réf. 2918034002.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 8433948083.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1986réf. 3117531London: 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
1994réf. SKU0560188Grove Press 1994-01-18. paperback. Good. 5x0x8. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Grove Press paperback
1994réf. SKU0607695Grove Press 1994-01-18. paperback. New. 5x0x8. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Grove Press paperback
1986réf. 555470New York: Grove Press 1986. Softcover. Fine. First Evergreen edition. Octavo. 207pp. A touch of edgwear else fine. Inscribed by the author. Grove Press unknown
1986réf. 539575New 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
1986réf. 539571New York: Grove Press 1986. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof second issue. Octavo. 207pp. Fine in printed blue wrappers. This second issue with a ready for publication typeset summary of the book and series of blurb Esquire Vogue and Metro on the first page as well as a notation about a clothbound edition crossed out on the cover along with the publisher's date stamp "OCT 31 1986" and ink price "$7.95". Grove Press unknown
1988réf. 001317New York: Grove Press 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 227pp. Navy spine over blue boards silver titles on spine. Spine straight binding tight corners square pages clean and umarked. Unclipped dust jacket presents very nicely in mylar sleeve. Signed by Acker in black on FFEP. Acker's novel of "a bleak postrevolutionary world in which our society lies dying amid its own ruins." Uncommon in the US first. . Grove Press Hardcover
1988réf. 215024New York: Grove Press 1988. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 227 pages. Review copy with laid in publisher sheet. A novel from this well regarded writer who sadly died at the age of only fifty. A near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with some minor wear and in a near fine dust jacket. Grove Press unknown
1988réf. 555473New York: Grove Press 1988. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Octavo. 227pp. Fine without publisher's stamp or price notation on front wrap. Grove Press unknown
1988réf. 539570New York: Grove Press 1988. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Uncorrected proof with publisher's stamp date and ink price notation. Octavo. 227pp. Touch of spine sunning else fine. With publisher's slip laid in. Grove Press unknown
1988réf. ACKERKAT013548Picador London. 1988. First edition. Octavo. A 227-page novel.Cheap paper tanning. Near fine fine in fine dustwrapper. Picador, London. unknown
1994réf. Q-0802131794Grove Press 1994-01-13. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Grove Press paperback
1988réf. Q-0802110797Grove Press 1988-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Grove Press hardcover
1994réf. DADAX0802131794Grove Press 1994-01-13. Reprint. paperback. New. 5.50x0.75x8.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Grove Press paperback
réf. 21230831980. London. c. 1980. Typescript stapled at upper left corner 277 x 217 mm; ff. 1 13; illustration to f. 11; lightly toned heavier to title central horizontal crease foliation cut off to a few ff. last two ff. browned at head small ink stain to title with a few marginal chips.Typescript of a typically unsettling essay containing unpublished material a disorienting discussion of Acker's 1947-1997 thesis that literature emerges when 'meaning is destroyed'.This is possibly a photocopy given the apparent cropping of the text on f. 8 and at the tops of a couple of leaves of an essay that would be published in truncated form in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Volume Four Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein eds. the final issue of the avant-garde journal Open Letter Fifth Series No. 1 Winter 1982 ed. Frank Davey pp. 83-86. The same issue contains an appreciation of Kathy Acker by Steve Benson pp. 77-82. Born in New York experimental poet performance artist and novelist Kathy Acker - whose work frequently incorporates themes of trauma sexuality language and identity - moved to London in the early 1980s returning to the United States at the end of the decade.The published version omits the title 'Essay on Writing' and the parts of this article containing fantastical letters between Alfred de Musset Georges Sand and Gustave Flaubert as well as the 'VOODOO MAP WITH PICTURES OF EEYORE LOOKING FOR HIS TAIL' although it does include the closing section that features Winnie-the-Pooh and Owl facing a semantic crisis. Acker's argument that literature emerges from the destruction of meaning is initially laid out in a fairly straightforward manner but is quickly complicated by Acker's characteristic mixture of allusion sexual fantasy and brutal humour. It is given an autobiographical slant by a passage describing a bitter middle-class female poet whose father disappears and whose mother quickly remarries leaving her bereft of security. In a harrowing section omitted in the published version Acker goes further by creating a desperate abandoned persona called Wendy the name of her estranged stepsister. The lesson seems to be that the loss of meaning and therefore the origin of literature lies in the kind of trauma that leaves a person unsure of what's true good or safe: 'This is how mothers crap up their children. My attitude toward language stinks.' unknown
réf. 539612Providence Rhode Island: Diana's Bimonthly Press 1976. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 18pp. Stapled self-wrappers printed in orange. Tiny scattered stains paint to the edges of both wrappers else near fine. Poetry. Publication information supplied on back wrap with rubberstamp which matches the OCLC information. Exceptionally scarce. OCLC locates six copies. Diana's Bimonthly Press unknown
2021réf. 112663Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung 2021. Paperback Quarto. Paperback. Good. wraps 393 pp cover worn and creased. Verlag der Buchhandlung paperback
1983réf. 111874New York: Grove Press 1983 Book. Good. Soft cover. Prepublication Review Copy. Prepublication copy of this work by the American experimental novelist poet playwright essayist critic performance artist and postmodernist writer known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with complex themes. Lacks the covers. . Grove Press paperback
1982réf. 3118045San Francisco: RE/SEARCH. Near Fine in Poor dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Stamped as such on title page Publisher's publicity sheet llaid-in. Near fine in printed wrappers. 127pp. 5 1/2" X 8 1/4" Upper edge of front cover and top edge lightly foxed toehrwise fine. The Publcity sheet has some nicking at one edge. Uncommn advance.; 5 1/2" X 8 1/4"; 127 pages . 1982. RE/SEARCH paperback
1983réf. 50895New York: Grove Press 1983. First printing. Fine in a fine jacket. First edition of Acker's rewriting and reinterpretation of Charles Dickens's famed coming-of-age novel. Told with Acker's typical sense of experimentation appropriation and brutal honesty. Oddly uncommon and a beautiful copy. 8'' x 5''. Publisher's quarter black cloth over black boards. In original unclipped $14.95 color pictorial jacket designed by Roy Colmer after art by Sue Coe. 128 pages. Bright and sharp overall. Grove Press unknown
1982réf. 555458San Francisco: Re/Search 1982. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition paperback original. Octavo. 128pp. Near fine with black marker over price on rear cover crease to one corner and a couple light spots of soiling. Re/Search unknown
1982réf. 539576San Francisco: Re/Search 1982. Softcover. Fine. First edition paperback original. Octavo. 128pp. Fine. Re/Search unknown
1982réf. 400035San Francisco: Re/Search 1982. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Paperback original. Probably identical to the first edition but stamped "Advance Proof Copy" on the title page. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Scarce. Re/Search unknown
