Search Results: Authors starting with G from Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix

Minneapolis, MN: Artpolice, 1982. First Edition. Very good.. Single issue of the long-running art zine helmed by Frank Gaard, a teacher at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. With a punk ethos and an outsider quality, ARTPOLICE was a reactionary publication designed to provoke, even within its own ranks, which in the early years largely consisted of Gaard's current and former students. "I wanted to break all the rules...I fancied myself and art criminal." Issues are comprised almost entirely of line drawings, with constant variation in size, printing methods, titles and issue numbers (there are at least seven issues marked volume 1 no. 1). Contributors to this issue include Mark Akguilan, Andy Baird, Mike Brehm, Eric Burmeister, Robert Corbit, Frank Gaard, Janet Groenert, Deb Huff, Dave Johnson, Lillian Kopomen, Joe McDonnell, Bill McKearn, Steve Mignone, Gregory Miller, Ann Morgan, Rick Noble, Ed Rath, John Rath, Coleen Salmi, Carol Scalamera, Craig Smith, Jennifer Sobin, Jon West, Fritz… Read More

Quebec: Museé du Quebec, 1998. First Edition. Very good.. Catalog accompanying a 1998 exhibition at the Museé du Quebec. Includes 88 black and white photographs, most taken in Canada and New England. Text in French, with English translations of photograph titles only. Essays by John R. Porter and Penny Cousineau; interview with Gagnon by Olivier Asselin. Includes a list of works and bibliography. Wraps. Oblong 8vo. 9'' by 10.5'' approx. Green pictorial wraps. Original price sticker to rear cover. Bright, clean interior 141pp. Very good.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2001. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Second printing, published in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Peter Galassi. Includes Walker Evans' own photography as well as his predecessors (Atget, August Sander) and the later generations influenced by him. Illustrated with 332 black & white and 67 color plates. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth boards in black and white photographic dust jacket. 272pp. Minor shelfwear and bumping. Pages slightly toned. Near fine in like jacket. 272pp.

New York: [n.p.], 1930. First Edition. Fair.. Printed in Paris by Horizons de France under the artistic direction of Maximilien Vox, with his design and typography throughout. An overview of the museum, with 44 black and white plates of its holdings, including works by Matisse, Gris, Miro and Picasso. The Gallery of Living Art was founded in 1927 by A.E. Gallatin, one of the most important early collectors of modernist art, as a public space for the exhibition of his personal collection. The Gallery of Living Art is considered the first museum dedicated exclusively to modernism, and became a resource for contemporary artists in the downtown New York art scene. Includes four-page essay by Gallatin, and a nine-page essay by Mauny. Copy of Ferol Sibley Warthen, a listed Provincetown, MA artist and student of important modernist Blanche Lazell, with her (Warthen's) small inscription to interior front. Scarce. Wraps. 12mo. Measuring approximately 5" x 7.25." Original silver foil wraps wraps with circular… Read More

Paris: Galerie 1900-2000, 1989. First Edition. Very good +.. Text in French. A handsome exhibition catalogue for a show at the Galerie 1900-2000, which collected works by the Italian painter and member of the first Situationist International. With reproductions of Gallizio's paintings in B&W and color, and photographs of Gallizio and friends. Also includes brief texts by Renato Barilli, Michèle Bernstein, Giuseppe Bonini, Asger Jorn, and others. Wraps. 4to. Perfect-bound pictorial wraps. Very good plus. Light touches of soiling to front wrapper, and bottom-right corner of front wrapper a bit creased. Interior bright, crisp, and clean throughout; binding sound. 39pp.

New York, 1973. Near fine.. Nice poster for a reading by Gallup at Holly Solomon's art space, 98 Greene St. Loft. Square poster, 17" by 17". Folded in quarters for mailing (and mailed to Ken Mikolowski of Detroit's Alternative Press). Near fine. Bright, clean, sharp.

New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First Edition. Fine in a near fine jacket.. Gallup's first major collection of poems. Cover by George Schneeman. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Fine in near fine jacket. Jacket faintly rubbed and toned. Review copy with slip laid in. SIGNED by Gallup to title page.

Elmwood, CT: Potes and Poets Press, 1987. First Edition. Near fine.. Original issue featuring "Imaginary Income" by Maureen Owen, with a warm inscription from her in the year of publication. Staplebound. 8.5" x 11" approx. Stapled at top left corner. INSCRIBED by Maureen Owen at front: "Terry & Susan/ Thanks for your/ wonderful hospitality &/ good talks!/ Love, Maureen/ June 1987/ Call me for sure/ when you're out this/ way!" Folds for mailing through center and sticker closure. Very minor toning and wear at corners. Near fine.

Elmwood, CT: Potes and Poets Press, 1986. First Edition. Very good.. Issue of this journal featuring a talk given by Ward at the New Poetics Colloquium at the Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver, Aug. 1985. Staplebound. 8.5" x 11" approx. Stapled at top left corner. Very good. Folded for mailing. Some exterior toning and rubbing, else clean.

(Philadelphia): Zadok Allen, 1999. First Edition. Fine.. Lovecraftian limericks by the editor and publisher of WEIRDBOOK. Wraps. 8vo. Stapled wraps. Fine. INSCRIBED by Ganley to title page. Clean throughout. 30pp.

