Autopsies & Family Ghosts. A documentary on Word Poisoning
Sacramento, CA: Runcible Spoon, 1968. Pamphlet. [24] pages, wraps. 8.5 x 5.25 in. Chapbook containing two poems, each in ten parts, by the California poet. More
Cat.No: 299738
Sacramento, CA: Runcible Spoon, 1968. Pamphlet. [24] pages, wraps. 8.5 x 5.25 in. Chapbook containing two poems, each in ten parts, by the California poet. More
Cat.No: 299738
San Francisco: R.H. Miller San Francisco review, 1958. Paperback. 88p., illustrations, a small snag at the head of the spine, mildest edgewear and faint browning of paperstock otherwise very good trade paper journal in printed gray-brown wraps. Very early Bukowski appearance. George Hitchcock play originally produced at SF Actor's Workshop..... More
Cat.No: 135242
[Place of publication not identified]: Daishe Bisghwaldo Press, 1967. Pamphlet. [40]p., wraps. 8.5 x 5.25 in. Unnumbered copy of an edition of 400. Fiction. More
Cat.No: 310378
San Diego: Alden Mills, 1988. Magazine. 86p, 11 x 17 inches, wraps with mild wear, avant-gard magazine with very eclectic contents, this issue features the photography of Charles Gatewood (Wall Street) and a section called American Journal on economic conditions in the American South. More
Cat.No: 164703
Lethbridge, Alberta: University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, 2012. Hardcover. 57, [7]pp., color illustrations, boards. 9.5 x 6.75 inches; sticker on bottom front board, else very good. Produced to accompany Rita McKeough’s solo exhibition of the same name, November 3, 2011 - January 5, 2012. McKeough’s installation work was modeled after..... More
Cat.No: 303003
Renton, WA: Alternative Arts Productions, 2002. Paperback. [48]p. self-wraps, full-color photoreproductions except where b&w is called for. Busy marginless collages (old & new photos, ads, fabric, tree-leaves, scraps of just about anything) yet quite coherent, softbound in 10x8 inch color cardstock covers (these part & parcel of this issue and..... More
Cat.No: 309658
Worcester, England; printed in Ventura, CA: Migrant Press, 1961. Staplebound. 32pp., wraps. With a typed letter inserted. Embossed ownership label of Denise Levertov, with a Somerville, MA address, on the inside of the front cover. Front cover lightly toned around the edges; rear cover soiled and top left corner creased..... More
Cat.No: 302992
Toronto: Power Plant, 1988. Staplebound. 16pp., illustrations, wraps. 10.75 x 7.75 in. Scuffing to rear cover. Installation by the Spanish multimedia artist of Televangelists' portraits set up in a corporate board room. With an artist’s statement, essay by Ihor Holubizky, and essay by Brian Wallis. More
Cat.No: 305826
Toronto: Loop Gallery, 2008. Paperback. [20] pages, wraps. 6 x 8 in. Oblong. Exhibition of vegetable sculptures grown by Newcomb in molds to resemble saintly and demonic figures that were then pickled in jars. The artist reports: “occasionally I ‘shop drop’ them in grocery stores.” Also evokes wet specimens preserved..... More
Cat.No: 299732
[Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 2009. Paperback. [40]p., wraps. Number 6 of 10 copies. Poems. Printed on graph paper. No locations in WorldCat (as of September 2023). More
Cat.No: 310386
[Milan]: [Mousse Magazine], [2010]. Ephemera. Three-panel brochure 12.25 x 8.5 in. (folds out to 33.5 x 24.5 in.) Issued as a supplement to the international edition of Mousse Magazine (Milan, Italy), Issue 24, Summer 2010. Interview between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Enrico Castellani discussing Castellani’s relief paintings (canvas stretched over..... More
Cat.No: 302416
Point Reyes, CA: Gordon Onslow-Ford, 1993. Staplebound. 19, [10] pp., illustrations, wraps. 11 x 8.5 in. Edition of 1,000. Printed by the Point Reyes Printing Company. A Very Good copy. Texts paired with paintings produced between 1946 and 1993. Onslow-Ford was a painter and active in the Paris-based surrealists pre-World..... More
Cat.No: 300788
Charlotte, NC: Knight Gallery, 1985. Ephemera. [4] pages, illustrations, wraps. 9 x 12 in (unfolded 18 x 12 in.). Small tears at edges of folds, otherwise Good. Ink stamp of Reference Information File of Hunt Library, Carnegie-Mellon University. Sculptures and drawings by Oppenheim which resemble factory-floor machinery, with photo-illustrations of..... More
