Kathy Acker: Signed (32 results)

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on front endpage. In protective mylar cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989. Octavo. Soft cover. Inscribed by Acker on the half-title page. Second printing of the Grove Weidenfeld paperback edition. Mild wear to the covers. Very good. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Evergreen Edition. Paperback. 1984; First Evergreen Edition; First Printing. ISBN 0394623347. Very good paperback overall. Light shelf wear and edge wear to wraps, with minor corner wear/rubbing. Interior clean aside from the author's inscription on the title page. Cult classic transgressive novel by Kathy Acker, published here in the First Evergreen Edition / First Printing (1984). Signed and inscribed by Kathy Acker on the title page, "For Pete, yours, Kathy." A collectible copy of Acker's experimental work, known for its literary collage, explicit adult content, and countercultural significance. Please see photos for condition. Orders ship within 2 business days. Domestic standard shipping is via USPS Media Mail. Priority Mail upgrade available. Books are securely packaged to prevent damage in transit. Delivery times are estimates provided by USPS and are not guaranteed. For the satisfaction of our customers, we DO NOT and WILL NEVER use OSM Worldwide or third-party mail consolidators. Signed and Inscribed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine first edition copy of Acker's fifth book in equally fine jacket. Binding is tight, square and clean. Jacket has no creases or tears of any kind and has not been price clipped. Inscribed by the author on the ffep - "Thanks for a great interview. Yours, Acker". A lovely copy. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 265 pages, 8vo. SIGNED by Kathy Acker in light blue ink on front endpaper. Jacket price is unclipped. Stated First Edition. First Printing, with complete number line ending in 1. Shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing, spine fade. DJ in mylar. Spine is lightly cocked, some light foxing and tanning on inside covers and page edges. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. ** SIGNED PAPERBACK FIRST EVERGREEN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING ** Octavo. Near Fine condition. Black pictorial wrappers are clean and bright, with only the slightest hint of edgewear at the extremities; spine square and uncreased. Text block clean, pages creamy and unmarked. Full number line present, indicating first printing. Flat signed by Kathy Acker in black ink on the title page. No remainder marks, ownership inscriptions, or annotations. A sharp, collectible copy. Signed by Author(s).…

Synopsis "In Memoriam to Identity is a weird, violent, searing, angry work, full of pain, dislocation, desire, hate and the raging drive of resistant creation. . . . Kathy Acker has invented a form of secret historiography, a language of shock and sensation that provides a vivid, disruptive, unsettling readout on the psychosocial trauma of our time."--Tim Clark, Los Angeles Times Book Review. Reviews Acker, known for her scatological excursions into the demimonde of post-modernism, is above all a literalist, and a literary one at that. If her concern is the alienation wrought by industrialization, she literally appropriates Dickens's Pip, as she did in her first novel (sassily titled Great Expectations ), and thrusts him into the complexities of her time. In this new book, Acker mourns the childhood innocence (mostly sexual) lost to socialization. She invokes the writings of Rimbaud and Faulkner, blending them with modern angst and not a little political posturing--about AIDS, Thatcherism, etc. The book's four interlocking stories detail Rimbaud's doomed relationships with his mother and the poet Verlaine, Quentin Compson's deluded engagement with his unfolding fate and the tragic exploitation (again, mostly sexual) of several other characters. The tie that binds these narratives is the frenetic struggle to escape from the limitations of the social self. Acker writes with the coldest beauty and the most perfervid excess; she will find the audience that wants nothing in between. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Acker's is not polite fiction, nor is it naturalistic. It is, however, challenging, certainly in its style and form but even more in its smart, articulated anger and willingness to affront its audience. Appropriating the lives and works of Rimbaud and Faulkner, this novel continues the challenge. The novel's first three sections introduce its three story lines: Rimbaud and his complex, miserable affair with the older poet Verlaine; Airplane, a young woman working in a sex show, whose story concerns innocence and wildness and public and private acts; and Capitol, the lover of Faulkner's Quentin Compson, a girl struggling free of her parents' influence. As Acker's title warns, memory and identity are linked. Themes recur and change, joining the novel's separate parts until the individual stories themselves become joined and their characters interact. There is much to praise in this difficult novel, not least of which is Acker's confident manipulation of narrative technique. - Kevin Ray, Washington Univ., St. Louis Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. ** INSCRIBED LOVE, ACKER, 1ST EDITION, 1ST Acker, Kathy. Hello, I'M Erica Jong. Contact Il Publications, New York: 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Wraps, signed by Acker, a Near Fine copy, slight rubbing and toning on extremities, slightly rubbing on top right corner board and end pages. Text is bright, bold, and clean. Sharp page corners. Protected in a removable plastic covering. Enjoy. McClard, Michael (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Softcover. dj. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 145 pages. In Very Good condition. Encased in protective mylar covering. Spine black with tan lettering. Mild discoloration on top of front cover. Mild general shelf wear. Previous owner sticker on title page. Signed by Acker on title page. Shelved in Case 6. 1410998. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Signed. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stiff wrappers, VG, bit soiled and worn, INSCRIBED to me, "For Harry, Love Acker" prob. the only book INSCRIBED by Kathy to an Acker award winner. Memories of wild nights in the East Village long ago. (H5-2). Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author, editor, illustrator, and six contributors. Publisher's original pictorial boards, in the Alix Cox illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is a little dusty to the rear panel and spine. Issued in a limited edition of 50 copies, this example numbered 36 and signed by Alasdair Gray, Alan Warner, Rebecca Camu, Duncan Mclean, Rane Roberts, Robin Robertson, M. Lollopit and Alix Cox on the limitation page. The literary magazine's first and only issue, featuring short fiction and poetry. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s). …

