Patchen Kenneth, Signed (90 results)

SIGNED. Cid Corman, editor of Origin roughly 1950-2003, almost always read a book with pen in hand. Cid also almost always signed all of his personal books from his library and dated when receiving or purchasing the book. Cid also often would note, if a gift, and who had sent the gift -- many times another poet. His personal books range from heavy annotation from Cid where he often in unique marginalia would correct the author, agree with the author, argue with the author and leave it to Cid the often ultimate proofreader to correct the publisher. Close to fine and bright glossy wraps with strong spine and with crisp bright text throughout. In this case, annotated here and there by Cid Corman.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. First edition. SIGNED. 121pp. Octavo [21cm]; beige wraps with black and red text. Some small stains on wraps and minimal shelf wear, most notable near spine. A poetry anthology against nucleur war, inspired by Kenneth Patchen with Patchen's illustrations throughout. One of the editors, the poet Neeli Cherkovski, signed this copy on the title page.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 97 pages, 8vo. SIGNED and inscribed by Miriam Patchen on front endpaper: "To Kenneth Kitch, Partners all -- aren't we. Good relationships grow in good books. Sincerely, Miriam Patchen, March 27, 1977". Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and covers, light tanning, some light foxing on first and last few page leafs. Tightly bound. Volume is in Very Good condition. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near fine. No jacket. Signed by Williams. Includes a fragment of plate 1 from "But Even So." Envelope is lightly tanned and worn along edges, but prospectus itself is clean and unmarked.

Condition: Very Good. A greetings card with a black and white illustration by Kenneth Patchen 'Now when I get back here, & expect to find all of you marching through the streets with great bunches of wild flowers in your arms'. The card is signed by Hugo Manning with a greeting to Stanley and Avril Noble "wishing them a happy festive season and a wonderful 1969", and illustrated with a stylised phoenix. Very Good Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.

4to. Pp: Unpaginated. First Edition. White softcover with black writing and large colour illustration to front. Colour illustrations throughout. Loosely inserted is a compliments card signed by James Laughlin, poet and founder of New Directions. ISBN: 0871568187 Very good, with some foxing and tanning to text block. Light pen marks to front of softcover and some tanning. Some surface marks and tanning to back of softcover. Small bump at spine. Internally clean and sound.

Softcover. pp. 504. Thick 8vo. Illustrated covers. Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents clean, and unmarked; near fine. SIGNED, and incribed by the author's wife, Miriam Patchen (April, 1990).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" One of 100 case bound copies signed and numbered by the editor; this being #59. Red cloth boards with black titles, issued without dust jacket. Light shelfwear, else about Near Fine.

