Search Results: Titles starting with C from Passages Bookshop

Greensboro, NC: Unicorn Press, 1986. Second edition. Paperback. As New. 60 pp., 8vo. Much less common than the original edition, published by New Directions in 1968. Very faint rubbing along spine, otherwise as new.

Madison, WI: Silver Buckle Press, 1988. First trade edition. Paperback. Fine. (60) pp., 16mo. A universal calendar (good in any year), with elaborate and fanciful designs for each month, hand set using material from the Printer's Ornament Collection of the Silver Buckle Press ("a working typographic museum of nineteenth- and twentieth-century printing equipment located in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries"). Offset edition of 1500, reproducing the original letterpress calendar designed, printed, and hand bound by Barbara Tetenbaum with the assistance of Marta Gomez, Tracy Honn, and Phyllis McGibbon. Minuscule bumps to corners, otherwise as new.

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1991. First Edition. Boards. 63 pp. Review copy. Light edgewear and sunning to dustjacket, otherwise fine. 8vo.

Albuquerque, NM: Passages Bookshop, 1995. First printing. 18.5 x 13 inches. Letterpress plus collage and hand coloring, in an edition of seventy-five numbered copies. Printed at the Salient Seedling Press by Katherine Kuehn -- who, along with Nancy Culmone, also assisted in the collaging and coloring. As new. For many years Paul Maurer documented the handmade memorials in the campo santos (the local cemeteries) across rural New Mexico, through photography, drawing, and rubbings, which he incorporated into a series of Campo Santo books that also included calligraphy, marbling, collage, and found objects. This print carries the spirit of those books into a single two-dimensional image. Maurer's drawing is printed letterpress from a photo-engraved plate; to that are added collaged elements from his photographs, and extremely varied hand coloring, so that each copy in the edition is unique.

New York: Random House, 2005. First printing. Boards. As New/As New. 8vo, 221 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. First printing. 175 pp., 6.25 x 9.25 inches. Paper over boards in printed dust jacket.

New York: Dutton, 1987. First U.S. Edition. Boards. 289 pp., illus. Very light edgewear and dustsoiling to boards, and even age-toning to pages, otherwise very good in Fine dustjacket. 8vo.

New York: Bench Press, 1987. Stapled wrappers. Interviews with Contemporary Writers and Artists. Madeleine Keller, Series Editor. 44 pp. Light handling to wrappers, otherwise fine. 8vo.

Dugort, Achill Island, Ireland: Redfoxpress, 2019. First printing thus. (28) pp., 4.25 x 5.75 inches. Quarter-cloth and printed paper over boards, without dust-jacket, as issued. C’Est Mon Dada number 128. As new. A book of visual poetry; a “glyphic narrative” generated by a prose poem in ten phrases, which appears after the sequence of glyphs. With author’s note and biography, and signed on the title page.

London: Oxford University Press, 1963. First printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo, 45 pp. Top edge dusty, pages tanned. Jacket sunned, lightly soiled and edgeworn.

New York: Printed Matter, 1977. First printing. (80) pp., 4 x 8.5 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white reproductions of pages from listed publications. Laid in is an errata sheet folded in thirds, dated 1 May 1978, with price changes, a list of titles that have gone out of print, and several other corrections. Catalogue in fine condition; errata sheet very good, with mild creasing on one edge and slight toning along folds. The second catalogue from this premier bookstore and distributor, listing well over nine hundred books, records, and magazines by artists (the first catalogue, issued in December 1976, had just half that many). The illustrations feature pages (or in a few cases covers) from publications by Robert Armstrong, Alice Aycock, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Mary Bondarowicz, Stanley Brouwn, Victor Burgin, Don Celender, Constance De Jong, Peter Downsbrough, Jackie Ferrara, Jon Gibson, George Griffin, Douglas Heubler, Ralph Humphrey, Ellen… Read More

London: Coracle, 1989. First printing. Boards. Very good. Oblong 16mo. Festschrift for Jonathan Williams's 60th birthday, attempted as a surprise. The more than three dozen contributors include: Glen Baxter, Ian Hamilton Finlay, R.B. Kitaj, Thomas A. Clark, Richard Caddel, Roy Fisher, Charles Tomlinson, Basil Bunting, Eric Mottram, and Sandra Fisher. Light shelfwear otherwise about fine in printed paper over boards, without jacket, as issued.

