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GREEN, Jack. newspaper #8. New York: Jack Green, nd [ca. 1959]. First Edition. 

One of the rarest and more unusual journals of the mimeo revolution, Newspaper published 15 issues between 1957 and 1965. Best remembered today for almost single-handedly establishing the reputation of William Gaddis' THE RECOGNITIONS through Green's thorough and devastating deconstruction of the novel's negative reviews (originally published in Newspaper 12-14, reprinted as FIRE THE BASTARDS in 1992), as well as (most infamously) his 1962 full-page ad in the Village Voice extolling the work's virtues. "[P]art conceptual art, part political tract, and part 'zine [...] 'Green' [a pseudonym] used his underground tabloid for cultural commentary and deliciously satirical (yet superbly well-documented) assaults" (Clay and Phillips p. 77). This issue is comprised of a seven-page story penned by Green on his experiences with Peyote, and a single page of selections by Luigi Pirandello, printed in the Italian and translated. A very fragile production of which not many survived.

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[Film] FIFTH AVENUE PLAYHOUSE. SURREALIST AND FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL [Original Program]. New York: Fifth Avenue Playhouse, 1941. First Edition.

Program for the the Surresalist and Fantastic Film Festival, commencing December 19, 1941. Martin J. Lewis and H.S. Rosenwald. Blood of a Poet by Cocteau, Chaplin's CARMEN, THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED, VAMPIRE by Karl Theodore Dryer, EMAK BAKIA by Man Ray. 

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ZAVATSKY, Bill and Cynthia Logan (Editors). ROY ROGERS Vol. 1, No. 4. April, 196-. New York: Roy Rogers, (196-). First Edition.

Mimeo mag featuring work from David Beaty, David Randolph, Jr. Michael O'Brien, Richard Sulken, Francis Levy and Ira Stollack.

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GALLUP, Dick. HINGES. New York: C Press, 1965. First Edition. 4to. Side-stapled in original illustrated wraps. Printed mimeo. Wraps mildly toned with touches of edgewear and thumbsoiling. Rear wrap loose from bottom staple. Interior generally clean and bright. About very good. Unpaginated. Very good. Wraps.

Collection of poems published by Ted Berrigan's C Press with a cover by fellow Tulsa poet and frequent collaborator Joe Brainard. Gallup's first book, published while still a student at Columbia. (#17693) $100

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VIOLI, Paul. AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSIONS. (Putnam Valley, NY): Swollen Magpie Press, 1970. First Edition. 4to. side stapled in blue wraps. SIGNED at title page. 

Published in an edition of 300 copies. Violi's first published collection of verse, issued by his own Swollen Magpie Press. Scarce, especially signed. 

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PADGETT, Ron. IN ADVANCE OF THE BROKEN ARM. New York: C Press, 1965. Second edition.

From Ted Berrigan's C Press, with cover illustration and drawings by frequent collaborator Joe Brainard. Second edition, one of 200 copies. An early collection by the Tulsa poet.

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HAUSER, Thomas; With the Cooperation of Muhammad Ali. MUHAMMAD ALI: In Perspective. San Francisco: Collins Publishers, (1996). 

An attractive signed copy of this pictorial biography of the great boxer, with quotations from Ali himself as well as from family, friends and other sports professionals.

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BRAINARD, Joe with John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Barbara Guest, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, Jimmy Schuyler, et al. C COMICS #2. [NYC]: ["C" Press] / Boke Press, [1965]. 

Second of two issues of this short-lived "C" Press item. Brainard illustrates in comic form the poems of his NY School buddies: Ashbery, Gallup, Lima, Schuyler, Berrigan, etc. 

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BRAINARD, Joe; John Ashberry (Preface); Robert Rosenblum (Essay). JOE BRAINARD: Retrospective. New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, (1997).

Catalog for a posthumous exhibition of Brainard's paintings and collages, with color reproductions of artwork and a timeline of Brainard's life and work. 

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BRAINARD, Joe. THE FRIENDLY WAY. NYC: Siamese Banana Press, 1972. 

A collection of aphoristic quotations with a cover by Brainard.

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ITURBIDE, Graciela, Raghu Rai and Sebastiao Salgado; Natalia Gil Torner (Editor). INDIA MEXICO: Vientos Paralelos. Madrid: DGE Ediciones / Turner, (2003). First Edition.

Catalog for an exhibition of photographs juxtaposing India and Mexico, shown at Casa de la India in Valladolid and Casa de Asia in Barcelona. With a prologue by Jean-Claude Carriere. A handsome copy signed by the organizer Natalia Gil Torner. Scarce, limited to 550 copies, and one of the harder Salgado titles to locate.

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SLAVID, Ruth. WOOD HOUSES. New York: Abbeville Press, (2006). First Edition.

A survey of the use of wood in contemporary residential architecture, Illustrated by full-color photographs, drawings and floor plans.

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WISE, Arthur and Derek Ware. STUNTING IN THE CINEMA. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1973). First Edition. 

A historical and practical survey of film stunts from one of its premier practitioners. Illustrations throughout the text and an inserted section of stills.

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KAEL, Pauline. STATE OF THE ART. New York: EP Dutton, (1985). First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's purple boards in original dust jacket. INSCRIBED at ffep, "For Arlene Croce,/ with admiration/ and love-/ Pauline Kael." 

A collection of Pauline Kael's New Yorker film reviews from 1983 to 1985. Inscribed to a fellow New Yorker writer, the dance critic Arlene Croce, who also reviewed films for Film Culture and was a recognized authority on the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. An attractive association copy.

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COHEN, Leonard. LET US COMPARE MYTHOLOGIES. Toronto / Montreal: McClelland and Stewart Limited, (1966). First edition thus. 

First trade edition of the noted songwriter's first book of verse, originally published in a limited edition in 1956. An important debut and rather uncommon in this condition.

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BRAINARD, Joe. I REMEMBER. New York: Angel Hair, (1970). First Edition. 4to. Saddle-stapled in offset wraps. 

A classic of late New York School poetics. Charming, funny, poignant, and deceptively simple.

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Brainard, Joe. I Remember Christmas. New York: MOMA, 1973. First edition. 

The third of Brainard's classic "I Remember" books, this arguably the most fully realized with illustrations prepared especially for this edition. An uncommon edition by the great Pop artist and writer in excellent condition with the rare original envelope.

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