Search Results: Titles starting with H from Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix

n.p.: Continental Classics, 1968. Very good.. Erotic sleaze with preface warning that the "sex escapades" within are suitable for "the graduate student" only. Subject matter involves "actual types of sexual perversion rampant on the London scene of today," which is to say, 1968. Continental Classics #CC-186. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Pale blue printed wraps with orange Eiffel Tower logo. Minor edgewear and spine crease; faint rubbing/soil. Oval sticker remmant to front cover. Very good. 160 pages.

Berkeley: Berkeley Public Library, 1990. First Edition. Fine.. Satirical leaflet issued by the BPL, comprising a list of "political euphemisms, pre-fabricated journalese, and 'sacred names' (respected persons and institutions)." Features two columns of demystified phrases ("evangelist" becomes "drug dealer," etc.) on topics including work, art, sex, and politics. "Many of the 'words of power' in the left column of the Decoder transmit ideological or moral systems like modern egotism, free-market capitalism, left-wing self-sacrifice, and technology fetishism.... To uncover the hidden meaning and function of words is to discover the pleasure of making your mind your own." No copies located in OCLC. 8vo. Single sheet folded into four panels. About fine: bright, clean, and sharp overall. [6] pp.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957. First edition. Good plus in a very good jacket.. First printing of Wight's monograph on the important German colorist in the uncommon jacket. Hardcover. 4to. Yellow cloth hardcover. Red title design to front, lettering to spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Unclipped. Jacket moderately edgeworn, light stain to rear. Outer cloth foxed. Corners bumped. Overall sound. 66 pages.

Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1990. First Edition. Signed first edition of this collection of Bissett's poems and drawings, inscribed to fellow Canadian poet George Benson Johnston and his wife Jeanne McCrae. 8vo. Gold wraps. Very light edgewear, clean and bright interior. SIGNED on ffep, with pen drawing: "for George n Jeanne / love n thanks / bill". Near fine. 139pp.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973. Very Good.. Inscribed first edition of this second collection from the award-winning and widely-acclaimed poet. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wraps. Slight lean. Some mild rubbing, soil to wraps. Touch of foxing to edges. Else sound and clean throughout. Very good. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author Wright to ffep/title page. 67pp.

(Los Angeles): [Heavy Industries Publications], 1978. First printing. Fine.. Signed first edition of Ruscha and Weiner's photo-novel, starring Shelley Chamberlain, Suzanne Chandler, and Susan Haller in a captivatingly oblique visual drama. The last of Ruscha's artist's books and one of only a few to admit a plausibly narrative reading, HARD LIGHT is also Ruscha's broadest collaboration: with Lawrence Weiner, credited as co-author, but also with Chamberlain, Chandler, and Haller, who, like actors in motion pictures, cannot help but interpret the direction given to them, and who drink coffee, wear jeans, and drive cars like the stars they are. (Haller is also noted as a third photographer by Engberg & Phillpot, though not in the book's sparse credits.) Buquet strains to see a "barely veiled reference to feminist demands" and potential "derisive" dialogue with Lynda Benglis, while Ruscha himself, interviewed while in the process of making the book, said only "We went out and got a few girls and shot… Read More

n.p.: Continental Classics, 1968. Very good -.. Late '60s pulp erotica, with a typically fanciful introduction to this "tale of far-out sex," which in 1968 encompassed voyeurism, cross-dressing, and kleptomania. With a warning against the dangers of "sexual isolation and living in a sexual fantasy world" that might seem somewhat contrary to the publisher's own self-interest. Continental Classics #CC-167. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Black printed wraps. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to covers; some creasing to spine and corners. Very good minus.

Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2006. First Edition. Very good.. First printing, with text by Michael Godby that introduces Goldblatt's photographs of South African landscapes, interiors, and people. Foreword by Gunilla Knape, director of the Hasselblad Center. Includes about 40 color plates with descriptions on facing pages. Hardcover. Oblong 4to, 11'' by 12'' approx. Pictorial boards in protective film; no dust jacket as issued. Edges and spine ends lightly bumped. Very good. 84pp.

Gotenborg / Zurich: Hasselblad Center / Scalo, 1999. First Edition. Very good +.. First printing, published to accompany the presentation of the 1998 Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography to William Eggleston. Photographs selected from Eggleston's own archive, followed by a list of images and bibliography. With a foreword by Gunilla Knape, brief introduction by Walter Hopps, essay by Thomas Weski, and an interview with Eggleston by Ute Eskilsen. Hardcover. Square qto. Black gilt-stamped boards with color photograph mounted to front. No jacket as issued. Small superficial tear to heel of spine. Faint toning to page edges. Very good plus.

