Fainlight Harry (30 results)
Encounter (December 1962, Vol. XIX, No. 6)
Spender, Stephen; Lasky, Melvin J.; Mann, Thomas; Lowenthal, Richard; Cunliffe, Marcus; Luethy, Herbert; de Jouvenel, Bertrand; Dennis, Nigel; Grass, Gunter; Montague, John; Reeves, James; Fainlight, Harry; Greenberg, Clement; Macdonald, Dwight; Steiner, George; Cohen, J.M.
Language: English
Published by British Publications Inc., 1962
- Softcover
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
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Add to basketSoft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Small tear along top edge of front cover. 1962 Soft Cover. 95 pp. Includes: Letters by Thomas Mann; Life in the Industrial North by Marcus Cunliffe; Has Switzerland a Future? by Herbert Luethy; Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Bertrand de Jouvenel; "And Thou Beside Me Singing" by Nigel Dennis; After Cub…a, Berlin? by Richard Lowenthal; Going Into Europe: A Symposium; Folding Chairs by Gunter Grass; Cathedral Town by John Montague; James Son and Spice by James Reeves; Morning by Harry Fainlight; How Art Writing Earns Its Bad Name by Clement Greenberg; James Agee by Dwight Macdonald; Canetti's Crowd by George Steiner; Unamuno's Sense of Life by J.M. Cohen; Letters; Authors.
Poetry Book Society Christmas 1966 Supplement
Eric W. White (ed.); W. H. Auden; George Barker; Jack Clemo; Harry Fainlight; David Jones; Richard Murphy; Norman Nicholson; Brian Patten; Tom Pickard; Edgell Rickword; Vernon Watkins; Sheila Wingfield (contribs.)
Published by Poetry Book Society, 1966
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Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.George Ong Books
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Fine. [16] pp., small 8vo, stapled self-wrapper. Published in memory of the long-time editor of The Book Collector, bibliophile, and Swift scholar John Hayward (1905-1965). All poems are newly published here, except with parts of David Jones's work. Fine copy.
More imagesPublished by Grove Press, 1965
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Seller: Pistil Books Online, IOBA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.Pistil Books Online, IOBA
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Add to basketTrade Paperback. Condition: Good. Book shows some wear to covers. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. With stills from the film by Peter Whitehead. Book has been in someone's backpack for a bit. Nice b&w stills of the reader's throughout. 71 pages. Includes misty blind rock: "Over… for now the Vomit invisible skull, the fear of the bones the grasp against man & woman & babe / Let the dragon of Death come forth & feed on my brain & meat & let him be other than I / Till my turn comes & I enter that blind maw & change to a blind rock covered with misty ferns that I am not all now -- A. Ginsberg Keywords: Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregoro Corso, Christopher Logue, Harry Fainlight, Adrian Mitchell, Michael Horovitz, Ernst Jandl, Andrei Voznesensky, Alexander Trocc.
