Search Results: Literary Ephemera from Charles Agvent

New York: The Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Art Museum, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Fine and an uncommon survival. Pictorial stapled wraps with a photo of the subjects on the rear. A 16-page program (including the covers) for a tribute show to Four Octogenarians: Mary Beach, Boris Lurie, Taylor Mead, and Herbert Huncke, the only one deceased at the time of the show. With biographies of the subjects and illustrated with 2 color examples of each participant's art. The program comes with a slightly larger advertising card featuring the same Mary Beach art that is on the cover.

(California, PA): (Arthur and Kit Knight), (1977). First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Pictorial wraps, 8-1/2" x 11", with a photograph of Kerouac on the cover. Edited by Arthur and Kit Knight. Contributions by all of the major Beat figures. Although there is no indication of such, this is from the library of Herbert Huncke.

Buffalo, NY: Intrepid Press, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Blue stapled wraps, 8-1/2" x 11", with cover calligraphy by Brion Gysin. Published and edited by Allen De Loach. Contributors include Paul Blackburn, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Denise Levertov, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, and others.

(Toronto): (The Coach House Press), (1971). First Edition. Softcover. Small gouge at bottom of the spine at the rear, not affecting contents. Near Fine. Stapled wraps, 8-1/2" x 11". Cover and center illustration by Michael Snowdon. Contributors include Paul Blackburn, Michael Ondaatje, and others.

(Cambridge, MA): (The Island and Marcus Press), Fall 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Stapled wraps, 8-1/2" x 11". The issue consists primarily of an interview with Howard Nemerov.

New York: George Sully, n.d. [1921]. Wraps. Very Good example of this fragile and scarce item. Pictorial wraps (7" x 9-1/2") with a silk tie at the top holding the pages together. BAL 3685 lists a copy for 1920 by the same publisher. Each sheet covers a week's time period with a different quote from Clemens over the same river scene.

[University Park & Las Cruces, NM]: [Nine Rings Press], [1966 - 1967]. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Stapled wraps, 8-1/2" x 11". The first and likely only 3 issues of this scarce poetry publication out of New Mexico. Contributors include Jack Anderson, Ronald Anthony Punnet, Stephen Stepanchev, and others.

(New York): (Giorno Poetry Systems), [1989]. First Edition. Softcover. Mild toning to the covers. Near Fine. Issue #19 in pictorial wraps, 6" x 9", 25 pages including covers. Prints the beginning of this story by Burroughs on the front cover and continues it inside. Essentially a catalog of items--LPs, CDs, Videos, and cassettes--in addition to the story. This copy addressed to R'lene Dahlberg.

London: Aloes Books, (1982). First British Edition. Pamphlet. About Fine. Stapled pictorial wraps, [20] pages. First separate appearance of this piracy, originally published in the Cornell Writer of March 1959 and later published in SLOW LEARNER.

(Ellensburg, WA): (Vagabond Press), (1985). First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Stapled wraps, 8-1/2" x 11". INSCRIBED by the author "For Annie!" and SIGNED "John" on the verso of a front blank.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Light bumping to corners. Near Fine. Literary Ephemera. Publisher's red cloth with gilt elephant on front cover and small swastika symbol. Laid in is a small promotional folded leaflet from the publisher advertising this book as well as books by Edith Wharton, H. G. Wells, and others.

(California, PA): (Arthur and Glee Knight), (1973). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Pictorial stapled wraps, 8-1/2" x 11", edited by Arthur and Glee Knight. Issue dedicated to Herbert Huncke with contributions by him, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, and others. Also includes an interview with Huncke and photographs of him and others, including Kenneth Patchen.