Washington DC: Primitive, 1996. First Edition. Near fine.. First printing collection of verse by Wallace, issued as "number two in a Primitive chapbook series." Wraps. Square 8vo. Saddle-stapled wraps. Near fine with trace discoloration to wraps; hint of handling wear. Interior clean, sharp throughout. 20pp.

Dortmund: Gerhard Kurtz, 2007. First Edition. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Signed limited first edition, with photographs taken between February and July 2002 in Dortmund and Hanau. hardcover. Small 8vo. Tan cloth boards in black and white photographic dust jacket, both near fine. Limited edition of 500, SIGNED and dated by Kurtz on ffep. Approximately 80 black and white plates. Afterword by Christoph Schaden.

np: European Classics, 1968. First Edition. Good.. Smut. Sleze. A piracy of the original Greenleaf Press edition. With a preface touting the book's supression in Europe. Introductions to smut works of the era often warned readers against purchasing piracies like this one. Surviving examples scarce. 190pp. Wraps. 16mo. Printed gray wraps. Moderate handling wear, creasing. Small section of loss from rear cover. Overall sound, good only .

Carmel, CA: Cypress Press, 1944. First Edition. Very good.. Contains illustrations of people from various times and places in history (Victorian England, medieval Europe, cavemen, etc.) with blank faces covered by a question mark, with the intent of substituting one's personal snapshots of friends in the faces. Fairly racially insensitive sections aside (particularly the cover and title), an unusual and ephemeral piece of Californiana. No copies in OCLC. Wraps. Oblong 8vo. Ring-bound pictorial wraps. Very good with small chips, exterior toning and rubbing. Clean throughout; unpaginated.

New York: No Books, 1972. First Edition. Very good.. Cover art by Lynn Kotula. Published by Harris Schiff in an edition of 300. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled mimeo. Toned at edges with trivial rubbing. Interior clean. Very good.

London: Enitharmon Press, 1974. First printing. Fine.. Inscribed first edition of the English poet's later collection of poems on literary themes and the natural world. 8.5'' x 6''. Original green cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Edition of 500 copies, this copy numbered 4/30 at colophon. Inscribed by Clark to bookseller and collector George Bixby on title page. Minimal edgewear.

London: Enitharmon Press, 1974. First printing. Fine in near fine jacket.. Limited first edition in wrappers of this later collection by the English poet and editor. 8.5'' x 6''. Original off-white wrappers. In original unclipped (£1.05) pictorial dust jacket by Daniel Samuels. Edition of 500 copies. 45, [1] pages. Minor edgewear, faint traces of soil to jacket.

New York: Knopf, 1959. First Edition. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Very attractive first edition of Snodgrass's first book, what Robert Lowell called, "a breakthrough for modern poetry." Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket Very lightly rubbed and toned. Text-block tight and clean. Near fine. 62pp.

Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1996. First Edition. Very good.. Uncorrected proofs, inscribed to the poet Terence Winch. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's original wraps. INSCRIBED at half title, "To Terance,/ Best Wishes/ Ray Gonzalez/ 3-29-2000" [sic]. Minor wear at edges. Interior clean and bright. Near fine.104pp.

[San Francisco]: Zephyrus Image, 1970. First Edition. Very good.. First state of this scarce broadside printed by Holbrook Teter, Michael Myers' LOCAL JUNKIE famously graced telephone poles around Berkeley. An early work from Zephyrus Image. OCLC locates at most three holdings. An iconic work this influential West Coast artists' press. [Johnston p. 185]. Broadside. 12" x 6" approx. linocut in green on newsprint. Single fold at bottom edge not effecting image. Moderately toned, as common. Mild wear. Very good overall.

New York: The Viking Press, 1981. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Signed first printing of this story of the early days of the marijuana reform fight, inscribed to the late Larry King. Anderson's riveting narrative of the birth of NORML, its founder Keith Stroup, and the other era-defining personalities - Hugh Hefner, Willie Nelson, Hunter S. Thompson - seen variously as threats, menaces, and attempted saviors. Written at the dawn of the '80s, HIGH IN AMERICA looks both backwards and forwards at the changing public face of marijuana advocacy from countercultural utopian dream to broad and science-based mainstream coalition. Long before the victories of recent years, Anderson wrote with engaging reasonableness, "Legalization and regulation of marijuana will not be a perfect system, but our s is not a perfect world, and it will come because it is the least-bad system." This unique association copy warmly inscribed to legendary broadcaster Larry King. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter orange… Read More