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

Bloomington, IN: Thomas Ockerse, 1970. First edition. Near fine overall.. Scarce and beautifully-produced collection of concrete and visual poetry. Thomas Ockerse is noted for his participation in Fluxus, mail art, concrete poetry, as well as graphic design, which he has taught for decades at RISD. From the late 1960s through the early 1970s, he created a series of similar works that investigated the line between avant garde linguistic experimentation (concrete poetry, etc.) and pure graphic design. And T.O.P., produced in 1970 while Ockerse was teaching at Indiana University, was one of the best embodiments of these interrogations. A boxed set of 50 works from 1967-70 divided into four groups, described on the artist's website as "poems of typographic structures in two and three dimensions; a set of poems as verbivisual drawings; a set of poems of found postage stamps with their cancellations, plus a series of collages using canceled postage stamps; and found postcards transformed into visual… Read More

Holyoke, Massachusetts: Scorpio L. C., 1979. First Edition. Small collection of material from the Scorpio Leather Club ("Scorpio L.C.") in Springfield, MA. Includes fifth issue of their club newsletter (TAILS OF SCORPIO), a Scorpio matchbook, several blank sheets of club letterhead, and a pin from "Sting One" - an event also pictured on the cover of the newsletter. A two-day festival celebrating leather culture, TAILS also includes a sign up form for the event and articles on handballing (aka fisting), the merits of castor oil as a laxative versus other methods, and (somewhat incongruously) money saving tips. Though little information is available about the Scorpio, internal evidence suggests it was well established in the New England gay and leather communities, with notices of reciprocal membership, and ads for other regional clubs. Needless to say (but we shall anyway), an ephemeral collection. OCLC does not locate TAILS. A rare collection documenting a local incarnation of this queer subculture… Read More

Ghost Press, 1977. Near fine.. Limited first edition, signed by Ginsberg, of these excerpts from Ginsberg's letters to Kerouac and selections from Kerouac's then-unpublished journals. 11'' x 8.5''. Original side-stapled wrappers. [18] leaves printed rectos only. Published for friends in an edition of 200 copies. Signed by Ginsberg on title page. Light edgewear, very faint touches of soil to covers.

La Crosse, WI: Juniper Press, 1978. First Edition. Fine.. Inscribed first printing of this collection of poems by this nature writer. Wraps. Small 8vo. Saddle-stapled printed wraps. Near fine. INSCRIBED by Waterman to title page. Clean, bright, and unmarred throughout, with the exception of one trivial corner crease. [20] pp. From an edition of 300 copies.

San Francisco: Hills, 1980. First Edition. Very good.. Founded in Iowa City by Perelman and Michael Waltuch, HILLS was an early publisher of what came to be known as language poetry. This issue introduces TALKS, a series of lectures, conversations and performances hosted in various locations around the Bay Area [Clay and Phillips, 247]. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Very good. Some toning and edgewear. Interior bright and tight.

Tokyo: Seiichi Tanaka, 1992. New.. First edition of this collaborative photobook with subjects painted by makeup artist Mason and photographed by Tanka against backdrops constructed and painted by Mark Kostabi. 11'' x 9''. Hardcover volume in original shrinkwrap, housed in printed folding slipcase as issued, with original fasteners. Introduction by Richard Johnson. Mild edgewear and bumping to outer slipcase packaging only. As new.

Los Angeles / New York: Alyson Books, 2002. First edition. Very good plus.. First printing of this work about exploring the spiritual side of sex through Tantra, including a description of the structure of Shaivism, from which the practice originates - with tips for and illustrations of practical applications. In TANTRA FOR GAY MEN, spiritualist and teacher Bruce Anderson goes beyond the common conception of the practice as a kind of "super-sex." Anderson builds up a groundwork of meditation and breathing exercises, as well as a review of the history of the practice, before delving into illustrated examples. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original color pictorial wrappers. Several black-and-white photographic illustrations. 156 pages, with grey designs to margins. Wrapper with a bit of bumping to corners and spine ends. Clean and tight.

Manchester: Factory Records, 1983. First Edition. Fine.. VHS recording of a live performance by New Order at the Ukranian National Home, designed by Peter Saville Associates. Features a portrait of Taras Schevchenko at front cover, from a photograph taken at the Ukranian National Home. Reissued in 2001, the original 1983 edition is uncommon. [Robertson, 77]. VHS tape in black plastic case, 4.5" x 8" approx. with printed paper label in plastic sleeve. Clean and bright. Fine.

San Francisco: Twin Peaks Press, 1979. First edition in English. Near fine.. First edition thus of this parallel text translation of Sabines's poems, warmly inscribed by translator Philip Levine to contemporary American poet Stanley Plumly. 9'' x 6''. Text in Spanish and English. Original printed orange wrappers. 87, [1] pages. Inscribed by Trejo and Levine on title page: "For Stan & Hope from your friends Ernesto, Philip, & Tarumba." Additionally signed "Philip Levine" above title. Spine sunned, pages lightly toned.

New York: Softcover Library Inc. Very good plus.. Undated reissue of Hitt's 1959 crime pulp CABIN FEVER, retitled with suggestive but sadly misleading cover copy regarding a woman of "peculiar pleasure" after "more than a man." Wraps. Mass market paperback. Pictorial wraps. Faint rubbing to spine and back cover; light creasing to lower corner. 157 pages.

