Published by Evergreen, 1961., 1961
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Very Good. The pages are tanned. The copy shows external wear, but is in otherwise clean condition.
Published by Chicago, IL - Louisville, KY: The Burroughs Bulletin / Chicago Press Corporation - Burroughs Memorial Collection, University of Louisville Library, 1993., 1993
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
Single issue. 40 pages plus covers. Staple-bound paperback magazine: H 28cm x L 21.75cm. White glossy paper covers lightly rubbed and soiled. Includes material by David Fury laid-in at rear.
Language: English
Published by Olympia Press, New York, 1963
Seller: Inno Dubelaar Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing. 96 pp., photos, large octavo, softcover. VG with some wear to covers.
Staplebound Wraps. Condition: Good Minus. 4to. Illus. Wrappers worn, corners bumped, tear at rear.
Language: English
Published by Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, Inc., 1987
Seller: James Payne, Books and Prints, New York City, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Poor. First Edition. [ANARCHISM]. Eds. Jim Fleming, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Sylvere Lotringer. Contributors: Silvia Federici, Bob Black, Dodie Bellamy, Jean Baudrillard, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Hakim Bey, Clayton Eshleman, Charley Shively, Robert Anton Wilson, Paurl Virilio, Gary indiana, Lysander Spooner, et al. "Semiotexte USA, Volume 13: Psychotopographical Projection." Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, Inc., 1987. First edition. English language. Softcover with glossy color printed wrappers with the zine 'False Premise 28' tipped in on inside back wrapper. Nonfiction journal with comics, poetry, propaganda, essays, and other pieces from numerous contributors displayed in a black-and-white cut-and-paste aesthetic, with publisher's ads and a directory of contributors with addresses at rear. 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. 30 oz. 352 pp. Significant water damage. Rippling. Tidelines with spotting. Text clean and complete. Poor. No ISBN. ISSN: 009395779. ASIN: B000LQ358M. "A large collection of illustrations and writings of stuff not found on the official map of consensus perception. An antecedent to CrimeThinc and AdBusters.".
Seller: OUTSIDER ENTERPRISES, Brockville, ON, Canada
Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Advance Uncorrected Proof - Trade Paperback - FINE in Wraps - The best of Rolling Stone magazines articles on Beat culture - contributors include, Richard Hell, Patti Smith, Lester Bangs, Johnny Depp.and a William S. Burroughs interview with David Bowie!!!!
Language: English
Published by Temple Press Ltd. Brighton, England, 1994
ISBN 10: 1871744903 ISBN 13: 9781871744903
Seller: GoodBks, APOLLO BEACH, FL, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: As New. Original softcover stapled booklet of various pieces prepared for Burrough's 80th birthday. Bright yellow-orange photo-illustrated stiff wrappers, 44 pages of new and quoted excerpts from Burroughs and the Contributors, including a graphic short story. (see scans). FINE, As New condition! Quick shipping. "Nothing is True; Everything is Permitted." How true.
Published by Sixpack, London/Lake Toxaway, 1973
Seller: Carrington Bookshop, South Nyack, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paper. First edition. Also includes contributions from: Alice Notley, Jerome Rothenberg, Jackson Mac Low, others. 133pp. Cream color paper cover is scuffed else good.
Published by THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE.
Condition: Good. Good condition. Vol. 1, no. 2 (Winter 1968). (poetry, literature).
Language: English
Published by Semiotext(e), New York, 1982
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Clean, near fine copy -- photogr. wraps. 335 pp.
Published by Olympia Press, Paris, 1961
Seller: Inno Dubelaar Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. First printing, of the first issue of this important journal. 81 pp., photo essay on clochards of Paris, oversized format in illustrated card covers. No owner's name, no significant flaws, just light wear to extremities. A very attractive copy.
Language: English
Published by Grove Press, New York, 1965
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. A near-fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($12.50) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. An attractive copy, of erotic selections from John Cleland, Jean Genet, Philip O'Connor, Henry Miller, Chester Himes, Beardsley & Glassco, Lawrence Durrell, William Burroughs, Maxwell Kenton, Paul Ableman, Gregory Corso, George Bataille, James Sherwood, J.P. Donleavy, Akbar Del Piombo, Roger Casement, Pauline Reage, C.H. Ford, P. Tyler, Marquis de Sade, Raymond Queneau, Samuel Beckett, and more. Anthologies.
