Broken Arm, Signed (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. About the book: Softcover. Staple bound. Limited edition of 200 copies of which this is copy number 57. Signed by poet below number. Book at best is in good condition. A fair bit of soling to covers. Book most likely was folded in half at sometime. Additional photos available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Cover and drawings by Joe Brainard (illustrator). Ted Berrigan started "C" Press in 1963 with Lorenz Gude as publisher and published "C" Magazine from May 1963 to May 1966 for 2 volumes and 13 issues (No #12) and also published Joe Brainard's "C" Comics amongst several books by fellow New York School poets including In Advance of the Broken Arm, preceded by Literary Days by Tom Veitch, Homage to Arthur Rimbaud by Ted Berrigan. Very good, light wear and rubbing to perimeter aspects of cover wrappers, some creasing to wrappers, text block is clean and unmarked but some of the ink for text was transferred to preceding blank pages during mimeo process Softcover quarto, side-stapled in illustrated paper wrappers, unpaginated [42] First Edition, with original cover art (Second Edition had an alternate Brainard cover). Limited to 200 copies, all signed and numbered by Padgett, of which this is no. 98.

Side-stapled wrappers. First edition. Cover and drawings by Joe Brainard. This is no. 171 from an edition of 200 copies, though not called for this copy is signed by the poet. Very near fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 216 mm), [34] mimeographed pages, in side-stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by poet Ron Padgett on the title page to artist George Schneeman and his wife: "For George and Katie / Love, kisses, smooches, slobbers, blubbers, / weeping / Ron / November 1967." A warm and significant association. Padgett (b. 1942) introduced Schneeman to the New York scene when Schneeman and his family moved to the city from Italy in the 1960s. Schneeman (1934-2009) regularly collaborated with poets and writers of the New York School, illustrating their books, magazines and broadsides. "In Advance of the Broken Arm" is Padgett's debut collection of poems, published by Ted Berrigan's C Press. This copy is the second edition (after the 1964 edition), one of 200 numbered copies, this being #140. Edited by Ted Berrigan, cover and drawings by Joe Brainard. A particularly important association between Padgett and Schneeman, who were close friends. CONDITION: Light edge wear, toning and soiling to the covers, else bright and sound. A Very Good or better copy, representing a collaboration by some of the leading members of the New York School. Signed by Author(s).