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160809010No place: Self published 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. A complete set in six parts: "The Case of the Murdered Twerp" "Longing for Better Things" "Stop It Ted I Screamed" "How Love Can Lead Youngsters to Murder" "The Future" and "The Life of Johnny Rocco." Very good on average with wraps showing toning light smudging and general handling. Volume IV has previous owner name inside front cover and light creasing. A postmodern cut-up novel in the vein of William S. Burroughs Brion Gysin and the Situationists. Early works by Acker in complete runs are scarce as they were often issued in parts either handed out to friends or sold by subscription. [Self published] paperback
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
3040No place Bay Area: Papyrus Press 1972. Very Good. Kathy Acker's first book certainly the rarest and one that already clearly presages the energy & portent of her later writings. Breathless prose. Printed card-covers with thick tape covering staples 8-5/8" x 7-1/8" in Very Good condition but for some water staining to front cover. The present copy is from the library of another great radical literary figure Jill Johnston 1929-2010 cultural critic memoirist lesbian feminist and champion of the avant-garde and it bears her distinctive stamp in blue ink on the title page which reads "Write first. then live." J.J. While the edges of the covers are a tad softened there are no other mentionable flaws to this piece. Papyrus Press unknown
21226881974. San Francisco: Empty Elevator Shaft Poetry Press / musicmusic Corporation. 1974. Six vols 8vo. Original white and cream wrappers stapled as issued front covers lettered in purple vol. I and black vols III-VI front cover of vol. II blank; housed in a custom-made grey card box; continuous pagination throughout vol. I entirely printed in purple; some light wear to covers slight spotting to top edge of text block in vols V and VI; near fine.First edition a particularly attractive copy of Acker's second published novel issued in six separate parts in limited numbers.A central figure in the New York literary avant-garde of the 1970s Kathy Acker developed a transgressive feminist voice that challenged conventional narrative forms. I Dreamt I Became a Nymphomaniac! loosely based on her own experiences employs her characteristic fragmentary prose to explore the desires and inner life of its first-person narrator.The work was first issued in 1974 in six separate volumes and appeared in a single-volume edition in 1980. Only the first two volumes are explicitly attributed to Acker: the third is credited on the front cover to the composer and experimental musician Peter Gordon whom she married in 1978 while the back cover bears the copyright name ""The Black Tarantula"" one of her pseudonyms. unknown
43804New York: Various 1991. Very good overall. Collection of five different versions of Acker's first critically acclaimed work - including a pre-publication copy of her own corrected typescript. The pre-publication copy gives key insight not only into Acker's writing methods but also raises interesting questions about the intended structure of the finished story and highlights the mutable interpretations regarding the published presentation of her prose writing via four different versions included herein. <br /> <br /> This copy was sent by Acker in late 1979 to friend and fellow experimental writer Paul Buck. The pages have clearly been xeroxed on several different machines with different paper stock and print qualities evident in different sections and pp. 29 is an original typescript passage with visible typed corrections and numbered in holograph in Acker's distinctive hand which has been taped onto the verso of a sheet of letterhead for "Performing Artservices Inc. 463 West St NY" an organization that provided management and administrative services to avant-garde artists. <br /> <br /> Included with this document are four published editions of the story. The first although not always credited thus was in International Times vol. 5 no 5. January/February 1980. Run as "New York City '79" over the centerspread this version is closest to the typescript form. There is persuasive evidence that the editors of I.T. were working from a similar photocopy and whether instructed thus by Acker or not they took the cut-up style of the piece at face value and ran it as a series of fragments differentiated from one another by the use of typefaces and with no cohesive order. Probably due to space constraints this version is also heavily abridged however the notable omissions of the three statements about lesbians suggests that there was also a degree of selective censorship at work. <br /> <br /> The first publication of the complete text followed in July 1980 in the pages of San Diego magazine Crawl Out Your Window Issue 7. Here the sentences - which run over multiple pages in the typescript - are conventionalized into standard lines. There are also slight textual differences with a couple of additional sentences added. <br /> <br /> The first stand-alone publication came in Top Stories 9 1981 which incorporated photographs by Anne Turyn. These images again mutate the text and raise further questions about Acker's editorial intention; the typescript title-page bears the uncompleted subheading "Photographs by" but gives no further allusions to this content. The final example is the 1991 Semiotexte collection HANNIBAL LECTOR MT FATHER which shows still further textual edits. <br /> <br /> In terms of form the most marked difference between the typescript copy and the published editions that followed is the way in which the text is divided into a series of passages or episodes numbered at the head of the page. These can be full paragraphs or single sentences or for example the word "syphilis" which has an entire page to itself. This deliberate distribution of white space surrounding the single word which in later editions is returned to the conventional layout of a sentence adds nuance and valence to the story which is arguably altered in transcription. <br /> <br /> In the key collection of Acker Papers at Duke University there is a comparable copy described thus in their catalogue: "60-page photocopied typescript corrected in the photocopy with original note on the title page My Copy by Acker". We have not been able to locate an original typescript suggesting that this format with Acker's holograph corrections in the copy is as primary a resource for this text as is currently known. <br /> <br /> A revealing collection about Acker's Pushcart Prize-winning work showing both her working methods and intentions while simultaneously demonstrating their editorial undoing across numerous editions. Photocopy of typescript with one page original typescript bearing top-copy typed corrections and holograph number that page taped to verso of letterhead. 60pp. printed on recto only stapled at top right corner with neat tape reinforcement over staple on title page. Light wear to title page and final sheet tail edge of two oversized sheets rubbed. Taped revision loose from browned tape mounts. With four published appearances featuring the story also provided. [Various] 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
5422761983. Unbound. Very Good. Manuscript. Four lined octavo sheets holograph rectos only. Very good with creases from being mailed small stain on the first page and typical ragged edge from being removed from a spiral bound notebook. Signed and date on the last page along with a word count: "Kathy Acker 1983. app. 950 words." Accompanied by the mailing envelope and a one-page Autograph Note Signed to editor Malcolm Imrie apologizing for her handwriting and how she is looking forward to seeing him. An essay about embracing nihilism as a means of escape - along with a move to London - ending with a sexually brutal metaphor that takes place inside the hallway of a tenement building in New York. Not for the weary though typical stuff for Acker. A short work intended for an unstated English literary magazine which we could not identify suggesting this is possibly unpublished. unknown
539637San Diego California: Community Congress Press 1973. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Complete in six volumes. Octavos. Stapled printed and unprinted wrappers. One issue with splash mark on the cover and another with small stain on the rear wrap but overall fine with bright white wrappers typically found toned. Laid into the first volume is a Autograph Note Signed by Acker as The Black Tarantula along with a small drawing of a spider: "Fielding Dawson said you might be interested being put on my mailing list - Love The Black Tarantula." Accompanied by five original mailing envelopes stamped with The Black Tarantula return address and addressed in Acker's hand to Robert Bertholf the influential poetry professor and former curator of The Poetry Collection at Buffalo. 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 in remarkable condition with an handwritten note by Acker and the rarely found original mailing envelopes. Community Congress Press) unknown
