Search Results: Titles starting with K from Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix

San Francisco: City Lights, 1961. First Edition. Near fine.. While "Howl" is undeniably the more important poem, "Kaddish" is arguably the better one. Written in the wake of his mother Naomi's suicide, it remains raw, immediate, and moving - one of Ginsberg's finest. Part of City Lights' famed Pocket Poets Series, this is the increasingly uncommon (and frequently misidentified) true first edition, about which there is admitedly some geniune and legitimate confusion. Morgan is in disagreement with both Dowden and Cook as regards the true first printing; however, while Morgan is usually the more reliable source, bibliographic concensus seems to have settled on the priority laid out by Cook/Dowden - and this cataloguer (for reasons that surpass mere self-interest but are too lengthy for this catalogue description) strongly agrees. One of 2500 copies. [Morgan A4.a2 - incorrectly]. [Cook p. 42-3]. [Dowden p. 9-8]. Wraps. 16mo. Original wraps. Near fine. Sharp and clean, with only the barest hints of… Read More

Bethesda, MD: The Writer's Center, 1983. First Edition. Very good +.. Handmade artist's book. "The images were drawn on mylar, transfered to a positive plate, and then printed offset on Curtis rag text & cover and UV Ultra II." Wraps. Small 4to. Purple cardstock wraps housing smaller 3'' x 3'' square booklet. With multiple pages folding out in various directions. Saddle-stitched binding. Reflective silver mylar endpapers. Edition of 300 copies. Very good plus.

Dover, DE: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2012. First English language edition. Fine.. First printing in English of this forgotten cut/up classic, originally published in French in 1974 and German in 2011. Translated by Mary Beach. Foreword by Charles Plymell (to whom the book is also dedicated). Cover illustration by Claude Pelieu. Author photograph by Gerard Malanga. Hardcover. 8vo. Black publisher's cloth. No jacket, as issued. One of fifty limited hardcover editions SIGNED by dedicee Charlie Plymell, this #10. 244pp. Fine.

Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1999. First Edition. Very good +.. Monograph published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago. Includes 174 illustrations (17 in color) and index. With an interview with Josephson by Stephanie Lipscomb, list of plates, selected exhibition history and bibliography, and index. 4to. Black and white photographic wraps. Very mild shelfwear and faint page toning. 200pp.

(San Francisco): (Straight Arrow Books), 1973. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. Signed second printing of the essential Kerouac biography. A handsome copy signed by Charters, Kerouac's first biographer and bibliographer, and the only one to draw on firsthand interviews with her subject. Comprehensive and definitive. 9'' x 6''. Foreword by Allen Ginsberg. Original yellow cloth. In original unclipped ($7.95) brown pictorial dust jacket. Blue endpapers. 418 pages. Signed by Chambers on title page. Spine lightly sunned. Jacket lightly scuffed along edges.

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1986. First edition. Near fine.. Limited edition of Clark's essay, with a supplement of three articles by Jack Kerouac. Clark surveys Kerouac's columns for Escapade on "real things and real people," followed by reprints of three characteristic pieces: "The Beginning of Bop," "The Last Word," and "The First Word," originally published in 1959, 1960, and 1967 respectively. 7.5'' x 5''. Original saddle-stapled green wrappers. No. 239 of an edition of 500 copies. 49, [1] pages. Spine very lightly sunned and scuffed.

Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964. First Edition. Near fine.. First edition of this slim and beautiful collection of poems, one of the smallest editions from d.a. levy's Renagade Press. Wraps. 16mo. Brown side stapled paper wraps. Mild wear; moderate toning to page edges. Limited edition of 100 copies. [Horvath and Taylor P-26].

Providence: Diana's Bimonthly, 1975. First Edition. Near fine.. #126 of 275 copies. Contains several short poems by Waldrop. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle stapled printed wraps. Near fine. Mild corner crease to front cover. Bright, clean throughout. Good and sound. [11] pp.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968. Reprint. Good +.. Inscribed copy of this collection of poems by Kizer, including several "Chinese Imitations" and translations of Tu Fu, first published several years prior by Doubleday. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound photographic wraps. Good plus to very good. INSCRIBED by Kizer to FFEP, in 1969. Some wrinkling and light dampstaining to wraps. Fore edge dampstained with attendant light wrinkles throughout. Pages clean, unmarked. 84pp.

Berkeley: Ishmael Reed Publishing Co, 1990. First edition. Very good plus.. Signed copy of Reed's Berkeley-based literary magazine, featuring in this issue Amiri Baraka, Frank Chin, Thulani Davis, J.J. Phillips, Priscilla Lee, Anna Chupa, Diane Weathers, Karla Brundage, Danny Romero, and others. Original saddle-stapled wrappers. Inscribed by Reed on front cover. Moderate edgewear, corners lightly scuffed, touches of soil. 36 pages.

Berkeley: Ishmael Reed Publishing Co, 1990. First edition. Very good plus.. Second issue, featuring an interview with William Melvin Kelley by Reed and Quincy Troupe; Frank Chin on Amy Tan, David Hwang, and Maxine Hong Kingston; Cecil Brown on Driving Miss Daisy; poetry by Patricia Jones, E. Ethelbert Miller, and J.J. Phillips; and essays and short fiction by Jennifer Elstad, Jane Churchon, Mike Brodsky, Elizabeth Marie Kim, and C.J. Wallia. Original saddle-stapled wraps. Signed by Reed on front cover. Moderate edgewear, corners lightly scuffed, touches of soil. 36 pages.

Budapest: Arkisz Kiado, 1997. First Edition. Very good + in a very good + jacket.. First printing, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of Havana. Wraps. Oblong 8vo. Wraps with original paper band, under glassine wrapper. Tex block side-stapled and glued at spine, with some separation from covers beginning; book still fully intact and solid. Very good plus. 112pp. Text in Hungarian.

New York: Kulchur Press, 1962. First Edition. Good +.. Early issue of this influential lit mag. Contributors include Ted Berrigan, Gerard Malanga, Andy Warhol, Bruce Conner, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, Louis Zukofsky, Robert Rauschenberg, and the editors. Cover by Arthur Freed. A handsome example. Wraps. 8vo. Photographic wraps. Very good. Wraps show a bit of soil and rubbing, particularly the rear. A bit toned throughout, but clean overall. 104pp.

(Hagersten): (Vargens Forlag), 1974. Near fine.. Original issue of this eclectic and colorful arts review with contributions by J.O. Mallander, Olle Granath, Kjell Alinge, and Harry Schein, and excerpted texts by R.D. Laing, Raoul Hausmann, and Kenneth Patchen. Formerly owned by Izzy Young, an important figure in the 1960s NYC folk music scene. Wraps. 4to. Side stapled wraps. Text in Swedish. Trace soil to wraps. Former owner's name written on final leaf. Overall, quite clean and sharp. Interior crisp, bright throughout. Unpaginated.

Gambier, OH: Kenyon College, 1951. First Edition. Very Good+.. With poems by Randall Jarrell (All of None, The Tower, The Black Swan), as well as Irving Howe on Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Spender on the function of criticism, and two early poems by Edward Field. Wraps. 8vo. Light soil, toning, edgewear. Binding strong, internally clean.

Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2002. First Edition. Very good.. Original exhibition catalogue, with one of the most extensive selections we've seen of reproductions of Cage's scores. 4to. Stiff French-flapped wrappers. 279, [1] pages. Some fading to spine, touch of creasing. Else bright and sound throughout.