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

Ithaca, NY: Ithaca House, 1971. First Edition. Good +.. First edition. Early collection of verse from the Language poet. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's metallic wraps. Very good plus. Wraps mildly rubbed. Clean and bright interior. 21 pp.

Ithaca, NY: Ithaca House, 1971. First Edition. Very good.. Signed first edition of this early collection of verse from the Language poet. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's metallic wraps. Very good. SIGNED by DiPalma at ttitle page. Some edgewear, rubbing to wraps. Owner's stamp and notation to upperright of title page. Binding tight; clean and sharp. 21pp.

New York: [n.p.], 1930. First Edition. Fair.. Printed in Paris by Horizons de France under the artistic direction of Maximilien Vox, with his design and typography throughout. An overview of the museum, with 44 black and white plates of its holdings, including works by Matisse, Gris, Miro and Picasso. The Gallery of Living Art was founded in 1927 by A.E. Gallatin, one of the most important early collectors of modernist art, as a public space for the exhibition of his personal collection. The Gallery of Living Art is considered the first museum dedicated exclusively to modernism, and became a resource for contemporary artists in the downtown New York art scene. Includes four-page essay by Gallatin, and a nine-page essay by Mauny. Copy of Ferol Sibley Warthen, a listed Provincetown, MA artist and student of important modernist Blanche Lazell, with her (Warthen's) small inscription to interior front. Scarce. Wraps. 12mo. Measuring approximately 5" x 7.25." Original silver foil wraps wraps with circular… Read More

New York: Gandhabba, 1985. First Edition. Very good +.. Lovely poetry mimeo, featuring work by Jim Brodey, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Gerard Malanga, Bob Heman, Hilton Obenzinger, Bruce Andrews, Jackson Mac Low, and cover by Dan Freeman. 4to. Side-stapled in publisher's original wraps. Very good plus to near fine. Some mild toning to wraps. Interior clean, crisp, and sharp throughout. Unpaginated.

New York: Horizon Press, 1980. Very good plus in a very good plus jacket.. First edition of this monograph on the acclaimed US photographer, along with Pratt's essay "On Photographing." Edited by William Maxwell, with an introduction by Lisette Model. Includes a list of plates. 12'' x 14''. Original quarter black cloth, green cloth boards, in unclipped ($50) gray dust jacket. Light edgewear, with two small tears to upper edge of jacket. Faint foxing to top of page block.

London: Seven Dials, Cassell & Co, 2000. Very good +.. Survey of ambitious gardens designed by artists, visionaries, and obsessives, illustrated with color photographs throughout. Wraps. 4to. Green and teal photographic wraps. Mild shelfwear. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Faint page toning. 191pp.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1995. Third printing. Very good + in a very good + jacket.. Discussion of 25 gardens designed by "visionaries" for personal, spiritual, and artistic ends. Illustrated throughout with photographs by James Pierce. Includes index. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Green cloth boards in photographic dust jacket. Lightly shelfworn. Very good plus overall. 223pp.

Bethesda, MA: Gargoyle Magazine, 1983. First Edition. Very good.. DC culture and literary magazine featuring work from Dave Morice, Paul Metcalf, Maurice Girodias, Paul Grillo and others. Wraps. 4to. Perfect-bound in wraps in black and purple. Moderate toning and shelfwear. Interior bright and clean. Very good. 140pp.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First edition of Forché's first poetry collection, inscribed to fellow poet Denise Levertov. Carolyn Forché is a multifaceted poet, educator, and activist, whose politically-engaged poetry blends the personal with larger concepts and global events. Exploring themes of kinship, GATHERING THE TRIBES traverses rural life, motherhood, and Sapphic desire. The collection won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1975, when Forché was 24, and landed her a publishing deal. This copy bears an inscription to fellow poet Denise Levertov, who would later call Forché "a poet who's doing what I want to do" (PoetryDispatch). A warm association between two major American poets. 8'' x 5''. Original brown cloth binding with gilt lettering. Original pictorial dust jacket, unclipped ($6.00), illustrated by Arleen Targan. 58 pages. Inscribed by the author in ink to half-title: "For Denise, / I have long / wanted to meet… Read More

London: Trigram Press, 1971. Signed special limited first printing of this collection of witty and saucy poems from the winner of the 1971 Cholmondeley Award, with dust jacket and frontispiece illustrated by Michael Foreman. THE GUARDIAN identifies Michael Foreman as "one of the best-known British writer-illustrators," in part thanks to his remarkable output: since he began his career in 1961, he has published over 300 books for children and adults. He has earned two Kate Greenaway Medals, and has twice been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. 8.5'' x 6.5''. Original brown and black cloth boards. Original unclipped (no price) brown pictorial dust jacket. 64 pages. Signed by Ewart to colophon, numbered 50 of 100.

[Brooklyn]: [Far Out Enterprises], 1973. First Edition. Very good +.. Scarce copy of this gay men's erotic newspaper. Features explicit photographs, articles, and a centerfold. Section titles include "Boy Whore" and "Jock Itch." Folio. Folded newspaper (15" by 11.25" approx). Very good plus. Mild toning as usual. Small closed tears to several pages, but no losses. Clean throughout. Unpaginated.

