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

np: (Graphix Artist Press), 1979. First edition. Near fine.. Signed conceptual narrative of Vallance's effort to honor Blinky, one of "the billions of hens sacrificed each year for our consumption" (title page). A slightly morbid commentary on the difference between pets and animals raised for food. Vallance captures the process of arranging for the burial of a pet, using a frozen chicken he bought at the supermarket. BLINKY has been the basis for many of Vallance's subsequent works, including a chapel with bone relics from BLINKY herself. A rare copy that is both numbered and signed. 5.5'' x 8.5''. In original staple-bound black-and-white pictorial wrapper. Thirteen black and white photographic illustrations. [16] pages. Signed and numbered in ink to verso of title page: "Jeffrey Vallance Limited Edition 1/550". Very mild bumping to edges. A bright, clean copy.

np: np, 2000. First Edition. Fine in a fine jacket.. A beautiful monograph on the artist's landscape paintings, primarily covering work completed between 1995 and 2000. With text in Dutch and English. Hardcover. Fine in like jacket. 4to. Navy blue cloth. Gilt lettering to front, spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Unclipped. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST to title page. About fine throughout.

Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2001. First Edition. Very good +.. Signed first printing of the third in Van Dongen's trilogy of botanical photobooks from Nazraeli Press, following Alba Nero and Vulgaris. Hardcover. Folio. Pale grey cloth boards with photograph mounted on front cover. No dust jacket as issued. Very good plus. Minor wear to corners; spine faintly sunned with a few small spots. SIGNED by Van Dongen on title page. Introduction by Carolyn Quartermaine. Includes 32 large-scale black and white flower portraits.

Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2002. Second printing. Very good +.. Signed second printing of the first in Van Dongen's trilogy of botanical photobooks from Nazraeli Press, followed by Nudare and Vulgaris. Hardcover. Folio. Black cloth boards with photograph mounted on front cover. No dust jacket as issued. Minor shelfwear; spine sunned. Second printing limited to 1000 copies. SIGNED by Van Dongen on title page. Very good plus. Introduction by Steven Jenkins. Includes 30 large-scale black and white flower portraits.

Tucson: Nazaeli Press, 2000. First Edition. Very good +.. Signed first printing of the second in Van Dongen's trilogy of botanical photobooks from Nazraeli Press, following Alba Nero and preceding Nudare. Hardcover. Folio. White cloth boards with mounted white photograph to front, no dust jacket as issued. Spine lightly sunned and spotted, with a few faint smudges to cloth. SIGNED by Van Dongen to title page. Very good plus. Introduction by John Berendt. 32 large-scale black and white portraits of flowers, closely observed and beautifully presented.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. First edition of these collected poems by the onetime Poet Laureate of the United States. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. Light edgewear. Previous owner's signature to ffep, interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Near fine. 305pp.

np: np, 1971. Very good.. The Dutch Kabouters were a 1970s anarchist offshoot of the Provos. With their strong environmental focus they prefigured the Green Party. This scarce offprint from ROOTS magazine features a 1971 interview with founder Roel Van Dyn and reprints the group's manifesto. OCLC finds just two locations. Wraps. 4to. stapled self-wrappers. Offset printed. Folded once, partially erased name to first page. Very good. [8]pp.

Bruxelles [Brussels]: Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1975. Very good.. Signed first edition of this monograph, illustrated with 17 black and white plates. Texts include Jean-Pierre van Tieghem's "Alone With Some Tapes, ou Residus d'Une Conversation Avec Dennis Oppenheim," and Vincent Baudoux's "Dennis Oppenhem: Un Evenement, Un Jour." Uncommon, esp. signed. Wraps. Square 8vo. Printed off-white wraps. Mild edgewear and toning; smudges and light soil to wrappers. SIGNED by Oppenheim on front cover. In French with Dutch translation by Leonard Nolens. Interior pages clean, lightly toned. Erratum slip laid in. Very good.

Paris: Georges Fall, 1975. Near fine.. First edition of this guidebook to the Fondation Vasarely, published before the building opened in 1976. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's printed glossy wraps. Minor wear at edges. Light toning to rear wrap. Interior bright and clean. Near fine.

New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1970. First Edition. Very good.. Signed first printing of this collection of short poems from the eclectic New York School poet Tom Veitch during his time in San Francisco. Previously operating as a mimeo magazine, MY FATHER'S GOLDEN EYE marked the first stand-alon publication for Adventures in Poetry. Fagin rationalized its publication thusly, "Few legitimate publishers were taking on the knd of writing I like, so in 1970 Advenutres published its first pamphlet..." [Clay and Phillips 195.]. Wraps. 4to. Staple-bound in pictorial wraps. One of 25 copies SIGNED by the author. Some edgewear and creasing at corners. Adheisive residue and a few faint spots of soil to rear. Interior bright. Very good.