Language: English
Published by Rapid Eye, Brighton, East Sussex, UK, 1989
ISBN 10: 1871592224 ISBN 13: 9781871592221
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 49.66
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1989 soft cover. 34x23cm. 198 pages. Flat spine. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail TRACKED 24 next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 839.3::: 1st Edition with an 11 digit ISBN !!
Language: English
Published by Crowell, New York, 1961
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good (pc). First Edition. Square, tight near fine copy in price-clipped very good dustjacket with a couple closed edgetears and slight wear/loss at spinal extremities and tips (mylar protected). Excellent early anthology. includes 176 pp.of writing by the main Beats plus 12 essays by a range of commentators including Rexroth, Tallman, Miller, Lipton, Kerouac et al. 'The pros and cons of the beat movement -- with 39 pieces of beat writing -- Kerouac, Goinsberg, and others' -- front jacket. A solid, attractive copy. photos available on request.
Language: English
Published by Beach Books, Texts & Documents, NY, 1969
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. [96]pp; b&w illus. 4to. Saddle-stapled in illustrated wraps. Toning to newsprint leaves, else very near fine; a nice copy. A one-shot counterculture anthology of 1960s literature and art, edited by Mary Beach and published under her Beach Books imprint. Contributors include Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Peter Orlovsky, Abbie Hoffman, Rochelle Owens, Joyce Mansour, Harry Everett Smith, Jerry Rubin, Wallace Berman, Jeff Nuttall, et al. Excellently illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs, drawings, collages, etc. Cover by Tom Wright.
Published by [New York] Delacorte 1968., 1968
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Lightly bumped tips else very good+ in lightly worn, VF dj. |. 1st ed. Binding is HB.
Language: English
Published by THE PRINT MINT, Berkeley, CA, 1975
Seller: OUTSIDER ENTERPRISES, Brockville, ON, Canada
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: As New. CRUMB, ROBERT : SPIEGELMAN, ART : GRIFFITH, BILL : WILSON, S. CLAY : SPAIN (illustrator). First Edition. Magazine - 1st. Print (VF/NM) This underground comix review features "Fun City in Badan", by William S. Burroughs, "Frosty the Snowman" by R. Crumb, "Stalin" by Spain, and more.
Language: English
Published by Ambit, 62 Hornsey Lane, London, N.6., 1964
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 103.47
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketOriginal Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Max Cannon, Barry Hall, Friere Wright (illustrator). First Edition. Ambit Number 20, published in 1964. Includes a two-page illustrated spread of "Martin's Mag" by William Burroughs - plus Anselm Hollo's long poem sequence "Heads to Appear" illustrated by Barry Hall, and Zulfikar Ghose reviews Philip Larkin's "Whitsun Weddings" + B. S. Johnson reviews books by Brian Higgins, Jeremy Robson & Keith Wright. Illustrated throughout in monochrome. ***Near fine in glossy card stapled covers. The covers are just very slightly rubbed. No bumps or creases. No tears. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No marks. Spine tight. ***222mm x 165mm. 56 pages. ***Contents - George Macbeth "The Ski Murders"; Colin Ward "Two Poems"; Max Cannon "Transition Down Under"; Samuel Bingham "The Death Ash Movement"; Taner Baybars "Four Poems"; Oswell Blakeston "Retrospect 12"; Keith Musgrove "Some People"; William Burroughs "Martin's Mag"; Anselm Hollo "Heads to Appear"; Barry Hall "Upon Stands"; Friere Wright "Three Drawings"; Robin Harland "Reviews MacNiece"; Zulfikar Ghose "Reviews Larkin" (B. S. Johnson doesn't appear in the Contents). ***'In the sixties AMBIT became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Edwin Brock was poetry editor, and J. G. Ballard became fiction editor alongside, later, Geoff Nicholson. Henry Graham and Carol Ann Duffy joined Edwin Brock as poetry editors. Michael Foreman was art editor for 50 years. Across the magazine's history, Derek Birdsall (Omnific), Alan Kitching, John Morgan Studio and Stephen Barrett were notable designers.' (Wiki) ***'AMBIT started in '59; there were various impulses behind it. I'd been interested in the writer John Middleton Murray, who was married to Katharine Mansfield. He had run a magazine from about 1910 onwards for two or three years called Rhythm that attracted writers like D.H. Lawrence, and Katharine Mansfield of course. What was striking about it - you could look at it in the V&A library - was that Murray, who really knew nothing about art, had met a Scottish artist called Ferguson who was sending over from Paris artwork by "young" artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. They looked quite startling in this 1910 magazine. And the idea, that Murray never developed, of trying to produce a magazine that had literary and visual material really working together, came to me out of that. But the other initiatives were more simple. There weren't many magazines about then because the possibility of what everybody