Buffalo: Sidecar Preservation Society, 2002. Limited ed. Fine.. Inscribed limited edition of this collection of poems dating from 1953 to 1999. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. Fine condition. INSCRIBED by Ganley to title page. Crisp, clean throughout. 23pp.From an edition of 175 copies, this no. 107.

Trezelan: Filigranes Editions, 2003. First Edition. Very good +.. Catalog of an 2003 exhibition held at the Musee du Pays de Sarrebourg. In French. Introduction by Caroline Fourgeaud-Laville. Approximately 30 color plates. Includes list of photographs with locations, select exhibition list, and bibliography. Wraps. Small square 4to. Pictorial wraps. Light edgewear. Interior clean, with very faint creases to upper right corners of some pages. Very good plus overall. 59pp.

Derby, CT: Monarch Books, Inc, 1963. First edition. Very good plus.. First printing of this notorious lesbian pulp novel by a pseudonymous Marion Zimmer Bradley. Early '60s pulp with a lurid, exploitative hook but contemplative, angst-ridden content, featuring seductions to the strains of Sibelius on the phonograph ("the dark sounds and floating melancholy of The Swan of Tuonela," specifically.) Well-reviewed in the Lesbiana column of The Ladder, which noted approvingly: "The novel is well written, unmarred by the sexual excess expected in paperback originals." Rated "Objectionable" by the National Organization for Decent Literature. 7'' x 4.25''. Original color pictorial wrappers, from a "Special Color Photo" by Lester K. Kraus. 144 pages. Mild edgewear; crease to rear cover; faint dampstaining to upper edge.

México, D. F., Barcelona, Buenos Aires: Editorial Grijalbo, 1978. First edition (stated). Very good plus.. Narrative photobook of the story of boxing great Ruben "El Puas" Olivares. Written in a series of "rounds," journalist Garibay interviews Olivares, romanticizing the boxer's life, fights, and hedonistic exploits. The story is accompanied by numerous photo illustrations, including candid snapshots of Olivares in and out of the ring. The work was later adapted into a movie starring Olivares as himself. OCLC located three holdings. A very scarce and fascinating publication. 8'' x 9''. Original color illustrated wrapper. Fourteen full-page black-and-white illustrations. 46, [2] pages. In Spanish. Light wear to edges; sticker removal to rear cover. Hinges a little tender. Else clean and sound.

np: Etienne Books, 1959. First Edition. Very good.. Almost-certainly psuedonymous ("Gentile" / "Sinner"? Please) "For Adults Only" "limited edition" relatively tame noir-ish erotic novella (and with apologies for the overly modified subject) divided into brief chapters, each with sexy but non-explicit headpieces. OCLC locates no copies. Wraps. Small 8vo. Original photographic wraps. Closed tear to front cover, else very good with some rubbing. 36pp.

(West Yorkshire): Pressed Curtains, 1976. First edition. Near fine.. Scarce collection of poems written between 1973 and 1976, with artwork and cut-paper insertions, by the British poet, artist, and translator. 11'' x 8.5''. Original side-stapled wrappers with brown construction paper strip mounted. Unpaginated. Black and white illustrations and colored paper strips tipped in throughout. Single-sheet publisher's catalogue laid in. Light edgewear, minor creasing.

Amsterdam: Kontexts Publications, 1978. First Edition. Very good +.. Poetry with photographs and illustrations, by the Amsterdam-based, Fluxus-affiliated poet and artist. Wraps. 4to. Brown paper wrappers, lightly sun-faded at edges. Moderate edgewear, pages toned. Very good plus.

Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard, 1950. Very good.. Attractive copy of this later printing of Gide's novel, originally published in 1909. From Fayard's "Le Livre de Demain" series with red and black woodcut chapter headings. 189pp. Wraps. 8vo. Printed wraps. Mild handling wear, toning. Overall sound, clean.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first edition, a review copy, of this collection of poetry that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gilbert's social proximity to Beat greats Ginsberg and Spicer may imply an associated stylistic proximity, but Gilbert wrote through a more traditional lineage. In this collection, revised poems from his first work, the critically-acclaimed 1962 VIEWS OF JEOPARDY, are presented alongside new poems after twenty years of public silence. "Steeped in shadowy grammar and ornately wrought lines," the "treasure-chest style" (Knapp) of MONOLITHOS earned it the Stanley Kunitz Prize and the American Poetry Review Prize, as well as nominations for all three major American book awards. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original black cloth with silver and blind lettering. Original unclipped ($11.50) pictorial dust jacket, designed by James Laughlin. Top edge stained blue. 94 pages.… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962. Near fine in a very good plus jacket.. First edition of Gilbert's debut, the uncommon hardcover issue. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets (Vol. 58), with a foreword by Dudley Fitts. Gilbert's first book, for which he quickly and rightly gained widespread acclaim. Uncommon in the hardcover (issued simultaneously with the paperback), and scarce in this condition. 8" x 5" Original black cloth with gilt spine titles. [14], 43 pages. A trifle rubbed at extremities of book. Jacket has light wear at spine ends, trace toning to edges. A tiny chip and a one-inch closed tear at the top of the front panel.