London: Alphabox, 1996. First Edition. Box. First edition. #20 of only 60 special copies with twenty-seven etchings by Jiri Sindler. SIGNED by both Adler and Sindler. Text in English and Czech. Loose signatures laid into paper folder and then contained in a clothbound slipcase. Quite beautiful and scarce. Signed by Author. More about The Electric Alphabet (Elektricka Abeceda
East Hampton: Glenn Horowitz, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. First edition. One of 125 copies published to coincide with an exhibition entitled Painted Photographs 1840-1940. A 15 pp short story. SIGNED by the New Yorker writer. A fine copy in near fine paper wrapper with small sticker residue to front cover... More about After The Gold Rush
No Place: No Publisher, No Date. First edition. Paperback. Thick side-stapled wrappers. The "anonymous" issue of Larry Fagin's literary journal entitled Adventures In Poetry. Published without any names or publication info due to the pornographic comic strip covers. A clean very good copy. Undated, but from circa 1973. One of... More about School Days (Adventures In Poetry #10
New York and Hilversum, The Netherlands: Les Levine, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Early conceptual artist book by Levine. Very good in square cardboard bound wrappers. Brief text in German, English, French and Flemish. Photographs of a house in complete dissarray. More about House
Chicago: Badpress Books, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this full color 152 page book on stamp art by these two artists. This is one of a tiny number of hardbound copies and has been SIGNED by both artists on a special tipped in page with Badpress blindstamp to... More about The Stamp Art & Postal History of Michael Thompson and Michael Hernandez De Luna
Zurich: Seedorn Verlag, 1984. First edition. Paperback. Scarce reference book on artist Dieter Roth compiled by Dieter Schwarz. Sheets of paper printed on rectos only and stapled once at top left corner. Sheets measure 8 1/4 x 11 1/2" tall. Includes a brief biography, checklist of exhibitions and publications, artist's... More about Dieter Roth A Reference Book Entry
London: Knife Edge Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Folio. The first book to be published by this press. Composed of original screenprinted images by Bruce Mc Lean and with text by Mel Gooding. Printed under the direction of Michael Schonke at the Druckwerkstatt in Berlin. Limited to 140... More about Dream Work
No Place: Privately Printed, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Privately published artist book. Numbered A.P. out of a tiny edition of only 25 copies. Loose sheets printed on thick rag paper. Laid into an elaborate printed cloth clamshell box. SIGNED by the artist. A beautiful production. More about Ceres (Fifteen Burnt Images
London: Tetrad Press, 1970. First edition. Loose Sheets. Large single sheet of quality paper, folded once to form a booklet. Text and silkscreen image by Tyson. A near fine example. This is one of the 50 special copies numbered and SIGNED by the artist. When closed, it measures 9 7/8 x 11 3/4" tall. More about Knights Eminence for Jackson Mac Low (Signed
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 136 pp. A collection of short stories by the author of Affliction, Continental Drift and many other novels and books of poetry. A fine hardbound copy in near fine unclipped and unfaded dustwrapper. Perhaps the scarcest of... More about The New World; Tales by Russell Banks
No Place: Privately Printed, 1959. First edition. Paperback. Slender chapbook with cover photograph by Jay Weissberg. Containing poems and drawings by the beat painter / poet. A near fine copy. N.D., but likely from 1959. Scarce. More about 4: 4 Selections from a Work in Progress; 4 Paintings; 4 Long Poems
Royal Oak and Mission Viejo: A.S.A.P., 1994. First edition. Cloth. Special limited edition in acrylic slipcase. Introduction by Edward D. Hoch. Illustrations by Phil Park. This is copy 211 of 250 limited copies SIGNED by Block, Hoch and Parks. A fine unread copy in gray cloth binding. Issued without dustwrapper. More about Ehrengraf for the Defense (Signed
Ashland, MA: Skycraft Publishing, 1993. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. True first edition of this collection of poems. Published one year before the Talisman House edition. A fine copy in plain unprinted navy wrappers with plastic comb binding. One of only twenty copies printed. This copy warmly INSCRIBED by Bronk to... More about Our Selves (Inscribed