can do now -- produce a magazine from a 'desktop' in quite small numbers and for not very much money -- didn't exist. But electronic things were just starting to happen, and the first number of Ambit we partly set ourselves on a machine called a variotyper. It enabled us to paste down visual work of which we had some good drawings from an Australian artist, Oliffe Richmond, in this first number and enabled us to begin the notion of producing an arts magazine rather than the traditional poetry or Eng. Lit. magazine. I'd say there's still no magazine in the country that combines high class artwork, produced and found by Mike Foreman over the years, alongside writers who I think are exciting.' (Martin Bax interview with 3:AM magazine) ***A collectable 1960s edition of the magazine in near fine condition - this issue of particular interest for collectors of the work of William Burroughs, who features, and for collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. An uncommon issue of the magazine. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Language: English
Published by Ambit, 62 Hornsey Lane, London, N.6., 1964
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 103.47
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketOriginal Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Max Cannon, Barry Hall, Friere Wright (illustrator). First Edition. Ambit Number 20, published in 1964. Includes a two-page illustrated spread of "Martin's Mag" by William Burroughs - plus Anselm Hollo's long poem sequence "Heads to Appear" illustrated by Barry Hall, and Zulfikar Ghose reviews Philip Larkin's "Whitsun Weddings" + B. S. Johnson reviews books by Brian Higgins, Jeremy Robson & Keith Wright. Illustrated throughout in monochrome. ***Near fine in glossy card stapled covers. The covers are just very slightly rubbed. No bumps or creases. No tears. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No marks. Spine tight. ***222mm x 165mm. 56 pages. ***Contents - George Macbeth "The Ski Murders"; Colin Ward "Two Poems"; Max Cannon "Transition Down Under"; Samuel Bingham "The Death Ash Movement"; Taner Baybars "Four Poems"; Oswell Blakeston "Retrospect 12"; Keith Musgrove "Some People"; William Burroughs "Martin's Mag"; Anselm Hollo "Heads to Appear"; Barry Hall "Upon Stands"; Friere Wright "Three Drawings"; Robin Harland "Reviews MacNiece"; Zulfikar Ghose "Reviews Larkin" (B. S. Johnson doesn't appear in the Contents). ***'In the sixties AMBIT became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Edwin Brock was poetry editor, and J. G. Ballard became fiction editor alongside, later, Geoff Nicholson. Henry Graham and Carol Ann Duffy joined Edwin Brock as poetry editors. Michael Foreman was art editor for 50 years. Across the magazine's history, Derek Birdsall (Omnific), Alan Kitching, John Morgan Studio and Stephen Barrett were notable designers.' (Wiki) ***'AMBIT started in '59; there were various impulses behind it. I'd been interested in the writer John Middleton Murray, who was married to Katharine Mansfield. He had run a magazine from about 1910 onwards for two or three years called Rhythm that attracted writers like D.H. Lawrence, and Katharine Mansfield of course. What was striking about it - you could look at it in the V&A library - was that Murray, who really knew nothing about art, had met a Scottish artist called Ferguson who was sending over from Paris artwork by "young" artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. They looked quite startling in this 1910 magazine. And the idea, that Murray never developed, of trying to produce a magazine that had literary and visual material really working together, came to me out of that. But the other initiatives were more simple. There weren't many magazines about then because the possibility of what everybody can do now -- produce a magazine from a 'desktop' in quite small numbers and for not very much money -- didn't exist. But electronic things were just starting to happen, and the first number of Ambit we partly set ourselves on a machine called a variotyper. It enabled us to paste down visual work of which we had some good drawings from an Australian artist, Oliffe Richmond, in this first number and enabled us to begin the notion of producing an arts magazine rather than the traditional poetry or Eng. Lit. magazine. I'd say there's still no magazine in the country that combines high class artwork, produced and found by Mike Foreman over the years, alongside writers who I think are exciting.' (Martin Bax interview with 3:AM magazine) ***A collectable 1960s edition of the magazine in near fine condition - this issue of particular interest for collectors of the work of William Burroughs, who features, and for collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. An uncommon issue of the magazine. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Language: English
Published by St. James Press, Detroit, Michigan / London, England, 1990
ISBN 10: 1558620818 ISBN 13: 9781558620810
Seller: Andover Books and Antiquities, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. xxvi, 718 / xxvi, 719 - 1543 pp. LCC: 9244271 Very good condition; touches of wear on edges of covers.
