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

Helsingør: Harry Andersen Bogtrykkeri, 1966. First Edition. Very good.. Travelogue of Danish writer Jorn Zabel as he journeyed around the US via bus at the start of the counterculture, from NYC to the California of Disneyland and the Haight. Decidedly scarce. OCLC frinds just 9 copies worldwide. Title loosely translates to "USA in Close-Up" or "USA In the Binoculars." Wraps. 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. Very good with some soil to fore-edge and spine. Else clean and sound throughout. Promotional broadside for the book loosely laid in. INSCRIBED by Zabel to early prelim. 89pp. Text entirely in Danish.

Glenview, IL: Naval Air Training Command, 1945. First Edition. Good +.. An original illustrated manual issued to WWII Naval flight cadets training at NAS Glenview, dated July 1 1945 to the title page. Generously illustrated throughout with dozens of original drawings (likely the work of a single, unnamed illustrator) and photograph reproductions, executed and lettered in a decidedly Seuss-ian style heavily influenced by modern cartooning, lending a simplistic treatment to gravely serious and technical material. A portion of the "Safety" chapter on p. 29 with the exaggerated likeness of a pilot resting upon a cloud, holding a harp, wearing angel wings and captioned: "Don't try to be the 'hottest' pilot, but try to be the 'oldest.'" and "There are bold pilots, and there are old piltos, 'But!' - there are no old, bold pilots." Six chapters are broken into dozens of sections with titles like: Your Parachute, Safety, Inherent Stability, Turns, Normal Spins, Landings, Steep Turns, Precision, Immelmans,… Read More

np, 1958. Very good.. Fascinating salesman's catalogue produced by British Ford, marketing their cars to American dealerships. Struggling financially, Post-WWII Britain enacted an "Export or Die" mandate for its domestic carmakers in hopes of injecting more stable currencies into its economy. This act mandated aggressive sales in foreign markets, and especially in The United States. Ford of Britain had operated as a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company since 1909, producing an entirely different line from its American division. Since it was indeed a British car manufacturer, Ford was forced compete with itself. These materials date from a 1957-1958 push aimed at getting existing U.S. Ford dealerships to sell and service the cars of their English counterpart. Included are specification sheets and sample advertisements for the various models: 10 approximately 8" x 10" black and white promotional photographs, a body color chart with paint samples, dealer pricing and cost sheets with option breakdowns… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton, 1990. First Edition. Fine in a Fine jacket.. 352pp. with notes and index. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in like jacket. Bright, clean and sharp overall. Inscribed and SIGNED by author Fowler. Review copy with materials laid in.

n.p.: Continental Classics, 1968. Near fine.. Sleaze erotica reporting on "the intimate sexual high jinks and perverted sex escapades of secret agents"; in particular, those of one British agent, "James," who reports to "M." and whose exploits uncannily mirror those of James Bond. The pseudonymous Foerster is claimed to be a "young bachelor attached to British Intelligence. An inquiry was even raised in Parliament," the prologue reveals, "concerning 'civil servants whose fornications were being financed by public funds', but for obvious reasons the matter was soon discreetly hushed up." One presumes this information to be the purest fiction, but then again, one never knows. Continental Classics #CC-150. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Printed orange-yellow wraps. Minimal wear; very faint rubbing to back cover. 188 pages. Near fine.

(Oakland): Jimmy's House of Knowledge, 1984. First Edition. Very good.. One of 200 copies. Cover by Rebecca Levinson. Printed offset from the original typescript, a work from one of the most radical Language poets. Wraps. Oblong 8vo. Side stapled wraps. Very good. ASSOCIATION COPY: INSCRIBED by Inman to fellow poet Doug Lang at title page. Mild toning and edgewear to wraps. Internally clean, bright. Good and sound. Unpaginated.

Oakland, CA: Jimmy's House of Knowledge, 1984. First Edition. Very good.. Produced in an edition of 200 from Inman's original typescript, with cover illustration by Rebecca Levenson. Wraps. Oblong 4to. Side-stapled in card wraps. Wraps toned with light foxing. Spots of rust at rear from staples. Interior clean. Very good.

np: Center Presss, 1976. Limited ed. Very good.. From an edition of 200 copies. OCLC locates only one holding of this, the Center Press version; it appears that two other editions were published, but without the Bussey art. Those two other editions, together, show only seven holdings. A handsome edition. Broadside, 17" by 11" approx. Very good. Folded once horizontally. Surface creasings across front and rear; light handling wear; touches of foxing. SIGNED by both Berge and Bussey underneath their portions.

San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2013. First Edition. Near fine.. Catalog of attempts to photograph the hidden, unseen or unseeable: spirits, ghosts, auras, God, dreams, time, moments of death, and "energy fields" variously conceived. Includes work by Stieglitz, Man Ray, Gerhard Richter, Diane Arbus, and many others both named and anonymous/unknown. Book accompanies a 2013 exhibition held at the Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. Includes artist index and list of plates. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth boards with black stamped lettering and decorative paper mounted on front and back. No dust jacket as issued. Minimal edgewear. Near fine. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 57 plates in color and black and white.

Providence: Burning Deck, 1973. First Edition. Fine in a near fine jacket.. First printing of this collaborative book of poetry from the Waldrops. This copy comes with a nice association with fellow-travelers the Mikolowskis, who for over 40 years published letterpress mail-art and broadsides as the Alternative Press. Wraps. Oblong 32mo. Plain mustard-yellow wraps in matching printed dust jacket. Fine in near fine DJ. ASSOCATION COPY, INSCRIBED by both Waldrops at flyleaf, to Ken and Ann Mikolowski of Ann Arbor's Alterative Press. Minimal edgewear, toning to edges of jacket. Interior bright, crisp, and clean througout. Unpaginated. No. 82 from an edition of 500 copies; printed letterpress in blue and black inks.

n.p.: n.p., 1970. Near fine.. Enigmatic and disquieting collection of six short stories and one 90-page novella, neatly and distinctively handwritten and illustrated in brown ink. The material veers in tone from the parodic to the surreal to the philosophically melancholic; the style incorporates a recondite vocabulary ("the pyral tarantism of being in the world") and a single consistent, insistent voice, alternating long unpunctuated Joycean streams of frantic consciousness with brief and airless sentence fragments. A perpetual undercurrent of violent sexuality surfaces as much in the settings and scenery as in the events: a car crash; a game of human chess; a blazing furnace; a slaughterhouse. The table of contents gives titles for each work, but no author's name; the bookplate, with initials "A. J.," offer the only clue to the item's creator or owner. The authorial narration steps out of its queasy dreamtime now and then to comment on itself ("[I]t would appear that this is the whim of the… Read More

2014. Spray paint and silkscreen on cigarette pack foil mounted to cardboard. Measuring approximately 28" x 22". SIGNED and dated by artist to verso.

Tokyo: Fusosha, 1993. First Edition. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Araki's brash color photographs, with very little text (in Japanese). Snapshots rendered full-bleed. Switch Library. 7.5'' x 5.25''. Red boards in red printed dust jacket.