![Item #1583 Great Expectations [first edition, signed]. Kathy Acker](/pictures/thumb/1583.jpg?v=1610752224)
Barrytown: Open Book/Station Hill, 1982. First Edition. First edition, second issue (following the withdrawn Re/Search issue). 128 pp. Perfect-bound pictorial wrappers, designed by Enrico Chandoha. Minor surface wear, small crease to lower rear corner, top edge foxed. Signed "Kathy Acker" on the title-page.
New York: The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2015. First edition. Five volumes. Stapled printed wrappers. Comprises: Kathy Acker: Homage to Leroi Jones (ed. Gabrielle Kappes). Jean Sénac: The Sun Under the Weapons, Correspondence & Notes from Algeria (Parts I & II) (ed. Kai Krienke). Langston Hughes.....
![Item #2080 Braque. [Une Aventure Méthodique]. Georges Braque, Pierre Reverdy](/pictures/thumb/2080.jpg?v=1631999442)
[Paris]: Fernand Mourlot, 1949. First edition. Folio (17 x 12 ¾ inches). 60, [53] pp. Unbound gatherings laid into an open folding vellum portfolio, housed in publisher’s clamshell case. Original color lithograph frontispiece, 26 en texte lithographs, and 12 offset color lithographs. One of 250 numbered copies on vélin d’Arches.....
![Item #2016 Museum [cover title]. Der Adler vom Oligozän bis heute. Marcel Broodthaers zeigt eine...](/pictures/thumb/2016.jpg?v=1620872183)
Düsseldorf: Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1972. First edition. Two volumes. 64; 64 pp. Perfect-bound printed glossy wrappers. Minor surface rubbing to wrappers, near fine. In the catalogue of the major Broodthaers retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 2016, Manuel J. Borja-Villel and Christophe Cherix write: "In 1968, in his Brussels.....
New York: Covici-Friede, 1931. First edition. [119] pp. Rough-woven tan cloth over boards, cover board stamped in silver facsimile of Cummings' signature. One of 391 numbered copies printed, signed by Cummings on the title-page in watercolor. Some rubbing at spine extremities and hinges, as always seen with this fragile production.....
Genève: Editions d’Art Albert Skira, 1981. Three volumes. Full brown buckram, stamped in blind, with the dust jackets and card slipcases. Some wear and small tears to jackets at spine head and tails, slipcases a little rubbed at extremities and splitting slightly at opening. Contents fine. A facsimile edition reproducing.....
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1931. First edition. Translated by Kay Boyle. [8], 38, [8] pp. Publisher's black cloth boards, decorated in elaborate gilt and blind, designed by Ernst in collaboration with A.J. Gonon. Nineteen photograms with tissue guards, with text printed in red. One of 200 copies on "finest.....
Paris: Contact Publishing Company, 1923. First edition. 60 pp. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. The first collection of verse by the great American painter, written while he was living the life of an “impecunious exile” in Berlin and published by his friend Robert McAlmon. A fresh, fine copy of a fragile.....
New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1983. First edition. 126 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Very minor surface wear, two small sticker ghosts on rear panel, near fine. A fairly early publication by an important poet.
Paris: Clémence Hiver, 1990. Facsimile edition. Two volumes, joined accordion-style, texts in French and Russian (French translation reads from front to back; original Russian, from back to front). Translation by Andre Markowicz. Design by Braque on rear cover, portrait of Iliazd by Giacometti. A sequence of sonnets, originally published in.....
London: The James Press, 1939. Second edition, revised. xxxii, 89 pp. Original gray cloth, decorated with an arrangement of stars in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Decorations by Rex Whistler. Some minor handling wear, rear pastedown protruding slightly. Title-page, head and tail-pieces, illustrations throughout. One of 412.....
New York and Penland: The Jargon Society, 1969. First edition. [20] pp. Tall narrow octavo, hand-sewn marbled printed wrappers. Some minor rubbing to edges. Hand correction in text on p. [7]. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by Johnson and Davenport. Printed by Heritage Printers of Charlotte, NC, on Fabriano.....
[Paris/Dijon]: [Contact Editions], [1922]. First edition. 288 pp. Original printed wrappers. McAlmon's second book, a collection of stories, the first publication of what would become his press Contact Publishing Company; this book issued without a date, publisher or place of publication. Printed in Dijon by Darantiere. The title was taken.....
![Item #2131 Roland Penrose. The Friendly Surrealist [inscribed]. Roland Penrose, Antony Penrose](/pictures/thumb/2131.jpg?v=1641875498)
Munich: Prestel, 2001. First edition. 192 pp. Dark blue cloth boards, spine lettered in light blue, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to upper edge of rear jacket panel, slight yellowing to page edges. Profusely illustrated. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland. Inscribed.....
Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1998. First edition. Full red cloth, lettered in white on the front board and the spine, with the dust jacket. Top edge of jacket a little rubbed. A gorgeous monograph, long out of print, published to accompany an exhibition in Hamburg and Rotterdam. Picabia's "output during.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. First American edition. 197 pp. Green cloth boards, lettered in black on the spine, with the dust jacket. Jacket spine and extremities browned, short closed tear with corresponding crease to top edge of rear panel, but overall quite clean. Gallup A35b (1016 copies printed).....
London: Elkin Mathews, 1913. First collected edition. 52, 64, [4] pp. Brown paper boards lettered in gold on the front cover and spine. Gallup notes that "not more than 500 copies issued." The book consists of first edition sheets of the two earlier books with a new half-title and title-leaf.....
Rotterdam: Cold Turkey Press, 1975. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies printed of the first edition, published October 1975 (there was a later edition published two months afterward). Glossy printed wrappers with black cloth spine. Edited by William Levy. Addendum sheet laid in, as issued. Lower corner bumped, some.....
[New York]: New Directions, 1967. First edition. [11] leaves. Blue paper boards over tan linen backstrip, printed paper label on spine. Introductory note by Noel Stock. One of 110 copies, printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem in San Francisco, all signed by the author. Gallup A90. Fine copy.
Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1912. First edition. 119 pp. Grey paper boards over parchment spine and corner tips, spine lettered in gilt. Exterior front hinge cracked, with corresponding tear on front pastedown, but holding; exterior rear hinge separating for several inches from top edge. A fragile book. Gallup B4a.....
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1965. First edition. 66 pp. Original printed wrappers. Spicer's last book to be published in his lifetime (published June 10, Spicer died August 17). Some toning to cover extremities, minor spotting to lower corner of front cover. Johnston, White Rabbit, A30.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Second edition. 152 pp. Blue paper boards over smooth black cloth spine with printed paper label mounted, with the dust jacket. Slight fading to board edges, jacket toned on verso and extremities, spine browned, small snag on rear panel of jacket at top edge.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition. 182, [2] pp. Blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, front board decorated in blind, with the dust jacket. Some rubbing to head and tail of the spine, corners a little bumped; jacket shows some edgewear with minor chipping at the.....
[New York]: The Living Theatre, 1952. Printed illustrated wrappers, stapled. 16pp. Printed (likely via lino or monotype) on cheap brown paper, text block detached from staples with some chipping at the head of the spine and a small chip at the top front corner. A fragile survival. Program for the inaugural.....
[San Francisco]: [Zephyrus Image], 1972. First edition. [8] pp. Folded sheets, bible paper issue. Folded twice; fine copy. Johnston notes, “While it looks like a newspaper, Bean News is full of in-jokes that are hard to decipher…” The Zephyrus Image archives at the University of Delaware: Bean News is “an.....