Bottom Ash Observatory
Oosternijkerk, The Netherlands: Thomas Eyck, 2015. Folio. [160] pages. Photographs by Mathijs Labadie. Original boards. First edition, one of 2000 copies.
Oosternijkerk, The Netherlands: Thomas Eyck, 2015. Folio. [160] pages. Photographs by Mathijs Labadie. Original boards. First edition, one of 2000 copies.
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902. One of 425 copies printed on Japan vellum. 13.4 x 8.8 cm. Original printed wrappers. Printed at the press of George D. Loring, Portland, Maine. With folded advertisement for the Brocade Series laid-in.
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902. One of 425 copies printed on Japan vellum. 13.4 x 8.8 cm. Original printed wrappers. Printed at the press of George D. Loring, Portland, Maine.
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. Second edition. One of 425 copies printed on Japan vellum. 13.4 x 8.8 cm. Original printed wrappers, unopened. Printed at the press of George D. Loring, Portland, Maine. With folded advertisement for the Brocade Series laid-in.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. Third edition, enlarged and improved. 12mo. 95 pages, advertisements at end. Original salmon muslin, printed paper label on front cover. See Howes V-28; Sabin 98486.
Flushing, NY: Charles R. Lincoln, 1847. 8vo. 16 pages. Green printed wrappers, woodcut of the Institute on inner front wrapper. Lists the officers, students, design, sessions, terms, classes, patrons, and includes general remarks on the conduct of the school.
[New York]: The Grenfell Press, 1992. 8vo. 82, [1] pages. Original decorated paper wrappers, printed paper label on cover and spine. One of 200 copies signed by Laughlin.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 8vo. 291 pages. Original printed wrappers, the front cover die cut in shape of the leaves on the cover. Advance uncorrected proof, signed by Lahiri. With a circular TLS laid-in from Houghton Mifflin's marketing department "Enclosed please find an autographed special edition galley...".....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. 8vo. 431 pages. Original beige cloth, title in red on spine, publisher's name in pink; printed dust jacket. First American edition. Her fame unfairly outstripped by her husband Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles' story "Two Serious Ladies" is one of the masterpieces of American.....
London: Cecil Woolf, 1978. 8vo. Original cloth; just jacket. Second impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by Crisp on the title-page: "To Bernie and Bobbie from Quentin Crisp." This is the follow-up to Crisp's superb 'The Naked Civil Servant.'.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1960. 8vo. 616, [3] pages/ Original two-toned cloth; glassine; board slipcases. First edition, deluxe limited issue, one of 250 copies signed by the authors.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. 8vo. 271 pages. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, second issue with "shit" expurgated on p. 219. Firmage A2.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. 8vo. Reproductions of monoprints by Bobbie Creeley. Original cloth-backed printed boards; acetate wrapper. First edition, number 81 of 250 numbered copies signed by Creeley.
Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1837. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches; 16.4 x 10.7 cm). x, 103 pages. Engraved frontispiece; illustrations in text. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. First edition, second issue, with the additional poems at end; BAL state B of p. 66 (no priority).A series of.....
Buffalo: CEPA Gallery, 1981. 22.5 x 18 cm. [82] pages. Printed on rectos only, by Abgott & Smith Printing. Printed wrappers. First edition, one of 3000 copies (of which 50 were signed and numbered). The project was coordinated by Tom Damauer. According to the wrapper text: "This book is part.....
Cleveland: Ghost Press, 1967. 11 x 8.5 inches. 24 pages. Illustrated with silkscreens by T. L. Kryss. Stapled sheets laid into illustrated wrappers, lower corner with soft crease throughout. First edition, one of 150 copies. Persecuted Poets Series #2. Lowell A31; Taylor & Horvath B-08.
Cleveland: Ayizan Press, 1968. 11.75 x 7.5 inches. 32 pages. Saddle-stitched offset printed on newsprint. 4000 copies printed though 3000 are rumored to have been destroyed by the author. Dedicated to Allen Ginsberg, Alan Watts, Robert Aitken, Phillip Kapleau, Paul Reps, and Philip Whalen. “An experiment in destructive writing other.....
Cleveland: Ayizan Press, 1968. 11.75 x 7.5 inches. 32 pages. Saddle-stitched offset printed on newsprint. Inscribed "To allen pasternak / d.a. levy." 4000 copies printed though 3000 are rumored to have been destroyed by the author. Dedicated to Allen Ginsberg, Alan Watts, Robert Aitken, Phillip Kapleau, Paul Reps, and Philip.....
Cleveland: Zero Edition, 1968. 11 x 8.5 inches. 28 pages. Cover design by Barb O'Connelly. Side-stapled mimeo sheets bound into illustrated wrappers. First edition. One of 500 copies. Lowell A42; Taylor & Horvath B-14.
Sacramento: 1967. Mimeographed. Saddle stitched illustrated wrappers. First edition, one of 500 copies. This is not to be confused with the 1975 reissue by Falling Down Press. Not in Taylor & Horvath.
New York: Pantheon, 1947. 8vo. 100 photos by Stein. Original red cloth; dust jacket. First edition.
San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. Folio. Original cloth; dust jacket. Signed by Barry Moser on the title-page. This edition was adapted by Van Dyke Parks and Malcolm Jones.
New York: Viking, 1985. 8vo. Original quarter cloth; dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Cowley to a fellow editor on the half-title.
Boston: New York Graphic Society / Little Brown / Amon Carter Museum, 1987. Folio. 275 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. Foreword by Martha A. Sandweiss, curator at the Amon Carter responsible for this fine retrospective traveling exhibition.
New York: A Studio Book / Viking Press, 1982. 4to. 224 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. Translated from the French by Richard Miller. Includes Brassaï's photos of Braque, Dali, Dufy, Giacometti, Léger, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, Rouault, Maillol, and a dozen others.