Trade Paperback. First Edition. 93 pages. 5-1/2 by 8-1/4 inches. Two previously unpublished plays: Don't Look Now, and The City Wears a Slouch Hat. Illustrated with several photographic reproductions of Patchen and with a reproduction of a page of his holograph manuscript. First trade paperback edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). This copy bears presentation inscriptions to the publisher of the book, Noel Young, from the cast and crew of a reading performance of the first play, 'Don't Look Now,' that was given on November 11, 1977, at Cody's Books in Berkeley, California. Included among the signatures are those of Miriam Patchen, editor Richard Morgan, Director Phillip Angeloff, producer Alan Soldofsky and Fred Cody of Cody's Books. Laid in is a handbill for the performance (folded twice) giving the date and cast list.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Illustrated By Kenneth Patchen (illustrator). 1st Edition. Loose in binding with covers soiled and stained, BUT warmly inscribed to Ephraim Doner (1905 - 1991) - a Carmel Highlands painter who was part of the artistic group that made the Monterey area such a welcoming place for luminaries like Henry Miller and Jack Kerouac. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition / First Printing. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Kenneth Patchen on the front free endpaper in 1944. 8vo, black cloth with red lettering on paper title labels affixed to the front panel and spine.A landmark collection byone of the most distinctive voices in 20th-century American poetry. . PLEASE NOTE that all our First Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers. A good or better copy, with light edge wear and rubbing to the cloth. Lacking the dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made cloth folding box with printed label on spine. Uncommon signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Square, clean, near fine copy in bright, unclipped near fine dustjacket (mylar protected). Half-title page is warmly INSCRIBED by Landesman to the countercultural poet/photographer/filmmaker/publisher/world traveler Ira Cohen; SIGNED and DATED: "To Ira Cphen / a very early fellow / conspirator - / Best, Jay Landesman / London / 1982". A very attractive copy and an excellent association. With a 7 pp. introduction by John Clellon Holmes. Inscribed & Signed by Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Offering: Kenneth Patchen. Poemscapes. Highlands, NC: Johnathan Williams, 1958. Limited edition. 68 of 75 created by Patchen. Good+ in hand-painted boards that show some wear from handling -- probably Patchen's as he created it. Previous owner's name, as well as an interesting gift inscription. See the extended book description below. By the late 1950s, Kenneth Patchen had moved beyond the printed word and into a deeply personal, visual form of poetry. Confined to bed by worsening spinal injuries, Patchen began painting directly onto books wild, joyful, and deeply strange expressions that fused image and verse into a kind of illuminated manuscript for the atomic age. These painted books became his most intimate works: not mass produced, not repeatable, not replicable. With every stroke and figure, Patchen rejected commercialism, embraced the handmade, and elevated his artists' books into a medium of protest, prayer, and play. His collaboration with publisher Jonathan Williams a fellow iconoclast, Black Mountain alum and founder of the Jargon Society gave us Poemscapes, a raw, unguarded volume of short poetic meditations as vivid as the artwork that would eventually accompany them. This is one of only 75 hand-painted copies of Poemscapes, each uniquely prepared, painted and signed by Patchen. The covers and endpapers have been transformed into a riot of color: swirling figures, surreal beasts, abstracted eyes, and bursts of shape that seem both childlike and cosmic -- as well as Patchen's hand-painted colophon: this copy being number 68. The binding and tops/bottoms of the painted boards show expected wear from its handmade origins, but the boards remain bold, textured, and vibrant. Very few of these painted Patchen books surface on the market, and each is one-of-a-kind. A true convergence of outsider art, poetry, and the book as an object of art. And here's where it gets interesting: the book's inscription on the FFEP by 'Margaret' (note previous owner's name "M. Hollenbach") to 'John & Chigiy', with the heartfelt note: 'knowing that the best of it was written for them.' The context suggests a meaningful association within the circle of Patchen or his collectors. It's worth noting that Patchen's hand-painted books were often sold directly to collectors, friends, or patrons. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Patchen, Kenneth (illustrator). Limited Edition. Extremely rare edition of Patchen's book of poetry featuring an original and unique ink and watercolor cover by the author. This one features the bearded Egir (Aegir), variously described as a giant or a Norse god of the sea who loved to give parties for the other gods. Text block in near fine condition: clean with no marks, tears, or dog ears. Photograph of Patchen (taken by Robin Carson) pasted onto third page. The front cover is stained and discolored in several places, but the watercolor of Egir is not affected. Likewise, the back cover is sun-tanned, discolored, and stained (just one place) - see images of this book to your left. The spine likewise has some discoloring. The slipcase is in generally very good condition: a small section of the upper portion is intact but torn away from the side. There is some shelf rubbing and chipping, particularly along the edges, but the text is still very clear on both front and back of the slipcase. From The Beat Page on the Internet : Kenneth Patchen was born in Niles, Ohio, in 1911. From the age of twelve, he kept a diary and read Dante, Homer, Burns, Shakespeare, and Melville. He attended Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College for one year and then the University of Wisconsin. He was employed in a variety of jobs as a migrant worker in the United States and Canada. "Permanence," a sonnet, was published in The New York Times on April 10, 1932. He wrote more than forty books of poetry, prose and drama, including Before the Brave (1936), First Will and Testament (1939) and Journal of Albion Moonlight (1941), a prose work. In 1942, he published The Dark Kingdom in a limited edition of seventy-five copies and painted each cover individually in water color. For more than thirty years, Patchen lived with a severe spinal ailment that caused him almost constant physical pain. The weight of this personal battle was compounded by his sensitivity to greater issues of humanity, and his poetry paid special attention to the horrors of war. With his work he tried to create a kind of sanctuary for the reader, apart from reality, where larger-than-life characters were motivated by their loving and benevolent natures. Kenneth Patchen died in 1972. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. Folio. Afterword by James Laughlin. About fine in wrappers. Laid in is a card Signed by James Laughlin: "With the compliments of Sierra Club Books.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. US orders ship with signature confirmation. 1943 Harper hardcover stated 1st edition with dj protected in mylar, flatsigned by the author on the bottom of the ffep, which is also the 2nd contents page. Edgewear (some tears closed, including a big one on the spine), chipping and soil/tanning on dj, which is also brittle at the spine, slight fraying on cover, top corners bumped, title label on spine foxed, pages tanned, light dent/curling on top fore-edge, else text clean, binding tight . Signed by Author.

