Fagin Larry, Signed (25 results)

First edition, one of 300 copies; not of the 26 signed & lettered copies. A handsome copy of this scarce chapbook by a pivotal figure of the postwar avant-garde. Starting out as a member of Jack Spicer's circle in San Francisco, Fagin touched nearly every major experimental movement in poetry (save, perhaps, for Language Poetry, which he derided) with associations to the Beats, the Black Mountain Poets, and the New York School. Fagin edited a number of essential poetry magazines of the Mimeo Revolution. First edition. Letterpress, type in green and black. Saddle-sewn in decorated yellow wraps. [vi], 8, [2] pp. 5 5/8 x 7 in. Very good; minor smudging to wraps, soiling to last two leaves at foot.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. One of 300 copies. 12mo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (20pp.). Wrappers a little rubbed and marked, the staples rusty, but Very Good overall. This copy has been signed by the authors and inscribed by Fagin to Tom and Val (Raworth). Signed By Authors.

First edition. Single sheet folded twice to make a booklet (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches, closed). Fine. Jacob's poem in French, Fagin's version in English. SIGNED by Fagin on the rear cover.

Single sheet folded twice to make a four page pamphlet, 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. Printed letterpress in two colors by Kyle Schlesinger. Portrait of Larry Fagin by George Schneeman, portrait of Max Jacob by Juan Gris. Signed by George Schneeman. Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo, perfect bound wrappers,"For Jack (Kimball) 'a hollow behind the unbreakable waterfall (HEART SYMBOL) lARRY.(VV3/3. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. One of 26 hardcover copies, lettered and signed by the poet and the artist. 8vo. Black paper-covered boards. 114pp. With jacket quotations by David Shapiro, Charles North, and Alan Bernheimer, and a portrait of Fagin by George Schneeman. Boards just slightly splayed, the jacket with a little light shelfwear, mildly marked in places, but still attractive. Signed by Author and Artist.

12.5 x 9.5 inches. Modest age-toning, near-fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Joe Brainard. (illustrator). Limited Edition. **RARE INSCRIPTION , LIMITED EDITION Of 200 ** Near Fine softcover. 12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Slight creasing to top right of cover, toning on the extremities, light scuff marks on the cover and backside. The pages are bright and clean with no markings, all 4 corners of the pages are sharp. One of 200 copies. Cover art by Joe Brainard. Poems that appeared previously in The World. Seller. Enjoy! Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Near fine in wraps. 1st Edition. 13 x 22cm 32pp stapled card covers, designed by George Schneeman. Edition of 300 copies. This copy signed on first blank page "This copy for Trevor in America, Larry". Covers slightly browned towards the edges otherwise near fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Side-stapled in wrappers. An excellent overall copy, with light wear to corners, occasional indents from handling, and occasional rubbing. Signed by Larry Fagin on the title page. "The Leon poems were written collaboratively from 1968 through 1970 in New York and Port Jefferson, Long IslandThe participants included Larry Fagin [who also published], Ron Padgett, Michael Brownstein, Bill Berkson, and possibly Anne Waldman, Joan Inglis (Fagin), Jim Carroll, and others." (Bill Berkson Since When). Signed by Author(s).

First edition, number 1 of 50 hand-numbered copies signed by the authors. An experimental, collaborative prose poem by Coolidge and Fagin, featuring one of the greatest title-and-cover-illustration combos of all time. First edition. Offset. Side-stapled. 21, [1] pp. 11 x 8 1/2 in. Signed on the limitation statement. Very good; minor toning to wraps, stray soiling to verso of upper cover.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Seven prose poems by Larry Fagin, abstract/experimental in tone; flat-signed by Fagin to title page, edition limited to 300 copies; please note: although signed, this is not one of the 26 signed/lettered copies; Very Good and clean throughout, wraps lightly rubbed to rear. . unpaginated. landscape 12mo. Very Good.

Broadside, 8 1/2 x 11 in., signed by the poet. This work was part of Pressed Wafer Broadside for John Wieners, a portfolio of 52 broadsides edited by William Corbett, Michael Gizzi, and Joseph Torra and issued in an edition of only 26 lettered copies. This is one of only a few outside of the boxed edition. Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Limited to 300 copies. Fine in sewn oblong yellow wrappers. Though uncalled for, this one SIGNED by Fagin on the first blank leaf. Unpaginated. Seven poems, one to a page, dated 1964. Designed and printed by Wesley Tanner. Limitation not stated. Q14446. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. 4to. [32 pp]. Very fine in side-stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Coolidge on the title page. From the text, at random: Red Soapy, Peg Sluice, Miles Clout, Appian Snort, Lucky Lock, Buck Loop, Silas Moon, Pinball Foggy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. One of 50 signed and numbered copies (this copy unnumbered). 4to. Stab-stapled. 22pp. Very Good, the staples rusty, the covers with a few rust marks (primarily one to the blank back cover) and a little spotted/marked. This copy has been inscribed by Coolidge to Tom and Val (Raworth). Signed By Authors.