Ambit 93. A Quarterly of Poems, Short Stories, Drawings & Criticism / 2 James Laughlin Poems 11 Katherine Xavier Poems Laura Knight Drawings 22 Felicity Napier Poems 23 Elizabeth Pyle Drawings 27 N. S. Thompson Pasolini Poems Mark Foreman Portrait 30 Tina Fulker Entry Form Christine Tongue Drawing 32 Ewart Milne Jacob's Ladder Maybe 33 Chris Garnham Images 41 Robert Angus Poems 47 Nicki Jackowska The Road to Ore Clare Jarrett Drawings 56 Philip Crick An Angel Arrives 57 Peter Bland Poems 58 Alasdair Paterson The Floating World 60 Lomas / Ewart / Curry / Bax Reviews 69 Edwin Morgan Goddesses 70 Allen Jones Sculptured Paintings 75 Herbert Lomas Poems 78 J. New Six Pieces Mark Foreman Drawing 82 Harry Fainlight Last Poem 83 Hume Cronyn Poems
Martin Bax (Editor) / 2 James Laughlin Poems 11 Katherine Xavier Poems Laura Knight Drawings 22 Felicity Napier Poems 23 Elizabeth Pyle Drawings 27 N. S. Thompson Pasolini Poems Mark Foreman Portrait 30 Tina Fulker Entry Form Christine Tongue Drawing 32 Ewart Milne Jacob's Ladder Maybe 33 Chris Garnham Images 41 Robert Angus Poems 47 Nicki Jackowska The Road to Ore Clare Jarrett Drawings 56 Philip Crick An Angel Arrives 57 Peter Bland Poems 58 Alasdair Paterson The Floating World 60 Lomas / Ewart / Curry / Bax Reviews 69 Edwin Morgan Goddesses 70 Allen Jones Sculptured Paintings 75 Herbert Lomas Poems 78 J. New Six Pieces Mark Foreman Drawing 82 Harry Fainlight Last Poem 83 Hume Cronyn Poems Karen Caldicott Drawing 88 Dave Calder Poems 89 T
Published by Ambit, 1983
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. 2 James Laughlin Poems 11 Katherine Xavier Poems Laura Knight Drawings 22 Felicity Napier Poems 23 Elizabeth Pyle Drawings 27 N. S. Thompson Pasolini Poems Mark Foreman Portrait 30 Tina Fulker Entry Form Christine Tongue Drawing 32 Ewart Milne Jacob's Ladder Maybe 33 Chris Garnham Imag…es 41 Robert Angus Poems 47 Nicki Jackowska The Road to Ore Clare Jarrett Drawings 56 Philip Crick An Angel Arrives 57 Peter Bland Poems 58 Alasdair Paterson The Floating World 60 Lomas / Ewart / Curry / Bax Reviews 69 Edwin Morgan Goddesses 70 Allen Jones Sculptured Paintings 75 Herbert Lomas Poems 78 J. New Six Pieces Mark Foreman Drawing 82 Harry Fainlight Last Poem 83 Hume Cronyn Poems Karen Caldicott Drawing 88 Dave Calder Poems 89 Tony Dash Apology 91 Gavin Ewart Poems Michael Foreman / Ralph Steadman 96 Ron Sandford Gavin Ewart.
Published by Paris: The Paris Review, 1966
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Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.Philip Smith, Bookseller
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 168pp, printed wrappers. Another prime issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes letters from Cummings to Pound; interviews with Pinter and Albee, plus work by Di Prima, Padgett, Sotere Torregian, et al. Unmar…ked copy with light toning and wear and minor bump to one corner. Not Signed.
Published by Turret Books, London, 1986
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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. First edition. Poetry postcard that measures 4.25" x 6". Includes the poem "April" taken from Fanlight's book "Selected Poems." A fine copy. Scarce, with only 1 copy listed in OCLC.
Published by London: Turret Books., 1986
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Add to basketCondition: Good. BROADSIDE. 32mo. Poetry Post Card, Very Good minor shelf wear.
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Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United KingdomThe Bookshop at Beech Cottage
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 21pp. Collection of eighteen poems by Harry Fainlight. Introduction by Stephen Spender. B/w frontispiece by Mary Moore. Printed in a limited edition of 500 copies. White card covers with black lettering on front cover. Age toning to margins of front and rear covers. Previ…ous owners' neat name stamp on ffep. Clean inside pages. Mary Moore (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Turret Bookshop, London WC2, 1992
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 21pp.Quarto Bound in printed white glossy card wrappers with age toning to the edge. Said to be LIMITED to 500 copies Internally clean and unmarked. frontis. MARY MOORE (illustrator).
Published by New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1963
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Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.Philip Smith, Bookseller
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 44pp, stapled wrappers. Fifth and final issue of this influential literary review edited by Jerome Rothenberg; includes work by Robert Duncan (Bertholf C135), Jackson Mac Low, Harry Fainlight, Jack Micheline, et al. Unmarked co…py, some typical wear to edges of lap wrappers. Not Signed.