Published by THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE., SAN FRANCISCO, 1967
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Near fine in pictorial printed wrappers. (Slight shelf wear to covers) Features William S. Burroughs story "Salt chunk Mary, last awning flaps on the pier" and Herbert Huncke's "A New Orleans scene." Also work by Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Douglas Blazek among others. (B).
Published by The Disinformation Company. New York, 2003
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 68.98
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketThe Disinformation Company. New York. 2003. First edition. Large 4to paperback. Profusely illustrated and great fun. Slight signs of use but generally a remarkably clean and sound copy.
Published by Ambit, London, 1964
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 96.57
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Max Cannon; Barry Hall; Friere Wright; Mke Foreman (illustrator). 1st Edition. 56pp + 4pp thin card covers. The twentieth issue of Ambit - a quarterly collection of poetry and short stories with drawings by Max Cannon, Barry Hall and Friere Wright. Mike Foreman has designed the cover. This issue contains a short story by William Burroughs (Martin's Mag). There are nine poems. Green, white and black covers. Staple bound. Shelf wear to top an dtail of spine. Slightly dusty covers. Otherwise in VG condition with clean inside pages. The magazine is printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd., Suffolk.
Published by Harold Norse, San Francisco, 1974
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA
First Edition
First Edition. Quarto (28.25cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; 56pp; illus. Trivial wear to extremities, tiny crease to lower right corners; Near Fine. Final issue of Norse's short-lived, influential magazine, which heavily showcased the work of Beat and post-Beat authors amidst a dizzying array of surrealist and homoerotic imagery. Contents include contributions by William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Paul Bowles, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Bob Kaufman, Michael McClure, Diane Di Prima, Charles Plymell, Julian Beck, Gerard Malanga, Charles Bukowski, Linda King, Anais Nin, Charles Henri Ford, Judith Malina, Ira Cohen, Kenneth Rexroth, David Meltzer, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and others. Not in Clay & Phillips. Debritto B871.
Published by Boston, MA - Cambridge, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company - The Riverside Press, 1880., 1880
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
Two volume set featuring full twelve month run for 1880 of The Atlantic Monthly. Each hardcover, H 24.5cm x L 16.25cm, uniformly bound in half-leather bindings - black leather spines and black cloth boards with black leather corners; both volumes with bindery tickets "Keim, Roesli & Co., | Book Binders | and | Blank Book Manf. | 314 Olive St., St. Louis." on front pastedown of XLV and on rear pastedown of XLVI. Bindings are likely quite contemporary to the volumes as Keim, Roesli & Company is listed in an 1879 St. Louis city directory. Spines decorated with four slightly raised bands and gilt stamping with latter having some flaking loss but otherwise still bright; both volumes have slender shallow leather loss at both their lower and upper front and rear joints but bindings remain firm. Edges toned with a few small stains; past owner's name in pencil at top of each volumes' page 1; mild toning and occasional light foxing to interior leaves. VOLUME XLV JAN.-JUNE 1880: i-iv, 1-860 pages; wide swath of strong surface abrasion to front board with slender area of similar abrasion at fore-edge area of rear board; cloth loss at board edges too with rear board's bottom leather corner worn; pages 149-182 have shallow dings/short tears at their bottom margins. VOLUME XLVI JULY-DEC. 1880: i-iv, 1-868 pages; nicks to spine head; faint dark mottling to rear board; strong slender abrasion at both boards' bottom leather corners. Still an attractive set despite first volume's marred exterior cloth. Whereas bookseller tickets for 19th century St. Louis are not too unusual, contemporary bookbindery tickets are quite uncommon. The two volumes feature contributions by Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, John Burroughs, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr], among many others. Please note that this set has an approximate shipping weight of 6.5 pounds (2.94 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.
Published by The Paris Review., Paris, 1962
First Edition Signed
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Near fine in oversize pictorial printed wrappers. (Trace of mild shelf-wear. ) Embossed stamp of Ned Polsky chronicler of the Beat era, who wrote the 1969 book "Hustlers, Beats, and Others", on first page. In 1968 Polsky signed the Writers and Editors War Tax Protest pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. Features "Ten episodes from "The Soft Machine" by William S. Burroughs. The suppressed chapter from "The Ginger Man" by J. P. Donleavy. "The Spy's Corner" by Terry Southern. Also work by Lawrence Durrell, Harriet Daimler, Ann Federman & others. ; 7" X 10"; 81 pages.
