Singular Pleasures by Mathews (13 results)

Condition: good. Francesco Clemente (illustrator). Signs of wear and consistent use.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Francesco Clemente (illustrator). First trade paperback edition, as stated. Text clean, no writing or markings. Binding tight. Front, back, spine, clean, unmarked, no stickers. Slight shelf wear to tips, edges.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Francesco Clemente (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. Stated First Paperback Edition (1999). Covers show some light flaring, scuffing and edge wear.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Clemente, Francesco (illustrator). First Edition. As new, never read. Slight exterior shelf wear. Slight bowing to boards. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clemente, Francesco (illustrator). First Edition Thus. First trade edition, hardcover, has a subtle skew to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, slight wear to the cover edges, faint foxing to the head of the text block, and shadows from erased pencil markings to the half title page. Overall, a solid, Very Good copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has lightly creased bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, rubbing with small areas of smudging to the covers, and a thin slit to the back hinge. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Francesco Clemente (illustrator). First trade edition. Illustrated by Francesco Clemente.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Clemente, Francesco (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Printing thus. Bound in black full cloth with title information to spine in silver. Without page numbers. With black/white illustrations throughout. Not price clipped. NEW. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding firm and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked and very clean and bright. Dust Jacket NEW. condition same as book.All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

First trade edition. (141) pp., 5.75 x 8.75 inches. Cloth over boards in printed dust-jacket. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of watercolor paintings by Francesco Clemente. First published in 1988 by Grenfell Press as a limited fine-press edition. As new. A book about masturbation: sixty-one short prose vignettes that, in the words of the publisher, "record the imaginative varieties of this solitary activity in prose that is playful, intimate, urgent, quirky, and humane. The soloists range in age from nine to eighty; the locales from Australia to Zaire; the means of masturbation from the commonplace to the bizarre. . . . the late Georges Perec, in describing Singular Pleasures as ëa great ecumenical work,' rightly underscored the essential generosity of an apparently scandalous enterprise."A lovely copy of a virtuosic, entertaining, and bracing book.

Black cloth by Claudia Cohen. First Edition in English. Sixty-five small lithographs by Francesco Clememte One of 350 numbered copies, signed by the author and the artist. Printed on Japanese paper from Fuji Mills 8vo Fine copy An inventive series of onanistic episodes, set in a worldwide range of locations, from Adelaide to Zizinga. Clemente's decorations do not illustrate the texts, but portray flowers, ferns, animals, birds and assorted inanimate objects. The work is here first published in English, having appeared in French translation in 1983.

Condition: Very good plus. First Edition. Signed limited first edition in English of these short prose vignettes about masturbation, illustrated with lithographs by Clemente. These intimate and playful vignettes were originally published in Marie Chaix's French translation, PLAISIRS SINGULIERS (1983). 9.5'' x 7''. Original black cloth with red and gilt spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. Patterned taupe endpapers. Red ribbon marker. Illustrated in black and white. Handbound by Claudia Cohen. Signed by Mathews and Clemente on limitation page. Limited to an edition of 350 copies; this copy no. 17. Unpaginated. Trace edgewear, spine sunned. Text clean and bright. Signed.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Limited Edition. 62 original lithographs by Clemente printed on double fold sheets of Gampi and Kozo papers. 8vo, black cloth with red spine label, bound by hand by Cynthia Cohen. New York: Grenfell Press, (1988). First edition in English. Prose vignettes concerning masturbation. Number 74 of 324 copies signed by both Mathews and Clemente. Fine.

Clemente, Francesco (illustrator). First edition. One of 26 specially bound copies containing a signed original watercolor. From an edition of 350 copies, signed by author and artist, 152 pages, 67 duotone lithographs by Clemente accompanying Mathews's text. Printed on Kozo/Gampi. The lithographs were printed by Joe Petruzzelli and Maurice Sanchez, the type cast and set by Michael Bixler. Full leather binding by Claudia Cohen.