Film Culture No. 33 Summer 1964
Jonas Mekas (ed) / P. Adams Sitney / Frank Kuenstler / Harry Fainlight / George Kuchar / Jack Smith / Gregory Markoulos
Published by Film Culture, 1964
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Seller: Bendowa Books, Holyoke, MA, U.S.A.Bendowa Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1964. 92 pages. Book measures 8.5 x 10.75 inches. Includes contributions by Andrew Sarris, Harry Fainlinght, George Kuchar, Jack Smith, Storm de Hirsch, and Gregory Markpoulos. This issue includes the full book length poem LENS by Frank Kuenstler. It also includes ful…l page b&w photographs from Andy Warhol's "The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys", "Kiss" & "Dracula"; Jack Smith's "Normal Love"; Barbara Rubin's "Christmas on Earth; and Naomi Levine's "Yes". A great issue of Film Culture. Very Good+ showing light rubbing to wrappers (mostly to back cover). Binding is solid. A nice copy.
Selected Poems
Fainlight, Harry; Fainlight, Ruth (editor & introduction); Ginsberg, Allen (memoir); Hughes, Ted (poem)
Language: English
Published by Turret Books, London, 1986
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- First Edition
Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United KingdomThe Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye
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Add to basketBlue Artificial Leather. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. v, 78pp. Unread copy. Ralph Steadman (dust jacket) (illustrator).
Published by Buffalo, NY: Fred Wah, 1965
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Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.Philip Smith, Bookseller
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). 1st edition. Good (only). 4to, 26pp (mimeographed), stapled wrappers. Classic mimeo revolution magazine with cover by John Wieners, includes work by key figures of the 1960s avant-garde. Unmarked copy, tears to covers and 3/4" closed tear to all pages at…outer margin, back cover and final few leaves detached from staples, light chipping at extremities, typical toning and brittleness to mimeo stock. Not Signed.
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good, somewhat edge-torn and dust-toned dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Series; Therpewin poetry series. Physical description; v, 78 pages : 1 portrait ; 25 cm. Notes; Introduction by Ruth Fainlight, a memoir by Allen Ginsberg, and a poem by Ted Hughes. Subjects; Fainlight, Harry…. -1982. English poetry. 20th century. 3 Kg.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover in Very Good condition with Dust Jacket. Review copy, card slip inside the right board. Cover design by Ralph Steadman. Jackets front left side edge has been torn and creased. Edge wear along the edges and ends of the jacket. Pages are clear. Used.
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Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, IrelandMW Books Ltd.
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good, somewhat edge-torn and dust-toned dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Series; Therpewin poetry series. Physical description; v, 78 pages : 1 portrait ; 25 cm. Notes; Introduction by Ruth Fainlight, a memoir by Allen Ginsberg, and a poem by Ted Hughes. Subjects; Fainlight, Harry…. -1982. English poetry. 20th century. 1 Kg.
More imagesSelected Poems [Allen Ginsberg's Copy Signed by Him and Inscribed to him by Ruth Fainlight with a Note From the Publisher to Ginsberg]
Harry Fainlight; Ruth Fainlight [intro.]; Allen Ginsberg [memoir]; Ted Hughes [poem]; Ralph Steadman [dust jacket]
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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. London: Turret Books, 1986. First Edition Limited to 1000 copies. Slim octavo; publisher's textured boards in white dust jacket designed by Ralph Steadman; [6],78pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Light wear to jacket margins, corners bumped, else Ver…y Good to Near Fine. Allen Ginsberg's copy signed by him on title page and inscribed to him by Ruth Fainlight on front free endpaper, "For Allen, with best wishes and thanks from Ruth. June 1987." Laid in is an autograph note on publisher Bernard Stone's postcard letterhead, "Dear Allen, Here is the Selected Poems of Harry that Bernard has just published. It has your piece in it. Bernard and I are going to Amsterdam on Friday to see [Dutch spoken word poet] Simon Vinkenoog and buy books. Simon did a 2 page review of 'Howl' which I will send you (It's in Dutch). Love, Miles [?].". Signed.
Published by Citybird Press, Liverpool, 1966
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Cover by Adiran Henri. Octavo. 21pp. Fine in stapled wrappers with errata slip laid in. British literary journal with contributions from Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Anselm Hollo, Michael Horovitz, Adrian Mitchell, Harry Fainlight, Peter Brown, Libby Houston, Spike Hawkins, Roger McG…ough, Brian Patten, Heather Holden, Ted Milton, and Penti Saarikoski.
