Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico: Artist, 2019. First printing. 6.5 x 10 inches (single panel), 39.5 x 10 inches (unfolded). Folded accordion, in sewn paper envelope. Edition of seventy signed and dated copies. New. The second silkscreened artist’s book by Bayrol Jimenez, immensely talented co-proprietor of the gallery La Garrapata de.....
New York: C Press, 1971. First printing. (27) pp., 8.5 x 11 inches. Side-stapled into printed card covers. Published in an edition of 250 copies. Mimeograph text, with offset covers drawn and printed by Philip Whalen. Some toning and spotting to edges, and with one tiny chip to edge of.....
London: Royal College of Art, 1973. First printing. (28) pp., 7 x 7 inches. Stapled into printed card covers. Translated from the Italian by The Linguists’ Club. Book designed by Laurence Bradbury. With black-&-white illustrations throughout. Light edge-wear and very mild creases to covers; gift inscription on inside front cover;.....
London: Nigel Greenwood, 1972. First printing. 47 pp., 6 x 8.25 inches. Edition of 800 copies. Very light edge wear, and a mild bump to bottom edge, otherwise very good and nicer than usually encountered. Published to accompany the landmark exhibition of the same name, and considered a foundational document.....
Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2009. First printing. (48) pp., 10.5 x 16.5 inches. Limited first printing of 1,500 copies. Printed paper over boards, without dust-jacket, as issued. Two photographic series, printed duotone, with an essay by Trevor Paglen. New. The first volume in Michael Light’s ambitious series of books.....
Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2010. First printing. (80) pp., 10.5 x 16.5 inches. Limited first printing of 2,000 copies. Printed paper over boards, without dust-jacket, as issued. Two photographic series, with an essay by David Ulin, and a conversation between Michael Light and Lawrence Weschler. New. The second volume.....
Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2014. First printing. (132) pp., 10.5 x 16.5 inches. Sewn signatures glued into cloth spines, housed in slipcase of printed paper over boards. Two full-color photographic series, with essays by Rebecca Solnit ("Anywhere But Here") and Lucy Lippard ("Downhill / Upscale"). New. The third volume.....
Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2019. First printing. (148) pp., 10.5 x 16.5 inches. Printed paper over boards, without dust-jacket, as issued. Essays by William Fox, Charles Hood, and Leah Ollman. New. The fourth volume in aerial photographer Light's ambitious series of books with Radius, documenting the contemporary West. Shot.....
Lowell, MA: Bootstrap Press, 2010. First printing. 158 pp., 5.5 x 8.75 inches. Limited edition of 258 numbered copies, bound in decorated cloth, with five pieces of ephemera laid in, as issued. Edited by James Dunn, and with an introduction by the editor and publishers. As new. A New Book.....
Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2019. First edition thus. 423 pp., 5.25 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed wrappers. Edited by Chris Kraus; expanded and with an introduction by Robert Dewhurst; afterword by Rachel Kushner. Essays by poet, translator, and polymath David Rattray. Initially best known for his translations of Antonin Artaud.....
Brunswick, ME: Coyote Books, 2006. First printing. (24) pp., small 8vo. Stapled into plain wrappers, in printed dust-jacket. As new. A delightful visual diary in poems and drawings, reproduced from the author/artist’s handwritten ms. First published as an issue of the magazine Gate in 1982, and reissued by James Koller.....
Tucson, AZ: Querencia Books, 1994. First printing. Paperback. 108 pp. 8vo, sewn binding in wrappers.
Coach House Press, 1967. Later printing. Wraps. 8vo, 77 pp. Signed by the author. Tiny nicks to head and heel of spine, top of fore-edge lightly bumped.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. First Printing, Wraps Issue. Wrappers. 200 pp. Wrappers sunned, handled, edgeworn. 8vo.
Bournemouth, England: Hapt, 1970. First Edition. Mimeographed sheets. 1/250 copies, illustrated. Four 13.5" x 17" sheets folded once to make a 16-page unbound pamphlet ("Hapt free-print"). Poems from "Earth Incantations (Homage to Ezra Pound)": the title poem (in two parts) and "Victory! The Dancers." With an explanatory epilogue to the.....
Chicago: ad hoc press, 1977. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 1/200 copies; poems. Warmly inscribed by the author to poet Ted Berrigan, "whose book this partly is." Edges of wrappers sunned, and some small spots on front cover, otherwise very good. 12mo.
N.p. Prensa de Lagar/Wine Press, 1967. First Edition. Stapled wrappers in dustjacket. Second printing of the poet's scarce first book. A fine copy in very good dustjacket with small closed tear at crown of spine. Small 8vo.
Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Mediodia, 1969. First Thus. Wrappers. 109 pp., Spanish text. Poems from Empty Mirrors (sic), Howl, Kaddish, Reality Sandwiches, and Planet News, selected, translated, and prefaced by Covian. Edgewear, small bookseller's label inside front cover, and slight offsetting to back cover, otherwise a very good, unread copy.....
San Lorenzo, CA: Shameless Hussy Press, 1974. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. First printing of the author's third book and first book of prose, consisting of six short stories. Signed on the title page. Trace of sticker removal to front cover, otherwise very good in lightly soiled wrappers. 8vo.
Oakland/Berkeley: Mama's Press/Black Widow Publications, 1973. First Edition. Stapled sheets. 57 pp., illustrated. A near fine copy of the author's second book of poems, with just slight rubbing and creasing of wrappers near staples. 8vo.
San Lorenzo, CA: Shameless Hussy Press, 1971. Later Printing. Stapled sheets. Second printing (1973) of the author's first book of poems; signed on the title page. Trace of sticker removal to front cover, and very small tear at top of spine, otherwise very good in lightly soiled wrappers. 8vo.
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1978. First Edition. Cloth. University of Texas Press Poetry Series No. 3. A collection of short poems in sonnet form, "variations on orange." Very fine in a near fine dustjacket. Small square 8vo.
New York: Grossman, 1973. First Edition. 53 pp., 4.5 x 7.25 inches. Paper over boards in printed dust-jacket. A fine copy in very good jacket save for a very short tear and the trace of a sticker removal on front panel.
New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1969. First Thus. 153 pp., 5.25 x 8 inches. Sewn signatures in printed card covers. Faint foxing to edges, and very mild bump to base of spine, otherwise very good. A student edition of the French text of Perec's first book, winner of the1965 Prix Renaudot.....
New York: Norton, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. Author's fiction debut, after two volumes of nonfiction. About fine in like jacket. 8vo.
