A Complete Archive of the Synaesthesia Press Chapbooks, Privately Printed Items, Letters, Booklets, Paper Items and Photos

Charles Bukowski/Richard Brautigan/Chris Offutt/Roxie Powell/Tim O'Brien/Barry Gifford/Harold Norse/Charles Plymell/Denis Johnson

Published by Synaesthesia Press 1992-2024, Tempe, AZ/Los Angeles/San Francisco, 1992

A complete archive of the Synaesthesia Press, founded in 1991 by Jim Camp and Steve Fisher. Contents: 4 POETS: Charles Bukowski, Steve Fisher, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Denis Johnson. No. 167 of 243 numbered copies. (1995). Fisher, Steve. ROCK SALT AND GLISSANDOS (2001). Loney, Mike. THE WAIT. Signed. Folding keepsake leaflet with poetry (2001); FRIENDS [and] ENEMIES, a prospectus for 2 short stories by Tim O'Brien, 125 copies published. (2001). Pritchard, Jim. THE NEIGHBORS. 1 of 98 copies, signed with an original full-page ink drawing, (1995). Maynard, Joe. GRAMPA ODIS. Signed, No. 36 of 50 copies (1995). Litzky, Tsaurah. BLESSING POEMS. No. 11 of 50 copies, signed. (1996). Michele, A. di. THE MOLLIFIER. Signed, No. 28 of 50 copies, (1996). Micheline, Jack. BAD, MAD AND DYING: three fictions from Alan Catlin, Errol Miller and Jack Micheline. 2 copies: Letter U of 26 hand-lettered copies, signed by all 3 contributors with an original hand-colored picture poem cover by Micheline; also a regular issue of 100 copies, (1997). Gifford, Barry. THE STRANGEST ONE OF ALL. Letter N of 26 copies, signed by Gifford & artist Billy Childish. Includes 3 extra woodblock prints & mailed printed postcard, (1998). Norse, Harold. SNIFFING KEYHOLES. Signed, No. 92 of 100 copies, includes a mailed printed postcard. (1998). Plymell, Charles. JOURNALS FROM LYSIDIA. (Two copies). Letter V of 26 copies, signed, with 3 extra prints laid in, in tissue jacket, along with number 51 of 99 numbered and signed copies (1999). Offutt, Chris. A DOG & HIS BOY. No. 4 of 50 copies, with printed mailing postcard, laid in. [2000]. Brautigan, Richard. FOUR POEMS. 1 of 26 lettered copies, (2000). 3 small broadside cards by Roxie Powell, numbers 4 of 34 copies, 39 copies & 41 copies. [2000]. Powell, Roxie. WILD WHISPERS. No. 4 of 99 copies, signed. [2000]. Two copies of FRIENDS [and] ENEMIES, with errata slips laid in. No. 4 of 99 copies in wrappers, signed by O'Brien and illustrator Fritz Scholder. Bound dos-à-dos, in a French fold format and printed on handmade French paper (2001). FRIENDS [and] ENEMIES. Letter U of 26 lettered copies issued in cloth and housed in a metal ammo canister slipcase. A broadside prospectus for FRIENDS [and] ENEMIES is included. Gifford, Barry. THE LOST CHRISTMAS AND OTHER STORIES. Signed, No. 4 of 99 copies, (2002). Frazer, Bonnie. THE VILLAGE SCENE. Signed, No. 4 of 10 Printer's Proof copies (of a 176 total print run), 2000. Four issues of Volta, the assemblage magazine inspired by Wallace Berman. VOLTA I, Winter 2003. (Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, Alan Catlin, Billy Childish, Henry Denander, Tsaurah Litzky, Jim Pritchard). 1 of 50 copies, signed & addressed in hand by the publisher to Larry Hyde, and includes the mailing envelope, 2003. VOLTA 2. Laki Vaz (a digital still showing Herbert Huncke smoking a sherm in the back of a NYC cab from his film); fiction from Jim Pritchard; poetry by Henry Tokarski, Marie Kazalia, Henry Denander, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski and artwork by Nathan Feller. Number 29 of 100 copies in the original mailing envelope, still sealed (2009). VOLTA 3, copy number 14, unopened in the original mailing envelope. VOLTA 4, Fall 2019, in the mailing envelope. Gifford, Barry. ELEGIES: ON VIEWING THE MANUSCRIPT SCROLL OF JACK KEROUAC'S ON THE ROAD IN THE TOSCA BAR, SAN FRANCISCO, with SMALL ELEGY FOR CORSO. No. 4 of 10 Patron copies, signed. (2004). DEAR_____. A black and white found photo, number 124 of 141 copies, the first 103 were used for Bagazine #6. Includes the original mailing envelope, (2015). Some printed ephemera, including DADA, 14 JULY, 1916. Printed on a page from a paperback edition of Tropic of Cancer, in the original mailing envelope (2016). LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY, or, ANOTHER TREACHERY OF IMAGES (une autre trahison des images). Single sheet, in the mailing envelope, (2019). Along with the publications are several typed letters from publisher Jim Camp to Larry Hyde, dating. Seller Inventory # 9931

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Complete Archive of the Synaesthesia Press...
Publisher: Synaesthesia Press 1992-2024, Tempe, AZ/Los Angeles/San Francisco
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition; First Printing.