Published by Raymond Danowski / Turret Books, London, 1992
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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Limited to 500 copies. Quarto; card wrappers, 22pp. Fine but for some inconspicuous surface soil to the bright white wrappers, with no evidence of use. This is in fact a new copy, received from the publisher Raymond Danowski. A selection of work by the enigmatic British-American poet whose brief career intersected… with both the late Beats and the New York mimeo scene of the Sixties. Fainlight's writing career was cut short by mental illness, and he died, alone, in 1976, having published (despite many contributions to periodicals) only one small chapbook during his life. This brief selection Includes a substantial Foreword by Stephen Spender and a frontispiece illustration by Mary Moore (daughter of sculptor Henry Moore).
Published by Tom Clark
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good copy. Stapled, mimeographed sheets.
Published by Fuck You Press, New York, 1964
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Near Fine. Book. An Anthology of Anal Erotic, Pound Cake Cornhole, Arse-Freak & Dreck Poems. First Edition. Mimeographed. The anthology is "dedicated to the Brilliant Goddess of Buggery Barbara Rubin". One of 400 trade copies. Contributors include Allen Ginsberg, Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Harry Fainlight a…nd others. Condition: Fine/Near Fine. Staples in tact with all pages.Tight copy - best copy I have seen.
Published by Turret Books,, London,, 1965
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Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United KingdomBurwood Books
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original publishers cream wraps. pp 12. 150 copies printed. Verse. Narcissus spelt backwards. His only published book in his lifetime.e He was a friend and lover of William Burroughs , a keen drug user and brother of the poet Ruth Fainlight. Very slight browning at top…edge o/w very good indeed.
More imagesDESPAIR: Poems to Come Down By
Sanders, Ed; Ted Berrigan; Paul Blackburn; John Keys; Al Fowler, Harry Fainlight; Szabo
Published by Fuck You Press, New York, 1964
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Add to basketCondition: Very good minus. First edition. Anthology edited by Sanders from Sander's notorious press. Includes work by Ted Berrigan, Paul Blackburn, John Keys, Al Fowler, Harry Fainlight, Sanders, and Szabo. One of the scarcest items from FU. 11'' x 8.5''. Original lavender side-stapled self-wrappers. Mimeographed throughout. [2…0] pages (including covers), generally rectos only. Wrappers soiled with some staining. Overall sound.
Published by Turret Books, London, 1965
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Add to basketpaperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. First edition. One of 150 copies. Twelve pages. Turret booklet no. 3. Covers are lightly marked, tanned and edge-worn. Upper edges are bumped. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW. Used.
Published by Peace Eye Bookstore, New York, 1964
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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition. First edition. Mimeograph on tan paper, recto only. 11 x 8.5 inches. The Fuck You Quote of the Week was published over three weeks in September 1964, and featured inside jokes from Harry Fainlight, John Ashberry, and Kenneth Koch. Slight discoloring along outside edges, otherwise fine Mimeograph on tan paper, rect…o only. 11 x 8.5 inches.
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Add to basketLondon: Turret Books. 1965. 8vo. Original cream card wrappers with author and title in silver to upper cover; printed on stiff blue paper; pp. [ii], 3-12; fine.First limited edition of Harry Fainlight's only lifetime book publication Sussicran ('Narcissus' spelled backwards): one of 150 copies signed by the author, and number 22… in the Turret Booklet series.The British-American writer Harry Fainlight (1935-1982) lived in London in 1965 and rose to fame by participating in the celebrated Royal Albert Hall Beatnik poetry slam of 1965, the International Poetry Incarnation, initiated and headed by Allen Ginsberg. Here Fainlight would read the trippy and disturbing epic The Spider, an LSD-induced text, which was interrupted by a Dutch writer, high on Mescaline, shouting "Love, Love!", an event which disturbed the poet deeply.Fainlight, a heavy drug user, who purportedly once slept with William S. Boroughs, was described by Allen Ginsberg as "the most gifted English poet of his generation". He was befriended by Ted Hughes (who wrote a poem about him in 1983) and Sylvia Plath; his sister was another Beat poet, Ruth Fainlight. In 1964 he contributed to Ed Sanders' Fuck You and in 1966 he participated in launching the International Times from the basement of Indica Bookshop. Turret Books, a hub for avantgarde poetry, was founded by Bernard Stone, a friend of Alan Silitoe and the cartoonist, book and record cover designer Ralph Steadman.
