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Think Of Anything (Broadside Card)
by Creeley, Robert and Ted Berrigan
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1977
- Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$100.00
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No Place: hard Press, 1977. First edition. Paperback. Fine. 4.25 x 5.25" single poem postcard. A poem written by Creeley and Berrigan. Fine condition. Uncommon piece of poetry ephemera.
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$100.00

The Vermont Notebook (Signed Limited Edition)
by Ashbery, John and Joe Brainard
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1975
- Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$1,250.00
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Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo. Green cloth spine over illustrated boards. Illustrated with drawings by Joe Brainard. 101 pp. Number 225 of 250 hand-numbered copies SIGNED BY BOTH ASHBERY AND BRAINARD. In addition, this copy has been INSCRIBED BY ASHBERY to art critics, historians, and New York personages Rosamond Bernier and John… Read more
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$1,250.00

Porter Pairings; A Selection of Works by Fairfield Porter from the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
by Art - Agee, William C. et al (Fairfield Porter)
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1992
- Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$30.00
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New York: The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong stapled wrappers. 47 pp. Illustrated in both color and black and white. Introduction by William C. Agee. A very good copy of this uncommon catalog for this prominent New York School painter.
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$30.00

Second Avenue
by O'Hara, Frank
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1960
- Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Second printing
- Item Price
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$45.00
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New York: Totem Press, 1960. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good. Stapled Wrappers. Unpaginated. Second printing of this poetry chapbook. Very good condition in small stapled wrapperes with cover drawing by Larry Rivers. Nice copy.
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$45.00

Cancelled Check Signed by Berrigan (from the Phoenix Book Shop)
by Berrigan, Ted
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1979
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- No Edition
- Item Price
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$100.00
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New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1979. No Edition. Loose Sheets. Near Fine. Offered here is a single cancelled check from the Phoenix Book Shop in New York made payable to poet Ted Berrigan for $90.00. Berrigan has SIGNED the check on the verso. One can only wonder what treasures Berrigan sold to the bookshop in those days to… Read more
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$100.00

The Morning of the Poem
by Schuyler, James
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1980
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Item Price
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$95.00
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New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Near Fine first edition in price intact dustwrapper of this New York School poet's fourth collection of poems. Light toning to spine. 117 pp.
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$95.00

The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
by Guest, Hadley Haden, Editor (Barbara Guest)
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 2008
- Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$35.00
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Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 525 pp. The lifework of a visionary American poet and the most noted woman poet of the New York School. A very good copy in lightly used dustwrapper. Rear cover blurbs by Charles Bernstein and Ann Lauterbach. Edited by the poet's daughter. … Read more
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$35.00

Tibor de Nagy Gallery: The First Fifty Years 1950 - 2000
by New York School - John Ashbery, Hilton Kramer and Karen Wilkin
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 2000
- Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$35.00
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New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Wide paperbound quarto with French flaps. 95 pp. With a foreword by John Ashbery. Catalog illustrated in color. A celebration of the first fifty years of this important NYC gallery which promoted the works of a large stable of artists and writers now associated with the New… Read more
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$35.00

Pay Dirt (Inscribed by Joe and Signed by Joe and Kenward)
by New York School - Elmslie, Kenward and Joe Brainard
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1992
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$600.00
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Flint: Bamberger Books, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Tall paperbound quarto. Unpaginated. A retrospective of comics created over a 25-year span by artist Joe Brainard and poet Kenward Elmslie. A near fine copy in glossy bound illustrated wrappers. This copy has been INSCRIBED by Brainard and is SIGNED separately by Brainard and Elmslie on the title page.… Read more
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$600.00

Spoken In Sleep (Inscribed to a fellow poet)
by Corbett, Bill
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1980
- Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$100.00
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Henniker: United Artists, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. A very good copy in tall side-stapled wrappers. Cover artwork by Trevor Winkfield. One of four hundred trade copies. Some toning to covers near spine. An uncommon Corbett title. This copy has been briefly INSCRIBED to fellow poet Paul Khan and dated in year of publication.
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$100.00

