(ACKER, Kathy)ABAA
84 résultats
1978réf. 414309Del Mar California: Melvyn Freilicher 1978. Softcover. Fine. Quarto. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. Three issues of this San Diego-area experimental prose magazine. Most notable for contributions by Kathy Acker Including The Rebel in No. 2; and For the Ladies Who Sing: Three Stories in No. 3. Issue No. 2 is Inscribed by co-editor Paul Dresman probably to the poet Michael Lally which amounts to a full-page letter. Issue No. 4 is signed "Hello Jane" with a drawing of lips. Melvyn Freilicher unknown books
1980réf. 414310Del Mar California: Melvyn Freilicher 1980. Softcover. Near Fine. Two issues. Quartos. Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Two issues of this San Diego-area experimental prose magazine. Most notable for the contribution by Kathy Acker For the Ladies Who Sing: Three Stories in No. 3. Melvyn Freilicher unknown books
1990réf. 603327Bethesda: Paycock Press 1990. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Edited by Richard Peabody. Quarto. Wrappers illustrated with image of Louise Brooks. Remainder stripe on bottom page edges a little rubbing to the gloss on the wrappers else near fine. Includes an interview with and contribution by Kathy Acker. Paycock Press unknown books
1975réf. 400037New York: Michael Sappol 1975. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. Stapled wrappers featuring an image of Sonny Liston. A touch of age-toning very near fine. Literary magazine that includes: "Tales of San Francisco Coke!" an early excerpt from Kathy Acker's I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac!: Imagining. Other contributions from Michael Sappol Andrei Codrescu Vincent Beniquez Tina Darragh Lynne Dreyer Judith Ghinger Peter Inman Charles North and Bob Rosenthal. Michael Sappol unknown books
1996réf. 0297521996. 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 books
1981réf. 410380San Francisco California: Third Man 1981. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. Perfectbound. Modest rubbing near fine. Contributors include Alan Bernheimer Stephen Rodefer Barrett Watten Carla Harryman Michael Palmer Kathy Acker Kit Robinson and Lyn Hejinian. Third Man unknown books
1948réf. 27263Paris: Éditions surréalistes 1948. First edition. 13 p. 17 cm. Wrappers fine. One of 30 numbered copies on Marais paper. Fine. An anti-clerical tract signed in type by Adolphe Acker Sarane Alexandrian Maurice Baskine Jean-Louis Bédouin Hans Bellmer Jean Bergstrasser Roger Bergstrasser Maurice Blanchard Joë Bousquet Francis Bouvet Victor Brauner André Breton Jean Brun Pierre Cuvillier Pierre Demarne Charles Duits Jean Ferry André Frédérique Guy Gillequin Arthur Harfaux Jindrich Heisler Georges Henein Maurice Henry Jacques Hérold Véra Hérold Marcel Jean Alain Jouffroy Nadine Kraïnik Jerzy Kujawski Pierre Lé Stan Lélio Pierre Mabille Jehan Mayoux Francis Meunier Nora Mitrani Henri Parisot Henri Pastoureau Benjamin Péret Gaston Puel Louis Quesnel Jean-Dominique Rey Claude Richard Jean Schuster Iaroslav Serpan Seigle Hansrudy Stauffacher Claude Tarnaud Toyen Clovis Trouille Robert Valançay Jean Vidal Patrick Waldberg. Éditions surréalistes unknown books
1983réf. 573344Providence Rhode Island: Tom Ahern / Diana's Monthly Press 1983. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Cover by Gail Porter. Trade paperback. Illustrated. Light wear very near fine. Features "Museum of Modern Rat" by Stephen Spera; "Translations of the Diaries of Laura the Schoolgirl" by Kathy Acker; "Losing the Form in Darkness from the Waterfront Journals" by David Wojnarowicz; "The Ill-Tempered Caviller & The Flinstones Variations" by Peter Cherches; "Bibi-la-Bibiste" by Raymonde Linossier translated and with an introduction by Keith Waldrop; "Species of Intoxication" by Michael Gizzi; and "American Transmissions & See Atoms Lifeless" by "I Adult Strong." According to the title page this book constitutes Volume IX of Diana's Monthly. Tom Ahern / Diana's Monthly Press unknown books
1973réf. 72238San Francisco: Empty Elevator Shaft Press c. 1973. 63 pp. A few light spots to front cover else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Three prose poems by Acker along with work by Eigner Gitin Potts Mariah Voelcker and many others. The first and only issue. San Francisco: Empty Elevator Shaft Press unknown books
1989réf. 167397London: British Film Institute BFI 1989. Softcover. First UK Edition. Includes 18 essays on Warhol's film work. Very Good plus in perfect-bound wrappers lightly toned on the wrapper edges. British Film Institute [BFI] unknown books
1974réf. 85928San Francisco: Tales of San Francisco; Dykes 1974. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Original white paper wraps. 25pp. pagination runs 167-192 contiguous with previous parts. Strong and clean with some toning to the spine area and some areas of soiling to the white covers light edgewear; internally clean and fresh. A very good copy. The sixth and final instalment of Acker's second novel published by Acker under the pseudonym "The Black Tarantula" and issued in parts before having a single volume publication in 1980. Scarce and ephemeral issued in very small numbers and mailed to their recipients and very characteristically part novel part aggressively stated expression of existence. Tales of San Francisco; Dykes unknown books
