Letters To Allen Ginsberg 1953-1957
by BURROUGHS, William
N. Y.: Full Court Press, (1982). First edition. One of only 100 copies signed by Burroughs. Very fine copy. 8vo, frontispiece, cloth, dust jacket. Very fine copy.
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Haiku
by CAGE, John
Black Mountain, NC: Black Mountain College, 1952. First edition of this electrotype facsimile of the composer's score, autography by Cage & Carroll Williams, the designer & printer. Limited to 300 copies printed. The original drawing for this composition, entitled "Study for Seven Haiku", was shown in the exhibition John Cage: Scores and Prints at the Whitney Museum, February 1952. A fine copy of this rare & beautiful Black Mountain College imprint, framed and glazed. Single sheet measuring 12.5... Read More
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Photographs
by CALLAHAN, Harry
Santa Barbara, (CA): El Mochuelo Gallery, (1964). First edition. One of 1500 copies printed of this collection of photographs selected by Callahan and printed by The Meriden Gravure Company. Slight finger-pull in head of spine, top-edge (toward spine) lightly dust marked, offset from binding adhesive on front and back endpapers as usual, otherwise a fine copy in slipcase. Small folio, 126 plates, original cloth, lettered in silver on the spine and front cover, publisher's matching slipcase. Slight finger-pull... Read More
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Color 1941-1980. Edited by Robert Tow and Ricker Winsor. Foreword by Jonathan Williams. Afterword by A. D. Coleman
by CALLAHAN, Harry
Providence, RI: Matrix Publications, (1980). First edition. One of 100 deluxe copies signed by Callahan and with an original color photograph, signed by the artist, laid in. Fine copy. 4to, illustrated, original full purple morocco, folding cloth clamshell box. Fine copy.
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A representative collection of the works of Don Celender, whom Roberta Smith caled "the pollster laureate of conceptual art", includes twelve of the exhibition catalogs Celender co-produced with the O. K. Harris Gallery, (one co-authored by Ricardo Bloch), and three postcard sets, as well as two obituaries, a detailed CV, and a couple reviews of late Celender shows. A conmplete list is available upon request
by CELENDER, Don
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Self-Portrait
by CHUBB, Ralph
Invalided out of the Army after World War I, Ralph Chubb studied at the Slade School of Art between 1919-1922. "During the summer of 1921, however, he returned to his home in Curridge in the Berkshire countryside where he dressed as a gypsy and . . . spent some weeks living rough, among the Romanys, whom he sketched." - Anthony Reid, Ralph Chubb, The Unknown, [The Private Library, Autumn, 1970, p. 152]. Dated Nov. 1921, this delicately rendered self-portrait,... Read More
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Ways Through Bracken
by CLARK, Thomas A.
(Highlands, NC): Jargon Society, 1980. First edition. One of 50 hardbound copies signed by Clark. Published as Jargon 93. Light spotting along front gutter, otherwise a fine copy.. Oblong 12mo, white cloth-backed boards with tipped-on illustration. Light spotting along front gutter, otherwise a fine copy.
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A Still Life By Thomas A. Clark. Six Variations on a Chrysanthemum of William Morris By Ian Gardner
by CLARK, Thomas A. & GARDNER, Ian
Dentdale: Jargon Society, 1977. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by Clark. Jargon 86. Top corner a little bumped, back cover slightly dust-soiled, otherwise a fine copy.. 8vo, cloth-backed pictorial boards, acetate dust wrapper. Top corner a little bumped, back cover slightly dust-soiled, otherwise a fine copy.
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Paths of Glory
by COBB, Humphrey
N. Y.: Viking Press, 1935. First edition of Cobb's first and only book, one of the more celebrated American novels of the Great War, and the basis for the film starring Kirk Douglas. A fine copy, in custom-made cloth slipcase. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. A fine copy, in custom-made cloth slipcase.