Published by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1941
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA
Quarto (25cm); illustrated pulp wrappers; 146pp; illus. Three-digit ink price to upper right corner of first page, hint of sunning to spine, with mild wear to spine ends and extremities; paper is creamy and supple; Near Fine, and clean throughout. This issue contains Burroughs's John Carter novel Black Pirates of Barsoom, James Norman's "Lost Treasure of Ankgor," McGivern's "The Quandary of Quintus Quaggle," and Reed's "The Girl From Venus." Front cover by J. Allen St. John.
Published by The Olympia Press - 1963, 1962
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
US$ 253.49
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFIRST EDITIONS, various illustrations, some with a small amount of colour-printing, the odd faint spot, pp. 81; 81; 81; 96, 4to, original wrappers, a little rubbed, the inside covers of first volume faintly foxed, backstrip of final volume a little nicked at foot, this last with a little fading to covers, a touch of corner-creasing, very good condition overall. Girodias's journal has, as one might expect, a preoccupation with censorship, which probably explains its short-lived nature - indeed, the 'Apology', in the nature of a defence, that begins the penultimate number confirms its troubles with the authorities. As well as the excerpts from the Press's own books - including Burroughs, Harriet Daimler, Donleavy's 'The Ginger Man', Miller's 'Sexus' - there is a column by Terry Southern, 'Spy's Corner', in the first three issues, an article on chastity belts by Henry Crannach, selections from Robert Giraud's photographs of French criminal tattoos, and erotic postcards from the same collection, and instructions by Brion Gysin on how to construct your own 'Dream Machine'. Uncommon as a complete set.
Published by Loujon Press, New Orleans, 1963
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA
First Edition
First Edition. Octavo (23.25cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [2],3-138pp; illus. Tiny crease at heel, else a fresh, Fine copy, sharp-cornered, and without wear. "Edited and published in New Orleans by Jon Edgar and Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb, The Outsider was lavishly (one imagines even maniacally) produced by letterpress with a wide range of interesting and unusual materials. Yet in spite of its formal sophistication, it still manifests the indomitable spirit of the mimeo revolution by virtue of its devotion to such writers as Charles Bukowski and Kenneth Patchen, both of whom were recipients of the "Outsider of the Year" award" (Clay & Phillips, p.50). Contents include contributions by Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Robert Creeley, Anselm Hollo, Harold Norse, Michael McClure, Carl Solomon, Kenneth and Miriam Patchen, Henry Miller, Diane Wakoski, and others. Dorbin C189-191.
Published by Conjunctions, David R. Godine, and Charles Scribner's Sons 1981-1989, New York and Boston, 1981
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Editions. Limited (cloth) Issues. Fourteen octavo volumes (23.5cm); variously colored cloth bindings, with titling and decorations stamped in different colors on spines and front covers; dustjackets; [2],3-295,[9]; [6],7-228,[10]; [5],6-223,[7]; [6],7-226,[4]; [6],7-237,[11]; [6],7-306,[14]; [6],7-275,[9]; [7],8-262,[10]; [6],7-289,[7]; [6],7-304,[16]; [6],7-288,[8]; [6],7-312,[8]; [6],7-275,[13]; [6],7-287,[9]pp; illus. While not marked as such, this set comes from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), who was both a regular contributor and contributing editor between 1981-89. Lower rear board corner bumped on Vol.7, faint wrinkle to cloth at base of spine on Vol.13; Near Fine, with the remaining 12 volumes Fine. Dustjackets are unclipped and in Fine condition, but for Vol.4 (with a small loss at lower front panel, VG+), some corresponding wrinkling to lower rear flap fold on Vol.7 (Near Fine), some faint spotting along the lower front wrapper on Vol.11 (VG+), with some light rubbing and a few faint creases to spine panels, on Vols.12-13 (Near Fine). An attractive set of the first 14 issues of Conjunctions, an innovative literary journal continuously edited by Bradford Morrow since 1981, which publishes the work of established writers alongside that of early career authors and poets. The contents include contributions by Robert Creeley, Paul Bowles, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, Gilbert Sorrentino, Jackson Mac Low, John Ashbery, Nathaniel Mackey, Joseph McElroy, Leslie Scalapino, Barbara Guest, Robert Duncan, William S. Burroughs, William Vollmann, Lydia Davis, David Foster Wallace, and others. 87358.