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1988555467New York: Grove Press 1988. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Octavo. 377pp. Near fine with tiny bump at corner and neat scrape. Signed by the author. Grove Press unknown
19960297521996. A promotional poster for the annual Toronto literary festival which each year since 1980 has brought together some of the best writers of contemporary world literature. This poster is one of only a handful of copies signed by all or most of the year's participants approximately 70 signatures. Signed by: Nicholas Shakespeare William Gibson William Kotzwinkle Kathy Acker Sherman Alexie W.P. Kinsella Lynne Reid Banks Louis Begley Marie-Claire Blais Isabel Colegate William Gass Matt Cohen Maeve Binchy Hershel Parker Mavis Gallant Janette Turner Hospital Susan Sontag Tobias Wolff D.M. Thomas Kazuo Ishiguro Timothy Findley Lawrence Block Al Purdy Paul Quarrington Ruth Rendell Joan Mellon Nicholas Jose Oksana Zabuzhko Lorna Crozier and many others. From the collection of the promoter of the festival Greg Gatenby. Designed by Arnaldo Pomodoro. 17" x 24". Fine. No Binding. Fine. unknown
19651121213.69Springer-Verlag Berlin / New York 1965. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo hardcover. 9 volumes bound as 13 in green cloth. Vg condition. Ex-library set non-circulating with front bookplates stamp on endpapers & text-block edges; spine labels very neatly removed. All volumes clean & tight. In German. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / New York hardcover
193796581937. Acker William R. B. THE FUNDAMENTALS OF JAPANESE ARCHERY. Privately printed Japan 1937. 8vo. Japanese style cloth portfolio with bone clasps and paper label Japanese style sewn binding in pictorial wraps with accordion folded sheets. Title page in Japanese 13pp. introduction six pages of photographs 84pp text label in Japanese also saying "Made in Nippon" on the inside rear wrapper. This is the original edition. OCLC locates 12 copies APBC records no copies at auction. There is a 1965 reprint by Tuttle a copy of which accompanies this copy. This copy belonged to Duncan Phillips and his wife who was Acker's sister. The book Fine the portfolio spine somewhat faded and with cracks to the inside paper lining at the folds. Very Rare. paperback
1974539630San Francisco: Empty Elevator Shaft Poetry Press / musicmusic Corporation 1974. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Complete in six volumes. Octavos. Stapled printed wrappers except for the second volume where the wrappers are unprinted as issued. The third volume bears the author name "Peter Gordon" as issued. Issue one with sticker shadow creasing and subtle dampstain at one corner; issue two with small stain corner creased and rear corner badly torn; and the remaining volumes with only light sunning overall very good or better. The second of Acker's three six-volume novels; all written in parts issued separately in very limited numbers and consequently very difficult to find complete in original form. Empty Elevator Shaft Poetry Press / musicmusic Corporation unknown
1972539752San Francisco or Berkeley: Papyrus Press 1972. Softcover. Near Fine. Photocopy. Octavo sheets printed rectos only. 62pp. Uneven sheets side stapled. Light wear still fine. Accompanied by original mailing envelope stamped with The Black Tarantula return address and hand addressed by Acker to Robert Bertholf the influential poetry professor and former curator of The Poetry Collection at Buffalo along with a Autograph Note on the rear flap: "As promised. Please excuse lousy quality of xerox. Love." A photocopy of the pages of Acker's first solely authored work sent to Bertholf in lieu of an original copy; the mailing cancel date read "May 16 1974" two years after the book's publication. Interestingly the first page of the photocopy shows not the all-black front cover which would been impossible to reproduce but the title page showing Acker's note "Myself A" likely indicating the copy was made using her own personal copy. While not an original copy a unique artifact produced by the author using her own copy of her rare first book and sent by her through the mail like several of her earliest works. Papyrus Press unknown
1973568755San Diego California: Community Congress Press 1973. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Complete in six volumes. Octavos. Stapled printed and unprinted wrappers. Overall near fine with some light spine toning a bit of light edgewear and a small indentation and some discoloration on rear wrap of Part #5. The first of Acker's three six-volume novels preceded only by her poetry collection Politics written in parts and issued separately in very limited numbers and consequently very difficult to find complete and in original form. A wonderful copy. Community Congress Press) unknown
1976539626New York: Kathy Acker / TVRT 1976. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Complete in six volumes. Octavos. Stapled printed wrappers with owner stamp of poet Ron Silliman on the first page of parts five and six; Silliman was a friend of Acker during the 1970s in New York. Slight age-toning else fine. The third of Acker's three six-volume novels written in parts and issued separately in very limited numbers and consequently very difficult to find complete and in original form. Very scarce. Kathy Acker / TVRT unknown
