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

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. First Edition. Very good in a very good jacket.. A tourist guide to Boston from the famed travel writer. Hardcover. 16mo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket heavily toned and edgeworn, with chips at corners and spine edges. Spine darkened. Cloth discolored at edges. Page edges toned, interior clean. Bookshop label at front pastedown. Very good.

Oakland: LSM Information Center, 1978. First Edition. Very good.. The Marxist-aligned LSM was founded by anthropologist Donald Barnett in 1968 to support anti-imperialist resistance movements in former colonized African nations. This issue includes a pro-Eritrean-independence editorial, an interview with Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett, and a feature article on "Zimbabwe's Future: Neocolonialism or Independence?" Wraps. 4to. Stapled wraps. Edgewear, scuffing and a few tears/light soil to back cover. Interior clean. Very good.

(Chicago): (Modern Poetry Association), 1957. First Edition. Very good.. Features work by V.R. . Lang, Vernon Watkins, Hayden Carruth, James Wright, and others. Wraps. 12mo. Perfect-bound wraps. Very good plus with light toning and soil to wraps. Clean throughout.

(Chicago): (Modern Poetry Association), 1949. First Edition. Very good +.. Featues Thomas Merton's poems "St. Malachy" and "From the Legend of St. Clement," along with Richard Ellman's translation of Henri Michaux's prose poem "The Jetty," among other contributions. Wraps. 12mo. Perfect-bound wraps. Very good plus to near fine, with light toning to wraps; notation to spine. Clean, unmarred throughout. [61] pp.

(Aarhus, Denmark): (Husets Forlag / S.O.L.), 1974. First edition thus. Very good +.. Danish-language edition of Russell Edson's poetry collection THE CHILDHOOD OF AN EQUESTRIAN (Harper & Row, 1973). Translated by Carsten Koed Hansen. Wraps. 4to. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. Very good plus. Some light wrinkling to wraps near spine. Touches of toning; small dampstain to rear. Clean throughout. Unpaginated.

Nashville, TN, 1930. Very good.. Archive a student who received his BS, MA and PhD at Peabody, as well as that of his wife, who also graduated from Peabody with a BS. The couple were both heavily involved in the school, members of numerous social organizations, and active in student government (he was president of the senior class of '26). The promotional material in the collection shows that the college, which had reorganized and opened a new campus directly across from Vanderbilt University in 1914, was in the midst of major construction and expansion projects during this time; many pieces show photographs and renderings of new or planned buildings. The college, at that time the largest teachers' college in the South, was incorporated into Vanderbilt in 1979. A varied education archive, particularly rich with detail of curricula and student life. Collection of 100+ items/3" linear approx. belonging to student of Peabody College for Teachers, comprised primarily of personal papers relating to the… Read More

New York: James Danziger Gallery, 1993. First Edition. Near fine.. Gallery catalog of 17 black and white plates of photograph emulsions on watercolor paper produced between 1992 and 1993. 35pp. Wraps. Square 4to. Printed, stapled, white card wraps. Near fine throughout.

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.

Detroit: Detroit Artists Workshop, 1965. First Edition. Near fine.. Scarce literary magazine with pieces by Magdalene Arndt, Veryl Blatt, Bill Cox, Robin Eichele, Ron English, Norm Harper, Bill Harris, Bill Hutton, Gary Johnston, Jim Semak, John Sinclair, and George Tysh. Cover art credited to C. Peret, Deya/Mallorca March, 1964. "The editor would like to express his sincere appreciation to Monteith College for its support of THE JOURNAL," and invites readers to follow The Journal's contributors to Work, "a new publication soon to erupt" from the Artists' Workshop Press. Editor not named, but authors' bios printed on inside of rear cover note Sinclair and Eichele as Work's future co-editors. Side-stapled red pictorial wrappers. Trace wear. Bright, clean, and sharp overall. With scarce errata slip. 80 pages. Listed in Jernigan.

Rochester: Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, 1903. First Edition. Very good +.. Catalog of contest-winning photographs, "Being a Collection of the Photographs Which Received Awards in the Three Thousand Dollar Quarter Century Photographic Competition Which Closed October First Nineteen Hundred Three" Competition judged by Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., C. Yarnall Abbott, and William F. James. With texts by Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Myra Wiggins, Jos. N. Pearce, Curtis Bell, Nellie Coutant, and Louis Fleckenstein, all of whom are represented among the featured photographers. Photo credits identify photographer and title as as well as the particular Bausch & Lomb lens used. Wraps. 4to. Black textured paper wraps with original photo (by Harry Contant) mounted to front cover. Hand-sewn binding. Wear and a few small tears to outer edges. Light foxing throughout. Pages toned. Very good plus.