San Diego: Taylor Industries, 1974. First Edition. Very good +.. Catalogue advertising parts for extremely deluxe shaggin' wagons. Includes: sun roofs, faux-wood exteriors, Taylor bunks & beds, wet bars, refrigerators, and a wide variety of seats. Wraps. 4to. Saddle-stapled photographic wraps. Very good plus. Small abrasion to upper edge of spine on front cover. Else clean and sharp throughout. Printed in B&W with color covers, both recto and verso. 16pp.

New York: Boss Books, 1968. Very good plus.. Signed first edition of the final installment in Mead's series of drug-laden diary excerpts, published between 1961-1968. A prominent face on the New York scene, Mead appeared in most of Andy Warhol's Factory films including "Tarzan and Jane Regained" and "Taylor Mead's Ass". With his large, bold signature to the first endpaper. Uncommon. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original pictorial wrappers. 248 pages. Signed by Mead on front free endpaper. Mild handling wear, shelf rubbing. Overall sound, clean, unmarked. .

New York: Telephone Books Press, 1975. First Edition. Very good.. Issue of Maureen Owen's little magazine, with contributions from Joe Brainard, Larry Clark (a short prose piece), Susan Howe, Erik Satie poems (trans. Tervor Winkfield), Barrett Watten, Rochelle Ratner, and many others. Wraps. Tall 4to. Pictorial wraps. A very good copy. Wraps moderately foxed, and show some handling wear to edges. Interior bright and clean throughout. Several mild corner creases. Good and sound. Unpaginated. [Clay and Phillips 226].

New York: Telephone Books Press, 1975. First Edition. Very good +.. Original issue of Maureen Owen's little magazine, printed offset at The Print Center; contributors include Jack Spicer, Lyn Hejinian, Pierre Joris, Jim Brodey, Judson Crews, Ron Silliman, and many others. Wraps. Tall 4to. Saddle-stapled wraps. A very good plus copy. Mild soil and foxing to wraps; light shelfwear. Interior bright, crisp, and clean throughout. Good and sound. Unpaginated. Cover by Britton Wilkie. [Clay and Phillips 226].

Atlanta: Pendulum Books, 1968. Very good +.. Sleaze paperback promising to tell all about the "perversion of every sort" to be found in the College Scene: "Scott sought violence and found it in a Volkswagen"! Wraps. Mass market paperback. Red and yellow printed wraps. Light edgewear, spine and corner creasing. Very good plus. 160 pages plus ads.

New York: Viking Press, 1966. Very good + in a very good jacket.. First edition of this collection of Moore's poems and prose works, written between 1957 and 1966. hardcover. 8vo. Bright blue cloth spine over grey marbled paper boards. In black and blue dust jacket. Front flap price-clipped. Light shelfwear/scuffing to edges. Original bookseller label affixed to rear paste-down. Very good plus in very good jacket. Laid in are two brief correspondence from Moore. The first a letter to her from a librarian requesting permission to send a book for signing, with a brief response from Moore and signed by her. And a similar postcard from the same sender, with Moore's one word response and signature. The book, however, is unsigned and apparently never sent.

North Hollywood, CA: Temblor, 1989. First Edition. Very good.. Literary magazine featuring work from Barbara Guest, Clark Coolidge, Clayton Eshleman, Tom Clark, David Rattray, Rosemary Waldrop and many others. Wraps. 4to. Perfect-bound in purple wraps printed in gold. Moderate shelfwear and scuffing to wraps. Very good.

City of Industry, CA: Collectors Publications, 1969. First Edition. Very good.. Erotic sleaze pulp, collecting two lurid stories of a women's prison and debauched girls' boarding school, respectively. With the publisher's usual numerous and varied advertisements for erotica, erotic devices, ethnic joke books, and several scholarly works on JFK. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Blue and white printed wraps. Light edgewear and spine creasing; foxing to fore-edge. Very good. 160 pages plus [32] pages of ads.

(London): (BCM/Situationist International), [ca. early '70s]. Very good.. One of many early reprints of this key situationist text, among which quite a few were unauthorized - but this edition published by the official British wing of the Situationist Intertnational, with their introductory text. Originally titled DE LA MISÈRE EN MILIEU ÉTUDIANT, the text was written in 1966 by the situationist Mustapha Khayati, in collaboration with the Strasbourg student union. After its publication, the text was met with immense public opprobrium, resulting in the shutting-down of the student union by federal courts, but the book remained pivotal for the student movement and helped set the stage for the massive student/worker protests of May 1968. A particularly charming version, illustrated on its covers and throughout the text with segments from the Marxist comic strip produced by Strasbourg students, "The Return of the Durutti Column." 9.25'' x 6''. Pictorial card wrappers.Light wear, soil externally.… Read More

(San Francisco): (Zephyrus Image Magazine), 1972. First edition thus. Very good minus.. Parallel text edition of Rilke's first ten Sonnets to Orpheus, inscribed by translator Robert Bly to poet Stanley Plumly. 8.5'' x 6''. Text in German and English on facing pages. Original sewn pictorial wrappers, cover linocut by Michael Myers. Unpaginated. Inscribed by Bly on inside front cover (For Wayne [Dodd?] and Stanley / "to praise is the whole thing!" / love Robert"). Wrappers toned, with dampstaining to lower corner and light soil to rear cover.