Letter to André Breton.
by ARTAUD, Antonin.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1974.. First edition.. [14 pp]. Two corners lightly bent, else very good plus in printed wrappers with some light toning. Clayton Eshleman translates this 28 February 1947 letter from Artaud to Breton, composed just before the Duchamp-Breton curated 1947 International Surrealist Exhibition. Sparrow 23. Morrow & Cooney 183.
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American Realism: The Precise Image.
by ARTHUR, John.
Tokyo: Isetan Museum of Art, (1985).. First edition.. 182 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Exhibition catalogue, fully-illustrated with color reproductions. Text in English and Japanese.
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Sweat and Industry.
by ARTMANN, H.C.
London: Atlas Press, (1992).. First UK edition.. 62 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original German by Derk Wynand. One of 149 (of 300) numbered copies. Artmann was a founding member of “The Vienna Group.” The Printed Head Volume II, number 2.
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Richard Artschwager, James Lee Byars, Joel Shapiro.
by ARTSCHWAGER, Richard with James Lee Byars and Joel Shapiro.
NY: Kent,, 1988.. First editions.. Three 16mo volumes housed in publisher’s black cardstock slipcase with a light sticker scar to one panel. All are fine in wrappers and printed dust jackets with lightly sunned spines. Each about 36 pp, with reproductions and lists of previous exhibitions.
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Artspace Books (complete set).
by [ARTSPACE].
San Francisco: Artspace Books, (1992-2006).. First editions.. Fifteen volumes, all fine in illustrated boards (exceptions noted below). A vibrant series of prose works paired with art in a (mostly) uniform format. The contributors : David Wojnarowicz, Dennis Cooper & Nayland Blake (bump to lower corners), Jim Lewis & Jack Pierson (light band of sunning to rear cover), Klaus Kertess & Nan Goldin, Carlo McCormick & Tony Labat, A.M. Homes, Guillermo Gómez-Pena & Enrique Chagoya, Zoe Leonard & Cheryl Dunye,... Read More
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Matinee at the Coliseum: Two Short Stories.
by ARVIN, Robert.
NY: Zahir Press,, 1971.. First edition.. 4to. [26 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 80 copies “via experimental dittoes.” Illustrated with drawings by Richard Latta. “Individualized Typographical Techniques” by Diane Kruchkow.
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A Wave: Poems.
by ASHBERY, John.
NY: Viking, (1984).. First edition.. 89 pp. A few nibble marks to crown, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Ashbery on the title page.
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Some Trees.
by ASHBERY, John.
New Haven: Yale University Press,, 1956.. First edition.. 87 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light tanning to spine, a small pale patch, and three short edge tears. Foreword by W.H. Auden.
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Flow Chart: A Poem.
by ASHBERY, John.
NY: Knopf,, 1991.. Uncorrected proof.. 215 pp. Promotional sheet stapled inside front cover, else fine in printed wrappers.
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A Nest of Ninnies.
by ASHBERY, John and James Schuyler.
Hopewell: Ecco Press, (1997).. First printing of this edition (originally published in 1969).. 191 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. A collaborative novel.
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Murder in Montmartre.
by ASHBERY, John translates Noël Vexin.
NY: Dell, (1960).. First US edition.. 191 pp. Sticker shadow inside front cover, else near fine in illustrated wrappers with sunning to spine lettering and a crease. Ashbery, under the pseudonym "Jonas Berry," translated this thriller with Lawrence G. Blochman, who apparently thought Ashbery had a shaky grasp of English.
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Wakefulness: Poems.
by ASHBERY, John.
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1998).. First edition.. 79 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
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April Galleons: Poems.
by ASHBERY, John.
NY: Viking, (1987).. First edition.. vi + 96 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.
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Girls on the Run: A Poem.
by ASHBERY, John.
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1999).. Uncorrected proof.. 55 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Dated (4/6/01) and INSCRIBED by Ashbery on the title page. Promotional flyer accompanies.
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Other Traditions.
by ASHBERY, John.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press,, 2000.. Uncorrected proof.. 159 pp w/notes. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Promotional flyer laid-in. Dated (4/6/01) and INSCRIBED by Ashbery.
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Europa.
by ASHBERY, John.
NY: [Leandro Katz], (1971).. First edition.. 4to. [40 pp]. Fine in strip bound wrappers with unprinted clear plastic covers. Plastic pink glove, lettered in purple, laid in. Ashbery’s poem translated into Spanish by Leandro Katz, with a statement on his poetry by Ashbery. Kermani G43.
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April Galleons: Poems.
by ASHBERY, John.
NY: Viking, (1987).. First edition.. 97 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Dated (10/31/87) and INSCRIBED by Ashbery, “for Alison / John Ashbery.”
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A Worldly Country: New Poems.
by ASHBERY, John.
NY: Ecco, (2007).. First edition.. 76 pp. Pages toned, else near fine in fine dust jacket. Poet’s small address label to the base of the first leaf.
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The Ice Storm.
by ASHBERY, John.
Madras & NY: Hanuman Books,, 1987.. First edition.. 16mo. 29 pp. Fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket with light tanning to spine. A single short prose piece. Hanuman 8.
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Hotel Lautréamont.
by ASHBERY, John.
Manchester: Carcanet, (1992).. First UK edition.. ix + 157 pp. Corners lightly bumped, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Ashbery on the title page.
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Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles, 1957-87.
by ASHBERY, John.
NY: Knopf,, 1989.. Uncorrected proof.. 404 pp. Promotional sheet taped to front free endpaper, else fine in printed green wrappers with a few tiny pale to top edge. Edited and introduced by David Bergman.
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As We Know: Poems.
by ASHBERY, John.
NY: Penguin Books, (1979).. First trade paperback printing.. Oblong 12mo. vi + 118 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Ashbery on the title page, “for Burt, / fondly, / John / 11/27/79.”
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As We Know: Poems.
by ASHBERY, John.
Manchester: Carcanet New Press, (1981).. First UK edition.. vi + 118 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to spine. SIGNED by Ashbery on the title page.
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Where Shall I Wander: New Poems.
by ASHBERY, John.
NY: Ecco , (2005).. First edition.. xii + 81 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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A Nest of Ninnies.
by ASHBERY, John and James Schuyler.
NY: Dutton,, 1969.. Uncorrected proof.. 145 pp. Crease to rear panel, else very good plus in comb-bound wrappers with light toning and edgewear to extrems and two creases to front cover. Evidence of review slip along front panel near spine. Larry McMurtry’s copy, with his bookplate inside the front cover.
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