Softcover. Condition: Good. Newsletter. (6)pp. Sheets printed both sides and attached with a staple. Folded for mailing (but unmailed), as issued. Soiling and some erosion on small holes, particularly on the final leaf, good. A newsletter that sums up the goings on at The Poetry Projects as well as other artistic endeavors around New York. This issue features a poem by Peter Orlovsky, as well as mentioning (among other things) an upcoming performance with Kathy Acker, and the release of her book *The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula.* Inscribed on the final leaf where his poem appears by Peter Orlovsky (with "love & tickles") at Naropa, and dated by him about six weeks after the date of this issue.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Self published book by San Diego poet Melvyn Freilicher, presumably his first book, which comes with a typed note to fellow poet Armand Schwerner stating "Kathy Acker suggested I send you this book, I hope you like it." Acker was a link between NY and San Diego at the time. The book is signed by Freilicher in black pen as well. Aprox 40pg of poems and illustrations, possibly by Mel, possibly by cover artist Wilhelmina Korevaar. Bound in wraps with black binding tape. Binding solid, with one small corner of tape a bit peeled back but hardly. Bumped at the bottom right corner of the cover and the duration of the book, but most felt at the cover. Besides the signature, all contents inside clean and without damage. Glossy covers clean as well, with some scratching and soiling to the back cover especially at the upper corner there is a small coffee stain. Indented in the back cover, only seen under bright light, is the formner address of Armand Schwerner, possibly left after Freileicher wrote his address on the original package in which this was contained. Now in mylar. Alongside the note, an interesting document of a poet who alongside his own work was involved with many fascinating poets and artists of the time, and who went on to a long career as an educator and writer in San Diego. Signed by Author(s).…

166pp. A novel. Signed and inscribed on the front endpaper ('for Skye, Happy Birthday & all love, Kathy.') 4 x 6" b/w photo of Acker laid in. Trade paperback. SIGNED and inscribed. Light shelfwear; tiny ding to cover, top corner gently thumbed. Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 8vo, stapled wrappers, 1st Ediition, Fine, INSCRIBED (H6-2). Signed by Author(s).

12mo. Very fine crease to spine, otherwise very fine. Signed by the author ÈYours with love, Toulouse Lautrec..

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. 400pp. Tight, clean, unmarked copy of Acker omnibus including Kathy Goes to Haiti, My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Florida. Book square and tight, dust jacket crisp and vivid and unclipped. Signed by Acker in blue ink on FFEP. 1988 reissue of three of Acker's earlier novels, in a single volume. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book. …

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Evergreen edition. Octavo. 207pp. A touch of edgwear, else fine. Inscribed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. 279pp. Squre, clean, unmarked copy of Acker's slim novel, in a crisp, unclipped jacket. Signed by Acker in green on title page. Crisp, tight copy of Acker's 1996 novel, signed by the author. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. cloth hard cover.large 8vo.265 pages.Signed by the Author on top right of front endpaper.fine copy in fine DUST JACKET original price present. scarce. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. 268pp. Orange boards, gilt titles on spine. Spine straight, binding tight, corners square, pages clean and umarked. Unclipped dust jacket is a vivid red and presents very well in a mylar sleeve. Signed by Acker on the FFEP in black ink. Acker bases My Mother: Demonology loosely on the relationship between George Bataille and Colette Peignot. Acker's reputation has only grown since her 1997 death. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Drawings, 8.5 x 7, stapled wraps, unpag, vg, FIRST ED, SIGNED BY ACKER.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Illustrated by Robert Kushner. Large octavo. Stiff brown stapled wrappers with gilt lettering and decoration. Near fine with some light edgewear. Signed by Acker on the first page. Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Large 8vo, decorated, stapled wrapprs, 1st Edition, Fine, illus by Kushner, INSCRIBED by Acker (H6-2). Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First British edition. A trade-size paperback original. SIGNED by Kathy Acker on the front endpaper. Near fine in pictorial printed wrappers. (207) (5 1/4" X 7 3/4") (Mild trace of toning to cheap grade of paper in text wherein several pages have faded while still barely readable. ) Uncommon signed. ; 5 1/4" x 7 3/4"; 207 pages.…

12mo. First edition. Signed ÈLove Kathy Acker? on title page. Illustrated wrappers. Some very light rubbing to edges and tiny scuff to front panel near bottom spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Uncorrected proof, first issue. Octavo. 207pp. Near fine in printed blue wrappers with tiny spot and light spine-sunning. This first issue with a crudely laid out summary of the book and pair of blurbs (*Esquire* and *Vogue* only) on the first page, as well a lack of publisher's notation or stamp on the front cover. Signed by Acker.…

First Edition. first edition, 1991. includes signed letter from acker. "929 clayton st. sf., ca. 94117 dear ray, thanks so much- you're being a sweetheart to someone who never should have been a landlord, much less and absentee one. yours truly, kathy acker" new york: semiotext(e). isbn: 09367566853. 4.5 x 7 inches. 148 pages. softcover. perfect bound in glossy wrappers. book condition: fine. Signed. …

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Octavo. 377pp. Near fine with tiny bump at corner and neat scrape. Signed by the author.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition. First edition. Illustrated, designed by Mark Magill, printed in two colors. 8vo. Signed by Acker on the first page. Printed side-stapled wraps. Some shelfwear, near fine Illustrated, designed by Mark Magill, printed in two colors. 8vo. Signed.