Comics by Ashbery John (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Joe Brainard (illustrator). First Edition. unpaginated. Stapled wraps. toning to the white covers. light wear to the extremities, minor curling to the corners. internally clean, with light toning to the edges. This book is comprised of collaborative comic strips drawn by Brainard and authored by a number of the New York School poets in his circle, including John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frank Lima, Frank OHara, and others. Scarce. This was the 2nd and final issue of the publication. Size: Quarto. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Brainard, Joe (illustrator). Staple-bound paperback in very good condition. 2nd and final issue of the short-lived "C-comic." Contributions by John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, Dick Gallup, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frank Lima, Frank O'Hara, Ron Padgett, Peter Schjeldahl, Jimmy Schuyler, Tony Towle. Light toning to cover edges and small scuffs at corners. Internally clean and bright. AD. Used.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 11 inches. [108] pp. plus both covers printed recto and verso, all illustrated. Stiff pictorial wrappers, stapled. Mild wear and light toning in covers, small marginal stain on rear cover. Near fine. The second and final issue of the comics mimeo publication bridging the work of the first and second generations of the New York School poets, with art by Joe Brainard (except, it is noted, "Pat" : "Pat is totally a collaboration."). Clay and Phillips, p. 164.

Softcover. Condition: VG-. Rare example of this seminal bundle of fun. Staple-bound, 8.5 x 14 inches, unpaginated with artwork on one side only of each sheet except for the last, which is blank, and is also detached from the staples. Brainard collaborates here with many of his writer friends and colleagues including Bill Berkson, Frank O'Hara, Gerard Malanga, James Schuyler, Peter Schjeldahl and Barbara Guest. Condition issues: heavy discoloration to front cover (& with one light ripply pen mark); with some chipping and creasing to edges, top staple just about detatched. Light general edge-wear to pages but nothing egregious and no rips or stains or other markings within. Interior pages quite bright. Scarce. Further images upon request.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 4to. Stapled wraps. The second of two installments in this series featuring poems by New York School of Poets, including the liked of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and Ron Padgett, illustrated by Joe Brainard. Very Good. Toning to wraps, light wear.