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

Providence: Burning Deck, 1973. First Edition. Very good.. Designed and printed by Keith Waldrop. Pyramid Canon is an exerpt from The Pyramid is Pure Crystal, published by Elizabeth Press in 1974. Wraps. Small 4to. Publisher's plain wraps inletterpress dust jacket.Very good with some toning and edgewear to jacket. Text block clean and bright. From an edition of 250, this #108.

(Peoria, IL): Spoon River Poetry Press, 1987. First Edition. Near fine.. Handsomely produced collection of verse by the Minnesota poet. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled printed wraps. Near fine. INSCRIBED by Tammaro at title page: "Thom Tammaro / fellow traveler in the / North Country! / [drawing of flower]." Light toning, rubbing to wraps. Interior clean throughout. 22pp.

Tokyo: Seiichi Tanaka, 1992. New.. First edition of this collaborative photobook with subjects painted by makeup artist Mason and photographed by Tanka against backdrops constructed and painted by Mark Kostabi. 11'' x 9''. Hardcover volume in original shrinkwrap, housed in printed folding slipcase as issued, with original fasteners. Introduction by Richard Johnson. Mild edgewear and bumping to outer slipcase packaging only. As new.

[Gijutsu to Ningen], 1975. First Edition. Very good +.. First printing of this Japanese photobook illustrated with black and white images throughout. Wraps. Small 4to. Textured black and white wraps. Lacking obi. Mild shelfwear. Very good plus. Text in Japanese.

New York: BlazeVOX Books, 2015. First Edition. Near fine.. First printing of this poem series, written with the constraint of nine words per line and nine lines per poem. Wraps. Small 4to. Photographic wraps. Near fine. Mild traces of rubbing to wraps. Bright, clean, unmarked throughout. Tight. 146pp.

New York: Granary Books, 2003. First Edition. Near fine.. First printing collection of prose, poetry, images, and performance scores by Tardos. Wraps. 8vo. Photographic wraps. Minimal corner bump, else fine. Clean, bright throughout. Tight. Errata slip laid in. 317pp.

Cleveland: Connoisseur Publications, 1964. First printing. Near fine.. First edition of this tale of an innocent Iowan adrift in Greenwich Village, easy prey for the bearded beatniks and Sapphic sculptors who teach him the delights of reefer parties, silk stockings, and physique modeling. One of the rarest of Stanton's covers and a quintessential work of beatsploitation. OCLC locates the title but no holdings. 6.5'' x 4.25''. Original pictorial wrappers by Eric Stanton. 190 pages. Light edgewear, some creasing to corners and spine.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977. Very good in a very good jacket.. First edition of this retrospective collection of verse from throughout Tate's long career. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's orange cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket mildly edgeworn with several tiny nicks and one longer tear, 1" approx at top edge of rear panel. Interior bright and clean, with previous owner's blind stamp at half title. Very good. 217pp.

New York: Macmillan, 1918. Second edition. Good.. Second revised edition of this classic text. 547pp. plus ads. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. Good only. Worn and rubbed. Toning. But sound and complete. Clean throughout.

[London]: [Guy's Hospital Reports], 1874. First edition. Very good plus.. Author's own offprint of his article on forensic identification via tattoos - with annotations in his hand. Taylor's article is an important early English account of the forensic utility of tattoos as evidence of identity, and includes a detailed discussion on the possibility and efficacy of tattoo removal. The author, a toxicologist and 'medical jurist' who testified as expert witness in several Victorian murder trials, was a prolific and popular medical writer for the general public as well as his professional peers. In the notorious Tichborne Case of 1871, an Australian claimant later determined to be Arthur Orton put himself forward as the missing Roger Tichborne, heir to the Tichborne baronetcy and presumed lost at sea. Despite the willingness of Tichborne's mother to accept the Claimant as her son and to fund him accordingly, her death left him unable to continue the lifestyle to which he had made such efforts to become… Read More

London: Seven Dials, Cassell & Co, 2000. Very good +.. Survey of ambitious gardens designed by artists, visionaries, and obsessives, illustrated with color photographs throughout. Wraps. 4to. Green and teal photographic wraps. Mild shelfwear. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Faint page toning. 191pp.

Baltimore: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, 1980. First Edition. Very good +.. Stark concrete poetry collages made in part from xeroxes of the Baltimore lit mag E-POD - edited by Kirby Malone and Marshall Reese, though neither of them credited here - by Lamar Layfield and Charles Brohawn (the latter a member of the band The Tinklers). Sound artist and publisher tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, contributes collages based on his high school yearbook. cONVENIENCE's online bibliography describes two "(basically 'identical') editions of 100 each" for this publication, which was "originally intended to be" an issue of E-Pod itself. Though not noted, this copy ex-libris DC poet Doug Lang. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled wraps. Very good plus with light handling wear. Clean and bright overall. Unpaginated.

