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

Paris: Editions de la Table Rond, 1968. First Edition. Very good in a very good + jacket.. First printing of this loose story-in-images following a young woman ("la douce et limpide Zoe") through transformation and adventure. Cowboys are involved. Hardcover spiral bound. Folio. Black cloth boards in black and white photographic dust jacket. Light wear and scuffing to edges. Previous owner's signature to ffep, small stain to rear endpaper. In French. Black and white plates throughout. "Texte & decoupage" by Alain Wienc. Brief text introduces each chapter.

(New York): (Siamese Banana Press), 1970. First Edition. Very good +.. First edition of this short piece on madness in French literature, from Johnny Stanton's Siamese Banana Press. Begins by stating that Montaigne was mad "just like the 18th century," and written in a playful style: "well of course there are hundreds of madmen who write letters--think of anybody--think of Rousseau--but getting back to Stendhal, well just think of Balzac--well, no, he's a little more controlled than Stendhal--but think of anybody just anybody in the 19th century..." [Clay and Phillips, p. 220]. Small 4to. Printed wraps. Very good plus. Hints of soil and handling wear. Bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 5pp.

[Massachusetts]: n.p., 1914. Very good plus.. Hand-accented gift scrapbook of religious iconography created and presented by Julia Morin to her brother, Reverend William Morin, upon the occasion of his ordination. Populated with reproductions of the masterworks of Christian art by Bellini, Gaddi, Titian, Correggio, Raphael, Del Sarto, Renni, Rubens, Rembrandt, Hoffman, among others, each page is carefully engrossed with exquisite titles and borders. Plates likely clipped from THE PERRY MAGAZINE FOR SCHOOL AND HOME, a Boston-based periodical of the era which reproduced fine works of art for use in education. Several instances of hand-colored covering-over an otherwise nude baby Jesus add a note of reverential modesty. Julia's inscription to the cover identifies her as a 1914 graduate of St. Ann's Convent, presumably of Readville, MA. Historical references cite William as having ministered to congregations near Boston, Fitchburg, and North Adams. A touching and lovingly-assembled folk book. Commercial… Read More

New York: Mag City, 1982. First Edition. Very good +.. Features contributions from Eileen Myles, Chris Kraus, Tim Dlugos, Alice Notley, an interview with Amiri Baraka, and more. Masters, Scholnik and Lenhart published larger quantities of poems than other contemporary magazines with a non-academic, personal style. "Mag City was a party in print," says Greg Masters. [Clay and Phillips, 233]. Wraps. 4to. Saddle-stapled in original printed wraps. Very good plus. Light scuffs, soil to covers. Interior bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 89pp.

New York: Mag City, 1981. First Edition. Fine.. Contributions from Guillaume Apollinaire (trans. Ron Padgett & Nicole Ball), Allen Ginsberg, Ted Berrigan, Bernadette Mayer, and many others. Masters, Scholnik and Lenhart published larger quantities of poems than other contemporary magazines with a non-academic, personal style. "Mag City was a party in print'" says Greg Masters. [Clay and Phillips, 233]. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled in original printed wraps. Near fine. Light scuffs to covers. Interior bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 91pp.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. Later printing. Very good.. Sixth printing of Wakoski's collection, originally issued by Black Sparrow in 1970. Wraps. 8vo. Blue wraps. Spine and edges lightly sunned; moderate edgewear and rubbing. Minor foxing/spotting to page block. Very good. 150pp.

(Paris): Editions du Centre Georges Pompidou, 1989. First printing. Fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition catalogue of this major international exhibition, conceived as a anti-colonialist corrective to the contemporary art-world ethnocentrism typified by MoMA's much-criticized 1985 "Primitivism" show. Much of the groundbreaking nature of MAGICIENS derived from Martin's simple choice to invite equal numbers of Western and non-Western participants, and to treat the latter as individual artists rather than anonymous cultural representatives - far from standard curatorial practice at the time. The 100 exhibiting artists included Marina Abramovic, Dossou Amidou, John Baldessari, Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Bowa Devi, Dexing Gu, Hans Haacke, Shirazeh Houshiary, Anselm Kiefer, Agbagli Kossi, Tatso Miyajima, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, Yousuf Thannoun, Lawrence Wiener, and many others. With essays by Martin, Aline Luque, Mark Francis, Andre Magnin, Pierre Gaudibert, Thomas McEvilley,… Read More

New York / Ghent: Distributed Art Publishers / Ludion, 2005. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Illustrated monograph on Magritte in English, translated from the French edition. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth boards in bright orange-red dust jacket. Very mild edgewear and bumping to spine ends. Near fine.

London: Cape Goliard Press, 1969. First Edition. Very good + in a very good - jacket.. First printing of Williams's poetic homage to Gustav Mahler's symphonies. Cover and title-page illustrations by R.B. Kitaj. Hardcover. Small 4to. Decorative paper spine over brown cloth boards. In pictorial dust jacket. Moderate edgewear, chipping, and soil to jacket, particularly to rear panel. Foxing to flaps. Clean, unmarked interior. Very good plus in very good minus jacket.