New York: Gegenschein, 1979. First Edition. Very good +.. Single volume containing issues 16, 17, and 18, as well as an appended GEGENSCHEIN CATALOGUE listing contributors for all 15 back issues. Includes work by Tristan Tzara, Kenneth Patchen, Miriam Patchen, Bruce Hutchinson, Matthew Paris, and others. Design and cover photographs by Bitty O'Sullivan. Wraps. 4to. Red wraps, worn and scuffed along edges. Unpaginated. Very good plus.

(New York): (J. Yuder), 1965. Very good.. Unpublished manuscript of a sweeping religico-political epic poem, prefaced by epigraphs from the Book of Revelations and the Book of Jonah and beginning with BIRTH, first of the "Four Regressions" ("Once I met a mad fool who lived in a Forest!...now there lived in this forest a great Wolf whose name was MOGATOR, who was a very strange and ferocious beast..."). A single illustration, tittled DIAGRAM OF EROM, draws a geometric relationship betwen the senses, death, ressurrection, birth, and pre-existence. Biblical diction and motifs segue into a more or less recognizable 20th century political catalogue: "And there was Courtney (And the Terrible Westward Pegley and Robert Welsh / And William Buckley and Dr. Becher and His 'Drang Nach Osten' Propganda. / And Gehlin and the Right Reverent & Notorious Winrod / And Sokolsky and Professor Oliver and the Defenders of the Christian Faith and Peter Maurin and Lyle Munsen / And George Deathrage & Schmidtz and Robert… Read More

np: np, 1972. Very good.. Artist's book by Sondheim. Discusses the process of working on the piece "General Description of the World," which involved collecting images of a beach in Nova Scotia at both micro- and macroscopic levels (from a plane and under an actual microscope). Explains the theoretical basis of the project, derived from the work of Merleau-Ponty, Piaget, Levi-Strauss, and Chomsky, among other authors. Wraps. Small 4to. Side-stapled wraps. Mimeographed throughout, recto only. A very good copy. Mild rust around staples, touches of toning to wraps. Interior overall clean. Good and sound. Unpaginated.

New York: Macmillan, 1974. First Edition. Very good + in a very good + jacket.. Hundreds of illustrations of Grosz's work depicting pre-Nazi Germany between the World Wars. First American edition. 272pp. Hardcover. Very good-plus in like jacket. 4to. Yellow cloth, ink lettering to spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Price clipped. Jacket wrinkled at upper spine end. Red ink remainder mark to lower page edge. Interior mildly foxed at extremities. Overall sound, clean, unmarked.

South Holland, Illinois: White's Pit Stop, Inc, 1974. Very good.. A fantastic, quintessentially 1970's dealer catalog of custom chopper accessories for domestic and Japanese bikes. Published by the Chopper Corner company of suburban Chicago, the profusely illustrated contents consist of original company ads and price lists (most illustrated) and 3 separate publications: CHOPPER: The Custom Motorcycle Guide 74 ; PAUGHCO Quality Motorcycle Accessories, Catalog 101 ; A COLLECTION OF EMBROIDERED MOTOCYCLE EMBLEMS. Nudity and chrome abound in this uncommon and compelling example of the marketing of outlaw biker culture. Wraps. 4to. Illustrated thin card wraps. Bound by 2 brad tacks at left margin. About very good. Black and white, mechanically reproduced product description leaves, many illustrated, bound together with color brochures and 3 separate color publications into a single catalog. Hundreds of pages. Approximately 1 1/2" thick. Wraps moderately worn. Rear wrapper and two leaves detached.… Read More

Greenville, NC: Cordial Quartos, Ltd, 1981. First Edition. Very good +.. Signed limited first edition of this handmade photocopied photobook of black and white images with ghostly double exposures and other photographic manipulations. Rare; not found in OCLC. Wraps. Oblong 8vo. Grey stapled wraps. Minor edgewear. Edition of 20; two signed leaves bound in (an apparent printer's error); both SIGNED and numbered 13 and 14 respectively (sorry copy 14). Very good plus.

London: Virgin Books, 1981. First Edition. Very good +.. Illustrated in color throughout. Errata page from publisher laid in. Wraps. Square 4to. Pictorial wraps. Mild edgewear, bumped corners. Very good plus. Faint foxing to a few pages only. Very good plus. 128pp.

(Portland, OR): (Ginger and Spice), [197-]. First Edition. Very good.. Scarce copy of this regional porn newspaper, produced in a primitive, zine-like style. Features explicit hardcore photographs as well as articles on the "Drug Scene," veneral diseases, and more. Of note is an explicit photograph series of a woman having intercourse with a pig. Folio. Folded newspaper (16" by 11.5" approx). Very good. Light toning throughout. Mild horizontal fold. Several small tears to page edges, but no major losses. Overall clean throughout. 27pp.

(Portland, OR): (Ginger and Spice), [197-]. First Edition. Very good.. Pornographic newspaper featuring many explicit close-up photographs, texts, and a centerfold "jackoff poster of the month." Folio. Folded newspaper (17" by 11" approx). Very good. Modestly toned as usual. Light dampstaining to bottom edge; some toning and mild edgewear throughout. Overall, clean and well preserved. Unpaginated.