Recent Arrivals from Passages Bookshop

Berkeley, CA: Noah Ross, 2020. Original work. (8) pp., 3 x 4.75 inches. Typewriter and thread on single sheet folded to make eight pages, sewn into typewritten card cover. As new. Noah Ross uses modest means and humble materials — typed letters and symbols, colored thread, office papers — to create elegant and charming visual compositions in this series… Read more about this item

Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1960. First edition. 51 pp., 4.75 x 7.5 inches. Printed paper over boards in unprinted glassine dust-jacket. Light wear to corners of boards, otherwise very good. The text of Arendt's 1959 acceptance speech for the City of Hamburg's Lessing Prize, translated as "On Humanity in Dark Times: Thoughts about Lessing."

London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First printing, wraps issue. 78 pp., 4.24 x 7 inches. Perfect bound in plain card covers, with dust-jacket. Edited by Earle Birney and Margerie Lowry, with a foreword by Conrad Knickerbocker. First printing of this reissue. Cape Editions 13. Dust-jacket edgeworn and with small faint stains; otherwise very good.

Point Reyes, CA & Kathmandu, India: Eidolon Editions, 1976. First printing. (33) pp., 7.5 x 10.5 inches. Saddle-stapled pamphlet glued into printed paper covered boards. Drawings by Josie Grant. The colophon states that "LOBA Part II was printed for Eidolon Editions by Dreamweapon in the Kingdom of Nepal, being the 24th printing of the Independent Presses of Kathmandu,… Read more about this item

n.p.: John Kidis, 1950. First edition. (47) pp., 6 x 9 inches. Saddle-stapled into printed card covers. One of 1000 numbered copies (this being number 3). With four black-and-white reproductions of paintings by Miller, and a photographic frontispiece (a portrait of Emil Schnellock). Full title: The Waters Reglitterized: The Subject of Water Color in Some of Its More Liquid… Read more about this item

Berkeley: Turtle Island Foundation, 1981. First printing. 77 pp., 6.25 x 6.25 inches. Sewn signatures glued into printed card covers. Cover and illustrations by Brad Graves. One of 850 copies designed and printed letterpress by Allan Kornblum at the Toothpaste Press, from linotype set by Harold Berliner. A touch of sunning to edges of cover, and barely noticeable slant… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1972 . First printing. 34 pp., 5 x 7 inches. Perfect-bound in printed wrappers. Drawings by Bob Nash. Very slight toning to spine and wear to edges, but essentially a fine copy. The first volume in the Yes! Capra Chapbook Series, edited by Robert Durand and Noel Young, printed at the Capra Press. A… Read more about this item

New York: Scarlet Editions, 1992. First printing. 442 pp., 7 x 10 inches. Perfect-bound into printed card covers. An omnibus volume that collects seven books by the authors (three of which had appeared in previous incarnations): Penniless Politics, Sophia Scarlett, and Nava Sutra by Oliver; The Descent of Alette, Beginning with a Stain, Twelve Poems without Mask, and… Read more about this item

New York: Grossman, 1973. First Edition. 53 pp., 4.5 x 7.25 inches. Paper over boards in printed dust-jacket. A fine copy in very good jacket save for a very faint sticker ghost on front panel.

New York: Rizzoli, 1991. First printing. 63 pp., 10.5 x 13.5 inches. Printed cloth over boards, with color reproduction inset in front cover, in printed acetate dust-jacket, as issued. With a text by Arthur C. Danto, "Past Masters and Post Moderns: Cindy Sherman's History Portraits." Yellowing to acetate of jacket, and faint tidemarks to corners of cloth, otherwise very… Read more about this item

Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1989. First printing. 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Cloth over boards in printed dust-jacket. Forty-seven photographs, printed using the sheet-fed gravure method by Toppan Printing in Tokyo. Edition of three thousand copies. The slightest hint of sunning to top and bottom edges of cloth, and faint toning to edges of first two leaves, otherwise a fine… Read more about this item

Seattle: Henry Art Gallery, 2000. First printing. 175 pp., 10 x 12 inches. Printed paper over boards, without dust-jacket, as issued. With essays by Russell Ferguson, Timothy Martin, and curator Conkelten. Illustrated in color and black-and-white throughout. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery and the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston. A fine copy, essentially… Read more about this item

Barcelona: Fundacio "la Caixa", 1996. First printing. 32 pp., 8.25 x 8.25 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Exhibition catalogue, with essays by Amparo Lozano and Mignon Nixon. Text in Catalan, Spanish, and English. Light edgewear, otherwise as new. Uncommon

Paris: Centre National de la Photographie, 1988. Second edition. 11 x 10.25 inches. Sewn signatures glued into printed card covers. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Centre National de la Photographie. With 61 full-page reproductions, an introduction in the form of a three-way conversation between Robert Delpire, Alain Finkielkraut, and Daniele Sallenave, and a brief biography,… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1992. First printing. 167 pp., 11.25 x 10.25 inches. Cloth over boards in printed dust-jacket. Introduction by Mark Holborn. Reproduces 130 color and 4 black-and-white photographs. A retrospective monograph published on the occasion of an exhibition at Barbican Art Gallery in London. As new, still in publisher's original shrink-wrap.

New York: Inkwell Press, 1983. First printing. 153 pp., 6.25 X 9.5 inches. Sewn signatures case-bound in cloth, without dust-jacket, as issued. Edition of 500 copies. Privately printed for Friends of Hermann Püterschein. Essentially as new. Contributions by Dwiggins, Dorothy Abbe, Warren Chappell, Vincent Torre, and eight others.

n.p.: Violet Press, 1977. First printing. (111) pp., 11 x 11 inches. Sewn signatures glued into printed card covers. With a preface by Mark Power ("Iowa in Ohio") and an introduction by the photographer. Reproduces 70 photographs made with a Diana plastic toy camera over a period of six years. Light edgewear and sunning to spine, otherwise about fine.… Read more about this item

New York: The New Press, 1994. First printing. lxii + 87 pp., 9.25 x 12.25 inches. Cloth and printed paper over boards. Twenty-five color and sixty-two black-&-white illustrations, including numerous die-cut pages, followed by essays, an interview with the artist, excerpts from interviews with museum docents, audience responses, checklist of the exhibition, and selected bibliography. Light wear and… Read more about this item

Tokyo: RAM (Research of Art Media), 1993. First printing. 47 pp., 8.75 x 9 inches. Full black velour-like cloth over boards, both covers and spine printed in gilt and red, without dust-jacket, as issued. Edited by Maya Ishiwata & Theresa Luisotti; designed by Hideyuki Taguchi, and printed and bound by Toppan Printing Co. in a limited edition of 2300… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1969. First Edition. [45] pp., 4.75 x 8.75 inches. Saddle-stapled into printed card covers. Light wear to covers, otherwise very good. Number 4 in the Nova Broadcast pamphlet series, featuring concrete and found poems and graphics.