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BISBEE POETRY FESTIVAL (1979-1985)
by [ARCHIVES & COLLECTIONS]
In 1979, Jon Friedman founded the annual Bisbee Poetry Festival in the historic mining town of Bisbee, AZ, a picturesque town on the Mexican border that had become a vibrant center of creative activity for musicians, writers, and artists. Every year for the next seven years Friedman invited six of the best contemporary poets to Bisbee during third week of August to read their poetry to audiences that usually exceeded 500 avid fans from around the country. The readings,... Read More
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The Unquiet Grave - A Word Cycle. By Palinurus
by [CONNOLLY, Cyril]
London: Horizon, 1944. First edition, hardcover issue, one of 500 copies printed on Barcham Green handmade paper by the Curwen Press. Of the 1000 sets of sheets printed, 500 were reportedly bound in cloth and 500 were bound in wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Connolly to his friend Tom Driberg on the front free endpaper: "Tom with much love / from Cyril - " Tom Driberg, later ennobled as Baron Bradwell of Bradwell, a poet in his youth, a... Read More
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Blind Drawings: examples of an exercise investigating the objective/subjective principle of graphic art. With an Introduction by Colin Franklin
by COX, Morris
London: Gogamog Private Press, 1978. The artist's archive for Blind Drawings, including one of three copies specially bound in full decorated vellum by Gemma O'Connor; like the other copies in the edition of 75 copies, it is printed on Hosho & coloured Japanese paper, with an original blind-drawn frontispiece, & signed by Cox, Franklin & O'Connor. The rest of the edition was bound in quarter vellum & Japanese patterned paper boards. "For many years he [Cox] had practised shutting... Read More
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A collection of 26 original Blind Drawings of animal-like figures, most with antlers, black ink on 10 x 14 inch sheets of white paper, signed and dated by the artist and bearing the red BD "stamp of affirmation", laid in a cloth portfolio
by COX, Morris
(London), 1968. For many years he (Cox) had practised shutting his eyes, concentrating, drawing... All sorts of effects were achieved in blind drawings, a whirling ballet in line on white. Each was signed, dated and given a BD stamp of affirmation in red". - Chambers, Franklin & Tucker 30, Gogmagog - Morris Cox & The Gogmagog Press (London: Private Libraries Association, 1991), pp.156-158. In a letter to collector Corrie Guyt, Cox confessed to "doing these [Blind Drawings] for many... Read More
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Original linocut blocks by Cox, after his blind drawings, for the book Blind Drawings: examples of an exercise investigating the objective/subjective principle of graphic art, published in 1978
by COX, Morris
In his bibliographical entry for Blind Drawings (Chambers, Franklin & Tucker 30) Colin Franklin notes: "As to reproduction, (Cox) followed a curious method, used once before in the endpapers to The Lost Fisherman. To print from mechanical line-block was not in sympathy with the Gogmagog Press; to deviate from spontaneous blind drawing could not accord with the book's demonstration. He chose to cut them all on lino, keeping close to every oddity of the originals: 'Here follow facsimiles of... Read More
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A Mystique of Mummers. Illustrated with 20 colored elimination linocuts, 12 x 17 inches, 22 loose sheets, plus a list of plates and two sheets of notes pasted inside the front and back of the box
by COX, Morris
London: Gogmagog Press, 1983. Chambers 35. First edition of Cox's last collection of prints. Copy number 6 of only 12 sets printed in black, with each linocut individually titled and signed and dated by the artist/publisher. In a quarter-cloth solander box with cork lining, with printed label on the spine, by Gemma O'Connor, and monoprint covers on Japanese paper by Cox. The list of plates and notes are handwritten by John Craig. Chambers/Franklin comment: "Morris Cox in his eighty-first... Read More
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The Bridge. A Poem. With Three Photographs by Walker Evans