Paperback. First Edition, First Printing. Thin folio. 11 x 15.25 in. Limited edition of 100 copies, this being No.17. Signed by Miriam Patchen and publisher/printer Jonathan Clark on colophon. Near fine in original olive green handmade paper wrappers with a red and gold silkscreened poem on Goyu handmade paper in Patchen's cursive handwriting. Signed.

Loose Leaf. Condition: Good. Lot of two loose sheets, each containing a poem: 'I Have Lighted the Candles, Mary' (1942) and 'Before the Bells of This New Year Ring' (1967). 'Candles' is inscribed by Patchen on the reverse, in very good condition, showing minimal toning and wear; quarter crease through the center. 'Before the Bells' is heavily age toned to the edges, also shows quarter creases through center. Prior owner at one point taped the bottom and top edges, which left 1- to 2-inch stains in two places. Overall, sheets are intact and in good condition. Signed.

Non-Book. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Kenneth Patchen (illustrator). Light wear from handling. Periods typed on the folded card have left small indented dots on both front and back of the card. Joel and Zoe Climenhaga, according to Miriam Patchen "Knew Kenneth Patchen's work better than anyone". In 1961 they originated TRANSIENT PRESS, when they published the first issue of Seed, a poetry magazine, under its imprint. Zoe Clinenhaga was its Co-Editor. During the greater part of the 1960's, other magazines (Jacaranda, Ferment, Rananim and Open Letter) were published through Transient Press. Later, during the 1970's and 1980's, other ephemeral poetry magazines and literary journals were published on an irregular basis under the editorship of the Climenhagas, these included Awakening, The Back Shelf Dispatch, Below Ground Level, Counsel for the Offense, Foundation, Greenage, Inner Dimension, Jonah's Gourd, Lighthouse in the Coming Storm, Noah and a variety of others. This letter was written to David Meltzer by Zoe complaining about his critique of material that Joel had sent him to read. Meltzer, an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance, came to prominence with inclusion of his work in the anthology The New American Poetry 1945-1960. The note is typed on a single fold, 8 by 5" card published by Patchen Cards, with a poem and drawing by Patchen on it. This is an interesting little piece of Beat ephemera. ; Letters; B&W Drawing; Thin 8vo 8" to 9" tall; Signed by Author.

