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

London: Faber & Faber, 1996. First printing. Near fine.. First edition of this unconventional diary, with a bookplate signed by Eno from his friend Stewart Brand's Global Business Network Book Club. Diary for 1995 of Eno, who decided to keep a record of the year at the end of the previous, together with the 'swollen appendices' of the title: a collection of essays, stories, interviews, correspondence, and other documents included in the last quarter of the book (and printed on different colored stock to emphasize the point). The diary covers a productive time for Eno, in which among other events he worked with both U2 and David Bowie. This copy was distributed to members of the Global Business Network, an organization founded by WHOLE EARTH CATALOG editor Stewart Brand, and signed by Eno on their bookplate. Brand and Eno were friends and their correspondence about the Bosnian conflict is included throughout this book. YEAR remains one of the most extended artistic and biographical documents from the… Read More

New York: Harper Collins, 1994. First Edition. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Translated from the Hebrew by Benjamin and Barbara Harshaw. Excellent introduction to this acclaimed Israeli poet. 477pp. with index. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter cloth. Near fine or better in like jacket. Trace shelfwear. Else clean, bright, and sharp overall. REVIEW COPY with promotional materials laid in.

(New York): Dot Books, 1972. First edition. Fine. First (and only) printing of this infamous chapbook by the literary agent also known as The Jackal, published in his mid-twenties by Richard Hell's Dot Press. Full of brief and sexually explicit (non-?) poems like the following: "I fuck / your / ass // you suck / my cock." Though it was rumored that Wylie attempted to buy up all remaining copies (according to lit agent Ira Silverberg), Wylie has denied the charge. And though the book is widely held institutionally, its scarcity in the marketplace suggests there may be some truth to the rumor. Though not noted, this copy from the collection of poet and publisher Kenward Elmslie. A fascinating in-joke of publishing history with excellent provenance. 7'' x 4.25''. Original yellow perfect-bound pictorial wrappers. 35, [1] pages. Internally clean, crisp. Overall sharp.

San Francisco: [Marsden Manson] Britton & Rey, printers, 1907. First Edition. Very good.. Speculative history sensationalizing the threat from Japan and China. U.S. race riots lead to war in Pacific. Spoiler! It doesn't end well for the United States. Xenophobic fiction from Manson, a Bay Area engineer. Wraps. 8vo. Printed stapled wraps. Toning to edges. Mild wear. Very good. 28pp. with fold-out map.

Cambridge, Mass: Temple Bar Bookshop, 1974. First Edition. Near fine.. First edition of this mid-career collection of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize winner. Limited to 800 copies in wraps and 50 in cloth. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Limitation statement on laid-in slip. Near fine. Wraps suffer minor shelf-wear. spine lightly sunned. Interior clean and bright. 76 pp.

San Francisco: Annihiland, nd. Near fine.. Poster designed by John Zerzan (though not credited here), the noted "anti-civilization" anarchist author. Published by the anarchist/pro-situ group Annihiland. "Art Attack victims will usually be found in museums, galleries and Art schools.... The fatal attack may be preceded by the onset of general studio malaise, and an occasional incidence of gallery narcolepsy." OCLC finds a copy, at University of Michigan. Single sheet, 11" by 17," printed recto only, and folded once horizontally. Near fine, with trivial wear along half of upper edge; overall quite clean, bright, and sharp.

Ann Arbor: Crowfoot Press, 1979. Limited ed. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Inscribed limited edition, one of only 350 copies. A nice association between Carrigan and the Mikolowskis, who had published several of the poems included here via their Alternative Press imprint; a nice edition from another Ann Arbor fine press. Wraps. Small 4to. Plain white card wraps with printed paper dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. ASSOCIATION: INSCRIBED by Carrigan in the year of publication to Ken and Ann Mikolowski of Ann Arbor's Alternative Press, at title page. Light handling wear to jacket and wraps. Interior bright, crisp, and clean. Good and sound. Unpaginated.

San Francisco: Apex Novelties, 1971. Second printing. Very good +.. Second printing. [28]. [Kennedy 2285]. Wraps. 8vo. Original stapled color pictorial wraps. Mild rubbing, some toning internally. Else clean and sound.

New York: Bluebeat Publications, 1964. First Edition. Very good.. Issue of this mimeo poetry magazine published by the NYC press, with poems by Paul Blackburn, Carol Berge, Margaret Randall, Judson Crews, R[uth?] Krauss, Jonas Kover, Margo Love, and others. 4to. Side-stapled mimeo wraps. Folded once vertically, and again diagonall. Some edgewear, else clean overall. 10pp.

Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1977. First Edition. Very good + in a very good + jacket.. Uncommon title from the noted photographer and editor. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown textured boards in dust jacket. Lacking obi. Jacket lightly shelfworn and toned along lower edge. Light foxing to inside of jacket and endpapers. Page edges very faintly toned, otherwise unmarked. Ribbon bookmark attached. 126 numbered plates, followed by notes. Text in Japanese. Includes color as well as black and white photographs.248pp.