Staplebound Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. 12 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm. Staplebound thin cardstock wraps decorated in red and green. In just about fine condition, with v. slight toning to spine. A very special copy in that the limitation on page 11 indicates that this is copy number "Infinity" and is signed below by both Bill Berkson and Larry Fagin. Also: "From the library of Brigid Berlin" bookplate laid in. Provenance: Doyle auction of Berlin's estate on 4/26/2022. A nice association. "Published in an edition of 200 copies, with a special edition, numbered 1-10, signed by the authors"--Page [12]. Cover by Joe Brainard. Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Number 1. Quarto. Stapled covers, illustrated by George Schneeman. Wraps lightly toned and with a bit of faint foxing, corners and spine ends bumped, very good or better. Laid in is a typed Signed letter from Alan Davies to Clark Coolidge, who contributes two collaborative poems with Larry Fagin. The inaugural issue of this poetry journal, with contributions by Clark Coolidge, Larry Fagin, John Wieners, Lewis McAdams, Richard Dillon, Lewis Warsh, Aram Saroyan, Alan Davies, Gerard Malanga, Jonathan Cott, and Bill Corbett. Signed.

Cloth over boards with dust jacket. This is letter A from an edition of 12 hors commerce copies, lettered and signed.There are also 100 numbered and signed as well as trade cloth and paperback editions. Fine.

First printing. (6) pp., 8.5 x 11 inches. Side-stapled into printed wrappers. Printed by mimeograph. One of ten signed and numbered copies, out of a total edition of fifty. Mild darkening and foxing to edges of cover, and with a small stain at the top of the last few pages (not affecting text), otherwise very good. A complaint, in the form of a series of short poems, about having to do all the work of publishing other poets ("I am the little red hen / I work my ass off / for all the poets // And what do I get? / A pat on the butt / when the sun goes down"). Various second-generation New York School poets are called out by animal aliases ("Ted the Bear" Berrigan, "Ron Giraffe" Padgett, etc.), while the Little Red Hen confirms that they will do the work themself. Attributed to Fagin and Waldman (copies signed by each of them have surfaced, including one signed by Waldman "aka the Little Red Hen").This is number 4 from the ten numbered copies, signed "Sincerely, L. R. Hen" (in two colors of ink). Uncommon.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. A beautiful copy of this Kulchur publication. With cover designed by Ed Ruscha (Editions 1959-1999: Catalogue Raisonne M28). Uncommon signed and in this condition. Wraps. Small 4to. Original pictorial wraps. Fine condition. Bright, clean, and sharp. SIGNED by Fagin to title page. Invitation to publication party for book's release at the Gotham Book Mart loosely laid in. Signed.

Softcover. First edition. A nice association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Michael [McClure] + Amy -- all these years . . . with love, Clark, 30 I 17." An apparently uncommon book with no other copies to be found, scarcer signed. Clark was an influential poet who moved to the Bay Area in 1967 to join David Meltzer's band, falling in with the San Francisco Renaissance crowd including McClure. He's known for his language poetry and jazz influence. With an introduction by Bill Berkson and prominent blurb by John Ashbery on the rear. A near fine book in wraps with its lower front corner lightly bumped. Signed.

Hand-sewn in unprinted stiff wrappers with printed yellow dust jacket, 4 x 6 in. This is from an edition of 200 copies of which the first 26 have been numbered and signed. This is number 2 of 26 signed by Larry Fagin and Richard Tuttle. A bright fine unfaded copy from the small press of Trevor Winkfield and Karl Torok based in Bradford, England and New York City.

First edition. One of a limited number of hors commerce copies signed by the author; instead of a number, a subscriber's name (this copy "No. Burt", likely Burt Britton). There were 500 trade copies issued; and 26 signed by Schneeman and Fagin, and ten numbered hors commerce copies. Small square format chapbook; stapled wrappers; [8pp.]; illus. Lightly toned at extremities, else Fine. Subscriber's or additional copies not mentioned on the colophon. Angel Hair books were published by Anne Waldman and Lew Warsh. The limited issues rare. Signed.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Quarto leaf. Age-toning in the margins, old folds for mailing, very good. Envelope present and near fine. Fagin writes that "I like *Incidentals* a whole lot, it's so confident, almost casual at times; & especially the "culottes" poem, maybe almost perfect. He mentions other things he'd like to publish, or is publishing: "My own masterful RHYMES OF A JERK (Kulcher) is ready in April, with a cover by Edward Ruscha (toothpicks wrapped in cellophane against a 3-D linoleum backdrop)." and "The Poetry Project chugs on; let us know so we can pencil you in. Love, Larry." A nice association between New York poets.