Ron Padgett Preface (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 136pp. Second Edition. Stated: this copy is "an unabridged republication of the edition published in London in 1979". 18 pp. of black and white Plates (non-Glossy), between pp. 110 and 113. Chronology, pp. 113-120; Selected Bibliography, pp. 121-132; Index, pp. 133-136. Glossy black and gray wraps with full front cover photo-portrait of Duchamp, facing reader, with light gray lettering for title in a column on top half left front cover, above author and mention of Jasper Johns lettering in light orange, continuing in a column down lower half front cover left. Only peccadillo is slight fading of a few letters of front cover printing of author name and half of Jasper Johns lettering, light orange turning to light yellow, else As New: tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO rubbing wear; NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names; NO signs of sunning to spine. Clean text. Unread. …

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 136 pages, illustrations, portraits; 21 cm. First published, 1967, under title: Entretiens avec Marcel Duchamp. Translated from the French. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. *** Helpful resource for anyone researching Marcel Duchamp, dada, or the modernist avant-garde. Size: 8vo.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Wrappers. 40pp. A 'small collection of erotic poems first published in "Hambourg" in 1927, under the counter. The poems were reprinted just after the second world war, again under the counter, since when, a combination of snooty critics and cowardly publishers have managed to keep the work very far underground in France and virtually unknown in England and America'. The collection was rescued by Ron Padgett from obscurity and published in the French in 'C' magazine from the original edition; 'it is here reproduced for the first time in booklet form together with the excellent translation into english [sic] and prefaced by Padgett's researches into the work.' Apollinaire's text is in parallel French and English, translated by Chris and George Tysh; the translation was made in response to a competition held in 'C', and first appeared in 'Adventures in Poetry'. Very Good with just mild signs of wear, the green of the wrappers a touch faded at the spine (not affecting legibility), a few minor marks outwardly, two facing pages with a small, unobtrusive patch of soiling towards the tail edge.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.