known by readers of our top national magazines." Per the cover, both A Ram Classic (#RC 515) and A Fact Book. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Pictorial wraps. Moderate wear and soil to wraps, with small tears to lower spine. 220 pages + 2 pages of advertisements. Good plus.

(San Francisco): THIS, 1977. First Edition. Very good +.. One of 350 copies of this collection of verse by the Language poet. Wraps. 16mo. Pictorial wraps. Very good plus. Mild touches of toning to wraps' edges. Internally bright and clean. Good and sound. [31] pp.

New York: Situationist International [Frontier Press?], 1970. Very good plus.. Early reprint of a work by Debord first published in INTERNATIONALE SITUATIONNISTE #10 (though uncredited to his name), offering a situationist analysis of the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles. One of several early reprints of the essay, as is common with early S.I. material; this one bearing close resemblance to the ca. 1970 Frontier Press edition, but the publisher is listed here as Situationist International. "Overall, the American negores can rest assured that, if they keep quiet, their survival is guaranteed... But simply because they are behind in the process of intensification of socially organized survival, the blacks present problems of life, and what they demand is not to survive but to live. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Saddle-stapled pamphlet. Early pencil notation to upper-left corner of front wrapper. Else clean, bright, sharp inside and out. 10 pages.

Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1998. First Edition. Very good +.. Catalogue for an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, which consisted of paintings by Degas depicting horse races. Wraps. 4to. Pictorial wraps. A very good plus copy. Trace edgewear. Very light toning to pages, small creases to several. Bright, clean, tight throughout. Exhibition brochure laid in. 271pp.