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

Redwood City, CA: John Bennett, 1971. First Edition. Near fine.. A handsome copy of this California poetry magazine, founded by John Bennett in 1966, with five poems by Bukowski ("A Man's Woman," "The Snake in the Watermelon," "The hawk smiled daylight and nighttime," "Work-Fuck Problems," and "I listen to an opera on the radio."), and poems from numerous other contributors. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. Very near fine. Trivial edgewear. Interior bright, crisp, and clean. Good and sound. 71pp.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1968. First edition. Near fine in near-fine jacket.. First printing of Kerouac's final novel, his last work published before his death in 1969. A lovely copy of Kerouac's last semi-autobiographical novel, spanning a young man's college years and the Second World War; the semi- in semi-autobiographical is tissue-thin, with just enough deniable masquerade for art's sake and his publisher's comfort. Allen Ginsberg is "Irwin Garden" and Neal Cassady is "Cody Pomeray," but Kerouac? "My name is Jack (Duluoz) Kerouac. I was born in Lowell, Mass. on 9 Lupine Road on March 12, 1922. 'Oh, you're putting me on.' I wrote this book, Vanity of Duluoz. 'Oh, you're putting me on.'" 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original quarter black cloth with grey and white decorative boards, gilt-stamped spine. In original unclipped ($5.50) dust jacket. Black and white photo-illustrated endpapers. [2], 280 pages. Spine lettering faded; faint smudge to front board. Light scuffing to jacket corners and spine ends.… Read More

Washington DC and London: The Smithsonian Institution in association with D. Giles ltd, 2007. First Edition. Fine in a fine jacket.. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Smithsonian Institution. Hardcover. 4to. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. Bright and clean. Fine.

(Los Angeles): (Anderson, Ritchie & Simon), 1970. Fine.. Signed second edition of Ruscha's second artist's book, an enigmatic series of controlled burns in the human landscape. The fifteen yellow-tinted fires of VARIOUS SMALL FIRES are man-made, mostly domesticated and indoors, mostly under control: a gas stove, a welder's torch, a cigarette lighter, a cigar - with just a few blurred, unidentifiable snapshots of flames on a sidewalk, by a car, in the dark, whose purpose and safety are unknown. Ruscha stressed the subject if what is important, not the photographer: "I went to a stock photograph place and looked for pictures of fires, there were none. It is not important who took the photos, it is a matter of convenience, purely" (quoted in Coplans). One of Ruscha's most confounding books, it is uncommon signed. 7'' x 5.5''. Original black and white printed wrappers. Edition of 3000 unnumbered copies. 16 photographs. [48] pages. Signed by Ruscha in pencil on front free endpaper. PROVENANCE: From the… Read More

New York: Vedanta Society, 1903. Second Edition. Very Good.. Scarce second edition. 215pp. plus ads. Hardcover. 8vo. Original green cloth. Very good. Minor shelf wear/soil. Name and date to front pastedown. Else clean and sound throughout.

New York: Vehicle Editions, 1978. First Edition. Near fine.. Handsome advertisement for this poetry press's new batch, including Christopher Knowles' TYPINGS, Ted Berrigan's TRAIN RIDE, and Michael Lally's JUST LET ME DO IT. Single sheet printed letterpress recto only, measuring 16" by 8" approx. Folded once horizontally, else fine condition. Clean and crisp.

Santa Fe, NM: John Muir Publications, 1973. First Edition. Very good.. True first of the counter culture classic from Muir and illustrator Peter Aschwanden, collaborators on the self-published 1969 standard HOW TO KEEP YOUR VOLKSWAGEN ALIVE. Wraps. 8vo. Illustrated wraps. Final two printed leaves, originally with six cut-out order forms for purchase directly from the publisher; five remain. Mild handling wear, one small tear to front, to lower left corner, at spine, otherwise clean.

(Ferndale, MI): Mutation Press, 1979. First Edition. Near fine.. First edition of this charming collection of short pieces by this Detroit-area author, then a student at the University of Detroit, with her own cover illustration. Titles include "How to Read Brothers Karamazov," "The Sausage Rides Into the Sunset," "Society's Main Problem," and "Star Groupies." No copies located by OCLC. From an edition of 500 copies. Wraps. Small slim 4to. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. A touch of ink smudge to rear wrapper. Printed mimeo throughout. Clean, bright, and sharp. [38] pp.

Hjørring, Denmark: Sommersko / Ringkøbing Kunstforening, 1975. First Edition. Very good.. First issue of the Danish avant-garde arts and literary magazine, filled with reproduced typescript and handwritten texts, images, and collages. Includes the debut of Vita Andersen and the art of Kenn André Stilling, as well as Paul Borel on Charles Ives, B.L. Wilmont on Henry Moore, Dan Turell on Chuck Berry, reproductions of Hans Christian Andersen's sketches, and more. OCLC locates five oldings, just two of which are in the U.S. Wraps. 4to. Black and white photographic wraps. Library stamp and sticker to front cover, small library stamp to title page verso. Moderate shelfwear and creasing to corners. Light foxing to back cover. Very good.