No Place: White Rabbit, 2018. First edition. Paperback. Tall, side-stapled wrappers. Unpaginated and printed on rectos only. Mimeographed and photocopied sheets. A book of tributes to the late great poet John Ashbery. Multi-color papers. Contriburions by John Godfrey, Tom Savage, David Lehman, Ron Kolm, Bertha rogers and many others. No... More about White Rabbit; The Anatomy of John Ashbery
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. One of 250 special hardbound copies SIGNED by Bukowski. A fine copy in fine acetate wrapper. Buk's second major poetry collection from Black Sparrow and one of his most memorable. More about The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills (Signed
Crescent City: Epos, 1962. First Edition. Paperback. First edition in printed stapled wrappers. An extra issue of this poetry quarterly completely devoted to the work of Charles Bukowski. Considered his second major work. A near fine copy. With the dated ownership signature, name rubberstamp and Chinese character stamps of Bukowski's... More about Epos Poems and Drawings
Copenhagen: Det Schonbergske Forlag, 1969. First edition. Paperback. Paperbound 4to. Simple bound black wrappers with the only text on the cover being a small +1 notation near the bottom of the right hand-side of the front panel. Unpaginated [with 16 leaves] of typewriter / concrete poems using numbers and words... More about + 1 (Plus 1
Lisbon, IA: Penumbra Press, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. First edition of the author's first book of poems. A fine copy in string tied wrappers. One of only 200 copies printed. Hand colored fingernails to frontis illustration. Scarce and important work. African American Literature. More about Ten Poems
Madison: Quixote, No date (1967). First edition. Paperback. Folio. Thick oversized stapled wrappers. Collage illustration to front cover. N.d. but likely from 1967. A very good copy. 183 pp. Volume V Number 4 of Morris Edelson's aptly named and numbered small press poetry magazine. (If anyone can quite figure out... More about Quixote Vol V No 4 combined with Eighth Last Issue of the Buddhist Junkmail Oracle
New Paltz: Treacle Press, 1979. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. Unpaginated. With drawings by Dennis Hylnsky. Published as The Treacle Story Series 5. Fine condition in bound illustrated wrappers. This copy has been nicely INSCRIBED by the author to a fellow writer and dated in 1991. More about Private T. Pigeon's Tale (Inscribed
New York: Random House, 1937. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. First US edition of this classic novel that has elements of crime fiction and the added spice of stamp collecting thrown into the mix. Scarce in any edition, the US is strangely less common even than the UK. A solid very... More about The Antigua Stamp
New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1990. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED limited first US edition of this poetry collection. #197 of only 200 copies printed thus. Fine clothbound book in near fine, slightly dusty slipcase. Strangely uncommon. Signed by Author. More about Selected Poems 1966-1987
Northampton: The Song Cave, 2010. First edition. Paperback. Small press poetry chapbook by Lerner. The fourth book in this publisher's series of poetry chapbooks all with distinctive cover decoration and all published in a slender edition of 100 SIGNED copies (this is copy 94). Light cover wear, else a near... More about Topekan Ethos (Signed Limited Edition
New York: Living Theatre, 1963. First edition. Loose Sheets. Folded sheets. 8 pp. Program for the 1963 Living Thetre production of Kenneth H. Brown's The Brig directed by Judith Malina and designed by Julian Beck with lighting by Nokola Cernovich. Folded sheets laid into a folded illustrated cover. Fine condition. More about Program for The Brig
New York: Living Theatre, Not Dated [1960]. First edition. Loose Sheets. Single decorated sheet. A poster announcing The Living Theatre Dance Concert. Not dated, but the event took place at the Living Theatre on May 16, 1960. Poster measures approx. 8 1/4 x 13 1/2" tall. In fine condition. Illustrator... More about The Living Theatre Dance Concert (Poster