by CRANE, Hart
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. First edition. One of 50 copies printed on Japanese Vellum and signed by Crane. Schwartz & Schweik A2. Minkoff A32. Connolly 100, 64. One of the seminal American poems of the Twentieth Century, about which Harold Bloom has noted: "what is imperishable in The Bridge is not its lyric mourning, but its astonishing transformation of the sublime ode into an American epic, uneven certainly but beyond The Waste Land in aspiration and accomplishment." -... Read More
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Personae. The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound. Including Ripostes, Lustra, Homage To Sextus Propertius, H. S. Mauberley
by [CRANE, Hart] POUND, Ezra
N. Y.: Boni & Liveright, 1927. Second printing (February, 1927) of this selection of all of Pound’s poems to date except the unfinished Cantos. Gallup A27a. Inscribed by Hart Crane to the artist John W. Taylor on the front free endpaper: “To Jack Taylor, Good friend and counselor, Hart Crane, December ‘28”. Crane was a great admirer of Pound, who did not return the favor, however, and, put mildly, did not like Crane’s poetry and refused to publish it... Read More
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Guy Davenport: A Descriptive Bibliography 1947-1995. Compiled by Joan Crane with the assistance of Richard Noble. Introduction by Hugh Kenner
by CRANE, Joan
Haverford: Green Shade, 1996. First edition. As new.. 8vo, with illustrations by Davenport, cloth, dust jacket. As new.
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Guy Davenport: A Descriptive Bibliography 1947-1995. Compiled by Joan Crane with the assistance of Richard Noble. Introduction by Hugh Kenner
by CRANE, Joan
Haverford, PA: Green Shade, 1996. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Davenport out of a total edition of 550 copies. The definitive bibliography of Davenport's work to date. As new.. 8vo, illustrated, original cloth, dust jacket. As new.
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A Form of Women. Poems
by CREELEY, Robert
N. Y.: Jargon Books / Corinth Books, (1959). First edition. One of 2000 copies. Jargon 33. Fine copy.. SCHILLER, Robert. 8vo, stiff wrappers with photograph by Robert Schiller. Fine copy.
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The Immoral Proposition
by CREELEY, Robert
(Karlsruhe-Durlach/Baden: Jonathan Williams, 1953). First edition of Creeley's third book. One of 200 copies designed by JW. Jargon 8. Fine copy of one of Creeley's rarest book,in a custom-made linen chemise & folding clamshell case. LAUBIES, Rene. Oblong 8vo, drawings by Rene Laubies, wrappers. Fine copy of one of Creeley's rarest book,in a custom-made linen chemise & folding clamshell case.
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Life & Death
by CREELEY, Robert
N. Y.: Grenfell Press, 1993. First edition of these seven poems inspired by seven black and white paintings by Clemente. Limited to 70 copies (the entire edition) printed accordion-fold on Arches, signed by Creeley and Clemente. Mint copy of this exquisite book. 8vo, illustrated with seven original photogravures after paintings by Francesco Clemente, gilt-stamped Japanese tea chest paper, in black paper chemise. Mint copy of this exquisite book.
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The Whip
by CREELEY, Robert
(Worcester): Migrant Books, 1957. First edition, printed at Creeley's Divers Press in Palma de Mallorca. Fine copy.. Small 8vo, decorated wrappers. Fine copy.
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All That Is Lovely In Men. Poems. Drawings (by) Dan Rice
by CREELEY, Robert
Asheville: Jonathan Williams, 1955. First edition. One of 200 copies signed by Creeley & Rice. Jargon 10. Fine copy. RICE, Dan. 12mo, original photographic wrappers by JW. Fine copy.
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Seepages. Poems 1981-1987
by CUTTS, Simon
(Winston-Salem, NC: Jargon Society, 1988). First edition. Jargon 63. Text by JW on front flap of jacket. Jaffe B63. Inscribed by the author on a preliminary leaf: "Simon Cutts July 10th, 1989 Corn Close. Fine copy. 8vo, illustrated, original cloth, dust jacket. Fine copy.
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