Search Results: Authors starting with S from Philip Smith, Bookseller

New York: Pulp, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Tabloid, 12pp, self-cover. Rare seventies literary tabloid, features interviews with Ralph Ellison and Terry Gilliam. Unmarked copy, light general wear.

n.p.: Both Both, 2005 or 2006. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 32pp, stapled wrappers. Covers feature a color photograph identified as “Kevin Killian’s Jack Spicer Birthday Cake 12-24-05” by Margaret Tedesco. (Given that date, it is possible this mag is from January 2006.) One cover has a “Limited Edition/Creme de Menthe Filling” sticker (the other has the same design and photo but no sticker). No other Spicer content. Unmarked copy from the collection of Leslie Scalapino, light wear.

Vandenberg AFB, CA: Ann Salazar, 1986. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. TYPED SIGNED LETTER to poet Gary Snyder (soliciting contributions) from editor Ann Salazar laid in. 8vo, 24pp, stapled wrappers. First issue of this little magazine of poetry. Unmarked copy, minor wear.

Charleston, IL: tel-let, 1996. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 17 leaves (printed one side), stapled wrappers. 1 of 75 copies of this poetic collection. Unmarked copy, light wear and outer spots.

Boulder Creek, CA: David Sandberg, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 92pp (mimeographed) plus full-page plates, stapled wrappers. Important Northern California counterculture writing magazine from April 1966. Includes reportedly the first published work by future San Francisco Oracle editor Allen Cohen. Also work by John Sinclair, and a full-page advertisement for works of the Artists' Workshop Press. Nice copy, light overall wear, no interior markings except for original price and minor editorial corrections to contents page.

New York: Libellum, 2008. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 72pp, printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by the author on the first interior page. Clean copy, has donation plate to inside front cover (no other markings, was deaccessioned). Just about as new otherwise.

Cleveland, OH: Frontier Press, 1967. 2nd edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 88pp, printed wrappers. The enlarged second edition (1967) of this Sanders collection. Lyrics to two Fugs songs (The Lord of the Trenches and Coming Down) have been neatly written in pencil on two back blanks (presumably copied from The Fugs Song Book). No other markings, a bit of staining from staples and toning to covers.

London: Thomas Newcomb (Oakland: Octavo), 1687; 1999. 1st edition. Other Binding. New/No Jacket (as issued). New copy (in shrinkwrap). Digital facsimile (in electronic PDF format on CD-ROM disc; not a printed book) of the 1687 edition of this splendidly engraved festival book commemorating the coronation of King James II of England, from the collection of Bridwell Library. One of the most splendid illustrated books of the seventeenth century. Here in stunning double-page plates are rendered every detail of the procession, coronation, and banqueting--including the "1445 dishes of delicious viands" consumed that day. The pomp of royal pageantry has seldom been so richly evoked. This Octavo Edition contains detailed digital images (may be magnified at up to 300% of original size) as well as a new introduction by Steven N. Zwicker and detailed bibliographical information.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1951. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in VG dustwrapper. 8vo, xvi+622pp, dark green boards with spine stamped in gold. A well-preserved copy of the 1951 second printing of this 1949 collection of writings by Sapir. Unmarked copy, jacket is largely intact with a price-clipped front flap and some soil and toning (mainly to spine).

New York: Personal Injury Magazine, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 52pp, stapled wrappers. Nice copy of the first issue of this uncommon 1975 little magazine of experimental writing, includes 14 pages from "I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac!" by The Black Tarantula (Kathy Acker). No markings.

New York: Personal Injury Magazine, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. The scarce third issue of this uncommon little magazine of experimental writing, includes early work by Eileen Myles. Library stamp and title written to cover (no other markings).

New York: Personal Injury Magazine, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 56pp, stapled wrappers. From the collection of Opal Louis Nations (who contributes the first 14 pages). The scarce second issue of this uncommon little magazine of experimental writing, includes early work by Eileen Myles. Unmarked copy, pulling at top staple, clean overall.

New York: Personal Injury Magazine, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 70pp, printed wrappers. From the collection of contributor Opal Louis Nations. Exceptional and uncommon late-seventies little magazine of experimental verse, also includes work by Susan Howe, Hannah Weiner, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, et al. Unmarked copy, a bit of wear and small stains to covers.

New York: Personal Injury Magazine, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. From the collection of contributor Opal Louis Nations. The scarce third issue of this uncommon little magazine of experimental writing, includes early work by Eileen Myles, Hannah Weiner, et al. Unmarked copy, light wear and toning.

Paris: Sand Project Press, ca. 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 8pp, stapled self-cover. First issue of this scarce and enigmatic poetry magazine from Paris, includes work by Sarkis, George Tysh, Michael Brownstein, David Ball. Nice copy of a fragile item; first interior page has a publisher's pen squiggle near the title that appears in all copies.

New York: Lines, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 38pp, stapled wrappers. Second issue of this important sixties poetry magazine, includes work by Berrigan, Joe Brainard (cover), Jonathan Greene, Philip Whalen, Ron Padgett, et al. Unmarked copy with patches of outer toning, slight curvature, and some general reading wear.

Yeadon, PA: Telegraph Books / The Folcroft Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 48pp, printed wrappers. Warmly INSCRIBED by Saroyan to fellow poet Opal Louis Nations in the year of publication. Unmarked copy, light outer toning and wear.

New York: George Braziller, 1963. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in VG dw. Large 8vo, viii+626pp, black cloth stamp in silver and purple, printed dustwrapper. Nice copy of the first American edition of this English translation of a monumental work on Genet by Sartre. Cloth has minor soil to back cover (internally clean), jacket has price clipped and shows some toning to spine and a closed tear to cover.

London: Atlas Press, 2002. 2nd edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Square 8vo, 208pp, printed wrappers. The uncommon 2002 edition of this important collection of writings by Satie. Unmarked copy, light soil and wear.

Dayton, OH: Nexus, 1998. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 112pp, printed wrappers. Includes tributes to Jack Micheline and work by a range of accomplished contributors. Light cover wear.