Living At The Movies (Original Inscribed Silkscreen)
by Silkscreen - Rivers, Larry
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1974
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$3,500.00
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No Place: Privately Printed, 1974. First edition. Loose Sheets. Near Fine. Large color silkscreen on BFK Rives paper. Measuring 24 1/2" tall x 34" wide. Nicely INSCRIBED at bottom right-hand corner to poet Joe LeSueur "For JoJo in Bliss, Larry R." LeSueur's signature in pencil is found on the edge of the verso of the silkscreen. Possibly from… Read more
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$3,500.00

Red Wagon (Inscribed)
by Berrigan, Ted
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1976
- Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Item Price
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$250.00
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Chicago: Yellow Press, 1976. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/none. Trade paperbound volume. Cover art by Rochelle Kraut. Back photograph by Gerard Malanga. 73 pp. A handsome very good or better copy. With an interesting INSCRIPTION by Berrigan on the title page "Ted Berrigan best book in the world / 1975" Interesting in that the book wasn't published until… Read more
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$250.00

Joan Mitchell Works On Paper 1965 - 1992
by Art - Mitchell, Joan
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 2007
- Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Item Price
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$375.00
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Germany: Steidl, 2007. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Tall, hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. Unpaginated. First edition of the first major retrospective of this talented New York School painter. A fine clothbound copy in dustwrapper. Marvelous. A large and heavy book.
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$375.00

Lunch Poems und andere Gedichte
by New York School - O'Hara, Frank (with Joe Brainard and Intro by Ted Berrigan)
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1969
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First German
- Item Price
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$85.00
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Germany: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1969. First German. Paperback. Near Fine. Trade paperbound format. 83 pp plus insert. First German edition of O'Hara's Lunch Poems with other works. Introduction by Ted Berrigan. Original cover art by Joe Brainard, front and back. Text in German. Includes a two page fold-out illustration by Larry Rivers. English text pamphlet for Lunch Poems… Read more
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$85.00

Homer's Art (Inscribed to a Fellow Poet)
by Notley, Alice
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1990
- Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$150.00
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Canton: Institute of Further Studies, 1990. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Paper 8vo. 23 pp. A poetry chapbook. INSCRIBED by Ms. Notley on the title page to fellow poet David Trinidad. Very good condition in stapled wrappers with cover illustration by Guy Berard.
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$150.00

Tracking The Marvelous - A Life in the New York Art World (Inscribed by Myers)
by Art - Myers, John Bernard
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1983
- Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$100.00
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New York: Random House, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo. 285 pp. First edition stated of the renowned gallerist, editor and publisher's first book. An inside view of four decades in the New York art world. Myers supported the first major exhibitions of works by such artists as Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Fairfield Porter… Read more
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$100.00

The Diary of James Schuyler (Signed by Kernan)
by Kernan, Nathan, Editor (James Schuyler)
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1997
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$75.00
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Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition. One of only 100 hand-numbered and SIGNED copies (by Kernan). 320 pp including a thorough glossary. Near fine condition in clear acetate wrapper. New York School of poetry.
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$75.00

Power Plant Poems (Inscribed by Elmslie and Brainard)
by New York School - Berrigan, Ted, Editor (Kenward Elmslie and Joe Brainard)
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1967
- Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$1,000.00
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New York: C Press, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall side-stapled wrappers. Unpaginated and printed on rectos only. First and only printing of this entertaining New York School publication. Edited by Ted Berrigan at his C Press. Text by Elmslie with cover and drawings by Joe Brainard. A very good copy. Elmslie has dated this in 1967… Read more
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$1,000.00

Nigdy Nie Wiadomo
by Padgett, Ron
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 2008
- Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Polish Edition
- Item Price
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$50.00
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Poland: Wiersze, 2008. First Polish Edition. Cloth. Fine. Small 8vo. Black suede covers lettered in white. First Polish edition of this 103 pp volume of poems. Afterword by Jacek Gutorow. Text in Polish. A fine copy. Title translates as "You Never Know". Only two copies found in OCLC. For the deep Padgett collector.
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Bicentennial Suicide (Inscribed)
by Bob Holman and Bob Rosenthal
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- Derringer Books
- Published
- 1976
- Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$250.00
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New York: Frontward Books, 1976. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong quarto. A play written by the Bobs with cover and graphics by Rochelle Kraut. The play's characters meant to star Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley and other New York School notables. Very good condition. This copy SIGNED by Bob Rosenthal and INSCRIBED by Rochelle… Read more
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$250.00