London: V & A Publications, 2001. First Edition. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. An extra illustrated survey of the Victorian world, their societal developments and innovations, published to coincide with an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Hardcover. 4to. Publisher's black boards in orginal dust jacket. Touches of wear to jacket at corners. Boards bumped at corners. Interior bright and clan. Near fine. 360pp.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962. Near fine in a very good plus jacket.. First edition of Gilbert's debut, the uncommon hardcover issue. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets (Vol. 58), with a foreword by Dudley Fitts. Gilbert's first book, for which he quickly and rightly gained widespread acclaim. Uncommon in the hardcover (issued simultaneously with the paperback), and scarce in this condition. 8" x 5" Original black cloth with gilt spine titles. [14], 43 pages. A trifle rubbed at extremities of book. Jacket has light wear at spine ends, trace toning to edges. A tiny chip and a one-inch closed tear at the top of the front panel.

San Francisco: Banana Productions, 1977. Very good plus.. An irreverent and sometimes explicit and disturbing Dada take on FILE Magazine, which was itself a parody of LIFE Magazine. This periodical was founded on mail art, and also includes glimpses of Fluxus, collage, and concrete poetry. It also features parodies of mid-20th century advertisements. 11'' x 8.5''. Original pictorial wrappers, perfect-bound. Endpapers with repeating pattern of high-heeled shoe. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. 98 pages. Numbered "498" in red ink to first page. Some mild scoffing to edges, corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Else sound and bright.

Hollywood: International Publications Inc, 1963. First Edition. Very good +.. Into the valley of fornication road the sex-hunter!" Early '60s sleaze pulp, somewhat haphazardly packaged, with a note that "neither the [cover] photograph nor the words accompanying photograph describe, or is meant to be understood as, the actual personality or conduct of the model." (The cover illustration is neither a photograph nor based on a photograph.) Noted in in John Harrison's selected bibliography of Richard Geis, who frequently wrote under the Swenson pseudonym. FRANCE Book 1053 ("The FRANCE' name is your guarantee of exciting and entertaining reading." Wraps. Mass market paperback. Pictorial wraps. Light wear to spine ends and very faint rubbing to covers. Fore-edge toned. Very good plus. 160 pages.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963. First edition (stated). Fine in very good jacket.. First printing of Kerouac's autobiographical novel of his brother's death. Lightly fictionalized portrait of Kerouac's youth and his short-lived older brother Gerard, presented in a hazy glow of sanctity and urgent nostalgia. The first volume of the 'Duluoz legend,' VISIONS OF GERARD was written in 1956, though not published until 1963. While derided as 'hipster yawping' by contemporary critics, any irregularities of punctuation or slang are less striking than its pervasive religiosity; Kerouac himself esteemed it highly among his own works, and the Gerard of the book is less an accurately remembered child than absolute purity in a child's form, the catalyst for Kerouac's own apprehension of divine mysteries: "the definite and immortal idealism which had been imparted me by my holy brother." 8'' x 5.5''. Original quarter black cloth with decorative salmon-pink and white boards. Gilt-titled spine. In… Read More

Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 1988. First Edition. Very good +.. First printing catalog for an exhibition, third in the John Michael Kohler Arts Center's ALTERNATIVE IMAGE series of "exhibitions and related publications exploring the nature of photography." Illustrated with black & white and color plates, some fold-out. Exhibition checklist gives technical details on the methods used to produce various unusual visual effects. Wraps. 4to. Pictorial wraps. Light edgewear and scuffing. Clean, unmarked interior. Very good plus. 72pp.

Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1980. First edition. Near fine.. Signed first printing of this exhibition catalogue for the first US retrospective of Acconci's work. Includes a brief introduction by museum director John Hallmark Neff and an essay on Acconci's work by curator Judith Kirshner. Includes photographs of the artist's early work in various forms, capturing his important contributions to more ephemeral and participatory art movements, particularly in performance, installation and conceptual art. Acconci's signature is uncommon. 12'' x 9''. Publisher's black printed wraps. 48 pages, with many black-and-white illustrations. Signed by Acconti on the front free endpaper. Minor shelfwear. Interior bright and fresh.

Winterthur, Switzerland: Scalo, 1998. First Edition. Near fine.. Exhibition catalog for Fotomuseum Winterthur, illustrated throughout with color plates of Faure's photographs. Hardcover. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket as issued. Slight bumping to corners. Bilingual text in French and German.

Silver Spring, MD: Vort, 1973. First Edition. Very good.. DC area poetry mag featuring work by Robert Creeley, David Bromide, Donald Powell, Kenneth Irby and others. Wraps. 4to. Saddle-stapled in blue wraps. Very good. SIGNED by Alpert to first page. Touches of darkening to wraps. Interior bright and clean. 87pp.

Silver Spring, MD: Vort, 1974. First Edition. Very good +.. DC area poetry mag, this issue focusing on the poet Robert Kelly. With contributions from Ken Irby, Paul Blackburn, Pierre Joris, Guy Davenport, and others. Wraps. 4to. Saddle-stapled in red wraps. Very good plus. SIGNED by Alpert to copyright page. Touches of darkening to wraps, trace edgewear. Interior bright and clean. 167pp.

Cleveland: Classics Library, 1968. First Edition. Very good.. Pseudo-psychiatric sleaze: a case study of "the part female peepers play in the modern sexual revolution now under way." Wraps. Mass market paperback. Blue pictorial wraps. Moderate rubbing and light scuffing to covers, light creasing to spine. Very good. 150 pages plus ads.