Gloucester, MA: Bezoar, 1977. First Edition. Good +.. Issue of the periodical BEZOAR, featuring texts by Eigner and Buck. Bezoar was issued between 1975 and 1981 by a number of editors including Fred Buck, Thorpe Feidt and Paul Kahn in a number of different formats and iterations. This issue was mailed to DC poet Doug Lang. [Clay and Phillips, 265]. Wraps. 4to. Six leaves stapled at top left corner. Very good plus. Folded for mailing with moderate toning and rubbing; else clean and bright.

(Willits, CA): (Tuumba Press), 1977. First Edition. Fine.. Tuumba 7. Early title in this landmark series of chapbooks devoted (primarily) to the Language Poets, all letter-pressed and edited by Lyn Hejinian. Wraps. 8vo. Original printed stapled wraps. About fine. Bright, crisp, and clean inside and out. Errata slip laid in. Unpaginated.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997. First Edition. Near Fine.. True first edition / printing of this moving full-color reproduction of the young and notes photographer's collaged journals. Eldon lost his life on assignment in Somolia in 1993. With an introduction by his mother. Hardcover. 4to. Pictorial boards. Slight lean, minor shelfwear. Near fine overall.

Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1991. Fine in fine jacket.. First edition of Elkin's study of Wright, from the library of contemporary poet Stanley Plumly. 9'' x 6''. Original grey cloth. In original dust jacket. Postcard announcing the publication of three works by Wright laid in, addressed to Stanley Plumly. 273, [1] pages. Minor edgewear.

[La Crosse, WI?]: Juniper Press, 1970. Very good +.. Verse collection from this Midwest poetry press. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. Very good plus to near fine. Light toning to wraps. Interior clean throughout. 21pp.

(New York): (Adventures in Poetry), 1973. Near fine.. Lettered copy of the doubly signed limited first edition of Elliott's debut, with a cover illustration of a burning cruciform box by Edward Gorey. Gorey and Elliott, a writer described by Fagin as "completely off the radar screen" when these prose pieces were published, shared a connection in John Ashbery: Elliott's unhappy former co-worker at the Brooklyn Public Library, who first met Frank O'Hara at an exhibition of Gorey's paintings. Elliott, a close friend of Paul and Jane Bowles and a fellow resident with them in the February House, the short-lived Brooklyn artist's commune, was for Ashbery the best thing about working at the library, introducing the younger poet to Bowles, Mary Butts, and Jean Rhys, among others (Roffman). Elliott died in 1974, only a year after this first book publication; his other works were written variously under his own name and the pseudonyms Richard Fields, Richard Hotchkiss, and David Martin. A great copy,… Read More

New York: Kulchur Press, 1969. First Edition. Very good +.. Cover and drawings by frequent collaborator Joe Brainard, with whom he had an extended personal relationship until Brainard's death in 1994. Collection of poems and stories interspersed with illustrations. Wraps. 4to. Publisher's gingham wraps. Very good plus. INSCRIBED by Elmslie to half title to Ken and Ann Mikolowski, proprietors of Ann Arbor's Alternative Press (longtime publishers of unbound letterpress mail art editions). Additionally SIGNED by Elmslie to title page. Some mild reading wear to spine, trace soil and rubbing to covers. Interior bright and clean overall (with two small dampstains). Good and sound. 176pp.

New York: Adventures in Poetry / Boke Press, 1972. First Edition. Very good +.. Play inspired by Henri Rousseau's Une Visite a L'Exposition de 1899. Cover by Alex Katz. Wraps. 4to. Grey side-stapled wraps. Light edgewear; touches of staple rust and soil to front cover. Clean, unmarked interior. Edition of 350 copies. Very good plus.

Flint, MI: Bamberger Books, 1987. First Edition. Uncommon edition of this play by Elmslie. Cover by Joe Brainard. 79pp. plus music. 12mo. Stiff pictorial wraps. Very fine. Limited edition, one of 26 lettered copies, this copy "W," signed by Elmslie and with an original collage pasted in.

Calais, VT: Z Press, 1981. First Edition. Very good +.. Signed first printing of this collection of poems and short pieces with illustrations, including several large fold-out color plates. Association copy inscribed to Ken and Ann Mikolowski ("A + K"), founders of Detroit's Alternative Press. Wraps. Oblong 4to. Red wraps. Minor edgewear and light scuffing. SIGNED twice by Elmslie: signature alone on title page; inscription on rear endpaper. Limited edition of 750 copies. Very good plus.