Search Results: Titles starting with C from Derringer Books

New York: Lorenz Gude and Boke Press, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Complete in two volumes we offer C Comics #1 and 2 together as a set. Classic New York School collaborations with Joe Brainard artist and a host of first and second generation New York School poets adding text and general tomfoolery. C Comics No. 1 was published in 1964 by Lorenz Gude. 8 1/2 x 14" tall sheets tri-stapled at left border. Brainard edited as well as drew the comics with text assists by Johnny Stanton, Robert Dash, Bill Berkson, Gerard Malanga, Ron Padgett, Ted Berrigan and others. Staples a bit rusty. Front cover loose at bottom staple. Mimeograph sheets printed on rectos only. Rear blank cover loose from two staples. Otherwise a handsome very good copy. Of the two issues, number one is much less common and when found is usually in substandard condition. This copy better than most we have handled over the last twenty years. Paired with C Comics #2 published one year later by Boke Press. 8 1/2 x 11" sheets… Read More

Stockholm: Galerie Bel 'Art, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong hardbound quarto. Issued without dustwrapper. 131 pp. Illustrated mostly in color. With text by Thomas Millroth. A very good copy. This copy comes from the library of famous art critic Dore Ashton and it includes a handwritten letter from Kent Belenius (the photographer for this book) to Dore and the book is additionally INSCRIBED by Belenius on behalf of himself and Carl Reutersward (see photos attached).

Koln and Bonn: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig and Galerie Philomene Magers, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Small paperbound quarto. Artist book by Paeffgen consisting of 48 variations on the question mark "?". Some in color, the rest in black and white. Some soiling to covers. A very good copy overall.

Blatimore: CAIM, 1975. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Fall 1975 issue of this small press poetry magazine. Tall 4to folder with two internal pockets, each holding numerous loose sheets of paper. Poems and photographs. Contributors include Peter Wild, Sista Maura, Thomas Cobb, Daniel Berrigan and others. Very good condition overall with somewhat heavy offsetting to parts of the front panel.

New York: CAW, 1968. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Small 4to. First issue of this short-lived student magazine edited by Jerry Badanes. Typical toning to paper else a clean near fine example in illustrated stapled wrappers. Contributions by Major, William Wantling, bertold Brecht and more. Published by the S.D.S.

New York: Padell, 1948. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus, number 101 of only 126 copies printed thus. SIGNED by Patchen. The complete texts of First Will & Testament, The Dark Kingdom and Cloth of the Tempest. A fine clothbound book lacking the rare wrapper. Signed by Author.

San Francisco: Romax, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Small stapled wrappers. Scarce early issue of this art and poetry magazine. Cover art by Julius Wasserstein. A magazine that defies easy description. Light wear. A very good copy. Other issues available. Please inquire.

San Francisco: Romax, 1982. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Small stapled wrappers. Uncommon issue of this art and poetry magazine. Guest editor is Jim Nisbet. This issue with focus on poetry. A magazine that defies easy description. Light wear. A very good copy. Other issues available. Please inquire.

San Francisco: Romax, 1982. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Small stapled wrappers. Uncommon issue of this art and poetry magazine. This issue given over to work by Geoffrey Cook. Concrete and typewriter poems. A magazine that defies easy description. Light wear. A very good copy. Other issues available. Please inquire.

Boise: Limberlost Press, 2001. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Sewn illustrated wrappers. One of 650 letterpress copies. With introduction by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn. A fine copy of this last poetry chapbook containing Dorn's poems prior to his death.

No Place: Black Sparrow Press, 1967. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Single poem broadside by Duncan printed in red on fragile paper stock and originally glued on to a pale green sheet of paper (now loose from the broadside, but present here). The poem is one of 300 copies printed at The Black Sparrow Press in an edition of 300 copies as a Christmas giftsake. SIGNED by Duncan as called for. The paperstock of the broadside has darkened in spots (probably where the sheet was once attached to the backing. Sold as-is. An uncommon Duncan item. Measures approx. 6.75" wide x 13.25" tall.

No Place: Paul Winter, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Good. Oblong stapled wrappers. 37 unnumbered pp. Pictures and words collected by Paul Winter. Calligraphy by Marjorie Corbett and design by Bob Cato. A celebration of the impulse to gather and make song. Soiling and general light wear. A good copy of this uncommon piece of early 1970's musical counter-culture thinking. Only 2 copies in WorldCat.

New York: Fashion Media Group, 2014. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Thick oversized paperbound quarto. The fourth issue of this Magazine devoted to modern fashion. Includes an article by Tom Ford, photos by Bruce Weber and others. Faint crease to spine, else a fine example. A large and heavy volume.

Tucson: CUE, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Fine/No. Seven issues of this poetry journal edited by Morgan Lucas Schuldt and Mark Horosky. Includes Volume 1, #1, Volume 2, Numbers 1 and 2, Volume 3 Numbers 1 and 2 and Volume 4, numbers 1 and 2. All issues in fine condition.

Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Nearly square volume. Thick printed cardboard covers with cloth spine. 317 pp. Edited and with an introduction by James Meyer. Illustrated in black and white. A very good example.

New York: The Poetry Project, 1988. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Small paperbound octavo. A 99 pp literary magazine in paperbound form. Edited by Richard Hell. There were three volumes done in the Cuz series. Faint cover crease else a clean very good copy in flesh-colored wrappers printed in red. Somewhat uncommon.

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. First edition in thin brown wrappers with paper label. A short work of fiction by the great dramatist. Faint discoloration to paper label else a fine example. One of five hundred copies printed.

Cuyahoga Falls: Proper PH Publications, 1995. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 25 pp poetry chapbook. A very good copy in stapled printed wrappers. SIGNED and dated by the author.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1964. First edition. Cloth. Good +/very good. Cloth 8vo. 228 pp. Stated first printing. A good to very good copy with some slight waviness to the pages of the book. SIGNED by Purdy. The price-intact dustwrapper is in clean very good condition.

San Luis Obispo: Solo Press, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. A fine copy of this uncommon little poetry magazine (Indian Summer Issue). Features work by Ammons, Kooser, Snyder, Douglas Blazek, Simon Ortiz, Harold Norse, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and many others.