First Edition. First Issue (in black wrappers). Octavo (21.5cm); original card wrappers, stapled; 63,[1]pp; illus. Inscribed by the editor on the first page: To SING OUT / with love / Dennis Gould." Light wear to wrapper extremities, with a few faint creases to same; contents clean; Very Good+ or better. Provenance: From the collection of New York hipster impresario Israel "Izzy" Young, proprietor of the Folklore Center on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, an important nexus for Lower East Side bohemia throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. Collection of Love and War poems by Patchen, published as issue no.1 of the British literary magazine Whisper & Shout. Inscribed by Dennis Gould to the the staff of SING OUT!, the highly-regarded quarterly journal of folk music which ran from 1950-2014. MORGAN A36a. Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. 16mo. [20]pp. A light vertical tan mark on the front wrap, else near fine. Signed by Porter on the front wrap. A brief anthology of poems including three by Kenneth Patchen, preceding his first book. A short-lived periodical that published just six issues. Very scarce.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed to blues musician David "Little Sun" Glover and his wife "know you have a copy - thought you might like one signed with all the good wishes we can send" and signed by Patchen. Softcover, bound in wraps. Light edge-wear. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by author Kenneth Patchen to noted artist and dust jacket designer Simon Greco in June, 1946 (Greco was noted for designing some classic Henry Miller dust jackets for the publisher of this book - New Directions). First edition, later printing (bound in blue cloth on lighter stock, with title page in black only). No jacket, spine a bit browned with spotting to covers and a light cup ring on front cover).

Softcover. First Edition. Stiff wraps in a dustwrapper designed by Patchen, one of 2500 copies. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page: "For Miles Burr/with all good wishes/Kenneth Patchen." Two-inch split at the top and three inches at the bottom of the dustwrapper along the spine. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition, the first collected edition of the influential literary periodical, published between 1948 and 1951. Top corners bumped, darkening in the gutters, a very good or better copy in an about good dustwrapper that is chipped and faded at the spine. Advance Review Copy, so stamped on the front fly, and additionally Inscribed by editor Landsman to author James Jones and his wife Gloria: "To Jim and Gloria, Hoping this is the most expensive $12.00 work on your shelves still 'love' after all these years 1972(?). Jay." An influential and avant-garde quarterly literary journal, this anthology includes work by Kenneth Patchen, Leonard Bernstein, Henri Michaux, Marc Brandel, and others.

Condition: Very good. First edition. Signed first printing of Patchen's poetry collection, with the author's pen drawing of an indeterminate four-legged beast. 9'' x 6''. Original yellow cloth. 64 pages. Signed by Patchen on title page with pen drawing below signature. Lacking dust jacket. Light soil and rubbing to boards. Signed.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Signed and inscribed by both Kenneth and Miriam Patchen on half title. Kenneth Patchen's bold, nearly half-page inscription reads 'for Kenneth Williing all the best ! Kenneth Patchen April 1960.' Miriam's inscription, just below her busband's, reads: 'Warmly to the other Kenneth Miriam Patchen.' The binding is rubbed with some creasing and staining, and there is a tear to spine. The text is very good and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. PRESENTATION COPY, signed and inscribed by author Kenneth Patchen to noted artist and dust jacket designer Simon Greco (who was noted for designing some classic Henry Miller dust jackets for the publisher of this book - New Directions). A Very Good copy of the First hardcover edition in orignial jacket (jacket spine and edges browned; fragile boards slightly bruised at foot of spine; usual offset to endpaper).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine lightly worn dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "Arthur, Thanks for your Support - Larry Smith 3/28/2000." The book is inscribed to Arthur Sturcke a little-remembered painter and pacifist who exhibited in the 1930s and 1940s, and who did much to help and support Patchen. Laid in are two letters from Patchen's wife, Miriam, talking about the old days and mentioning the release of this biography, along with what appears to be either Sturcke's unsent letter to Miriam or a retained copy in which comments on the biography and its author: "Too bad he [Smith] never came east to fill in his portrait with testimony of those of us who remain." Also included is a bookmark in honor of Miriam Patchen upon her death and a copy of a photograph of Patchen and Strucke together.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited edition of 126 copies, numbed and signed by the author, this being copy number 16. Light speckling in outer hinges. Small spot of soiling on two facing pages. Fore-margin torn on one leaf (a presumed bindery artifact), else fine. 174, 117, 185 pp. The complete texts of three of Patchen's works (First Will & Testament, The Dark Kingdom, Cloth of the Tempest) brought together and bound in beige cloth with spine label stamped in genuine gold, printed on Rag Laid paper. The signed and numbered colophon tipped to front pastedown. Signed by Author(s).