Robert Lavigne (27 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover WITH EXTENSIVE ERRATA SHEET, in excellent, unmarked condition (slightest handling, slightest wear). 127 pages. [8oz]. Book.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bonne Condition. Rares traces d'usure sur la couverture. Intérieur frais.89 p.Envoi soigné.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Appears to be signed by authors. "28/60". No visible defects. Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Robert LaVigne (illustrator). Book condition: fair, very scarce two volume set sold as is, both spine pieces are missing and have been replaced with strips of white tape upon which is written a description of each volume, the papers were edited by Montagu's great grandson, Lord Wharncliffe, all black boards show light wear to corners and have strips of black cloth tape on each spine head and tail, both interiors very clean, the bindings of both volumes are split at middle, 397 pages with six pages of other books by publisher, 444 pages with two volume index, 6 X 9 inches. Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. If actual shipping cost is less than the AbeBooks estimate, it is our practice to REFUND the difference to the buyer.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 12mo, 256pp, printed wrappers. Another book-length issue of this late sixties/early seventies cultural review, featuring a range of significant writers. (The Ed Dorn contributions are Streeter C125ÐC126; Snyder is Sherlock v2.D179.) Light outer wear, no markings. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 4to, 112pp, printed wrappers. Includes tributes to Jack Micheline and work by a range of accomplished contributors. Light cover wear. Not Signed.

1974, Insects, Society for Range Management, Range Science Series, No. 2, February 1974, very good paper.

(Diptera: Apioceridae) (S. A. Ann. of the Entomol. Soc. of America Vol. 68, No. 4) 1975. S. 673 - 676. m. zahlr. Abb. (St.) geklammert -3) -Sonderabdruck-.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Lavigne, Robert (illustrator). First Edition. Tiniest bit of toning to cover else fine and fresh -- illus wraps. $1.25 price back cover. Cover art by Robert Lavigne. An very attractive copy.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. LaVigne, Robert (illustrator). First Edition, Second Issue. Near fine -- photogr. wraps (in mylar protector). First edition, second issue (with uncensored title of fifth poem p. xv). Includes portrait of Wieners by Robert LaVigne. An excellent, very fresh copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Robert LaVigne (illustrator). First Edition. Unpaginated. first edition. Limited edition, 1/200 copies. Very good copy in cream paper over boards and yellow cloth covers. Paper label on spine. No dust jacket. Discolored covers. Beautifully designed and printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem Press.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO40218756: Non daté. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Plaquette d'env. 15 pages (agrafées). Illustré de dessins en noir. Partitions et paroles. . . A l'italienne. Classification Dewey : 264.2-Musiques et chants, hommage à Dieu.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. LaVigne, Robert (illustrator). First Edition. Covers a bit toned else near fine -- illus. wraps. An attractive copy. Photos available on request.

Original Wraps. Condition: Fine. LaVigne, Robert (illustrator). Second Edition, Revised. Fine -- illus. wraps. First published in 1958 expurgated version. This revised second edition is unexpurgated. Author photo by Wallace Berman on back cove; also pen and ink portrait by Robert LaVigne. A very fresh copy.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Robert LaVigne (illustrator). Limited Edition. Illustrated linen covers are mostly clean, with color illustration. Boards show some edgewear. See photos. Spine has firm ends. Binding is strong. Gray end papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear. Publisher's prospectus announcing the edition and soliciting subscriptions is laid in. Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear; scattered toning of deckle edges. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block edges have deckle fore and foot edges.** PS2025.0611** 43 pages. 9 x 11.5 inches** A Very Good Plus copy of the fine edition produced by Andrew Hoyem and Robert Grabhorn of Howl by Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). Linen boards are illustrated in color by Robert LaVigne with images based on the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco. Handmade paper is printed in generous 18 point type, with block initials. The text of Howl is followed by the poetic fragment The Names, written by Ginsberg in 1957 and first published in the Paris Review (Spring 1966).** Laid in is a scarce copy of the Prospectus announcing this work.** Fine edition of 275 copies, printed on handmade paper. Signed by author on title page.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #010248"**. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Comme neuf. Merci, votre achat aide à financer des programmes de lutte contre l'illettrisme.

Condition: Good. Letterpress title page. Fo. Single sheet. Very good. Deckled side. Laid paper with Holland watermark. Title in black ink. Includes small insert: gravure in white ink on deckled dark brown paper, 4 x 4.25 inches. Rare.

Condition: Good. Exhibition announcement. Single sheet folded once to make a 4-pp. booklet. Printed pp. 1 and 3 only. Black and white drawing by LaVigne reproduced on p. 3. No date; probably around 1970. The front and back are very slightly soiled, but overall Very Good Plus.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 116 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.28 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Original Wraps. Condition: Fine. Lavigne, Robert (illustrator). First Edition. A fresh, fine copy copy -- cream printed wraps. One of 500 copies. Illustration by Robert LaVigne. A very sharp copy of Beat poet's scarce first book.