New York: MAIL, 1971. First Edition. Very good.. Literary magazine edited and with cover art by Thorpe Feidt, with contributing editor Robert Hellman. Illustrated with three tipped-in color plates of paintings by Sam Feinstein. Includes work by John Crawford, Daniel Shanahan, Konstantinos Lardas, David M. Katz, John Lobb, Stephen Brown, Bernard Horn, and Hilda Morley. Wraps. 4to. Saddle-stapled black and white wraps. Moderate edgewear, corner creasing, light soil to covers. Interior pages show darkened patches from original adhesive used to affix tipped-in color plates. Very good.

Barton, VT: Something Else Press, 1973. First Edition. Near fine.. The published playscript of Katz's reworking of the text of Gertrude Stein's autobiograhical novel into a stage adaptation. One of the more uncommon Something Else Press Stein related releases. 186pp. Wraps. 8vo. Pictorial wraps. Trace handling wear. Clean, sharp.

Washington DC: Institute for Services to Education, 1972. First Edition. Very good.. Pedagogical handbook developed by the Institute for Services to Education, a 1970s policy group concentrating on university recruitment and retention of black students, in conjunction with the Thirteen College Consortium and the Five (later Six) Colleges Consortium, associations of predominantly black colleges. The materials outlined within are divided into four sections. The lengthy Part I: Shaping Perception includes a series of units arranged from least to most complex, on the graphic arts, literature, music, dance, and drama. Historical overviews, essays, suggested student research projects and interactive learning ideas are followed by extensive bibliographies and appendices, with all sample syllabi and readings centered on African and Afro-American art and artists. The three shorter sections that follow are: Part II: Esotericism: The Mystery Schools; Part III: Mythological Man / Man as Protester; and Part… Read More

(New York): Frank Hallman, 1975. First edition. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed limited first edition in hand-bound hardcover of these two poems by Beat poet and "MAMMAL MAN" McClure. 7'' x 5''. Original tan cloth. In original brown printed wrappers. Edition of 500 copies, of which 100 are hard-bound and signed by the author. This copy no. 58, signed by McClure at colophon. Unpaginated.

New York: Delano Greenidge Editions, 2000. Very good +.. Later edition of May Ray's iconic black and white photographs, originally published in Paris and New York in 1934. Introduction in English with French, German, Spanish, and Italian translations. Includes bibliography. Wraps. Tall 4to. Black and white photographic wraps. Light edgewear, corners faintly creased. Clean interior with faint toning to page borders. Very good plus. 120pp.

(Madison, WI): Modine Gunch Press, 1971. First Edition. Very good.. First printing of this lovely production of poems, touching on themes such as Midwestern American life and the Vietnam War. With several photos throughout, stylized as halftone images. From the Modine Gunch Press poetry booklet series, published by the Wisconsin Union Literary Committee. OCLC finds three examples. Wraps. Small square 4to. Screenprinted thin cardboard wraps. Very good. Wraps show light yellowing here and there. Inside front cover, title and copyright pages moderately foxed. Else clean overall, with touches of foxing at two points. [20] pp. From an edition of 250 copies.

New York: Journal of Living and Publishing Corp, 1946. Reprint. Very good.. Originally published in book form in 1942 by Gateway. Date of this reprint not given, but certainly soon after; "[c]ondensed slightly in order to cooperate with the war-time paper conservation plan," says copyright page. An early novel by the science fiction and mystery author, better known in later years as Murray Leinster. Wraps. 12mo. Pictorial wraps. About very good. Mild edgewear, light crease to front cover. Hairline crack after copyright page. Else sound. Pages clean, unmarked. 119pp.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. First Edition. Very good +.. An account of the history of language writing, by one of its primary participants. Wraps. Small 4to. Publisher's pictorial wraps. A very good plus copy. Price sticker on back cover. Minimal fading to spine. Bright and clean throughout save 4 highlighted lines. Binding tight. 187pp.

Milwaukee, WI: Tom Montag, 1974. First Edition. Very good +.. Issue of this magazine focused on new small press publications. Includes several poems by Clayton Eshelman, a letter from Antonin Artaud to Gerard de Nerval (translated by Eshelman), a piece by Eric Mottram, reviews of new small press publications, and more. Wraps. 4to. Saddle-stapled self-wraps. Very good plus with mild wear to bottom edge of rear wrapper; some light handling wear. Else clean and unmarred if toned throughout. 72pp.

[Queens, NY]: Salamander Editions [Joseph Cornell], 1954. Very good.. Scarce first edition, privately printed by Cornell in an edition of about 100 copies and given away to his friends as presents, augmented with a collaged element to the last page. This work was inspired by nineteenth-century opera singer Maria Malibran-Garcia and was produced with the same precision and care Cornell brought to his other productions. It is in many ways a Cornell work in book form, not only due to the collaged element present, but also in the appropriation of text, the use of a decorative headpiece from yet another book, and focusing on one of Cornell's signature obsessions. A box of leftover copies of MARIA was discovered with Cornell's estate and are seen on the market with some regularity. These are identifiable, however, by a lack of any collage element in the rear of the book, no blue tissue (which according to his diaries, Cornell labored to find just the right color of), and their generally fine condition… Read More

New York: Asylum's Press, 1977. First Edition. Very good.. Number 142 from an edition of 200, designed by Elizabeth Brandfass. Published by Charles Bernstein's Asylum's Press, with inroduction by Steve McCaffery [Clay and Phillips, 263]. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled in card wraps. SIGNED at colophon. Touches of toning, soil to wraps with faint damp stain along spine. Interior clean with mild toning. Very good.