réf. 146188N.p.: N.p. 1976. Archive of six autograph letters signed and one typed letter signed from Kathy Acker to fellow experimental novelist Rudolph Wurlitzer twenty five pages total undated but written during the first half of 1976 based on dates mentioned in the body of one of the letters. From the collection of Rudolph Wurlitzer with provenance. Acker and Wurlitzer were in a relationship begun while they were both in New York and continuing briefly after he left the city for Nova Scotia where he was a the time of this correspondence. Two of the letters directly address their relationship and correspond to letters written by Wurlitzer as quoted in Chris Kraus' 2017 biography of the late writer "After Kathy Acker." The letters offered here were not available to Kraus something she mentions when discussing the relationship with Wurlitzer and have never been published or previously available for sale. In addition to Acker's frank discussion of her feelings toward Wurlitzer the letters take a broadly confessional tone as Acker discusses her mental and emotional state as well as her conflicted feelings regarding the writing she was doing at the time. She writes candidly about feelings of isolation introversion and exhaustion with life in New York and its attendant social obligations presenting a version of Acker that is at odds with both her own self-mythologizing and her already established persona as a post-punk literary icon and chronicler of the downtown avant garde scene. Acker is similarly candid regarding her own writing mentioning both "The Adult Life of Toulouse-Lautrec" and "Florida" both 1978 as in-progress saying of the former "the hell with Toulouse I wanted to finish it off with hell and this is hell" and of the later that it "is about characters. Have to make characters grow." She goes into some detail regarding her feelings about "The Life of Johnny Rocco" section of "Toulouse" calling it "a horrible book" and noting that she's "scared of this book. Scared to type it up. Something very raw about me in it" but also noting that the "only good thing" about the book is that it was "the first time I created a real character who isn't me." Finally Acker speaks at length about the books and films she is consuming in particular noting the influence of Japanese literature and cinema on her work and often relating them to her own ambitions as a writer. She quotes a long passage from William Faulkner's "Go Down Moses" and compares her work unfavorably to it briefly discusses Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" mentions reading Yukio Mishima Osamu Dazai and Yasunari Kawabata and in one letter provides a lengthy synopsis of the plot of all three films in Hiroshi Inagaki's "Samurai Trilogy" before briefly relating the themes of the film to her relationship with Wurlitzer. Of the influence of Japanese literature she notes her desire in her own writing for "simple paragraphs each paragraph an image. 1 2 3. The flow absolutely like straight line.like those incredible Japanese novels I've been reading." Autograph letters signed on 7 x 8.25 inch lined notebook paper. 23 pages rectos only. Near Fine with faint horizontal folds. Typed letter signed on 8.5 x 11 paper. Two pages rectos only. Near Fine folded twice for mailing. N.p. unknown books
1977réf. 1300Complete 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 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. Periodics books
1906réf. 47063Boston: The P.R. Warren Co. Printers 1906. Edition not stated. Octavo 21.5cm; dark green cloth stamped in black; 303pp. Boards worn with scuffs and small gouges extremities chapped; patches of material bleaching on rear; interior toning to margins; first signature somewhat loosened from rest of textblock else pages are clean and tight. Period ads throughout. Very Good. This cookbook was offered through The Acker Merrall & Condit Company which is primarily known today as a wine auctioning service. However they once provided general provisions under the brand name "Amcehat" through a mail order service and also operated several retail stories in the Mid-Atlantic area. As described in a 1908 issue of Good Housekeeping this cookbook "contains many recipes for home and hostess cookery not to be found in the average volume of the kind". Featuring recipes for meats vegetables desserts and a section titled "Forty Recipes from the Four-Hundred" referring to a list of New York's gilded age society elite. The P.R. Warren Co. Printers unknown books
1994réf. 170907San Luis Obispo CA: Garden Street Press 1994. First edition. Softcover. A paperback original collection of poems. A fine copy in wrappers. Signed and very warmly inscribed by Acker to poet Marie Ponsot on the title page. A nice association copy. Garden Street Press unknown books
2012réf. UACKCOM00LRAmherst University 2012. Fine. Acker Jennifer editor. The Common #4. Amherst Massachusetts: Amherst University 2012. 215pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. Amherst University paperback books
réf. 8000126PA: The Pennsylvania German Society 2020. Bound in stiff white boards in matching dust jackets. These two volumes are in "new" condition -- still both wrapped in the original cellophane wrappers. A collection of German birth and baptismal certificates Fraktur Art. 305 pp. / 309 pp. Illustrated throughout and indexed to assist in one's research. First Edition. Hard Cover. Mint/Mint. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The Pennsylvania German Society Hardcover books
1984réf. 85393London: Aloes Books 1984. First Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's original pink decorated card wraps. 29pp. Some minor creasing and scuffing to the edges and extremities a touch of sunning around the spine area; internally clean. A very good copy. A short piece originally published as a short form story entitled "Girl Gangs Take Over The World." Published immediately prior to "Blood and Guts in High School" often cited as Acker's breakthrough publication "Algeria" is an intense introduction to Acker's speeding lush weird writing style where every event is bitter ammunition for an assault on comfort complacency and the things we hold taboo. Aloes Books unknown books
1989réf. 54284New York: Grove Press / Evergreen 1989. Second Evergreen Edition. Octavo 23.25cm; photo-illustrated card wrappers; ii67-1657pp; illus. Trivial wear to extremities else Fine. A sharp copy of Acker's best-known novel written in the 1970's and first published by Pan Books in London in 1984. Grove Press / Evergreen unknown books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