Nancy, 1931. Format 16x25 cm, agrafe. Couverture insolee. Etat correct. Sommaire: Robert PARISOT: Quelques Lorraines illustres: Marguerite d'Anjou-Lorraine. - Isabelle de Ludre, p. 329./ Emile MOSELLY: Dernier sejour en Lorraine, p. 346./ Georges DRIANT: Un episode de la Fronde: Le marechal de La Ferte s'empare de Clermont-en-Argonne au nom du roi (février 1650), p. 356./ L. LAVIGNE: Jeux d'autrefois: Souffler le charbon, p. 362./ Charles LAURENT: La Phemie r'vint de le noce.

Loose sheet. Condition: Very Good+. Robert Lavigne illustrated (illustrator). Limited edition. 20-3/8 x 15 inches. Art paper printed in black recto only. Edition limited to 350. Signature facsimiles of the poet and of the artist. Moderate toning and minimal crimping to edges. Poem written on Ginsberg's deportation flight out of Communist Czechoslovakia after being crowned "King of May" in Prague then de-crowned and having his journals confiscated by the secret police. Bordered with LaVigne's phallic vignettes of Ginsberg wearing only sneakers and Tibetan prayer bells.Robert LaVigne (1928-2014) was an artist and portraitist chiefly known for his association with the Beats. The deeper connection with Ginsberg began after Ginsberg moved in with LaVigne and Peter Orlovsky. According to Bill Morgan's The Beat Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour, the domestic arrangement was marked by jealousy and arguments. Ginsberg moved out; at the same time Orlovsky and LaVigne broke up. In short, Ginsberg and Orlovsky formed a relationship, leaving LaVigne so distraught he moved to Mexico to find solace. And while Ginsberg and Orlovsky remained romantic partners for decades, LaVigne eventually resumed his friendship with both men.Now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve with backing.

Condition: Very Good +. San Francisco: The Auerhahn Society, 1965. First Edition, Limited issue of 250 copies. Quarto; unpaginated. Author photograph; printed in red and black. Vellum spine stamped in gilt over illustrated boards featuring a woodcut design by LaVigne. Lacks dust jacket. Includes Olson's essay on Projective Verse. Mild rubbing to edges; top rear corner bumped; light soiling to spine. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a well-preserved, Very Good or better copy.

First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue, one of 1,250 copies. Quarto (28cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [x],49,[5]pp. Inscribed by Whalen on the title page to Sherry Vetter, a girlfriend of Richard Brautigan's: "30/31:I:72 Bolinas / For Sherry at Richard's / All best / Philip." Hint of sunning to spine, faint finger-soil to covers, with light wear to extremities and a faint vertical crease toward left edge of front wrapper; some transfer from the ink inscription onto the opposing page; Very Good+. An attractive collection of Whalen's poems (several of them originally published in the pages of Yugen, Foot, Combustion, Galley Sail, and Jabberwock), produced by Dave Haselwood's Auerhahn Press. Brautigan met Sherry Vetter at an Irish pub in North Beach, early in 1970. He was instantly smitten, and began a two-week courtship by phone. "Richard, for his part, tutored Sherry in his literary preferences, trying to influence her reading tastes. He introduced her to the work of McClure, Snyder, and Creeley and to classic writers "he thought were really great, like Baudelaire and Sappho." He recited poetry to her. Vetter recalled Phil Whalen's poem "Three Variations All About Love," a personal favorite" (Hjortsberg, Jubilee Hitchhiker, p.420). Vetter would eventually grace the cover of Brautigan's 1971 book Revenge of the Lawn, in black and white. Auerhahn 6; Lepper, p.419. 8584.

Limited Edition. Signed. Oblong folio; in striped paper boards backed in linen with a paper label to the spine; [5] leaves printed in buff and in red; the boards have some minor soiling, and there is darkening to the hinges from the binding glue; this copy is signed by Allen Ginsberg and Robert LaVigne.~~A poem by Allen Ginsberg with three drawings by Robert LaVigne, one of 200 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem in 1970.

Limited edition. The first fine press edition of this landmark poem printed by Andrew Hoyem and Robert Grabhorn.It contains the original text as it was published in 1956 with minute revisions and the addition of a related poetic fragment, The Names, which Ginsberg wrote in 1957 - the first appearance of the two collected works. In the poem, Ginsberg describes "Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows!" This imagery is based on a drug-induced vision of such a monster when observing the Gothic Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco (now called The Beacon Grand). Robert Lavigne's cover illustration captures this representation beautifully. This study includes 7 pieces of LaVigne's art which led to the cover: 8" x 11" colored pencil on yellow notebook paper,signed 21.75"x15.5"colored pencil on paper,signed 21.75"x17.5"colored pencil on paper,signed 18" x 12" pencil on tracing paper,signed 10 3/8"x15.5"pencil on tracing paper,signed 10" x 15.5" pencil on paper 10" x 15.5" ink on paper, signed . 4to. 44pp. Publisher's decorative binding, tan linen, with wrap-around artwork in nine colors, edges untrimmed, signed by Ginsberg and LaVigne on title page, signed by Hoyem on limitation page, fine. Two variants of the prospectus laid in, both signed by Ginsberg and LaVigne. Includes 7 piece study for the cover artwork signed by LaVigne.