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Add to basketLondon: Turret Books. 1965. 8vo. Original cream card wrappers with author and title in silver to upper cover; printed on stiff blue paper; pp. [ii], 3-12; the odd dirt mark, else fine.First limited edition of Harry Fainlight's only lifetime book publicion Sussicran ('Narcissus' spelled backwards): one of 150 copies signed by the… author, and number 22 in the Turret Booklet series.The British-American writer Harry Fainlight (1935-1982) lived in London in 1965 and rose to fame by participating in the celebrated Royal Albert Hall Beatnik poetry slam of 1965, the International Poetry Incarnation, initiated and headed by Allen Ginsberg. Here Fainlight would read the trippy and disturbing epic The Spider, a LSD-induced text, which was interrupted by a Dutch writer, high on mescaline, shouting 'Love, Love!', an event which disturbed the poet deeply.Fainlight, a heavy drug user, who purportedly once slept with William S. Boroughs, was described by Allen Ginsberg as 'the most gifted English poet of his generation'. He was befriended by Ted Hughes (who wrote a poem about him in 1983) and Sylvia Plath; his sister was another Beat poet, Ruth Fainlight. In 1964 he contributed to Ed Sanders' Fuck You and in 1966 he participated in launching the International Times from the basement of Indica Bookshop. Turret Books, a hub for avantgarde poetry, was founded by Bernard Stone, a friend of Alan Silitoe and the cartoonist, book and record cover designer Ralph Steadman.
More imagesPublished by Fuck You Press, New York City, 1964
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Add to basketCondition: Very good. First edition. Complete set of Ed Sanders's short-lived "Quote of the Week" from his notorious press, featuring three brief selections from Harry Fainlight, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch. Run off over the course of several weeks in the fall of 1964, these three gossipy, insular, self-referential broadsides… are among the most ephemeral and quintessentially FU productions to be pulled off of Sanders' Lower East Side mimeograph. The first, dated Sept. 5th, is by Harry Fainlight (1935-1982) and transcribes a piece of a conversation Fainlight delivered at Bickfords in Times Square: "I have piles / I thought it was / gonorrhea / it's terrible / I have to / do all / kinds of / sordid blow job / scenes / now." The second, dated Sept. 14th, records poet John Ashbery's reaction (overheard at a party at Bill Berkson's on East 57th Street) to Ed Sanders' recently-issued TOE-QUEEN POEMS. And the third, dated September 23rd, finds Kenneth Koch having just read Harry Fainlight's first Quote of the Week: "It's shit. It's all shit." All of these Quotes are individually scarce, and this is the first time we've seen them offered as a set. Rare thus. 11'' x 8.5''. Three mimeographed broadsides printed recto only on pink paper. Mild toning to edges. Right edge of one mildly worn. Another folded in half. Overall, clean and sound.