Columbus, OH: Wexner Center Bookshop, n.d.. First printing. 17 x 24 inches. Lithographic poster from photograph by Kevin Fitzsimons. Very slight rumpling, and faint unevenness in printing of solid black background, but essentially fine. One of several posters created for a sale at the shop of the Wexner Center (located on the OSU campus), which specializes in books by and about artists. In this clever image, copies from a series of twenty-six letter-titled books by Jan Voss are arranged to spell CECI N'EST PAS UN LIVRE ("this is not a book," a reference to the famed Magritte painting "Ceci n'est pas un pipe"), answered by the line "and this is not a poster."

Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1992. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 340 pp., 8vo. From the library of Anne Rice, with her library label loosely laid in. A "tragicomical idyll of the future past" that mixes genres; "a magnificent first novel by one of the best art historians of our time" (according to jacket blurb by poet Charles Simic). Illustrated with 27 pages of black-and-white photographs. Faint foxing to edges, otherwise as new in jacket.

Honolulu: Chain, 1997. First printing. 259 pp., 6 x 9 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. As new. An issue of this always adventurous journal, in this case devoted to procedure, process, and constraint. Contributors include Michael Basinski, Dodie Bellamy, Caroline Bergvall, Maria Damon, Tina Darragh, Jean Day, Joel Felix, Peter Gizzi, Dale Going, Dick Higgins, P. Inman, Robert Kelly, Kevin Killian, Tan Lin, Jackson Mac Low, Laura Moriarty, Harryette Mullen, Sianne Ngai Joan Retallack, Leslie Scalapino, Chris Tysh, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Hannah Weiner, and dozens more.

Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 1996. First printing. (48) pp., 7 x 10 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Designed by Mark Stritzel. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout. Corners bumped, and a small scar from label removal on back cover, otherwise very good. The catalogue of a three-day event in the Mojave desert, conceived and produced by Chris Kraus and described by her as a ”philosophical rave and summit meeting between artists and philosophers, chaosophists and croupiers, mathematicians and musicians,” presented by ArtCenter College of Design and the French Cultural Service, which took place at a resort casino forty miles south of Las Vegas. Participants included Jean Baudrillard, Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, Nick Kallos, Marcella Greening, Sheppard Powell, Homer Erotic, Towel, Sylvere Lotringer, Oguri with Roxanne Steinberg and Renzoku, Rosanne Allucquere Stone, Shirley Tse, Douglas Hepworth, Diane di Prima, Ann Rower, The Chance Band, Ohm-A-Revelator, Jeremy… Read More

Aptos, CA: Piggy Bank Press, 1996. First edition. Pamphlet. Fine. A single folded page, printed on both sides.

New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. Wrappers. Paperback issue. Price inked out on front wrap, and faint crease to corner, otherwise very good. With errata slip laid in; uncommon thus. 8vo.

Midwestern Writers Publishing House, 1981. First Edition. Pamphlet Series Number Three. 8 pp. Slight age toning to wrappers; one corner very lightly bumped; otherwise very good in stapled wrappers. 32mo.

Los Angeles: Hall Bartlett Films, n.d. (1977). First printing. 195 pp., 8.5 x 11 inches. A specially bound copy of the script for the 1978 film The Children of Sanchez, produced, co-written, and directed by Hall Bartlett. Inside the front cover a small bookbinderÂ’s label shows that the book was bound by Ronnie Gousman in Hollywood. Save for one tiny spot of wear on the back side of the spine, essentially as new. Hall Bartlett (1922–1993) wrote, directed, and produced dozens of films, as well as writing two novels and serving as a founder and board member of numerous Los Angeles cultural organizations. His films received ten Best Picture and Best Director awards at various international film festivals, seventeen Academy Award nominations, eight Hollywood Foreign Press Golden Globe Awards, and more than seventy-five national and international awards from publications and organizations. Bartlett is perhaps most famous for his adaptation of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, but a dedication to exploring… Read More