C Comics - Issue Number 1
by Brainard, Joe
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Anselmo, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York. Boke Press, 1964. Mimeographed sheets bound in imprinted stapled wrappers. Folio. 8.5" x 14". First Issue. Illustrated throoughout with cartoons by famed underground artist Joe Brainard. The C Comics series in which Brainard drew the panels and asked other writers to fill in the dialogue formed both an homage and a reinterpretation of the comic strip form. Contributors included John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Dick Gallup, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frank Lima, Jimmy Schuyler, Frank O"Hara,Kenward Elmslie,Peter Schjeldahl,Tony Towle, Ron Padgett and many other notables of the early 60's New York School of Poetry. Only two issues of this magazine were published with this copy being the First Issue which appeared in 1964. Covers mildly worn and soiled. Usual chipping to edges. Front cover loosened by one staple punched through. A crisp copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heldfond Book Gallery, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8492
- Title
- C Comics - Issue Number 1
- Author
- Brainard, Joe
- Format/Binding
- Mimeographed sheets bound in imprinted stapled wrappers.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Boke Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- Date Published
- 1964.
- Size
- Folio. 8.5" x 14".
Terms of Sale
Heldfond Book Gallery, ABAA-ILAB
The Heldfond Book Gallery is an elected member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and conforms to all ethical codes and standards of those organizations.Books found to be materially mis-described may be returned within seven days of receipt and all monies will be promptly refunded, if returned to us in the same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Heldfond Book Gallery, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Anselmo, California
About Heldfond Book Gallery, ABAA-ILAB
Located just accross the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County, California - the Heldfond Book Gallery, Ltd. is one of the oldest and most esteemed Rare Bookstores on the West Coast. Specializations include: Illustrated Books in all disciplines, Fine Bindings and Sets, Important Literary First Editions,Fine Arts, Collectable Children's Illustrated Books, Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula,Rare Aviation and Maritime as well as a consistently superb inventory of General Antiquarian Materials.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...