ACKER, Kathy as Henri Toulouse LautrecBiblio.com
208 résultats
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1988BN152792Pidador Pan Books 1988. 1988. Hardcover. Empire of the Senseles - signiert <br/><br/>Empire of the Senseles - signiert Kathy Acker Pidador, Pan Books hardcover
1937129316Book is written in handwritten form. Some black and white photographs. Some color illustrations. Written on one side of uncut pages only. Book is in original hard paper box with brown ribbon tied at side and handwritten label on front. Very clean book in very good condition. Pictures on request Privately Published
19912460new york: semiotexte 1991. first edition 1991. includes signed letter from acker.<br /> <br /> "929 clayton st.<br /> sf. ca. 94117<br /> <br /> dear ray<br /> thanks so much- you're being a sweetheart to someone who never should have been a landlord much less and absentee one.<br /> yours truly<br /> kathy acker"<br /> <br /> new york: semiotexte. isbn: 09367566853. 4.5 x 7 inches. 148 pages. softcover. perfect bound in glossy wrappers. book condition: fine. semiotext(e) unknown
1986539575New York: Grove Press 1986. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof first issue. Octavo. 207pp. Near fine in printed blue wrappers with tiny spot and light spine-sunning. This first issue with a crudely laid out summary of the book and pair of blurbs Esquire and Vogue only on the first page as well a lack of publisher's notation or stamp on the front cover. Signed by Acker. Grove Press unknown
1937155064Japan: Privately Printed 1937. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in original VG folding card portfolio with ribbon ties. Title page & foreword in Japanese text in English translation by Aker. Photographs color and black & white illustrations. Photoprinted on double leaves in Japanese style from manuscript copy. xiii 84 pages. Colophon in Japanese attached to rear inside cover Privately Printed hardcover
19043555<p>Cellulose inset cover medallion of Bernhardt as La Princesse Lointaine after Mucha enveloped by poppies on wood-veneered boards. Twenty-eight fin-de-siecle celebrities each in photograph by Nadar Boyer et al. surrounded by colored art nouveau motifs by Habert-Dys Orazi and Fraikin and facsimiles of autographed script. Included are Victorien Sardou Sarah Bernhardt François Coppée Mme Edmond Adam Anatole France Mme la Duchesse D'Uzès Jules Lemaître Mme Réjane Jules Claretie Mme Segond-Weber Jean Richepin Marthe Brandès Coquelin aîné Jeanne Granier Jules Massenet Aïno Ackté Mounet-Sully Jane Hading J-L.Gérôme Jane Hatto Antonin Mercié Marie Delna Luc-Olivier Merson Sibyl-Sanderson F.-A. Bartholdi Carrère-Xanrof Alfred Capus & Ranavalo Manjaka III the ex-queen of Madagascar. Also contains fourteen stunning hors-texte chromolithographed Leonetto Cappiello caricatures of Sarah Bernhardt Francois Coppee Jules Lemaitre Madame Rejane Jules Claretie et al. Wear to fore edge corners.; 265 x 330 mm; Additional images and further information provided upon request. ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.</p> Octave Beauchamp. hardcover
1983160523New York: Horizon Films 1983. Vintage studio still photograph of Sandy McLeod shot by and credited at the right margin to Nan Goldin from the 1983 film. Shown is actress Sandy McLeod in seeming triplicate. Goldin also has a brief role in the film. A striking image.<br /> <br /> An aspiring writer takes a job as a ticket-taker at an adult film theatre in Times Square soon finding herself drawn into the seedy world of the theatre's customers. The film drew together a veritable who's who of New York underground regulars with a screenplay by Kathy Acker music by John Lurie cinematography by frequent Jarmusch collaborator Tom de Cillo and still photography by Nan Goldin. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in New York.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Horizon Films unknown
19731019San Diego: Kathy Acker 1973. Saddle-stapled in printed self-wraps 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 in. 28pp. Printed in blue on tan paperstock. Near fine with light soiling to covers and toning along spine. The sixth volume of six total of Acker's serially self-published first novel issues of which were mailed to subscribers. Republished in a single-volume trade edition by TVRT Press in 1975. [Kathy Acker] unknown
1982539608New York: Contact II Editions 1982. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 20pp. Stapled black wrappers. Bumped at one corner else fine. Signed by the author: "Love Acker. Contact II Editions unknown
190480187Paris: Publications Octave Beauchamp 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Deluxe issue with with Cappiello plates and additional "notices biographiques"; indicated as "First Series" but not other series issued. Printed by G. de Malherbe: Paris on laid paper with "LU Nantes" watermark. Quarto: unpaginated with 28 full-page plates with tissue guards halftone or photogravure portraits after photographs by Nadar Pierre Petit et al with lithographic decorations in color after illustrations by Fraikin Habert-Dys Orazi et al; 14 full-page plates with tissue guards all color lithographs after caricatures by Leonetto Cappiello; and 28 textual vignettes photo-engravings printed in red after illustrations by Vogel. The half-title title page and copyright page are printed in red and black with page ornaments and ornamental initials printed in red and black. In the publisher's deluxe gray-green variegated flat-weave cloth spine over solid beech wood boards with beveled edges with a 2 3/4" cut-out with inset celluloid medallion featuring a molded portrait of Sarah Bernhardt after an illustration by Alphonse Mucha on the front panel. The front is framed by brown-stamped ruled borders with brown-stamped titling and floral decorations against sky with tan rose green light green and light blue hand coloring while the rear panel is framed by brown-stamped borders with brown stamped titling and stork and cathedral decorations with tan white gray yellow and light blue hand coloring. The spine features light green-stamped ornamental bands and floral devices and green-stamped titling. Top edge gilt with olive coated endpapers adorned with an overall embossed swan pattern. An exquiste example. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Publications Octave Beauchamp hardcover
