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

Derby, Connecticut: Monarch Books, 1962. First printing. Very good plus.. First edition of this pulp cri de coeur from a drug-addled teen lost in a "fuzzy twilight" of heroin, jazz records, and post-war atomic dread. 7'' x 4''. Original pictorial wrappers. Cover Kodachrome by Vincent Colletta. All edges tinted red. 159, [1] pages. Ink snudge to front top corner of cover. Light edgewear, minor soil to back cover.

San Francisco: Miam, 1977. First Edition. Very good.. Two short selections from a work in progress by Silliman titled 2197, published in fellow Language poet Mandel's series Miam, which ran for six issues between 1977 and 1978 [Clay and Phillips, 285]. Staplebound. Five legal sheets, stapled at corner, folded for mailing with titles and postage printed on exterior sheet. Very good with some edgewear and toning. Interior clean and bright. With ALS from Mandel.

New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition. Fine in a fine jacket.. Scarce, pristine review copy of Koch's account of teaching a course in poetry writing to 25 residents of Manhattan's American Nursing Home in the mid-1970's along with the students' published work. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter cloth, pastepaper boards. REVIEW COPY with slip present. 259pp.

New England: np, 1976. Very good +.. Five short essays on various topics, showing a strong situationist influence. Includes remarks on Bay Area activists, psychiatry, and several diaristic passages. Not in OCLC or Ford. Wraps. 8vo. Self-wraps. Very good plus. Mild handling wear and surface creases. Several corrections in felt-tip pen. "Additions and Corrections" slip laid in. 28pp.

[Venice]: [La Biennale], 1978. First Edition. Near fine.. Five catalogues printed on the occasion of the Venice Biennale, focusing on artists of the Nordic countries. Each booklet with text in English and Italian. The artists represented are Stig Brøgger, Hein Heinsen, and Mogens Møller from Denmark; Olavi Lanu from Finland; Sigurdur Gudmundsson from Iceland; Frans Widerberg from Norway; and Lars Englund from Sweden. Wraps. 8vo. Cardboard slipcase with five saddle-stapled booklets inside. Near fine overall. Very light touches of rubbing to books, but mostly sharp and clean.

Stockport, England: Dewi Lewis, 2008. First Edition. Near fine.. First printing of Sobol's intimate documentation of a Westerner's feelings of isolation in Japan, winner of the 2008 Leica European Publishers Award for Photography. Includes an epigraph from Haruki Murakami and an artist's statement from Sobol at the rear of the book. With approximately 100 full-page black and white photographs. Hardcover. Tall 4to. Black quarter cloth over pictorial boards. No dust jacket as issued; in original paper obi. Unpaginated [108 pp]. Near fine.

New York: Folklore Press, 1967. First Edition. Near fine.. First printing of Reinhold's first book, printed by Izzy Young at the Folklore Center, from an edition of 250. Uncommon, with only a handful located in OCLC. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled in photographic wraps. Wraps suffer minor edgewear and toning. Interior bright and clean. Near fine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. First edition of these collected poems by the onetime Poet Laureate of the United States. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. Light edgewear. Previous owner's signature to ffep, interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Near fine. 305pp.

[Los Angeles]: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. Near fine.. First edition, association copy, with an extraordinary inscription and drawing from Bukowski at a pivotal moment in his career to Hal Norse, perennial literary scenester and author of the classic cut-up novel BEAT HOTEL. Norse was a frequent Bukowski correspondent beginning in the mid 1960s, and it was Norse who recommended Bukowski to Penguin Press for their Modern Poets series - then Bukowski's highest-profile appearance to date (they appeared together in the thirteenth installment). But the two didn't meet in person until January of 1969, a little less than a year before this inscription. Norse recalls the experience in his book MEMOIRS OF A BASTARD ANGEL: "I knew that a wild Falstaffian ruffian had come to shake things up with more fiction than fact, more fantasy than truth [...] Bukowski was misshapen [...] He looked [...] during down and out" (p. 420). Indeed, the poet was down and out, frustrated at his job for the post office and… Read More

Chicago: Powers, Fowler and Lewis, 1896. Very good.. An elaborate, portable classroom teaching aid featuring over 150 color chromolithograph religious illustrations on a movable double roller screen assembly. The plates at the lower portion of the screen are among the earliest known, commercial work of prominent early 20th century illustrator, J.C. Leyendecker, produced while living in Chicago at age 19. Originally commissioned by the publisher for an illustrated version of the bible in 1894, the 132 images attributed to him here represent more than twice the output of 60 plates known to have been published in their first appearance. OCLC notes only two holdings, one at Ohio Wesleyan University, the other at the Chicago's Harold Washington Library. Rare. Cloth covered wooden case measuring approximately 16" x 16" x 2". Folds out to reveal a movable, double roller screen mechanism, set into an upper and lower section of the vertical portion of the dispaly. A color illustrated card frames the screens'… Read More

New York: George Braziller, 1977. First Edition. Very good + in a very good jacket.. First edition of this poetry collection by Dubie, with an introduction by Richard Howard. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth in original dust jacket. Very good plus in a very good DJ. Mild toning, edgewear to jacket. Pages bright and clean throughout. 70pp.

