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."
Counterculture
San Francisco's Burning
Berkeley: Oannes, 1963. First edition. First edition, one of 500 numbered copies printed. Stiff wrappers with attached printed dust jacket. Printed on textured brown paper. 110 pp. A two-act ballad opera set in San Francisco in 1906. Slightest rubbing to head of spine, still a fine copy.
![Item #2211 Tosh. Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World [first edition, signed]. Tosh Berman](https://trioletrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2211.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1661222531)
Tosh. Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World [first edition, signed]
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.
Semina 7. ALEPH / a gesture involving photographs drawings & text
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.....
The Sonnets
New York: Grove Press, 1964 [i.e. 1967]. First edition thus. 72 pp. Stapled wrappers. Top corner slightly bumped, minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and slight scuff to front cover near top edge, else fine. Review copy, with slip laid in. Rear cover blurb by Joe Brainard.
The Drunken Boat
[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.
C: A Journal of Poetry. Volume 2, number 13 (May 1966)
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.....
The Friendly Way
New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1972. First edition. [28] pp., text on rectos only. Side-stapled wrappers. Minor staple rust marks, last leaf and rear cover never stapled to lower staple. Cover image by Brainard.
The Friendly Way
Toronto: Proper Tales Press, 1991. First edition. [16] pp. Stapled wrappers. Slight edgewear, else fine. A "resurrection" of the original 1972 publication, one of 200 copies of this edition. Cover image by Brainard.
I Remember Christmas
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1973. First edition. [24] pp. Unprinted stapled red wrappers with dust jacket. Jacket a little toned with a short closed tear and a bit of rubbing at the head of the spine. The uncommon fourth volume of Brainard's series of remembrances.
More I Remember
New York: Angel Hair Books, 1972. First edition. [44] pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Cover photo by Bill Katz. One of 800 copies, of a total edition of 826. The second volume of the initial publication of Brainard's masterpiece. Influenced by Gertrude Stein and Andy Warhol in its repetition and yet.....
More I Remember More
New York: Angel Hair Books, 1973. First edition. [32] pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Cover photo by Bill Katz. One of 700 copies, of a total edition of 726. The third volume of the initial publication of Brainard's masterpiece. Influenced by Gertrude Stein and Andy Warhol in its repetition and yet.....
Postcard announcement for exhibition at Elaine Benson Gallery
Postcard announcement for Brainard's exhibition "Miniatures" July 22-Aug 1 at Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton. n.d., c. 1978. Reproduced self-portrait image with information on the verso.
Postcard announcement for exhibition at Fischbach Gallery
Postcard announcement for Brainard's exhibition December 16-January 10 at Fischbach Gallery, 29 W. 57th Street, New York. n.d., c. 1975. Collage image with information reproduced in holograph on the verso.
Reading at the Poetry Project: Flyers by Joe Brainard
New York: The Poetry Project, 1997. First edition. 19 loose sheets in printed envelope. Foreword by Bill Berkson. One of 250 numbered sets, reproducing fifteen flyers. Minor wear to envelope, contents fine.
The 1967 Game Calendar
n.p. [New York]: n.d. [1967]. First edition. [24] pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Corners slightly rubbed, else about fine. An early Brainard/Elmslie collaboration.
The Yage Letters
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963. First edition. 68 pp. Original printed wrappers. Slight rubbing to rear cover fore-edge, and head and tail of spine, near fine. Maynard & Miles A8. Morgan B22. Cook 45.
For Joel
[Mt. Horeb]: The Perishable Press, 1966. Broadside. 8 1/4 x 11 inches. Slight softening to upper left corner, else fine. One of eighty-five copies, printed on variegated papers handmade from rags by Walter Hamady for Joel and Helen Oppenheimer on the occasion of their marriage, 6 June 1966.....
The Class of '47
New York: Bouwerie Editions, 1973. First edition. [16] pp. Glossy stapled wrappers. Text by Creeley, illustrated by Brainard. Fine copy in original numbered envelope, envelope a little toned. Of a total edition of 350 copies, this is one of 150 copies reserved for the poet and the artist, which.....
Hermes Past the Hour
Taos: Este Es Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Comb-bound stiff boards. Text printed in various fonts, interspersed with illustrations appropriated from travel and nudie magazines; other copies seen have completely different cover images, so each copy was likely hand-assembled. Rear board slightly creased, small remnant of label on first.....
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Mala Noche [first edition]
Portland: Out of the Ashes Press/The Mississippi Mud Magazine, 1977. First edition. 50, [2] pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Some staining and grubbiness to covers, interior clean. The rare chapbook by Portland's unofficial "street poet," basis for Gus Van Sant's first film. Katherine Dunn, another patron saint of Portland letters, wrote.....
City Junket
Flint, MI: Bamberger Books, 1987. First edition thus. 79, [14] pp. Glossy perfect-bound printed wrappers. A version of this play was originally published in 1972. Cover by Joe Brainard. Fine copy.
Just Another Asshole. no. 3
New York: B. Ess, 1979. Oversized tabloid format, unbound as issued. Just Another Asshole was an experimental "no wave" publication that ran from 1978 to 1987. Each issue was published in a different format, the first two being xeroxed zines estimated at about 20 copies printed. This third issue compiles.....
The Wedding of Everything
Los Angeles: Sherwood Press, 1983. First edition. [32] pp. Stapled wrappers (cover photos by Sheree Levin). Staples a little rusty, top edge a bit foxed. A collection of poems, published by the poet David Trinidad's Sherwood Press. Inscribed by Flanagan on the title-page, "these things are not metaphors." Laid in.....
Grist. Whole numbers 9 and 12
Lawrence, KS: Abington Book Shop, 1966-1967. Photographically illustrated stapled wrappers. Two issues of this excellent Midwestern journal, of a total of fourteen published, edited by John Fowler, with George Kimball and Charles Plymell. Number 9 includes very early work by S. Clay Wilson (here "Steve"), along with Bukowski, levy, Frank.....