Search Results: Authors starting with E from Passages Bookshop

New York: Random House, 1992. First printing. 167 pp., 11.25 x 10.25 inches. Cloth over boards in printed dust-jacket. Introduction by Mark Holborn. Reproduces 130 color and 4 black-and-white photographs. A retrospective monograph published on the occasion of an exhibition at Barbican Art Gallery in London. As new, still in publisher's original shrink-wrap.

n.p.: Portents, 1969. First printing. Pamphlet. Near Fine. [8] pp. Square 8vo, single signature stapled in stiff printed wrappers. Edition of 200. Illustrations by Samuel Charters. Volume 14 in the "Portents" series, published by Charters. Very slightly darkened and worn on spine; otherwise fine.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. First printing. (192) pp., 5.25 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Designed and photographed by Marshall Henrichs. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Toning to edges and slight waviness to pages; light wear to edges of covers and a couple of small closed tears to back cover. An experimental visual book of counterculture or new age philosophy, designed in the spirit of such predecessors as McLuhanÂ’s The Medium Is The Massage and FullerÂ’s I Seem To Be A Verb. (The title is the catalog number assigned to the book by the Library of Congress.) The author was an antiwar and environmental activist as a student, and something of a hanger-on with many significant countercultural figures; he claimed significant roles, for example in the creation of the first Earth Day in Philadelphia in 1970, but his claims were disputed. Just days before he was set to go on trial for the 1979 murder of his girlfriend Holly Maddux, Einhorn fled the country.… Read More

London: Rapp & Carroll, 1967. First Edition. Boards. Warmly inscribed in May of 1968 (in two colors) on the front endsheet by cotranslator Bly, who also contributes an introduction. Foxing to page edges, otherwise very good in a rubbed and creased dustjacket with closed tears and a small piece missing from bottom edge of back panel. 8vo.

Brooklyn, NY: A Musty Bone, 1993. First printing. (37) pp. Drawings by Karl Klingbiel. Photocopied text and drawings, saddle-stapled into letterpress covers. One of an unspecified but small number of copies; this copy signed by the author. Not in OCLC.

Brooklyn, NY: A Musty Bone, 1989. First printing. Paperback. Fine. Square 8vo, (30) pp. Frontispiece photograph by Andy Ross. One of 110 numbered copies, signed by the author. Early (first?) book. Stapled into card covers, with letterpress cover and cloth-taped spine, as issued. Minute corner bumps and edge wear, otherwise essentially as new.

Hanover, NH: Granite, 1973. First printing. Paperback. As New. (48) pp., 8vo. Designed by Anselm Parlatore. "I had read Castaneda, and was much taken with Don Juan's insistence upon place." As new, perfect bound in printed wrappers.

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First printing. Stapled Wrappers. As New. (16) pp., 8vo. Number 56 of the monthly Sparrow series of pamphlets that ran for 72 issues, from 1972 through 1978. A poem in 31 sections. A very fine copy.

Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry, 1988. First printing. Paperback. Fine. 74 pp. 8vo, perfect-bound in wrappers. Signed by the author. Fine.

Dennis, MA: Salt-works, 1979. First printing. Pamphlet. Fine. [40] pp. 8vo, single signature sewn in stiff printed wrappers. Edition of 500.

(San Francisco): (Cranium Press), 1970. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. (7) pp. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke. Of an edition of 250, this is one of 50 copies on Tovil mouldmade paper, numbered and signed by the author. About fine. Tall 8vo.

New York: Atheneum, 1968. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. 177 pp. 8vo, sewn in wrappers. His first book publication in English. This copy belonged to Philip Whalen; his signature is inside the front cover, dated "Berkeley 1968." Some yellowing to text and wrappers; covers very slightly creased and edgeworn.

New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2000. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. 14 pp., 8vo. Translated from the Chinese by Susan M. Schultz with the author. Lightly rubbed covers, otherwise very good.

Jersey City, NJ: Jensen/Daniels, 1999. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. 22 pp., 8vo. Translated by Eleni Sikelianos, with the author. An early (second?) chapbook in English by this Chinese-American poet. Mild corner bumps, otherwise as new.

Lawrence, KS: Tansy, 1976. Stapled wrappers. Tansy 2. [8] pp. Wrappers darkened at edges, otherwise very good 8vo.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. Later printing. Stapled Wrappers. As New. (16) pp., 8vo. Number 18 of the monthly Sparrow series of pamphlets that ran for 72 issues, from 1972 through 1978. No printing notice, but presumed later printing (cover in black only). A very fine copy.

Marlboro, VT: Marlboro Press, 1987. First printing. Paperback. Near Fine. 79 pp. 8vo, perfect-bound in wrappers. Covers very slightly edgeworn, and with some fading along spine; internally fine.

Austin, TX: Noumenon Foundation, 1987. First printing. 68 pp., 8vo. Very light soiling to covers, otherwise as new in wrappers. The penultimate issue of this long-running magazine, one of the handful in the States to have significantly featured visual poetry and text art in combination with more traditional literary content. Contributors to this issue include A. de Araujo, Nuala Archer, Guy Beining, David Charlton, William L. Fox, Bob Heman, Scott Helmes, Crag Hill, Karl Kempton, Edward Mycue, Achy Obejas, Harry Polkinhorn, Don Wellman, and Ernest Robson (whose six-page piece in his prosodynic script, "The United States . . . For Sale," is perennially apt).

Wivenhoe Park, Essex: Human Handkerchief, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. (46) pp., small 8vo. Human Handkerchief No. 4. One of 200 copies, side stapled into printed wrappers. Printed by mimeo on rectos only, with offset-printed drawings bound in. Wrappers lightly soiled and creased; internallly very good.

Colorado Springs, CO: The Press at Colorado College, 2017. First printing. (50) pp., 6 x 7.5 inches. Printed cloth over boards, without dust-jacket, as issued. One of forty copies for sale, out of an edition of fifty numbered and signed copies. Text printed letterpress from photopolymer plates, with images from a variety of collagraph blocks and matrices, on Rives Lightweight paper. Hand-bound in a drop-spine structure, with consultation and guidance from Further Other Book Works. As new. A tour-de-force of experimental printing and visual bookmaking. A short story, subjected to an exuberant and uncompromising typographic and material reincarnation by the brilliant and slightly mad Aaron Cohick, the Printer at the Press at Colorado College. The text, with its constantly changing sizes, alignments, and orientations, enacts a visual drama against a dynamic backdrop of textures printed from fabric and paper collages, scrims painted directly onto the page, and combinations of the two. The results vary… Read More