1904019331Paris: Octave Beauchamp 1904. This is a very good hardcover copy in the original publisher's die cut binding with the circular cut-out on the front cover revealing a relief portrait of Sarah Bernhardt after a drawing by Alphonse Mucha. Repaired tear to bottom of spine. Overall very clean small spot to one text page. Top page-edge gilt. Text in FRENCH. Contributions by Paul Acker Hermann Vogel J-A Habert-Dys Manuel Orazi Alexis Fraikin Leonetto Cappiello & Alphonse Mucha. 14 chromolithograhs by Leonetto Cappiello. With 28 photographs of fin-de-siecle celebrities with facsimile inscriptions and autographs. 13" high X 10" wide unpaginated. Large heavy book foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good. Octave Beauchamp, Hardcover
1981196981poeSan Francisco: Man-Root 1981. 1st editions. wrappers. Very Good/no dj's as issued. Manroot. Complete run<br /> <br /> Nos. 1-12. San Francisco 1969 - 1981. Gay literary periodical edited by Paul Mariah and Richard Tagett. Softcovers sizes vary: 22.5 x 17 cm/ 21 x 13 cm 84 pp/ 192 pp. <br /> Laid into vol. 1 is a type-written poem by James Hietter On Going To Bed With Duncan dated Dec 26 1968. Vol 4 has a 'Dear Subscriber' note signed by Paul Mariah.<br /> <br /> Original illustrated wrappers some spines mildly faded generally a very good set.<br /> <br /> Contributions mostly poetry by Kathy Acker Jack Spicer Paul Eluard Jean Cocteau Frank O'Hara Robert Desnos James Broughton Denise Levertov Andre Breton Jean Genet Arthur Rimbaud Allen Ginsberg et al. Illustrations by Marie Wilson Martin Izquierdo Robert Berner José Laffitte Diego Rivera. <br /> No.8 themed 'Manroot Womanhood'<br /> No.10 is a special 'Jack Spicer' issue. <br /> No.12 features 'The complete Poems of Jean Genet' <br /> No.6/7 is a double issue. total 11. Man-Root unknown
19771300<p>Complete run in seven fascicles 666384808391198 pp. - final issue is a double number of the literary magazine published by Paul De Barros and Daphne Marlatt. Chiefly text. Oblong 8vo. Very good. Perfect bound and stab-stapled illus. wrappers. 1300</p><p><i>A scarce complete set of the important and influential journal of postmodern experimental prose notable for early publications of Acker's Blood and Guts in High School and the beginning of Great Expectations. Sets of Periodics are rare in the marketplace and uncommon among physical holdings though many North American institutions have access to an online version offered by Reveal Digital's Independent Voices. Periodics includes contributions by Kathy Acker Michael Ondaatje George Bowering Larry Eigner Penny Chalmers Michael Rumaker Barry Gifford David Young Michael Palmer David McFadden Ann Ireland Douglas Barbour David Benedetti Lyn Hejinian David Young Penny Kemp bpNichol Charles Bernstein Fred Wah Duncan McNaughton Gladys Hindmarch James Sherry Laura Chester John Brandi Margaret Randall Douglas Messerli Michael Andre Jean Trelease Day Gerry Gilbert Tom Whalen and numerous others.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p> Periodics
19863117531London: Paladin Grafton. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0586085548 . First British edition. A trade-size paperback original. SIGNED by Kathy Acker on the front endpaper. Near fine in pictorial printed wrappers. 207 5 1/4" X 7 3/4" Mild trace of toning to cheap grade of paper in text wherein several pages have faded while still barely readable. Uncommon signed. ; 5 1/4" x 7 3/4"; 207 pages . Paladin Grafton paperback
1983372835New York: Wedge Press Inc 1983. First edition. Illustrated designed by Mark Magill printed in two colors. 8vo. Printed side-stapled wraps. Some shelfwear near fine. First edition. Illustrated designed by Mark Magill printed in two colors. 8vo. Signed by Acker on the first page. Wedge Press, Inc unknown
19781410998Toronto Ontario Canada: Rumour Publications 1978. First Edition First Printing. Softcover. Octavo 145 pages. In Very Good condition. Encased in protective mylar covering. Spine black with tan lettering. Mild discoloration on top of front cover. Mild general shelf wear. Previous owner sticker on title page. Signed by Acker on title page. Shelved in Case 6. 1410998. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Rumour Publications unknown
1975541269New York: TVRT Press 1975. Softcover. Very Good. First one volume edition preceded by an edition issued in six parts. Octavo. 91pp. Photographically illustrated wrappers. Very good with creasing to and along the spine some toning and a touch of wear at the corners. Advance Review Copy with two-page publisher's slip laid in along with a letter from the poet and Manroot Books founder Paul Mariah explaining this copy was sent upon request from Acker who suggested Mariah would be interested in writing a review. An interesting association. TVRT Press unknown
