Algeria
London: Aloes Books, 1984. First edition. [2], 1-29, [1] pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Very slight rub to corners, very slight browning to endpapers, near fine. Initially written as a short story, "Girl Gangs Take Over the World."
London: Aloes Books, 1984. First edition. [2], 1-29, [1] pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Very slight rub to corners, very slight browning to endpapers, near fine. Initially written as a short story, "Girl Gangs Take Over the World."
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.....
Paris: Olympia Press, 1953. 110, [10] pp. Plain white wrappers with printed dust jacket folded on, as issued. Jacket extremities rubbed, small nick to fore-edge of last three leaves. An uncommon early Olympia Press publication, published June 1953. Kearney notes, "A translation, reportedly by Richard Seaver, of Les Exploits d'un.....
Paris: Éditions de la Revue Fontaine, 1945. First edition in French. 50, [2] pp. French-fold card wrappers, cover by Mario Prassinos. Edges and spine rubbed. One of 450 numbered copies, of a total edition of 475 copies. Published in the Collection "L'age d'or" dirigée par Henri Parisot; Leonora Carrington's En.....
Meudon-Val-Fleury (Seine et Oise): [privately printed], 1939. First edition. [40] pp. Unprinted heavy wrappers, folded and string-sewn. A bit of surface wear to the wrappers, contents clean. Despite previous periods of intense collaboration dating back to their initial meeting decades earlier during the flowering of Zurich Dada, this is.....
Paris: Galerie Simon, 1923. First edition. [16] pp. Original printed wrappers. One of 100 copies (of 112 printed), signed by Artaud and the illustrator Elie Lascaux. Hint of wear to head and tail of spine, mild offsetting to endpapers, near fine or better. Artaud's first book, a collection of.....
New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1970. First edition. Side-stapled wrappers, photographically illustrated front cover. One of 65 copies printed, called to be numbered and signed, this copy neither signed nor numbered. Fine copy. Kermani A18.
Paris: Mercure de France, 1939. First edition. 214 pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine a little creased, corners slightly bumped. Mostly unopened. One of 20 numbered copies on Arches, with a different cover design than the regular edition, and printed on variously sized sheets, with full margins. The epigraph, “ÉCRIRE AVEC.....
Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Éditeur, 1957. First edition. 215, [4] pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. One of 3000 numbered copies of the first edition. Spine edges a little bumped, slight edgewear to rear cover.
Paris: Europa Press, 1935. First edition. [38] pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Some minor creasing to covers, else fine. One of 300 copies on Alfa, of a total edition of 327 copies, this copy unnumbered. Inscribed by Beckett on the half-title, “‘Echo’s Bones were turned to stone’ Ovid Met. 3 ---.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First separate edition. 22 pp. Sewn wrappers with dust jacket. Slight rubbing to top edge of rear panel with a couple of short closed tears, else fine. Originally conceived as a "meditation for radio" and broadcast on the BBC in 1957, now generally considered as.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1964. First edition. 48 pp. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to top edge of jacket and spine creases, near fine. Collects Beckett's pieces Play, Words and Music, and Cascando. Federman & Fletcher 42.
New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1966. First edition. Original Wraps. Stapled wrappers. 86 pp. Libretto by Elmslie, music by Jack Beeson (only the libretto is printed). Cover by Joe Brainard. Slight wear to spine, minor shelf rubbing to bottom edge, overall about near fine.
Tokyo: Editions Treville, 2004. Black paper boards, lettered and decorated in copper, with the dust jacket. Text in Japanese by Kunio Iwaya. An attractive edition with color reproductions of Bellmer's doll photos. Some minor rubbing to the jacket, price and ISBN sticker on rear cover.
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2006. First edition. 280 pp. Brown paper boards, lettered in black, with the dust jacket. Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the show held at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, March 1-May 22, 2006, and later held at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich, June 29-August 27, 2006.....
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2000. First edition. xxii, 310 pp. Full brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Some minor rubbing to lower jacket at spine, else a fine copy. Profusely illustrated.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2018. First edition. xvi, 309, [3] pp. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. An excellent memoir by Wallace Berman's son, signed by him on the title-page. Fine copy.
Larkspur: [Wallace Berman], 1961. [18] unbound sheets, laid into a printed manila pocket mounted in a folded cardstock cover with photo mounted on front panel. Slight rubbing to the spine, else fine, complete, and very rare thus. One of 200 copies printed. This is the sole issue of Semina.....
[Houseboat, Boardwalk #2], Larkspur, CA: Wallace Berman, 1960. First edition. [14] unbound sheets, laid into a printed manila pocket mounted in a folded printed cover. Some foxing and soiling to covers, minor creasing to lower corners; still much better than usually seen. One of 335 copies printed. This sixth.....
[New York]: [Adventures in Poetry], [1974]. First edition. [28] pp. Side-stapled mimeograph sheets, printed on rectos only. Staples a little rusty, else fine. Berrigan's homage to Rimbaud, drawn by Brainard, one of their most successful marriages of text and poetry. Fischer, p. 46.
New York: Lorenz Gude/Ted Berrigan, 1966. First edition. 31 pp. Side-stapled tall (legal-sized) mimeographed wrappers. Slight toning to extremities, last leaf detached from two of three staples. Much better than usually seen. One of the most important mimeo magazines of the 1960s, and a crucial link between the.....
Paris: est en vente chez Jean Budry, 1924. First edition. [8] pp. Original blue publisher’s printed sewn paper wrappers, titles in gilt to front cover, advertisements in black to interior of rear cover. The fragile single stitch has come undone, easily repaired professionally. Pierre Albert-Birot’s important and very scarce.....
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. First edition. 56, [4] pp. Original publisher’s wrappers and cardboard slipcase. Head of box splitting slightly but solid; lacking the original glassine. Volume about fine with a shadow at the spine from the slipcase opening. One of 300 numbered copies on Navarre, from a total.....
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition. 27, [5] pp. Original publisher’s printed wrappers with French flaps, original glassine, and publisher’s cardboard gilt and silver slipcase. Slipcase split along bottom edge and missing a section of the top edge; volume about fine with very slight wear to the corners of.....
[New York]: [Printed by the Gemor Press], 1942. First edition. [16] pp. Unbound folded sheets laid into a printed wrapper. Minor handling wear to cover, near fine. “Limited to one hundred copies handset in light italic Bernhard Gothic type of twelve point… designed and edited by Caresse Crosby as.....