Los Angeles: The Velaslavasay Panorama, 2004. First Edition. Fine.. Souvenir book and patch from a 360 degree painted panorama depicting Southern Salifornia, housed in an empty Hollywood building from 2001-2004. Painted by Sara Velas, the panorama imagines what the Los Angeles area would have looked like in the 1850s and pays homage to the form, which has lost popularity since its height in the 19th century. Wraps. 2" x 3.75" approx. match-book style wraps with accordion-folded panorama in twelve panels stapled in. Accompanied by embroidered patch, 3" x 3.5" approx. Fine condition.

Paris: Editions de la Table Rond, 1968. First Edition. Very good in a very good + jacket.. First printing of this loose story-in-images following a young woman ("la douce et limpide Zoe") through transformation and adventure. Cowboys are involved. Hardcover spiral bound. Folio. Black cloth boards in black and white photographic dust jacket. Light wear and scuffing to edges. Previous owner's signature to ffep, small stain to rear endpaper. In French. Black and white plates throughout. "Texte & decoupage" by Alain Wienc. Brief text introduces each chapter.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Near fine.. Investigation of post-WWII photographic visions of masculinity and the male body, illustrated with black & white photographs throughout. Wraps. Small 4to. Photographic wraps. Corner crease to half-title page only. Near fine. 202pp.

San Francisco: np, 1972. First Edition. Very good.. Poetry magazine collecting reviews, essays, and verse by Andrei Codrescu, Jon Ford, Susan Griffin, Barbara Gravelle, Robert Peters, and serval others. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled pictorial wraps. Very good. Moderate rust-soil to front and rear wrappers; light corner bump. Pages clean and unmared throughout. 33pp.

New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1973. First Edition. Very good.. An early work from Paul Violi, with striking cover design by frequent collaborator Paula North. Wraps. Small 4to. Publisher's printed wraps. Very good with some rubbing and edgewear. Small stain to inside front cover, unobtrusive.

Briarcliff, NY: Swollen Magpie Press, 1976. First Edition. Very good +.. Signed first printing of Violi's short poems from his own Swollen Magpie Press. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's green wraps. SIGNED at title page. Mild wear at edges with bumped corners. Light thumbsoilling. Interior bright and clean. Very good plus.

West Branch, IA: Toothpaste Press, 1972. First Edition. Near fine.. Signed first printing of this early publication from Allan Kornblum's Toothpaste Press, later becoming Coffee House Press. A handsome letterpress collection of poems with linoleum block design at front cover by Cinda Wormley. Wraps. Tall 8vo. Saddle-stitched in publisher's printed wraps. From an edition of 550, this one of 50 SIGNED by the author. Minor edgewear. Interior Bright and clean. Near fine.

Northfield, MN: Heywood Press, 1992. First Edition. Fine.. Inscribed first edition collection of verse by Voldseth, issued as part of the Northfield Women Poets Chapbook Series. Wraps. 8vo. Stringbound wraps. Fine condition. INSCRIBED by Voldseth to title page. Sharp and clean throughout. Unpaginated.

Cleveland: Classics Library, 1968. Very good +.. Ambitious sleaze pulp claiming to "[lay] bare the entire potpourri of sexual pecadilloes in the U.S. .A. No craving, no matter how bizarre, has been missed by the author, a most serious student of today's mores and folkways." All that in just 14 chapters, which include The Nymphomaniac, The Satyr, and Ladies of the Bar. With bibliography. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Pictorial wraps. Mild edgewear, minor rubbing to covers. Very good plus. 150 pages plus ads.

Boston: Striptural Tract Repository, 1892. Good.. A new edition with a biographical sketch of the translator by H.L. Hastings. R[owland] V[ictory] Bingham's copy with his signature and date to prelim and his notes, marginalia and underlining to the first hundred or so pages. Bingham was co-founder of the Sudan Interior Mission, which continues to this day as the Society for International Ministries, one of the largest and most influencial Protestant missionary organizations in the world - esp. in Africa. Hard Cover. Large, thick 8vo. Half-bound leather over pebbled boards. Good overall. Lightly ex-seminary-library with only minor stamping here and there. Heavy rubbing/scuffing to extremities. Top hinge/joint a little tender. Else sound. [xxx], [470], [485], [506], [ads].