Cat.No: 299747
[San Francisco?]: Deborah Oropallo, 2009. Hardcover. [60]pp., color illustrations, boards. 11.25 x 8.25 in. 1000 copies. Catalog for an exhibition of Oropallo’s digital collages made from treated JPEGs compiled through Google image searches then printed onto paper, canvas, or aluminum. With a technophilic introductory essay by, and artist interview with..... More
Cat.No: 304788
Youngstown, OH: Butler Institute of American Art, 1988. Pamphlet. [16]p., color illustration, wraps. Exhibition catalog for paintings (latex enamel on canvas) of Cleveland-born artist Patricia ZInsmeister Parker. In the neo-expressionist style, including bright colors; many works incorporate text. Introduction by Louis A. Zona. Includes a list of works held in..... More
Cat.No: 294487
San Francisco: City Publishing Company, Inc./Francis Ford Coppola, 1975. Magazine. 88p. including covers, 11x13 inch self-wraps, illustrations, photos, articles, mild wear, oversized weekly magazine on newsprint, surprisingly good condition, a very good exemplar in stapled pictorial wraps. Find here Fante's "Brotherhood of the Grape, Part I of a Novel", plus..... More
Cat.No: 317251
Great Barrington: The Figures, 1984. Paperback. 74p., very good first paperback edition thus, in black pictorial wraps. In San Francisco he became a part of the movement called Language writing or Language poetry. This title appeared earlier (1979) with only the first two pieces. More
Cat.No: 276968
Paris: Belin, 2001. Paperback. 313p., softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch decorated wraps, faint edgewear to covers, a nice copy that is inscribed on the half-title leaf, Perret signing as "Catherine P." L'extreme contemporain. More
Cat.No: 295145
Montreal: La Compagnie a Numero 9054-7175 Quebec Inc, 2014. Paperback. 153p., text adjunct to profuse marginless color photographs reproduced splendidly, softbound in 8x8 inch wraparound colorphoto wraps. Nice condition: faintest wear to front cover along with an inconspicuous corner-tip crease. This item is number 14 of only one hundred copies..... More
Cat.No: 317887
Bridport [England]: Bettiscombe Press, 1971. Paperback. [68]pp., wraps. Second edition. 4.75 x 7 in. Front cover has minor soiling, else very good. Artist's’ book edition of a poem originally hung as a sequence of leaves with varying dimensions; also made into a movie with visuals by John Miles and soundtrack..... More
Cat.No: 305232
France: the journal, 1967. Paperback. 94p., 9x7 inch text in French, softbound in white wraps printed black and red, wraps have a faint touch of dust, back cover has a small corner-crease, a very good copy. French avant-garde literary and intellectual journal, influential in 1960s and 1970s. Contributors include Jean..... More
Cat.No: 185446
France: the journal, 1966. Paperback. 94p., 9x7 inches, wraps, text in French, wraps have a little dust-soil, pages lightly toned, else good condition. French avant-garde literary and intellectual journal, influential in 1960s and 1970s. More
Cat.No: 288147
Paris: Gallimard, 1994. Pamphlet. 50p. plus a lengthy unpaginated index, rather specialized, a softbound magazine in stapled 9x7.5 inch decorated wraps. Mild external edgewear, perfectly clean and sound within, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 295194
Sainte-Amand (Cher): DTV Compact Livre (Le Dernier Terrain Vague), 1989. Paperback. 101p., small book (6x4 inches) printed large font, a slightly disorienting feature, softbound in glowing scarlet cardstock titled white, and enclosed in a nice little dust jacket that bears the sole and only illustration. Card covers are mildly edgeworn..... More
Cat.No: 310263
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. Hardcover. 172p., illustrated from period images on glazed inserted stock, hardbound in 9.5x6.5 inch openweave maroon cloth boards gilt and enclosed in a clear acetate jacket. Dust jacket is rubbed, cloth beneath is immaculate, a very good copy. UC pubs in modern philology, vol..... More
Cat.No: 305322