Published by 1977-1982, 1977
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Add to basketLetters. Condition: Very Good. A collection of 2 photographs and approximately 17 handwritten documents, which range from quickly jotted notes to full-length letters, written by the poet Harry Fainlight to his landlady, Esther Whitby who was letting Harry a small garden cell on Harmood Street, in Northwest London, for thirty shi…llings a week at the time. This collection also includes one letter to Esther from Harry's sister, the renowned poet and close friend of Sylvia Plath, Ruth Fainlight. These numerous missives, which include a letter Fainlight wrote on prison stationary while on remand at H.M. Prison, Jebb Avenue, Brixton, London, a note addressed from a psychiatric hospital in Scotland, letters from his parents' home in Sussex, letters from the cottage where he died in Wales, and personal notes left around the house in London where Fainlight rented a room from Whitby [to whom these letters & notes are addressed]. An itemized list of the abovementioned documents and letters follows:1.Handwritten Letter from Ruth Fainlight to Esther Whitby. 1 page. Approx 100 words; Dated 13.10.82 Handwritten blue ink on 8.25 x 8.5" white unruled paper. 2.Handwritten Note from Harry Fainlight to Esther Witby [Dear Esther; signed: Harry] 27 words; No Date; Handwritten blue ink on 5 x 7.25" white unruled paper. Approx 27 words; begins: I hope my nightmare didn't disturb you last night3.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Witby [Dear Esther; Best Wishes, Harry] 1 page. Approx 100 words. Dated September '81, Den Cottage, Powys, Wales. Handwritten black ink on 5 x 7.5" white unruled paper.4.Handwritten 2 page letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Yours, Harry]. Undated. Location: Ward F, Craig Dunain [Psychiatric Hospital] Inverness, Scotland. Handwritten blue ink on [2] 7 x 9" white unruled paper. 5.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Yours, Harry]. 1 page. Approx. 80 words. Undated. Location: 5 Huskisson St. Liverpool, 8. Handwritten Blue ink on white 8x10" unruled paper. 6.Handwritten Note from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Best Wishes, Harry] Approx. 15 words. Undated. Handwritten black ink on 4.5 x 3.5" white unruled card. Reverse side blank.7.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Harry] Approx. 70 words. Dated May 4th (Year Unknown); Location: 14 Wolstan[sic]bury Rd. [sic] Sussex. Handwritten blue ink on white 7 x 9" unruled paper. 8.Handwritten Note from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Harry] Approx. 35 words. Undated. Handwritten blue ink on torn white 7 x 4" unruled paper. 9.Handwritten Note from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Harry] Approx. 35 words. Undated. Handwritten blue ink on torn white 6.5 x 8.5" unruled paper.10.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Sincerely, Harry] w/ International Paid Reply Coupon (Paperclipped). Dated June 19th (year unknown). Location: Den Cottage SARN Powys, Wales. Handwritten black and blue ink on 6 x 8" white unruled paper.11.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby and Robert (Bob) Harbison [Dear Esther + Bob; Best Wishes, Harry). Dated Oct. 11th Year Unknown. Location: Den Cottage, SARN, Powys, Wales. Handwritten black ink on 6 x 8" white paper w/national travel ticket stapled to bottom-left corner.12.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Harry]. Undated. Approx. 65 words. Handwritten red ink on 7 x 9" white unruled paper.13.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby and Robert (Bob) Harbison [Dear Bob + Esther; Harry). Undated. Location: Den Cottage, SARN, Powys, Wales. Approx 150 words (1 full page). Handwritten black ink on 8 x 10" white, unruled paper. 14.Handwritten Note from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Harry]. Handwritten dark green ink on torn 8 x 5.5" unruled sepia paper. Approx. 20 Words. 15.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby and Robert (Bob) Harbis.
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Add to basketLondon: Turret Bookshop, 1986. Large 8vo., mock blue morocco lettered in black to backstrip; housed in the original unclipped dust wrapper (PS12.50) designed by Ralph Steadman; pp. [iv], v, [i], 78; with black and white photograph frontis of the poet; a couple of brown spots to the DJ, and diry/finger marks; else near-fineFirst…edition, limited to 1000 copies. Edited by his sister Ruth, who also provides the Introduction. Ginsberg also provides a short memoir.This copy has been inscribed by Ruth Fainlight, the poet's sister, to the art critic and author Edward Lucie-Smith. Also loosely inserted is an additional compliments card with the poem 'April' inscribed by Bernard Stone, the publisher, in the year of publication. Harry Fainlight (1935-1982) was an Anglo-American poet who was closely associated with the Beat movement in 1960s America. Educated at Cambridge University, Fainlight was a contemporary of Ted Hughes, and with his duel citizenship he travelled freely to and from America, where he met Allen Ginsberg, who later referred to him as "the most gifted poet of his generation". When, at the suggestion of Hughes, Faber and Faber offered to publish his work, he lit a petrol soaked-rag and posted it through the publisher's letterbox - he had suffered with mental illness for the majority of his adult life. He died in 1982 from pneumonia after taking an evening walk.
