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n.p. Tarasque Press, 1968. First edition. [20] pp. Stapled wrappers with printed dust jacket. Slight foxing to jacket, slight creasing to spine. Drawings by Robert Frame. Murray 3.27.
n.p. Tarasque Press, 1968. First edition. [20] pp. Stapled wrappers with printed dust jacket. Slight foxing to jacket, slight creasing to spine. Drawings by Robert Frame. Murray 3.27.
[n.p.]: Transitions, 1982. First edition. 96 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Spine slightly faded, near fine. Contains 63 of Zürn’s anagrammatic poems, with the original German and French translations, along with illustrations and reproductions of her original texts. Preface by Françoise Buisson; commentary and medical documents assembled by J.F. Reverzy;.....
Paris: Le Point Cardinal, 1962. First edition. Single sheet, folded three times. Slight toning, small stain to head of rear panel, else fine. Reproduces a drawing by Zürn, with an indecipherable calligraphic text by Max Ernst. A limited edition with an original print was published in an edition of.....
Basel: Edition Fanel, 1981. First edition. [16] leaves, folded once. Unbound leaves, laid into a chemise, housed in publisher’s slipcase, as issued. Fine copy. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by Oppenheim. Sixteen poems, written between 1933 and 1957, accompanied by fifteen color serigraphs on embossed sheets, one with.....
New York: Julien Levy Gallery, 1945. Single sheet, folded once to form [4] pp. Slight edgewear, minor staining to center crease. Slight transfer ghost to rear cover, as often seen. Exhibition brochure designed by Marcel Duchamp, cover image based on a photograph by Czech filmmaker Alexander Hackenschmied. Includes.....
Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1913. First edition. 15 pp. Black wrappers with printed paper label on front cover. Some handling wear, slightest chipping to spine. The first book by one of the founders of the Dada movement. Together with her partner and future husband Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara.....
Paris: [Les Presses du Montparnasse], 1923. First edition. [57] pp. Printed wrappers. Inevitable toning to leaves, else a fine copy of a fragile production. 180 copies were printed; this one of the 100 copies on vergé, unnumbered and unsigned. Frontispiece by Max Ernst, drypoint on chine, mounted, signed in.....
Black Mountain, NC: Sad Devil Press/Jargon, 1952. First edition. Single folio sheet folded into sixths, printed by Joel Oppenheimer at Black Mountain College, with four tipped-in plates of drawings by Paul Ellsworth tipped in. As usually seen, the poor adhesive has meant that the plates have come loose from the.....
New York: Horizon Press, n.d. [1967]. First edition. 264 pp. Oatmeal cloth, lettered in black on the spine and blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. Slight browning to board edges, minor edgewear to jacket. Inscribed by Boyle on the title-page, with a further holograph note by her.....
[Chicago]: Ken Nordine, 1956. Single sheet, printed on recto and verso and folded four times to create sixteen panels. Light wear, else fine. Ken Nordine is best known for his “word jazz” recordings, first issued on Dot Records in 1957. A prolific voice-over artist whose career spanned decades.....
Tujunga, CA: Peter Holland, Christopher, Louise and Robert Haas, 1947. First edition. Single sheet, folded twice to form [4] pages, printed in black and red. Slight handling wear, slightly musty, near fine. One of about 100 copies distributed to friends by Robert and Louise Haas. A previously unpublished extract from.....
New York: Albondocani Press, 1968. First edition. [8] leaves, double folded, sewn into Florentine decorated paper wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. Fine copy. One of 150 numbered copies in wrappers, this is number 1. The play is here printed from Stein’s original manuscript in the Beinecke Library at.....
New York: New Directions, 2011. First edition thus. 40 pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Text block a little warped with a bit of a bend to the top half. Full color illustrations by Max Neumann.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971. xxxiii, 164 pp. Cloth boards, dust jacket. Translated from the Russian and edited by Richard Sheldon. New in publisher's shrinkwrap.
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. First edition. 185 pp. Brown cloth backstrip lettered in gilt over yellow boards, with the dust jacket. Creasing to top edge of rear panel of jacket with a short closed tear, some minor edgewear and handling wear to jacket. Signed by the author on.....
New York: New Directions, 1946-1958. First edition. Five volumes. Original light gray cloth, lettered in gilt and blocked in various colors, with the dust jackets. All volumes show some mild even toning to the jackets. Book 1 shows some browning to the endpapers, the jacket is slightly chipped at the.....
[Los Angeles]: Edward Ruscha, 1969. First edition. [64] pp. Printed wrappers with original glassine. Glassine a little toned with small chip at the head of the spine; book fine. 2400 copies were printed of this first edition, a second edition was published in 1976. Phillpot notes, “Nine Swimming Pools is.....
New York: George Wittenborn, 1969. First American edition. 368 pp. Full green buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt, with the dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. Mild edgewear to jacket, top jacket corners slightly bumped with some fraying; slipcase bumped at top corner with thumb nick to front edge; book fine.....