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.

Boston: Bulfinch Press, 2001. First Edition. thus. Very good +.. First paperback edition of this survey of Cunningham's portrait work, much of which was previously unpublished. Subjects include actors, artists, other photographers, and her own family: Spencer Tracy, Frida Kahlo, Cary Grant, Man Ray, and many others. Introduced and discussed by Richard Lorenz. With chronology, and select bibliography. Wraps. 4to. Photographic wraps. Very mild edgewear. A few smudges to back cover. Very good plus. 220 plates, including 13 in color. 200pp.

Providence, 1995. First Edition. Very good +.. Seventh issue featuring work by Dan Bouchard, Damon Krukowski, Rod Smith, Bill Luoma, Steve Carll, Kevin Davies, William Keckler, Joe Ross, Douglas Rothschild, Avery E.D. . Burns, and Connie Deanovich. Wraps. 4to. Pink side-stapled wraps. Light edgewear and toning/sun to covers. 67pp. Very good plus.

(San Francisco / Berkeley): (Isaac Cronin / Chris Shutes), 1975. First Edition. Near fine.. First and likely only issue of this magazine loosely affiliated with the Berkeley-based Situationist-inspired group Point-Blank!, of which Shutes was a noted member. Includes articles by the editors on a variety of topics, including Wilhelm Reich, Raoul Vaneigem (and "vaneigemists" in Berkeley), a literature review, and excerpts from the editors' correspondence with "our comrades": Daniel Denevert, Ken Knabb, Gina Rosenberg, et al. Though the edtiors write that "we have printed 2000 copies of the present journal," OCLC finds only three. [Ford 212]. Wraps. 8vo. Printed wraps. Near fine. Tiny dot of soil to front wrapper. Interior bright, sharp, and clean throughout. Small errata slip stapled to inside rear wrapper. 55pp.

Barcelona: Institut de Cultura, 2001. First edition. Near fine.. First printing of this catalogue of an exhibition of Yoko Ono's conceptual and avant-garde art held at Barcelona's Institut de Cultura, including "instructions" for exhibits that viewers make themselves. Catalogue text in Catalan (also issued in Norwegian and French), with Spanish and English translations. Includes "instructions," drawings, and letters by Ono, with essays by her and Gunnar Kvaran. 10'' x 7.5''. Original white boards. No dust jacket. Black endpapers. Illustrated in black and white. 174 pages. With exhibit brochure and two folded sheets of paper with instructions for interactive pieces in Catalan, Spanish, and English loosely laid in. English portion of one sheet of instructions perished. Binding with light bumping to corners and spine ends, a touch of rubbing. Tight and clean.

New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1973. First Edition. Very good.. An early work from Paul Violi, with striking cover design by frequent collaborator Paula North. Wraps. Small 4to. Publisher's printed wraps. Very good with some rubbing and edgewear. Small stain to inside front cover, unobtrusive.

(Berkeley): Oyez, 1972. First Edition. Fine.. First printing of this slim verse chapbook by Charters. From an edition of 600 copies. A handsomely produced edition. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled printed wraps. Fine. Review copy with slip laid in. Interior bright, crisp, and clean throughout. Binding tight. 15pp.

n.p.: Sombre Reptiles, 1980. First Edition. Very good in a very good jacket.. An attractive copy of this poetry collection, inscribed to fellow poet Terence Winch. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's wraps in original dust jacket. INSCRIBED at ffep, "For Terence/ 'There's no place like home.'/ Best/ Michael." Jacket lightly worn at edges, with closed tear at rear, 1" approx. Interior bright and clean. Very good. 40pp.

New York: E.L. Publishing Company, 1969. First Edition. Very good.. Smut. Sleaze. 174pp. Plus publisher's ads to rear. Scarce. OCLC notes only one holding. Wraps. 12mo. Illustrated wraps. Moderate shelf rubbing. Two remainder lines to lower page edge. Overall sound, internally clean.