Tokyo: Nobel Shobo, 1969. First Edition. Very good + in a very good + jacket.. All text in Japanese. With work by Daido Moriyama, Allen Ginsberg (in translation), Sakumi Hagiwara, and Goichi Matsunaga. Includes pamphlet of Miyoko Kitagawa's poems, "Kitagawa Miyoko no iede shishū," published as supplement. Illustrated with photographs and drawings throughout, including a multi-page foldout. Wraps. 8vo. Textured yellow wraps in pictorial dust jacket. Minimal edgewear, very faint page toning. Small (4.75'' by 4.5'') stapled pamphlet laid in. Very good plus. 276pp,; pamphlet 22pp.

Bonn: H.M. Hieronimi, 1972. First Edition. Very good.. Erotic graphic novel, in German. A brief text introduction sets the scene: a yacht full of pleasure-seekers and mysterious millionaires heads north to Thule and beyond. An exploratory journey through the icy wastes leads the titular couple through encounters with giant ostriches, each other, and a startlingly exhibitionistic pair of dinosaurs. Cheerful, explicit, German. Hardcover. 4to. Dark yellow glossy pictorial boards. Very good. Spine sunned. Scuffed at corners and spine ends. Interior clean and unmarked. 64pp.

(New York): (The Print Center, Inc.), 1981. First Edition. Near fine.. First edition, produced on the occasion of the 1981 New York Book Fair, and "dedicated to the stubborn small press spirit that brings us all together for the seventh such gathering." All three contributions were made by Print Center staff members: Tewes' cover art and Murphy and Henson's poems. A nice piece from these New York printers responsible for the jobwork for for many New York small-press poetry publishers. 4to. Folded sheet printed recto/verso. Near fine. SIGNED by Herson underneath his poem. Light curl to one corner, else clean, bright, and sharp overall.

(Ridgefield, CT): The Alrdich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1997. First Edition. Very good +.. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at both Aldrich and the Clevland Museum of Contemporary Art. Includes essays by Jill Snyder and Ingrid Shaffner (the latter's contribution titled "Circling Oblivion: Bruce Nauman through Samuel Beckett"), as well as color plates of the exhibition's contents, which include drawings, prints, and sculptures. Wraps. Small square 8vo. Pictorial wraps. Very good plus. Touches of rubbing to wraps. Interior bright, clean throughout. Front hinge starting (just a touch); otherwise, tight. 82pp.

1979. Near fine.. Ticket for legendary San Francisco punk band The Avengers, at Washington Hall in Seattle on June 1, 1979. A silhouetted drawing of Penelope Houston clutches a microphone against a black-dotted orange background, over the ticket price ($4 with tax), framed by show information. Distributed or promoted by local Seattle record store Time Travelers, also named on the ticket. The Avengers opened for the final Sex Pistols concert at the Wonderland Ballroom in 1978, and would themselves break up shortly after the show advertised here. 4.5'' by 2.5'' approx. Ticket printed in black on bright orange stiff paper. Barely worn, near fine.

New York: The Bawl Street Journal Corporation, 1965. First Edition. Very good.. Long-running, WSJ-parodying newspaper published by a New York investment bankers' club. Contains a wide variety of industry in-jokes and New Yorker-esque cartoons, some of which are perhaps only comprehensible to bankers. Still, the paper offers a unique, interesting, and bitingly sardonic perspective on the financial industry circa 1965, full of direct send-ups of Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, and many then-prominent Wall Street executives. Folio. Folded newspaper (2 sheets, [8] pp). Several small holes at folds on front page. Vertical crease to front. A bit toned overall, otherwise very good.

Boston: Bruce Miner Company, 1970. Near fine.. Original order sheet for the Bruce Miner company's line of bongs - "Cold Tokes" - with a full-color ad featuring a photograph of the eight different styles offered along with various accessories. Touting an innovative design that allows the base to be removed for easy cleaning, this material was intended for head shop owners and other retailers. Apparently introduced in a time of disappointing sales, Cold Tokes are promised to be "just what is needed to boost sagging bong sales of the past few months." 11'' x 8.5''. Single sheet printed recto and verso and stapled to full color offset advertisement measuring 8.5" x 9.25" approx. Minor toning at edges.

New York: The Living Theatre, 1959. Near fine.. Two original flyers for Jack Gelber's THE CONNECTION, directed by Judith Malina and designed by Julian Beck. A hit production of The Living Theatre and one that helped cement its reputation as the premier company for avant-garde theater. The play, centered on Jazz musicians and junkies waiting on their dealer, was an early realistic portrayal of heroin addiction at the end of a decade beset by drug hysteria. 11'' x 8.5'' and 13.25'' x 6.75''. Offset printed recto only in black and red. Minor toning to both.